They are followed by a further wicked king, or " little horn ", who subdues three of the ten ( 7: 24 ), speaks against the Most High, wages war against the saints, and attempts to change the set times and laws ( 7: 25 ); after ' a time and times and half a time ', this king is judged and stripped of his kingdom by an " Ancient of Days " and his heavenly court ( 7: 26 ); next, " one like a son of man " approaches the Ancient of Days and is invested with worldwide dominion ; moreover, his everlasting reign over all kings and kingdoms is shared with " the people of the Most High " ( 7: 27 )

* Peabody, Berkley, The Winged Word: A Study in the Technique of Ancient Greek Oral Composition as Seen Principally Through Hesiod's Works and Days, State University of New York Press, 1975.

' The Ancient of Days has three heads.

Ancient of Days is a name for God in Aramaic: Atik Yomin ; in the Greek Septuagint: Palaios Hemeron ; and in the Vulgate: Antiquus Dierum.

The title " Ancient of Days " has been used as a source of inspiration in art and music, denoting the Creator's aspects of eternity combined with perfection.

William Blake's watercolour and relief etching entitled " The Ancient of Days " is one such example.

I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

The Ancient of Days is the manifestation of the Ancient of Ancients within Creation.

" The Ancient of Days ", a 14th-century fresco from Ubisi, Georgia ( country ) | Georgia.

In Eastern Orthodox Christian hymns and icons, the Ancient of Days is sometimes identified with God the Father ; but most properly, in accordance with Orthodox theology he is identified with God the Son, or Jesus Christ.

As such, Eastern Christian art will sometimes portray Jesus Christ as an old man, the Ancient of Days, to show symbolically that he existed from all eternity, and sometimes as a young man to portray him as he was incarnate.

It was declared by the Russian Orthodox Church at the Great Synod of Moscow in 1667 that the Ancient of Days was the Son and not the Father.

Building his argument upon the Daniel passage, Thomas Aquinas identifies the Ancient of Days as the Person of the Father.

: Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,

with the clouds of the heavens someone like a son of man happened to be coming ; and to the Ancient of Days he gained access, and they brought him up close even before that One.

" A visit by the Son of Man to bestow a kingdom and honor on the Ancient of Days would suggest that they are two distinct identities.

Among ancient Christian pseudepigrapha, one Book of Enoch states that He who is called “ Son of man ,” who existed before the worlds were, is seen by Enoch in company with the “ Ancient of Days ”

In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the title Ancient of Days belongs to Adam, the oldest and earliest man, who is also identified with the archangel Michael.

In the Bahá ’ í Faith, ' the Ancient of Days ' is one of the titles with which Bahá ’ u ’ lláh refers to Himself.

* Ancient of Days is a well-known Anglican hymn, also known by its tune, Albany, by William Doane, the first Episcopal bishop of Albany, New York.

" The Ancient of Days ", illustrated by William Blake ( 1794 )

Urizen is depicted in Blake's watercoloured etching The Ancient of Days.

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

The use of the abacus in Ancient Egypt is mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus, who writes that the Egyptians manipulated the pebbles from right to left, opposite in direction to the Greek left-to-right method.

Ancient Anatolia is subdivided by modern scholars into various regions named after the various Indo-European ( and largely Hittite, Luwian or Greek speaking ) peoples that occupied them, such as Lydia, Lycia, Caria, Mysia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lycaonia, Pisidia, Paphlagonia, Cilicia, and Cappadocia.

Defining cultural groups, such as the Ancient Pueblo peoples, tends to create an image of territories separated by clear-cut boundaries, like border boundaries separating modern states.

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

In all the Stargate television series, characters are able to communicate instantaneously over long distances by transferring their consciousness into another person or being anywhere in the universe using " Ancient communication stones ".

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

The island was larger than Ancient Libya and Asia Minor combined, but it afterwards was sunk by an earthquake and became an impassable mud shoal, inhibiting travel to any part of the ocean.

In Ancient Greek, there was no ablative case ; its functions were taken by the genitive, so that the genitive had functions belonging to the Proto-Indo-European genitive and ablative cases.

As in Ancient Greek, the functions of the ablative case in Serbian are performed by the genitive case.

However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.

Ancient Balkh or Bactria was an integral part of Bactria – Margiana Archaeological Complex, and was occupied by Indo-Iranians.

