Other historians maintain that the biographical details, and Egyptian background, attributed to Moses imply the existence of a historical political and religious leader who was involved in the consolidation of the Hebrew tribes in Canaan towards the end of the Bronze Age.

The Quran refers heavily to Moses to outline the truth of his existence and the religious guidelines that God had revealed to the Children of Israel.

Moses Maimonides wrote that " by virtue of the existence of the Creator everything exists " and argues in his 12th-century Guide for the Perplexed ( 2: 13 ) that " time itself is part of creation " and that therefore, " when God is described as existing before the creation of the universe, the notion of time should not be understood in its normal sense.

Certain religious and political functions were reserved for the Levites, and the early sources of the Torah — the Jahwist and Elohist — appear to treat the term Levi as just being a word meaning priest ; scholars therefore suspect that " levi " was originally a general term for a priest, and had no connection to ancestry, and that it was only later, for example in the priestly source and Blessing of Moses, that the existence of a tribe named Levi became assumed, in order to explain the origin of the priestly caste.

This belief was in some ways similar to Gnostic Christian theology ; notably, both are dualistic, that is, they posit opposing gods, forces, or principles: one higher, spiritual, and " good ", and the other lower, material, and " evil " ( compare Manichaeism ), in contrast to the orthodox Christian view that " evil " has no independent existence, but is a privation or lack of " good ", a view shared by the eminent Jewish theologian Moses Maimonides.

Today many believe in the existence of an unbroken chain of authority dating back to the time of Moses and Joshua ( See " The Unbroken Chain of Torah " below ).

The edited tosafot owe their existence particularly to Samson of Sens and to the following French tosafists of the thirteenth century: ( 1 ) Moses of Évreux, ( 2 ) Eliezer of Touques, and ( 3 ) Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil.

* Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: President George Sears resigns his presidency after the existence of Metal Gear REX and the GENOME Army is revealed to the general public after the Shadow Moses Incident.

Over a dozen stone boundary markers have been discovered on the territory of modern Armenia from the time of the reign of Artashes with Aramaic inscriptions, before their discovery the existence of these stones was attested by Moses of Chorene.

* Over a dozen stone boundary markers have been discovered on the territory of modern Armenia from the time of the reign of Artashes with Aramaic inscriptions, before their discovery the existence of these stones was attested by Moses of Chorene.

The brothers Moses Marcus Warburg ( 1763-1830 ) and Gerson Warburg ( 1765-1826 ) founded the M. M. Warburg & Co. banking company in 1798 that is still in existence.

A number of theories have been proposed as explanations as well as criticisms regarding its existence.

The first known mention of the city of Akkad is in an inscription of Enshakushanna of Uruk, where he claims to have defeated Agade — indicating that it was in existence well before the days of Sargon of Akkad, whom the Sumerian King List claims to have built it.

New evidence from Babylon has verified the existence of Belshazzar, the name first given in Daniel 5: 1, as well as his co-regency during the absence of his father, Nabonidus, in Temâ.

The success of Cyprus in the economic sphere has been attributed, inter alia, to the adoption of a market-oriented economic system, the pursuance of sound macroeconomic policies by the government as well as the existence of a dynamic and flexible entrepreneurship and a highly educated labor force.

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

As well, even though in many cases the popular change from one to the next can be swift and sudden, the beginning and end of movements are somewhat subjective, as the movements did not spring fresh into existence out of the blue and did not come to an abrupt end and lose total support, as would be suggested by a date range.

In the Philippines, the Commission on the Filipino Language declared all the indigenous languages in the Philippines as dialects despite the great differences between them, as well as the existence of significant bodies of literature in each of the major " dialects " and daily newspapers in some.

The Demiurge, having received a portion of power from his mother, sets about a work of creation in unconscious imitation of the superior Pleromatic realm: He frames the seven heavens, as well as all material and animal things, according to forms furnished by his mother ; working however blindly, and ignorant even of the existence of the mother who is the source of all his energy.

" Nativist " models of " Universal Grammar " are informed by linguistic universals such as the existence of pronouns and demonstratives, and the similarities in each languages process of nominalization ( the process of verbs becoming nouns ) as well as the reverse, the process of turning nouns into verbs.

The fifth condition for successful economic calculation is the existence of well functioning financial markets.

Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality in general, as well as of the basic categories of being and their relations.

It must be about " existence " as well.

He is well known for debating the existence of God with Bertrand Russell in a celebrated 1948 BBC broadcast ; the following year he debated logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious language with his friend the analytic philosopher A. J. Ayer.

" There are four things, which I humbly conceive, are essential to the well being, I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States as an independent power:

The modern state of Guinea did not come into existence until 1958, but the history of the area stretches back well before European intervention.

The Great Auk was never observed and described by modern scientists during its existence, and is only known from the accounts of laymen, such as sailors, so its behaviour is therefore not well known and hard to reconstruct.

