According to the Midrash, he came into the world on the same day that Rabbi Akiva died a martyr's death.

According to the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Kabbalistic work, the Zohar, the ' deadline ' by which the Messiah must appear is 6000 years from creation.

According to the Midrash, only the Pharaoh was spared to give testimony to the miracle that occurred.

According to Midrash Tehillim, the shamir was brought from paradise by Solomon's eagle ; but most of the rabbis state that Solomon was informed of the worm's haunts by Asmodeus.

According to Jewish tradition in the Midrash and the Targum, the book is an allegory of God's love for the Children of Israel.

According to a Midrash, the Torah was created prior to the creation of the world, and was used as the blueprint for Creation.

According to Ramaz, it is fit to be called Midrash haNe ' elam because " its topic is mostly the neshamah ( an upper level of soul ), the source of which is in Beri ' ah, which is the place of the upper Gan Eden ; and it is written in the Pardes that drash is in Beri ' ah ... and the revealed midrash is the secret of externality, and Midrash haNe ' elam is the secret of internality, which is the neshamah.

According to another Midrash, Doeg the Edomite tried to preserve the life of Agag, the king of the Amalekites-Edomites, by interpreting Lev.

According to the Midrash, many families in the other Israelite tribes were descended from women from Simeon, which had been widowed from their original Simeonite husbands.

According to the Midrash, Sisera engaged in sexual intercourse with Jael seven times, but because she was attempting to exhaust him in order to kill him, her sin was for Heaven's sake and therefore praiseworthy.

According to the Midrash, the Patriarchs were buried in the cave because the cave is the threshold to the Garden of Eden.

According to one Midrash, it was God, or the angels, who gathered the animals to the ark, together with their food.

According to the Talmud, the Midrash, and the medieval kabbalistic work, the Zohar, the messiah must arrive before the year 6000 from the time of creation, or before the year 2240 CE.

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 the Midrash, all divine commandments were given on Mount Sinai, and no prophet could add any new one.

According to Midrash Leviticus rabbah he said " As in a theater and circus the statues of the king must be kept clean by him to whom they have been entrusted, so the bathing of the body is a duty of man, who was created in the image of the almighty King of the world.

According to the Midrash Pirke R. El.

According to the Midrash, the ladder signified the exiles which the Jewish people would suffer before the coming of the Messiah.

* According to the Midrash, the first person to pray at Rachel's tomb was her eldest son, Joseph.

According to the Midrash, Simeon and Levi were only 14 and 13 years old, respectively, at the time of the rape of Dinah.

According to the Jewish Midrash, " Jerusalem has 70 names ".

According to the Midrash, a few people made themselves deities: Pharaoh Kings of Egypt ( see Ezekiel 29: 3: " The Nile is mine and I have made myself ", understood by the Midrash as a claim that he created himself ); Hiram King of Tyre ( see Ezekiel 28: 2 ); Haman the Aggagite ( see Esther 3: 2 ).

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 Jewish law, when Jewish boys become 13, they become accountable for their actions and become a Bar Mitzvah ( plural: B ' nai Mitzvah ).

According to Tolkien, the " real ' historical plural of dwarf is dwarrows or dwerrows.

According to Brown and Gilman, usage of the plural to the Roman emperor began in the fourth century AD.

Having more than one spouse at the same time gets classified as polygamy, and bumped to a felony, if it is done " in purported exercise of a plural marriage ..." According to Joel Feinberg in Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: " Righteously, flaunting one's illicit relationships, according to the Code, is apparently a morally aggravating circumstance, more punishable than its clandestine and deceptive counterpart.

According to some reports, it was in Kirtland that Smith first began to practice the doctrine of plural marriage when he married Fanny Alger as his first plural wife in 1833.

According to some sources, many polygamous men in the United States continued to live with their plural wives with the approval of church presidents Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, and Joseph F. Smith.

According to UNESCO, some 3, 000 aflaj ( plural ) or falaj ( singular ), are still in use in Oman today.

* According to Belgian economist Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, the Heredium ( singular ) or Heredia ( plural ) was known as " land transmitted hereditarily ".

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 Williams ' definitive Dictionary of the Māori Language, tangata means " man " or " human being ", whilst tāngata ( with the long ā ) is the plural meaning " people "; tangata ( without the macron ) can also mean " people " in reference to a group with a singular identity.

