If the superscription of the book of Zephaniah is a reliable indicator of the time that the bulk of the book was composed, then Zephaniah was a contemporary of the prophet Jeremiah ( or Jeremias ).

Another interpretation of the authorship comes from the Septuagint superscription, ὲν χειρὶ ἀγγήλου αὐτοῦ, which can be read as either " by the hand of his messenger " or as " by the hand of his angel ".

After a superscription ascribing the prophecy to Joel ( son of Pethuel ), the book may be broken down into the following sections:

In the superscription of the Old Greek version, Habakkuk is called the son of Joshua of the tribe of Levi.

The sobriquet occurs in the superscription at 1: 1 and in 3: 1, although it is highly unlikely that the word refers to the same character in both of these references.

The Septuagint superscription is ὲν χειρὶ ἀγγήλου αὐτοῦ, ( by the hand of his messenger ).

The name of the book (" The Song of Songs of Solomon ") comes from a superscription: " The song of songs, which is Solomon's " ( which also constitutes the opening verse of the book ).

The Book of Zephaniah contains in its three chapters the fundamental ideas of the preaching of Zephaniah.

The last message of Zephaniah also has a Messianic coloring, although not to an extent comparable with that which may be found in the Book of Isaiah.

* Book of Zephaniah

In Chapter IV of Book III he describes a new and much improved design of vacuum pump and attributes its invention to the need for a more easily transportable machine with which he could demonstrate his experiments to Frederick William who had expressed the desire to see them.

It included New Age attributes such as the concept of ascending into higher frequencies of evolution, a variety of psi powers, traditional " predictions regarding Earth Changes " first cited in the Bible ( Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation ) but popularized by Edgar Cayce, and predictions of dire fates for those whose vibrational levels remain unraised.

There are found in the Book of Wisdom and other books of the wisdom literature to Wisdom as a personification with divine attributes.

* The Book stands for the attributes lavished on St. Augustine as a profound and prolific writer and the greatest Doctor of the Church.

In this view, the Book of Joshua conflates several independent battles between disparate groups, over multiple centuries, and artificially attributes them to a single leader-Joshua.

Flavius Josephus also attributes the founding of Tadmor to Solomon in his Antiquities of the Jews ( Book VIII ), along with the Greek name of Palmyra, although this may be a confusion with biblical " Tamara ".

The Cylinder's text has traditionally been seen by Biblical scholars as corroborative evidence of Cyrus ’ policy of the repatriation of the Jewish people following their Babylonian captivity ( an act that the Book of Ezra attributes to Cyrus ), as the text refers to the restoration of cult sanctuaries and repatriation of deported peoples.

There was keen competition between the two from the introduction of the The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing | Algebra into Europe in the 12th century until its triumph in the 16th.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

Early in its development, Anglicanism developed a vernacular prayer book, called the Book of Common Prayer.

Instead, Anglicans have typically appealed to the Book of Common Prayer and its offshoots as a guide to Anglican theology and practice.

The Book of Amos contains several different key activities and genres which are used to expound upon its themes.

AA's name derived from its first book, informally called " The Big Book ", originally titled Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

The 1552 and later editions of the Book of Common Prayer omitted the form of anointing given in the original ( 1549 ) version in its Order for the Visitation of the Sick, but most twentieth-century Anglican prayer books do have anointing of the sick.

His later life was spent in various parts of the Islamic world, in Aleppo with its governor Sayf ad-Dawlah ( to whom he dedicated the Book of Songs ), in Ray with the Buwayhid vizier Ibn ' Abbad, and elsewhere.

The magazine Book ranked Big Brother No. 59 on its 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900 list.

The Book of Revelation, often simply known as Revelation or by a number of variants expanding upon its authorship or subject matter, is the final book of the New Testament and occupies a central part in Christian eschatology.

It is also known as the Book of the Revelation of Saint John the Divine or the Apocalypse of John, ( both in reference to its author ) or the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ ( in reference to its opening line ) or simply Revelation, ( often erroneously called Revelations in contrast to the singular in the original Koine ) or the Apocalypse.

It has often been compared to the first half of the Book of Daniel and to the deuterocanonical Books of Tobit and Judith for its subject matter.

The theological views that led to its author ( s ) writing the Book of Lamentations emanated from the cultural and religious attitudes of the people of Judah in the 6th and 7th centuries BC and was probably also influenced by non-biblical sources which originated from the cultural and religious attitudes of Judah's neighbors of differing religions.

The Book of Lamentations reflects the theological and biblical view that what happened to Jerusalem was a deserved punishment ; and its destruction was instigated by their god for the communal sins of the people.

