It is also the very meaning of the name of God in the Old Testament.
"Abigail" was taken from the wise woman in the Old Testament and "Van Buren" was one of her favorite presidents.
Eight kilometres west of town is Mount Nebo where, in the Old Testament, Moses saw the Promised Land from its peak.
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In the Old Testament, God places Adam in the Garden of Eden and has him name the animals, an act of a parent to a child.
That is a doctrinal fight that any of us can have any time (and I love it how these same Bible thumpers ignore the biblical story of Deborah, who was a judge in the Old Testament -- and was over men).
The major highlights here are not only the exuberant floral designs that abound on the mosaic floor of the Church of the Virgin (itself built over a Roman temple), but the multiple layers of Madaba's history -- inhabited in some way since the Old Testament Exodus period -- which this tiny section of town reveals.
"The Brave One" director Neil Jordan, like Terry George, is an Irish Republican well-versed in the political consequences of Old Testament justice, and his weirdly artificial uptown remake of Abel Ferrara's grungy 1981 film "Ms. 45" feels at war with itself.
Another piece is a clay vessel in the form of a piglet that was made nearly 3, 000 years before the Old Testament book of Leviticus made the pig anathema in most of the Middle East.
By and large, the children in the movie cleave instinctively to an Old Testament view of wrongs inflicted and answered, whereas most of the adults, who seem at once weaker and more disciplined, subscribe, at least in theory, to Christian forgiveness.
The iron-and-carbon-based ink used in one of the oldest Hebrew commentaries on the Old Testament is an example of this.
It is a commonplace of Jewish-Christian dialogue that both have a common root in the Hebrew Scriptures which Christians call the Old Testament.
Read in this spirit, large chunks of the Old Testament the territorial feuds, the constant threat of exile or extinction, the sexual jealousy and sibling rivalry begin to resemble the handbook for a grim new scarcity economy of land and love.
The boy Shamir had dreamed of this place so much educated in Hebrew in the depths of the Polish forest, his mind teeming with Old Testament heroes that when he arrived there in 1935, aged 20 and alone, he was immediately at home.
Born and raised in Khartoum, the 18-year old is a living testament to how his Nuba traditions have transcended the mountains, competing from boyhood even within the capital.
Save for the Old Testament look he tried on in "Evan Almighty, " he's maintained the same boring businessman haircut for as long as he's been in the public eye (and well before that, I'll bet).
Commenting on The Song of Songs from the Old Testament, Escriva once put this idea in lyrical form.
In that sense, Mingus, for whom spirituality was another recurring theme, was like the God of the Old Testament: He wanted to be loved as well as feared.
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And so, as I pondered and worried and accomplished nothing, the winter blew in with a wild snow that scoured the streets and roared through my meagre shelter like the vengeful God of the Old Testament.
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