One such is Abraham Meyer, the writer of a recent book, Speaking Of Man.

Abraham Lincoln suffered from " melancholy ", a condition which now is referred to as clinical depression.

The famous Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook stated that love is the most important attribute in humanity.

* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

* 1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.

In the film he is played by F. Murray Abraham, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

*" Whosoever hath not pity upon his fellow man is no child of Abraham " ( Beitzah 32b ).

It is this reluctance which was felt by the Rijksmuseum to reattribute works to other painters ( Abraham van Calraet does not even appear in a Museum catalogue until 1926, and even then he is not given his own entry ) which shows how important it is to art historians that painters are accurately connected to their works — and this is continuously necessary for those of Aelbert Cuyp, as Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter may not in fact be Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter.

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized.

Penny Marshall's 1990 film Awakenings, which was nominated for several Oscars, is based on neurologist Oliver Sacks ' 1973 account of his psychiatric patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx who were paralyzed by a form of encephalitis but briefly responded to the drug L-dopa.

* S. Daniel Abraham Peace is Possible, foreword by Bill Clinton

The next is between God and Abraham, and the third between God and all Israel at Mount Sinai.

The medieval exegete Abraham ibn Ezra believed that Job was translated from another language and it is therefore unclear " like all translated books " ( Ibn Ezra Job 2: 11 ).

Famous in his own time for his perceived ugliness, Abraham Lincoln was described by a contemporary: " to say that he is ugly is nothing ; to add that his figure is grotesque, is to convey no adequate impression.

A decision-theoretic justification of the use of Bayesian inference ( and hence of Bayesian probabilities ) was given by Abraham Wald, who proved that every admissible statistical procedure is either a Bayesian procedure or a limit of Bayesian procedures.

He is concerned, however, with the fact that the promise is not being fulfilled to the seed of Abraham ( referring to the Jews ).

Divine revelation for the direction of the entire church comes from God to the President of the Church, who is viewed by Latter-day Saints as a prophet in the same sense as Noah, Abraham, Moses, Peter, and other biblical leaders.

In the Hebrew Bible, the prophet Abraham is stated to have originally been from " Ur of the Chaldees " ( Ur Kasdim ); if this city is to be identified with the Sumerian Ur, it would be within the original Chaldean homeland south of the Euphrates, although Chaldeans were not extant in Mesopotamia at the time of Abraham.

It was in 1814 that Abraham Wharf and his sister sat by a meager fire in their house on Dogtown Common, a desolate place even then.

Penicillinase was the first β-lactamase to be identified: It was first isolated by Abraham and Chain in 1940 from Gram-negative E. coli even before penicillin entered clinical use, but penicillinase production quickly spread to bacteria that previously did not produce it or produced it only rarely.

Abraham protests that it is not just " to slay the righteous with the wicked ," and asks if the whole city can be spared if even ten righteous men are found there.

But when Abraham returns, he converts, concluding that that if Christianity can still spread even when its hierarchy is so corrupt, it must be the true word of God.

The author of the Zohar drew upon the Bible commentaries written by medieval rabbis, including Rashi, Abraham ibn Ezra, David Kimhi and even authorities as late as Nahmanides and Maimonides.

Abraham Lincoln's attempt to finance his own 1858 Senate run bankrupted him, even though he had arranged a number of $ 500 expense accounts from wealthy donors.

The Portuguese historian Teixeira de Aragão suggests that Vasco da Gama studied at the inland town of Évora, which is where he may have learned mathematics and navigation and it has even been claimed ( although dubiously ) that he studied under the astronomer Abraham Zacuto.

Gerald Abraham, a musicologist, and an authority on Mussorgsky: " As a musical translator of words and all that can be expressed in words, of psychological states, and even physical movement, he is unsurpassed ; as an absolute musician he was hopelessly limited, with remarkably little ability to construct pure music or even a purely musical texture.

For this reason some linguists ( e. g. Jernej Kopitar and Rajko Nahtigal ) linked Abraham closely to the origin of the Freising Manuscripts and even attributed to him the authorship of one of the texts and suspected that he was of Slovene origin, although this was later disproven.

While he reasoned that " the seed of Abraham " was hardly predominant in a second generation after conversion to Christianity, he still warned of the " thousands which by the Russian tyranny will now come upon us even more abounding from Poland ", " the impure flood from the East ".

This dramatic account of Captain Riley's trials and sufferings sold more than 1, 000, 000 copies in his day, and was even read by a young and impressionable Abraham Lincoln.

Other rabbinic scholars also note that Abraham was willing to do everything to spare his son, even if it meant going against the divine command: while it was God who ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son, it was an angel, a lesser being in the celestial hierarchy, that commanded him to stop.

The Binding of Isaac is mentioned in the New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews among many acts of faith recorded in the Old Testament: By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, " In Isaac your seed shall be called ," concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.

Muslim tradition records that Abraham lived with Isaac but frequently visited Ishmael in Arabia, context between the family as a whole is suggested even in the Biblical tradition particularly in Abraham's funeral in Genesis 25: 8-9.

Gunkel's observation that if, however, we consider figures like Abraham, Issac, and Jacob to be actual persons with no original mythic foundations, that does not at all mean that they are historical figures ... For even if, as may well be assumed, there was once a man call ' Abraham ,' everyone who knows the history of legends is sure that the legend is in no position at the distance of so many centuries to preserve a picture of the personal piety of Abraham.