According to Chronicles, Jeconiah only had one brother, so the plural does not make sense.

According to historian Paul H. Peterson, the pledges of conformity with church practices led to a measurable increase in plural marriages throughout the Mormon region.

According to one former member, attorney John Llewellyn, " plural wives AUB men are sent into nearby Hamilton to apply for welfare as single mothers.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, an Allocution is a solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.

According to this interpretation, the name is from aphrós " foam " and déatai " seems " or " shines " ( infinitive form * déasthai ), meaning " she who shines from the foam ", a byname of the dawn goddess ( Eos ).

According to the 2002 Russian Federation census, no responders gave the ethnonym Ainu in boxes 7 or 9. 2 in the K-1 form of the census, though some still might exist.

According to Strmiska and Sigurvinsson ( 2005 ), American Asatruar tend to prefer a more devotional form of worship and a more emotional conception of the Nordic gods than Scandinavian practitioner, reflecting the parallel tendency of highly emotional forms of Christianity prevalent in the United States.

According to Islam, human works of art are inherently flawed compared to the work of God ; thus, it is believed by many that attempting to realistically depict the form of an animal or person is insolence to God.

According to the Brown Driver Briggs lexicon, the Hebrew abaddon ( Hebrew: אבדון ; avadon ) is an intensive form of the Semitic root and verb stem abad ( א ָ ב ַ ד ) " perish " ( transitive " destroy "), which occurs 184 times in the Hebrew Bible.

According to Athanasius, the devil again resumed his war against Saint Anthony, only this time the phantoms were in the form of wild beasts, wolves, lions, snakes and scorpions.

According to John J. Collins in his 1993 commentary, Daniel, Hermeneia Commentary, the Aramaic in Daniel is of a later form than that used in the Samaria correspondence, but slightly earlier than the form used in the Dead Sea Scrolls, meaning that the Aramaic chapters 2-6 may have been written earlier in the Hellenistic period than the rest of the book, with the vision in chapter 7 being the only Aramaic portion dating to the time of Antiochus.

According to F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, " the widely observed unity of form and point of view ... and general resemblance in linguistic detail throughout the sequence are broadly suggestive of the work of a single author ," though other scholars see Lamentations as the work of multiple authors.

According to the theorem, it is possible to expand the power ( x + y )< sup > n </ sup > into a sum involving terms of the form ax < sup > b </ sup > y < sup > c </ sup >, where the exponents b and c are nonnegative integers with, and the coefficient a of each term is a specific positive integer depending on n and b. When an exponent is zero, the corresponding power is usually omitted from the term.

According to the theorem, it is possible to expand any power of x + y into a sum of the form

According to Berlet and Lyons, " Conspiracism is a particular narrative form of scapegoating that frames demonized enemies as part of a vast insidious plot against the common good, while it valorizes the scapegoater as a hero for sounding the alarm ".

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Mohist consequentialism, dating back to the 5th century BCE, is the " world's earliest form of consequentialism, a remarkably sophisticated version based on a plurality of intrinsic goods taken as constitutive of human welfare.

According to Moore, as long as that kind of leadership selection process remains in place, and concentrates power in the hands of the leader, as opposed to backbenchers, then coalition governments will be very difficult to form.

According to Aristotle, the four elements rise or fall toward their natural place in concentric layers surrounding the center of the earth and form the terrestrial or sublunary spheres.

According to this view, any form of specific coercion is then unethical in itself as an injury to freedom, quite apart from its damaging effects on social progress.

According to traditional texts, some form of the calendar has been in use for almost five millennia.

According to historian of Communism Archie Brown, the memory of the Cultural Revolution, where a form of mass political mobilization turned against the Party and resulted in chaotic destruction, may account for the reticence of educated Chinese to press for an end to one-party rule.

According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

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 some of their contemporary enemies Cathars did not accept the Trinitarian understanding of Jesus, but considered him the human form of an angel similar to Docetic Christology.

According to this view, Hume is not arguing for a bundle theory, which is a form of reductionism, but rather for an eliminative view of the self.

* Compressible: According to Miller, " Uncompressed digital data is very large, and in its raw form would actually produce a larger signal ( therefore be more difficult to transfer ) than analog data.