Genesis Sentence Examples

It affords a point of departure for the interpretation of the genesis of existing instincts.

The book of Genesis closes with the migration of Jacob's family into Egypt to escape the famine in Canaan.

The Genesis fragments have less of the heroic tone, except in the splendid passage describing the rebellion of Satan and his host.

The genesis of the last three types of deposit is generally assigned to the simultaneous percolation of solutions of gold and silica, the auriferous solution being formed during the disintegration of the gold-bearing metalliferous veins.

Cheyne, Genesis and Exodus, referring to Dorsey, Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee, pp. 2, 80 ff.

In Genesis it is preserved from the southern point of view.

Somewhat curiously, but very naturally, Enoch the son of Cain is confused with the Enoch who was translated to heaven - an error which the author of the Old English Genesis avoids, though (according to the existing text) he confounds the names of Enoch and Enos.

Their testimony, if accepted, confirms the ascription to him of the Genesis fragments, which is further supported by the fact that they occur in the same MS. with a portion of the Heliand.

The Speculum Naturale is so constructed that the various subjects are dealt with according to the order of their creation; it is in fact a gigantic commentary on Genesis i.

In 1842 he published the first volume of his Contributions towards the Exposition of the Book of Genesis, a work which wa.s completed in three volumes several years later.

To many the interest of such stories will depend on their parallelism to the Biblical account in Genesis i.; the anthropologist, however, will be attracted by them in proportion as they illustrate the more primitive phases of human culture.

For the Iranian parallel, see § 8, and on the Hebrew Priestly Writer, Gunkel, Genesis 2, pp. 2 33 ff.

From a literary point of view, indeed, it cannot compare with the dignified Hebrew narrative, but considering the misfortunes which have befallen the collection of Zoroastrian traditions now represented by the Bundahish (the Parsee Genesis) we cannot reasonably be surprised.

Every endeavour is made to gloss over, or modify, expressions which seemed derogatory to the ancestors of ' According to Zunz, Gottesdienstliche Vortrdge, 2nd ed., p. 80, its contents bear the following proportions to Genesis, z o o to Exodus, about 1 1 4 to Leviticus, s to Numbers, and 4 to Deuteronomy.

For the completion of the history of Abraham the compiler of Genesis has used P's narrative.

To-day, though Bibles are still printed with the year 4004 B.C. in the margin of the first chapter of Genesis, no scholar would pretend to regard this reference seriously.

The acute interest which they excited when George Smith deciphered their contents in 1872 has to some extent abated, but this is only because scholars are now pretty generally agreed as to their bearing on the corresponding parts of Genesis.

The particular tablets in question date only from about the 7th century B.C., but it is agreed among Assyriologists that they are copies of older texts current in Babylonia for many centuries before, and it is obvious that the compilers of Genesis had access to the Babylonian stories.

Cast in the form of comments on the history of Livy, the Discorsi are really an inquiry into the genesis and maintenance of states.

The sisters of Meleager were 2 The god 'EAcoiiv was also Phoenician; see Driver, Genesis, p. 165; Lagrange, Religions Semitiques, Index, s.v.

On the 4th of March 1590, as one of the chaplains of Queen Elizabeth, he preached before her a singularly outspoken sermon, and in October gave his introductory lecture at St Paul's, undertaking to comment on the first four chapters of Genesis.

Two other accounts in Genesis, originally independent, give supplementary information drawn from the Sabaean colonies, the stations and factories established to facilitate trade through the desert.

Of these three views, it is only the ' See Smith and Sayce, Chaldaean Genesis, p. 88; Delitzsch, Wo lag das Paradies ?

Nok Khum is one of the theories of the genesis of mankind, the Nok Khum being the sacred goose or "Hansa" from whose eggs the first human beings were supposed to have been hatched.

Partly because of its Puritanic genesis and partly because of its independent manufacturing interests, Newark has kept, in spite of its nearness to New York City, a distinct character of its own.

The different order of the books in the English Bible is due to the fact that when the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek between the 3rd and 1st centuries B.C., the Hebrew tripartite division was disregarded, and the books (including those now known as the " Apocrypha ") were grouped mostly by subjects, the historical books being placed first (Genesis - Esther), the poetical books next (Job - Song of Songs), and the prophetical books last (Isaiah - Malachi).

Genesis is but slightly abridged, but Job, Kings, Judges, Esther and Judith as well as the Maccabees are mere homilies epitomized from the corresponding Old Testament books.

The subjects in the nave begin with scenes from the Book of Genesis, illustrating the Old Testament types of Christ and His scheme of redemption, with figures of those who prophesied and prepared for His coming.

Religionssystem (1831; in this work Manichaean speculation is exhibited from a speculative standpoint); Fliigel, Mani (1862; a very careful investigation on the basis of the Fihrist); Kessler, Untersuchung zur Genesis des manich.

In 1693 his series of Biblical commentaries began with that on Genesis; the series was not completed until 1731.

The story of the Creation in the book of Genesis is shown, from the point of view of chronology, to be a poetic or symbolic account by the discovery of civilizations of much greater antiguity.

In 1607 he was nominated one of the translators of the Authorised Version of 1611, his part being Genesis to end of Kings ii.

No doubt the Phoenicians had their legends and myths to account for the origin of man and the universe; to some extent these would Myth R e!,, o logy have resembled the ideas embodied in the book of and Genesis.

Because iron would be so easily made by prehistoric and even by primeval man, and would be so useful to him, we are hardly surprised to read in Genesis that Tubal Cain, the sixth in descent from Adam, discovered it; that the Assyrians had knives and saws which, to be effective, must have been of hardened steel, i.e.