After the death of Alexander the city ( now known as Akroinοn ( Ακροϊνόν ) or Nikopolis ( Νικόπολις ) in Ancient Greek ), was ruled by the Seleucids and the kings of Pergamon, then Rome and Byzantium.

Ancient Greek writers linked Artemis ( Doric Artamis ) by way of folk etymology to artemes ( ἀρτεμής ) ‘ safe ’ or artamos ( ἄρταμος ) ‘ butcher ’.

b. Youatt states that the Southern Hound may have been native to the British Isles and used on hunts by the Ancient Britons.

* Thespis: Ritual, Myth, and Drama in the Ancient Near East by Theodor Gaster.

The Book of Habakkuk is the eighth book of the Twelve Prophets of the Hebrew Bible, and this collection appears in all copies of texts of the Septuagint, the Ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible completed by 132 BC.

In Ancient Greece there were several cults worshipping the " Kourotrophos ", the suckling mother, represented by goddesses such as Gaia, Hera and Artemis.

Similarly in England William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced a collection of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, including Coleridge ’ s ‘ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ’.

* Urs App: William Jones's Ancient Theology.

Published in 1818, it was based on a number of sources, including Ovid's myth of Prometheus ( indeed, the novel is subtitled " The Modern Prometheus "), Milton's Paradise Lost, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and William Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek.

The hypothesis that the Ancient Roman custom of crucifixion may have developed out of a primitive custom of arbori suspendere — hanging on an arbor infelix ( unfortunate tree ) dedicated to the gods of the nether world — is rejected by William A. Oldfather, who shows that this form of execution ( the supplicium more maiorum, punishment in accordance with the custom of our ancestors ) consisted of suspending someone from a tree, not dedicated to any particular gods, and flogging him to death.

Stiebing ( 1994 ) has " Land of the Lords of Brightness " ( William Stiebing, Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture ).

* Ancient George Gets His Wish William Rushton ( Golden Acorn Pub, 1981 )

In the middle 19th century, a nostalgic interest in pre-Cromwell Christmas traditions swept Victorian England following the publications of Davies Gilbert's Some Ancient Christmas Carols ( 1822 ), William B. Sandys's Selection of Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern ( 1833 ), and Thomas K. Hervey's The Book of Christmas ( 1837 ).

With his good academic reputation however, several other members of staff at the University agreed to provide him with a job as a tutor in Ancient History in the Department of Tutorial Classes, but ultimately he was prevented from doing so by the Chancellor of the University, Chief Justice Sir William Cullen, who feared that Childe would propagate his socialist ideas to students.

There are at least five plays based on Deirdre's story: George William Russell's Deirdre ( 1902 ), William Butler Yeats ' Deirdre ( 1907 ), J. M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows ( 1910 ), John Coulter's Deirdre of the Sorrows: An Ancient and Noble Tale Retold by John Coulter for Music by Healey Willian ( 1944 ), and Vincent Woods ' A Cry from Heaven ( 2005 ).

* William B. Irvine, ( 2008 ), A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy.

* William Stearns Davis, 1913, Boston: Allyn and Bacon ( being an excerpt from " The Banquet of Trimalchio " in Readings in Ancient History, Vol.

The name first appears in 1795 in William Owen Pughe's Cambrian Register: " The Mabinogion, or Juvenile Amusements, being Ancient Welsh Romances.

Known as Lord Burlington, he was the famous architect who published Andrea Palladio's designs of Ancient Roman architecture and designed Chiswick House with William Kent.

With this pace of change concerns had begun to grow by the middle of the century about the threat to medieval buildings in Britain, and in 1877 William Morris established the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.

William W. Hallo ( 1996 ) recognises comparisons for Israel with its ancient Near Eastern environment, however, as regards tithes, comparisons with other ancient Near Eastern evidence is ambiguous, and Ancient Near Eastern literature provides scant evidence for the practice of tithing and the collection of tithes.

William B. Sandys's Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern ( 1833 ), contained the first appearance in print of many now-classic English carols, and contributed to the mid-Victorian revival of the holiday.

* Broad, William J., The Oracle: the Lost Secrets and Hidden Message of Ancient Delphi ( Penguin Press, 2006 ).

In 1697, William Wotton, about to bring out a second edition of his Ancient and Modern Learning, asked Bentley to write out a paper exposing the spuriousness of the Epistles of Phalaris, long a subject of academic controversy.

The Ancient Orient, William B. Eerdman Publishing.