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.

At the center of the area they discover the Nameless City ( the setting of the Lovecraft story of the same name ) and in Derleth's text the domain of the Great Old One Hastur.

The Old Testament story of Judith illustrates how a woman frees the Israelites by tricking and assassinating Holofernes, a warlord of the rival Assyrians, with whom the Israelites were at war.

The mountain was the setting for a children's story, The Old Man of Lochnagar, told originally by Prince Charles to his younger brothers, Andrew and Edward, and published in 1980 with royalties accruing to The Prince's Trust.

The story ends on a cliffhanger with several questions left unanswered regarding the merging of the Honored Matres and Bene Gesserit, the fates of those on the escaped no-ship ( including the role of Scytale, the development of Idaho and Teg, and the role of the Jews ), the identity of the god-like characters in the book's final chapter and the ultimate mystery of what chased the Honored Matres back into the Old Empire.

Smith's works consist of: a single novel, originally published in two volumes in edited form as The Planet Buyer, also known as The Boy Who Bought Old Earth ( 1964 ) and The Underpeople ( 1968 ), and later restored to its original form as Norstrilia ( 1975 ); and 32 short stories ( collected in The Rediscovery of Man ( 1993 ), including two versions of the short story " War No. 81-Q ").

For instance, the name " Lord Sto Odin " in the story " Under Old Earth " is derived from the Russian words for " One hundred and one ", сто один.

One such epic is the Old English story Beowulf.

** Waldere, Old English version of the story told in Waltharius ( below ), known only as a brief fragment

The foundation of Elbing was perhaps not the end of the Old Prussian story in the region.

The story of Æthelred's notorious nickname, " Æthelred the Unready ", from Old English Æþelræd Unræd, goes a long way toward explaining how his reputation has declined through history.

Payback at Morning Peak ( 2011 ) is his first solo effort, a story of love and revenge set in the Old West.

One enduring legacy of Gone with the Wind is that people worldwide would think it was the " true story " of the Old South and how it was changed by the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

" In the story, a devil is hiding within a pagan idol, and bound by Bartholomew's spiritual powers to acknowledge himself and confess, the devil refers to Jesus as the one which " made war on Hel our queen " ( Old Norse heriaði a Hel drottning vara ).

Justin Martyr, in the early 2nd century, mentions the " memoirs of the apostles ", which Christians called " gospels " and which were regarded as on par with the Old Testament, which was written in narrative form where " in the biblical story God is the protagonist, Satan ( or evil people / powers ) are the antagonists, and God ’ s people are the agonists ".

The many similarities between the accounts of the birth of John and that of Samuel in the Old Testament have led scholars to suggest that the Gospel of Luke story of the birth of John, and of the annunciation and birth of Jesus, are modeled on that of Samuel.

* Boy's Life includes a continuing strip story " Old Timer Tales of Kit Carson " from March 1951 to May 1953.

Jack Holland also sees evidence of misogyny in the Old Testament story of the Fall of Man from the Book of Genesis.

Perhaps the most enduring legacy of Mitchell's Gone with the Wind is that people worldwide would think it was the " true story " of the Old South and how it was changed by the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

Due to the fragmentary nature of these Old Babylonian versions, it is unclear whether they included an expanded account of the flood myth ; although one fragment definitely includes the story of Gilgamesh ’ s journey to meet Utnapishtim.

The Old English poem Widsith ( 9th century ) refers briefly to his victorious single combat, a story which is related at length by the 12th-century Danish historians Saxo and Svend Aggesen.

The castle was first featured in the Carl Barks story The Old Castle's Secret in Donald Duck Four Color # 189.

Sir Eider McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.