The anonymous author drew three main sources, including the Gospel of Mark, the sayings collection known as the Q source, and material unique to his own community.

The rules for simulating magic were inspired by the works of fantasy author Jack Vance, and the system as a whole drew upon the work of authors such as Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, and Fritz Leiber.

Beyond his bloody coup d ' etat, and his tolerance for the golden calves at Dan and Bethel ( which drew the disdain of the author of Kings ), little is known of the events of Jehu's reign.

The author Lucy Maud Montgomery drew inspiration from the land during the late Victorian Era for the setting of her classic novel Anne of Green Gables ( 1908 ).

Those who believe Paul was the author of Second Thessalonians also note how Paul drew attention to the authenticity of the letter by signing it himself: " I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, which is how I write in every letter .".

The author of the Zohar drew upon the Bible commentaries written by medieval rabbis, including Rashi, Abraham ibn Ezra, David Kimhi and even authorities as late as Nahmanides and Maimonides.

At the time they wrote Iolanthe, both Gilbert and Sullivan were in their peak creative years, and Iolanthe, their seventh work together, drew the best from both composer and author.

Whence the author of the first part of the Liber Pontificalis drew this information, it is now impossible to say.

The play partially drew on the work of a young British author David Irving, who later became notorious as a Holocaust denier.

However, in a study released in 2008 by the Guttmacher Institute, author of the findings Laura Lindberg stated that there " is a widespread belief that teens engage in nonvaginal forms of sex, especially oral sex, as a way to be sexually active while still claiming that technically, they are virgins ", but that her study drew the conclusion that " research shows that this supposed substitution of oral sex for vaginal sex is largely a myth ".

In Chapter 18, for example, he uses a metaphor of a lion and a fox, examples of cunning and force ; according to, “ the Roman author from whom Machiavelli in all likelihood drew the simile of the lion and the fox ” was Cicero.

The fresh insight into the history of the church evinced by this work drew attention to its author, and even before he had terminated the first year of his academical labours at Heidelberg, he was called to Berlin, where he was appointed professor of Theology.

Besides being the author of several controversial works, Martini drew up a Dictionary of Ancient Musical Terms, which appeared in the second volume of GB Doni's Works ; he also published a treatise on The Theory of Numbers as Applied to Music.

American author Acharya S in The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold ( 1999 ) argues that Jesus and Christianity were created by members of various secret societies, mystery schools and religions to unify the Roman Empire under one state religion, and that these people drew on numerous myths and rituals which existed previously and then constructed them into Christianity that exists today.

The rituals performed drew largely upon rituals and sex magic described by English author and occult teacher Aleister Crowley.

Khan drew upon inspiration from another American author, Pearl S. Buck and her books The Good Earth ( 1931 ) and The Mother ( 1934 ), which were made into feature films by Sidney Franklin in 1937 and 1940 respectively.

As can be seen from these first Black Masses and Satanic Masses appearing in the U. S., the creators drew heavily from occult novelists such as Dennis Wheatley and Joris-Karl Huysmans, and from non-fiction occult writers popular in the 1960s, such as H. T. F. Rhodes ( who provided a title in his 1954 book The Satanic Mass ), and Grillot de Givry ( author of the popular illustrated book Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy ).

" After they returned, Joliet used the name " Miskonsing " on a map that he drew in 1674, and when the news of their voyage was first published in 1681 the book's author, Melchisedec Thevenot, called it the " Mescousin " River.

Examples include Michael Faraday, who, with James Clerk Maxwell, unified the electric and magnetic forces in what are now known as Maxwell's equations ; James Joule, who worked extensively in thermodynamics and is often credited with the discovery of the principle of conservation of energy ; Paul Dirac, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics ; naturalist Charles Darwin, author of On the Origin of Species and discoverer of the principle of evolution by natural selection ; Harold Kroto, the discoverer of buckminsterfullerene ; William Thomson ( Baron Kelvin ) who drew important conclusions in the field of thermodynamics and invented the Kelvin scale of absolute zero ; botanist Robert Brown discovered the random movement of particles suspended in a fluid ( Brownian motion ); and the creator of Bell's Theorem, John Stewart Bell.

The author drew primarily on Holinshed's Chronicles for the story of Leir and his daughters.

She named American author Stephen King as one of her first major influences, and drew inspiration from his non-horror stories.

