Its sponsors included John Arlott, Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britten, Viscount Chaplin, Michael de la Bédoyère, Bob Edwards, MP, Dame Edith Evans, A. S. Frere, Gerald Gardiner, QC, Victor Gollancz, Dr I. Grunfeld, E. M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev.

In this desire to seek to establish Biblical truth and test out orthodox Christian beliefs through independent scriptural study he was not alone and, amongst other churches, he also had links with Adventist movement and with Benjamin Wilson ( who later set up the Church of God of the Abrahamic Faith in the 1860s ).

The earliest hymn book published was the " Sacred Melodist " which was published by Benjamin Wilson in Geneva, Illinois in 1860.

George Smith Patton Jr. was born in San Gabriel, California in 1885, to George Smith Patton Sr. ( 1856 – 1927 ) and his wife Ruth Wilson ( 1861 – 1928 ), daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson.

A younger Benjamin Davis Wilson ca.

His maternal grandparents were Benjamin Davis Wilson ( December 1, 1811 to March 11, 1878 ), mayor of Los Angeles in 1851 – 1852 and the namesake of Southern California's Mount Wilson, and his second wife, Margaret Hereford.

Benjamin Wilson was also a well known Indian fighter who served as justice of the peace for the Mexican authorities and it was while hunting down renegade Indians that he discovered what is present day Big Bear, California which received that name because Wilson and his posse lassoed and killed over thirty grizzly bears while passing through.

" The Wilson-Patton family members are buried in the San Gabriel Cemetery about 120 yards to the west of the Church, including the patriarch, Benjamin ( Don Benito ) Wilson.

Agassiz, Davis, Peirce, Benjamin Gould, and Senator Wilson met at Bache's house and " hurriedly wrote the bill incorporating the Academy, including in it the name of fifty incorporators ".

The first Trustees on the school's Board were James W. Reid ( who had done the most to shepherd the authorization bill through the legislature ), Norman B. Willey ( who had just stepped down as Idaho governor ), Benjamin Wilson ( a previous gubernatorial candidate ), J. Morris Howe, and C. W. Schaff.

Elizabeth Wilson had a bit part as one of the smirking schoolteachers ( 12 years later she played a major supporting role in Mike Nichols ' The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock's attractive, slightly high-strung mom ).

Other artists with works in the collection include: Bernardino Fungai, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Fioravante Ferramola, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Ludovico Carracci, Antonio Verrio, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Domenico Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francis Hayman, Pompeo Batoni, Benjamin West, Paul Sandby, Richard Wilson, William Etty, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, James Barry, Francis Danby, Richard Parkes Bonington & Alphonse Legros.

Big Bear Lake was inhabited by the indigenous Serrano Indians for over 2, 000 years before it was explored by Benjamin Wilson and his party.

Spencer, Benjamin Ewing, John Wagaoner, Henry White, James Wilson, and William Witte.

Long Branch is home to Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park, named for the United States presidents who visited the fashionable resort town, including Ulysses S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur, Rutherford Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson and James Garfield.

It was visited by presidents Chester A. Arthur, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley, and Woodrow Wilson.

The Broadway cast included Cumming once again as Emcee, with Natasha Richardson as Sally, Mary Louise Wilson as Frau Schneider and John Benjamin Hickey as Cliff.

In 1861, when the civil war began, Banning and Benjamin Wilson gave the federal government 60 acres of land to build Drum Barracks to protect the nascent Los Angeles harbor from Confederate attack.

Later in 1861, Banning and Benjamin Davis Wilson, the first mayor of Los Angeles, donated in Wilmington to the government for one dollar each for use in construction of a Union garrison.

* Peirce, Benjamin ( 1878 ), " On Peirce's Criterion ", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, v. 13 ( whole series ), v. 5 ( new series ), for May 1877 – May 1878, Boston: Press of John Wilson and Son, pp. 348 – 351.

In the mid-19th century, some of the individuals and groups, including Joseph Marsh of New York, Nathaniel Field of Indiana, and the Wilson family of Illinois ( Benjamin Wilson's family ), began to circulate religious writings which made the groups aware of one another.

