The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

* Genesis creation narrative, the biblical account of creation

They discovered a greater amount of cultural diversity than they had ever imagined, and the question arose of how this vast amount of human cultural diversity could be compatible with the biblical account of Noah's descendants.

This assumption would imply that the biblical account is not chronological.

* A 1999 TV movie from the Bible Collection that follows the biblical account very closely, Esther, starred Louise Lombard in the title role and F. Murray Abraham as Mordecai.

The biblical account of Pentecost in the second chapter of the book of Acts describes the sound of a mighty rushing wind and " divided tongues like fire " coming to rest on the apostles.

The biblical account of this vision () is one of the standard Old Testament readings at Vespers on Great Feasts of the Theotokos.

Archaeological evidence confirms the biblical account of his reign as the most prosperous that Israel had yet known.

William Albright held a more favorable view towards the traditional views regarding Moses, and accepted the essence of the biblical story, as narrated between Exodus 1: 8 and Deuteronomy 34: 12, but recognized the impact that centuries of oral and written transmission have had on the account, causing it to acquire layers of accretions.

Gosse was also the author of Omphalos, an attempt to reconcile the geological ages presupposed by Charles Lyell with the biblical account of creation.

According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar, where they resolved to build a city with a tower " with its top in the heavens ... lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the Earth ".

He will venture as far to the east as Ceylon, become a monk, and write " Topographia Christiana " to vindicate the biblical account of the world ( see 550 ).

The site is held sacred by Christians, Jews and Muslims ; the name of the area, is el-Muhraqa, an Arabic construction meaning " place of burning ", and is a direct reference to the biblical account.

Like most of his episodes, Blind Harry's account of the battle of Stirling Bridge is highly improbable, for example his use of figures of a biblical magnitude for the size of the participating armies.

The biblical account describes Goliath as falling on his face after he is struck by a stone that sank into his forehead.

Ussher's chronology represented a considerable feat of scholarship: it demanded great depth of learning in what was then known of ancient history, including the rise of the Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as expertise in the Bible, biblical languages, astronomy, ancient calendars and chronology, Ussher's account of historical events for which he had multiple sources other than the Bible is usually in close agreement with modern accounts – for example, he placed the death of Alexander in 323 BC and that of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

Christian scholars argue that the biblical account might make sense if one recalls that Agrippa had been born and raised to revere his Jewishness.

The biblical account continues by stating that Moses was told by Hashem that the daughters should be considered their father's heirs, and that the general case holds-if there are no sons, the daughter ( or daughters ) should inherit-and if there are no children at all, the inheritance should pass to the man's brothers, and if there are no brothers it should pass to the nearest relative in his clan.

In the biblical account, Reuben is portrayed as having arrived east of the Jordan after leaving Egypt, but rather than taking land on the west of the Jordan, after conquering it under Joshua, instead took land on the east, as they owned a large number of cattle, and the territory seemed suitable for pasture.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of the house of Joseph, but the biblical account of this became lost ; Benjamin being differentiated by being that part of Ephraim which joined the Kingdom of Judah rather than that of Israel.

In the account of the deuteronomic history, Ephraim is portrayed as domineering, haughty, discontented, and jealous, but in classical rabbinical literature, the biblical founder of the tribe is described as being modest and not selfish.

The concentration of the biblical literature on the experience of the exiles in Babylon disguises the fact that the great majority of the population remained in Judah, and for them life after the fall of Jerusalem probably went on much as it had before.

Most biblical scholars and historians of ancient Israel today view the patriarchical narratives, including the life of Jacob, as late ( 6th and 5th centuries BCE ) literary compositions that have ideological and theological purposes but are unreliable for historical reconstruction of the presettlement period of Israel ’ s past.

Christianity interprets a wide range of biblical passages in the Old Testament ( Hebrew scripture ) as predicting the coming of the Messiah ( see Christianity and Biblical prophecy for examples ), and believes that they are fulfilled in Jesus ' own explicit life and teaching:

The production of such translations grew out of the insertion of vernacular glosses in biblical texts, as well as out of the production of biblical paraphrases and poetic renditions of stories from the life of Christ ( e. g., the Heliand ).

The 14th-century wooden ceiling of the cloister of Fréjus Cathedral has a remarkable series of paintings of biblical scenes, fantastic animals, and scenes from daily life, painted between 1350 and 1360.

It could include such topics as Creation, the life of Jesus, or the career of a classical hero or biblical prophet.

He achieved this through incongruity, with what at a casual glance seems to be lofty biblical style or delicate pastoral poetry, but is in fact populated with drunks and whores, talking of life in taverns and excursions around Stockholm, frequently ending with allusions to sexual intercourse.

Akkadian Atrahasis (" extremely wise ") and Utnapishtim (" he found life "), as well as biblical Noah (" rest ") are similar heroes of flood legends of the ancient Near East.

The name " Gilboa " is from Mount Gilboa, a biblical site in Israel, where King Saul's sons were killed by the Philistines, and Saul took his own life ( 1 Samuel 31: 4 )

The east window of the chapel depicts twelve biblical scenes: the top six depict scenes from Jesus ' life ( including the Last Supper ), whilst the six below depict corresponding scenes from the Old Testament ( including Adam and Eve at Creation and the whale spitting out Jonah ).

Uncharacteristically of either Ibn Ezra's other commentaries on biblical works, or of Jewish exegesis of the time, the commentary on Ecclesiastes begins with an autobiographical poem ( written in the third person ) relating his life experience to the material in Ecclesiastes.

" Unlike previous cinematic depictions of Jesus ' life, Pasolini's film does not embellish the biblical account with any literary or dramatic inventions, nor does it present an amalgam of the four Gospels ( subsequent films which would adhere as closely as possible to one Gospel account are 1979's Jesus, based on the Gospel of Luke, and 2003's The Gospel of John ).

In the United States the biblical archaeology movement, under the influence of Albright, counter-attacked, arguing that the broad outline within the framing narratives was also true, so that while scholars could not realistically expect to prove or disprove individual episodes from the life of Abraham and the other patriarchs, these were real individuals who could be placed in a context proven from the archaeological record.

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Even the overturning of her past scandalous life was seen by Sabbatai's followers as additional confirmation of his messiahship, following the biblical story of the prophet Hosea, who had also been commanded to take a " wife of whoredom " as the first symbolic act of his calling.

According to the biblical narrative in, Cain treacherously murdered his brother Abel, lied about the murder to God, and as a result was cursed and marked for life.

The biblical verse " life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth " ( Exod. 21: 23-24 ) is quoted as an example of an equal indemnity condition.

The capitals are decorated with a variety of motifs including palm leaves, symbols, biblical monsters and scenes from the life of St. Foy.

The only remains of the castle used by the Přemysl dukes is the Romanesque Rotunda of Saint Catherine, the interior of which is covered with 11th-century frescoes depicting biblical scenes and illustrating the life of Přemysl.

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Toward the end of his life, Tallis resisted the musical development seen in his younger contemporaries such as William Byrd, who embraced compositional complexity and adopted texts built by combining disparate biblical extracts.