According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".

) According to the Muratorian fragment, Marcion's canon contained an epistle entitled Epistle to the Laodiceans which is commonly thought to be a forgery written to conform to his own point of view.

* According to a fragment of Philochorus, the " winner " of the ostracism must have obtained at least 6, 000 votes.

According to it the staff is a fragment of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and was successively in the possession of Shem, of the three Patriarchs, and of Judah, just as in the Jewish legend.

According to a surviving fragment from a work (" Brothers ") by the comic playwright Philemon, Solon established publicly funded brothels at Athens in order to " democratize " the availability of sexual pleasure.

According to tradition at Texas Tech University, a stone fragment on display since 1939 outside the old Electrical Engineering Building is a missing piece of the Blarney Stone.

According to Sir William Crookes the original, uncut diamond was itself " a fragment, probably less than half, of a distorted octahedral crystal ; the other portions still await discovery by some fortunate miner.

According to the sheet music, it was " written around a Fort Niagara fragment " by Robert Lloyd, " Army song leader.

According to The Catholic Encyclopaedia, lines of the Muratorian fragment are preserved in " some other manuscripts ", including codices of Paul's Epistles at the abbey of Monte Cassino.

According to the TV series Mayday, because a fragment of Burke's fingertip was recovered with the gun, it indicated that he was alive and holding the gun until impact.

# According to fragment 1, The One did not come to be.

# According to fragment 1, The One did not have a beginning.

According to Strabo he increased the number of strings in the lyre from four to seven ; others take the fragment of Terpander on which Strabo bases his statement to mean that he developed the citharoedic nomos ( sung to the accompaniment of the cithara or lyre ) by making the divisions of the ode seven instead of four.

According to Harris, Anthon wrote Harris a letter of authenticity declaring the fragment to contain true Egyptian characters.

According to Gödel's incompleteness theorem, these systems cannot contain the theory of Peano arithmetic, and in fact, not even the weak fragment of Robinson arithmetic ; nonetheless, they can contain strong theorems ; for instance there are self-verifying systems capable of proving the consistency of Peano arithmetic.

According to a fragment of Aristotle, the first author of Socratic dialogue was Alexamenus of Teos, but we do not know anything else about him, whether Socrates appeared in his works, or how accurate Aristotle was in his antagonistic judgement about him.

According to the partial translation he made, the new fragment spoke of a queen and great riches.

According to Ellison, it was partially inspired by a fragment of conversation that he mis-heard at a party at the home of actor Walter Koenig: " How is Jeff?

According to Jewish law, a sefer Torah ( plural: Sifrei Torah ) is a copy of the formal Hebrew text of hand-written on gevil or qlaf ( forms of parchment ) by using a quill ( or other permitted writing utensil ) dipped in ink.

* According to the Roman scholar and writer Marcus Terentius Varro, the foundation of a library at Pergamum around this time by Eumenes II of Pergamum, combined with an embargo on papyrus by Ptolemy V, leads to the invention of parchment.

According to Jewish law, a sefer Torah ( plural: Sifrei Torah ) is a copy of the formal Hebrew text of the Five Books of Moses hand-written on gevil or klaf ( forms of parchment ) ( see below ) by using a quill ( or other permitted writing utensil ) dipped in ink.

According to the Talmud ( the oral law of the Jewish People ), all scrolls must also be written on gevil parchment that is treated with salt, flour and m ' afatsim ( a residual of wasp enzyme and tree bark ) in order to be valid.

According to an investigation into the Priory of Sion hoax by the American news program 60 Minutes, the other document ( parchment 2 ) was copied from a 19th century version of the Latin Vulgate published by John Wordsworth and Henry J.

According to Tom Roberts, author of Alex Raymond: His Life and Art ( 2007 ), Capp delivered a stirring speech that was instrumental in changing those rules.

According to Alex Dupuy, Chair of African American Studies and John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University the ability of Haiti to adequately manage the mining operations or to obtain and use funds obtained from the operations for the benefit of its people is untested and seriously questioned.

According to director Danny Boyle, it was the opening hospital sequence of The Day of the Triffids that inspired Alex Garland to write the screenplay for 28 Days Later.

According to several authors, Alexis Mardas ( aka " Magic Alex ") deliberately engineered these rumours because he was bent on undermining the Maharishi's influence over each Beatle.

According to a pre-release interview in Newsarama, Alex Ross also has the " honorary " title of " creative advisor ".

According to Alex Halberstadt, " Salvation arrived in the person of Solomon Burke, a soul singer of overwhelming charisma and remarkable stylistic range.

According to writers Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman, pseudohistory is " the rewriting of the past for present personal or political purposes ".

According to Tom Roberts, author of Alex Raymond: His Life and Art ( 2007 ), Capp authored a stirring monologue that was instrumental in changing the restrictive rules the following year.

According to Alex Abella's Soldiers of Reason, Rosten was influential in forming the Social Sciences division of RAND Corporation.

According to a 2001 interview with The Telegraph, Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson said that his son Darren, who was at tryouts for Eredivisie rival Heerenveen at the time, begged his father, " You've got to sign Van Nistelrooy right away, he's fantastic.

* According to An American Werewolf in Paris, Alex got pregnant soon after the events of this film, and gave birth to Serafine, a main character in the sequel.

According to Alex Constantine ( Mockingbird: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA ), in the 1950s, " some 3, 000 salaried and contract CIA employees were eventually engaged in propaganda efforts ".

According to Alex Ross, this movement supplied the melody for Bernstein's " Somewhere " from West Side Story.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, the term " lone wolf " was popularized by white supremacists Alex Curtis and Tom Metzger in the 1990s.

According to a press release issued by the Alex Foundation, " Alex was found to be in good health at his most recent annual physical about two weeks his death.

According to Alex Dessler in a 1970 Science journal article, Fermi had heard a lecture at the University of Chicago, Fermi nodded his head exclaiming " of course " and the next day, the physics world said " of course ".

According to lead singer Alex Varkatzas, the record is a " mix of everything we've ever done.

" According to Alex de Jong and Marc Schuilenburg, grime music also samples sawtooth wave sounds ( chiptunes ) from video game music and ringtones which had become part of everyday life in East London.

According to Alex, Wes ' father was supposed to die of his injuries inflicted by Ransik and Wes was to take over the company which he did do for a time.

According to People Alex is married to Sonya Dawson with whom he has a son, Leroy Winter, born in 1998.

According to the DVD commentary for this episode, Loretta was written out of Family Guy because her voice actor, Alex Borstein ( who also voices Lois and other female characters ), was apparently tired of voicing Loretta.

According to Alex Zanardi's autobiography My Story, the focus on this system was to the detriment of other aspects of the car.

According to Alex Needham of NME, Timberlake manages to mix the instrumentation " into something infinitely graceful and mysterious ".