* The imprint of a seal thought to have belonged to a priestly Jewish family mentioned in the Old Testament's Book of Jeremiah.

Jephthah ( pronounced, also spelled Jephtha or Jephte ;, " Yifthaḥ "; ; ), as described in the Old Testament's Book of Judges, served as a judge over Israel for a period of six years ( Judges 12: 7 ).

Most Christians agree with Marcion that the Old Testament's alleged approval of genocide and murder are inappropriate models to follow today.

In 1983 he created and performed, solo, a stage version of the Old Testament's The Book of Job, at first at the Nathan Cohen theatre in Toronto, directed by John McGreevey, and then at the National Arts Centre Theatre in Ottawa.

Jesus should be a " tragic-Nordic figure " against the Old Testament's " religious idea ", with the Old Testament replaced by a " German myth ".

The father of the Old Testament's Joseph is also named Jacob, and Davies and Allison note that this could mean that the author of Matthew is trying to link Joseph with his OT namesake.

Old Norse askr literally means " ash tree " but the etymology of embla is uncertain, and two possibilities of the meaning of embla are generally proposed.

* Old Norse: The definite article was the enclitic-inn ,-in ,-itt ( masculine, feminine and neuter nominative singular ), as in álfrinn " the elf ", gjǫfin " the gift ", and tréit " the tree ", an abbreviated form of the independent pronoun hinn, cognate of the German pronoun jener.

The Irish word derives from Old Irish, which referred to a wooden structure or vessel, stemming from crann, which means " tree ", plus a diminutive ending — literally " young tree ".

The olive tree and olives are mentioned over 30 times in the Bible, in both the New and Old Testaments.

In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr ( Old Norse, generally considered to mean " drill-tooth " or " bore-tooth ") is a squirrel who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil to carry messages between the unnamed eagle, perched atop Yggdrasil, and the wyrm Níðhöggr, who dwells beneath one of the three roots of the tree.

In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil (; from Old Norse Yggdrasill, pronounced ) is an immense tree that is central in Norse cosmology, on which the nine worlds existed.

Old Norse askr means " ash tree " and according to the inflectional system of Icelandic language askr Yggdrasils means " Yggdrasill's ash ".

In the second stanza of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva ( a shamanic seeress ) reciting the poem to the god Odin says that she remembers far back to " early times ", being raised by jötnar, recalls nine worlds and " nine wood-ogresses " ( Old Norse nío ídiðiur ), and when Yggdrasil was a seed (" glorious tree of good measure, under the ground ").

Connections have been proposed between the wood Hoddmímis holt ( Old Norse " Hoard-Mímir's " holt ) and the tree Mímameiðr (" Mímir's tree "), generally thought to refer to the world tree Yggdrasil, and the spring Mímisbrunnr.

The " Old Man of the Lake " in Crater Lake, Oregon is a full-size tree that has been bobbing vertically in the lake for more than a century.

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.

The term tannin ( from tanna, an Old High German word for oak or fir tree, as in Tannenbaum ) refers to the use of wood tannins from oak in tanning animal hides into leather ; hence the words " tan " and " tanning " for the treatment of leather.

Rauni, a vaguely defined being has been hypothesised to be etymologically connected to Germanic words for the rowan tree through Old Norse * raunir.

Red berries of rowan were holy to Ravdna, and the name Ravdna resembles the North-Germanic words for the tree ( for example, Old Norse reynir ).

The word ' mistletoe ' ( Old English mistiltan ) is of uncertain etymology ; it may be related to German Mist, for dung and Tang for branch, since mistletoe can be spread in the feces of birds moving from tree to tree.

The Modern English word myrrh ( Old English: myrra ) derives from the Latin Myrrha ( or murrha or murra, all are synonymous Latin words for the tree substance ).

Stockwell probably got the second half of its name from a local well ; the other half is from " stoc ", which was Old English for a tree trunk or post.

From the Old Kingdom she was also called Lady of the Sycamore in her capacity as a tree deity.

Crater Lake is known for the " Old Man of the Lake ", a full-sized tree which is now a stump that has been bobbing vertically in the lake for more than a century.

At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

He applied this knowledge as preacher, concentrating especially on exegesis of the Old Testament, and his rhetorical abilities impressed Augustine of Hippo, who hitherto had thought poorly of Christian preachers.

Ignorant of Hebrew, and only rarely appealing to other Greek versions ( to Aquila once in the Ecthesis, to other versions once or twice on the Psalms ), his knowledge of the Old Testament is limited to the Septuagint.

In the field of parapsychology, claircognizance from late 17th century French clair ( clear ) and cognizance (< Middle English | ME cognisaunce < Old French | OFr conoissance, knowledge ) is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires psychic knowledge primarily by means of intrinsic knowledge.

He notes that the Elder Edda couples the Æsir and the álfar, a conjunction that recurs in Old English ês and ylfe, clearly grouping the elves as a divine or supernatural class of beings, sometimes extended by the Vanir as a third class: The Hrafnagaldr states Alföðr orkar, álfar skilja, vanir vita " The Allfather Odin | the áss has power, the álfar have skill, and vanir knowledge ".

Luke presupposes a knowledge of the Old Testament and Jewish history ( 1: 7 ; 4: 38 ; 9: 9-10 & 9: 28-36 ).

He acquired a knowledge of Hebrew by studying with a Jew who converted to Christianity, and took the unusual position ( for that time ) that the Hebrew, and not the Septuagint, was the inspired text of the Old Testament.

While some Old Norse kennings are relatively transparent, many depend on a knowledge of specific myths or legends.

In addition, Petrarch collected his letters into two major sets of books called Epistolae familiares (" Familiar Letters ") and Seniles (" Of Old Age "), a plan suggested to him by knowledge of Cicero's letters.

In writing Old Mortality Scott drew upon the knowledge he had acquired from his researches into ballads on the subject for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

The only primary source from which we obtain our scanty knowledge of the personality and the rhetorical and literary qualities of this individual is the short book of the Old Testament ( containing only three chapters ), which bears his name.

Starting from the names of the province given in Old Persian inscriptions, Sugda and Suguda, and the knowledge derived from Middle Sogdian that Old Persian-gd-applied to Sogdian was actually pronounced as voiced fricatives ,-γδ -, Szemerényi arrives at * Suγδa as an Old Sogdian endonym.

Lutherans believe that the Bible of the Old and New Testaments is the only divinely inspired book and the only source of divinely revealed knowledge.

In 1838 Henry Rawlinson, building on the 1802 work of Georg Friedrich Grotefend, was able to decipher the Old Persian section of the Behistun inscriptions, using his knowledge of modern Persian.

Though Merry tried to persuade him that the Old Forest would be nothing compared to meeting the Ringwraiths, Fatty was adamant, so the other Hobbits went into the forest with only the knowledge of Merry to aid them.

Mímir ( Old Norse " The rememberer, the wise one ") or Mim is a figure in Norse mythology renowned for his knowledge and wisdom who is beheaded during the Æsir-Vanir War.

Stiles ' knowledge of Hebrew also enabled him to translate large portions of the Hebrew Old Testament into English.

Excluded from the school of Roke, where systematic knowledge of magic can be obtained, they know, at most, a few isolated words of the Old Speech which is the basis of magic.

After a time he turned his attention to Old Testament criticism, based on knowledge of Hebrew.

Not the least of his achievements on this occasion was the successful attempt, made with extraordinary tact, ability, knowledge and perseverance, to induce the Orientals, Anglicans and Old Catholics present to accept a formula of concord drawn from the writings of the leading theologians of the Greek Church, on the long-vexed question of the Procession of the Holy Spirit.