The increased cost of government and the growing wealth of the middle class, rather than the avarice of the king and the genius of his ministers, were responsible for the genesis and direction of the new order.

The first instalment of his commentary on the Pentateuch was Exodus (1855); this was followed by Genesis (1858) and Leviticus in two parts (1867-1872).

The rest of the year was spent in fixing together and translating the fragments relating to the Creation, the results of which work were embodied in The Chaldaean Account of Genesis.

A second protagonist of error, this time of Gentile philosophic criticism directed against fundamental Judaism, is Apion, the notorious anti-Jewish Alexandrine grammarian of Peter's day; while the role of upholder of astrological fatalism (Genesis) is played by Faustus, father of Clement, with whom Peter and Clement debate at Laodicea.

Though never an advanced critic, his article on Daniel in the second edition of Herzog's Realencyklopeidie, his New Commentary on Genesis and the fourth edition of his Isaiah show that as years went on his sympathy with higher criticism increased-so much so indeed that Prof. Cheyne has included him among its founders.

Contrast in these respects the history of Joseph (xii.) and its glaring improprieties with the admirably conceived and admirably executed story in Genesis.

Besides the lectures noted he published Studies in Genesis (1880), The Foundations of Morality (1882) and some volumes of sermons.

The sources from which the book of Exodus has been compiled are the same as those which form the basis of the book of Genesis, while the method of composition is very similar.

But it also goes on to raise the question whether the making of reality for our knowledge does not, in view of the essentially practical nature of knowledge, imply also a real making of reality by us, and so throw light upon the whole genesis of reality.

Outside of Genesis, Lamech is only mentioned in the Bible in 1 Chron.

Public education in Illinois had its genesis in the land of the North-West Territory reserved for educational purposes by the Ordinance of 1787.

Then citing from Genesis and 2 Chronicles, the first and last books in the order of the Jewish Bible, He declared that all righteous blood from that of Abel to that of Zachariah should be required of that generation.

Still it remains a great point to have even attempted some system in the dark anomalies which lie under the normal consciousness, and to have traced the genesis of the intellectua4 faculties from animal sensitivity.

The books were compiled and preserved for definite aims, and their teaching is directed now to the needs of the people as a whole - as in the ever popular stories of Genesis - now to the inculcation of the lessons of the past, and now to matters of ritual.

In Genesis and elsewhere there are examples of popular thought which have not the characteristic spirit of the prophets, and which, it is clear, could only gradually be purified.

With this it is natural to connect the transmission and presence in the Old Testament of specifically Kenite tradition, of the " southern " stories in Genesis, and of the stories of Levi.

See Genesis, Levites, and Jews, § 20.

Genesis - Kings (incomplete; some further material in Jeremiah) and the later Chronicles - Nehemiah are in their present form posterior to Nehemiah's time.

These sources then are " post-exilic," and the elimination of material first composed in that age leaves historical, legal and other material which was obviously in circulation (so, e.g., the non-priestly portions of Genesis).

Thus the resemblances which have been claimed between the Nippur Deluge fragment and the version of the "Priestly Code" in Genesis, in themselves furnish no significant evidence as to the latter's date.

In his Synopsis physicae ad lumen divinum reformatae he gives a physical theory of his own, said to be taken from the book of Genesis.

To the methodologist of science in genesis it appeared altogether to fail to satisfy any practical interest.

The central and organizing principle of this is that knowledge is in genesis, that the genesis takes place in the medium of individual minds, and that this fact implies that there is a necessary reference throughout to interests or purposes of the subject which thinks because it wills and acts.

It is enough here to have alluded to the part played by the Low Countries in the genesis of a motive force which may be described as the last manifestation of the Renaissance striving after self-emancipation.

They consist of paraphrases of parts of Genesis, Exodus and Daniel, and three separate poems, the first on the lamentations of the fallen angels, the second on the "Harrowing of Hell," the resurrection, ascension and second coming of Christ, and the third (a mere fragment) on the temptation.

Sievers's conclusions were brilliantly confirmed in 1894 by the discovery in the Vatican library of a MS. containing 62 lines of the Heliand and three fragments of an old Saxon poem on the story of Genesis.

The first of these fragments includes the original of 28 lines of the interpolated passage of the Old English Genesis.

As the Genesis begins with a line identical in meaning, though not in wording, with the opening of Cmdmon's Hymn, we may perhaps infer that the writer knew and used Cmdmon's genuine poems. Some of the more poetical passages may possibly echo Cmdmon's expressions; but when, after treating of the creation of the angels and the revolt of Lucifer, the paraphrast comes to the Biblical part of the story, he follows the sacred text with servile fidelity, omitting no detail, however prosaic. The ages of the antediluvian patriarchs, for instance, are accurately rendered into verse.

In all probability the Genesis is of Northumbrian origin.

Certain similarities between passages in Paradise Lost and parts of the translation from Old Saxon interpolated in the Old English Genesis have given occasion to the suggestion that some scholar may have talked to Milton about the poetry published by Junius in 1655, and that the poet may thus have gained some hints which he used in his great work.

To understand the genesis of human morality we must study the ways of sociable animals such as horses and monkeys, which give each other assistance in trouble, feel mutual affection and sympathy, and experience pleasure in doing actions that benefit the society to which they belong.

Not only was Babylonia the mother country, as the tenth chapter of Genesis explicitly states, but the religion and culture, the literature and the characters in which it was contained, the arts and the sciences of the Assyrians were derived from their southern neighbours.

