Unlike in Hindu and Jain sources, in ancient Buddhist texts ahimsa ( or its Pāli cognate ) is not used as a technical term.

However, it has been argued that if both texts were written by the same individual, they should have exactly identical theologies and they should agree on historical questions.

This distinction had previously contributed to debate in the early Church about whether they should be read in the churches and thus be classified as canonical texts.

Using the word apocrypha ( Greek: hidden away ) to describe texts, although not necessarily pejorative, implies to some people that the writings in question should not be included in the canon of the Bible.

Some scholars have suggested it is relevant to this debate that the legendary King Arthur's name only appears as Arthur, or Arturus, in early Latin Arthurian texts, never as Artōrius ( though it should be noted that Classical Latin Artōrius became Arturius in some Vulgar Latin dialects ).

Paine takes this argument even further, maintaining that the same rules of logic and standards of evidence that govern the analysis of secular texts should be applied to the Bible.

However, in most specialized texts ( e. g., legal documents ), vagueness is distracting and should be avoided whenever possible.

Some texts should probably be interpreted as warnings against spies ( Vigilate, nescitis enim ) or lying tongues ( Quis est homo ) or celebration of the memory of martyred priests ( O quam gloriosum ).

Historian and linguist Andrew Dalby says most references to butter in ancient Near Eastern texts should more correctly be translated as ghee.

Ideally, it is argued, these texts should require multiple readings.

At the same time, proponents also argue that texts should not be well above the participants intellectual level or too long to read.

If this proves to be true in actual usage, then it should encourage the use of Senior Quikscript in printed texts rather than Junior Quikscript.

For this reason, methods based on introductory linear algebra texts are generally not suitable for implementation in software ; rather, one should consult contemporary numerical analysis sources for an algorithm like the one below, which does not amplify rounding errors unnecessarily.

However, the representation of the Cārvāka thought in these works is not always firmly grounded in first hand knowledge of Cārvāka texts and should be viewed critically.

Illustrative of this is Sholom Dovber Schneersohn's wish in establishing the Chabad yeshiva system, that the students should spend a part of the daily curriculum learning Chabad Hasidic texts " with pilpul ".

To complete the picture we should also mention the eunuch priests of Artemis at Ephesus ; the western Semitic qedeshim, the male “ temple prostitutes ” known from the Hebrew Bible and Ugaritic texts of the late second millennium ; and the keleb, priests of Astarte at Kition and elsewhere.

It should be noted that the title " khan " is not attested directly in inscriptions and texts referring to Bulgar rulers – the only similar title found so far, Kanasubigi, has been found solely in the inscriptions of three consecutive Bulgarian rulers, namely Krum, Omurtag and Malamir ( a grandfather, son and grandson ).

After Marcion, Christians began to divide texts into those that aligned well with the " measuring stick " ( Greek kanōn literally means " measuring stick ") of accepted theological thought, and those that should be rejected.

Also, researchers should always be objective with regard to the selection of information to be featured in reference texts because such literature should offer a comprehensive view on marketing.

One may also interpret this passage to be stating that once one has reach a sufficient level of cultivation, he / she should seek a position in office with which to lead the people of the state in accordance with the values and practices outlined in the Great Learning and other such Confucian and Neo-Confucian texts ( Wang 3 ).

McGee notes that the study of a term must not, and should not, be limited to its use in “ formal discourse .” Instead, the critic is much more likely to gain a better understanding of an ideograph by looking at how it is used and depicted in movies, plays, and songs, as well as how it is presented in educational texts aimed at children.

In the early texts, the Buddha commonly uses the word in the context of teaching that all things perceived by the senses ( including the mental sense ) are not really " I " or " mine ", and for this reason one should not cling to them.

According to the early texts, while on the path, one should develop oneself in healthy and liberating ways, only letting go of the attempt to improve the self as it becomes unnecessary.