Abraham's name appears in the toponymy of Quebec City at the time of the French regime, the deeds of the 17th and 18th centuries referring to the coast of Abraham, and a 1734 plan even precisely locating an Abraham Street.

Hagar, when pregnant by Abraham, began to act superciliously toward Sarai, provoking the latter to treat her harshly, to impose heavy work upon her, and even to strike her Some believe Sarai was originally destined to reach the age of 175 years, but forty-eight years of this span of life were taken away from her because she complained of Abraham, blaming him as though the cause that Hagar no longer respected her.

Toward the end of his life he wrote a letter for general circulation pointing out that Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses and David were all keepers of sheep or cattle and therefore that a learned education should not be seen as a necessary qualification for ministry.

In this passage, Jesus ' opponents want to argue that Jesus has not seen Abraham, because Jesus is too young.

This dilemma was seen most notably in 1861 and 1933, as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt ( plus the newly elected Senators and Representatives ) had to wait four months before they, and the incoming-Congresses, could deal with the secession of Southern states and the Great Depression respectively.

Antioch as seen by Abraham Ortelius.

The entire episode of the sacrifice is regarded as a trial of God for Abraham and his son, and both are seen as having passed the test by submitting to God and showing their awareness that God is the Owner and Giver of all that we have and cherish, including life and offspring.

Abraham can be seen as one of the undercover police officers along with Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet's Serpico ( 1973 ), also as the bad guy in one 3rd Season episode of Kojak, he played a cab driver in the theatrical version of The Prisoner of Second Avenue ( 1975 ), a mechanic in the theatrical version of The Sunshine Boys ( 1975 ) and in All the President's Men ( 1976 ), as one of the police officers who arrests the Watergate burglars in the offices of the Democratic National Headquarters.

Downtown Quebec as seen from the Plains of Abraham.

A version of local color regionalism that focused on minority experiences can be seen in the works of Charles W. Chesnutt ( African American ), of María Ruiz de Burton, one of the earliest Mexican American novelists to write in English, and in the Yiddish-inflected works of Abraham Cahan.

The biblical patriarch Abraham is seen by Philo as the symbol of man leaving sensuality to turn to reason.

In some versions, Nimrod has his subjects gather wood for four whole years, so as to burn Abraham in the biggest bonfire the world had ever seen.

An example that combines the Pepper's ghost effect with a live actor and film projection can be seen in the Mystery Lodge exhibit at the Knott's Berry Farm theme park in Buena Park, California and the Ghosts of the Library exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, as well as the depiction of Maori legends called A Millennium Ago at the Museum of Wellington City & Sea.

The interpretation of Yeshu as a proto-Jesus first seen in Abraham ibn Daud's work would be revisited by Egyptologist Gerald Massey in his essay The historical Jesus and Mythical Christ, and by G. R. S.

Two dioramas depict the scaling of the Heights of Abraham at Quebec by General Wolfe and the East Yorkshires in 1759, and of the D-day landing at Colleville-Sur-Orne, which were both, commissioned for, and can be seen at, the " East Yorkshire Regiment Museum ".

( There is some confusion over the number and names of the rescuers-Daniel Thomas, listed as one of those awarded the first-class medal, is referred to as owner of Brithweunydd Level, the Tynewydd colliery owner is reported to have been considered for but not awarded a first-class medal because of his impending trial on manslaughter charges of which he was acquitted, and Gwilym Thomas is seen in a photograph of " three of the rescuers " with Isaac Pride and Abraham " Abby " Dodd, see below ).

LDS apologist Hugh Nibley states that " we have learned that the papyri are of relatively late date — but the Mormons have always known that — we have seen some of the papyri that were in Smith's possession, but there is no evidence that we have seen them all, and it is apparent that only one small piece among them has any direct bearing on the Book of Abraham – and what connection is remains a complete mystery.

Dudd has been seen as the forerunner of later success by Abraham Darby and others in smelting iron with coke in the 18th century.

In Two Roads to Sumter ( 1963 ), written with his son William, Catton recounted the 15 years leading up to the war, seen from the vantage points of the two leading politicians involved in the conflict: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.

Matlock Bath, as seen from the Heights of Abraham cable car

Reconstructions of these lodges may be seen at Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park near Mandan, North Dakota, and the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site.

He devoted himself to landscape painting and rendered admirably the severer beauties of the Roman Campagna ; a noteworthy series of works in tempera representing various sites near Rome is to be seen in the Colonna Palace ; but one of his finest easel-pictures, the Sacrifice of Abraham, formerly the property of the Colonna, is now, with other works by the same painter, in the National Gallery, London.

These passages were interspersed with other recordings which primarily included readings of the story of Abraham as it is recounted in various religious texts, as can be seen from the section headings listed below.

McLaughlin argues that because Jeconiah must be counted in two different groups in order to make the " fourteen generations " of 1: 17, the genealogy here must be seen, not as a historically complete list, but as a literary device intended to highlight four significant events in Israelite history: the covenant with Abraham, the covenant with David, the Babylonian exile, and especially the reign of the messiah, which is the subject of the rest of the Gospel.