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 the traditional accounts, Gautama, the future Buddha, was a prince who grew up in an environment of luxury and opulence.

According to 2000 publishings by scholar Manuel Pedro Ferreira the models for the Cantigas might actually be something different than a traditional French rondeau.

According to one of the principal texts of Hindu philosophy, the Tattwa Kaumudi authored by Vacaspati in the 9th century A. D., the Creator used akasha ( ether ), the most " subtle " element, to create the other four traditional elements ; each element created is in turn used to create the next element, each less subtle than the last.

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

According to the traditional Jewish interpretation of the Bible, Israel's character as the chosen people is unconditional, as it says in,

According to Mircea Eliade, many traditional societies have a cyclic sense of time, periodically reenacting mythical events.

According to the traditional doctrine ( Dicey ), conventions cannot be enforced in courts, because they are non-legal sets of rules.

According to traditional rabbinic dating, this took place about fifty-two years after the start of the Babylonian Exile.

According to traditional scholarly consensus, Paul authored the Epistle to the Romans.

According to the legendary account in the Kojiki, Emperor Jimmu would have been born on 13 February 711 BC ( the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar ), and died, again according to legend, on 11 March 585 BC ( both dates according to the lunisolar traditional Japanese calendar ).

According to one famous episode, shortly after the Soga's began worshipping the new Buddha statue, a plague broke out, which the Mononobe's promptly attributed to a curse by Japan's traditional deities as punishment for worshipping the foreign god.

According to traditional sources, Yamato Takeru died in the 43rd year of Emperor Keiko's reign ( 景行天皇43年 ).

According to the traditional Islamic view, the Qur ' an ( Koran ) began with revelations to Muhammad ( when he was 40 years old ) in 610.

According to the Suda ( an 11th-century encyclopaedia of Byzantium which likely took its information from traditional accounts ), Herodotus learned the Ionian dialect as a boy living on the island of Samos, whither he had fled with his family from the oppressions of Lygdamis, tyrant of Halicarnassus and grandson of Artemisia I of Caria.

According to Jack Donnelly, in the ancient world, " traditional societies typically have had elaborate systems of duties ... conceptions of justice, political legitimacy, and human flourishing that sought to realize human dignity, flourishing, or well-being entirely independent of human rights.

According to all the traditional schools of jurisprudence, faith ( imān ) ensures salvation.

According to traditional Jewish Law, a Jew is anyone born of a Jewish mother or converted to Judaism in accordance with Jewish Law.

According to the traditional counting cited by Rashi, Isaac was 37 years old at the time of the Binding of Isaac, and news of Rebekah's birth reached Abraham immediately after that event.

According to Brown ( 1971 ), the increased professionalization of tax collection did much to destroy the traditional structures of provincial life, as it weakened the autonomy of the town councils in the Greek towns.

According to the book " Mexico One Plate At A Time ," even though the dish ceviche has been a part of traditional Mexican coastal cuisine for centuries, ceviche is not a dish native to Mexico.

According to Chee Soo in The Tao of Long Life, natural dietary therapy, or ch ' ang ming, has been developed in China since prehistoric times, along with a range of health arts that have become what we now know as traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM.

According to anthropologist Roger D. Abrahams, these traditional performance art forms are " Nevisian approximation of British performance codes, techniques, and patterns ".

:: According to Acts, Paul began working along the traditional Jewish line of proselytizing in the various synagogues where the proselytes of the gate

According to a traditional story, the original potato chip recipe was created in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 24, 1853.

According to the Book of the Dead, departed souls would undergo a literal journey to reach Heaven, along the way to which there could exist hazards and other entities attempting to deny the reaching of Heaven.

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

According to this version, Constantine with his army was marching ( Eusebius does not specify the actual location of the event, but it clearly is not in the camp at Rome ), when he looked up to the sun and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words " Εν Τούτῳ Νίκα ", En toutō níka, usually translated into Latin as " in hoc signo vinces ," both phrases have the literal meaning " In this sign, shall conquer ;" a more free translation would be " Through this sign shall conquer ".

According to Szasz, to understand the metaphorical nature of the term " disease " in psychiatry, one must first understand its literal meaning in the rest of medicine.

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, either " literal descendants of Aaron ", or worthy Melchizedek priesthood holders have the legal right to constitute the Presiding Bishopric under the authority of the First Presidency ().

According to Adler, " number of feminists note that few definitions of the word, despite its literal meaning, include any concept of power, and they suggest that centuries of oppression have made it impossible for women to conceive of themselves with such power.

According to one version, the etymology of its name comes from Latin and its literal meaning is pruning.

According to the literal interpretation of prophecies in the Revelation of John, this kingdom of God on Earth will last a thousand years or more ( a millennium ).

According to the press release by Sean Kelly, the work is a diary of dreams and their literal recreation as works of art.

According to Pasternak's mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya, Whenever Leonidovich was provided with literal versions of things which echoed his own thoughts or feelings, it made all the difference and he worked feverishly, turning them into masterpieces.

( According to the book, the secret was the literal practice of doing good deeds secretly, and thereby reaping spiritual power to use in becoming an excellent doctor.

According to this view, if the putative object picked out by the demonstrative does not exist, then such an object dependent thought cannot exist-it is, in the most literal sense, not available to be thought.

According to The New Ayn Rand Companion, Equality 7-2521 experiments with electricity to become a literal and figurative bringer of light, similar to Prometheus.

According to Michael Birch, " The literal translation of umimatsu is ' sea pine ', and it is also popularly described as ' black coral '.

: According to Bushell ( 13 / 2: 6 ), " The literal translation.

According to the theory, most of these properties cancel out on average leaving the vacuum empty in the literal sense of the word.

According to some Tibetan legends, however, a Nepali king named Go Cha ( identified by Sylvain Lévi as " Udayavarman ", from the literal meaning of the Tibetan name, who was said to have a daughter called Bri-btumn or Bhṛkuti.

According to Levine, Neo-Grec was a somewhat looser style, which " replaced the rhetorical form of classical architectural discourse by a more literal and descriptive syntax of form.

According to the song " Hello Nurse " he is seven years old ; this was the only reference ever made to their age, and was not considered canonical by the writers ( in literal terms, all the Warners are 83 as of 2012, since they were created in 1929 ).

According to Jeff Sharlet in his book The Family, The Blob was " about the creeping horrors of communism " only defeated " by freezing it — the Cold War writ small and literal.

According to Maimonides, he wrote the Guide " to promote the true understanding of the real spirit of the Law, to guide those religious persons who, adhering to the Torah, have studied philosophy and are embarrassed by the contradictions between the teachings of philosophy and the literal sense of the Torah ,"

According to the European Commission, the CE logo has become a symbol for free marketability of industrial goods within the EEA without any literal meaning, which appears contradictory to what they say today ( cf.

According to this view, this story is not a parable but literal biography.

" According to Fabion's sociolinguistic analysis, the, the malakismenos, and the keratas as literal and as figurative characters, are all a rather shameful company, and they both fall short of the performative sine qua non of fully manly prowess: the exercise of sexual sovereignty, the sexual overpowering of another.