Reading the Old Testament would have shown the dramatist that the ideas attributed to Shylock were abhorrent to the Jews.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New Testament.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

Here, for the most part, they were well treated, as a `` reminder of the Old Testament heritage of Christianity '' ; ;

The grounds for the Church's position are Scriptural ( Old Testament ), the teachings of the fathers and doctors of the early Church, the unbroken tradition of nineteen centuries, the decisions of the highest ecclesiastical authority and the natural law.

`` The scriptures, both Old and New Testament, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct ''.

I now ever look for Christ according to His promises and those of the Old Testament as well, to appear again in glory to put away all sin and to reign in righteousness over the whole earth.

Then he thought of those Old Testament figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

" The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written ; it has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

Corporate election draws support from a similar concept of corporate election found in the Old Testament and Jewish law.

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.

* Homiletic commentaries on the Old Testament: the Hexaemeron ( Six Days of Creation ); De Helia et ieiunio ( On Elijah and Fasting ); De Iacob et vita beata ( On Jacob and the Happy Life ); De Abraham ; De Cain et Abel ; De Ioseph ( Joseph ); De Isaac vel anima ( On Isaac, or The Soul ); De Noe ( Noah ); De interpellatione Iob et David ( On the Prayer of Job and David ); De patriarchis ( On the Patriarchs ); De Tobia ( Tobit ); Explanatio psalmorum ( Explanation of the Psalms ); Explanatio symboli ( Commentary on the Symbol ).

But the Septuagint ( the Greek translation of the Old Testament ) adds that " pigs " also licked his blood.

Ammon (; ), also referred to as the Ammonites and children of Ammon, was an ancient nation described in the Old Testament to be located east of the Jordan River, Gilead, and the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan .< ref >

Commentary on the Old Testament in Ten Volumes.

Old Testament Survey: the Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament.

* Aquila of Sinope, second-century translator of the Old Testament

See also Old Testament Law directed at non-Jews and Leviticus 18.

In the Old Testament the name Abijah was borne by several characters:

The absence of instrumental music in New Testament worship is significant given the abundance of Old Testament references and commands.

Ambroise ( flourished c. 1190 ) was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called L ' Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of Richard Coeur de Lion as a crusader.

The Old Testament book of the prophet Habbakuk describes the Chaldeans as " a bitter and swift nation ".

This is the first use of the word Albania, the Latin form of the Old Irish Alba, in the Chronicle which until then describes the lands ruled by the descendants of Cináed as Pictavia.

The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

It describes events in the Old Testament of the Bible, specifically Exodus 7: 16: " And the Lord spoke unto Moses, go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me ", in which God commands Moses to demand the release of the Israelites from bondage in Egypt.

Cordwain, once a synonym of cordovan ( through Old French cordewan ) meaning " from Córdoba " describes painted or gilded embossed leather hangings manufactured in panels and assembled for covering walls as an alternative to tapestry.

Although much of the narrative of the Old Testament describes the Judeo-Christian God as interacting with creation primarily through persuasion, and only occasionally through force.

In stanza 34, Odin says that more serpents lie beneath Yggdrasil " than any fool can imagine " and lists them as Góinn and Móinn ( possibly meaning Old Norse " land animal "), which he describes as sons of Grafvitnir ( Old Norse, possibly " ditch wolf "), Grábakr ( Old Norse " Greyback "), Grafvölluðr ( Old Norse, possibly " the one digging under the plain " or possibly amended as " the one ruling in the ditch "), Ófnir ( Old Norse " the winding one, the twisting one "), and Sváfnir ( Old Norse, possibly " the one who puts to sleep

In his memoir, All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald describes how many white residents of the Old Colony housing project in South Boston used this meaning to degrade the people considered to be of lower status, whether white or black.

" In his Comparative Tables Tolkien describes the mechanisms of sound change in the following daughter languages: Qenya, Lindarin ( a dialect of Qenya ), Telerin, Old Noldorin ( or Feanorian ), Noldorin ( or Gondolinian ), Ilkorin ( esp.

He describes how the " Old Man of the Mountain " ( Sabbah ) would drug his young followers with hashish, lead them to a " paradise ", and then claim that only he had the means to allow for their return.

Old school hip hop ( also spelled " old skool ") describes the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music ( approximately from 1979 – 1984 ), and the music in the period preceding it from which it was directly descended ( see Roots of hip hop ).

The earliest saga Historia Norwegiæ describes her as the daughter of Gorm inn Gamli (‘ the Old ’), king of Denmark ( and hence a sister of Harald Bluetooth ).

* Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the wreck of the Andrea Doria Author Joseph Haberstroh-Although the author states that the Gilboa Quarry his character trains at is near Cincinnati he describes driving on Old State Route 224 and passing Gilboa's giant fiberglass bull.

Cosmetics are mentioned in the Old Testament — 2 Kings 9: 30 where Jezebel painted her eyelids — approximately 840 BC — and the book of Esther describes various beauty treatments as well.

The name ( Old Norse: Jólmstr ) is a word that describes the noise and rumble of the river.

