The canonical Book of Ezra and Book of Nehemiah are the oldest sources for the activity of Ezra, whereas many of the other books ascribed to Ezra ( First Esdras, 3-6 Ezra ) are later literary works dependent on the canonical books of Ezra and Nehemiah.

Allen ( 1971 ) comments that in the First Temple Era, there were essentially seer-priests, who formed a guild, divined, performed rituals and sacrifices, and were scribes, and then there were canonical prophets, who did none of these ( and were against divination ) and had instead a message to deliver.

The understanding of the divine spiritual endowment of the rooster within Islam, may be evidenced in the words of Muhammad of that Abrahamic religion in one of the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam, stating that of " when you hear the crowing of cocks, ask for Allah's Blessings for they have seen an angel " as well as the mention where " the cock is also venerated in Islam: it was the giant bird seen by Muhammad in the First Heaven crowing.

* The crucifixion of Jesus: Jesus of Nazareth's death by crucifixion by Pontius Pilate ( most likely in AD 30 or 33 ), recounted in the four first-century canonical Gospels, is referred to repeatedly as something well known in the earlier letters of Saint Paul, for instance, five times in his First Letter to the Corinthians, written in AD 57 ( 1: 13, 1: 18, 1: 23, 2: 2, 2: 8 ).

* Baen's Grantville Gazettes — First ( originally experimental ) e-zine, the gazette is unique in that it is canonical for the best selling Ring of Fire series.

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The Roman Catholic Church which includes the First and Second Book of Maccabees among its canonical scriptures, assigns the Maccabees August 1st as their feast day.

However, when Taylor discussed the origins of Mormonism in 1863, he did so without alluding to the canonical First Vision story, and in 1879, he referred to Joseph Smith having asked " the angel " which of the sects was correct.

They were actively denounced from the very beginning by men such as Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, and the writer of the canonical First Epistle of John as being " anti-christ " and contrary to the tradition received from the apostles and eye-witnesses of Jesus Christ.

The First Evil has appeared in 16 canonical Buffyverse episodes:

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The three pastoral epistles are books of the canonical New Testament: the First Epistle to Timothy ( 1 Timothy ) the Second Epistle to Timothy ( 2 Timothy ), and the Epistle to Titus.

All four canonical gospels have indications that the " Betrayal " scenario is a record of the transfer of Mastership from Jesus to James, such as the infamous " kiss ", paralleled in the gnostic First Apocalypse of James.

Also, the game takes most of its fictional history between the present day and the 23rd century from the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology, whose contents are almost totally contradicted by later canonical materials ( especially the film Star Trek: First Contact and the series Enterprise ).

First and foremost, the Big Bang became the canonical cosmological model.

There is no reference to the story of St Veronica and her veil in the canonical Gospels.

The image of Muslims and pagans prostrating themselves together in prayer in turn links the story of the satanic verses to very abbreviated sūjud al-Qur ' ān ( i. e. prostration when reciting the Qur ' ān ) traditions found in the authoritative mussanaf hadīth collections, including the Sunni canonical ones of Bukhāri and Tirmidhī.

After Buffy finished in 2003, Spike appeared in a comic story from the canonical Tales of the Vampires series.

Following Angel < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s final season, the character's story is continued in the 2007 canonical comic book series Angel: After the Fall.

* Cariyapitaka, a canonical Buddhist story collection

Unlike, for example, Paramount Pictures which has a rule that only live-action televised or filmed Star Trek productions are canonical, the BBC have always resisted making such an announcement regarding Doctor Who – importantly, the BBC's charter prohibits situations where television viewers must be required to purchase merchandise in order to follow the story.

The art and dialogue were Stapel's, but the story Soeteman's, so the newspaper comics should be considered a canonical source of information about Floris's further adventures.

Gi tells the story of her pet dolphin, while Linka is revealed to have a mining family who used canaries to detect lethal gases in the mines, and her opening sequence generalizes her birthplace as Eastern Europe to avoid confusion in viewers born after the Soviet Union ’ s collapse in 1991 ( which would place her canonical birthplace among one of the countries that gained their independence when the Soviet Union collapsed ).

If what is portrayed in Secret Mark is indeed a baptism, then the placement of this story within the canonical Mark is highly significant.

The two Jonah Hex series have different explanations, and it is unclear which is the canonical version of the story, if either.

The latter story has no equivalent in canonical Gospels:

However, since most of the 21st century heroes were unfamiliar with Karate Kid in " The Lightning Saga " story arc and the Countdown to Final Crisis limited series, it is quite possible that none of the events from the Karate Kid series are canonical at this time.

Sextus Julius Africanus did not regard the story as canonical.

