It concludes a series of historical books running from Joshua through Judges and Samuel, the overall purpose which is to provide a theological explanation for the destruction of the Jewish kingdom by Babylon in 586 BCE and a foundation for a return from exile.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

Bart Ehrman concludes: " What does the historical evidence tell us about Mary and Jesus ?.. it tells us nothing at all-certainly nothing to

However there is no historical evidence to support Benedict's claim, nor is there even any evidence that anyone prior to the 16th century suggested this might be the case ; the Catholic Encyclopedia concludes that there are no historical grounds for the supposition.

Wells concludes that the reconstruction of this historical figure from the extant literature would be a hopeless task.

Strabo ultimately concludes, in Book IV, Chapter 5, " Concerning Thule, our historical information is still more uncertain, on account of its outside position ; for Thule, of all the countries that are named, is set farthest north.

As the historian Emily Hemelrijk concludes, “ the Cornelia we know is to a high degree a creation of later times .” The historical Cornelia has largely been lost in this process of her transformation into a heroine, an idealized example for aristocratic women of later periods to pattern themselves after.

Consequently, Fomenko concludes that carbon dating is not accurate enough to be used on historical scale.

It concludes that the standard of historical analysis in most movies is far better than one might imagine.

In pages 394-404, he refers to historical events and references in Persian books and poems, as well as the forensic findings of Russians in early 20th century including Mikhail Gerasimov ( who reconstructed Rudaki's face based on his bones found in his tomb, see above picture ), concludes that Rudaki and Amir Nasr Samani were Ismailis and there was a revolt against Ismalis around 940, a few years before Rudaki's death.

" Capper concludes, from historical sources as well as this linguistic evidence, that Bethany may have been the site of an almshouse.

A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, edited by Bauer, Arndt, Gingrich, Danker, University of Chicago Press, the standard lexicon for NT Greek, while noting historical interpretations and modern opinions, concludes that Origen was probably correct that the term was coined by the evangelists

All stories but the last are interrupted at some moment, and after the sixth story concludes at the center of the book, the novel " goes back " in time, " closing " each story as the book progresses in terms of pages but regresses in terms of the historical period in which the action takes place.

Although the Royal chronicle of Emperor Susenyos reports that Dagano, the governor of Bale had paid tribute to Emperor Yaqob, Braukämper concludes that " from the entirety of the historical situation that Ethiopia's claim to sovereignty later in the seventeenth century was purely theoretical.

A 2006 historical review of study of the redshift periodicity of galaxies by Bajan, et al., concludes that " in our opinion the existence of redshift periodicity among galaxies is not well established.

Arazlam concludes by stating that the story he narrated is the one contained within the Durai Report, which he recovered, and that he will reveal to the public, hoping to cast Ramza's true role as that of a historical hero.

According to historian Gustav Karpeles, " an historical kernel lies hidden in the legend " and concludes that the " legend rests upon an historical substratum.

" Hollerich concludes that "... the standard assessment has exaggerated the importance of political themes and political motives in Eusebius's life and writings and has failed to do justice to him as a churchman and a scholar ".

While accepting that under Glass-Steagall financial firms could still have “ made, sold, and securitized risky mortgages, all the while fueling a massive housing bubble and building a highly leveraged, Ponzi-like pyramid of derivatives on top ,” the New Rules Project concludes that commentators who deny the GLBA played a role in the financial crisis “ fail to recognize the significance of 1999 as the pivotal policy-making moment leading up to the crash .” The Project argues 1999 was Congress ’ s opportunity to reject 25 years of “ deregulation ” and “ confront the changing financial system by reaffirming the importance of effective structural safeguards, such as the Glass-Steagall Act's firewall and market share caps to limit the size of banks ; bringing shadow banks into the regulatory framework ; and developing new rules to control the dangers inherent in derivatives and other engineered financial products .”

Mill concludes the Introduction by discussing what he claimed were the three basic liberties in order of importance:

A recent published article on the topic in a mainstream scientific journal ( Flandern, 2003 ) concludes that there have been " no unambiguous detections < nowiki > an Allais effect </ nowiki > within the past 30 years when consciousness of the importance of < nowiki ></ nowiki > controls was more widespread.

In August 2008, the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship ( AHRC ) Commission dismissed the complaint, the commission stated that, “ given the full context of the republication of the cartoons, the very strong language defining hatred and contempt in the case law as well as consideration of the importance of freedom of speech and the ‘ admonition to balance ,’ the southern director concludes that there is no reasonable basis in the information for this complaint to proceed to a panel hearing .”

In a typical initiation ceremony as a guru of International Society for Krishna Consciousness he would begin with purification using achamana ( holy water ) and concludes with a sermon on the importance of chanting of the holy names in the life of a new initiate.

has addressed these confusions in his Nyāsa VimSati ( Slokam 12 ), and concludes that those who know Prapatti Sāstra well agree that there are five anga-s to Prapatti, and the different positions taken in respect of the number and sequence of importance etc.

Robbins concludes that the story's appeal lies in its " seductive resolution " of the conflict by the truth-telling boy.

He concludes that their behaviour gives us " an insight into the biological healing process " ( p. 98 ), and that " the key to healing traumatic symptoms in humans lies in our being able to mirror the fluid adaption of wild animals " ( p. 17-18 ) as they avoid traumatization in reacting to life-threatening situations.

