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Possibly original name of Bashemath. Genesis [12] Ahinoam #1 – wife of King Saul, mother of Michal (wife of King David) I Samuel [13] Ahinoam #2 – one of King David's wives, mother of Amnon. I Samuel; II Samuel; I Chronicles [14] [15] [16] Aholibamah (or Oholibamah) – Daughter of Anah and one of Esau's wives. Also called Judith. Genesis [17]
For example, the Bible sometimes uses different names for the same woman, names in different languages can be translated differently, and some names can be used for either men or women. Professor Karla Bombach says one study produced a total of 3000–3100 names, 2900 of which are men with 170 of the total being women.
Catharine H. Esling (1812–1897), American author, poet, hymn writer; Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (1814–1873), Cuban novelist, playwright and poet; Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812–1848), American poet, member of Transcendental Club; Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910), American abolitionist, social activist, and poet, author of "The Battle Hymn of ...
Birthplace of Fanny Crosby. Frances Jane Crosby was born on March 24, 1820, in the village of Brewster, about 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City. [10] [11] She was the only child of John Crosby and his second wife Mercy Crosby, both of whom were relatives of Revolutionary War spy Enoch Crosby.
Author Date Number of languages with source Original language 1 The Bible: See Authorship of the Bible: See Dating the Bible: 3,384 (at least one book) 2,191 (at least New Testament) 698 (Old and New Testaments, including the Protocanonical books) [1] Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, Koine Greek: 2 The Little Prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ...
Women who wrote works on religion. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Religious writers . It includes religious writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
According to Watson Kirkconnell, the Christiad, "was one of the most famous poems of the Early Renaissance". Furthermore, according to Kirkconnell, Vida's, "description of the Council in Hell, addressed by Lucifer, in Book I", was, "a feature later to be copied", by Torquato Tasso , Abraham Cowley , and by John Milton in Paradise Lost .
Western women writers have long been a marginalized group. 1979 was the first year an anthology on western American women writers was published. [11] The Western Literature Association was founded in the 1960's to foster the work of contemporary women writers. [ 11 ]