Although first attested in the sense ' sharp pain caused by elves ', it is later attested denoting Neolithic flint arrow-heads, which by the 17th century seem to have been attributed in the region to elvish folk, and which were used in healing rituals, and alleged to be used by witches ( and perhaps elves ) to injure people and cattle.

Although some books ( in particular guidebooks ) suggest that the mazes on cathedral floors served as substitutes for pilgrimage paths, the earliest attested use of the phrase " chemin de Jerusalem " ( path to Jerusalem ) dates to the late 18th century when it was used to describe mazes at Reims and Saint-Omer.

Although it is attested to be a part of the rituals by a version of the Papyrus Jumilhac, in which it took Isis 12 days to reassemble the pieces, coinciding with the festival of ploughing.

Although unexplained in the manuscript and not otherwise attested, in this image Ratatoskr bears a horn.

Although contracted forms of the name are attested since the 15th Century, it was not until this period that the modern form of the name came into common use.

Although his reign has yet to be archaeologically attested, his name is found in later legendary tablets, and Etana is sometimes regarded as the first king and founder of Kish himself.

Although Farnham is documented in Saxon texts and most of the local names are derived from their language, there is only one fully attested Saxon site in Farnham, just off the lower part of Firgrove Hill, where a road called Saxon Croft is now sited.

Although the Greek appears to be a loan translation of the Hebrew phrase avodat elilim, which is attested in rabbinic literature ( e. g., bChul., 13b, Bar.

Although the last attested Gothic noble Widin revolted in northern Italy in 550s and was captured in 561 or 562, the Ostrogoths would fade into obscurity.

Although the name " Sulis " appears almost nowhere else outside Bath, she is identified with the Suleviae, a group of Celtic goddesses known as the subject of votive inscriptions in the city of Rome and elsewhere ; Suleviae has been attested in the epigraphic record from sites at Bath.

Although Urartian is not a direct continuation of any of the attested dialects of Hurrian, many of its features are best explained as innovative developments with respect to Hurrian as we know it from the preceding millennium.

Although, the etymology of the word is unknown, it is attested under the Khitans who ruled most of Mongolia and North China between 916 and 1125.

Although the name has been associated by popular etymology with the city of Shamshir ( which in turn means " curved like the lion's claw ") the word has been used to mean " sword " since ancient times, as attested by Middle Persian shamshir ( Pahlavi šmšyl ), and the Ancient Greek σαμψήρα / sampsēra ( glossed as " foreign sword ").

Although an ultimate Celtic origin for the word is possible, any connection of the Italian term to the Celtic ethnonym seems unlikely since the Brigantes had not played any significant role in Italy and had disappeared as a people for some thousand years by the time the word is attested.

Although pume orenge is attested earlier than melarancio in available written sources, lexicographers believe that the Italian word is actually older.

Although other forms are topologically possible, these are the only attested forms found so far.

Although the specific nature of the title is not attested, it is generally accepted that in the 10th-11th centuries, it signified the commanders of the contingent of foreign mercenaries serving in the Byzantine army.

Although the name is attested by several ancient writers, the more ancient Ptolemaic inscriptions read Trogodytai ( which G. W. B.

Although Vishtaspa is not epigraphically attested, he is – like Zoroaster also – generally assumed to have been a historical figure ( and would have lived in the 10th century BCE or earlier ; theories on a floruit date for Zoroaster vary widely ).

Although the concept is frequently encountered in historical linguistics from the early twentieth century, attested cases of language mixture, as opposed to code-switching, substrata, or lexical borrowing, are quite rare.

Although her origins are unclear, Iusaaset seems to be attested quite early in the Egyptian pantheon, being associated with creation and the creation of the deities.

Although the title is first attested in the Middle Kingdom, its full political potential was not realized until the advent of Egypt's 18th dynasty.

Although some Roman antiquarians traced them as far back as 509 BC, some modern scholars consider that the first celebration well attested as having taken place was that of 249 BC, during the First Punic War.

Although it is commonly held that an allegorical interpretation justified its inclusion in the Biblical canon, scholarly discussion has not reached any consensus yet on Song of Songs and leaves other possibilities open.

Although the antecedents of social contract theory are found in antiquity, in Greek and Stoic philosophy and Roman and Canon Law, as well as in the Biblical idea of the covenant, the heyday of the social contract was the mid-seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, when it emerged as the leading doctrine of political legitimacy.