The Church of the Blessed Hope held to the beliefs shared by Benjamin Wilson, and the Church of God General Conference expanded their belief system to embrace doctrines ( e. g. the existence of a personal devil ) previously not held by the group Wilson helped co-found.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

A number of biblical scholars suspect that the distinction of the Joseph tribes ( including Benjamin ) is that they were the only Israelites which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had remained in Canaan throughout.

The image of a fighting rooster has been found the sixth century BC seal of Jaazaniah, discovered during the excavation of the biblical city of Mizpah in Benjamin, near Jerusalem.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of the house of Joseph, but the biblical account of this became lost ; Benjamin being differentiated by being that part of Ephraim which joined the Kingdom of Judah rather than that of Israel.

A number of biblical scholars suspect that the Joseph tribes ( including Benjamin ) represent a second migration of Israelites to Israel, later than the main tribes, specifically that it was only the Joseph tribes which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had remained in Canaan throughout ; in the narrative in the Book of Joshua, which concerns the arrival in ( and conquest of ) Canaan by the Israelites from Egypt, the leader is Joshua, who was a member of the Ephraim tribe.

The Temple in Jerusalem was traditionally said to be partly in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin ( but mostly in that of Judah ), and some traditional interpretations of the Blessing consider the ravenous wolf to refer to the Temple's altar, as simile in regard to the heavy presence there of biblical sacrifices.

Many Biblical scholars concluded that the account was a piece of political spin, which had been intended to disguise atrocities carried out by the tribe of Judah against Benjamin, probably in the time of King David as an act of revenge or spite by David against the associates of King Saul, by casting them further back in time, and adding a more justifiable motive ; more recently, scholars have suggested that it is more likely for the narrative to be based on a kernel of truth, particularly since it accounts for the stark contrast in the biblical narrative between the character of the tribe before the incident, and its character afterward.

As part of the kingdom of Judah, Benjamin survived the destruction of Israel by the Assyrians, but instead was subjected to the Babylonian captivity ; when the captivity ended, the distinction between Benjamin and Judah was lost in favour of a common identity as Israel, though in the biblical book of Esther, Mordecai is referred to as being of the tribe of Benjamin, and as late as the time of Christ some still identified their Benjamite ancestry.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was originally part of the house of Joseph, but the biblical account of this became lost ; the account of the birth of the other sons of Jacob is regarded by textual scholars as a complex mixture of Elohist and Yahwist texts, and very corrupt, and it is clear that parts of the corresponding Elohist text, and parts of the corresponding Yahwist text, are missing.

A number of biblical scholars suspect that the Joseph tribes ( including Benjamin ) represent a second migration of Israelites to Israel, later than the main tribes, specifically that it was only the Joseph tribes which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had remained in Canaan throughout ; in the narrative in the Book of Joshua, which concerns the arrival in ( and conquest of ) Canaan by the Israelites from Egypt, the leader is Joshua, who was a member of the Ephraim tribe.

One night a messenger from God, Sidney Lipton ( with a big G on his sweatshirt ) arrives, and, as in the biblical story, goes through all manner of temptations to get Joe Benjamin to renounce God.

Although Benjamin Barton had posited Asian origins for Native Americans as early as 1797, in the mid-nineteenth century, other American and European scholars still supported widely varying ideas, including a theory they were one of the lost tribes of Israel, because of the strong influence of biblical and classical conceptions of history.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was originally part of the suggested Ephraim-Manasseh single " Joseph " tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

A number of biblical scholars suspect that the distinction of the Joseph tribes ( including Benjamin ) is that they were the only Israelites which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had remained in Canaan throughout.

He named a piece of land in the area Government Farm Benoni, after the Hebrew name ( meaning " son of my sorrow "), given by Rachel to her son ( who later became known as Benjamin ) in the biblical Book of Genesis.

