Traditional scholars have argued the letter's audience was Jewish Christians, as early as the end of the 2nd century ( hence its title, " The Epistle to the Hebrews ").

Traditional scholars hold that the laws are contextual and consider circumstance such as time, place and culture, the principles they are based upon are universal such as justice, equality and respect.

Traditional scholars say that the biographies of other contemporary figures, such as King James or the Earl of Essex, fit the play just as closely if not more so.

Clinical use of acupressure frequently relies on the conceptual framework of Traditional Chinese Medicine ( TCM ), which some scholars have characterized as pseudoscientific.

Traditional scholars believe the briefer account describes a different structure, perhaps Moses's personal tent.

Traditional analysis of these passages led Christian scholars to understand theophany as an unambiguous manifestation of God, to man, where " unambiguous " indicates that the seers or seer are of no doubt that it is God revealing himself to them.

Clinical use of electroacupuncture frequently relies on the conceptual framework of Traditional Chinese Medicine ( TCM ), which some scholars argue is pseudoscientific.

Traditional heavy metal bands like Black Sabbath and the many bands they inspired have concentrated lyrically " on dark and depressing subject matter to an extent hitherto unprecedented in any form of pop music ", according to scholars David Hatch and Stephen Millward.

Based on this legend though, some groups may use cannabis as a " gateway " but according to Traditional Sufi scholars who have studied the fundamental texts, intoxicants are haram ( http :// spa. qibla. com / issue_view. asp? HD = 1 & ID = 3264 & CATE = 13 ).

Traditional tribes hold a high value of respect to the lodge.

Traditional sources, such as the Buddhist monastic code, hold that life begins at conception and that abortion, which would then involve the deliberate destruction of life, should be rejected.

Traditional carousel CD players hold three, five, or seven discs on a flat carousel tray.

Traditional rechargeable batteries have to be charged before their first use ; newer low self-discharge NiMH batteries hold their charge for many months, and are typically charged at the factory to about 70 % of their rated capacity before shipping.

Traditional Historic and Conservative Adventists, who hold Ellen White's writings in higher regard, still consider this date as one of the fulfillments of biblical prophecy.

Traditional religious beliefs and cultural traits usually becomes less important as modernization takes hold.

Traditional legend used to hold that the species was first seen in Britain on the execution of Charles I, but it is more likely to have simply become more common by that time, having arrived with the first transportation of potatoes some centuries earlier.

Traditional rulers still hold substantial power in the province.

Traditional Batak beliefs hold that the dead occupy a hierarchical status similar to the social position they held in life.

Traditional grip ( also known as orthodox grip ) is a technique used to hold drum sticks while playing percussion instruments.

Sanford A. Moeller ( whose book discusses the Moeller method or Moeller Technique ), suggests that one should learn the Traditional Grip ' ancient style ', as well ... where the overhand grip should hold or grip the drumstick almost entirely with the little finger.

Traditional, normative Jews hold the verse in Nehemiah cannot be referring to Lev.

Traditional Apfelwein restaurants and their habitual guests generally hold to the 0. 3-litre standard.

Celtiberian tradition of Wicca, consisting of Fernando Gonzalez ( source ) in the 80's of the twentieth century from the Hispanic Traditional Witchcraft to which he belongs, is a structured religion through the symbiosis between " traditionalism wizard " ( inciatic and mystery ), the historical reconstructionist ( cultural and archaeological ) and " adaptationism " liturgical ( conditioning ceremonial ) of Hispanic Traditional Witchcraft, paganism, religious worship pre-Christian Celtic and Iberian mainly and those that were previously formed ( shamanism, Neolithic and Paleolithic cults ).

Main article: Traditional African religion, Ifa, Religion in Africa

Traditional hermeneutics is the study of the interpretation of written texts, especially texts in the areas of literature, religion and law.

The stripping of the altars: Traditional religion in England, c. 1400-c. 1580.

Traditional values emphasize the importance of religion, parent-child ties, deference to authority and traditional family values.

Rene Guenon: " The starting-point given to the year that one can call normal, as being in direct conformity with primordial tradition, is the winter solstice ", Traditional Forms and Cosmic Cycles, p. 24 ); on the other stand the chthonic and titanized inferior races and the spiritually / ethnically bastardized heirs of the fallen Atlantean civilization captured by the " Southern Light " and its sacerdotal and naturalistic-pantheist religion of promiscuous vegetal and animal fertility.

Traditional Burmese society was drastically altered by the demise of the monarchy and the separation of religion and state.

Traditional Dong religion also makes use of many taboos, omens, and fetishes.

The Traditional religion was rather complex, as described in the early 1960s by the French ethnographer, Alain Ichon.

Adherents. com cites Barrett's 2001 world religion calculations for a demographic estimate, ranging at 457 million " tribal religionists, " ethnic religionists ," or " animists ," including African Traditional religionists, but not including Chinese folk religion or Shintoism.

** Traditional Berber religion

* Shen ( Chinese religion ) ( 神 ), a central word in Chinese philosophy, religion, terms for God, and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Ibibio religion was of two dimensions, which centered on the pouring of libation, worship, consultation, communication and invocation of the God of Heaven ( Abasi Enyong ) and God of the Earth ( Abasi Isong ) by the Constitutional and Religious King / Head of a particular Ibibio Community who was known from the ancient times as the Obong-Ikpaisong ( the word ' Obong Ikpaisong ' directly interpreted means King of the Principalities of the Earth ' or ' King of the Earth and the Principalities ' or Traditional Ruler ).

Traditional Roman religion distinguished between a deus ( god ) and a divus ( a mortal who became divine or deified ), though not consistently.

Soumaoro is regarded as one of the true champions of the Traditional African religion.

Sundiata is regarded as a great hunter and magician whose subjects predominantly adhered to the Traditional African religion and so did Sundiata, in order to gain their favors.

The Mali Empire was not founded by a Muslim dynasty, but by non-Muslims, based on the tenets of Traditional African religion.

Both liberal ( like the American Civil Liberties Union ) and conservative groups ( like the Traditional Values Coalition ) as well as other groups such as the Christian Legal Society, the American Jewish Congress, and the National Association of Evangelicals joined forces to support RFRA, which would reinstate the Sherbert Test, overturning laws if they burden a religion.

Traditional economies may be based on custom and tradition or command, with economic decisions based on the traditions of community, family, or religion.

Traditional Torres Strait religion can be characterised as totemic and ancestor worship, and as such the markai are the ancestors, and are specially revered.