Reading the Old Testament would have shown the dramatist that the ideas attributed to Shylock were abhorrent to the Jews.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New Testament.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

Here, for the most part, they were well treated, as a `` reminder of the Old Testament heritage of Christianity '' ; ;

The grounds for the Church's position are Scriptural ( Old Testament ), the teachings of the fathers and doctors of the early Church, the unbroken tradition of nineteen centuries, the decisions of the highest ecclesiastical authority and the natural law.

`` The scriptures, both Old and New Testament, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct ''.

I now ever look for Christ according to His promises and those of the Old Testament as well, to appear again in glory to put away all sin and to reign in righteousness over the whole earth.

Then he thought of those Old Testament figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

" The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written ; it has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

Corporate election draws support from a similar concept of corporate election found in the Old Testament and Jewish law.

He applied this knowledge as preacher, concentrating especially on exegesis of the Old Testament, and his rhetorical abilities impressed Augustine of Hippo, who hitherto had thought poorly of Christian preachers.

* Homiletic commentaries on the Old Testament: the Hexaemeron ( Six Days of Creation ); De Helia et ieiunio ( On Elijah and Fasting ); De Iacob et vita beata ( On Jacob and the Happy Life ); De Abraham ; De Cain et Abel ; De Ioseph ( Joseph ); De Isaac vel anima ( On Isaac, or The Soul ); De Noe ( Noah ); De interpellatione Iob et David ( On the Prayer of Job and David ); De patriarchis ( On the Patriarchs ); De Tobia ( Tobit ); Explanatio psalmorum ( Explanation of the Psalms ); Explanatio symboli ( Commentary on the Symbol ).

But the Septuagint ( the Greek translation of the Old Testament ) adds that " pigs " also licked his blood.

Ammon (; ), also referred to as the Ammonites and children of Ammon, was an ancient nation described in the Old Testament to be located east of the Jordan River, Gilead, and the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan .< ref >

Commentary on the Old Testament in Ten Volumes.

Old Testament Survey: the Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament.

* Aquila of Sinope, second-century translator of the Old Testament

See also Old Testament Law directed at non-Jews and Leviticus 18.

In the Old Testament the name Abijah was borne by several characters:

The absence of instrumental music in New Testament worship is significant given the abundance of Old Testament references and commands.

This title, and her other book ; The Ashes of Old Wishes And Other Darby O ' Gill Tales were the original source for this movie.

: Old Darby, with Joan by his side

In addition to the above, they were: " Nancy Lee "; " The Midshipmite "; " Polly "; " They all love Jack "; " Jack ’ s Yarn "; " The Old Brigade "; " The Deathless Army "; " To the Front "; " John Bull "; " Darby and Joan "; " When We are Old and Grey "; " Auntie "; " The Chimney Corner "; " The Children ’ s Home "; " The Old Maids of Lee "; " The Men of Ware "; " The Devoted Apple "; " To-morrow will be Friday "; " Douglas Gordon "; " Sleeping Tide "; " The Star of Bethlehem "; " Beauty ’ s Eyes "; " In Sweet September "; " Bid me Good-bye "; " The Last Watch "; " London Bridge "; " The King ’ s Highway "; " Go to Sea "; " Veteran ’ s Song "; " Up from Somerset "; " Beyond the Dawn "; " Nirvana "; " Mifanwy "

) Patrick H. Darby, an Old Court partisan, claimed that in 1824, he had a chance encounter with the man he now knew as Beauchamp.

The complete Darby Bible, including Darby's 3rd edition New Testament and his students ' Old Testament, was first published in 1890.

Julius von Poseck supplied the German language skills for the NT work, but when he moved to 2 Algernon Road, Lewisham, London ( SE13 ) the Old Testament translation was made by J N Darby, Carl Brockhaus and a Dutch Hebraist, Hermanus Cornelis Voorhoeve ( 1837 – 1901 ).