This may have its roots in virulently anti-Roman ( anti-Catholic ) propaganda against " papists " and the city of Rome, home of the Pope and heart of the Roman Catholic Church, which drew the ire of many a Reformation author.

" Matsui's stoic, emotionless conduct during those at-bats drew great praise from tournament officials and reporters alike ," author Robert Whiting wrote.

Hawker, deemed “ Star of the West ” for his superlative preaching that drew thousands to Charles to hear him speak for over an hour at a time, was known as a bold evangelical, caring father, active in education and compassionate for the poor and needy of the parish, a scholar and author of many books and deeply beloved of his parishioners.

To carry out this exalted conception the author has combined the vivid realism and imaginative power we have noticed in his early poetry and carried them out on a grand scale.

He arrived on crutches at the Newspaper Club with one of his great pals, Oliver Herford, artist, author, and foe of stupidity.

He selected as Comptroller of Defense, not a veteran accountant, but a former Rhodes Scholar, Charles Hitch, who is author of a study on The Economics Of Defense In The Nuclear Age.

A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.

With justified bitterness the author speaks of `` what seems to me to have been an inexcusable body of ignorance about the nature of the Russian Communist movement, about the history of its diplomacy, about what had happened in the purges, and about what had been going on in Poland and the Baltic States ''.

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

* Sir Patrick Moore, presenter of the BBC's long-running The Sky at Night and author of many books on astronomy.

Literary critics Barthes and Foucault suggest that readers should not rely on or look for the notion of one overarching voice when interpreting a written work, because of the complications inherent with a writer's title of " author.

Publishers would receive a percentage on the sale of every copy of a book, and the author would receive the rest of the money made.

It has two main features on which its distinction as a major contribution to Avicennan studies may be said to rest: the first is its clarity and readability ; the second is the comparative approach adopted by the author [...].

* Angiras — on of the seers of the Atharva Veda and author of Mundaka Upanishad.

* Siddhasena Divākara ( 5th Century CE ), Jain logician and author of important works in Sanskrit and Prakrit, such as, Nyāyāvatāra ( on Logic ) and Sanmatisūtra ( dealing with the seven Jaina standpoints, knowledge and the objects of knowledge )

In this, the emperor was assisted by five chief lawyers: L. Fulvius Aburnius Valens, an author of legal treatises ; L. Volusius Maecianus, chosen to conduct the legal studies of Marcus Aurelius, and author of a large work on Fidei Commissa ( Testamentary Trusts ); L. Ulpius Marcellus, a prolific writer ; and two others.

Antoninus in many ways was the ideal of the landed gentleman praised not only by ancient Romans, but also by later scholars of classical history, such as Edward Gibbon or the author of the article on Antoninus Pius in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:

Wallace was a prolific author who wrote on both scientific and social issues ; his account of his adventures and observations during his explorations in Indonesia and Malaysia, The Malay Archipelago, was one of the most popular and influential journals of scientific exploration published during the 19th century.

In April 2007, it was reported that imaging analysis had discovered an early commentary on Aristotle's Categories in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and Robert Sharples suggested Alexander as the most likely author.

In 1527 Erasmus threw doubt on the accuracy of ascribing the authorship of this document to Ambrose, and its author is now usually spoken of as Ambrosiaster, or pseudo-Ambrose.

Dürer's belief in the abilities of a single artist over inspiration prompted him to assert that " one man may sketch something with his pen on half a sheet of paper in one day, or may cut it into a tiny piece of wood with his little iron, and it turns out to be better and more artistic than another's work at which its author labours with the utmost diligence for a whole year.

The reasoning for rejecting Athanasius as the author usually relies on a combination of the following:

* 1936 – James Dobson, American evangelist, author, and psychologist, founder of Focus on the Family

Beside the letters, he was the author of liturgical poetry and works on civil law.

The printed edition ( Presburg, 1838 ), prepared by M. L. Bislichis, contains: ( 1 ) Preface ; ( 2 ) a treatise of eighteen chapters on the incorporeality of God ; ( 3 ) correspondence ; ( 4 ) a treatise, called Sefer ha-Yarḥi, included also in letter 58 ; ( 5 ) a defense of The Guide and its author by Shem-Tob Palquera ( Grätz, Gesch.

The author claims to have consulted all the best authorities, the most important of which was a lost treatise on the subject by Polybius.

During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 April 2004, series author J. K. Rowling had this to say about the fictional Killing Curse's etymology: " Does anyone know where avada kedavra came from?