David A. Clines, in his influential The Themes of the Pentateuch ( 1978 ), identified the overarching theme of the five books as the partial fulfilment of a promise to made by God to the patriarchs, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Special mention, however, must be made of the most important of them all: his biography of Sir Isaac Newton.

Also the widespread acceptance of video art as a form has made it possible for British artists such as Sam Taylor-Wood and Isaac Julien to make film works outside of the demands of cinema exhibition.

Isaac Singer, who made improvements to an existing model of a sewing machine in the 1850s, began one of the first franchising efforts in the United States, followed later by Coca-Cola, Western Union, etc.

Sir Isaac Isaacs and Sir Zelman Cowen were Jewish ; Bill Hayden is an avowed atheist and he made an affirmation rather than swear an oath at the beginning of his commission ; the remaining Governors-General have been at least nominally Christian.

The " patriarchal history " recounts the events of the major patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom God reveals himself and to whom the promise of descendants and land is made, while the story of Joseph serves to take the Israelites into Egypt in preparation for the next book, Exodus.

So, Isaac unearthed them and began to dig for more wells all the way to Beersheba, where he made a pact with Abimelech, just like in the day of his father.

Several verses speak of Isaac as a " gift " to Abraham ( VI: 84 ; XIX: 49-50 ), and XXIX: 26-27 adds that God made " prophethood and the Book to be among his offspring ", which has been interpreted to refer to Abraham's two prophetic sons, his prophetic grandson Jacob, and his prophetic great-grandson Joseph.

Jacob did as his mother instructed and, when he returned with the kids, Rebekah made the savory meat that Isaac loved.

Having made Jacob a ruler over his brothers, Isaac could only promise, " By your sword you shall live, but your brother you shall serve ; yet it shall be that when you are aggrieved, you may cast off his yoke from upon your neck " ( 27: 39-40 ).

Isaac Newton contended that light was made up of numerous small particles.

Isaac Asimov believed that Heinlein made a swing to the right politically at the same time he married Ginny.

The ten-in-one might be partly a freak show exhibiting " human oddities " ( including " born freaks " such as midgets, giants or persons with other deformities, or " made freaks " like tattooed people, fat people or " human skeletons "- extremely thin men often " married " to the fat lady, like Isaac W. Sprague ).

Against the background of this erosion, several years of drought and the general dependency of St Helena, in 1715 governor Isaac Pyke ( 1714 – 1719 ) made the serious suggestion to the Company that appreciable savings could be made by moving the population to Mauritius, evacuated by the French in 1710.

Such an order is referred to in legal circles as an Isaac Wunder order after Isaac Wunder who made several claims against the Hospitals Trust claiming sweepstakes prizes, but the claims were found to be groundless and the case deemed frivolous or vexatious.

* First commercially successful sewing machine made by Isaac Singer

The conclusion made by Isaac Newton, stating that the change of movement of some bodies is caused by the impact of other bodies-is wrong and does not correspond to the facts.

The president of the court, Sir Isaac Coffin, wrote to the Admiralty and made several serious accusations against Bligh, including that he had influenced the officers to testify against Short.

* 1807 – Isaac de Rivas made a hydrogen gas powered internal combustion engine and mounted it on a vehicle.

Isaac Asimov called him " hard-luck Scheele " because he made a number of chemical discoveries before others who are generally given the credit.

He made a favourable impression on the composer and conductor Fromental Halévy, who gave him lessons in composition and orchestration and wrote to Isaac Offenbach in Cologne that the young man was going to be a great composer.

Secondly, transcriptions, usually made by Segovia himself, of classical works originally written for other instruments ( e. g., lute, harpsichord, piano, violin, cello ) by Johann Sebastian Bach, Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, and many other prominent composers.

Dom Isaac, in a desperate plea, threw himself at the feet of the Catholic Monarchs and begged them to revoke their decree, but to no avail.

Ken Anderson eventually replaced Carter as starting quarterback, and together with star wide receiver Isaac Curtis, produced a consistent, effective offensive attack.

* December 7 – Isaac Campbell Kidd, American admiral ( died in the attack on Pearl Harbor ) ( b. 1884 )

Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, fearing for the safety of Washington in case of attack, Secretary of the Navy Isaac Toucey ordered a detachment of US Marines to garrison the fort.

While the emigrants were camped at the meadow, nearby militia leaders, including Isaac C. Haight and John D. Lee, made plans to attack the wagon train.

However, Commodore Isaac Chauncey, commanding the American naval squadron on the lake, refused to risk his ships in any attack against Kingston.

The two Radicals, Thomas Charles Thompson and John Henderson who had been returned for City of Durham were unseated, and an attack was then made on the seats of two other Radicals, Isaac Lowthian Bell and Charles Mark Palmer who had been returned for North Durham.

Union forces under Major Isaac Lynde at nearby Fort Fillmore prepared to attack Baylor.

On 13 October 1812, Van Rensselaer launched an attack on the British position that would evolve into the Battle of Queenston Heights, in which van Rensselaer's forces were badly beaten by the British generals Isaac Brock and, after Brock's death, Roger Hale Sheaffe.

He was the son of Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who was killed on the bridge of the battleship during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Isaac Campbell Kidd ( March 26, 1884 – December 7, 1941 ) was an American Rear Admiral in the United States Navy who was killed on the bridge of the during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Ferguson issued a challenge to the rebel militias to lay down their arms or suffer the consequences ; in response, the Patriot militias led by James Johnston, William Campbell, John Sevier, Joseph McDowell and Isaac Shelby rallied for an attack on Ferguson.

While trading places, Colonel Isaac P. Rodman of the 4th Rhode Island was told by Lieutenant Colonel William S. Clark of the 21st Massachusetts that he thought that another attack on the brick kiln would be successful.

The 2nd dispute begins with Sandius, the Arian around 1670, followed by the attack on authenticity by Richard Simon, defense by John Mill, the David Martin and Thomas Emlyn debate, Edmund Calamy and numerous additional writers, including publication in London of Isaac Newton's Two Letters in 1754.

Late in 1812, he was assigned to duty with Commodore Isaac Chauncey and distinguished himself in the attack on Black Rock on November 28.

Where it is revealed that Jack Shaftoe raided the Tower of London specifically to tamper with the Pyx, Viscount Bolingbroke and Charles White use the event as leverage for political attack against Whigs, specifically Isaac Newton.

Allwine died of acute diabetes and a heart attack on May 18, 2009, he was survived by his children from previous marriages: Erin, Peter, Christopher, and Joshua, and a grandson named Isaac.

After General Hull retreated back to Fort Detroit, British General Isaac Brock and the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh met at Fort Amherstburg to plan the attack of Fort Detroit in the British Indian Department building located outside of the fort grounds.

Although Brigadier General Edmund P. Gaines tried to persuade Brown to make the attack on Kingston, it proved impossible for Brown to gain any cooperation from Commodore Isaac Chauncey ( commanding the American naval squadron based at Sackett's Harbor, New York ) which was essential for any such attack.

He was on Gen. Isaac Huger's staff at the attack on Savannah in 1779, and received a bullet wound.

For Sir John Hill's attack on Folkes ( Review of the Works of the Royal Soc., 1751 ), see Isaac D ' Israeli, Calamities and Quarrels of Authors ( 1860 ), pp. 364 – 366.

The Drapier does not directly attack Isaac Newton's assay of Wood's coin, but instead attacks the process behind the assay and the witnesses who testified before the Privy Council.

He's alerted to Gotham Industrial, which is under attack by Mr. Freeze who's looking for a man named Isaac Evers.