But Akiva was just as firmly convinced that the power of the patriarch must be limited both by the written and the oral law, the interpretation of which lay in the hands of the learned ; and he was accordingly brave enough to act in ritual matters in Gamaliel's own house contrary to the decisions of Gamaliel himself.

Dumezil's interpretation appears deliberately to ignore that of James G. Frazer, who links Diana with the male god Janus as a divine couple.

Let Marcion then exhibit, as gifts of his god, some prophets, such as have not spoken by human sense, but with the Spirit of God, such as have both predicted things to come, and have made manifest the secrets of the heart ; let him produce a psalm, a vision, a prayer -- only let it be by the Spirit, in an ecstasy, that is, in a rapture, whenever an interpretation of tongues has occurred to him ; let him show to me also, that any woman of boastful tongue in his community has ever prophesied from amongst those specially holy sisters of his.

" Nomani notes that in his book No god but God, University of Southern California professor Reza Aslan wrote that " misogynistic interpretation " has dogged An-Nisa, 34 because Koranic commentary " has been the exclusive domain of Muslim men.

Pantheists thus do not believe in a personal or anthropomorphic god, but differ in exact interpretation of the term.

HWY in Arabic is connected with falling or causing to fall, leading to an interpretation of Yahweh as a storm god whose name means " He who causes to fall " ( meaning rain, lightning, and his enemies ) or " He causes storms ".

" The most likely interpretation of this passage is as two variants on the same syncretism of Greek Hermes and Egyptian Thoth ( or sometimes other gods ); the one viewed from the Greek-Arcadian perspective ( the fifth, who went from Greece to Egypt ), the other viewed from the Egyptian perspective ( the fourth, where Hermes turns out " actually " to have been a " son of the Nile ," i. e. a native god ).

" A common interpretation of the representation of " Trismegistus " as " thrice great " recalls the three characterizations of Idris: as a messenger of god, or a prophet ; as a source of wisdom, or hikmet ( wisdom from hokmah ); and as a king of the world order, or a " sultanate.

Thoth's chief temple was located in the city of Khmun, later renamed Hermopolis Magna during the Greco-Roman era ( in reference to him through the Greeks ' interpretation that he was the same as their god Hermes ) and Eshmûnên in the Coptic rendering.

Besides heathen beliefs, part of the NSBM scene embraces an interpretation of Satanism, depicting Satan as an ancient Aryan counterpart to Yahweh, the god of the Jews and Christians.

The exact interpretation of the inscription is debated, but the phrase " to Luguei " ( where the theonym appears in the dative singular following the preposition to " to, for ", thus " to / for Lugus ") clearly indicates a dedication to the god Lugus.

* 神 " Shin " or " kami " means god or spirit-the English interpretation of " spirit " works better as " Nine Gods God School " sounds redundant and creates problems in comprehension.

The interpretation of Janus as the god of beginnings and transitions is based on a third etymology indicated by Cicero, Ovid and

A similar solar interpretation has been offered by A. Audin who interprets the god as the issue of a long process of development, starting with the Sumeric cultures, from the two solar pillars located on the eastern side of temples, each of them marking the direction of the rising sun at the dates of the two solstices: the southeastern corresponding to the Winter and the northeastern to the Summer solstice.

Other scholars, mainly German, think it is related on the contrary to the martial character of the god Quirinus, an interpretation supported by numerous ancient sources: Lydus, Cedrenus, Macrobius, Ovid, Plutarch and Paul the Daecon.

Among English-speaking scholars Frazer and Cook have suggested an interpretation of Janus as uranic supreme god.

The interpretation of Consus as god of advice is already present in Latin authors and is due to folk etymology supported by the story of the abduction of the Sabine women ( which happened on the day of the Consualia aestiva ), said to have been advised by Consus.

This interpretation would then identify Janus with Greek god Hermes.

( A popular belief, and common interpretation, is that the first element should be the genitive case of the name of the Norse god Týr-but this does not fit either with the Sami form or the oldest spellings of the name.

The identity of the last has been understood as corresponding to Roman gods Quirinus or Liber, the former from an IE root * leudh-meaning people, the latter either directly from the Italic theonym Loifer or through the intermediary of the Italic or Etruscan interpretation of Greek god ( Dionysos ) Eleutheros, recorded also in the Etruscan theonym Tin Luth (= Iuppiter Liber ) of the Piacenza Liver.