Deane and J. R. Thomson write this valid conclusion, “ The Book of Obadiah is occupied with one subject – the punishment of Edom for its cruel and unbrotherly love conduct towards Judah ...” One can link this idea of punishment to one of the major prophets “ Ezekiel ” who “... interprets the exile to Babylon and the destruction of Jerusalem as deserved punishments for the sins of those who themselves committed them .” Verses 3-7 in Obadiah explain to the reader the reason for the punishment theme, “ Confidence in one ’ s power, intelligence, allies, or the topographical features of one ’ s territory is often mentioned as an attribute of those who foolishly confront the Lord and are consequently punished .” Although destruction is vital to understanding Obadiah, it is of note to understand the destruction being a consequence of action.

The Book of Haggai is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and has its place as the antepenultimate of the Minor Prophets or the " Book of the Twelve.

The Book of Haggai is named after its presumed author, the prophet Haggai.

This edition, also called the " Black-Cover Book of Common Prayer " 黑皮公禱書 because of its black cover, still remains in use after the establishment of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui ( Anglican province in Hong Kong ).

The ECP has since published its own Book of Common Prayer upon gaining full autonomy on 1 May 1990.

However, the strict acrostic style of four of the five poems is not found at all in the Book of Jeremiah itself and Jeremiah's name is not found anywhere in the book itself ( nor any other name, for that matter ), so authorship of Lamentations is disputed.

In the last chapter of the Book of Acts, widely attributed to Luke, we find several accounts in the first person also affirming Luke's presence in Rome including Acts 28: 16: " And when we came to Rome ..." According to some accounts, Luke also contributed to authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews.

: This article is about the prophet to whom authorship of the Book of Obadiah is attributed.

It is the only Holy Book that Aleister Crowley claimed to have had no part in the authorship of.

In 2008, Yale Book of Quotations editor Fred R. Shapiro cast doubt on Niebuhr's claim of authorship.

* The Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award, recognizes authorship of an outstanding book in the field of optics and photonics, published in the last six years, that has contributed significantly to research, teaching, or the optics and photonics industry ( co-sponsored with SPIE ).

Similarly, the Apocryphon of John ( also part of the Nag Hammadi library ) has been useful in studying the prevailing attitudes in the second century, and questions of authorship regarding the Book of revelation, given that it refers to Revelation 1: 19, but is mostly about the post ascension teachings of Jesus in a vision, not a narrative of his life.

Though it is certain that the poem is a derivative of the Book of Judith, still present in the Roman Catholic Bible, its authorship and year of origin remain a mystery.

He wrote an eloquent refutation of the " Solomon Spalding theory " of the Book of Mormon's authorship, and defended the ministry and teachings of Joseph Smith – as he understood them.

* Spalding Research Associates: website favoring Spalding authorship of the Book of Mormon.

* The Spalding Studies Site: website favoring Spalding authorship of the Book of Mormon

: website opposing Spalding authorship of the Book of Mormon

The Capitulary Library contains valuable manuscripts, including an evangelarium of the fourth century, the " Novels " of Justinian, the Leges Langobardorum ( Laws of the Lombards-Germanic ); also hagiographical manuscripts, not all of which have been critically examined ; and a very old copy of the Imitation of Christ, which is relied upon as an argument for attributing the authorship to John Gersen and finally the famous Vercelli Book.

As examples, the introduction and notes reject Moses ' authorship of the Pentateuch, as well as the Book of Wisdom having been authored by King Solomon.

The Book Award covers four general areas of authorship: Adult Fiction, Adult Non-Fiction, Children's / Young Adult and as of 2008, Poetry.

Dehn attributed authorship of The Book of Abramelin to Rabbi Yaakov Moelin ( Hebrew יעקב בן משה מולין ; ca.

The authorship of the Johannine works ( the Gospel of John, the first, second, and third epistles of John, and the Book of Revelation ) has been debated by scholars since at least the 2nd century AD.

" The common authorship of some Book of Leinster texts Mesca Ulad.

The fact that French words are to be found in the Book of the Pious and that it reflects French conditions caused Grätz also to attribute its authorship to Judah Sir Leon he-Ḥasid.

Besides discharging his duties in the theological seminary, he published two dissertations in Schleiermacher's and GCF Lücke's Journal ( 1819-1820, 1822 ), one on the origin and composition of the Sibylline Oracles, Über die Entstehung und Zusammensetzung der Sibyllinischen Orakel, and another on the authorship and design of the Book of Daniel, Über Verfasser und Zweck des Buches Daniel.

He admitted the composite authorship of the Pentateuch and the Book of Isaiah, and did much to counteract the antipathy against the Old Testament that had been fostered by Schleiermacher.

Scholars have debated the authorship of the Johannine works ( the Gospel of John, First, Second, and Third epistles of John, and the Book of Revelation ) since at least the 3rd century, but especially since the Enlightenment.

The Second Book of Enoch ( usually abbreviated 2 Enoch, and otherwise variously known as Slavonic Enoch or The Secrets of Enoch ) is a pseudepigraphic ( a text whose claimed authorship is unfounded ) of the Old Testament.