Barry Asher

Barry Asher (born July 14, 1946) was a professional bowler on the PBA Tour (1966–76).

Biography

Asher, who is Jewish, was born in Los Angeles, California. His bowling average was 170 when he was 10 years old, 180 the next year, and over 200 at age 14. He attended Santa Ana Junior College, and was an All-American in 1972–73. He won his first Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) title at the age of 19 in 1966.

He bowled 247 to win the 1971 South Bend (Indiana) Open, setting a new PBA scoring record. In 1976, his final year on the tour, Asher became the 15th bowler to win 10 PBA titles. He also holds four titles from the American Bowling Congress. He was named Senior Bowler of the Year three times.

He was the bowling technical advisor for the film The Big Lebowski (1998) and bowled in the final scene.

Halls of Fame

Asher was inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame in 1988, and into the Orange County Bowling Hall of Fame and the Southern California Bowling Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (1990) and the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (1998).

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Asher

Asr (Hebrew: אָשֵׁר, Modern shr, Tiberian šhr), in the Book of Genesis, is the second son of Jacob and Zilpah, and the founder of the Tribe of Asr.

Name

The text of the Torah argues that the name of Asr means happy/blessing, implying a derivation from the Hebrew term 'eshan his in two variations—beoAsri (meaning in my good fortune), and ishsheruni, which textual scholars attribute to different sources—one to the Yahwist and the other to the Elohist. Many scholars suspect that the name of Asr may have more to do with a deity originally worshipped by the tribe, either Asrah, or Ashur, the chief Assyrian deity; the latter possibility is cognate with Asr.

Biblical narrative

Asr played a role in selling his brother Joseph into slavery (Gen. 37:23–36). Asr and his four sons and daughter settled in Canaan. On his deathbed, Jacob blesses Asr by saying that "his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties" (Gen. 49:20).

Asr was the eighth son of the patriarch Jacob and the traditional progenitor of the tribe Asr. However, some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.

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Asher (name)

Asher is a common Jewish and Christian given name, after a character in the Old Testament.

People with the surname

Alec Asher, baseball player

Alexander Asher (1835–1905), Scottish politician

Allan Asher, Australian public affairs official and activist

Barry Asher (1946-), American bowler

Bud Asher (1925–2013), American politician, football coach and lawyer

Gerald Asher (1932–), wine writer, ex-wine merchant

Hank Asher (c.1951-), businessman

Herb Asher, university professor

Iraena Asher (1979-), New Zealand trainee teacher and model, disappeared

Irving Asher (1903–1985), motion picture producer

Jack Asher (1916–1991), British cinematographer

Jane Asher (1946-), English actress and novelist

Japhet Asher (1961–), English filmmaker

Jeremy Asher (1958–), English businessman

John Mallory Asher (1971-), American actor and director

Lee Asher (1976-), magician

Levi Asher, New York, U.S.-based writer and web designer

Max Asher, drummer of the band Warrant

Maxine Asher (1930-), researcher and businesswoman

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Asher (Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter)

Asher is a fictional character in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of novels. Asher is a Master Vampire, and the lover of Jean-Claude and Anita Blake.

Like Jean-Claude, Asher is fantastically handsome, having been selected for his beauty by Belle Morte, the vampire that made him. Anita describes his hair as the color of metallic gold and his eyes as the pale blue of a Siberian Husky. Although the left side of his face and body is angelically beautiful, his right side is hideously scarred; Asher has become an expert at using his hair, posture, and shadow to present only his left side to viewers until an opportune moment arises to reveal his scars, if desired.

In the epilogue to Burnt Offerings, Anita states that Asher intended to explore whether modern cosmetic surgery could help his scars. However, when this issue is mentioned in Cerulean Sins it only refers to Asher's ability in bed, which had been limited until a surgeon had removed the restricting scarred foreskin. No other cosmetic surgery or options is talked about and Anita says that touching the scars is like touching any other part of Asher. During a few different intimate times, she's made a point to kiss or caress the scarred side first, then the non-touched side.

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