Most days he could be found in his chosen part of town wearing clothes he had created based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Odin.

In 2008 an interpretation of Spearthrower Owl-related iconography at Teotihuacán suggested that Spearthrower Owl was an important military god at Teotihuacán that had his given name to both a place known as " Spearthrower Owl Hill " and to the ruler mentioned in the Maya hieroglyphic texts.

An interpretation of the semitic god Dagon as a " fish-god "

An alternative interpretation sees the central head as the image of a water god such as the image of Oceanus, and yet another as a Celtic sun god.

As such, it may be an optimal strategy to be slightly forgiving of and have a slightly generous interpretation of non-cooperation.

It is generally contrasted with vagueness, in that specific and distinct interpretations are permitted ( although some may not be immediately apparent ), whereas with information that is vague it is difficult to form any interpretation at the desired level of specificity.

" A prisoner interviewed by Moyers explained his literal interpretation of the second verse: "' Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved " by saying that the fear became immediately real to him when he realized he may never get his life in order, compounded by the loneliness and restriction in prison.

Although Anabaptists began with the Radical Reformers in the 16th century, certain people and groups may still legitimately be considered their forerunners due to a similar approach to the interpretation and application of the Bible.

In music, the term abstraction can be used to describe improvisatory approaches to interpretation, and may sometimes indicate abandonment of tonality.

The prehistory of arithmetic is limited to a small number of artifacts which may indicate conception of addition and subtraction, the best-known being the Ishango bone from central Africa, dating from somewhere between 20, 000 and 18, 000 BC although its interpretation is disputed.

Semi-conductor materials are often analysable in atom probe, however sample preparation may be more difficult, and interpretation of results may be more complex, particularly if the semi-conductor contains phases which evaporate at differing electric field strengths.

The experience of " beauty " often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being.

The main difficulty with this interpretation continues to be the potential source of structural timber, though bog and driftwood may have been plentiful sources.

Terms with systematic ambiguity may be written with subscripts denoting that one level of meaning is considered a higher priority than another in their interpretation.

Common Lisp implementations may use any mix of native code compilation, byte code compilation or interpretation.

As Solomon Schechter noted, " however great the literary value of a code may be, it does not invest it with infallibility, nor does it exempt it from the student or the Rabbi who makes use of it from the duty of examining each paragraph on its own merits, and subjecting it to the same rules of interpretation that were always applied to Tradition ".

However, this political restriction is less confining than it may first appear in that the Marxist historical framework is surprisingly flexible, and a rather simple matter to modify an alternative historical theory to use language that at least does not challenge the Marxist interpretation of history.

Referring to the resolution, Lumumba wrote to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, ‘ From these texts it is clear that, contrary to your personal interpretation, the UN force may be used to subdue the rebel government of Katanga .’ Secretary General Hammarskjöld refused.

* applications may then signal an error if such interpretation, retrieval or separate parsing ever fails.

* Unrecognized notations that may cause an application to signal an error should not be blocking the interpretation of the validated document using them.

This may be compared to the jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court, which has also adopted a somewhat broad interpretation of the right to privacy.

" Esther " may have been a different Hebrew interpretation from the Proto-Semitic root "*? aθtar-' morning / evening star '", which descended with the / th / into the Ugaritic Athtiratu and Arabian Athtar.

Although those acting primarily on emotion may seem as if they are not thinking, cognition is an important aspect of emotion, particularly the interpretation of events.

Critics may dispute the positive interpretation of results obtained in scientific studies of ESP, as they claim they are difficult to reproduce reliably, and are small in effect.

While the person issuing it may intend to represent the teachings of Islam accurately, this does not mean that that person's interpretation will gain universal acceptance.

A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized ( given human qualities such as verbal communication ), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson ( a " moral "), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.

While some limit speaking in tongues to speech addressed to God-" prayer or praise ", others claim that speech in tongues is revelation from God to the church, and when interpreted into human language by those embued with the gift of interpretation of tongues for the benefit of others present, may be considered equivalent to prophecy.