“ And since we are different ,” Woolf concludes, “ our help must be different .” Thus, the value of Woolf's opinion ( and help ) on how to prevent war lies in its radical difference from the ways of men.

He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism ''.

It concludes that it needs to make planets more habitable for similar life-forms, and sends out other probes to foment supernovae to do so.

Edwards, for example, concludes that the " sense of time is so confused in Harvey's note that it is really of little use in trying to date Hamlet ".

Davidson concludes that, in these examples, " here we have the fierce destructive side of death, with a strong emphasis on its physical horrors, so perhaps we should not assume that the gruesome figure of Hel is wholly Snorri's literary invention.

He appears in folklore as a trickster, and in County Mayo thunderstorms were referred to as battles between Lugh and Balor, so he is sometimes considered a storm god: Alexei Kondratiev notes his epithet lonnbeimnech (" fierce striker ") and concludes that " if his name has any relation to ' light ' it more properly means ' lightning-flash ' ( as in Breton luc ' h and Cornish lughes )".

The author of the Catholic Encyclopedia article goes on to enumerate the accounts of each of these three persons ( the unnamed " sinner ", Mary Magdalene, and Mary of Bethany ) in the Gospel of Luke and concludes that based on these accounts “ there is no suggestion of an identification of the three persons, and if we had only Luke to guide us we should certainly have no grounds for so identifying them the same person .” He then explains first the Catholic position equating Mary of Bethany with the sinful woman of Luke by referring to, where Mary is identified as the woman who anointed Jesus, and noting that this reference is given before John ’ s account of the anointing in Bethany:

He concludes that whilst Christianity rejected anything " pagan " it did so only at a superficial level and that early Christianity was " deeply indebted " to Ancient Egypt.

) Once the text of this interpolated letter is removed and the two letters compared, Murphy-O ' Connor asserts that this objection is " drastically weakened ", and concludes, " The arguments against the authenticity of 2 Thessalonians are so weak that it is preferable to accept the traditional ascription of the letter to Paul.

Ebert concludes his review with the following line: " Every time I see the film, I feel a great sadness, that a human imagination could be so limited that it sees its own extinction as a victory.

But by doing so AI does not oppose the imprisonment, except where it further maintains that the prisoner is a prisoner of conscience, or condemn the trial, except where it concludes that it was unfair.

Good concludes that the white shoe is a " red herring ": Sometimes even a black raven can constitute evidence against the hypothesis that all ravens are black, so the fact that the observation of a white shoe can support it is not surprising and not worth attention.

However, more recent scholarly opinion points out that the word in the Book of Daniel is siphonia ( from Greek siphon, reed ), and concludes that the bagpipe did not exist at so early a time, though the name of the " zampogna " could still have been derived from this word ( Marcuse 1975, 501 & 597 ).

As a result of events in the story the Excession concludes that the civilisations it has encountered in our universe are not ready for this enlightenment and moves on so that it will not cause any further disturbance, hence its disappearance at the end of the book.

" Tillemont, possibly influenced by the fact that no honour is paid to the memory of Nicolas by any branch of the Church, allows more weight to the testimony against him ; rejects peremptorily Cassian's statement — to which Neander gives his adhesion — that some other Nicolas was the founder of the sect ; and concludes that if not the actual founder, he was so unfortunate as to give occasion to the formation of the sect, by his indiscreet speaking.

Although Muggsy tries to convince him " she's the same dame ", Pike reasons that Jean would never come close to his home without at least disguising herself, so he concludes the resemblance is only a coincidence.

" Biographer Clinton Heylin concludes: " He would not attempt anything so ambitious again.

Thus, if a company is sued for monopolizing a market and the jury concludes the conduct resulted in consumers ' being overcharged $ 200, 000, that amount will automatically be tripled, so the injured consumers will receive $ 600, 000.

Žabkar concludes that so particular was the concept of Ba to ancient Egyptian thought that it ought not to be translated but instead the concept be footnoted or parenthetically explained as one of the modes of existence for a person.

Johnson concludes that Senator Joe McCarthy, notorious for his attacks on alleged Communists in government, was often pressured by his allies to denounce homosexuals in government, but he resisted and did not do so.

The festival of Sukkot ( Festival of Booths ) therefore concludes with a prayer recited upon leaving the sukkah ( booth ): " May it be your will, Lord our God and God of our forefathers, that just as I have fulfilled and dwelt in this sukkah, so may I merit in the coming year to dwell in the sukkah of the skin of Leviathan.

Although the current prevailing opinion concludes that cave bears were largely herbivorous, and more so than any modern species of the genus Ursus, increasing evidence points to omnivorous diets, based both on regional variability of isotopic composition of bone remains indicative of dietary plasticity, and on a recent re-evaluation of craniodental morphology that places the cave bear squarely among omnivorous modern bear species with respect to its skull and tooth shapes.

Letting himself be progressively informed by the Vézelay light, he so concludes:

It concludes somewhat vaguely, that racial consciousness needs to be increased so that, " women of all classes have the fear and dread of undesired maternity removed from them ..." to usher in the promised utopia, described throughout.

He concludes: This great opportunity of disrupting the enemy line and expanding the Allied bridgehead was lost not so much in the woods and orchards around Villers-Bocage, as in the Corps Commander's mind.