According to the Zohar, a foundational text for kabbalistic thought, Torah study can proceed along four levels of interpretation ( exegesis ).

According to the PaRDeS approaches to exegesis, interpretation of Biblical texts in Judaism is realized through peshat ( literal or plain meaning, lit.

According to Christian exegesis, " deeds of the body " and " what is earthly ", refer to the " wounded nature " of man or his concupiscence ( evil inclinations due to forming part of the Fall of Man ); humanity suffers the consequences of the original sin.

According to a tradition which has historical confirmation, it was Akiva who systematized and brought into methodic arrangement the Mishnah, or Halakah codex ; the Midrash, or the exegesis of the Halakah ; and the Halakot, the logical amplification of the Halakah ( Yer.

According to exegesis, God told Abraham to listen to Sarah, who said that both Hagar and Ishmael should be taken out of their household and into the desert.

According to scholar Moojan Momen, " One of the key statements in the Qur ' an around which much of the exegesis " on the issue of what Islamic doctrine says about who is in charge is based on the verse

According to Ahmadi exegesis on al-Kahf, which draws upon external and internal, religious and historical evidence to show that Moses ' journey towards, and his experience with the " servant of God " was not physical but by way of vision, similar to the Mi ' raj ( ascension ) of Muhammad.

Therefore, the first part of the Gospel According to Spiritism is dedicated to a series of observations and clarifications intended to situate its arguments and doctrine so that those more familiar with exegesis would find their way throughout it more easily.

According to author Dean M. Kelly, for Rauschenbusch, Christianity thus became a political religion, and the subsequent leftist activism of what were once the " mainline " Protestant denominations derived directly from his exegesis of these issues ; the ultimate decline of these " mainline " Protestant denominations, beginning in the mid-1960s, was a consequence of their acceptance of Rauschenbusch's deliberate politicization of Christianity.

According to Kabbalistic exegesis of the Hebrew word " Teshuvah " ( תשובה ), it can be read as " Returning the letter hei " ( תשוב-ה ).

" According to this school of thought, the Massorah, with its beginnings of grammatical and biblical exegesis, belongs to the Karaites ; the Rabbanites were merely imitators.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

Sometimes he had to justify his European fame: ' According to the Union of Soviet Writers, some literature circles of the West see unusual importance of my work, not matching its modesty and low productivity …'"

According to Howard Schwartz, " the myth of the fall of Lucifer " existed in fragmentary form in Isaiah 14: 12 and other ancient Jewish literature ; Schwartz claims that the myth originated from " the ancient Canaanite myth of Athtar, who attempted to rule the throne of Ba ' al, but was forced to descend and rule the underworld instead ".

According to the anthropologist Dumenica Verdoni, writing new literature in modern Corsican, known as the Riacquistu, is an integral part of affirming Corsican identity.

According to Dr Rupert Thompson, the Orator of The University of Cambridge, the earliest reference to drinking games in Western literature is from Plato's Symposium The Drinking Party.

According to the existing literature, the prevalence of dyslexia can vary widely between cultures.

According to Suetonius, Domitian wholly feigned his interest in arts and literature, and never bothered to acquaint himself with classic authors.

According to old German literature, dragoons were invented by Count Ernst von Mansfeld, one of the greatest German military commanders, in the early 1620s.

According to Tibetan Buddhist literature, the age of first Buddha was 1, 000, 000 years and height was 100 cubits while 28th Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama ( 563BC – 483BC ) lived 80 years and his height was 20 cubits.

According to Bloch, other elements of society can be seen in feudal terms ; all the aspects of life were centered on " lordship ", and so we can speak usefully of a feudal church structure, a feudal courtly ( and anti-courtly ) literature, and a feudal economy.

According to the Rabbinic literature, Isaiah was a descendant of the royal house of Judah and Tamar ( Sotah 10b ).

According to Japanese literature, the koto was used as imagery and other extra music significance.

According to Brown University, The New Age "... helped to shape modernism in literature and the arts from 1907 to 1922.

According to Joseph Anglade, a philologist and specialist of medieval literature who helped impose the then archaic term Occitan as the sole correct name, the word Lemosin was first used to designate the language at the beginning of the 13th century by Catalan troubadour Raimon Vidal de Besalú in his Razós de trobar

According to Orthodox Judaism, Jewish law today is based on the commandments in the Torah, as viewed through the discussions and debates contained in classical rabbinic literature, especially the Mishnah and the Talmud.

According to Sony Pictures, " The objective for our Anonymous program, as stated in the classroom literature, is ' to encourage critical thinking by challenging students to examine the theories about the authorship of Shakespeare's works and to formulate their own opinions.

According to the Rabbinical literature, on account of his modest request for wisdom only, Solomon was rewarded with riches and an unprecedentedly glorious realm, which extended over the upper world inhabited by the angels and over the whole of the terrestrial globe with all its inhabitants, including all the beasts, fowl, and reptiles, as well as the demons and spirits.

According to Rabbinic literature, God via the Torah commands Jews to observe ( refrain from forbidden activity ) and remember ( with words, thoughts, and actions ) the Shabbat, and these two actions are symbolized by the two Shabbat candles which are lit 18 to 40 minutes (" Tosefet Shabbat ") before the onset of Shabbat by Jewish women, usually the mother / wife, though men who live alone are required to do so themselves.