Whereas a high percentage of the regular students can be expected to read other texts which more or less plow the same ground in a little different direction, the married students chose whole books on specific areas and went into much greater detail in their areas of interest.

In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.

In most accents of AmE, the irregular forms are never or rarely used ( except for burnt, leapt and dreamt ). The t endings may be encountered frequently in older American texts.

Included amongst the ethnic names of the repulsed invaders is the Ekwesh or Eqwesh, whom some have seen as Achaeans, although Egyptian texts specifically mention these Ekwesh to be circumcised ( which does not seem to have been a general practice in the Aegaean at the time ).

In the earliest Indian astronomy texts, the year was believed to be 360 days long, similar to that of Babylonian astrology, but the rest of the early astrological system bears little resemblance.

The early texts assume war to be a fact of life, and well-skilled warriors are viewed as a necessity for defensive warfare.

The sources has seem to be the resulting problem of the Summa, " counted there were 4814 explicit quotations and 1372 implicit quotations from Augustine, more than one quarter of texts were cited in the body of the Summa.

Not all of his output can be easily dated, and Bede may have worked on some texts over a period of many years.

Contrary to the above, the Expositor's Bible Commentary ( Zondervan, 1990 ) says that the language of Daniel, in comparison with the Hebrew and Aramaic texts of the Hellenistic period, " prove quite conclusively to any scholar that the second-century date and Palestinian provenance of the Book of Daniel cannot be upheld any longer without violence being done to the science of linguistics.

Such influence has caused Aramaic to have many Persian loanwords that can be seen in later historical texts.

The Hebrew of the original calls the child's mother a " young woman ", but the Greek-speaking 1st century CE author of Matthew 1: 23, using the Hellenistic Greek translation of the Hebrew sacred texts, interpreted it as a prophecy that the Messiah would be born of a virgin.

As for the identity of Mordecai, the similar names Marduka and Marduku have been found as the name of officials in the Persian court in over thirty texts from the period of Xerxes I and his father Darius, and may refer to up to four individuals, one of which might after all be Mordecai.

They are of two kinds: the " parallel texts ", which are parallel developments of the corresponding passages in the base text, and the speeches of Elihu ( Chapters 32-37 ), which consist of a polemic against the ideas expressed elsewhere in the poem, and so are claimed to be interpretive interpolations.

Hindu religious texts contain account of saints and hermits practicing what would be called inedia, breatharianism or Sustenance through Light in modern terms.

The written history of China can be found as early as the Shang Dynasty ( c. 1700 – 1046 BC ), although ancient historical texts such as the Records of the Grand Historian ( ca.

Other than the Bible, the majority of the LDS canon constitutes revelation dictated by Joseph Smith and includes commentary and exegesis about the Bible, texts described as lost parts of the Bible, and other works believed to be written by ancient prophets.

The Spring and Autumn Annals, the official chronicle of the State of Lu covering the period from 722 BCE to 481 BCE, is among the earliest surviving Chinese historical texts to be arranged on annalistic principles.

More broadly speaking, Chinese classic texts may refer to texts, be they written in vernacular Chinese or in classical Chinese, that existed before 1912, when the last imperial Chinese dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, fell.

( Although texts mention certain categories for whom the way back will be exceedingly hard, such as the slanderer, the habitual gossip, and the malicious person )

Christadelphians believe the doctrines they reject were introduced into Christendom after the first century in large part through exposure to pagan Greek philosophy, and cannot be substantiated from the Biblical texts.

Referring to the resolution, Lumumba wrote to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, ‘ From these texts it is clear that, contrary to your personal interpretation, the UN force may be used to subdue the rebel government of Katanga .’ Secretary General Hammarskjöld refused.

Some scholars have suggested that some ancient and religious texts bear similarities to what would later be called detective fiction.

As can be seen in the texts, the French declaration is heavily influenced by the political philosophy of the Enlightenment, and by Enlightenment principles of human rights, some of which it shares with the U. S. Declaration of Independence which preceded it ( 4 July 1776 ).