Extra-biblical traditions associating him with the Tower of Babel led to his reputation as a king who was rebellious against God.

Extra-biblical traditions were used in the writing of the screenplay and some characters ( such as Zerah ) and situations were invented for the film for brevity or dramatic purposes.

Extra-biblical Christian mythology identifies the snake with Satan, but the actual text of the Biblical story does not explicitly make this identification.

Lemba tradition maintains that the Ark spent some time in Sena in Yemen.

Conservative Judaism maintains the Rabbinic understanding of Jewish identity: A Jew is someone who was born to a Jewish mother, or who converts to Judaism in accordance with Jewish law and tradition.

Biblical tradition maintains that a direct descendant of David will be the Messiah.

A collective head of state can exist in republics ( internal complexity ): e. g. nominal triumvirates ; the Directoire ; the seven-member Swiss Federal Council, where each member acts in turn as ceremonial chief of state ); Bosnia and Herzegovina ( three member presidium, from three different nations ); San Marino ( two " Captains-regent "), which maintains the tradition of Italian medieval republics, where there always was an even number of consuls.

Muslim tradition maintains that the unrighteous people of Israel were angered and sought to kill Isaiah.

There is a kabbalistic tradition that maintains that the seven days of creation in Genesis 1 correspond to seven millennia of the existence of natural creation.

Contemporary research suggests that these works are datable to a significantly later period in Buddhist history ( late eighth or early ninth century ), but the tradition of which they are a part maintains that they are the work of the Madhyamaka Nāgārjuna and his school.

Jewish tradition maintains a different origin for the Samaritans.

Alternatively, another tradition maintains that Matthias was stoned at Jerusalem by the Jews, and then beheaded ( cf.

Rabbinic tradition maintains that God conveyed not only the words of the Torah, but the meaning of the Torah.

Baader starts from the position that human reason by itself can never reach the end it aims at, and maintains that we cannot throw aside the presuppositions of faith, church and tradition.

Jewish tradition maintains it is here the Third and final Temple will also be built.

Josephus calls him a ' bastard ' ( νόθος ), though in a derogative sense. A late extra-Biblical tradition, recorded by Nachmanides, maintains that the Amalekites were not descended from the grandson of Esau but from a man named Amalek, from whom the grandson took his name.

The conferring of Jewish status through matrilineality is not stated explicitly in the Torah, though Jewish oral tradition maintains this was always the rule, and adduces indirect textual evidence.

Popular tradition maintains that Church Creek predates Cambridge, Maryland as the earliest settlement in Dorchester County, first established at some point before 1684 under the name Dorchester Town and then White Haven.

Riding the Marches maintains the tradition of an occasion that was, in its day, of great importance.

The USCG maintains an extensive fleet of coastal and ocean-going patrol ships, called cutters by tradition, and small craft, as well as an extensive aviation division consisting of HH-65 Dolphin and HH-60 Jayhawk helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft such as the C-130 Hercules, HU-25 Guardian, and HC-144 Ocean Sentry.

By reciting the Dharani of Cintamani, Buddhist tradition maintains that one attains the Wisdom of Buddhas, is able to understand the truth of the Buddhas, and turns afflictions into Bodhi.

Byzantine tradition maintains that Dio's mother was the daughter or sister of the Greek orator and philosopher, Dio Chrysostom ; however, this relationship has been disputed.

In his medical work, tradition maintains that he belonged to the " empiric school ", as reflected by his name.

There is a kabbalistic tradition that maintains that the 7 days of the week, which are based upon the seven days of creation, correspond to the seven millennia of creation.

The Calgary Grey Cup Committee maintains the tradition of organizing a pancake breakfast at each year's championship.

Also in 1996 Sennheiser became a private limited company ( GmbH and Co. KG ) Since then Sennheiser has maintained its tradition of high quality audio technology, and still maintains those high standards today.

The magazine Le Cri du Contribuable owned by Nicolas Miguet also maintains the poujadist tradition.

When his mother died, Confucius ( aged 23 ) is reported to have mourned for three years as was the tradition.

