Biblical covenants, in contrast to Eastern covenants in general, are between a god, Yahweh, and a people, Israel, instead of between a strong ruler and a weaker vassal.

The Reverend Ezra Stiles, president of the College from 1778 to 1795, brought with him his interest in the Hebrew language as a vehicle for studying ancient Biblical texts in their original language ( as was common in other schools ), requiring all freshmen to study Hebrew ( in contrast to Harvard, where only upperclassmen were required to study the language ) and is responsible for the Hebrew phrase אורים ותמים ( Urim and Thummim ) on the Yale seal.

In contrast, Protestants believe that the Church has only spoken infallibly through the Scriptures since the time of the Apostles, and should not expect to be completely free of error at any time until the end of the world, and rather must remain continually vigilant to maintain a Biblical ( and therefore authoritative ) doctrine and faith, or else fall away from the Christian faith and become an enemy of the truth.

Dispensationalism, in contrast to the Millerite Adventist movement, had its beginning in the 19th century, when John Nelson Darby, founder of the Plymouth Brethren religious denomination, incorporated into his system of Biblical interpretation a system of organizing Biblical time into a number of discrete dispensations, each of which marks a separate covenant with God.

Many Biblical scholars concluded that the account was a piece of political spin, which had been intended to disguise atrocities carried out by the tribe of Judah against Benjamin, probably in the time of King David as an act of revenge or spite by David against the associates of King Saul, by casting them further back in time, and adding a more justifiable motive ; more recently, scholars have suggested that it is more likely for the narrative to be based on a kernel of truth, particularly since it accounts for the stark contrast in the biblical narrative between the character of the tribe before the incident, and its character afterward.

These boulders, characteristic of glaciers, were strewn as if they were brought there by glaciers that no longer existed, in contrast to the previous idea that the Biblical Flood had causing this deposition.

Much later, in Abrahamic traditions, the bull motif became a bull demon or the ' horned devil ' in contrast and conflict to earlier traditions. The bull is familiar in Judeo-Christian cultures from the Biblical episode wherein an idol of the Golden Calf is made by Aaron and worshipped by the Hebrews in the wilderness of Sinai ( Exodus ).

To throw this wager or secular faith into the boldest possible relief, Ellul places it in dialectical contrast with Biblical faith.

The Biblical Magi, who represented the non-Jewish peoples of the world, paid homage to the infant Jesus in stark contrast to Herod the Great ( King of Judea ), who sought to kill him.

This was in direct contrast to the teachings in the Torah, and was condemned by the ancient Biblical prophets who attacked those Israelites and Judeans who became idol worshipers.

Baur, it has been argued that the Pseudo-Clementines, texts that in early times were frequently regarded as part of Biblical canon, are a coded attack on Paul, fictionalising him under the name of Simon Magus, in deliberate contrast to Simon Peter.

A literal Biblical interpretation is associated with the fundamentalist and evangelical hermeneutical approach to scripture — the historical-grammatical method — and is used extensively by conservative Christians, in contrast to the historical-critical method of liberal Christians.

Charles ' scar on his forehead is allegorical of the " mark of Cain " and Adam and Charles ' father Cyrus prefers Adam's gift over Charles ' which leads to Charles beating Adam up ( although not murdering him, in contrast to the Biblical story ).

The process by which baryons come to outnumber their antiparticles is called baryogenesis ( in contrast to a process by which leptons account for the predominance of matter over antimatter, leptogenesis ).

By contrast, if M ( t ) denotes the amount of money in a bank account at time t, then the function jumps whenever money is deposited or withdrawn, so the function M ( t ) is discontinuous.

By contrast to the above philosophers, Immanuel Kant held that the account of the concept as an abstraction of experience is only partly correct.

Blackhirst has suggested, by contrast, that Galatian's account of this argument could be the reason the gospel's writer attributed it to Barnabas.

The Tartars were also in contrast to the concept of Prester John, who may have been Prester Chan and, in Ludolphus's account, chased out of Asia by the Tartars and, in John Herbert's Travels, was Abyssinian.

One example is the contrast between birth and death, and birth and berth, and told and toll'd in Thomas Hood's account of the death of Ben the sailor ( which took place at the age of 40, contrasted with his age of zero at birth ) in his humorous poem Faithless Sally Brown:

If set up properly, sent mail can be saved to the server also, in contrast with POP mail, where sent messages exist only in the local MUA and are not visible by other MUAs accessing the same account.

The description of Herod Agrippa I as a cruel, heartless king who persecuted the Jerusalem church, having James son of Zebedee killed and imprisoning Peter, stands in stark contrast with Josephus ' account of a kindly man.

In contrast to a modular account, an interactive theory of sentence processing, such as a constraint-based lexical approach assumes that all available information contained within a sentence can be processed at any time.

In contrast, there are some historians and philosophers who do not agree with this account and describe this era in a completely different way.

In contrast, there are some historians and philosophers who do not agree with this account and describe this era in a completely different way.

Safari guides who are self-employed, working on their own account with their own marketing and clientele ( in contrast with those who work for an employer ) sometimes refer to themselves as " professional safari guides ".

Attitudes, orientations, or behaviors which take the interests, intentions, or needs of other people into account ( in contrast to anti-social behaviour ) has played some role in defining the idea or the principle.

By contrast, the sociologist Max Weber for example defines human action as " social " if, by virtue of the subjective meanings attached to the action by individuals, it " takes account of the behavior of others, and is thereby oriented in its course "..

" Noted classical historians like John Kinloch Anderson and George Cawkwell also accept Plutarch's Life of Pelopidas, which contains the most detailed account of the Sacred Band, as a highly reliable account of the events, in contrast to Xenophon's patchy treatment of Theban history.

