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Absalom and is
Another monument near Jerusalem ( not the modern " Absalom Tomb "-" Yad Avshalom " which is of later origin ) was erected by Absalom in his lifetime to perpetuate his name ():
" Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a monument, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's monument.
* Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ) is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden.
* Absalom is the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in " Lost in the Stars ", Kurt Weil's play based on the novel " Cry the Beloved Country ".
* Absalom is the name of a short science fiction story by Henry Kuttner about the conflict between a father and son over the son's education.
* Absalom is the name of a character in Eiichiro Oda's manga One Piece during the Thriller Bark arc.
* Throughout Robertson Davies's The Manticore a comparison is repeatedly made between the protagonist's problematic relations with his father and those of between the Biblical Absalom and King David.
* Absalom is the name of a comedic character in " The Miller's Tale " in the Canterbury Tales.
* Absalom is the name of a character in Michael Crummey's Newfoundland-set Galore.
* Absalom is also the oldest and most powerful alliance in the first textbased game on internet called Utopia-World of Legends and holds Kingdoms as Equilibrium, Mercy, Sanctuary and Rage of Absalom.
* Absalom is the name given to the caterpillar by screenwriter Linda Woolverton in Disney's " Alice in Wonderland ," directed by Tim Burton.
Also, " Absalom, Absalom Would I die for you my son, I would have it all undone, The way it all came down " is found on the 1998 album Largo in the song " Gimme A Stone ".
* " Absalom, Absalom " is the title of a song on the 1996 Compass CD Making Light of It by singer / songwriter Pierce Pettis, incorporating several elements of the biblical narrative.
* The story of Absalom is referred to several places in folk singer Adam Arcuragi's song " Always Almost Crying.
* The garage folk band David's Doldrums references Absalom in their song, " my name is Absalom.
* In " Every Kind Word " by Lackthereof, Danny Seim's project parallel to Menomena, Seim sings "... and your hair is long like Absalom.
* " Absalom " is a song on Brand New Shadows's debut album, White flags.
* " Absalom " is an album by the Experimental / Progressive band " Stick Men " featuring Tony Levin, Markus Reuter and Pat Mastelotto.

Absalom and name
Absalom was the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in the novel.
* The Progressive Metal band from Barranquilla, Colombia, Absalom has his name.
His mother's name was Maacah, or Micaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah, and the granddaughter of the infamous Abishalom ( Absalom ).
Absalom was the name given by John Dryden to the Duke of Monmouth, son of Charles II of England
Absalom, the son of Stephen Kumalo, shares his name with the son of King David, who rose up against King David in rebellion.
Another biblical allusion is seen when Absalom requests that his son's name be Peter — the name of one of Jesus's disciples ; among Peter's better-known traits is a certain impulsiveness ; also, after Christ's arrest, he denied knowing Jesus three times, and later wept in grief over this.

Absalom and character
* The character of Absalom appears in Susannah Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
* The character of Absalom appears in Michael Cook's The Head Guts and Sound Bone Dance
Little is known of his appearance and character except that he was " beautiful as Absalom, and spoke good Latin ".
John Dryden described him under the character of Zimri in celebrated lines in the poem Absalom and Achitophel ( to which Buckingham replied in Poetical Reflections on a late Poem ... by a Person of Honour, 1682 ):
He is also a character in Absalom, Absalom !.
Thomas Sutpen is the focal character of William Faulkner's 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom!
* Absalom ( comics ), fictional character
* Absalom ( One Piece ), a fictional character in Eiichirō Oda's manga One Piece
* Absalom ( 2000 AD ), a 2000 AD character and eponymous series spun-off from Caballistics Inc.
* Absalom, fictional character in Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The character of Amnon in John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ) is thought to be based on him.

Absalom and
Absalom is caught by his hair in the branches of an oak and David s general Joab kills him as he hangs there.
Absalom flies into a rage, and furiously begins to undermine and then deny his father s authority.
In Watson s play, Absalom sacks David's temples in the territories he controls.
Dryden's ‘ Absalom and Achitophel appeared in November 1681, and among the answers to it was Pordage's ‘ Azaria and Hushai, a Poem ,’ 1682.
Pordage said he did not believe that the authors ofAbsalom and Achitophel and ‘ The Medal were the same, yet, as they desired to be thought so, each must bear the reproaches of the other.

Absalom and .
According to the Bible, Absalom or Avshalom () was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.
Absalom eventually rebelled against his father and was killed during the Battle of Ephraim Wood.
After his full sister Tamar was raped by Amnon, their half-brother and David's eldest son, Absalom waited two years and avenged her by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.
While at Jerusalem, Absalom built support for himself among the populace by promising justice for all " if only I were appointed judge in the land ", and by showing humility by kissing those who approached him rather than accepting supplication.
Hushai convinced Absalom to ignore Ahithophel's advice to attack his father while he was on the run, and instead prepare his forces for a major attack.
Absalom himself was caught by his head in the boughs of an oak-tree as the mule he was riding ran beneath it-an irony given that he was previously renowned for his abundant hair and handsome head.
Joab avenged David by fatally striking and killing Absalom, by the use of three spears, followed by a group of swordsmen, an act that caused David great sorrow.
* " Absaloms Abfall " by Rainer Maria Rilke (" The Fall of Absalom ," trans.
Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.
Absalom kills and murders a man, and also meets an untimely death.
* Ender's Shadow references the story of Absalom and King David's lament.
Bean, as he sends his soldiers on a suicide mission to destroy the Buggers, says to them, " O my son Absalom.
My son, my son Absalom.
Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son.

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