According to the Tanakh, Saul was the son of Kish, of the family of the Matrites, and a member of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel.

According to the Talmud, much of the contents of the Tanakh were compiled by the " Men of the Great Assembly " by 450 BCE, and have since remained unchanged.

According to the Talmud ( Bava Batra 14b-15a, Rashi to Megillah 3a, 14a ), much of the contents of the Tanakh was compiled by the Men of the Great Assembly ( Anshei K ' nesset HaGedolah ), a task completed in 450 BCE, and have remained unchanged since that date.

According to the Tanakh, doves are kosher, and they are the only birds that may be used for a korban.

According to the Tanakh, Uzzah ( fl.

According to the Tanakh, Solomon's Temple was built atop the Temple Mount in the 10th century BCE and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, and the Second Temple completed and dedicated in 516 BCE.

* According to Judaism this would include only the books of the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh ).

According to the Book of Esther, in the Tanakh, Haman was an Agagite noble and vizier of the empire under Persian King Ahasuerus, generally identified as Xerxes the Great ( son of Darius the Great ) in 6th century BCE.

According to the Tanakh, King David fled through the valley during the rebellion of Absalom.

According to the Tanakh, Cuthah was one of the five Syrian and Mesopotamian cities from which Sargon II, King of Assyria, brought settlers to take the places of the exiled Israelites ().

According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.

According to Tylor, the more scientifically advanced the society, the less that society believed in Animism ; however, any remnant ideologies of souls or spirits, to Tylor, represented “ survivals ” of the original animism of early humanity.

According to some, however, she was killed by Telamon.

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

According to Gelder, Mayou &* Geddes ( 2005 ) people with a depressive illness will experience a therapeutic effect to their mood ; however, this will not be experienced in healthy individuals.

According to the Julian calendar however, the date was either 29 June ( according to Le Verrier's chronological reconstruction ) or possibly 7 June ( according to Drumann / Groebe ).

According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus ; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna ( angularis ( azuki bean ), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( mung bean ), aconitifolia ( moth bean )) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.

According to Ivinskaya, however, " I believe that between Stalin and Pasternak there was an incredible, silent duel.

" According to Yevgenii Pasternak, however, author Konstantin Paustovsky refused to attend the meeting.

According to the CIA World Factbook, Costa Rica's GDP per capita is US $ 10, 900 ( 2009 ); however, there is a lack of maintenance and new investment in infrastructure, 21. 3 % of the people living below the poverty line and 7. 8 % ( 2009 ) unemployed.

According to the work De Administrando Imperio written by the 10th-century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Croats had arrived in what is today Croatia in the early 7th century, however that claim is disputed and competing hypotheses date the event between the 6th and the 9th centuries.

According to Mike Dash, a Welsh historian, few scientists doubt there are thousands of unknown animals, particularly invertebrates, awaiting discovery ; however, cryptozoologists are largely uninterested in researching and cataloging newly-discovered species of ants or beetles, instead focusing their efforts towards " more elusive " creatures that have often defied decades of work aimed at confirming their existence.

According to Lycophron's Alexandra ( 808 ) and John Tzetzes ' scholia on the poem ( 795-808 ), however, Circe used magical herbs to bring Odysseus back to life after he had been killed by Telegonus.

According to William J. Novak, however, liberalism in the United States shifted, " between 1877 and 1937 ... from laissez-faire constitutionalism to New Deal statism, from classical liberalism to democratic social-welfarism ".

The date of the introduction of crossbows, however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor Hero of Alexandria ( fl.

The introduction of crossbows however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor Hero of Alexandria ( fl.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

According to founder Justin Lee, " We're just trying to get people together who experience attraction to the same sex, however they have handled that, and who love Jesus and say, OK, you are welcome here, and then let's pray together and figure out where God wants us to take it.

According to the U. S. Department of Commerce, opportunities exist for both on-and offshore oil and natural gas exploration ; however, these prospects have yet to come to fruition.

According to one Britannica website, 46 % of its articles were revised over the past three years ; however, according to another Britannica web-site, only 35 % of the articles were revised.

According to most existentialist philosophers, however, this would constitute an inauthentic existence.

According to the Talmud, however, the point of Qoheleth is to state that all is futile under the Sun.

According to an article in the New York Times, however, his actual height was.

According to the modern scholar Pat Southern, however, some historians now see him in a more positive light.

According to the bible, Jehoshaphat of Judah was allied to Ahab of the Northern Kingdom of Israel at this time.

According to the Books of Kings, there was an altar to God on the mountain, which had fallen into ruin by the time of Ahab, but Elijah built a new one.

According to one biography, Peck discovered to his disappointment that he had not been Huston's choice for Ahab, but in fact was thrust upon the director by the Mirisch brothers to secure financing.

According to the original program, Premier Khrushchev expected the millions looking toward the Kremlin this morning to be filled with admiration or rage -- depending upon individual or national politics -- because of the `` bold program for building communism in our time '' which the Congress will adopt.

According to Akbar S. Ahmed, like modern anthropologists, he engaged in extensive participant observation with a given group of people, learnt their language and studied their primary texts, and presented his findings with objectivity and neutrality using cross-cultural comparisons.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to Plutarch's natural order of attribution of the vowels to the planets, alpha was connected with the Moon.

According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia's trade deficit in 2006 was $ 1. 2 billion with growth in exports being largely flat.

According to economist Eduard Aghajanov, Armenia could have repaid them with low-interest loans from other, presumably Western sources, or with some of its hard currency reserves which then totaled about $ 450 million.

According to Scott Simpson, the Gona Project's physical anthropologist, the fossil evidence from the Middle Awash indicates that both A. kadabba and A. ramidus lived in " a mosaic of woodland and grasslands with lakes, swamps and springs nearby ," but further research is needed to determine which habitat Ardipithecus at Gona preferred.

According to various ideas of the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul, of an individual, which carries with it and confers personal identity.

According to Romans 9 – 11, supporters claim, Jewish election as the chosen people ceased with their national rejection of Jesus as Messiah.

According to E. A. Wallis Budge, " as a Pantheus, i. e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock ( Phœbus ) or of a lion ( Ra or Mithras ), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon.

According to the Bible, Absalom or Avshalom () was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

According to the community, their tragedy is comparable in scale and intensity only with the genocide faced by the indigenous people of the Americas.

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

According to Suetonius, Domitius was a wealthy man with a despicable and dishonest character, who, according to Suetonius, was “ A man who was in every aspect of his life detestable ", and served as consul in 32.

According to Tacitus, in 58, Nero became involved with the noble woman Poppaea Sabina.

According to Bibliotheca, Alcmene went with Amphitryon to Thebes, where he was purified by Creon for accidentally killing Electryon.

According to Asser, because of Pope Marinus ’ friendship with King Alfred, the pope granted an exemption to any Anglo-Saxons residing within Rome from tax or tribute.

According to Berkman, "... with the elimination of Frick, responsibility for Homestead conditions would rest with Carnegie.