Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
David's Mighty Warriors (also known as David's Mighty Men or the Gibborim; Hebrew: הַגִּבֹּרִ֛ים, romanized: hagGībōrīm, lit. 'the Mighty') are a group of 37 men in the Hebrew Bible who fought with King David and are identified in 2 Samuel 23:8–38 , part of the "supplementary information" added to the Second Book of Samuel in ...
"The Four Men" describes four characters, Myself, Grizzlebeard, the Poet and the Sailor, each aspects of Belloc's personality, as they journey in a half-real, half-fictional allegory of life. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Subtitled " a Farrago ", meaning a 'confused mixture', [ 3 ] the book contains a range of anecdotes, songs, reflections and miscellany.
The Four Wise Men (French: Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar) is a 1980 novel by Michel Tournier, published by Éditions Gallimard.Ralph Manheim translated the work into English, and the translation was first published in the United States by Doubleday and Company in 1982, [1] and in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons in 1982.
In the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail (Vulgate) prose cycle, the castle is named as Corbenic for the first time. In the highly Christian mystical Vulgate Quest for the Holy Grail, it is the home of the Grail family from the lineages of Jesus' followers Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, whose history is told in the cycle's prologue, the Vulgate Joseph.
The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe is a play by George Peele, based on the biblical story of David, Bathsheba, and Absalom in 2 Samuel. Probably written in the early 1590s, it was entered into the Stationers' Register on 14 May 1594 and published in 1599, after Peele's death, by the printer Adam Islip. [ 1 ]
The King James Version harmonized 2 Samuel 21:19 with 1 Chronicles 20:5 by supplying the words the brother of (in smaller text, replaced in later printings with italic text) to make it read as if Elhanan had slain Goliath's brother: "And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare–oregim, a ...
Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 1988 and 1989 and published in August 1990. [1] It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons . The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection [ 2 ] and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991. [ 3 ]
The Star of Bethlehem is shown as a comet above the child. Giotto witnessed an appearance of Halley's Comet in 1301. The Star of Bethlehem, or Christmas Star, [1] appears in the nativity story of the Gospel of Matthew chapter 2 where "wise men from the East" are inspired by the star to travel to Jerusalem.