No less than thirty-five answers were directed against this book, the most noteworthy of which were those of Bishop Edward Chandler, Arthur Sykes and Samuel Clarke.

Maimonides ' answers, some of which were written in Arabic and were later on translated into Hebrew, perhaps by Samuel himself, praise the translator's ability and acknowledge his command of Arabic, a skill very surprising in a country like France.

The first Book of Samuel begins with a description of the prophet Samuel's birth and of how God called to him as a boy.

Agag, mentioned in the third poem, is described as a great king, which does not correspond to the king of the Amalekites who was named Agag, and described in I Samuel 15, since that description considers Amalek to be small and obscure.

The paediatrician Samuel Gee gave the first modern-day description of the condition in children in a lecture at Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, in 1887.

Adherents of source criticism suggest that references to a woman called Ahinoam being Saul's wife belong to the account of the republican source of the Books of Samuel, while in the passages ascribed to the monarchial source, the only mention of a woman called Ahinoam is the description of her as a wife of David.

Coleridge's description of Xanadu has echoes of the works of both Marco Polo and Samuel Purchas.

Samuel Pepys gives a long and detailed description of the rolling, cutting, and striking of the blanks in his diary entry for 19 May 1663.

However, his manuscript describing the species was lost, and so the first description of the frill shark became authored by American zoologist Samuel Garman, working from a long female caught from Sagami Bay in Japan.

* Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring publishes his description of Pterodactylus which he names Ornithocephalus antiquus.

Steele and Samuel P. Harbison wrote C: A Reference Manual, ( Prentice-Hall, 1984 ; ISBN 0-13-110016-5 ), to provide a precise description of the C programming language, which Tartan Laboratories was trying to implement on a wide range of systems.

By 1940 Simon, along with his successor as Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, had come to be seen as one of the " Guilty Men " responsible for appeasement of the dictators (" the snakiest of the lot " in Hugh Dalton's description ), and like Hoare his continued service in the War Cabinet was not regarded as acceptable in the new coalition.

It was first described by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1770, basing the name on the " bottle-nosed whales " seen by Pehr Kalm in his Travels into North America, and on Thomas Pennant's 1766 description of Samuel Dale's " bottle-head whale " found stranded above a bridge in Maldon, Essex, in 1717.

* BHL A companion to Mr. Bullock's London Museum and Pantherion: containing a brief description of upwards of fifteen thousand natural and foreign curiosities, antiquities, and productions of the fine arts, collected during seventeen years of arduous research .....( Bullock, William, Howitt, Samuel and Wells, John West First Printed for the proprietor, 1812.

" A notable example of this use is Samuel Pepys's diary description of his servant girl as " an admirable slut " who " pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others and deserves wages better " ( February 1664 ).

In the description of the Parish of Heidesheim drawn up sometime between 1667 and 1677 in Johann Sebastian Severus ’ s Dioecesis Moguntina, it says :“ On the edge of the village towards the Rhine one beholds farther away the castle house at the Wintereck which in the year 1626 Samuel Beck, chief cellarmaster at Mainz, acquired for himself and his family along with the forest, meadows, fields and cereal tributes for 800 Gulden and today has outfitted with an appealing building and fruit trees.

Drawing from a description of the atmospheric railway of Samuel Clegg and Joseph Samuda.

A description of " Haynsen " in the Kingdom of Georgia, its inhabitants and history is contained in " La Fleur des histoires de la terre d ' Orient " by Hetu'm of Corycos, written around 1307, translated into English in 1520, and later reproduced in the travellers ' tales of Samuel Purchas published in 1614.

Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson, the neurologist most known for his description of what came to be known as Wilson's disease.

These interpreters also argue that the description in 2 Samuel 1: 26 of the “ love ” ( Hebrew: “ ahava ”) between David and Jonathan that is greater than the “ love of women ” should be understood in light of the two earlier mentions of “ love ” ( ahava ) between David and Jonathan where it is described not as love for a romantic partner but love for self (“ he loved him as his own soul ,” 1 Sam 18: 3 ; 20: 17 ).

In 1837, Samuel Lewis published a topographical dictionary which included the following contemporary description of the Parish of Clondavaddog:

The term Blason populaire is a phrase in which one culture or ethnic group increases its own self-esteem by belittling others e. g. Samuel Johnson's description that " The noblest prospect which a Scotsman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England !".

This brief description later inspired the poem Kubla Khan by the English romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

In 1837, Samuel Lewis published a topographical dictionary which included the following contemporary description of Tulsk: TULSK, a post-town ( formerly an incorporated market-town and parliamentary borongh ), in the parish of OGULLA, barony and county of ROSCOMMON, province of CONNAUGHT, 8 miles ( N .) from Roscommon, and 79 ¾ ( W. N. W .) from Dublin: the population is returned with the parish.

Perhaps the earliest record is Samuel Pepys ' description of a visit he made to the New Spring Gardens on the 29th May 1662.

*( Smitskamp, 2003 ) Samuel Bochart, Opera omnia Bibliographic description.

* Call of Samuel or Youth of Samuel ( 1 Samuel 1-7 ): From Samuel's birth his career as Judge and prophet over Israel.

Saul is the chosen one, a king appointed by Yahweh, God of Israel, and anointed by Samuel, Yahweh's prophet, and yet he is ultimately rejected.

Traditionally ascribed to the prophet Samuel, it is regarded by revisionist scholars as a novella of probable Hellenistic-era date.

The prophet Samuel seeks a new king from the sons of Jesse of Bethlehem:

The prophet Samuel is my warrant, who, when he had Agag, king of Amalek, in his power, hewed him in pieces, saying, As they sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.

The people of Israel then told Samuel the prophet that they needed to be governed by a permanent king, and Samuel appointed Saul to be their King.

“ One finds in the biblical text ,” writes Alfred Sendrey, “ a sudden and unexplained upsurge of large choirs and orchestras, consisting of thoroughly organized and trained musical groups, which would be virtually inconceivable without lengthy, methodical preparation .” This has led some scholars to believe that the prophet Samuel was the patriarch of a school, which taught not only prophets and holy men, but also sacred-rite musicians.

According to the Talmud there were also seven women who are counted as prophets whose message bears relevance for all generations: Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Hannah ( mother of the prophet Samuel ), Abigail ( a wife of King David ), Huldah ( from the time of Jeremiah ), and Esther.

He was anointed by the prophet Samuel and reigned from Gibeah.

This may be indicative of the tension between what a certain faction of the people wanted, and a definite reluctance of certain leaders ( e. g., the prophet Samuel ) to break with the old tribal order.

After 20 years of such oppression, Samuel, who had gained national prominence as a prophet, summoned the people to Mizpah ( one of the highest hills in the land ), where he organized them into an army, and led them against the Philistines.

In 1 Samuel 9: 6-20, Samuel is seen as a local “ seer .” The Deuteronomistic Historians preserved this view of Samuel while contributing him as “ the first of prophets to articulate the failure of Israel to live up to its covenant with God .” For the Deuteronomistic Historians, Samuel was extension of Moses and continuing Moses ’ function as a prophet, judge, and a priest which made historical Samuel uncertain.

Samuel is also a revered prophet and seer in the Islamic faith.

Thus, God sent the prophet Samuel to anoint Saul as the first king for the Israelites.

2 ) A Kohathite ancestor of the prophet Samuel ( 1 Chr 6: 36 ).

For example, the Hebrew prophet Samuel, would " lie down and sleep in the temple at Shiloh before the Ark and receive the word of the Lord.