Whether this name be derived from the corruption in Genesis or not cannot be definitely decided; it very likely is.

During a period of exceptional distress the rioting was caused mainly by the heavy charges at the toll-gates on the public roads in South Wales, and the rioters took as their motto the words in Genesis xxiv.

Charles's commentary, The Book of Jubilees or the Little Genesis (1902), which deals exhaustively with all the questions treated in this article.

Blount adopted and expanded Hobbes's arguments against the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch; and, mainly in the words of Burnet's Archeologiae philosophicae, he asserts the total inconsistency of the Mosaic Hexaemeron with the Copernican theory of the heavens, dwelling with emphasis on the impossibility of admitting the view developed in Genesis, that the earth is the most important part of the universe.

He assumes that the narrative was meant ethically, not physically, in order to eliminate false and polytheistic notions; and he draws attention to that double narrative in Genesis which was elsewhere to be so fruitfully handled.

The view maintained by a distinguished comparative anatomist, Professor St George Mivart, in his Genesis of Species, ch.

St George Mivart (Genesis of Species) propounded a theory of a natural evolution of man as to his body, combined with a supernatural creation as to his soul; but this attempt to meet the difficulties on both sides seems to have satisfied neither.

He defined his problem as the quid juris or the question of the validity of knowledge, not its quid facti or the laws of the empirical genesis and evolution of intellection (to use Croom Robertson's phraseology).

The inquiry is, therefore, logical or transcendental in its nature, and does not entangle us in any decision as to the conditions of the genesis of such consciousness in the individual.

Hence the dispute between evolutionist and transcendentalist rests, in general, on an ignoratio elenchi; for the history of the genesis of an idea (the historical or genetic method) does not contain an answer to - though it may throw light on - the philosophical question of its truth or validity.

He translated and edited Gesenius's Hebrew Grammar (1839; 1877), and published revised versions with notes of Job (1856), Genesis (1868), Psalms (1871), Proverbs (1872), Isaiah i.

His translation of the first twenty-five chapters of Luther's commentary on Genesis was published in 1557; in other ways he promoted the spread of Lutheran views.

Robertson's published works include five volumes of sermons, two volumes of expository lectures, on Genesis and on the epistles to the Corinthians, a volume of miscellaneous addresses, and an Analysis of "In Memoriam."

Among these conceptions that of the Word of God had an important place, especially the creative Word of Genesis i.

The Assyrians and Egyptians made considerable use of the metal; and in Genesis iv.

Huxley's agnosticism was a natural consequence of the intellectual and philosophical conditions of the 'sixties, when clerical intolerance was trying to excommunicate scientific discovery because it appeared to clash with the book of Genesis.

While the English version follows the Septuagint directly in speaking of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy, it follows the Vulgate in speaking of Numbers.

The second book proposes a hypothesis regarding the genesis of our ideas and closes after an elaborate endeavour to verify it.

Posidonius had identified this period with the mythical " golden age "; and such ideas easily coalesced with the narrative in Genesis.

His accounts of the genesis of the conceptions of obligation and responsibility as of most of the ultimate conceptions with which moral philosophy deals will be accepted or rejected to the extent to which the main contention concerning the psychological basis of ethics commends itself to the reader.

The genesis and formulation of these types may be readily understood by considering the relation which exists between the alcohols and the parent hydrocarbon.

Observe that for a determinant of the n-th order, taking the decomposition to be r + (n - I), we fall back upon the equations given at the commencement, in order to show the genesis of a determinant.

It is, however, the proper sequel to the origins of the people as related in Genesis, to the exodus of the Israelite tribes from Egypt, and their journeyings in the wilderness.

That the older sources (which often prove to be composite) are actually identical with the Yahwist or Judaean (J) and the Elohist or Ephraimite (E) narratives (on which see Genesis) is not improbable, though, especially as regards the former, still very uncertain.

He has intimate relations in peace and war with a variety of animals whose habits are sometimes explained (like those of the serpent in Genesis) as the result of the curse of Heitsi Eibib.

Only on the assumption that the book of Genesis is a composite work is it possible to explain the duplication of events, the varying use of the divine names Yahweh and Elohim, the linguistic and stylistic differences, the internal intricacies of the subject matter, and the differing standpoints as regards tradition, chronology, morals and religion.'

The internal features of Genesis demand some formulated theory, more precise than the indefinite concessions of the 17th century, beyond which the opponents of modern literary criticism scarcely advance, and the Graf-Wellhausen theory, in spite of the numerous difficulties which it leaves untouched, is the only adequate starting-point for the study of the book.

According to this, Genesis is a post-exilic work composed of a post-exilic priestly source (P) and non-priestly earlier sources which differ markedly from P in language, style and religious standpoint, but much less markedly from one and another.6 These sources can be traced elsewhere in the Pentateuch and Joshua, and P itself is related to the post-exilic works Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah.

In its present form Genesis is an indispensable portion of the biblical history, and consequently its literary growth cannot be viewed apart from that of the books which follow.

The technical investigation of the literary problems (especially the extent of the earlier sources) is a work of great complexity, and, for ordinary purposes, it is more important to obtain a preliminary appreciation of the general features of the contents of Genesis.

It has revealed conditions which are not reflected in Genesis, and important facts upon which the book is silent - unless, indeed, there is a passing allusion to the great Babylonian monarch Khammurabi in the Amraphel of Gen.

Whatever future research may bring, it cannot remove the internal peculiarities which combine to show that Genesis preserves, not literal history, but popular traditions of the past.

