The Jewish Encyclopedia suggests two possible accounts of Aaron's death.

* Jewish Encyclopedia: Arianism

* Portions of this article have been taken from the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906.

** The Jewish Encyclopedia ( Jewish Encyclopedia: Apollos )

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia on David descendant Jehoash of Judah: In Rabbinical Literature: As the extermination of the male descendants of David was a divine retribution for the extermination of the priests because of David ( comp.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia Abiathar was deposed from office when he was deserted by the Holy Spirit without which the Urim and Thummin could not be consulted.

* The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1908: Benjamin.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...

* ( Jewish Encyclopedia ) Book of Jeremiah article

* Book of Judges article ( Jewish Encyclopedia )

* Jewish Encyclopedia

* Books of Kings article ( Jewish Encyclopedia )

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Scholars agree that the introductory and concluding sections of the book, the framing devices, were composed to set the central poem into a prose " folk-book ", as the compilers of the Jewish Encyclopedia expressed it.

* Jewish Encyclopedia: Job ; Book of Job

* Jewish Encyclopedia: Book of Hosea

Portrait of Sabato Morais, from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia.

* Jewish Encyclopedia: Christianity in its Relation to Judaism

* Jewish Encyclopedia: New Testament: For and Against the Law

* Jewish Encyclopedia: Ezra the Scribe

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

His Hellenic Jewish parents called him Joseph ( although the Byzantine text-type calls him, Iōsēs, ' Joses ', a Greek variant of ' Joseph '), but when he sold all his goods and gave the money to the apostles in Jerusalem, they gave him a new name: Barnabas.

Here, one version of the Gospel of Barnabas also quotes Jesus as saying that the sacrificed son of Abraham was Ishmael not Isaac, conforming to Islamic belief but disagreeing with Jewish and Christian belief.

From the previous passages, it is argued that in the beginning, Paul and Barnabas were getting along with each other ; but that at the end, they started to depart in their beliefs to give to the importance of the Jewish law.

See also Acts 2: 10 where Jews from Cyrene heard the disciples speaking in their own language in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost ; 6: 9 where some Cyrenian Jews disputed with a disciple named Stephen ; 11: 20 tells of Jewish Christians originally from Cyrene who ( along with believers from Cyprus ) first preached the Gospel to non-Jews ; 13: 1 names Lucius of Cyrene as one of several to whom the Holy Spirit spoke, instructing them to appoint Barnabas and Saul ( later Paul ) for missionary service.

* Nazarenus: or Jewish, Gentile and Mahometan Christianity, containing the history of the ancient gospel of Barnabas ... Also the Original Plan of Christianity explained in the history of the Nazarens .... with ... a summary of ancient Irish Christianity ... ( 1718 )

) Whereas Paul acknowledged that the Law of Moses and its observance were good when used correctly (" the law is good, if one uses it lawfully ", ), the Epistle of Barnabas condemns most Jewish practices, claiming that Jews had grossly misunderstood and misapplied the Law of Moses.

* Catholic Encyclopedia 1907: Epistle of Barnabas from a Roman Catholic point-of-view: " the chief importance of the epistle is in its relation to the history of the Canon of the Scriptures.