Alan Segal in his book Paul the Convert suggests that the Apostle Paul may have been an early adept of Merkabah mysticism in which case what was novel to Paul's experience of divine light on the road to Damascus was not the experience of divine light itself, but that the source of this divine light identified himself as the Jesus whose followers Paul was persecuting.

Taking the Greek word zelotes in Acts 22: 3 and Galatians 1: 14 of the New Testament to mean a ' Zealot ' with capital Z ( the earliest Greek manuscripts are uncials or all capital letters ), an article by Mark R. Fairchild suggests that Paul the Apostle may have been a Zealot, which might have been the driving force behind his persecution of the Christians ( see stoning of Saint Stephen ) before his conversion to Christianity, and his incident at Antioch even after his conversion.

Joseph Needham suggests that the proto-shells described in the Huolongjing may be among the first of their kind.

Though evidence suggests Heart of Darkness may be pessimistic, Joseph Conrad ’ s Darwinian world view can counter this understanding.

Joseph Eddy Fontenrose suggests that for Nonnus Campe is a Greek refiguring of Tiamat and that " she is Echidna under another name, as Nonnos indicates, calling her Echidnaean Enyo, identifying her snaky legs with Echidna's ", and " a female counterpart of his Typhon ".

Child development and consciousness author Joseph Chilton Pearce remarked that revelation typically appears in symbolic form and “ in a single flash of insight .” He used the metaphor of lightning striking and suggests that the revelation is “ a result of a buildup of resonant potential .” Pearce compared it to the earth asking a question and the sky answering it.

" But according to Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz ( Chief Rabbi of the British Empire ), child sacrifice was actually " rife among the Semitic peoples ," and suggests that " in that age, it was astounding that Abraham's God should have interposed to prevent the sacrifice, not that He should have asked for it.

Emerton regards the connections as evidence for including chapter 38 in the J corpus, and suggests that the J writer dovetailed the Joseph and Judah traditions.

Derek Kidner points out that the insertion of chapter 38 “ creates suspense for the reader ,” but Robert Alter goes further and suggests it is a result of the “ brilliant splicing of sources by a literary artist .” He notes that the same verb “ identify ” will play “ a crucial thematic role in the dénouement of the Joseph story when he confronts his brothers in Egypt, he recognizing them, they failing to recognize him.

A. Emerton regards the connections as evidence for including chapter 38 in the J corpus, and suggests that the J writer dovetailed the Joseph and Judah traditions.

Derek Kidner points out that the insertion of chapter 38 “ creates suspense for the reader ,” but Robert Alter goes further and suggests it is a result of the “ brilliant splicing of sources by a literary artist .” He notes that the same verb “ identify ” will play “ a crucial thematic role in the dénouement of the Joseph story when he confronts his brothers in Egypt, he recognizing them, they failing to recognize him.

" Stanley " suggests that Sir Oliver would help him if he was here, and that Joseph might pass on some of what Sir Oliver has given him.

The film suggests that Joseph Smith was required to dig up his brother Alvin ’ s body and bring a part of it with him to the hill Cumorah in order to obtain the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon was said to be translated.

Instead, it suggests that Josef Mengele was recruited by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to produce " grotesque, child-size aviators " to be remotely piloted and landed in America to cause hysteria in the likeness of Orson Welles ' 1938 radio drama War of the Worlds, but that the aircraft crashed and the incident was hushed up by the Americans.

Local legend suggests that the ground was identified by a Miss Westland, the niece of one of the club's founders, Joseph Johnson, after the Corporation had not renewed Fosse's lease on their previous ground at nearby Mill Lane, only weeks before their debut season in the Midland League.

Joseph Bedier suggests a bourgeois audience, which sees itself reflected in the urban settings and lower-class types portrayed in fabliaux.

Anthony Joseph Paul Cortese's Opposing Hate Speech suggests that Cissy is " the archetypal stereotype for a lesbian ...... non-flattering stereotypes ".

In his book, The Decline of Privilege: The Modernization of Oxford University, American sociologist Joseph A. Soares suggests that Oxford developed a superior political and literary reputation because of its unparalleled connections to England's governing class, its status as the oldest and most traditional university in England, and the greater romantic appeal of Oxford to writers:

The most recent study of Morgan by Joseph A. Fry suggests an alternate reason for Morgan's desires for American expansionism in the 1890s.

As the name suggests it is a memorial and tribute to the late Joseph Mooney, County Councillor and townsman who did so much to promote the cause of Leitrim and his beloved town.

Sheila Smith, in her 1984 history of Whitwick suggests that the name may be linked to framework knitting as in 1845 one Joseph Sheffield, giving evidence before the Commission into the plight of the framework knitters, makes reference to a type of stocking called ' dumps '.

" Joseph Chang, curator of Chinese art at the Sackler Museum, suggests that many notable collections of Chinese art contains a forgery by the master painter.

' Although Brandon's assistant, Dr. Hugo Wagner ( Joseph Mell ), protests that the experiment might kill Tony, Brandon continues and within two sessions suggests to Tony that he was once a werewolf.

The English Dialect Dictionary, compiled by Joseph Wright, defines the word gurn as " to snarl as a dog ; to look savage ; to distort the countenance ," while the Oxford English Dictionary suggests the derivation may originally be Scottish, related to " grin.

Christian mythology suggests that Chalice Well marks the site where Joseph of Arimathea placed the chalice that had caught the drops of Christ's blood at the Crucifixion, linking the Well to the wealth of speculation surrounding the existence of the Holy Grail.

The pharaoh is troubled and at a loss for what to do in order to prevent the upcoming disaster, however, Joseph cleverly suggests that each year one fifth of the crops are put aside and kept for rationing in order to save Egypt.

The thing can be made to look like the cluttered attic of a large and vigorous family -- a motley jumble of discarded objects, some outworn and some that were never useful, some once whole and bright but now chipped and tarnished, some odd pieces whose history no one remembers, here and there a gem, everything fascinating because it suggests some part of the human condition -- the whole adding up to nothing more than a glimpse into the disorderly history of the makers and users.

W. F. Bryan suggests that certain kennings in Beowulf were selected sometimes for appropriateness and sometimes for ironic inappropriateness, but such a view would appear untenable unless it is denied that the language of Beowulf is formulaic.

Albert B. Lord suggests that the Homeric poems were dictated to a scribe by a minstrel who held in his mind the poems fully matured but did not himself possess the knowledge of writing since it would be useless to his guild, and Magoun argues that the Beowulf poet and Cynewulf may have dictated their verse in the same fashion.

However, recent work suggests that some agnostids were benthic predators, engaging in cannibalism and possibly manifesting pack-hunting behavior.

This evidence suggests that the religious structures were deliberately abandoned slowly over time.

This suggests the ancient people were also more diverse than their material remains may suggest.

Doherty suggests that the personal relations of the two kings were strained by constant arguments, though this in not confirmed by historical sources.

Two of Ammonius's students-Origen the Pagan, and Longinus-seem to have held philosophical positions which were closer to Middle Platonism than Neoplatonism, which perhaps suggests that Ammonius's doctrines were also closer to those of Middle Platonism than the Neoplatonism developed by Plotinus ( see the Enneads ), but Plotinus does not seem to have thought that he was departing in any significant way from that of his master.

Livy suggests, perhaps incorrectly, that both Curule as well as Plebeian Aediles were sacrosanct.

It cannot be claimed, beyond all doubt, whether any or all of these specific allegations were true, but Rubenstein suggests that Athanasius employed a level of force when it suited his cause or personal interests.

However the large number of copper-zinc alloys now known suggests that at least some were deliberately manufactured and many have zinc contents of more than 12 % wt which would have resulted in a distinctive golden color.

Gould suggests that the extraordinary diversity of the fossils indicate that life forms at the time were much more diverse than those that survive today, and that many of the unique lineages were evolutionary experiments that became extinct.

An explanation suggests that the delegates were bishops in the actual sense of the term, but that they did not possess fixed sees nor had they a special title.

By contrast most of the party's seats were won either due to the absence of a candidate from one of the other parties or in rural areas on the " Celtic fringe ", where local evidence suggests that economic ideas were at best peripheral to the electorate's concerns.

Meanwhile, the increasing number ( albeit still pitifully few ) of radiocarbon dates for the primary use of brochs ( as opposed to their later, secondary use ) still suggests that most of the towers were built in the 1st centuries BC and AD.

However, Cornelius Nepos, Pausanias and Plutarch all give the figure of 9, 000 Athenians and 1, 000 Plateans ; while Justin suggests that there were 10, 000 Athenians and 1, 000 Plataeans.

Demographic analysis by Patrick Heuveline suggests that between 1. 17 and 3. 42 million Cambodians were killed, while Marek Sliwinski estimates that 1. 8 million is a conservative figure.

Archeological evidence suggests that, before Columbus ' arrival, the indigenous Guanajatabey, who had inhabited the island for centuries, were driven to the west of Cuba by the arrival of two subsequent waves of migrants, the Taíno and Ciboney.

The Torah ( Jewish Law ), also known as the Pentateuch ( the first five books of the Christian Old Testament ), lays down the death penalty for murder, kidnapping, magic, violation of the Sabbath, blasphemy, and a wide range of sexual crimes, although evidence suggests that actual executions were rare.

The dissenters were discontented with the general leftward trend in USCJ policies over the previous decades, such as " prayer book revision, egalitarianism, redefining halakhic boundaries of sexual relationships, and advocacy of Israel accepting conversions that are non-halakhic even by Conservative standards "., and the Union suggests that " The Conservative Movement thus appears to endorse the notion that changing societal norms can supersede the proper application of halakhic sources ".

Evidence suggests a third release in 1938, consisting of toads being used for human pregnancy tests — many species of toad were found to be effective for this task, and were employed for about 20 years after the discovery was announced in 1948.