Nevertheless, though one cannot look to Genesis for the history of the early part of the second millennium B.C., the study of what was thought of the past, proves in this, as in many other cases, to be more instructive than the facts of the past, and it is distinctly more important for the biblical student and the theologian to understand the thought of the ages immediately preceding the foundation of Judaism in the 5th century B.C. than the actual history of many centuries earlier.

To primitive minds which speculated upon the "why and wheretore" of what they saw around them, the narratives of Genesis afforded an answer.

So abundant is the testimony of modern travellers to the extent to which Eastern custom and thought elucidate the interpretation of the Bible, that it is very important to notice those features which illustrate Genesis.

The chronological system of the latest source in Genesis becomes an elaborate reckoning of heavenly origin.

Consequently investigation must start with the particular ' The Book of Jubilees also enables the student to test the arguments based upon any study restricted to Genesis alone.

Thus it shows that the "primitive" features of Genesis afford a criterion which is sociological rather than chronological.

Israelite monarchy does not necessarily point to the priority of the traditions in Genesis or their later date.

Genesis preserves a selection of traditions relating to a few of the old Palestinian centres of cult.

It is significant, therefore, that the narratives in Genesis (apart from P) reflect a certain tolerant attitude; there is much that is contrary to prophetical thought, but even the latest compilers have not obliterated all features that, from a strict standpoint, could appear distasteful.

From a careful survey of all the accessible material it is beyond doubt that Genesis preserves only a selection of traditions of various ages and interests, and often not in their original form.

Their researches on this subject are indispensable for a critical study of Genesis.

Thus the book of Genesis represents the result of efforts to systematize the earliest history, and to make it a worthy prelude to the Mosaic legislation which formed the charter of Summary.

Also, from P alone it would have been equally impossible to recover the non-priestly forms. But while there is no immeasurable gulf between the canonical book of Genesis and Jubilees, the internal study of the former reveals traces of earlier traditions most profoundly different as regards thought and contents.

These, like the concessions of other apologetic writers, far outweigh the often hypercritical, irrelevant, and superficial objections brought against the literary and historical criticism of Genesis.

As a term of disparagement and contempt the word is also used of persons, from the idea of wriggling or creeping on the ground, partly, too, perhaps, with a reminiscence of Genesis iii.

He was afterwards banished into Scythia, where he worked successfully among the Goths, not living to see the destruction of his labours by Athanaric. The Audaeans celebrated the feast of Easter on the same day as the Jewish Passover, and they were also charged with attributing to the Deity a human shape, an opinion which they appear to have founded on Genesis i.

Let us refer at this point to a document in Genesis which is perhaps hardly estimated at its true value, the so-called Table of Peoples in Gen.

It is noteworthy that the first part of his name is identical with the name of the father of Canaan in Genesis (Ham or Kham), indicating his Arabian origin.

The name of the steward of Abram's establishment is given in Genesis xv.

After replying to the question of Deogratias, and giving sundry counsels as to the best method of interesting catechumens, Augustine concludes by giving a model catechetical lecture, in which he covers the whole of biblical history, beginning from the opening chapters of Genesis, and laying particular stress on the doctrinal parts of Scripture.

Starting with the assumption of conscious experience as the content or filling-in of the individual mind, Locke proceeds to explain its genesis and nature by reference co the real universe of things and its mechanical operation upon the mind.

The war was the genesis and caused the collapse of the third millenium north Mesopotamian civilization.

That would not be translation, yet that is what is happening when we translate Adam as man early in Genesis.

The book is illustrated with 12 pages of photographs and includes an afterword which describes the genesis of the project.

In Genesis 2, however, He is characterized by naive anthropomorphisms (human terminology applied to deity) which imply an inferior status.

Genesis works in partnerships and supports emerging artists through organizations such as the Young Vic, the Royal Court Theater and others.

Genesis tells how Jacob gained ascendancy over his brother, Esau, by means of his cunning.

Genesis chapter 40 (TEV) 1 Some time later the king of Egypt's wine steward and his chief baker offended the king.

Genesis 3 will lay the blame for evil at the door of the human race.

The mosaic cosmogony has been called " the proem to Genesis.

The same is true of attempts to identify the big bang of modern cosmology with the myth of Genesis.

Those views, theistic evolution, progressive creationism, also deny the straightforward text of the book of Genesis.

Then a quick dash down to Genesis to see Mr Duck, who still seem to be stuck in the 80s.

The song is structured with tranquil quiet verses and an upbeat chorus that combine to make a very Genesis like mini epic.

He wrote a brief exposition of the Gospel of Matthew under the title, The Genesis of the New Testament.

Genesis Forwarding Services, with its Head Office in Eastbourne, is one of the country's leading independent, international freight forwarders.

Lamprecht traces the genesis of this idea to none other than Sir Edmund Halley.

Sir Denis Forman explains the genesis of the best of ITV's traditions to Steve Clarke.

In the first chapter I explore the genesis of the Holocaust industry.

The Beat Surrender sat down with Doug Burnham to discuss the genesis of their sound, rebellion, and parenting.

An understanding the genesis of the Salem Witchcraft episode provides a way of understanding the genesis of these latter-day Satanic sexual abuse episodes.

A major conceptual task is to relate cultural genesis to natural genesis.

For words always come from the past, whether from the previous moment's thinking or the earliest genesis of the race.

One such railroad is the Chasewater Railroad, which can trace its origins back to the very genesis of railroad preservation.

Talking of the main character, Suguru is more than similar to Shinji from neon genesis evangelion.

They give a fascinating glimpse of the genesis of Warren's later style.

This really could be the genesis of the fat mother-in-law joke, " one of the team breathlessly asserted.