He continues his story in the canonical comic book series Angel: After the Fall.

Like its predecessor, this story takes place in a timeline that is not considered canonical in the current continuity of DC Comics.

Though Roberts claims to take a distance from studies of canonical fiction, he justifies his ( implicit ) decision to impose canonical models on popular fiction as follows: " If people who read Goethe and Alessandro Manzoni and Pushkin with pleasure are also reading detective fiction with pleasure, there is more in the detective story than its critics have recognized, perhaps more than even its writers and readers have recognized ", This illustrates a frequent strategy: the legitimation of popular fiction on the basis of its use of canonized literary fiction, and of the legitimized public's response to it.

Angel: After the Fall is the canonical continuation of the Angel story, written by Brian Lynch with executive oversight from Joss Whedon.

The physical impossibilities of the existence of Coruscant using canonical dimensions and thermodynamic laws was one story arc, prompting several emails from Star Wars fans who tried to disprove his points.

The story is intended to be original and as such is not canonical.

This story is Virginia DeMarce's second fictional foray in the series and like " Biting Time ", the tale establishes some important canonical underpinnings that draw references, or are extrapolated upon in the various novel sequels.

The " Island of Misfit Toys ", another canonical addition to the original story, is an island sanctuary where defective and unwanted toys are sent.

As a result, this story is no longer canonical.

He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.

Due to recorded predictions of the destruction of the temple, the Gospel of Mark is believed by many critical scholars to have been composed around or shortly after the fall of Jerusalem due to prophecies assumed to be ex post facto regarding the destruction of the temple, and both traditional and critical scholarly consensus maintains that it was the first written of the four canonical gospels.

While the Shepherd of Hermas was popular and sometimes bound with the canonical scriptures, it didn't retain canonical status, if it ever had it.

The author of the Festal Index, who was the original collector of St. Athanasius ' famed Festal Epistles ( collected shortly after his death ), stated that the Arians had accused St. Athanasius, among other accusations, that his ordination as Pope of Alexandria in 328 was not canonical because at the time of the consecration to the episcopate he had not yet attained the canonical age 30.

The canonical age for the ordination of a deacon was 25 ; Bede's early ordination may mean that his abilities were considered exceptional, but it is also possible that the minimum age requirement was often disregarded.

Contrary to the canonical Christian Gospels, and in accordance with the Islamic view of Jesus, this later " Gospel of Barnabas " states that Jesus was not the son of God, but a prophet and messenger.

The Nomocanon was completely new compilation of civil and canonical regulations, taken from the Byzantine sources, but completed and reformed by St. Sava to function properly in Serbia.

Indeed, Catullus was never considered one of the canonical school authors, although his body of work is on the reading lists for American Ph. D. programs in the classics, and is still taught at secondary school level in the United Kingdom.

Thus the harmonisation was replaced in the 5th century by the canonical four gospels individually, in the Peshitta version, whose Syriac text nevertheless contains many Diatessaronic readings.

Although its canonical status was contested, its authenticity was never doubted by the Early Church.

" More remarkable is the evidence that by the end of the second century Jude was widely accepted as canonical.

A similar declaration was issued with regard to Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo's conferring of episcopal ordination on four men-all of whom, by virtue of previous Independent Catholic consecrations, claimed already to be bishops-on 24 September 2006: the Holy See, as well as stating that, in accordance with Canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law, all five men involved incurred automatic (" latae sententiae ") excommunication through their actions, declared that " the Church does not recognise and does not intend in the future to recognise these ordinations or any ordinations derived from them, and she holds that the canonical state of the four alleged bishops is the same as it was prior to the ordination.

According to valence bond theory, of which Pauling was a notable proponent, this " additional stabilization " of the heteronuclear bond is due to the contribution of ionic canonical forms to the bonding.

To extend what may have once been ten Labours to the canonical dozen, it was said that Eurystheus didn't count the Hydra, as he was assisted, nor the Augean stables, as Heracles received payment for his work.

The permanent criteria of church structure for the Orthodox Church today, outside the New Testament writings, are found in the canons ( regulation and decrees ) of the first seven ecumenical councils ; the canons of several local or provincial councils, whose authority was recognized by the whole church ; the Apostolic Canons, dating from the 4th century ); and the " canons of the Fathers " or selected extracts from prominent church leaders having canonical importance.

Some scholars have suggested that this refers to the canonical Epistle to the Ephesians, contending that it was a circular letter ( an encyclical ) to be read to many churches in the Laodicean area.

The saint's body was claimed to have been discovered in a cave with a copy of the canonical Gospel of Matthew on its breast ; according to the contemporary account of Theodorus Lector, who reports that both bones and gospel book were presented by Anthemios to the emperor.