Absalom (Hebrew: אַבְשָׁלוֹם ʾAḇšālōm, "father of peace") was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maacah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.... 31 KB (3,937 words) - 01:27, 21 March 2024 |
Absalom and Achitophel is a celebrated satirical poem by John Dryden, written in heroic couplets and first published in 1681. The poem tells the Biblical... 15 KB (2,058 words) - 03:24, 19 June 2023 |
Look up Absalom or Absalon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Absalom (Avshalom) is a son of King David in the Old Testament. Absalom, Absalon, Absolem... 2 KB (222 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2023 |
Absalom (Hebrew: אַבְשָלוֹם, Modern: Avshalom, Tiberian: ʼAḇšālôm, "father of peace"; Biblical Greek: Αβεσσαλωμ) is a masculine first name from the Old... 7 KB (899 words) - 09:27, 27 January 2024 |
Uriah the Hittite. David's son Absalom later tries to overthrow him, but David returns to Jerusalem after Absalom's death to continue his reign. David... 113 KB (12,080 words) - 17:58, 2 May 2024 |
Books of Samuel (section Absalom (13:1–20:26)) without Absalom being recalled to court. When Joab refuses to help him, Absalom sets his field on fire. This gets Joab's attention, and finally Absalom manages... 67 KB (10,048 words) - 17:35, 5 May 2024 |
which were set elsewhere were Pylon, The Wild Palms, and A Fable). Absalom, Absalom! includes a map of Yoknapatawpha County drawn by Faulkner. The word... 6 KB (638 words) - 04:11, 21 February 2024 |
family. He is featured in the classic novels The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! as well as the short stories "That Evening Sun" and "A Justice". After... 2 KB (267 words) - 12:15, 6 April 2024 |
Sound and the Fury and in its appendix, they also make appearances in Absalom, Absalom! and stories such as "That Evening Sun". The family name is also referred... 3 KB (177 words) - 02:24, 7 July 2023 |
Mount Absalom is the southernmost and highest (1,640 m) mountain of the Herbert Mountains, in the central part of the Shackleton Range. It was first mapped... 1 KB (76 words) - 18:52, 28 October 2023 |
John Henry Absalom OAM (11 November 1927 – 22 March 2019) was an Australian artist, author and adventurer. John Henry Absalom, colloquially to everyone... 6 KB (568 words) - 03:39, 3 April 2024 |
The Absalom Lowe Landis House, also known as Beech Hall, is a historic house in Normandy, Tennessee. The house was built in 1866 for Absalom Lowe Landis... 3 KB (221 words) - 19:24, 26 June 2023 |
Absalom Baird (August 20, 1824 – June 14, 1905) was a career United States Army officer who distinguished himself as a Union Army general in the American... 11 KB (950 words) - 14:18, 14 January 2024 |
Mount of Olives (section David and Absalom) Mount of Olives is first mentioned in connection with David's flight from Absalom (II Samuel 15:30): "And David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives... 26 KB (2,938 words) - 03:52, 25 January 2024 |
The Absalom Scales House is a historic house in Eagleville, Tennessee, U.S.. The house was built circa 1790 for Absalom Scales, a settler from North Carolina... 3 KB (277 words) - 04:05, 3 June 2022 |
Mike Absalom (born 9 November 1940) is an English pop, folk and celtic music musician, poet and children's entertainer. The Province newspaper once described... 9 KB (630 words) - 16:00, 1 May 2024 |
Absalom Koiner (August 5, 1824 – December 31, 1920) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and Virginia Senate... 2 KB (83 words) - 05:45, 18 April 2024 |
2018. Manuela Gertz (July 2010). Poetic Justice in William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom. GRIN Verlag. p. 4–. ISBN 978-3-640-66116-9. Retrieved 20 May 2013... 3 KB (315 words) - 03:53, 23 April 2024 |
Absalom Andrew Sydenstricker (Chinese: 賽兆祥, 1852–1931) was an American Presbyterian missionary to China from 1880 to 1931. The Sydenstricker log house... 9 KB (559 words) - 00:32, 23 January 2024 |
Naamah, married Maacah daughter of Absalom. 2 Samuel 14:27 does not list Maacah as a daughter of Absalom, but Absalom seems to have had sex with the wives... 19 KB (1,942 words) - 20:18, 29 April 2024 |
Externals (redirect from Absalom (comics)) them to sense when one rises from the dead and when one is killed. Saul, Absalom, Gideon, Nicodemus, Burke, Selene, Candra, and Crule (to a lesser extent)... 9 KB (1,038 words) - 09:54, 10 April 2024 |
wrote As I Lay Dying. Later that decade, he wrote Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and The Wild Palms. He also worked as a screenwriter, contributing... 73 KB (7,744 words) - 16:17, 29 April 2024 |
Absalom Tatom (1742 – December 20, 1802) was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina from 1795 to 1796. Born in North Carolina in 1742, Tatom was a sergeant... 4 KB (329 words) - 03:07, 22 December 2023 |
Thomas Sutpen is a focal character of William Faulkner's 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom! Sutpen arrives in Faulkner's imaginary Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi... 2 KB (242 words) - 11:08, 1 March 2021 |
Losing Absalom is the 1994 debut novel by Alexs Pate. The book was first published on April 1, 1994 through Coffee House Press and follows an African-American... 4 KB (338 words) - 17:50, 19 September 2023 |
A. Willis Robertson (redirect from Absalom Robertson) Absalom Willis Robertson (May 27, 1887 – November 1, 1971) was an American politician from Virginia who served in public office for over 50 years. A member... 13 KB (1,222 words) - 05:47, 19 April 2024 |
Absalom Boston (1785–1855) was a United States mariner who was the first African-American captain to sail a whaleship, with an all-black crew, in 1822... 4 KB (383 words) - 17:45, 15 January 2024 |