| It is the language of the Psalms, the stories of the patriarchs, the parables of the gospels, the moral vocabulary of St. Paul's epistles. |
| It is characteristic that between 1025 and 1081, the empire had twelve emperors but only five patriarchs. |
| With a postal ballot, community patriarchs can insist on inspecting the ballots before voting. |
| Simple reckoning of the ages at which each of the biblical patriarchs produced his son would not suffice. |
| The result is a farrago of contradictory ideas, with visions of patriarchs dueling with notions of upward-striving capitalists. |
| Genesis 12 marks a shift from primeval history to the stories of the patriarchs. |