Although Petra is usually identified with Sela which means a rock, the Biblical references refer to it as " the cleft in the rock ", referring to its entrance.

Although only three partial inscriptions survive, the paleography makes the dating certain and they suffice for most archaeologists to identify one tomb with the Biblical Shebna, steward and treasurer of King Hezekiah.

Although it mostly died out 1600 to 1700 years ago, Mesopotamian religion has still had an influence on the modern world, predominantly because Biblical mythology that is today found in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mandeanism shares some overlapping consistency with ancient Mesopotamian myths, in particular the Creation Myth, the Garden of Eden, The Great Flood, Tower of Babel and figures such as Nimrod and Lilith ( the Assyrian Lilitu ).

Although Protestant Christianity, as a whole, rejects the overall concept that the original Church ( established by Jesus Christ ) was thrown into complete anarchy and chaos through Catholicism, it does however assert that there was gross abuse of Biblical authority ( especially by the Papacy ) and a wandering from clear Biblical teachings prior to the Reformation.

Although it differs markedly from the classical Ge ' ez ( Ethiopic ) language-for instance, in having phrasal verbs, and in using a word-order that places the main verb last instead of first in the sentence ( as in Ethiopic ), there is a strong influence of Ge ' ez on Tigrinya literature, especially with terms that relate to Christian life, Biblical names, and so on.

Although the company planned on performing the work in a fully staged production, the Lord Chamberlain objected to a Biblical work being mounted and the company was forced to present the opera in a concert version.

Although the word does not have specific religious connotation, the word has been used by a variety of contemporary and ancient sources, including Biblical authors and Christian authors.

Although primarily a biblical archaeologist, Albright was a polymath who made contributions in almost every field of Near Eastern studies: an example of his range is a BASOR 130 ( 1953 ) paper titled " New Light from Egypt on the Chronology and History of Israel and Judah ," in which he established that Shoshenq I — the Biblical Shishaq — came to power somewhere between 945 and 940 BC.

Although the aria relates a Biblical story, the virtues attributed to Adam ( and not Eve ) clearly reflect the values of the Enlightenment.

Although developed from the Biblical ban, excommunication, as employed by the Rabbis during Talmudic times and during the Middle Ages, it became a rabbinic institution, the object of which was to preserve Jewish solidarity.

Although Hud, at times, is identified with Eber of the Old Testament, his true Biblical identity remains uncertain.

Although both authors drew on the New Testament, the Biblical canon is relatively silent on the subject.

Although there are different Biblical regulations for normal menstruation-niddah, and abnormal menstruation-zavah, these became conflated during the classical era, and the Talmud relates that menstruating women always followed the requirements imposed by both ; the reasons for this were the subject of debate between some medieval Jewish commentators.

Although he claimed to be God incarnate fulfilling Biblical prophecy, he lived relatively quietly.

Although previous books in the series touched on themes of Christian theology, Many Waters makes direct references to Biblical and Qabalistic mysticism, particularly in its supernatural characters.

Although he claimed to be God incarnate and fulfilling Biblical prophecy, he lived relatively quietly.

( Although it did not become part of the Christian Biblical canon, it was widely circulated among Christians in the first two centuries and is part of the Apostolic Fathers.

Although its original leadership favoured Biblical literalism and it was intended to be anti-evolutionary, it rejected the creationist theories propounded by George McCready Price ( young Earth creationism ) and Harry Rimmer ( gap creationism ), and it was soon moving rapidly in the direction of theistic evolution, with some members " stopping off " on the less Modernist view that they called " progressive creationism.

Although various Christians read them in different ways ( some in non-substitutionary ways ), the following Biblical passages are sometimes put forwards as key texts by proponents of substitutionary atonement theories:

Although Payne's theory of Cherokee origins related to Biblical tribes has been replaced by the facts of Asian origin, his unpublished papers are useful to researchers as a rich source of information on the culture of the Cherokee in the early decades of the 19th century.

Although Paul mentions Biblical law several times ( e. g.,,,,,,, ) and preached about Ten Commandment topics such as idolatry ( e. g.,,,,,,,,, ), he consistently denies that salvation, or justification before God, is based on " works of the law " ( e. g., ), though the meaning of this phrase is also disputed by scholars, see for example the New Perspective on Paul # Works of the Law.