Other releases included a series of white label breakbeat EPs under the name of Old Skool Flava, nominally produced by Darby and " H " Warren, label manager of Global Communication's now defunct Universal Language Productions imprint.

Mor may derive from an Indo-European root connoting terror or monstrousness, cognate with the Old English maere ( which survives in the modern English word " nightmare ") and the Scandinavian mara and the Old Russian " mara " (" nightmare "); while rígan translates as ' queen '.

He also translates difficult Hebrew or Aramaic words into the spoken French language of his day, giving latter-day scholars a window into the vocabulary and pronunciation of Old French.

The word rigg means " ridge " in the Old Norse language, thus Peatrig Hill translates as " peat ridge hill ".

The name " Durham " comes from the Old English " dun ", meaning hill, and the Old Norse " holme ", which translates to island.

The name roughly translates as " Sea of Islands ", referring to more than 1, 534 islands that once dotted its waters ; in Old Turkic " aral " is island and thicket.

In Old English, ' merhull ' translates according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names as ' boundary hill '.

The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, a Bible translation used primarily by Jehovah's Witnesses, features the word " Jah " for all 26 occurrences of the shortened name in the Hebrew-Aramaic Scriptures ( Old Testament ), and translates ' Hallelujah ' as ' Praise Jah, you people ' in all 24 occurrences of that expression in the Hebrew Scriptures as well as its 4 occurrences in the Christian Greek Scriptures.

A twofold origin of the Greek term has been proposed: either that it was a humorous reference to the heavily armored cataphracts as men encased in armor who would heat up very quickly much like in an oven ; or that it was further derived from the Old Persian word * griwbanar ( or * Grivpanvar ), itself composed of the Iranian roots griva-pana-bara, which translates into " neck-guard wearer ".

She often translates for Old Goat.

The name Bradfield translates from the Old English language as “ Broad stretch of open countryside ” and the area around the village is predominately grazing land with dairy and sheep farming dominating.

It translates as " Ash-tree of St Patrick ", and is composed of the elements askr ( Old Scandinavian for " ash-tree ") and the Celtic saint's name.

Greenland's national anthem is " Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit ", which translates as Our Country, Who's Become So Old.

This version survives until Tolkien's time, and he translates the Red Book from the original languages into English and other representative languages or lects ( e. g. Old English for Rohirric ).

The original etymology of this name is thought to have its roots in the ancient Zoroastrianism, namely, in Avestan Frawardin Yasht (" Hymn to the Guardian Angels "), there is a mentioning of: âterepâtahe ashaonô fravashîm ýazamaide, which literally translates from Old Persian as " we worship the Fravashi of the holy Atare-pata ".

, the title of the Super Famicom remake of the first two MegaTen games, translates to " Old Testament Reincarnation of the Goddess ".

The names come from Örfirisey which translates from Old Norse as " tidal " or " ebb island ".

The name Horbury is derived from Old English " horu " and " burh " which translates as ' filthy fortification ' or stronghold on muddy land.

The Aiel moral code is called ji ' e ' toh, an Old Tongue word which roughly translates to " honor and duty " or " honor and obligation ;" it codifies the Aiel responses to honor and shame ( which is essentially synonymous with obligation ).

The Old Norse name Tanngrisnir translates to " teeth-barer, snarler " and Tanngnjóstr to " teeth-grinder ".

The name " Gammel Dansk " translates directly from Danish as " Old Danish ".

In Hungarian, he is often referred to affectionately as " Bem apó ", which roughly translates into " Grandpa Bem " or " Old man Bem ".

A church dedicated to St Mary is recorded in the Domesday Survey, although the only surviving evidence from this period is a small carving of an angel with a scroll, preserved in the Cathedral nave ; the Old English inscription on the stone translates as " into thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit ".

Kirkby-in-Ashfield, or Kirkby as it is locally known, was originally a Danish settlement ( Kirk-by translates as ' Church Town ' in Danish ) and is a collection of small villages including Old Kirkby, The Folly ( East Kirkby ), Nuncargate and Kirkby Woodhouse.