He was fantastic in Genesis of the Daleks, but increasingly just a ranting maniac thereafter... Here!

In the biblical parable in Genesis, Adam and Eve became ashamed of their bodies after they disobeyed God.

Genesis 1 is not written according to the laws of Hebrew poetry.

In the 2002/2003 season, Genesis supported a series of critically acclaimed recitals at St John's, Smith Square, London.

God then re-created the earth in the six literal days of creation described in the first chapter of Genesis.

The great message that rings out from chapter 1 of Genesis to chapter 22 of Revelation is that God is totally sovereign.

Among his essays may be mentioned The Evolution of Self-Consciousness and two articles published in 1871 on the Genesis of Species.

Another work, Verklaringe der Scheppenissen (1553) treats mystically the book of Genesis, a favourite theme with Boehme, Swedenborg and others.

In the view of Hobbes, the difficulty of the genesis of conscious minds is solved by saying that sensation and thought are part of the reaction of the organism on external movement.

In the third part of this work he inclines to a thoroughly natural hypothesis respecting the genesis of the physical world, and adds in the fourth part that the same kind of explanation might be applied to the nature and formation of plants and animals.

Maupertuis, who, together with Voltaire, introduced the new idea of the universe as based on Newton's discoveries, sought to account for the origin of organic things by the hypothesis of sentient atoms. Buffon the naturalist speculated, not only on the structure and genesis of organic beings, but also on the course of formation of the earth and solar system, which he conceived after the analogy of the development of organic beings out of seed.

Diderot, too, in his varied intellectual activity, found time to speculate on the genesis of sensation and thought out of a combination of matter endowed with an elementary kind of sentience.

He conceived of man as a product of nature that had gradually developed itself from a low condition, though he relinquished the problem of the exact mode of his first genesis and advance as not soluble by data of experience.

These traditions of migration and kinship are in themselves entirely credible, but the detailed accounts of the ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as given in Genesis, are inherently doubtful as regards both the internal conditions, which the (late) chronological scheme ascribes to the first half of the second millennium B.C., and the general circumstances of the life of these strangers in a foreign land.

This question, however, will rest upon those criteria alone which are of true chronological validity (see further Genesis).

Calebite, too, are Hebron and its patron Abraham, and both increase in prominence in the patriarchal narratives, where, moreover, an important body of tradition can have emanated only from outside Israel and Judah (see Genesis).

The first biblical mention of "Mount Gilead" occurs in connexion with the reconcilement of Jacob and Laban (Genesis xxxi.).

The evolution of the notion of elements is treated under Element; the molecular hypothesis of matter under Molecule; and the genesis of, and deductions from, the atomic theory of Dalton receive detailed analysis in the article Atom.

At the end of 1900 Loisy secured a government lectureship at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Pratiques, and delivered there in succession courses on the Babylonian myths and the first chapters of Genesis; the Gospel parables; the narrative of the ministry in the synoptic Gospels; and the Passion narratives in the same.

The questions relating to the Heliand cannot be adequately discussed without considering also the poem on the history of Genesis, which, on the grounds of similarity in style and vocabulary, and for other reasons afterwards to be mentioned, may with some confidence be referred to the same author.

Regarded as descriptive of the genesis of an alloy from a uniform liquid containing two or more metals, the term is not incorrect, and it may have acted as a signpost towards profitable methods of research.

The curious legend, in which the fabulous origin of the so-called society was enshrined (that a certain Christian Rosenkreuz had discovered the secret wisdom of the East on a pilgrimage in the 15th century), was so improbable, though ingenious, that the genesis of the Rosicrucians was generally overlooked or ignored, but the worthy objects of the fratres were soon discovered and supported by several able men; the result being a mass of literature on the subject, which absorbs some 80 pages of Gardner's Catalogue Raisonne of Works on the Occult Sciences (London, 1903).

At the same place, too, he wrote Quaestiones Hebraicae on Genesis, 2 and a series of commentaries on Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, the Twelve Minor Prophets, Matthew and the Epistles of St Paul.

In a word, the Hebrew Genesis shows unequivocal evidence of Babylonian origin, but, in the words of Professor Sayce, it is but "a paraphrase and not a translation."

He appealed to the popular conviction that the proper object of sense is the sole reality, although he despaired of getting men to give up their belief in its externality, and asserted that nothing but prejudice prevented them from doing so; and there is little doubt that, if it had ever occurred to him, as it did to Berkeley, to explain the genesis of the notion of externality, he would have been more hopeful of commending his theory to the popular mind.

Another hoax was Franklin's parable against religious persecution thrown into Scriptural form and quoted by him as the fiftyfirst chapter of Genesis.

The jarring chronological notices belong to the post-exilic framework of the book (see Genesis).

In the Priestly Code, c. 409 B.C., there is no reference to angels apart from the possible suggestion in the ambiguous plural in Genesis i.

Numerous instructive examples of the active tendency to develop tradition may be observed in the relationship between Genesis and the " Book of Jubilees," or in the embellishments of Old Testament history in the Antiquities of Josephus, or in the widening gaps in the diverse traditions of the famous figures of the Old Testament (Adam, Noah, Enoch, Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, Ezra, &c.), as they appear in noncanonical writings.

The traditions recording the separation of Lot from Abraham, of Hagar and Ishmael from Isaac, and of Esau from Jacob, although at present arranged in a descending scheme of family relationship, are the result of systematic grouping and cannot express any chronological order of events (see Genesis).

