According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

The author based part of his narrative on the story of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded on the island of Juan Fernandez.

Tatian combined the four gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John — into a single narrative.

If there is a grain of historical truth behind these legends, it may be that Suizei's bare narrative points to one of the chieftains of four clans of the Unebi region who disputed among themselves in the struggle to achieve hegemeony in the Yamato area.

The apologist and ascetic Tatian had previously harmonized the four gospels into a single narrative, the Diatesseron ( c 150-160 ).

Rather, he paraphrased them and rewrote them into one continuous narrative that covered four volumes, followed by two volumes of footnotes that give specific sources.

The Deuteronomist relies on earlier material that may date to the United Monarchy, so that the biblical narrative would be based on traditions that can be traced to about four centuries after the supposed lifetime of Moses.

Besides its epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kauravas and the Pandava princes, the Mahabharata contains much philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four " goals of life " or purusharthas ( 12. 161 ).

Although it offers many incidents from the lives of many prophets, the Qur ' an focuses with special narrative and rhetorical emphasis on the careers of the first four of these five Major Prophets.

His most ambitious book was the four volume narrative The Winning of the West, which connected the origin of a new " race " of Americans ( i. e. what he considered the present population of the United States to be ) to the frontier conditions their ancestors endured throughout the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries.

This hypothesis proposes four sources, J, E, P and D. Of these hypothetical sources, proponents suggest that this narrative comes from the J or " Yahwist source.

" The three week stay on which Typee is based takes place over the course of four months in the narrative.

John Belton identified four narrative elements of the war film within the context of Hollywood production: a ) the suspension of civilian morality during times of war, b ) primacy of collective goals over individual motivations, c ) rivalry between men in predominantly male groups as well as marginalization and objectification of women, and d ) depiction of the reintegration of veterans.

This is how Raphael himself, who was so rich in inventiveness, used to work, always coming up with four or six ways to show a narrative, each one different from the rest, and all of them full of grace and well done.

Excluding the criteria of medium, Aristotle's system distinguished four types of classical genres: tragedy ( superior-dramatic dialogue ), epic ( superior-mixed narrative ), comedy ( inferior-dramatic dialogue ), and parody ( inferior-mixed narrative ).

The fourth ( chapters 26 – 28 ) flashes back to the origins and growth of Milo's syndicate, with the fifth part ( chapter 28 – 32 ) returning again to the narrative " present " but keeping to the same tone of the previous four.

He quickly established a characteristic style, marked by slow, episodic and ambiguous narrative structures as well as long takes ( The Travelling Players, for example, consists of only 80 shots in about four hours of film ).

The narrative contains at least three and possibly four layers.

The Diaspora ( the long-departed segment of humanity ) have left behind a device ( the " Fearsome Engine " of the title ) to deal with the problem ; the book follows four characters who become involved in the attempt to activate it, with the narrative moving between the four ( who do not meet until very near the end ) in rotation.

Typically, each magazine consisted of several multi-page pictorials of tied-up women, often with a fictional narrative attached, and one fictional story of three or four pages in length.

In Vishnu Sarma's Panchatantra, an inter-woven series of colorful animal tales are told with one narrative opening within another, sometimes three or four layers deep, and then unexpectedly snapping shut in irregular rhythms to sustain attention.

Heimskringlas narrative adds that each of the districts of his kingdom wanted to claim his grave, and that it was agreed to divide his body into four pieces so each district could bury a piece of it, resulting in four different site called Halvdanshaugen ( from the Old Norse word haugr meaning mound ).

In order to fit all the canonical material in, Tatian created his own narrative sequence, which is different from both the synoptic sequence and John's sequence.

Unlike the canonical Gospels, it is not a narrative account of the life of Jesus ; instead, it consists of logia ( sayings ) attributed to Jesus, sometimes stand-alone, sometimes embedded in short dialogues or parables.

From the passion sequence that is preserved, it is clear that the gospel was a narrative gospel, but whether a complete narrative similar to the canonical gospels or simply a Passion cannot be said.

Justin's student Tatian ( c. 172 ), incorporated the " Longer Ending " into his Diatessaron, a blended narrative consisting of material from all four canonical Gospels.

The presentation in the fourth canonical gospel, i. e. John, differs from these three in that it has more of a thematic nature rather than a narrative format.

