* " Absalom, Absalom " is the title of a song on the 1996 Compass CD Making Light of It by singer / songwriter Pierce Pettis, incorporating several elements of the biblical narrative.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

For over a century biblical scholars believed that Chronicles and the narrative portions of Ezra-Nehemiah came from the same author, but many scholars now believe this to be improbable.

* Genesis creation narrative, the biblical account of creation

For example, Leonardo Da Vinci noticed discrepancies with the use of the biblical flood narrative as an explanation for fossil origins:

The sources for the history of ancient Israel and Judah can be broadly divided into the biblical narrative ( the Hebrew Bible, Deuterocanonical and non-biblical works for the later period ) and the archaeological record.

Justin Martyr, in the early 2nd century, mentions the " memoirs of the apostles ", which Christians called " gospels " and which were regarded as on par with the Old Testament, which was written in narrative form where " in the biblical story God is the protagonist, Satan ( or evil people / powers ) are the antagonists, and God ’ s people are the agonists ".

According to the biblical narrative, Abraham fell on his face and laughed when Elohim imparted the news of their son's eventual birth.

At this point in the biblical narrative, two genealogies of Esau's family appear under the headings " the generations of Esau ".

It fills in many gaps left in the biblical narrative regarding events and personalities that are only hinted at.

Based on this tradition, " Mosaic law " came to refer to the entire legal content of the Pentateuch, not just the Ten Commandments explicitly connected to Moses in the biblical narrative.

The Deuteronomist relies on earlier material that may date to the United Monarchy, so that the biblical narrative would be based on traditions that can be traced to about four centuries after the supposed lifetime of Moses.

The question of the historicity of the Exodus ( specifically, the Pharaoh of the Exodus, identification of which would connect the biblical narrative to Egyptological chronology ) has long been debated, without conclusive result.

Many biblical scholars are prepared to admit that there may be a historical core beneath the Exodus and Sinai traditions, even if the biblical narrative dramatizes by portraying as a single event what was more likely a gradual process of migration and conquest.

The biblical narrative relates that the Israelites left Egypt in such haste they could not wait for their bread dough to rise ; the bread, when baked, was matzah.

In the field of Psychological biblical criticism, J. H. Ellens and W. G. Rollins address the narrative of Genesis 9: 18 – 27 that narrates the unconventional behavior that occurs between Noah and Ham.

However those that can present a sizable body of work, listed here in descending order of quantity: sermons and saints ' lives, biblical translations ; translated Latin works of the early Church Fathers ; Anglo-Saxon chronicles and narrative history works ; laws, wills and other legal works ; practical works on grammar, medicine, geography ; and poetry.

God ’ s personal prediction to Jeremiah, " Attack you they will, overcome you they can't ," was fulfilled many times in the biblical narrative as Jeremiah warned of destruction of those who continued to refuse repentance and accept more moderate consequences.

The commonly held view of biblical scholars holding to the four-source origins of Genesis ( J, E, P, D ) is that 10: 5 comes from the Priestly ( P ) text source and 11: 8-9, and actually the entirety of the Babel narrative, from the Jahwist source ( J ).

Later, the biblical narrative has King David reign from Hebron for some seven years.

The next mention of an Upper Room is in Acts 1: 13-14, the continuation of the Luke narrative, authored by the same biblical writer.

In the biblical narrative, an angel tells the watching disciples that Jesus ' second coming will take place in the same manner as his ascension.

The biblical narrative states that on reaching the wilderness of Sin, the Israelites began to raise objections over the lack of food, as they had already consumed all the corn they had brought with them from Egypt.

Pentecost then outlines the biblical time period for this campaign to occur and with further arguments concludes that it must take place with the 70th week of Daniel.

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.

Christians of these traditions may be surprised to learn of the significance assigned to the holiday by others, and in fact in many evangelical churches in the United States, secular Mother's Day is more celebrated than the ancient and biblical feast of Pentecost.

