Although details remain disputed, the vast majority of recent studies agree with Martin Noth's thesis, published in 1943, that the book of Samuel was composed as part of the Deuteronomistic history, the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings.

" Upham's book refers to Robert Calef 25 times with the majority of these regarding documents compiled by Calef in the mid-1690s and stating: " Although zealously devoted to the work of exposing the enormities connected with the witchcraft prosecutions, there is no ground to dispute the veracity of Calef as to matters of fact.

The overwhelming majority of Muslims consider hadith to be essential supplements to and clarifications of the Quran, Islam's holy book, as well as in clarifying issues pertaining to Islamic jurisprudence.

According to Ann E. Killebrew, " Most scholars today accept that the majority of the conquest narratives in the book of Joshua are devoid of historical reality ".

The majority of the book is about French cuisine, and contains recipes for French dishes and cooking techniques.

It was the most popular American book of its time ; by 1837 it had sold 15 million copies, and some 60 million by 1890 — reaching the majority of young students in the nation's first century.

In his 2009 book, titled Analytixz, Griff once again admitted the faults in his alleged 1989 statement: " To say the Jews are responsible for the majority of wickedness that went on around the globe, I would have to know about the majority of wickedness that went on around the globe, which is impossible ... I'm not the best knower — is.

Justice Breyer, who dissented, wrote in his most recent book that if he could change three of his dissenting opinions ( while on the Supreme Court ) into a majority, this would be one of them.

Cook gathered the majority of his research in his 1964 book, Percentage Baseball.

The majority of Le Guin's main characters are people of color, a choice made to reflect the non-white majority of humans, and one to which she attributes the frequent lack of character illustrations on her book covers.

Most valuable of all from a text-critical perspective is the Vulgate text of the Apocalypse, a book where there is no clear majority text in the surviving Greek witnesses.

The book World on Fire, describing the Chinese as a " market-dominant minority ", notes that " Chinese market dominance and intense resentment amongst the indigenous majority is characteristic of virtually every country in Southeast Asia except Thailand and Singapore ".

The term was first applied to a system proposed in 1796, though a number of pasigraphies had been devised prior to that ; Leopold Einstein reviews 60 attempts at creating an international auxiliary language, the majority of the 17th-18th century projects being pasigraphies of one kind or another, while Arika Okrent includes a list of 500 in her book on the subject, with samples of many.

The book World on Fire by Amy Chua argues that democratization may give political power to an ethnic majority that is poor compared to an ethnic minority that more economically successful.

This usually happens when the followers of one of the ayatollahs refer to him in many situations and ask him to publish his Juristic book in which he answers the vast majority of daily Muslim affairs.

This kind of clue is called an indirect anagram, which in the vast majority of cryptic crosswords are not used, ever since they were criticised by ' Ximenes ' in his 1966 book On the Art of the Crossword.

The projection may not be what will actually come, but the majority agrees on one number and thus the projection is good enough to close the book on the budget.

A Stanford Business School analysis found that the majority of book buyers use the Times list for buying ideas.

Referring to Charles I of England, historian Veronica Wedgwood wrote this sentence in her 1955 book The King's Peace, 1637 – 1641: " The King in his natural optimism still believed that a silent majority in Scotland were in his favour.

Also in 1955, while Nixon was serving as vice-president to Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and his research assistants wrote in his book Profiles in Courage, " Some of them may have been representing the actual sentiments of the silent majority of their constituents in opposition to the screams of a vocal minority ..." In January 1956, Kennedy gave Nixon an autographed copy of the book.

The majority of the parish consists of the descendants of immigrants from fifteen different European nationalities ( English, Irish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Bohemian, Croatian, Slovak, Austrian, Dalmatian, Serbian, Slavic, Polish, Welsh and Romanian ) according to the parish history book ( which also includes the history of Benwood and the surrounding areas ) released in 1975 for the church's centennial celebration.

The majority of books produced by them were sold to affluent families in Scotland and Northern England with their average book price of sixpence putting them beyond affordability for the average family.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

While the budget consists of limited amount of donations and business operations owned by the party, its majority comes from the grant of national treasury, the same way that supports the other 8 subordinative registered parties, which making a bizarre exception among modern political parties.

It contains the majority of the nervous system and consists of the brain and the spinal cord.

The device consists of an active channel through which majority charge carriers, electrons or holes, flow from the source to the drain.

Mali consists of eight regions and its borders on the north reach deep into the middle of the Sahara, while the country's southern part, where the majority of inhabitants live, features the Niger and Sénégal rivers.

Ministers are selected from among the members of the House of Representatives, which usually consists of 65 members unless bonus seats are given to a party which gains an absolute majority of votes but not a Parliamentary majority.

The Council of Ministers ( cabinet ), responsible for the direction and control of the government, consists of the prime minister ( head of government ), the leader of the majority party in the legislature, and about 24 ministers including one Deputy Prime Minister and / or one Vice Prime Minister.

While a continent like Australia consists of a large body of land surrounded by a fringe of continental shelf, Zealandia consists almost entirely of continental shelf, with the vast majority, some 93 %, submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean.

* Armenia: The vast majority of Armenia's population consists of ethnic Armenians at about 98 % of the population, with the remainder consisting of a few small ethnic minorities.

* Egypt: The vast majority of Egypt's population consists of ethnic Egyptians at about 99 % of the population, with the remainder consisting of a few small ethnic minorities, as well as refugees or asylum seekers.

Coalition governments ( a ministry that consists of representatives from two or more parties ) and minority governments ( a one-party ministry formed by a party that does not command a majority in the Commons ) are relatively rare.

The majority of Spain's peninsular region consists of the Meseta Central, a highland plateau rimmed and dissected by mountain ranges.

This is because the great majority of the population consists of Moroccans who settled in Western Sahara.

The majority of the Fighting Fantasy titles are set in the fictional and medieval world of Titan, which consists of three giant continents.

The Austrian Alps which cover the majority ( 62 %) of Austria's land mass, consists of most of the Eastern Alps together with the northern edge of the Southern Alps in the west and south of the country.

Although the population of clay county is relatively high, the majority of the county is still rural and consists of many farms and county roads less maintained.

The vast majority of South Africa's border consists of the ocean — or two oceans, which meet at the southwestern corner.

The majority of evangelism used by Jews for Jesus consists of handing out literature on the streets, one-on-one Bible studies, full-page ads in leading newspapers and magazines, ISSUES ( an eight-page evangelistic publication for Jewish seekers ) and internet evangelism.

Hummingbirds do not spend all day flying, as the energy cost would be prohibitive ; the majority of their activity consists simply of sitting or perching.

Most of its programmes are a mixture of documentary, comedy, entertainment, and drama, the majority of which consists of Chinese soap operas and entertainment.

The genus consists of pioneer trees in the more or less humid parts of the Neotropics, with the majority of the species being myrmecophytic.

It consists of the Leader and the Cabinet itself, which is usually formed by the majority party in the local authority.

ECCE surgery consists of removing the lens, but leaving the majority of the lens capsule intact.