His work constitutes the oldest commentary in the world on Genesis and part of Exodus, an enlarged Targum on these books, in which difficulties in the biblical narration are solved, gaps supplied, dogmatically offensive elements removed and the genuine spirit of later Judaism infused into the primitive history of the world.

The hoax was finally exposed by Professor Othniel C. Marsh of Yale; and George Hall of Binghamton, N.Y., confessed to the fraud, his object having been to discredit belief in the "giants" of Genesis vi.

In an inscription of the Kassite conqueror Gaddas the name appears as Ba-ba-lam, as if from the Assyrian babalu, " to bring"; another foreign Volksetymologie is found in Genesis xi.

There is a huge Rabbinical tradition concerning the first chapter of Genesis, which we need not enter into here.

In the 2002/2003 season, Genesis supported a series of critically acclaimed recitals at St John 's, Smith Square, London.

Saltation The genesis of powder snow avalanches is also thought to sometimes arise from a saltation layer on the surface of a dense avalanche.

But this, most sapient sir, is not growth, but genesis !

The Musical Box are a French Canadian band who perform music from the early seventies, Gabriel era of Genesis.

This leads us to our next point, namely the precise stipulations of the covenant made with Abraham in Genesis 17.

The Genesis creation stories do not belong only to Christians but, irresistibly, Christians see here a Trinitarian theology of creation.

This is a budget priced model with similar features of the Weber Genesis E-310.

According to the company's website, their diet and lifestyle recommendations are based on the Book of Genesis from the Bible.

When united, the two pendant halves display Genesis 18.24 in full on the back.

The Genesis School of Hypnosis in Chesapeake, VA offers an approach that can help snorers make changes in behavior that can help alleviate snoring conditions.

Lucasfilm released later versions for Sega Genesis and NES.

In 1990, EA's investment in new games for the new Sega Genesis game system resulted in enormous growth after the Genesis (the first 16-bit game console) was released and became one of the most popular consoles in the industry.

Whether the game was originally released for the Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, or Nintendo 64, it is typically possible to play these games with a standard GameCube controller of your choosing.

Released in October 1993, this sytem made use of CD-ROM media, offering much more storage capacity than the then-current Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo, but could it keep up with the powerhouse PlayStation the following year?

For example, the name change provided the opportunity to review games from the Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear as well.

It initially competed against the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), but later faced off against the much more popular Sony PlayStation.

Because it initially competed against the SNES and Genesis, it was not necessary to have huge storage capacities in the games, so the Jaguar ran primarly on cartridges up to 6MB in size.

Many of the best Sega Genesis games have the same classic, addictive qualities that games on other systems have.

Meant to compete with Nintendo's Mario, Sonic helped catapult the Sega Genesis into popularity.

The Sonic series has spawned over 30 games released on the Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, GameBoy and DS consoles, PlayStation 2 and 3, Xbox/Xbox 360, the PC and even the Nokia N-Gage.

With immersion similar to Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star includes four original games for the Genesis as well as three spin-offs and a couple of remakes for the modern video game systems.

Want to enjoy the best Sega Genesis games?

If you have an Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 or PS3, you can purchase a couple of collections with some of the best Sega Genesis games ever released.

For the PlayStation 2, you can buy the Sega Genesis Collection and for the new systems you can get Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection.

Lastly, a console emulator is another option to play the best Sega Genesis games.

An emulator simulates the Genesis's hardware on your PC.

Through this download service, you'll find countless classic titles that were originally released on the NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, and Turbo Grafx-16.

Edging slightly is the Wii because with the Virtual Console, you will be able to purchase (through Wii Points) older games from the N64, the Sega Genesis, and other consoles to play right from the Wii.

The same can be said about classics from other consoles, like the Sega Genesis.

Continuing with the rivalry between the two firms, the Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis) was launched in 1988, followed shortly afterward by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in 1990.

After the 8-bit NES, we saw the 16-bit Sega Genesis, 32-bit Sony PlayStation, and 64-bit Nintendo 64.

The graphics rivaled the Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo and could easily port over Turbo Graphx-16 games.

Sega still wanted to try to topple Nintendo's hold on the portable gaming market, so Sega released the Nomad, which was meant to be portable edition of the Genesis.

Sega's Master system had more success in Japan than in the U.S. Undeterred, Sega progressed by launching the Sega Genesis in 1989, beating Nintendo to the market with a 16-bit system by two years.

Sega pumped out the Genesis in 1989 and gained much of the market share from Nintendo.

The graphics were slightly better (as evident in Vectorman) and developers quickly saw a need for Genesis games and put them out as fast as they could.

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) came out two years after the Genesis and had a small uphill battle to journey before regaining some of their lost market share.

Panasonic's 3DO and the Atari Jaguar (released 1993 and 1994) were CD-ROM based systems that cost significantly more than the NES or Genesis.

The Sega Genesis, the first 16-bit system, is released by Sega and is the system that had the following of more than 40 developers through its run.

The Super NES is out and compared to the Genesis, it is actually a slower system.

These allow anyone to transfer credits to Nintendo's online Virtual Console and purchase classic video games from the NES, Sega Genesis, Turbo Grafx 16, Super NES and Nintendo 64.

Enjoy the classic Sega Genesis games from the 80's and 90's in this cool collection. 28 titles are available and developed true to their original formats.

Sega Genesis Collection also offers unlockable bonus games and interviews with the original Sega developers.

Mortal Kombat was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis in the mid-90's.

The SNES version featured superior graphics and sound to its Genesis counterpart.

This hockey video game franchise has come a very long way since its early days on the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.

Naughty Dog published Rings of Power in 1992, which was one of EA's first of three Genesis projects.