Gibeah may be a variation of the Hebrew word meaning “ hill ,” other names include Gibeah of God ( ג ִּ ב ְ ע ַ ת ה ָ א ֱ ל ֹ ה ִ ים ) Gibeah of Benjamin ( ג ִּ ב ְ ע ַ ת ב ִּ נ ְ י ָ מ ִ ין ) for it is in the territory of the Tribe of Benjamin and Gibeah of Saul ( ג ִּ ב ְ ע ַ ת ש ָׁ או ּ ל ) where lived biblical King Saul.

Benjamin Franklin ( 1966 ) 228 pp online edition, short biography by scholar

* Morgan, Edmund S. Benjamin Franklin ( 2003 ) the best short introduction excerpt and text search, interpretation by leading scholar

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

In his 1940 essay " Theses on the Philosophy of History ," scholar Walter Benjamin compares historical materialism to The Turk, an 18th Century device which was promoted as a mechanized automaton which could defeat skilled chess players but actually concealed a human who controlled the machine.

* 1915 – Benjamin Aaron, American attorney and scholar ( d. 2007 )

* 1783 – Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and scholar ( b. 1718 )

Carl Schmitt, a legal and political scholar, was also a vocal fascist supporter of both the Nazi regime and Spain's Franco ; however, he published works of political philosophy that remained studied by philosophers and political scholars with radically different views, such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, and his contemporaries Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Leo Strauss.

** Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar ( b. 1718 )

* September 13 – Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar ( b. 1704 )

* April 4 – Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar ( d. 1783 )

* April 10 – Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar ( d. 1766 )

The 18th century Protestant Hebrew scholar Benjamin Kennicott's analysis of the Samaritan Pentateuch stands as an notable exception to the general trend of early Protestant research on the text.

* Benjamin Mays ( August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984 ), minister, educator, scholar, social activist, mentor to Martin Luther King Jr, and president of Morehouse College

Benjamin Thorpe ( 1782 – 19 July 1870 ) was an English scholar of Anglo-Saxon.

The guest list itself is evidence of Boydell ’ s extensive connections in the artistic world: Benjamin West, painter to King George III ; George Romney, a renowned painter ; George Nicol, bookseller to the king and painter ; William Hayley, a poet ; John Hoole, a scholar and translator of Tasso and Aristotle ; and Daniel Braithwaite, an engineer.

A tale from the Altmark, recorded by Anglo-Saxon scholar Benjamin Thorpe in 1852, describes the kobold as " a fiery stripe with a broad head, which he usually shakes from one side to the other.

Benjamin Chew ( November 19, 1722 – January 20, 1810 ) was a fifth-generation American, a Quaker-born legal scholar, a prominent and successful Philadelphia lawyer, head of the Pennsylvania Judiciary System under both Colony and Commonwealth, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of Pennsylvania.

It was edited by Sanskrit scholar and linguist William Dwight Whitney, with Benjamin Eli Smith's assistance.

The scholar Benjamin Jowett was struck by his potential and offered to give him private lessons.

* Benjamin Musaphia ( 1606 – 1675 ), Jewish doctor, scholar, and kabbalist, who sometimes called himself Dionysius

Their only son, Alfred Milner, was born in the Hessian town of Gießen and educated first at Tübingen, then at King's College School and, from 1872 to 1876, as a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, studying under the classicist theologian Benjamin Jowett.

* Benjamin Urrutia, writer and scholar.

For example, Martin Buber drew on Hassidism in articulating his anarchist philosophy, Gershom Scholem was an anarchist and a kabbalah scholar, Walter Benjamin was equally influenced by Marxism and Jewish messianism, Gustav Landauer was a religious Jew and a libertarian communist, Jacob Israël de Haan combined socialism with Haredi Judaism, while left-libertarian Bernard Lazare became a passionately Jewish Zionist in 1897 but wrote 2 years later to Herzl – and by extension to the Zionist Action Committee, " You are bourgeois in thoughts, bourgeois in your feelings, bourgeois in your ideas, bourgeois in your conception of society .".

Benjamin Kennicott ( 4 April 1718 – 18 September 1783 ) was an English churchman and Hebrew scholar.

Benjamin ben Immanuel Musaphia ( c. 1606 – 1675 ), also called Benjamin Musaphia or Mussafia and Dionysius, was a Jewish doctor, scholar and kabbalist.