`` There was always and at all times a contemporary music and it expresses the era in which it was created.

A credulousness, a distaste for documentation, an uncritical reliance on contemporary accounts, and a proneness to assume a theory as true before adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his failure to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to evaluate the responsibilities of the historian to his reading public.

most important to Patchen, he was a non-literary hero, and very contemporary.

The fins of a Caddy were sticking out of the garage, while the inside of the house was a comfortable mixture of old and expensive contemporary furniture.

A brisk, satirical spoof of contemporary American mores entitled `` An American Journey '' was given its first New York performance at Hunter College Playhouse last night by the Helen Tamiris-Daniel Nagrin Dance Company.

I went to a retrospective of his work when I was eighteen, and I thought he was a contemporary of Cezanne's ''.

He was inspired by several others ( including Honoré Blanc ), or at least by the contemporary zeitgeist that was building around such ideas.

The word was probably derived from the contemporary name, les argotiers, given to a group of thieves at that time.

Her second husband, Pere Milà, was a developer who was criticized for his flamboyant lifestyle and ridiculed by the contemporary residents of Barcelona, when they joked about his love of money and opulence, wondering if he was not rather more interested in " the widow ’ s guardiola " ( piggy bank ), than in " Guardiola ’ s widow ".

It was not a Turing complete computer, which distinguishes it from more general machines, like contemporary Konrad Zuse's Z3 ( 1941 ), or later machines like the 1946 ENIAC, 1949 EDVAC, the University of Manchester designs, or Alan Turing's post-War designs at NPL and elsewhere.

" Amazing Grace " was one of many hymns that punctuated fervent sermons, although the contemporary style used a refrain, borrowed from other hymns, that employed simplicity and repetition such as:

In the sense that most modern languages are " algol-like ", it was arguably the most successful of the four high level programming languages with which it was roughly contemporary, Fortran, Lisp, and COBOL.

But Leotychidas was ultimately set aside as illegitimate, contemporary rumors representing him as the son of Alcibiades, and Agesilaus became king around 401 BC, at the age of about forty.

As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.

He was an older contemporary and an alleged lover of Sappho, with whom he may have exchanged poems.

Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.

He was a younger contemporary of Phidias and noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among which a Hephaestus and an Aphrodite " of the Gardens " were conspicuous.

While being a Middle Comic poet, Alexis was contemporary with several leading figures of New Comedy, such as Philippides, Philemon, Diphilus, and even Menander.

The casino was a showcase for the Pamphili collection of sculpture, ancient and contemporary, on which Algardi was well able to advise.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

In archaic Greece he was the prophet, the oracular god who in older times was connected with " healing ".

In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, Aaron ( or ; Ahărōn, Hārūn, Greek ( Septuagint ): Ααρών ), who is often called "' Aaron the Priest "' () and once Aaron the Levite () ( Exodus 4: 14 ), was the older brother of Moses, ( Exodus 6: 16-20, 7: 7 ; Qur ' an 28: 34 ) and a prophet of God.

Abu Bakr ( Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafa ) (, c. 573 CE – 23 August 634 CE ) also known as Abū Bakr as-Șiddīq ( Arabic: أبو بكر الصديق ) was a senior companion ( Sahabi ) and the father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Amos was a prophet during the reign of Jeroboam ben Joash ( Jeroboam II ), ruler of Israel from 793 BC to 753 BC, and the reign of Uzziah, King of Judah, at a time when both kingdoms ( Israel in the North and Judah in the South ) were peaking in prosperity.

Amos also made it a point that before his calling he was a simple husbandman and that he was not a " professional " prophet of the prophetic guild.

The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.

" says the prophet saw God's temple in heaven opened, " and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple.

Dubbed " Abu Hashim ", Nami was considered " gentle in manner " by his colleagues, and reported that he had a dream in which he rode a mare along with Muhammad, and that the prophet told him to dismount and fight his enemies to liberate his land.

The Babylonian Talmud was the first attempt to attach authors to the holy books: each book, according to the authors of the Talmud, was written by a prophet, and each prophet was an eyewitness of the events described, and Joshua himself wrote " the book that bears his name ".

In the Book of Matthew 24: 15, of the New Testament, Jesus gives attestation to Daniel, " When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place ( let the reader understand )".

The book of Jeremiah depicts a remarkably introspective prophet, a prophet who was impetuous and often angered by the role into which he has been thrust.

