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unusual facts about Samuel b. Naḥmani



Dosetai

He is probably the Dosetai frequently referred to in Midrashic literature as having handed down the sentences of Samuel b. Naḥman and of Levi (Bacher, "Ag. Pal. Amor." i. 488, 492, 503; ii. 431; iii. 695).

Henry Opukahaia

Samuel B. Ruggles, one of the First Company of missionaries to Hawaii and a fellow student of `Ōpūkaha`ia at Cornwall, mentions in an 1819 letter that his own grammar (which does survive) was ‘much assisted by one which `Ōpūkaha`ia attempted to form’.

Midrash Vayosha

The sections begin for the most part with the words "ameru ḥakamim," though Rabbi Joshua ben Levi and Rabbi Samuel b. Naḥmani are occasionally given as the authors.

Samuel B. Booth

He was rector of St. Luke's Church, Kensington, Philadelphia (1914-1918), chaplain to an American Red Cross evacuation hospital in France, and superintendent of missions, Bucks County, Pennsylvania before consecration as bishop coadjutor of Vermont on February 17, 1925.

Samuel B. Cooper

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Fifty-ninth Congress.

Cooper was again elected to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1909), but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-first Congress.

Cooper was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1905), from the Texas's 2nd congressional district.

Samuel B. Fuller

He feared that it was “doing the same thing today as was done in the days of Caesar--destroying incentive and initiative.”

Samuel B. Garvin

Samuel Bostwick Garvin (October 8, 1811, Butternuts, Oswego County, New York – June 28, 1878, New York City) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Samuel B. Griffith

After participating in the post-World War II occupation of North China, where he commanded the 3rd Marine Regiment and later the U.S. Marine Forces in Qingdao, he was a student and then a faculty member at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport from 1947 to 1950.

With an interest in China and the Chinese language dating back to pre-World War II days, he translated Mao Zedong’s On Guerrilla War in 1961 and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War in 1963.

During his first tour of duty in China, he was a language officer at the American Embassy in Nanking.

Samuel B. Hill

Hill was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. Stanley Webster.

He was reelected to the Sixty-ninth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from September 25, 1923, until his resignation, effective June 25, 1936, having been confirmed as a member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals (now the United States Tax Court) on May 21, 1936, serving as a judge on the court until his retirement November 30, 1953.

Samuel B. Maxey

He died in 1895 at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where he had gone for treatment of an intestinal problem.

Samuel B. Moore

Moore died in 1846 and is interred at the city cemetery in Carrollton in Pickens County.

Samuel B. Stanchfield

Additionally, Stanchfield was Chairman of the Town Board and Clerk of Fond du Lac and Chairman of the Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin Board.

Samuel Campbell

Samuel B. Campbell (1846–1917), Republican politician in the state of Ohio


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