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Biblical and story
Indeed, a tremendously destructive tsunami that arose in the Arabian Sea in 1945 has even revived the interest of geologists and archaeologists in the Biblical story of the Flood.
On 14 April 2008, in a UK Channel 4 documentary, Tudor Parfitt, taking a literalist approach to the Biblical story, described his research into this claim.
As examples of Biblical myths, Every cites the creation account in Genesis 1 and 2 and the story of Eve's temptation.
In the 9th or 10th century, Yehuda Ibn Quraysh compared the phonology and morphology of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic, but attributed this resemblance to the Biblical story of Babel, with Abraham, Isaac and Joseph retaining Adam's language, with other languages at various removes becoming more altered from the original Hebrew.
In particular, his treatment of the Biblical gospels which he titled The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, but which subsequently became more commonly known as the Jefferson Bible, exhibits a strong deist tendency of stripping away all supernatural and dogmatic references from the Christ story.
* 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.
The subsequent tale, with similarities to the Biblical story of the forbidden fruit, repeats the story of how fresh water brings life to a barren land.
The Biblical story of Jonah is also repeated, with minor differences, in the Qur ' an.
* Kings ( U. S. TV series ), a 2009 series loosely based on the Biblical story of King David
The image is further connected to the Biblical, post-Edenic stories in that a mythological story attributes the violent children of Ham becoming the Tartars, and that Tartarus, derived from the location, became a synonym for hell.
Based on dispensationalist interpretation of prophecies in the Biblical books of Revelation, Daniel, Isaiah and Ezekiel, Left Behind tells the story of the end times, in which true believers in Christ have been " raptured ", ( i. e. taken instantly to heaven ) leaving the world shattered and chaotic.
The Biblical account is followed by the story of the Curse of Ham.
Many scholars believe that Noah and the Biblical Flood story are derived from the Mesopotamian version, predominantly because Biblical mythology that is today found in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mandeanism shares overlapping consistency with far older written ancient Mesopotamian story of The Great Flood, and that the early Hebrews were known to have lived in Mesopotamia.
There are documented rare cases of the return to life of the clinically dead which are classified scientifically as examples of the Lazarus syndrome, a term originating from the Biblical story of the Resurrection of Lazarus.
The Biblical Book of Joshua contains the story of the miraculous Battle of Jericho.
These titles refer to a legendary story, according to which seventy or seventy-two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus to translate the Torah from Biblical Hebrew into Greek, for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria.
The story follows the basic Biblical plot.
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 ".
One of the characters, a Christian cleric, makes comparisons between Bluetooth and the Biblical story of King David and his son Absalom.
During the war, he worked on his last novel, The Struggle with the Angel, the title drawn from the story of the Biblical Jacob.

Biblical and Garden
The Biblical Garden of Eden
The Biblical Garden of Eden as depicted in Genesis 2 ( Authorized Version of 1611 ):
Queen Jadis resembles the Biblical Satan, as Aslan describes her as the first evil brought into the Narnia and Jadis later tempts Digory to eat one of the forbidden apples in the garden, as does Satan, disguised as a serpent, tempt Adam and Eve into eating a forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.
In the Genesis story of the Torah and Biblical Old Testament, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is situated in the Garden of Eden together with the tree of life and the Serpent.
Although it mostly died out 1600 to 1700 years ago, Mesopotamian religion has still had an influence on the modern world, predominantly because Biblical mythology that is today found in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mandeanism shares some overlapping consistency with ancient Mesopotamian myths, in particular the Creation Myth, the Garden of Eden, The Great Flood, Tower of Babel and figures such as Nimrod and Lilith ( the Assyrian Lilitu ).
In Mesopotamian mythology Ningishzida, a prototype of the Biblical serpent in the Garden of Eden, is sometimes depicted as a serpent with horns.
Mormon settlers moved further north into Daviess County, particularly at Adam-ondi-Ahman after Smith proclaimed that it was the Biblical place where Adam and Eve were banished after leaving the Garden of Eden.
Wanting to establish a " Second Garden of Eden " in this part of the Santa Clara River Valley, Cook specified, tradition says, that the acreage be planted with fruits identified with the Biblical garden — apricots, dates, figs, grapes, olives and pomegranates.
* Garden of Eden, a Biblical place
A widely reported claim was once made by Elvy E. Callaway that the site of the Biblical Garden of Eden lay in northern Liberty County.
The movement often requires observance of universal commandments, such as Biblical Sabbath as given to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the Hebrew calendar to define years, seasons, weeks, and days.
* Taylor, Joan E., " The Garden of Gethsemane ," Biblical Archaeology Review 21 / 4 ( July / August 1995 ) 26-35: www. bib-arch. org / online-exclusives / Easter-03. asp
* Samuel Hartlib at The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, and the Temple: Biblical metaphors of knowledge in early modern Europe.
He repeats the old error of assuming that the Senegal river and the ( actual ) Niger river are connected to each other, forming one great east-west river, and relates the legend that it was believed to be a tributary of the great Biblical river of Gihon ( Gion ) that flowed from the Garden of Eden across the lands of Aethiopia.
After Smith proclaimed that Independence was the location of the Biblical Garden of Eden and the City of Zion should be located there, settlers in the area feared that they would lose political control of the county to the growing numbers of immigrating Mormons.
The group quickly shows a disrespect for authority and demands to be taken to a planet they call " Eden " ( a reference to the Biblical Garden of Eden ).
Among the treasures in the Firkovich collection is a manuscript of the Garden of Metaphors, an aesthetic appreciation of Biblical literature written in Judeao-Arabic by one of the greatest of the Sephardi poets, Moses ibn Ezra.
* The Curse, an informal term for the Biblical expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden due to their original sin, and the consequent The Fall of Man
It has been reported that General Charles George Gordon of Khartoum ( 1833-1885 ) was convinced that Vallée de Mai was the Biblical " Garden of Eden ".

Biblical and Eden
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.
:“ Eden, Colorado, is named after a railroad official and not the Biblical paradise.
The delicately blue and gold painted central dome depicts the Biblical story of creation of the world and man's expulsion from Eden.

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