While the mainstream might have had all of its attention focused on systems like the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), the SNK-made Neo Geo flew largely under the radar.

The Neo Geo AES is officially part of the same generation of video game systems as Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo, placing it in the 16-bit era of video gaming.

The primary unit was a 16-bit 12MHz Motorola 68000; this was 50% faster than the 68000 found in the Sega Genesis.

It was then that the Sega Genesis gave the Super Nintendo a run for its money.

Their place in the market, however, has since diminished significantly, first with the introduction of the Sega Genesis, and later with the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and Xbox.

If you're looking to rent games for your legacy systems, you won't be satisfied with Canflix, because there is no love for your Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo here.

Retro games from systems like the Genesis can typically be purchased for between $5 and $10.

On the Xbox 360, for instance, you can find Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection that features nearly 50 Sega games.

Not surprisingly, many of the most memorable games come from the Sega Genesis, which was known as the Sega Mega Drive in many markets outside of the United States.

The parallels are undeniable between the two series of games, but it was great to see Genesis owners enjoy some back alley brawls too.

In 1991, the first Sonic the Hedgehog game was released for the Sega Genesis video game console.

The speedy blue character won the hearts of gamers everywhere and helped make the Genesis system popular.

In the original Sega Genesis Sonic game, the rules were simple.

Unfortunately, the limitations of the Genesis system did not allow you to save scores, so you were forced to keep track of them by hand on a piece of paper.

However, if you're looking to play Sonic games in the classic style without searching on eBay for a Sega Genesis system, you can find them in compilations like the Sonic Mega Collection Plus for PS2 and Xbox.

The original Prince of Persia game was released in 1989 by Brøderbund for the Apple II and was eventually ported for the Amiga, Apple Macintosh, NES, Game Boy, SNES and Sega Genesis.

Then, Nintendo found themselves in quite the battle when the Sega Genesis hit the market, but the Sega 32X made little impact.

While its first system didn't do so well, Sega's second home console -- the Sega Genesis -- had a lot more going for it.

Outside of North America, the Sega Genesis was better known and marketed as the Sega Mega Drive.

The Sega Genesis beat Nintendo to the punch insofar that it was one of the first 16-bit machines on the market.

Unlike the boxy grey Super Nintendo, the Sega Genesis was a sleek package wrapped in glossy black.

By not having any shoulder buttons, many fighting game enthusiasts found that playing Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat games were easier on the Genesis than on the Super Nintendo.

Arguably, the Sega Genesis was the first machine to take this approach.

Several of the titles found on the Genesis, such as Altered Beast, were either more complex, more graphic, or more "violent" than those found on the Super Nintendo.

Whereas the Super Nintendo version eliminated the blood, and took out the most gruesome fatalities, the rendition found on the Sega Genesis included the blood and fatalities in all their head-ripping glory.

The Sega Genesis established Sonic the Hedgehog as a household name.

Other notable names found during the Genesis' run were Toejam and Earl, Ecco the Dolphin, Tails, and Knuckles.

To play Sega Genesis games on your computer, you need a Sega Genesis emulator.

After downloading and installing a Sega Genesis emulator, you need ROMs to actually use it.

This emulator can not only play Sega Genesis games, but can also play Game Gear, Master System, Megadrive, Mega CD and 32X games.

If there are some games you absolutely love on the CD-based Genesis systems, give RetroDrive a look.

In that respect, any game that has been ported from the arcade to the Genesis will perform much better than a game that hasn't.

Following up on the Sega Genesis, the company known for its Sonic The Hedgehog mascot jumped into the 32/64-bit era with the Sega Saturn.

The Saturn had a cartridge slot, but primarily ran CD-ROM games, and the controller closely resembled the six-button design from the Sega Genesis.

Just as the 16-bit Sega Genesis hit the streets well before the Super Nintendo / Super Famicom, the 32-bit Saturn was also first to the party for its generation of home gaming consoles.

The very first Sonic game became so popular and inadvertently sprouted Sonic as Sega's mascot that Sega replaced the Sega Genesis pack-in game Altered Beast with Sonic the Hedgehog.

In fact, the sales figures for the SNES never really caught up to that of the Sega Genesis until Sega left the 16-bit market to release its Saturn console.

Video game systems, whether it's a new Xbox 360 or an ancient Sega Genesis, are delicate pieces of machinery.

Sega introduced the Genesis, the handheld GameGear, 32x, Saturn and DreamCast and was a strong competitor for Nintendo before leaving the hardware market.

The Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super NES and Genesis are the popular systems that used sprites.

The Sega Genesis and Nintendo Entertainment System revived the floundering video game world and made a deep impression on a growing youth.

The Wii Shop contains downloadable games from different platforms like the NES and the Sega Genesis.

Nintendo releases a few new games each week from a variety of retro systems such as the NES, SNES, Nintendo 64 (N64), Sega Genesis and Turbo-Grafix 16.

The Sega Genesis challenged the Super Nintendo.

In type 2 diabetes, family history, age, weight, activity level, and ethnic background can all play a role in the genesis of the disease.

The Samsonite Genesis Laptop Case is ahead of the game with its solid ABS shell and sturdy nylon frame.

The Quiksilver Velcro Wallet, available in two styles with embroidered logos from Genesis Surf Shop, is great for travel.

It's possible that this practice was the genesis of the candlelit mirror in the Bloody Mary legend.

The genesis for CAMiLEON Heels came from inside a New York City taxi cab one sunny day in 1989.

When the Hyundai Genesis first hit dealer lots in 2009, the sports sedan turned so many heads that car consumers started seeking out Hyundai Genesis Sedan reviews in droves.