In contrast, a risk averse investor would diversify among a variety of assets, taking account of their risk features, even though doing so would lower the expected return on the overall portfolio.

The gospel account of Jesus being invited to a wedding, attending, and using his divine power to save the celebrations from disaster are taken as evidence of his approval for marriage and earthly celebrations, in contrast to the more austere views of Saint Paul as found, for example, in 1 Corinthians 7.

In contrast, Windows NT-based operating systems offer only user-level access control but integrated with the operating system's own user account security mechanism.

This is in contrast to the account of Ibn Fadlan, whose views on hygiene ( based on Islamic teachings on cleanliness and Islamic medical knowledge ) contrasted with that of the Rus '.

* Luminance / contrast — Displays have adjustments in luminance and contrast to account for ambient lighting, which can vary widely ( e. g., from the glare of bright clouds to moonless night approaches to minimally lit fields ).

In contrast, the later rime tables gave a significantly more precise and systematic account of the sounds of these dictionaries by tabulating syllables by their onsets, rhyme groups, tones and other properties.

By contrast, the cursive developed out of the Nabataean alphabet in the same period soon became the standard for writing Arabic, evolving into the Arabic alphabet as it stood by the time of the early spread of Islam.

In contrast to small non-rigid blimps, giant rigid airships became the first aircraft to transport passengers and cargo over great distances.

Variety and contrast within a piece became more pronounced than before.

In North America those who continued to associate with Britain on the basis of the amended 1898 statement became known as the Amended Fellowship, in contrast to the Unamended Fellowship, who took their lead from the Christadelphian Advocate Magazine of Thomas Williams of Chicago.

By contrast, a person who had been acquitted of a lesser offence could not be tried for an aggravated form even if new evidence became available.

However, it remained poor and neglected, particularly in contrast with its western, French neighbor Saint-Domingue, which became the wealthiest colony in the New World and had half a million inhabitants.

In contrast to the Northern Italian language, southern Italian dialects and languages were largely untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy, mainly by bards from France, during the Middle Ages but, after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, Sicily became the first Italian land to adopt Occitan lyric moods ( and words ) in poetry.

Joachim Nestor, in contrast, became known as a pugnacious adherent of Roman Catholic orthodoxy who needed the sales of indulgences and the necessary intimidation of the believers in order to recover his expenditures.

In contrast, Stalin and allies proposed that alliances with capitalist political parties were essential to realising a revolution where Communists were too few ; said Stalinist practice failed, especially in the Northern Expedition portion of the Chinese Revolution ( 1925 – 1927 ), wherein it resulted in the right-wing Kuomintang ’ s massacre of the Chinese Communist Party ; nonetheless, despite the failure, Stalin ’ s policy of mixed-ideology political alliances, became Comintern policy.

In contrast, the second question turned out to be much more difficult, and the question became a famous open problem in formal language theory for over two decades.

Queen Victoria died in 1901 and her son Edward VII became king, inaugurating the Edwardian Era, which was characterised by great and ostentatious displays of wealth in contrast to the sombre Victorian Era.

In addition, humanitarian intervention by multinational forces became more frequent and the media began to play a big role, particularly in the lead up to the 1999 NATO mission in Yugoslavia, while by contrast, the 1994 Rwandan Genocide had little attention.

Arafat's organization never embraced the ideologies of the major Arab governments of the time, in contrast to other Palestinian factions, which often became satellites of nations such as Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria and others.

As this region was politically connected to the Rhenish Palatinate, the name Upper Palatinate () became common from the early 16th century in contrast to the Lower Palatinate along the Rhine.

Scorsese notes in his documentary that in contrast to directors who often become more restrained and more conservative stylistically as their careers advance, Rossellini became more and more unconventional and was constantly experimenting with new styles and technical challenges.

Garfield became a member of the Radical Republicans, led by Chase, in contrast with the moderate wing of the party, led by Lincoln and Montgomery Blair.

His friendship with Bartolini, whose worldly success in the intervening years stood in sharp contrast to Ingres's poverty, quickly became strained, and Ingres found new quarters.

Because of cultural and linguistic differences from other Comanche bands, they became the “( Yap ) Root-Eaters ”, in contrast to the Kʉhtsʉtʉhka (“ Buffalo-Eaters ”).

In the early 19th century, many Russian artists, officers and nobles were sent into exile in Siberia for their part in the Decembrist revolt against Tsar Nicholas I. Irkutsk became the major center of intellectual and social life for these exiles, and much of the city's cultural heritage comes from them ; many of their wooden houses, adorned with ornate, hand-carved decorations, survive today, in stark contrast with the standard Soviet apartment blocks that surround them.

In contrast to small non-rigid blimps, giant rigid airships became the first aircraft to transport passengers and cargo over great distances.

In 1976, Richard Schickel cited his performance in Pitfall ( 1948 ) as a prototype of film noir in contrast with the appealing television characters for which Burr later became famous.

In contrast, continuing the same journal thread, Leszek P. Słupecki argues that the Vanir remained distinct from the Æsir — except for Freyja and Freyr, whom he follows Snorri in seeing as having been born after Njörðr became a hostage among the Æsir, and thus regards as Æsic — and therefore that Ragnarök " no importance for their world ".

The team abbreviations became white or black in the team's main color ( depending on color contrast ), and the scores are now in white boxes.

David Langford cited Vance's " engaging speculation ", but concluded that the protagonist " seems too weak a character for his leading role ", while " the culture and landscape of Pao are grey and ill-defined, in strong contrast to the exotically colourful societies and ecologies which became Vance's trademark ".