According to their biblical interpretation, the Gospel of John 20: 22 shows that the disciples of Jesus were already born again before the Holy Spirit fell at Pentecost.

The very first Christians ( the Twelve Apostles and the 120 Disciples at Pentecost, etc ) were all Jews or biblical proselytes, either by birth or conversion, referred to by historians as the Jewish Christians.

The six-foot-tall piers have medium-relief sculptural biblical scenes of the Post-Passion which are the Three Marys Discovering Jesus Christ is Gone, the Pentecost, the Doubting Thomas, and the Road to Emmaus.

Often such faiths hold out the possibility of divine retribution as well, where the divinity will unexpectedly bring evil-doers to justice through the conventional workings of the world ; from the subtle redressing of minor personal wrongs, to such large-scale havoc as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah or the biblical Great Flood.

* The Valley of Elah, where the biblical David fought Goliath

By the 1760s hymns had become an established feature of religious devotion in the Evangelical church, where early ( post-Reformation ) hymns were versifications ( producing song-like verses from the original words of the psalms ) of the biblical text of the psalms, known as metrical psalms.

Crowe's upcoming projects include Les Misérables, an adaption of the popular musical in which he will portray Javert, Man of Steel where he will play Jor-El, the father of Superman, and Noah where he will play the titular biblical patriarch.

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 ".

The intention of the Reformation was to correct the perceived errors of the Catholic Church by appeal to the uniqueness of the Bible's authority and to reject what Catholics considered to be Apostolic Tradition as a source of original authority alongside the Bible, wherever Tradition did not have biblical support or where it supposedly contradicted Scripture.

According to Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition, the biblical Mount Sinai was the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments.

Biblical scholars have often identified it with two biblical mountains of uncertain location: Mount Moriah where the binding of Isaac took place, and Mount Zion where the original Jebusite fortress stood ; however, both interpretations are disputed.

The biblical books Exodus and Numeri refer to Pi-hahiroth as the place where the Israelites encamped between Baal-zephon and Migdol while awaiting an attack by Pharaoh, prior to crossing the Red Sea.

This puzzle makes the solution available only online where it provides a short exegesis on the biblical text.

Plagues of locusts appear in both the Bible and the Quran, including one of the biblical Plagues of Egypt, where locusts ate all the crops of Egypt.

Église collégiale Ste Marthe ( St Martha's Collegiate Church ) is where, according to a local tradition, the biblical figure Martha is buried.

( Lloyd and Brice ) Scholars have yet to see what physical evidence will link this village of Harran to the biblical site where Abram and his family encamped as mentioned in

Christian influence has led to the appearance of genealogies where Tawhaki's grandfather Hema is reinterpreted as Shem, son of Noah of the biblical deluge.

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 borough was named for the biblical village of Emmaus ( now within modern Israel ), where, according to the New Testament, Jesus was seen by disciples following his crucifixion and resurrection.

The mining district was named for the biblical Ophir, from where King Solomon brought back gold to Israel.

In the second and third editions, where the glosses were substantially increased, almost half are biblical citations.

Johann Jakob Griesbach ( January 4, 1745 – March 24, 1812 ), German biblical textual critic, was born at Butzbach, a small town in the state of Hesse-Darmstadt, where his father, Konrad Kaspar ( 1705 – 1777 ), was pastor.

Muir biographer Steven Holmes notes that Muir used words like " glory " and " glorious " to suggest that light was taking on a religious dimension: " It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the notion of glory in Muir's published writings, where no other single image carries more emotional or religious weight ," adding that his words " exactly parallels its Hebraic origins ," in which biblical writings often indicate a divine presence with light, as in the burning bush or pillar of fire, and described as " the glory of God.

According to some biblical commentators, Asiaticus is the " commander " referred to in Daniel 11: 18, where it says that " a commander will put an end to his insolence " ( NIV ).