This interesting numerical observation is called the gauge coupling unification, and it works particularly well if one assumes the existence of superpartners of the Standard Model particles.

Generalizations posit the existence of a domain or set of elements, as well as one or more common characteristics shared by those elements.

Details of their existence, design, and use were kept secret well into the 1970s.

Bernard also adds his own ideas: the Ring Nebula proves the existence of hollow worlds, as well as speculation on the fate of Atlantis and the origin of flying saucers.

There is considerable evidence, however, that attests to the existence of the references to Jesus in Josephus well before then, including a number of ad hoc copies of Josephus ' work preserved in quotation from the works of Christian writers.

Lucid dreaming has been researched scientifically, and its existence is well established.

The existence of a neutrino mass strongly suggests the existence of a tiny neutrino magnetic moment of the order of, allowing the possibility that neutrinos may interact electromagnetically as well.

Descartes had also maintained that matter was not directly perceivable, but he had argued that the veracity of God could support a proof of its certain existence.

Faurisson generated much controversy with a number of articles, published in the Journal of Historical Review and elsewhere, as well as various letters he has sent to French newspapers ( especially Le Monde ), which deny various aspects of the Holocaust, including the existence of homicidal gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps, the reality of the systematic killing of European Jews using gas during World War II, the authenticity of The Diary of Anne Frank, and the veracity of Elie Wiesel's accounts of his wartime suffering.

Doubts about Vaughan's veracity and even her existence began to grow, and finally Taxil promised to produce her at a lecture to be delivered by him on April 19, 1897.

A later ecclesiastical tradition recorded the existence of a bishop at Kenchreai, but the veracity of these accounts is hard to establish.

However, there are questions surrounding the veracity of not only the allegations, but the existence of any such gang.

* Christianity and Judaism assert that God intervened in key specific moments in history, especially at the Exodus and the giving of the Ten Commandments in front of all the tribes of Israel, positing an argument from empirical evidence stemming from sheer number of witnesses, thus demonstrating his existence.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

The story of Nicodromus, while it proves the existence of a democratic party, suggests, at the same time, that it could count upon little support.

( That the story assumes the city ’ s existence and deliverance from judgment may indeed reflect an older tradition dating back to the eighth-7th century BC ) Assyria often opposed Israel and eventually took the Israelites captive in 722-721 BC ( see History of ancient Israel and Judah ).

Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

Whether or not these records describe a truly old oral story in existence at that time, or a 16th century invented story, is not currently determined.

* A Sign in Space — The idea that the galaxy slowly revolves becomes a story about a being who is desperate to leave behind some unique sign of his existence.

The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and his historical existence is debated and disputed by modern historians.

Believers in the Loch Ness Monster often point to this story, which notably takes place on the River Ness rather than the loch itself, as evidence for the creature's existence as early as the 6th century.

* The short story " There is a Tide " begins by speaking of a metaphorical tide of fate which guides one's destiny, but the existence of literal tides on a planet in the story is a key to the plot.

However, scholars have, in general, taken this as evidence for the existence of a Mahabharata at this date, whose episodes Dio or his sources identify with the story of the Iliad.

In Hesiod, the story of Prometheus ( and, by extension, of Pandora ) serves to reinforce the theodicy of Zeus: he is a wise and just ruler of the universe, while Prometheus is to blame for humanity's unenviable existence.

Isaac Asimov said that, from the time of his first story, it was accepted that Heinlein was the best science fiction writer in existence.

English records still in existence today tell a completely different story.

When the protagonists are captured and imprisoned by a Norman baron, Scott interrupts the story to exclaim: It is grievous to think that those valiant barons, to whose stand against the crown the liberties of England were indebted for their existence, should themselves have been such dreadful oppressors, and capable of excesses contrary not only to the laws of England, but to those of nature and humanity.

The main story arc involves the agents ' efforts to uncover a government conspiracy to hide the existence of intelligent extraterrestrials and the sinister collaboration of governments with those extraterrestrials.

The existence of two versions of the story shows some of the challenges of using traditional sources for history, because they share a large number of story elements but use them in different ways.

Elstracke's oddly-shaped cat was in fact a later replacement by printseller Peter Stent for what had been a skull in the original, with the change being made to conform to the story already in existence, in order to increase sales.

Any discussion of the sources of Titus Andronicus is complicated by the existence of two other versions of the story ; a prose history and a ballad ( both of which are anonymous and undated ).

However, Lerner denied that he had based the book on an older story, and, in an explanation published in The New York Times, stated that he didn't learn of the existence of the Germelshausen story until after he had completed the first draft of Brigadoon.

The story of Ruth, on the other hand, testifies to the existence of a friendly intercourse between Moab and Bethlehem, one of the towns of the tribe of Judah.