Its non – standard form of Brigg is due to influence from Old Norse bryggja, which although usually describes a jetty or quay here refers to a bridge.

The Testament of Solomon is an Old Testament pseudepigraphical work, purportedly written by King Solomon, in which Solomon mostly describes particular demons whom he enslaved to help build the temple, the questions he put to them about their deeds and how they could be thwarted, and their answers, which provide a kind of self-help manual against demonic activity. The date is very dubious, though is considered the oldest work surviving particularly concerned with individual demons.

The famous Old English riddle Ic wæs be Sonde describes a conch: " I was by sound, near seawall, at ocean-stream ; I dwelt alone in my first resting place.

The tremendous emphasis on the 5 in the Lo Shu square -- for purely mathematical reasons -- and the fact that this number so neatly symbolized the heart and center of the universe, could well explain why the Old Chinese seem to have so revered the number 5, and why they put so much stress on the concept of Centrality.

Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders.

As a national revival occurred towards the end of the period of Ottoman rule ( mostly during the 19th century ), a modern Bulgarian literary language gradually emerged which drew heavily on Church Slavonic / Old Bulgarian ( and to some extent on literary Russian, which had preserved many lexical items from Church Slavonic ) and later reduced the number of Turkish and other Balkanic loans.

A large number of Old Testament passages were regarded as messianic by the Jews, many more than are commonly considered messianic by Christians, and various groups of Jews assigned varying degrees of significance to them.

The Old Testament is understood to contain a number of covenants and " types " which are fulfilled in the past and future work of Jesus.

Some Christian denominations ( such as Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox ), include a number of books that are not in the Hebrew Bible ( the biblical apocrypha or deuterocanonical books or Anagignoskomena, see Development of the Old Testament canon ) in their biblical canon that are not in today's Jewish canon, although they were included in the Septuagint.

In Christianity as Old as the Creation, Tindal articulated a number of the basic tenets of deism:

During this time, England played at a number of different venues across the country, though by the time of the 2006 World Cup qualifiers this had largely settled down to having Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium as the primary venue, with Newcastle United's St. James ' Park used on occasions where Old Trafford was unavailable.

The First Council of Constantinople is recognized as the Second Ecumenical Council by the Oriental Orthodox, the Church of the East, the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholics, the Old Catholics, the Anglican Church, and a number of other Western Christian groups.

In Montreal, English born architect John Ostell worked on a significant number of remarquable constructions in the Georgian style such as the Old Montreal Custom House and the Grand séminaire de Montréal.

Also of interest are the High Lighthouse ( 1818 ); the unusual Treadwheel Crane ( late 17th century ); the Electric Palace Cinema ( 1911 ), one of the oldest purpose-built cinemas to survive complete with its original projection room and ornamental frontage still intact and operational ; the Old Custom Houses on West Street ; and a number of Victorian shopfronts.

Irenaeus pointed to Scripture as a proof of orthodox Christianity against heresies, classifying as Scripture not only the Old Testament but most of the books now known as the New Testament, while excluding many works, a large number by Gnostics, that flourished in the 2nd century and claimed scriptural authority.

* Charles Rosen discusses a number of Brahms's imitations of Beethoven in chapter 9 of his Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New ( 2000 ; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-17730-4 ).

There also exist late Old Slavonic translations of the Greek, but these contain a large number of Christian interpolations.

There are a number of surviving Old Norse sources that relate to the norns.

Initially a supporter of Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin's death, he came to oppose a large number of Stalin's policies and was one of Stalin's most prominent victims during the " Moscow Trials " and purges of the Old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s.

Old Turkic being a synharmonic language, a number of consonant signs are divided into two " synharmonic sets ", one for front vowels and the other for back vowels.

The regional dialect of Low German spoken in Prussia ( or East Prussia ), Low Prussian, preserved a number of Baltic Prussian words, such as kurp, from the Old Prussian kurpi, for shoe ( in contrast to the standard German Schuh ).

Oh Hell ( also known as Oh Pshaw, Up the River, Up and down the River, Bumble, Vanishing Whist, Diminishing Whist, Hell Yeah !, Peanuts, Stinky Fingers, Get Fred, Gary's Game, Diminishing Bridge, Shit On Your Neighbor, " Screw Your Neighbor ", O ' Shay, Juego de Daniel, Nah Pearse, Old Hell, German Bridge in Hong Kong, and many variations of " Oh Hell " with euphemisms and other swearwords ) is a trick-taking card game in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid, unlike contract bridge and spades: taking more tricks than bid is a loss.

Old English poetry used a metrical pattern involving varied numbers of syllables but a fixed number of strong stresses in each line.

The most notable difference, according to Dana F. Sutton is that New Comedy, in comparison to Old Comedy, is “ devoid of a serious political, social or intellectual content ” and “ could be performed in any number of social and political settings without risk of giving offense ”.

The word rime, derived from Old Frankish language * rīm, a Germanic term meaning " series, sequence " attested in Old English ( Old English rīm-" enumeration, series, numeral ") and Old High German rīm, ultimately cognate to Old Irish rím, Greek arithmos " number ".