Akkad is mentioned once in the Tanakh — Book of Genesis 10: 10: And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar ( KJV ).

For the district, see Anah ( district ), and for the character in the Book of Book of Genesis, see List of minor Biblical figures: Anah.

Traditional Jewish exegesis such as Midrash ( Genesis Rabbah 38 ) says that Adam spoke Hebrew because the names he gives Eve-" Isha " ( Book of Genesis 2: 23 ) and " Chava " ( Genesis 3: 20 )-only make sense in Hebrew.

He also wrote several works of Biblical exegesis, primarily of volumes in the Old Testament, which are preserved in excerpts regarding the Book of Genesis, the Song of Solomon, and Psalms.

However, with the exceptions of Smith's translation of portions of the book of Book of Genesis ( renamed Selections from the Book of Moses ) and the translation of Matthew ( called Joseph Smith – Matthew ), no portions of the Joseph Smith Translation have been officially canonized by the LDS Church.

* Selections from the Book of Moses: portions of the Book of Genesis from the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible.

In terms of values, Leeming contrasts " the myth of Jesus " with the myths of other " Christian heroes such as St. George, Roland, el Cid, and even King Arthur "; the latter hero myths, Leeming argues, reflect the survival of pre-Christian heroic values —" values of military dominance and cultural differentiation and hegemony "— more than the values expressed in the Christ story. Pomors often depicted Sirin s on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.

* Hamilton, Victor P. The Book of Genesis: Chapters 1-17.

Monsters, spells, and magic items used in the game have been inspired by hundreds of individual works such as A. E. van Vogt's " Black Destroyer ", Coeurl ( the Displacer Beast ), Lewis Carroll's " Jabberwocky " ( vorpal sword ) and the Book of Genesis ( the clerical spell ' Blade Barrier ' was inspired by the " flaming sword which turned every way " at the gates of Eden ).

Somewhere, perhaps on the southeastern shore, would be the cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis which were said to have been destroyed in the time of Abraham: Sodom and Gomorra ( Genesis 18 ) and the three other " Cities of the Plain "-Admah, Zeboim and Zoar ( Deuteronomy 29: 23 ).

Eve is the first woman created by God in the Book of Genesis.

For instance, the Book of Genesis dictates that when a man's brother dies, he must marry his widowed sister-in-law.

40 ); whereas the traditional association of the Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil ( Book of Genesis 2: 9, 17 ; 3: 5 ) with the apple rests on the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Latin, where both ' apple ' and ' evil ' are rendered as ' malum '.

The Gospel of Matthew begins with the words " The Book of Genealogy Greek, " Genesis " of Jesus Christ ", deliberately echoing the first words of the Old Testament in Greek.

The Book of Genesis ( from the Latin Vulgate, in turn borrowed or transliterated from Greek γένεσις, meaning " origin ";, Bereʾšyt, " In beginning "), is the first book of the Hebrew Bible ( the Tanakh ) and the Christian Old Testament.

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* Genesis in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, Latin, and English – The critical text of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew with ancient versions ( Masoretic, Samaritan Pentateuch, Samaritan Targum, Targum Onkelos, Peshitta, Septuagint, Vetus Latina, Vulgate, Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion ) and English translation for each version in parallel.

The last section of the book ( 7: 1 to 9: 8 ), commonly referred to as the Book of Visions, contains the only narrative section.

The Book of Amos contains several different key activities and genres which are used to expound upon its themes.

This description was included in Book 8 of his voluminous Philippica, which contains a dialogue between King Midas and Silenus, a companion of Dionysus.

* MP3 CD, a disc that contains MP3 files in Yellow Book format rather than converted from MP3 to Red Book format

The United Methodist Hymnal also contains ( at # 882 ) what it terms the " Ecumenical Version " of this creed — a version which is identical to that found in the Episcopal Church's current Book of Common Prayer.

The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement that adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.

A 14th-century manuscript, Book of Prayers, in the Francis Douce collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford contains a drawing in which two persons are shown, but they bowl to no mark.

* This article also contains a section on the Book of Nahum.

Most commentators assume that this indicates that Jude accepts the antediluvian patriarch Enoch as the author of the Book of Enoch which contains the same quotation.

Book 14 contains a unique description of the temple at Rügen Island.

His book about games of chance, Liber de ludo aleae (" Book on Games of Chance "), written in 1526, but not published until 1663, contains the first systematic treatment of probability, as well as a section on effective cheating methods.

Halakhot Gedolot (" Great Law Book "), by R. Simeon Kayyara, published two generations later, contains extensive additional material, mainly from Responsa and Monographs of the Geonim, and is presented in a form that is closer to the original Talmud language and structure.

In Book II he attempts to provide proof that Valentinianism contains no merit in terms of its doctrines.