The first, termed Proto-Isaiah ( chapters 1 – 39 ), contains the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet with 7th-century BCE expansions ; the second, Deutero-Isaiah ( chapters 40 – 55 ), is the work of a 6th-century BCE author writing near the end of the Babylonian captivity ; and the third, the poetic Trito-Isaiah ( chapters 56 – 66 ), was composed in Jerusalem shortly after the return from exile, probably by multiple authors.

( Isaiah was the most popular prophet among the Dead Sea collection: 21 copies of the scroll were found in Qumran.

In Islam, Job ( ايوب ) was a prophet renowned for his endurance ( assumed to be of pain and suffering ).

The traditional ascription of the whole book to the prophet Joel was challenged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by a theory of a three stage process of composition: 1: 1 – 2: 27 were from the hand of Joel, and dealt with a contemporary issue ; 2: 28 – 3: 21 were ascribed to a continuator with an apocalyptic outlook.

According to Hosea Ballou, then Pierre Batiffol ( 1911 ) and George T. Knight ( 1914 ) Amalric was a believer that all people would eventually be saved and this was one of the counts upon which he was declared a heretic by Pope Innocent III.

Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II, making the Book of Amos the first biblical prophetic book written.

First, Hosea was directed by God to marry a promiscuous woman of ill-repute, and he did so.

In the NIV translation, the omitting of the word ' him ' leads to speculation as to whether Lo-Ruhamah was the daughter of Hosea or one of Gomer's lovers.

However, it is probable that this was again a symbolic act, in which Hosea divorced Gomer for infidelity, and used the occasion to preach the message of God's rejection of the Northern Kingdom.

“ I will strip her naked and expose her as in the day she was born ” ( Hosea 2: 3 ).

Biblical scholar Ehud Ben Zvi reminds readers of the socio-historical context in which Hosea was composed.

In his article Observations on the marital metaphor of YHWH and Israel in its ancient Israelite context: general considerations and particular images in Hosea 1. 2, Ben Zvi describes the role of the Gomer in the marriage metaphor as one of the “ central attributes of the ideological image of a human marriage that was shared by the male authorship and the primary and intended male readership as building blocks for their imagining of the relationship .”

Hosea (;, Greek = Ōsēé ) was the son of Beeri, a prophet in Israel in the 8th century BC and author of the book of prophecies bearing his name.

The book of Hosea was a severe warning to the northern kingdom against the growing idolatry being practiced there ; the book was a dramatic call to repentance.

Jeroboam's reign was also the period of the prophets Hosea, Joel, Jonah and Amos, all of whom condemned the materialism and selfishness of the Israelite elite of their day: " Woe unto those who lie upon beds of ivory ... eat lambs from the flock and calves ... sing idle songs ..." The book of Kings, written a century later condemns Jeroboam for doing " evil in the eyes of the Lord ", meaning both the oppression of the poor and his continuing support of the cult centres of Dan and Bethel, in opposition to the temple in Jerusalem.

The Jewish Sages themselves considered this a prophetic work that was written during the time of the Prophet Jeremiah by his colleagues, but these latter prophets then attributed their result to king Solomon, just as other writings of Jewish Scripture have been written by one prophet while being attributed to another, such as the Book of Hosea, Isaiah, and others.

* 1897 – The most likely first electric bicycle was built in 1897 by Hosea W. Libbey.

" Cook maintained that although the Scriptures did not explicitly state the existence of two rival kingdoms in the north in the latter half of the eighth century BC, their existence could be inferred from passages of the book of Hosea that was written about the time of Pekah and Menahem.

Cook's thesis in this regard was strengthened when Rodger Young pointed out that the Hebrew of Hosea 5: 5 has a vav before Israel and then another vav before Ephraim, which is the Hebrew method of expressing " both.

" Having been one of the biggest influences in the establishment of the College, Hosea Ballou II became the first president in 1853, and College Hall, the first building on campus, was completed the following year.

McKinney of Atlanta and Hosea Williams, who was on the Atlanta City Council, took up the march plans instead.

Hosea Williams was excluded from Oprah's show and arrested for trespassing.

The land was described in an 1890 account as being adjacent to Peter Buvens land, " beginning at the fork of the road east of Hosea Presley's house and along the Speight Road.

Hosea Ballou wrote that a God who did not want to, or was unable to save everyone, was not a God worth worshipping.