Biblical scholars suspect that the Elohist account offers both matrilinial and patrilinial descent from Levites in order to magnify the religious credentials of Moses.

Rav also devoted much attention to mystical and transcendental speculations which the rabbis connect with the Biblical account of creation ( Genesis 1, Ma ' aseh Bereshit ), the vision of the mysterious chariot of God ( Ezekiel 1, Ma ' aseh Merkabah ), and the Divine Name.

In the Biblical account, unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan.

As examples of Biblical myths, Every cites the creation account in Genesis 1 and 2 and the story of Eve's temptation.

* In the 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival, The Backyard Bard toured a Biblical Storytelling production of ' Esther ', featuring four women storytellers telling the story word-for-word from the Biblical account.

Although not attested in the Biblical account of the Partriarch's life, it became an important aspect of Abraham's character in later Jewish tradition.

Luce, in Sense without Matter ( 1954 ), attempts to bring Berkeley up to date by modernising his vocabulary and putting the issues he faced in modern terms, and treats the Biblical account of matter and the psychology of perception and nature.

Biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan differentiates between Josephus's account of John and Jesus like this: " John had a monopoly, but Jesus had a franchise.

It concludes that the closest parallels with Isaiah's description of the king of Babylon as a fallen morning star cast down from heaven are to be found not in any lost Canaanite and other myths but in traditional ideas of the Jewish people themselves, echoed in the Biblical account of the fall of Adam and Eve, cast out of God's presence for wishing to be as God, and the picture in of the " gods " and " sons of the Most High " destined to die and fall.

However, in addition to accepting the Biblical account of Moses, Mormons include Selections from the Book of Moses as part of their scriptural canon.

Biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger notes that in one account of the Osirian cycle he dies on the 17th of the month of Athyr ( approximating to a month between October 28 and November 26 in modern calendars ), is revivified on the 19th and compares this to Christ rising on the " third day " but he thinks " resurrection " is a questionable description.

In the Biblical account these women did not meet with opposition for the relatively public presence they had.

As shabath ( rest ), Sabbath was first described in the Biblical account of the seventh day of Creation ().

The well-known Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem in the 8th century BC came to an end when the Israelites bought them off with gifts and tribute, according to the Assyrian account, or when the Assyrian camp was struck by mass death, according to the Biblical account.

In the Biblical account, however, Cuthah was just one of several cities from which people were brought to Samaria, and the Samaritans were later called " Cutheans " to spite them, with the added assertion that the men of Kuth made Nergal their god.

However, the following account of the Assyrian kings, which was among the archaeological discoveries in Babylon, differs from the Samaritan and Jewish Biblical accounts:

An Ethiopian account ( Kebra Nagast ) maintains that the Queen of Sheba had sexual relations with King Solomon ( of which the Biblical and Quranic accounts give no hint ) and gave birth by the Mai Bella stream in the province of Hamasien, Eritrea.

His description of the story of the Virgin Birth demystifies Biblical language and suggests that Mary was just another unfortunate fallen woman: it is " an account of a young woman engaged to be married, and while under this engagement she is, to speak plain language, debauched by a ghost ".

A parallel has been drawn between these activities and the human condition according to the Biblical account of the expulsion from the garden of Eden.

There it generated considerable interest, because at a time when most people in England still believed in the Biblical account of creation, which implied that the Earth was only a few thousand years old, it raised questions about the history of living things and of the Earth itself.

In contrast to the Biblical account, it became clear by the 1920s that the idea of an Israelite conquest of Canaan-the story of the book of Joshua-was not supported by the archaeological record.

While this precise terminology —" by faith alone "— does not appear in English Bible translations other than in where it has been claimed that the author seems to reject the notion that a person is justified by God solely on account of faith, other Catholic authorities also used " alone " in their translation of Romans 3: 28 or exegesis of salvation by faith passages, and it is claimed to summarize the teaching of the New Testament, and especially the Pauline epistles such as, which systematically reject the proposition that justification before God is obtained due to the merit of one's obedience to the Law of Moses ( see also Biblical law in Christianity ), or Abraham's circumcision and works.

Much criticism has been leveled at this rather forced analogy, but what is equally significant is Adams' complete acceptance of the Biblical record as `` good and trustworthy history ''.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.

The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

* Throughout Robertson Davies's The Manticore a comparison is repeatedly made between the protagonist's problematic relations with his father and those of between the Biblical Absalom and King David.

Nichola Everitt argues that much moral guidance is unattainable, such as the Biblical command to be Christ-like.

This is because there are three different families of Biblical texts, Byzantine, Western, or Alexandrian.

The great majority of Biblical manuscripts support the Byzantine family, from which a single reading for the New Testament is established.

Abijah ( אביה ' aḆiYaH ) or Abiah or Abia, modern Hebrew Aviya, is a Biblical unisex name that means " my Father is Yahweh ".

The prose version has survived, but the Life is very much a hagiography: many of the stories it contains have obvious Biblical parallels, making them suspect as a historical record.

The Biblical Ark of the Covenant is approximately 52. 5 inches long, 31. 5 inches wide, and 31. 5 inches high in the shape of a rectangular chest.

Furthermore, they claim that in the Bible there's no evidence showing that the office must be conveyed by laying on of hands and no Biblical command that it must be by a special class of bishops ( the laying on of hands is repeatedly used to give a commission to some person in scripture.

The chief Biblical text concerning the rite is: " Is any among you sick?

It is one of the Biblical names taken up after the advent of Zionism and which are not attested in earlier Jewish society.

The disputed books, included in one canon but not in others, are often called the Biblical apocrypha, a term that is sometimes used specifically ( and possibly pejoratively in English ) to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canons that are absent from the Jewish Masoretic Text ( also called the Tanakh or Miqra ) and most modern Protestant Bibles.

His Latin is generally clear, but his Biblical commentaries are more technical.

Biblical scholars believe Bethlehem, located in the " hill country " of Judah, may be the same as the Biblical Ephrath, which means " fertile ", as there is a reference to it in the Book of Micah as Bethlehem Ephratah.

Biblical tradition holds that Bethlehem is the birthplace of David, the second king of Israel, and the place where he was anointed king by Samuel.

Benjamin is treated as a young child in most of the Biblical narrative, but at one point is abruptly described as the father of ten sons.

The book is written in a complex and poetic Hebrew ( apart from verse 10: 11, curiously written in Biblical Aramaic ).