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Atlanta Baptist College
, mottoeng = And there was light (literal translation of Latin itself translated from Hebrew: "And light was made") , type = Private historically black men's liberal arts college , academic_affiliations = NAICUCICAnnapolis Group ORAU ACSOberlin GroupSpace-grant , endowment = $282 million (2022) , president = David A. Thomas , students = 2,260 (Fall 2021) , city = Atlanta , state = Georgia , country = United States , campus = 61 acres, urban , former_names = Atlanta Baptist Seminary, Atlanta Baptist College , colors = Maroon and White , sporting_affiliations = NCAA Division II SIAC , nickname = Maroon Tigers , mascot = The Maroon Tiger , free_label = Newspaper , free = ''The Maroon Tiger'' , website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let There Be Light
"Let there be light" is an English translation of the Hebrew (''yehi 'or'') found in Genesis 1:3 of the Torah, the first part of the Hebrew Bible. In Old Testament translations of the phrase, translations include the Greek phrase (''genēthḗtō phôs'') and the Latin phrases ' and '. Genesis 1 The phrase comes from the third verse of the Book of Genesis. In the King James Bible, it reads, in context: Origin and etymology In biblical Hebrew, the phrase (''yəhî ’ôr'') is made of two words. (''yəhî'') is the third-person masculine singular jussive form of "to exist" and (''’ôr'') means "light." In the Koine Greek Septuagint the phrase is translated "" — ''kaì eîpen ho Theós genēthḗtō phôs kaì egéneto phôs''. ''Γενηθήτω'' is the imperative form of ''γίγνομαι'', "to come into being." The original Latinization of the Greek translation used in the Vetus Latina was lux sit ("light – let it exist" or "let light exist"), which has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Formed in 1913, it consists mostly of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), with all but one member located in the Southern United States. The SIAC has led all NCAA Division II conferences in football attendance. History Only three charter members are still part of the conference—Clark Atlanta University (formerly Clark College), Tuskegee University, and Morehouse (which briefly left before returning). Before 2014, all members had been southern HBCUs, but four of the SIAC's five newest members include its only non-HBCU, Spring Hill College (joined in 2014), and its only member outside the South, Central State University of Ohio (joined in 2015). Their last three recent members were former member schools in their first stints: Savannah State University returned to the SIAC in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
