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1. Gilead
   (from the article `Literature`) The 2005 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded for works that appeared in 2004. The Pulitzer for fiction was awarded to Marilynne Robinson`s Gilead, and the ... Just as persuasive was the annealing prose in Marilynne Robinson`s long-awaited second novel, Gilead, the story of several generations of itinerant ... ...
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2. Gilead
   area of ancient Palestine east of the Jordan River, corresponding to modern northwestern Jordan. The region is bounded in the north by the Yarmk ...
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3. Gilead
   Gilead is a Hebrew boy name. The meaning of the name is `hill of testimony ` a mountainous region east of Jordan which was about 60 miles In length and 20 In breadth, extending from near the south end of the Lake of Gennesaret to the north end of the Dead Sea The name Gilead doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de la
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4. Gilead
   Gilead (gil'ēăd) , in the Bible. 1. Eponym of the Gileadites, grandson of Manasseh. 2. Gadite. 3. Jephthah's father. 4. City near Mizpah, denounced by Hosea. 5. Fertile, mountainous region, NE of the Dead Sea. In the Bible, it was allotted to Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh and was noted f...
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5. Gilead
   (disambiguation) `Gilead` is the name of three persons and two places in the Bible. `Gilead` may also refer to: Places : ;United States ;Australia ;Fictional places Other uses :
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6. Gilead
   (novel) `Gilead` is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson and published in 2004. It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. The novel is the fictional autobiography of the Reverend John Ames, an elderly congregationalist pastor in the...
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7. Gilead
   (tribal group) `Gilead` was a tribal group mentioned in Biblical passages which textual scholars attribute to early sources. In these sources, for example the Song of Deborah, the Gilead group is treated with equal status to the other Israelite tribes, while certain other tribes, including th...
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8. Gilead
   (Bible) Name and Etymology: Gilead (Hebrew gil‛âd) may mean hill of testimony. It is derived from galyêd, which in turn comes from gal (heap, mound, hill) and ‛êd (witness, testimony). There also exists an alternative theory that it me...
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