Since Biblical times, rosaries have been made from jobs-tears -- the seeds of an Asiatic grass.

The document commences by drawing a direct line from Biblical times to the present:

The noted rabbi Maimonides likewise categorizes prayer as a Biblical command, but believed that the number of prayers and their times are not.

This view is supported with Biblical quotes indicating that the Patriarchs prayed at the times mentioned.

Additional Biblical references suggest that King David and the prophet Daniel prayed three times a day.

However, even in Biblical times, it was very difficult to get a conviction that would lead to this prescribed punishment.

Based on dispensationalist interpretation of prophecies in the Biblical books of Revelation, Daniel, Isaiah and Ezekiel, Left Behind tells the story of the end times, in which true believers in Christ have been " raptured ", ( i. e. taken instantly to heaven ) leaving the world shattered and chaotic.

The actual species are not known with certainty, although they would necessarily have been crops that grew in the middle east in Biblical times.

Azymes is an archaic English word for matzah, derived from the Koine Greek word " ἄζυμος " ( ázymos: " unleavened ") for unfermented bread in Biblical times.

In Biblical times, Samaria " reached from the sea to the Jordan Valley ", including the Carmel Ridge and Plain of Sharon.

It contains loan words from languages with which Hebrew had contact in post-exilic times, such as Persian, Greek, and Aramaic, and contains numerous items of vocabulary that are otherwise unknown in Biblical Hebrew but are known from Rabbinic Hebrew, and these expressions give the impression of being part of a living language and not the result of an archaic or artificial style.

He cited Biblical passages to prove that in Biblical times stone was the first material used.

Supporters of Jewish resettlement within Hebron see their program as the reclamation of an important heritage dating back to Biblical times, which was dispersed or, it is argued, stolen by Arabs after the massacre of 1929.

* Legends place the origins in Biblical times and consider the stone to be the Stone of Jacob taken by Jacob while in Haran.

In Biblical times, the following Jewish religious feasts were celebrated:

From Biblical times until the present, Jews have been buried on the Mount of Olives.

'" God ’ s personal message to Jeremiah, “ Attack you they will, overcome you they can ’ t ,” was fulfilled many times in the Biblical narrative, Jeremiah was attacked by his own brothers, beaten and put into the stocks by a priest and false prophet, imprisoned by the king, threatened with death, thrown into a cistern by Judah ’ s officials, and opposed by a false prophet.

Ostriches, however, were already well known in Biblical times.

According to Koch, the name Arawn may be derived from the Biblical name Aaron, the name of Moses ’ s brother, and so is ultimately of Hebrew origin and meaning ‘ exalted .’ That the name ‘ Aaron ’ had currency in Wales as early as Roman times is shown by Gildas who wrote that ‘ Aaron and Iulianus were Christian martyrs at Urbs Legionis ( the ‘ city of the legion ,’ probably Caerllion-ar-Wysg ) in the time of the Emperor Diocletian .’ a cleric of the Old Welsh name Araun witnessed two charters of 860 preserved in the book of Llandaf.

* That he was in many ways both typical of his times, and yet extraordinary in his religious convictions and beliefs, in his scholarship of the Biblical literature, and in the fervency in which he lived his religion out in his daily life.

The Young Earth creationist opinion is that Leviathan and Behemoth are names given to dinosaurs which existed in Biblical times.

During Biblical times when calamities befell the Jewish people, the Jewish prophets stressed that suffering is a natural result of not following God's law, and prosperity, peace and health are the natural results of following God's law.

It analysed the whole field of available Biblical commentary, for the use of those preparing sermons, and was reprinted many times.

* Rosh, a minor Biblical figure, mentioned in the Book of Genesis and a nation listed in Ezekiel

Traditional Biblical, Rabbinic and Kabbalistic thought has offered theological explanations for previous tragedies, from the reaction of the Prophets to Nebuchadnezzar's destruction of Jerusalem and exile of the nation, to the Medieval Pogroms of Christendom.

The United States began as a nation rooted in Biblical principles.

A movie ( 2006, Rated PG ) called " One Night With The King " chronicles the life of the young Jewish girl, Hadassah, who goes on to become the Biblical Esther, the Queen of Persia, and saves the Jewish nation from annihilation at the hands of its arch enemy while winning the heart of the fiercely handsome King Xerxes.

Its mission statement is: " The mission of CWA is to protect and promote Biblical values among all citizens-first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society-thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation.

