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The theme, which purports to be autobiographical, is that of rejected love.
Fitzmyer states that by looking at the prefaces of Luke and Acts together it can be seen “ that Luke-Acts purports to be basically ‘ a work of edification ’.”
It is also applied contemptuously to a conception or hypothesis which purports to be a simple solution of apparently insoluble phenomena.
EPR tried to set up a paradox to question the range of true application of Quantum Mechanics: Quantum theory predicts that both values cannot be known for a particle, and yet the EPR thought experiment purports to show that they must all have determinate values.
The 2008 film Cloverfield purports to be video footage shot by witnesses of a monster attacking New York City, and recovered by the US Army as evidence.
* Voltaire's novel Candide purports to be assembled from the notes of a deceased " Monsieur le docteur Ralph ", likely because the novel pokes fun at most of the powers of Europe at the time.
* The King in Yellow appearing in the book of the same name by Robert W. Chambers purports to be an actual play that is capable of driving the reader insane.
* The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova purports to be a book by the main character, and further contains a number of other letters, books, and maps relating to Dracula and the main character's friends and family.
* Either / Or, an influential philosophical text by Søren Kierkegaard, purports to be a collection of texts discovered and edited by Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author Victor Eremita.
* The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades, by Zoologist Gerolf Steiner, purports to be a non-fictional natural history study, and was written, published, and presented as if it were an actual scientific treatise documenting the recently-extinct indigenous wildlife (" Rhinogradentia ") of the equally fictitious Hi-yi-yi archipelago.
Through analysis of this and other of Hayek's works, Block purports, " in making the case against socialism, Hayek was led into making all sort of compromises with what otherwise appeared to be his own philosophical perspective – so much so, that if a system was erected on the basis of them, it would not differ too sharply from what this author explicitly opposed.
" Written by Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda, the Galactopedia purports to be based on Galaxy Quest encyclopedias, technical manuals, and other imaginary books.
* " Professor Behe admitted in " Reply to My Critics " that there was a defect in his view of irreducible complexity because, while it purports to be a challenge to natural selection, it does not actually address " the task facing natural selection.
391 ), probably based on an earlier work, although it purports to be derived from the oral communications of the aged ascetic Malchus originally made to him in the desert of Chalcis ;
The following purports to be a summary of the original article that is somewhat more complete than the one quoted above:
Like Ideal Observer Theory, Divine Command Theory purports to be universalist despite its subjectivism.
It purports to be an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer.
The Prophecy of Berchán, a verse history which purports to be a prophecy, describes him as " the generous king of Fortriu ", and says:
Although 2 Peter internally purports to be a work of the apostle, most biblical scholars have concluded that Peter is not the author and consider the epistle pseudepigraphical.
Some, like Louis Jacobs, argue that the main body of the Gemara is not simple reportage of conversations, as it purports to be, but a highly elaborate structure contrived by the Saboraim, who must therefore be regarded as the real authors.
2000 AD purports to be edited by an alien called Tharg.

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' A short letter of the engagement to King James was later produced which purports to be from Graham but is now believed to be spurious.
The oldest documentable source for the text is the Kitab Sirr al-Asrar, a compendium of advice for rulers in Arabic which purports to be a letter from Aristotle to Alexander the Great.
The letter purports to be a verbatim account of a short speech given by a slave owner, in which he tells other slave masters that he has discovered the " secret " to controlling black slaves by setting them against one another.
After she walks out, Don reads the letter ; it purports to be from an unnamed former girlfriend, informing him that he has a son who is nearly 19 years old, and who may be looking for him.
The Letter of Jeremiah, also known as the Epistle of Jeremy, is a deuterocanonical book of the Old Testament ; this letter purports to have been written by Jeremiah to the Jews who were about to be carried away as captives to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar.

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His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.
Here alone is preserved a summary of the writings of the Phoenician priest Sanchuniathon of which the accuracy has been shown by the mythological accounts found on the Ugaritic tables, here alone is the account from Diodorus Siculus's sixth book of Euhemerus ' wondrous voyage to the island of Panchaea where Euhemerus purports to have found his true history of the gods, and here almost alone is preserved writings of the neo-Platonist philosopher Atticus along with so much else.
In Book III Irenaeus purports to show that these doctrines are false, by providing counter-evidence gleaned from the Gospels.
Operators who follow one of these procedures acting in good faith to a request for parental access are protected from liability under federal and state law for inadvertent disclosures of a child's information to someone who purports to be a parent.
It purports to contain " all the history you can remember ", and, in fifty-two chapters, covers the history of England from Roman times through 1066 " and all that ", up to the end of World War I, at which time " America was thus clearly Top Nation, and history came to a.
* The first text a browsing reader is liable to see purports to be a salacious sample from the book, but the episode never happens in the main text, nor does anything else of that tone: the book has no explicit sexual content.
It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day and purports to cover the entire field of ancient knowledge, based on the best authorities available to Pliny.
Discovered by Louis Thoen on the slopes of Lookout Mountain, the stone purports to be the last testament of Ezra Kind who, along with six others, entered the Black Hills in 1833 ( at a time when whites were forbidden by law and treaty from entering the area ), " got all the gold we could carry " in June 1834, and were subsequently " killed by Indians beyond the high hill.
Marianus wrote a Chronicon, which purports to be a universal history from the creation of the world to 1082.
The Janus quadrifrons or quadriformis, brought according to tradition from Falerii in 241 BC and installed by Domitian in the Forum Transitorium, seems to be connected to the same theological complex, as its image purports an ability to rule over every direction, element and time of the year: however it did not give rise to a new epithet.
The document purports to be from 1954, yet the typeface in question was first designed in 1957 by the Swiss graphic designer, Max Miedinger.
Black propaganda is false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side.
Black propaganda purports to emanate from a source other than the true source.
The story purports to be a disjointed, discontinuous narrative, from Billy Pilgrim's point of view, of being unstuck in time.
* Fanny, Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones ( 1980 ) ( a retelling of ' Fanny Hill ' by Erica Jong purports to tell the story from Fanny's point of view, with Cleland as a character she complains fictionalized her life ).
" Justice Blackmun, joined by Justices Brennan, Marshall, and Stevens, dissented, citing that " his case is no more about a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy ," as the Court purports to declare, ante at 191, that Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U. S. 557 ( 1969 ), was about a fundamental right to watch obscene movies, or Katz v. United States, 389 U. S. 347 ( 1967 ), was about a fundamental right to place interstate bets from a telephone booth.
In particular, the Prophecy of Neferty dates to about this time, which purports to be an oracle of an Old Kingdom priest, who predicts a king, Amenemhet I, arising from the far south of Egypt to restore the kingdom after centuries of chaos.
Another is included by the Catalan troubadour Guiraut de Cabrera in his humorous poem Ensenhamen, better known from its first words as " Cabra juglar ": this is addressed to a juglar ( jongleur ) and purports to instruct him on the poems he ought to know but doesn't.
Europe Square in the center purports to represent buildings from all parts of Europe.

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