The poem also contains allusions to the Book of Revelation in its description of New Jerusalem and to the paradise of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Father Goose, His Book contains poems such as " There Was a Little Nigger Boy " and " Lee-Hi-Lung-Whan.

His book The Amazing Book of Mazes ( 2006 ) contains examples and photographs of numerous methods of maze construction, several of which have been pioneered by Fisher ; The Art of the Maze ( Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1990 ) contains a substantial history of the subject, whilst Mazes and Labyrinths ( Shire Publications, 2004 ) is a useful introduction to the subject.

It contains only 22 books ( neither the Minor Catholic Epistles of 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, and Jude, nor the Book of Revelation were part of this translation ).

The Exeter Book contains a series of poems entitled Christ, sectioned into Christ I, Christ II and Christ III.

He is primarily known today for his maps and charts collected in his Kitab-ı Bahriye ( Book of Navigation ), a book that contains detailed information on navigation, as well as very accurate charts ( for its time ) describing the important ports and cities of the Mediterranean Sea.

The central poem of Book III is a summary of Proclus ' Commentary on the Timaeus, and Book V contains the important principle of Proclus that things are known not according to their own nature, but according to the character of the knowing subject.

Outside of the Book of Acts which contains the death of Saint Stephen, the Martyrdom is considered one of the earliest genuine accounts of a Christian martyrdom, and is one of the very few genuine accounts from the actual age of the persecutions.

* The short story " There Are More Things " by Jorge Luis Borges from The Book of Sand refers to an amphisbaena and concerns a similar, though mostly undescribed, monster.

In Gregory ’ s day, history was not recognized as an independent field of study ; it was a branch of grammar or rhetoric, and historia ( defined as ‘ story ’) summed up the approach of the learned when they wrote what was, at that time, considered ‘ history .’ Gregory ’ s Dialogues Book Two, then, an authentic medieval hagiography cast as a conversation between the Pope and his deacon Peter, is designed to teach spiritual lessons.

However, the importance of the law is evident within the Book of Ruth, and the story reflects a need to stay within legal boundaries.

Though God is never explicitly mentioned in the Book of Esther, some Christians believe that his influence during the story is implied.

These included a story in Andrew Lang's The Brown Fairy Book ( 1904 ).

Derleth expanded the boundaries of the Mythos by including any passing reference to another author's story elements by Lovecraft as part of the genre: just as Lovecraft made passing reference to Clark Ashton Smith's Book of Eibon, Derleth in turn added Smith's Ubbo-Sathla to the Mythos.

This group is known as the Jaredites and their story is condensed in the Book of Ether.

This story was reprinted in the last chapter of the manga Book 6.

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.

A reference to Erewhon and specifically " The Book of Machines " opens Miguel de Unamuno's short story, " Mecanópolis ," which tells of a man who visits a city ( called Mecanópolis ) which is inhabited solely by machines.

According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

* John-James Ford ( born 1972 ), Canadian foreign service officer who gained notability as poet, short story writer and novelist ; winner of 2006 Ottawa Book Award

Wilfred Cantwell Smith traced the story from a 2nd to 4th century Sanskrit Mahayana Buddhist text, to a Manichee version, which then found its way into Muslim culture as the Arabic Kitab Bilawhar wa-Yudasaf ( Book of Bilawhar and Yudasaf ), which was current in Baghdad in the 8th century.

Passages in this story anticipate such latter-day digital configurations as Google Book Search, Google Video Search, PDA devices, podcasting and portable music players.

The story has been recounted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women, John Gower's Confessio Amantis ( Book VII ), and John Lydgate's Fall of Princes.

Jack Holland also sees evidence of misogyny in the Old Testament story of the Fall of Man from the Book of Genesis.

Innocent XII appears as one of the narrators in Robert Browning's long poem " The Ring and the Book " ( 1869 ), based on the true story of the Pope's intervention in a historical murder trial in Rome during his papacy.

The Biblical Book of Joshua contains the story of the miraculous Battle of Jericho.

Soap opera: ' No end of story, ever ' in The Australian TV Book, ( Eds.

Taking their names from the story of Lot in the Book of Genesis, " Lot " and " Lot's Wife " are two solitary pillars of rock topping two valleys near Sandy Bay.

His terse and pertinent letter to Origen impugning the authority of the part of the Book of Daniel that tells the story of Susanna, and Origen's wordy and uncritical answer, are both extant.

Rudyard Kipling published short story collections for grown-ups, e. g. Plain Tales from the Hills ( 1888 ), as well as for children, e. g. The Jungle Book ( 1894 ).

The Book of One Thousand and One Nights has a story, ' The Tale of Buluqiya ', in which the hero searches for immortality and finds a paradise with jewel-encrusted trees.