It also is possible that Bede had the date of Æthelberht ’ s death wrong ; if, in fact, Æthelberht died in 618, this would be consistent with his baptism in 597, which is in accord with the tradition that Augustine converted the king within a year of his arrival.

A common tradition amongst the people of Australia and New Zealand is to bake Anzac biscuits to remember the soldiers who died fighting for " King and country ".

" When a leader died, it was tradition to mourn them with blood instead of tears and so the warriors would slash their cheeks to " cry blood ".

Luke died at age 84 in Boeotia, according to a " fairly early and widespread tradition ".

The early tradition that expanded upon the Martyrdom to link Polycarp in competition and contrast with John the Apostle who, though many people had tried to kill him, was not martyred but died of old age after being exiled to the island of Patmos, is embodied in the Coptic language fragmentary papyri ( the " Harris fragments ") dating to the 3rd to 6th centuries.

According to tradition, Douglas was carrying the heart in a silver casket when he died at the head of the Scottish contingent at the Battle of Teba.

According to Muslim tradition, when Solomon died he was standing watching the work of his Jinn, while leaning on his cane.

( or Prince Naresuan ) Prince Ekkathat is Prince Naresuan Younger Brother that trained Military skills and tradition of Burma and in 1581 King Bayinnong died of an illness from his coming of a conflict battle against the Kingdom of Yakkai. The son of King Bayinnong became King afterwards.

According to tradition, Pope St. Pontian died on Tavolara following his abdication and exile in 235.

The Arian Visigoths were generally intolerant of Judaism and its adherents, a tradition that lingered in post-Visigothic Septimania, exemplified by the career of Ferreol, Bishop of Uzès ( died 581 ).

The traditions of the Yule log died out in Britain in the latter 19th and early 20th century because of, according to historian Ronald Hutton, " the reduction in farm labour and the disappearance of the old-fashioned open hearths ", however the Bûche de Noël dessert has become a Christmas tradition in the UK, as in many French speaking places.

* Rabbi Yehudah ha-Nasi or Judah haNasi, Talmudic scholar ( according to Jewish tradition, he was born the same day Rabbi Akiva died a martyr's death )

Christian tradition holds that he outlived the remaining apostles — all of whom suffered martyrdom ( except Judas Iscariot )— and ultimately died of natural causes " in great old age in Ephesus " at the beginning of the second century.

Some appear written for a lover — possibly her husband before he died — but she may have merely followed tradition and written simple love poems.

After Joseph Meacham died, Lucy Wright continued Ann Lee's missionary tradition.

Mazarin died on 9 March 1661 and it was expected that Louis would appoint another chief minister, as had become the tradition, but instead he shocked the country by announcing he would rule alone.

He still had to take care of his father's funeral, and tradition demanded he organise the foundation of a monastery on the spot where his father died.

She was expected by tradition to spend money on her attire, so as to outshine other women at Court, being the leading example of fashion in Versailles ( the previous queen, Maria Leszczyńska, had died in 1768, two years prior to Marie Antoinette's arrival ).

The native tradition of Latin music which Byrd had done so much to keep alive more or less died with him, while consort music underwent a huge change of character at the hands of a new generation of professional musicians at the Jacobean and Caroline courts.

The same building on Mount Zion is traditionally revered by Jews as David's Tomb and by Christians as the Cenacle ( The Upper Room ), and that there is a Jewish tradition that David was born and died on Pentecost.

It is estimated that at most, the last true Assassin probably died in the early 15th century, prompting the brotherhood to fade into history as a result of lost tradition, customs, and ideals.

When the letter reached Rome, Donus had died, but his successor, Pope Agatho, agreed to the Emperor's suggestion and ordered councils held throughout the West so that legates could present the tradition of the Western Church.

Under Carrarese rule the early humanist circles in the university were effectively disbanded: Albertino Mussato, the first modern poet laureate, died in exile at Chiogga in 1329, and the eventual heir of the Paduan tradition was the Tuscan Petrarch.

According to tradition, he died on the island of Tavolara.