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.

When Heracles took the cattle of Geryon, he shot Hera in the right breast with a triple-barbed arrow: the wound was incurable and left her in constant pain, as Dione tells Aphrodite in the Iliad, Book V. Afterwards, Hera sent a gadfly to bite the cattle, irritate them and scatter them.

< p > A study of the of the Book of Mormon tells us its main purpose is to restore a knowledge of the covenants to the house of Israel.

A quagga appears in a sequence in the Soviet Union's animated film The Cat Who Walked by Herself, in which a dog tracks the hoofprints of one, and a cat tells a boy of the Red Book of endangered species, and how Quagga had " her track severed " ( that is, made extinct ) due to Man's selfish actions.

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.

The Book of Ether tells of an ancient people ( the Jaredites ), descendants of Jared and his companions who were led by God to the Americas shortly after the confusion of tongues and the destruction of the Tower of Babel.

At a banquet in Book 2, Aeneas tells the story of the sack of Troy, the death of his wife, and his escape to the enthralled Carthaginians, while in Book 3 he recounts to them his wanderings over the Mediterranean in search of a suitable new home.

* Van Diemen's Land is the setting of Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan ( published 2002 ), which tells the story of a man who is transported to the island, and runs afoul of the local ( and rather insane ) authorities.

Strabo in his Geography, Book VII 3, 12, tells about the Daci-Getae division " Getae, those who incline towards the Pontus and the east, and Daci, those who incline in the opposite direction towards Germany and the sources of the Ister ".

An ancient Hebrew legend tells that the sea flooded the world and when it reached the shore of Acre it stopped short, as is written in the Book of Job ( 38: 11 ) “ Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further .” In the legend, the Hebrew words “ Ad po ” become “ Ad ko ,” and, hence, Akko.

Finally, in the February 6, 2005 episode, " Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass ", Comic Book Guy nonchalantly tells Ned Flanders: " My name is Jeff Albertson, but everyone calls me ' Comic Book Guy '".

The Forbidden Chapter of the Book tells the prophecy of the Blackest Night, the final destruction of the Green Lantern Corps at the hands of their greatest enemies as it was told to Abin Sur by the demons of Ysmault.

Ovid tells in Book two of his Metamorphoses that Erichthonius was born without a mother.

Book 16 of the Iliad tells us that Achilles had a third horse, Pedasos ( maybe " Jumper ", maybe " Captive "), which was yoked as a " trace horse ", along with Xanthus and Balios.

The army meets Hypsipyle who shows them a spring then tells them the story of the Women of Lemnos ( Book 5 ).

" ( In Book 15, Zeus tells Hera that he has already planned the method of bringing Achilles back to battle, confirming that Diomedes was right all along )

Rudyard Kipling's short story " Quiquern " collected in The Second Jungle Book ( even though it is not a jungle story ) tells how two young Inuit hunters, desperate to find food for their starving tribe, believe they are being guided by Quiquern / Qiqirn, only to discover that the many-legged " spirit " is actually a pair of sled dogs whose collars had become entangled.

Balak is also the name of the weekly parshah or portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading that tells the story of Balak in the Book of Numbers.

The Book of Genesis tells how Joseph was the 11th of Jacob's 12 sons and Rachel's firstborn.

Other notable writers of the turn of the 20th century include Michael Chabon, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ( 2000 ) tells the story of two friends, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, as they rise through the ranks of the comics industry in its heyday ; Denis Johnson, whose 2007 novel Tree of Smoke about falsified intelligence during Vietnam both won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was called by critic Michiko Kakutani " one of the classic works of literature produced by Vietnam War "; and Louise Erdrich, whose 2008 novel The Plague of Doves, a distinctly Faulknerian, polyphonic examination of the tribal experience set against the backdrop of murder in the fictional town of Pluto, North Dakota, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

The author of the Book of Revelation tells how he sees in a vision Satan rallying Gog and Magog, " the nations in the four corners of the Earth ," to a final battle with Christ and his saints:

After these and other incidents, Marina and Sinbad enter Eris's realm, where she reveals that her plan was to maneuver Proteus into Sinbad's place, leaving Syracuse without an heir, and agrees to surrender the Book of Peace only if Sinbad truthfully tells whether he will return to Syracuse to accept blame.

* 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.

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.

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.

* 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.

The Book of Genesis contains the story of Jacob and Esau focusing on the sale of Esau's birthright to Jacob and the conflict that had spawned between their descendant nations because of this sale.

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.

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.