Then followed a period in which he wrote reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Commonweal, Commentary, had a small piece in Partisan Review, and moved on to Hudson, The Village Voice, and Exodus.

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

One might add to this list Alfred's translation, in his law code, of excerpts from the Vulgate Book of Exodus.

In the Book of Exodus, Amram () Arabic عمران Imran, is the father of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam and the husband of Jochebed.

Aron Habrit ), also known as the Ark of the Testimony, is a chest described in Book of Exodus as containing the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed and pieces of manna.

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

According to the Book of Exodus, the Ark was built at the command of God, in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

According to the Book of Exodus, God instructed Moses on Mount Sinai during his 40-day stay upon the mountain within the thick cloud and darkness where God was ( Ex.

The Book of Exodus gives detailed instructions on how the Ark is to be constructed.

The Ark is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, and then numerous times in Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, I Chronicles, II Chronicles, Psalms and Jeremiah.

The Book of Exodus or, simply, Exodus ( from Greek ἔξοδος, Exodos, meaning " going out ";, Šemot, " Names "), is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, and of the five books of the Torah ( the Pentateuch ).

These influences serve to reinforce the conclusion that the Book of Exodus originated in the exiled Jewish community of 6th-century Babylon, but not all the sources are Mesopotamian: the story of Moses's flight to Midian following the murder of the Egyptian overseer may draw on the Egyptian Tale of Sinuhe.

* Film adaptations of the Book of Exodus

The Mekhilta essentially functions as a commentary on the Book of Exodus.

References in the Talmud, and in the later Geonic literature, indicate that the original core of Sifre was on the Book of Numbers, Exodus and Deuteronomy.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Children of Israel, were increasing in number and the Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they might help Egypt's enemies.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was a son of Amram, a member of the Levite tribe of Israel descended from Jacob, and his wife, Jochebed.

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In the Book of Exodus, Moses was instructed to remove his shoes before approaching the burning bush:

In the Book of Exodus Israel as a people is called " God's son ", using the singular form.

" By this definition, civil disobedience could be traced back to the Book of Exodus, where Shiphrah and Puah refused a direct order of Pharaoh but misrepresented how they did it.

As she led more individuals out of slavery, she was named " Moses " by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, an allusion to the prophet in the Book of Exodus who led the Hebrews to freedom from Egypt.

This argument, made in Jules Feiffer's series of articles published in The Great Comic Book Heroes, is famously cited in a climactic scene of Kill Bill Vol.

The predecessor of Ralph the Staller owned most of both Skirbeck and Drayton, so it was a relatively simple task to transfer his business from Drayton, but Domesday Book of 1086, still records his source of income in Boston under the heading of Drayton, so Boston ’ s name is famously not mentioned.

The book was famously distributed in the U. S. by Frances Steloff at the Gotham Book Mart, in defiance of the book ban.

It contains descriptions of the evocation of seventy-two demons, famously edited by Aleister Crowley in 1904 as The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King.

Of treasure bindings from this period, only the lower cover of the Lindau Gospels ( 750 – 800, Morgan Library ) now survives complete, though there are several references to them, most famously to that of the Book of Kells, which was lost after a theft in 1007.

In his acceptance speech for the National Book Award, Lowell famously divided American poetry into two camps: the " cooked " and the " raw.

Most famously, she traveled to Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, to investigate the recurring silicosis among miners there, which resulted in her well-regarded poem sequence The Book of the Dead.

The latter part of the period was the peak of the Irish contribution to Insular art, whose surviving products include illuminated manuscripts, most famously the Book of Kells, brooches, which were worn by clergy as well nobles, carved stone high crosses, and other isolated survivals of metalwork, such as the Derrynaflan Hoard and Ardagh Hoard.

Under L ’ Estrange, the antennae of state censorship prickled at the very mention of the monarch and he famously objected to the following lines from Milton ’ s Paradise Lost, Book I:

* On the BBC Quiz show Blankety Blank losing contestants were famously presented with a Blankety Blank Cheque Book and Pen

The Muslim Jurist, Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi ` i famously said, " There is not on the face of the earth a book – after the Book of Allah – which is more authentic than the book of Malik.