Another hypothesis is that the Iron I settlement wave at Ai, as well as in other sites in the region at this time, fits better with the account given in the Biblical Book of Judges, which posits the settlement process of the nation of Israel in somewhat different terms than the Book of Joshua.

This idea sometimes is attributed to Biblical verses that describe the Jews as " a kingdom of priests and a holy nation " () and " a light of the nations " or " a light to the nations " ( and ).

According to the medieval Georgian Chronicles, the city was built by the legendary patriarch Mtskhetos, one of five sons of Kartlos, the legendary patriarch of the Georgian nation ( who was in turn said to be a son of Torgom, the Georgian spelling of Biblical Togar Mah, son of Gomer, son of Japheth, son of Noah ).

In accord with the visions of other socialist Zionists of his time, Arlosoroff believed that ancient Biblical agricultural traditions, such as the " Sabbath Year " and " Year of Jubilee ", could be restored in modern practice alongside institutional parameters established for the new Jewish nation.

For Arlosoroff and other Zionists, however, the potential mass transfer of Germany's Jews along with their assets to Eretz Israel presented a historic opportunity to help guarantee the future establishment of a Jewish nation in the ancient Biblical Land of Promise.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

The book claims that it was submerged in 2193 BC, the same year that 19th century almanacs, following traditional Biblical chronology, gave for Noah's flood.

The language was later dubbed Enochian, due to Dee's assertion that the Biblical Patriarch Enoch had been the last human ( before Dee and Kelley ) to know the language.

A third single was released amid controversy before Christmas 1984: a revival of " It Ain't Necessarily So ", the George and Ira Gershwin classic ( from Porgy and Bess ) which questions the authenticity of Biblical tales.

Biblical tradition holds that Bethlehem is the birthplace of David, the second king of Israel, and the place where he was anointed king by Samuel.

In the Biblical account, unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan.

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

Biblical scholar Ehud Ben Zvi reminds readers of the socio-historical context in which Hosea was composed.

Lobegott Friedrich Constantin ( von ) Tischendorf ( January 18, 1815 – December 7, 1874 ) was a noted German Biblical scholar.

By specifying Catholic doctrine on salvation, the sacraments, and the Biblical canon, the Council was answering Protestant disputes.

They are named after the Biblical character Cush, who was traditionally identified as an ancestor of the speakers of these specific languages as early as AD 947 ( in Masudi's Arabic history Meadows of Gold ).

Some Christians believe that the Law was " completed " by Jesus and has become irrelevant to " faith life ", for details see Biblical law in Christianity.

In this desire to seek to establish Biblical truth and test out orthodox Christian beliefs through independent scriptural study he was not alone and, amongst other churches, he also had links with Adventist movement and with Benjamin Wilson ( who later set up the Church of God of the Abrahamic Faith in the 1860s ).

Around 190 AD under the leadership of the scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became an important institution of religious learning, where students were taught by scholars such as Athenagoras, Clement, Didymus, and the native Egyptian Origen, who was considered the father of theology and who was also active in the field of commentary and comparative Biblical studies.

In Biblical myth, the archetype is alluded to in the descendants of Adam crushing the head of the Serpent, and in Christian mythology, this was interpreted as corresponding to Christ as the " New Adam " crushing the Devil.

Clearly, finding a Biblical, non-sectarian name was important.

The elder Smith was given the " keys of the patriarchal Priesthood over the kingdom of God on earth ", the same power said to be held by the Biblical Patriarchs, which included the power to give blessings upon one's posterity.

Mary Joan Winn Leith in The Oxford History of the Biblical World believes that Ezra was an historical figure whose life was enhanced in the scripture and given a theological buildup.

As early as the 2nd century, however, some authorities declared this resurrection of the dead was a prophetic vision: an opinion regarded by Maimonides ( Guide for the Perplexed, II: 46 ) and his followers as the only rational explanation of the Biblical passage.

Biblical scholars agree that Galatians was written between the late 40s and early 50s.

Biblical scholars are in general agreement that it was written by St. Paul to the church of Philippi, an early center of Christianity in Greece around 62 A. D. Other scholars argue for an earlier date, c. 50-60 A. D.

Biblical scholars agree that it was composed by the Apostle Paul to explain that salvation is offered through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

He was one of the 32 founding members of the Society of Biblical Literature in 1880.