According to Lönnroth ( 1998 ) in the 19th century and early 20th century, Swedish historians saw their writing in terms of literature and story telling, rather than analysis and interpretation.

According to the later hagiographical literature, Theodore received an education befitting his family's station, and from the age of seven was instructed by a private tutor, eventually concentrating in particular on theology.

' According to Breggin, the 1990 APA task force report on ECT ignored much of the scientific literature pointing out the negative effects of electroshock therapy.

According to the Indian medical literature and Tantric Buddhist scriptures, most of the " seizers ," or those that threaten the lives of young children, appear in animal form: cow, lion, fox, monkey, horse, dog, pig, cat, crow, pheasant, owl, and snake.

According to the literature, this type of seminar is beneficial for teachers who want students to explore a variety of texts around a main issue or topic.

According to the literature, a good seminar consists of a strong effective text.

According to Zhou's own account, he was very close to his adoptive mother and acquired his lasting interest in Chinese literature and opera from her.

According to this account, the birth of John was foretold by the angel Gabriel to Zachariah, while Zachariah was performing his functions as a priest in the temple of Jerusalem.

According to the Gospel of Luke, Nazareth was the home village of Mary and also the site of the Annunciation ( when Mary was told by the Angel Gabriel that she would have Jesus as her son ).

* According to Islamic belief, the archangel Gabriel first appears to Muhammad, reciting to him the first verses of surat Iqra ( al -` Alaq ), thus beginning the revelation of the Qur ' an ( approximate date ).

According to some Islamic scholars, the rock is the spot from which Muhammad ascended to Heaven accompanied by the angel Gabriel.

According to Richard A. Gabriel, his tactics " marked the beginning of the end of traditional Greek methods of war ".

According to Matthew, an unnamed angel informs Joseph of the virginal conception ; in Luke the angel Gabriel informs Mary before the conception occurs.

According to a biographical memorial written by Gabriel Almond at the time of Lasswell's death and published by the National Academies of Sciences in 1987, Lasswell " ranked among the half dozen creative innovators in the social sciences in the twentieth century.

According to Gabriel Daniel, Gassendi was a little Pyrrhonian in matters of science ; but that was no bad thing.

According to Orthodox and Eastern Catholic tradition Mary, having spent her life after Pentecost supporting and serving the nascent Church, was living in the house of the Apostle John, in Jerusalem, when the Archangel Gabriel revealed to her that her death would occur three days later.

According to the painter Gabriel Fournier, one of the most memorable scandals was an altercation between Cocteau, Satie, and music critic Jean Poueigh, who gave Parade an unfavorable review.

According to Shia and Sunni sources, Muhammad, upon the birth of his grandson in 3 AH, was ordered by the archangel Gabriel to name him Hasan-a name not used in the pre-Islamic period.

According to a 2004 report by the Asian-Pacific American Legal Center, the cities of Walnut, San Gabriel, San Marino, Rosemead and Monterey Park contain an Asian American majority.

According to W. J. Weatherby, influences on The Satanic Verses were listed as Joyce, Italo Calvino, Kafka, Frank Herbert, Pynchon, Mervyn Peake, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jean-Luc Godard, J. G. Ballard, and William Burroughs.

According to a written message sent by Governor Neve to report the pueblo's juridical foundation, that was when 44 pobladores, or settlers, gathered at San Gabriel Mission and, escorted by soldiers and two padres from the mission, set out for the chosen spot that Crespí had recorded twelve years earlier.

According to the Revelation of Esdras, the angels that will rule at the end of the world are Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael, Gabuthelon, Beburos, Zebuleon, Aker, and Arphugitonos.

According to the account, the angel Gabriel was then sent to Nazareth in Galilee to her " cousin " Mary, then a virgin, espoused to a man called Joseph, and informed her that she would conceive by the Holy Ghost and bring forth a son to be called Jesus.

According to the Gospel of Luke, the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary to announce to her that she would conceive and bear a son, even though she " knew no man.

According to J. Gabriel Boylan of The New York Observer, " he's produced artists including Macy Gray, the Roots, D ’ Angelo, John Legend, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, and more.

According to their level and type of political participation and the nature of people's attitudes toward politics, Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba outlined three pure types of political culture:

According to the website " Les familles Lemieux d ' Amerique " (" The Lemieux families of America ") the North American Lemieux are descended from two half-brothers, Pierre and Gabriel, who emigrated from Rouen, France, to Quebec in 1643.

According to the official page of Juan Rulfo, he was born in Apulco, Jalisco, which is close to San Gabriel, Jalisco, and his birth was registered in Sayula, Jalisco.

" According to the film's executive producer Gabriel Grunfeld, Brando described the part as " the most fun I've had since playing Julius Caesar.

According to Johann Mattheson's Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte, Johann Philipp started studying keyboard playing at age 8, with Johann Drechsel ( a pupil of the celebrated Johann Jakob Froberger ) and other instruments at around the same time, with Gabriel Schütz.

According to some authorities, Bunthorne is based partly on the poets Algernon Charles Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who were considerably more famous than Wilde in early 1881, before Wilde's first volume of poetry had been published.