In the famous long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 AD ) during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1297 AD ), a suanpan is clearly seen lying beside an account book and doctor's prescriptions on the counter of an apothecary's ( Feibao ).

Nevertheless, fragments of Judges ( such as the Song of Deborah ) have been dated from much earlier, perhaps close to the period the book depicts.

The main themes of the book are introduced in the opening poem ( the " Song of Hannah "): ( 1 ), the sovereignty of Yahweh, God of Israel ; ( 2 ), the reversal of human fortunes ; and ( 3 ), kingship.

The handheld pistol-and-trigger crossbow was invented in China in the 4th century BC ; it was written by the Song Dynasty scholars Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Yang Weide in their book Wujing Zongyao ( 1044 AD ) that massed missile fire by crossbowmen was the most effective defense against enemy cavalry charges.

The book chronologically narrates the history of China from the Warring States period in 403 BCE to the beginning of the Song Dynasty in 959 CE.

In the book of the Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao, published in 1092 by the Chinese scientist Su Song, a star map on the equidistant cylindrical projection.

The biblical book Song of Solomon is considered a romantically phrased metaphor of love between God and his people, but in its plain reading, reads like a love song.

Bart D. Ehrman referred to a work by an early anonymous Christian writer ( perhaps Hippolytus, a Christian leader in Rome around 200 AD ) who in a commentary on the Old Testament book Song of Songs, wrote that Jesus first appeared to the women at the tomb.

" Solomon became a favorite author and contributor of different kinds of wisdom literature, " including not only the collections of Proverbs, but also of Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon and the later apocryphal book the Wisdom of Solomon.

* Shir ha-Shirim ( Song of Songs ), an esoteric book, that while seeming to be a love song, truly refers to the relationship between Jews and God.

The Song of Songs of Solomon, commonly referred to as Song of Songs ( Hebrew: Šîr haŠîrîm, LXX Greek: Aisma Aismatōn, Vulgate Latin: Cantĭcum Canticōrum ), or Song of Solomon, is a book of the Old Testament — one of the megillot ( scrolls )— found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim ( or " Writings ").

The name of the book (" The Song of Songs of Solomon ") comes from a superscription: " The song of songs, which is Solomon's " ( which also constitutes the opening verse of the book ).

* In the Jehovah's Witness song book, song number eleven is entitled " The Shullamite Remnant " and is based on Song of Songs, quoting some of the verses verbatim, including Song of Songs 8: 6, 7.

* Kate Bush wrote a song called The Song Of Solomon, containing lines from the book, which appears on her 1993 album The Red Shoes.

* In 2009, Pope Shenouda III of the Coptic Orthodox Church authored a book, " Have You Seen the One I Love " on Song of Songs.

The title of the film and novel is based upon a passage from Biblical book of The Song of Solomon or Song of Songs, Chapter 7: 12: " Let us get up early to the vineyards.

In 1976 Sondheim appeared, together with theatre critic Frank Rich, John Weidman ( book for Pacific Overtures ) and members of the original cast of Pacific Overtures in a television program titled " Anatomy of a Song.

The Song of the Three Children was retained within the narrative of Daniel, the other two additions Jerome moved to the end of the book.

* In the Song of Ice and Fire book series and its TV adaptation, Game of Thrones, a crowned stag is the sigil ( emblem ) of the House Baratheon.

* Song Ci publishes the Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified, a book considered to be the first monographic work on forensic medicine.

The first written account of using medicine and entomology to solve ( separate ) criminal cases is attributed to the book of Xi Yuan Lu ( translated as " Washing Away of Wrongs "), written in Song Dynasty China by Song Ci ( 宋慈, 1186 – 1249 ) in 1248.

In 1247 AD Song Ci wrote a book entitled Washing Away of Wrongs as a handbook for coroners.

Jianyang bore a famous legal medical expert Song Ci, who wrote a famous book Xi yuan ji lu ; it was the first book about legal medical research, and laid a solid foundation for China's medical jurisprudence.

He published a book of poetry in 1985 called Ci Penso Amo ( ISBN L20000 ).

Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified or Washing away of wrongs is a Chinese book written by Song Ci in 1247 during the Song Dynasty ( 960-1276 ) as a handbook for coroners.

In the book, Song Ci said:

Song Ci ( Chinese: 宋慈 ; Pinyin: Sòng Cí ) ( 1186 – 1249 ) was a forensic medical expert active during the Southern Song Dynasty who wrote a groundbreaking book titled Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified ( Xi Yuan Ji Lu ).

Song Ci combined many historical cases of forensic science with his own experiences and wrote the book Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified with an eye to avoiding miscarriages of justice.

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 book of Jonah depicts Nineveh as a wicked city worthy of destruction.

( 1963 ) by Roy Lichtenstein is an early example of pop art, featuring a reproduction of comic book art that depicts a fighter aircraft striking another with rockets with dazzling red and yellow explosions.

The book of Revelation in the Christian bible depicts a better time, in the future, after Satan and evil are defeated.

The book depicts a civilization that travels between star systems with the aid of electronic computers, but they have to be " programmed " on the spot, and elementary computing operations ( which modern computers are actually at their best at ), such as calculating trigonometric functions and logarithms, and converting between decimal and binary numbers, must be done by looking up values in books of tables.

The book depicts an overconfident and militarily incompetent Crassus up to the moment of his death.

The young adult Boba Fett book series released after Attack of the Clones depicts Fett taking his father's ship and armor to begin his own bounty-hunting career.

The Diamond Age depicts a near-future world revolutionised by advances in nanotechnology, much as Eric Drexler envisioned it in his nonfiction book Engines of Creation ( 1986 ).

The book examines the personality of Georg Steller and depicts the Kamchatka expedition during which the discovery of the Steller's sea cow was made.

The Jean Pierre Melville film Army of Shadows ( based on a book of the same name ) depicts several famous events in Moulin's war experience, such as his visits to London, his reliance on his female assistant, his decoration by Charles de Gaulle and his parachuting back into France during the war.

Although the book is unabashedly sentimental, it also depicts the sweeping social changes that Chips experiences throughout his life: he begins his tenure at Brookfield in 1870, as the Franco-Prussian War is breaking out and lies on his deathbed shortly after Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

The book depicts Gunray's rise to Viceroy of the entire Trade Federation, the forging of his alliance with Darth Sidious and the events which lead up to the blockade of Naboo in Episode I.

The 2005 IDW comic book Spike: Old Times, by Peter David, depicts Spike's encounter with the vengeance demon Halfrek, explaining his recognition of her in Buffy episode " Older and Far Away ", and clarifying that she was in fact his beloved Cecily.

* The Little Endless Storybook ( 2001 ): A one-shot comic / story book which depicts the Endless as toddlers and follows Delirium's dog Barnabas as he attempts to find the missing Delirium, written and illustrated by Jill Thompson.

The provenance of the story is sometimes explained internally, as in The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, which depicts the Red Book of Westmarch ( a story-internal version of the book itself ) as a history compiled by several of the characters.

Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey book, Clouds of Witness, depicts trial of a peer ( Wimsey's brother ) by the House of Lords.

Irving's book inspired the highly controversial 1967 play Soldiers by his friend, the German playwright Rolf Hochhuth, where Hochhuth depicts Churchill ordering the " assassination " of General Sikorski.

The book depicts events through the eyes of multiple individuals, violating simple chronology to present an overlapping series of narratives.

Reese's critique also aims at Michael Pollan's view in his book The Omnivore's Dilemma that depicts the farming principles of Polyface as exemplary and sustainable.

The feature film Meetings with Remarkable Men ( 1979 ), based on Gurdjieff's book by the same name, depicts rare performances of the sacred dances taught to serious students of his work, known simply as the movements.

The oldest seal only exists on a letter from 1531 and it depicts Saint Peter with a key and a book.

In the novel, American soldiers use profanity ; his language is irreverent ; and the book depicts sex.

In addition, the book depicts the first of Bean's encounters with Achilles.