It is also used in the titles and as the name of the main character of two Warhammer Fantasy novels by Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent: Gilead's Blood (published 2000) and the on-going serialized Black Library eBook sequel, Gilead's Curse (Hammer and Bolter, Issues 13-18+, published 2012).
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The 2012 Flobots song "Wrestling Israel" repeats the phrase "there's a balm in Gilead."
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The speaker in Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" (1845) professes a belief that the "balm in Gilead" can heal his broken heart, because he laments the death of his love (Lenore).
So all the Children of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, as well as from the land of Gilead, and the congregation gathered together as one man before the Lord at Mizpah.
At of September 30, 2013the six largest holdings in the BB Biotech portfolio were (in order of value): a 13% stake in Celgene; 11% of Isis Pharmaceuticals; 10.4% of Actelion; 9.6% of Gilead; 7.7% of Incyte and 4.5% of Vertex.
Pernessa C. Seele (1954- ), immunologist, founder and CEO of the Balm in Gilead, Inc., an international organization based in Harlem, New York for 30 years to promote religious communities' role in education and prevention of HIV/AIDS, and support of families.
The main location of the Gharaibeh Family in Jordan is in a town called Huwwarah located in the Hawran plain in the Biblical "Land of Gilead" near the main northern city of Irbid and Ramtha (Ramoth-Gilead) to the East.
Huwwarah if flanked by the ancient sites of Ramoth-Gilead (Ramtha, Jordan) in Gilead to the east and Arabella (Irbid) to the west.
In 1978, Brett co-founded Chicago's famed Apollo Theater, where he produced over forty-five plays and musicals, including such award-winning productionsvague as the Steppenwolf Theater Company's production of True West, starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinese; Balm in Gilead, featuring Laurie Metcalfe; And a Nightingale Sang, with Joan Allen; Appearing Nightly, with Lily Tomlin; and David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, with James Belushi.
He worked as part of the DNA synthesis group at Genentech from 1986–1990, before joining Gilead in 1990 as Director of Organic Chemistry.
On February 11, 2009, Marvel released the The Dark Tower: Guide to Gilead written by Anthony Flamini and Robin Furth.