Of the thirty or so parables in the canonical Gospels, it was one of the four that were shown in medieval art almost to the exclusion of the others, but not mixed in with the narrative scenes of the Life of Christ ( the others were the Wise and Foolish Virgins, Dives and Lazarus, and the Good Samaritan.

St. Augustine thought it needful to point out that the narrative was not canonical Scripture, and contended that the child had perhaps been baptized.

Because there is little narrative continuity between the games, there are no canonical endings, except those of Silent Hill: Origins and the original Silent Hill ( due to each having sequels which corroborate one specific ending ).

The golden calf narrative differs notably among non-Masoretic, non canonical texts.

Among the mix of aphorisms, parables, brief polemics, narrative dialogue, biblical exegesis ( especially of Genesis ), and dogmatic propositions, Wesley T. Isenberg, the editor and translator of the text, has enumerated seventeen sayings ( logia ) attributed to Jesus, nine of which are citations and interpretations of Jesus ' words already found in the canonical gospels The new sayings, " identified by the formula introducing them (' he said ', ' the Lord said ', or ' the Saviour said ') are brief and enigmatic and are best interpreted from a gnostic perspective ," Isenberg has written in his Introduction to the text ( see link ).

The four canonical gospels of the New Testament are the primary sources of information for the narrative of the life of Jesus.

The Last Supper has been depicted by many artistic masters. The description of the last week of the life of Jesus ( often called the Passion week ) occupies about one third of the narrative in the canonical gospels.

Unlike the four canonical gospels, which employ narrative accounts of the last year of life of Jesus ( in the case of John, three years ) and of his birth ( in the case of Luke and Matthew ), the Judas gospel takes the form of dialogues between Jesus and Judas, and Jesus and the twelve disciples, without being embedded in any narrative or worked into any overt philosophical or rhetorical context.

Such " dialogue gospels " were popular during the early decades of Christianity, and indeed the four canonical gospels are the only surviving gospels in narrative form.

It begins by portraying Judah as idealistically courageous, involving bravery in front of wild beasts, as well as successful military expeditions, sometimes basing the narrative on acts that the canonical bible attributes to Jacob.

This category is a subcategory of: Category: New Testament narrative and categorizes events described in the four canonical Gospels.

Most commentators seem to agree that Matthew, alone among the gospels, alternates five blocks of narrative with five of discourse, marking each off with the phrase " When Jesus had finished ..." ( see Five Discourses of Matthew ).

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 ".

To date it is one of four early non-canonical narrative gospels, which exist only in fragmentary form: this Gospel of Peter, the Egerton Gospel, and the two very fragmentary Oxyrhynchus Gospels ( P. Oxy.

One explanation ( that goes back to Eusebius of Caesarea in the fourth century ) is that John wrote his gospel not to overlap with the synoptic gospels, but to supplement it, and hence did not include all of their narrative.

Peter Schäfer states that there can be no doubt that the narrative of the execution of Jesus in the Talmud refers to Jesus of Nazareth, but states that the rabbinic literature in question are not Tannaitic but from a later Amoraic period and may have drawn on the Christian gospels, and may have been written as responses to them.

However, the trend among the 21st century scholars has been to accept that while the gnostic gospels may shed light on the progression of early Christian beliefs, they offer very little to contribute to the study of the historicity of Jesus, in that they are rather late writings, usually consisting of sayings ( rather than narrative ), their authenticity and authorship remain questionable, and various parts of them rely on components of the New Testament.

More abstractly, some aspects of the narrative appear in the crucifixion story of Jesus found in the gospels.

* Rudman, Dominic, " The crucifixion as Chaoskampf: A new reading of the passion narrative in the synoptic gospels = La crucifixion comme Chaoskampf: une nouvelle lecture du récit de la Passion dans les évangiles synoptiques ", Biblica 84, 2003, 102-107.

:* Journey to Jerusalem: After the death of the Baptist, about half way through the gospels ( approximately Matthew 17 and Mark 9 ) two key events take place that change the nature of the narrative by beginning the gradual revelation of his identity to his disciples: his proclamation as Christ by Peter and his transfiguration.

The role of the angels presented in the Gospel of John during the resurrection narrative is far less than in the synoptic gospels, with John placing much of the weight on the following encounter between Mary and a resurrected Jesus.

The study of Jesus Christ in comparative mythology is the examination of the narrative of the life of Jesus in the Christian gospels, traditions and theology, as it relates to Christian mythology and other religions.