When it first entered the market in 2009, the Genesis was in direct competition with cars like the Toyota Avalon and the Nissan Maxima.

In other words, the Genesis offered consumers the same space and many of the same features and technology as luxury cars like the Mercedes.

However, instead of costing over $100,000, the Genesis started at just over $30,000.

Once the Genesis hit the market in 2009, the consumer and professional reviews started hitting the Internet.

However, for the most part, both consumers and professional auto reviewers give the Hyundai Genesis thumbs up.

If you'd like to check out a few Hyundai Genesis reviews of your own, make sure to take a look at the following auto websites.

The Truth About Cars doesn't hold back when providing an unbiased and very balanced review of the 2009 Genesis.

At Edmunds, consumers gave the 2010 Hyundai Genesis five out of five stars, and the professional review had only good things to say.

Car and Driver issued a mostly positive review of the Genesis with remarks that while it isn't quite as nice to drive, it does cost significantly less than expensive luxury cars in the same class.

Automobile.com also offered a primarily positive review with one negative con being that the Genesis does not offer AWD like other luxury brands do.

U.S. News rated the 2011 Genesis at 9.1 out of 10, and concluded the review stating that the Hyundai Genesis "...is no slouch."

Since 2009, the majority of Hyundai Genesis Sedan reviews have been very positive.

However, for a price that is within the range of most non-luxury family sedans, the Hyundai Genesis offers young executives the sort of luxury ride they dream about but can't quite afford just yet.

Originally called the "Nfinity Shoe", it was later renamed the "Genesis".

This may sound like a marketing mouthful, but there is a reason why the "Genesis" cheer shoe won the SITA best new product in 2005.

The Genesis 2.0 is the updated edition of the original Genesis.

Moreover, the Genesis 2.0 has a toggle lace system that removes the problem of loose laces while you are tumbling.

This makes the Genesis ideal for young cheerleaders as they practice their first intricate gymnastics feats.

The Genesis sells for approximately 65 US dollars and is best for indoor mat use only.

It isn't as lightweight as the Genesis, a good thing because at this level of cheering, its wearers will be executing more complicated tumbling and stunt moves.

It is also slightly more expensive than the Genesis, at an average cost of 75 US dollars.

After numerous international tours and supporting performers such as Genesis, Runrig returned to the studio to build on their already impressive success.

Nintendo (NES), Sega Genesis and Gameboy also released their own comparable titles.

In this movie, there are some great battle scenes, good lines, and the introduction of the Genesis project created by Kirk's son David.

Going against Star Fleet orders, Kirk , Scotty, Sulu, Chekov and McCoy steal back the Enterprise to go to Genesis, the experimental planet where Spock's coffin was previously dispersed.

Ideal Skin Genesis is a L'Oreal skincare line that will increase the clarity, evenness, and tone of the skin.

Ideal Skin Genesis Eye Serum strengthens the skin around the eyes, diminishes dark circles, and evens the skin tone.

Whilst Protestant opponents put him in the list of atheists like Vanini, and the Catholics held him as dangerous as Luther or Calvin, there were zealous adherents who ventured to prove the theory of vortices in harmony with the book of Genesis.

Now blood was everywhere in antiquity associated with life, and the biblical passage, Genesis ix.

It may be supposed that these crude fancies embody a dim recognition of the physical forces and objects personified under the forms of deities, and a rude attempt to account for their genesis as a natural process.

Empedocles tries to explain the genesis of organic beings, and, according to Lange, anticipates the idea of Darwin that adaptations abound, because it is their nature to perpetuate themselves.

Careful attempts, based on new scientific truths, an made to explain the genesis of the world as a natural process.

In his Naturgeschichte des Himmels, in which he anticipated the nebular theory afterwards more fully developed by Laplace, Kant sought to explain the genesis of the cosmos as a product of physical forces and laws.

One of them was defeated by Ammi-zadoq of Babylonia (c. 2100 B.C.); another would have been the Chedor-laomer (Kutur-Lagamar) of Genesis xiv.

Bereshith Rabba, on Genesis, and Ekhah Rabbati, on Lamentations, were probably edited in the 7th century.

The influence of the Deuteronomic tradition in redaction is seen in such passages as Genesis xxxiii.

The history of the Physiologus has become entwined from the beginning with that of the commentaries on the account of creation in Genesis.

Some appear written for the first time in the book of Jubilees, in " the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs " (both perhaps 2nd century B.C.) and in later sources; and although in Genesis the stories are now in a post-exilic setting (a stage earlier than Jubilees), the older portions may well belong to the 7th or 6th cent.

An interest in the past is not necessarily confined to any one age, and the critical view that the biblical history has been compiled from relatively late standpoints finds support in the still later treatment of the events - in Chronicles as contrasted with Samuel-Kings or in Jubilees as contrasted with Genesis.'

In his Westminster review of Whately's Logic in 1828 (invaluable to all students of the genesis of Mill's logic) he appears, curiously enough, as an ardent and brilliant champion of the syllogistic logic against highfliers such as the Scottish philosophers who talk of "superseding" it by "a supposed system of inductive logic."

He studied theology, and won his doctor's degree by an edition of thirty-four chapters of Genesis from the Arabic version of the Samaritan Pentateuch.

Whatever may have been the immediate genesis of the myth - and it may well be sought in the heartless forest laws - its vitality was assured by the English love of archery and historical repetition.

Granted that instinctive modes of behaviour are hereditary and definite within the limits of congenital variation, the question of their manner of genesis is narrowed to a clear issue.