In a rare blurb, the famously reticent writer Thomas Pynchon praised Yves Gundron as “ lessedly post-ironic, engaging and heartfelt — a story that moves with ease and certainty, deeply respecting the given world even as it shines with the integrity of dream ,” and John Freeman, writing for Time Out New York, called it “ An engrossing folktale that, in our technology-crazed era, ought to be required reading .” Yves Gundron was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2000.

His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.

The Book of Enoch describes Sheol as divided into four compartments for four types of the dead: the faithful saints who await resurrection in Paradise, the merely virtuous who await their reward, the wicked who await punishment, and the wicked who have already been punished and will not be resurrected on Judgment Day.

The Book of Ezekiel describes itself as the words of the Ezekiel ben-Buzi, a priest living in exile in the city of Babylon between 593 and 571.

The self-described purpose of Christianity is to provide people with what it holds to be the only valid path to salvation as announced by the apostles of what the Book of Acts describes as, The Way.

The Book of Ezra describes how he led a group of Judean exiles living in Babylon to their home city of Jerusalem ( Ezra 8. 2-14 ) where he enforced observance of the Torah and cleansed the community of mixed marriages.

The Testimonium Flavianum ( meaning the testimony of Flavius < nowiki ></ nowiki >) is the name given to the passage found in Book 18, Chapter 3, 3 of the Antiquities in which Josephus describes the condemnation and crucifixion of Jesus at the hands of the Roman authorities.

In Book II, Chapter 23. 20 of his Church History, Eusebius describes the death of James according to Josephus.

Herodotus, in Book II of his Histories, describes as a " labyrinth " a building complex in Egypt, " near the place called the City of Crocodiles ," that he considered to surpass the pyramids in its astonishing ambition:

The Book of Deuteronomy ( and ) describes how Moses writes " torah " ( instruction ) on a scroll and lays it beside the Ark of the Covenant.

" Crowley describes this process in his Magick, Book 4:

Crowley describes banishing in his Magick, Book 4 ( ch. 13 ):

At this point, the term Dissenter came to include " Puritan ", but more accurately describes those ( clergy or lay ) who " dissented " from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.

David Brady describes a " lull before the storm " in which, in the early 17th century, " reasonably restrained and systematic " Protestant exegesis of the Book of Revelation was seen with Brightman, Mede and Hugh Broughton ; after which " apocalyptic literature became too easily debased " as it became more populist, less scholarly.

In Book VI, Polybius describes the way of the Romans ; he discusses the powers of the different parts of the republic, as well as the rights of the plebeian.

Most influential was Book 6, which describes the military and political organization of Rome ; it presented Rome as a state in which monarchical, aristocratic, and popular elements were in a stable equilibrium.

The Book of Revelation describes how Satan will be cast out of Heaven, down to the earth, having " great anger " and waging war against " those who obey God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus ".

* The " Superpowers Book " ( 40 pages ) describes the Powers available to the characters, Advantages and Disadvantages that can be applied to them, and Disabilities that can affect the character.

Biographer Lawrence Sutin quotes private diaries that fit this story, and writes that " if ever Crowley uttered the truth of his relation to the Book ," his public account accurately describes what he remembered on this point.

Peter Burke describes sprezzatura in The Book of the Courtier as “ nonchalance ”, “ careful negligence ”, and “ effortless and ease .” The ideal courtier is someone who “ conceals art, and presents what is done and said as if it was done without effort and virtually without thought .” ( 31 ).

The Guinness Book of Records describes the UDHR as the " Most Translated Document " in the world.

The Book of Discipline is the guidebook for local churches and pastors and describes in considerable detail the organizational structure of local United Methodist Churches.

Book 4 concludes with a long mythological narrative, in the form of an epyllion which describes vividly the discovery of beekeeping by Aristaeus and the story of Orpheus ' journey to the underworld.

The book describes the period of time immediately following the visit of Jesus Christ to the Book of Mormon peoples, in which time the Nephites and the Lamanites are all converted to the Church of Christ.

* The Arab engineer al-Jazari describes many mechanical inventions in his book ( title translated to English ) The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices.