Equating nothingness with being leads to creation from nothing and hence God is no longer needed for there to be existence.

Equating " Hinba " with the Gaelic Inbhir, he notes that the adjacent mainland parish of Kilninver means " church of Inbhir " and suggests that the derivation of " Seil " maybe of Scandinavian origin with similarities to the East Frisian place name Zijl or Syl meaning a " seep or passage of water ".

Equating the derivatives of L, with respect to the coefficients and the multiplier, equal to zero, leads to m + 1 linear equations to be solved for the m coefficients.

Equating the upstream magnetic pressure with the downstream dynamic pressure gives

Equating the population moments with the sample moments, we get

Equating the wrongness of the theory that the Earth is flat with the wrongness of the theory that the Earth is a perfect sphere is wronger than wrong.

Therefore the total number of possible committees is the sum of binomial coefficients over k = 0, 1, 2, ... n. Equating the two expressions gives the identity

Although Bede is mainly studied as a historian now, in his time his works on grammar, chronology, and biblical studies were as important as his historical and hagiographical works.

Dating of remains to the biblical history is made difficult by the Bible's lack of datable events and its unreliable internal chronology ; the interpretation of remains has been influenced by religious and nationalistic arguments, as evidenced by arguments over burials from the highland settlement phase ; and no material remains have been found which can reliably separate Israelite from non-Israelite ( Canaanite ) sites in the earliest period.

The question of the historicity of the Exodus ( specifically, the Pharaoh of the Exodus, identification of which would connect the biblical narrative to Egyptological chronology ) has long been debated, without conclusive result.

They derive from biblical chronology, mostly from the ancient genealogies in the books, Genesis to Second Kings, spanning the creation of the universe as the ancients understood it to the fall of Jerusalem with the destruction of its Temple in year 586 BC.

Worsaae, was grafted onto the traditional biblical chronology.

Ussher's chronology represented a considerable feat of scholarship: it demanded great depth of learning in what was then known of ancient history, including the rise of the Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as expertise in the Bible, biblical languages, astronomy, ancient calendars and chronology, Ussher's account of historical events for which he had multiple sources other than the Bible is usually in close agreement with modern accounts – for example, he placed the death of Alexander in 323 BC and that of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

This date corresponds very well with the biblical and Jewish chronology ( Seder Olam, Josephus, Bar Hebraeus ) but has never been widely accepted by secular authorities.

In discussing the role of his discipline in interpreting the biblical record, Dever has pointed to multiple histories within the Bible, including the history of theology ( the relationship between God and believers ), political history ( usually the account of " Great Men "), narrative history ( the chronology of events ), intellectual history ( ideas and their development, context and evolution ), socio-cultural history ( institutions, including their social underpinnings in family, clan, tribe and social class and the state ), cultural history ( overall cultural evolution, demography, socio-economic and political structure and ethnicity ), technological history ( the techniques by which humans adapt to, exploit and make use of the resources of their environment ), natural history ( how humans discover and adapt to the ecological facts of their natural environment ), and material history ( artefacts as correlates of changes in human behaviour ).

1100 – 750 BCE ) and reconciling biblical history with mainstream archaeology and Egyptian chronology.

However, the chronology of early Irish historical tradition is an artificial attempt by Christian monks to synchronise native traditions with classical and biblical history, and it is possible that the cycle has been chronologically misplaced.

" Rohl's most vocal critic has been Professor Kenneth Kitchen, one of the leading experts on biblical history and the author of the standard work on the conventional chronology of the Egyptian Third Intermediate Period, the period most directly affected by the New Chronology's redating of the 19th to 25th dynasties.

Rohl argues that, on methodological grounds, the internal Egyptian chronology of the Third Intermediate Period should not be dependent on a biblical date to establish the foundation date of the 22nd Dynasty.

) You can work out a common chronology between the legends of prehistoric ( Homer ) Greece and the biblical record ( so Theophilus.

According to traditional rabbinic biblical chronology, Moses was 80 years old when the Exodus occurred, the Israelites had been in Egypt for 210 years in total, and thus in combination with the rabbinical claim that Jochebed was born on the border of Egypt, as her parents had entered it, this would require Jochebed to have been 130 years old when she gave birth to Moses ; rabbinical literature regards this to have been alluded to by the biblical description of the dedication of the Israelite altar, at which 130 shekel weight of silver was offered.

( These genealogies provide the framework for the biblical chronology, in the form A begat B in his Xth year ).

… probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer ( s ) of Genesis 1 – 11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that … the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical story …

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus began ruling as king of God's kingdom in 1914, based on their interpretations of biblical chronology.

Challis saw Genesis as an " antecedent plan " for creation, rather than a literal chronology, and argued that the biblical account could be reconciled with the geological record.

After noting how David set a pattern by setting his son Solomon on the throne before his death, Nadav Na ' man writes, " When taking into account the permanent nature of the co-regency in Judah from the time of Joash, one may dare to conclude that dating the co-regencies accurately is indeed the key for solving the problems of biblical chronology in the eighth century B. C.

The titles indicate that Augustine saw pagan ideas concerning the history and chronology of the world and the human race as incompatible with the biblical version.

Those of a scientific bent found it equally attractive but for different reasons, connected with a desire to formulate theories of racial difference that retained a place for Adam while accepting evidence that many cultures were far older than the few thousand years humanity had existed, according to biblical chronology.

The earliest extant Christian writings on the age of the world according to the biblical chronology are by Theophilus ( AD 115-181 ), the sixth bishop of Antioch, in Apology to Autolycus ( Apologia ad Autolycum ), and by Julius Africanus ( AD 200-245 ) in his Five Books of Chronology.

His chronology begins with the biblical first man Adam through to emperor Marcus Aurelius, in whose reign Theophilus lived.

# De Misericordia et Justitia ( On Mercy and Justice ), a collection of biblical extracts and sayings of Church Fathers with commentary ( an important work for the history of church law and discipline ), which is to be found in the Anecdota of Martène, vol.

Perhaps to show that he was " living in obedience to the law ", Paul took a biblical vow along with some others ().

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the so called Danube School setting biblical and historical subjects against landscape backgrounds of expressive colours.

Pentecost then outlines the biblical time period for this campaign to occur and with further arguments concludes that it must take place with the 70th week of Daniel.

Bede was familiar with pagan authors such as Virgil, but it was not considered appropriate to teach biblical grammar from such texts, and in De schematibus ... Bede argues for the superiority of Christian texts in understanding Christian literature.

Joshua forms part of the biblical history of the emergence of Israel which begins with the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, continues with their conquest of Canaan under their leader Joshua ( the subject matter of the book of Joshua ), and culminates in Judges with the settlement of the tribes in the land.

The 2006 film One Night with the King is a reenactment of the biblical story of Esther.

The cantillation signs for the large poetic section in the middle of the Book of Job differ from those of most of the biblical books, using a system shared with it only by Psalms and Proverbs.

A collection of immense importance, the holdings of Assyrian, Babylonian and Sumerian antiquities are among the most comprehensive in the world with entire suites of rooms panelled in alabaster bas-reliefs from highly important sites between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris and include the biblical cities of Nimrud, Nineveh and Khorsabad.

They also use the biblical verse of Romans 10: 9 " That if you confess with your mouth, ' Jesus is Lord ', and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

The 1549 book then dispensed with the Latin, and with all non-biblical readings ; and established a rigorously biblical cycle of readings for Morning and Evening Prayer ( set according to the calendar year, rather than the ecclesiastical year ) and a Psalter to be read consecutively throughout each month.

" The church teaches that " he most reliable way to measure the accuracy of any biblical passage is not by comparing different texts, but by comparison with the Book of Mormon and modern-day revelations ".

She contended that this understanding was what enabled the biblical Jesus to heal and accords with the Scripture: " We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us ; he that is not of God heareth not us.

While some Lutherans believe in consubstantiation, others reject the concept because it substitutes what they believe to be the biblical doctrine with a philosophical construct and implies, in their view, a natural, local inclusion of the body and blood of Christ in the consecrated bread and wine of the eucharist .< ref > J. T.

Other significant contrasts were seen in regards to " liberal " versus " conservative " social positions, as well as in one ’ s understanding of God, with 43 % of homosexual participants sharing the " orthodox, biblical " understanding of God which 71 % of heterosexual participants indicate they do.

The biblical picture of marriage expands into something much broader, with the husband and wife relationship illustrating the relationship between Christ and the church.

There is also often a common thread of comparing orthodox doctrines and biblical passages with the teachings of the groups under examination.

They discovered a greater amount of cultural diversity than they had ever imagined, and the question arose of how this vast amount of human cultural diversity could be compatible with the biblical account of Noah's descendants.

Gosta W. Ahlstrom argues the inconsistencies of the biblical tradition are insufficient to say that Ezra, with his central position as the ' father of Judaism ' in the Jewish tradition, has been a later literary invention.