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  2. Homoscedasticity and heteroscedasticity - Wikipedia

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    Heteroscedasticity often occurs when there is a large difference among the sizes of the observations. A classic example of heteroscedasticity is that of income versus expenditure on meals. A wealthy person may eat inexpensive food sometimes and expensive food at other times. A poor person will almost always eat inexpensive food.

  3. Mosaic authorship - Wikipedia

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    Mosaic authorship is the Judeo-Christian tradition that the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, were dictated by God to Moses. [1] The tradition probably began with the legalistic code of the Book of Deuteronomy and was then gradually extended until Moses, as the central character, came to be regarded not just as the mediator of law but as author of both laws and ...

  4. Homogeneity and heterogeneity (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Plot with random data showing heteroscedasticity: The variance of the y-values of the dots increases with increasing values of x. In statistics , a sequence of random variables is homoscedastic ( / ˌ h oʊ m oʊ s k ə ˈ d æ s t ɪ k / ) if all its random variables have the same finite variance ; this is also known as homogeneity of variance.

  5. Allegorical interpretation of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Medieval scholars believed the Old Testament to serve as an allegory of New Testament events, such as the story of Jonah and the whale, which represents Jesus' death and resurrection. [10] According to the Old Testament Book of Jonah, a prophet spent three days in the belly of a fish. Medieval scholars believed this was an allegory (using the ...

  6. Four senses of Scripture - Wikipedia

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    Noah and the "baptismal flood" of the Old Testament (top panel) is "typologically linked" with (it prefigures) the baptism of Jesus in the New Testament (bottom panel). The four senses of Scripture is a four-level method of interpreting the Bible. In Christianity, the four senses are literal, allegorical, tropological and anagogical.

  7. Historicity of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Questions on biblical historicity are typically separated into evaluations of whether the Old Testament and Hebrew Bible accurately record the history of ancient Israel and Judah and the second Temple period, and whether the Christian New Testament is an accurate record of the historical Jesus and of the Apostolic Age. This tends to vary ...

  8. Textual variants in the Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

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    Textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) has included study of its textual variants. Although the Masoretic Text (MT) counts as the authoritative form of the Hebrew Bible according to Rabbinic Judaism , modern scholars seeking to understand the history of the Hebrew Bible use a range of sources. [ 1 ]

  9. Biblical hermeneutics - Wikipedia

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    Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the books of the Bible.It is part of the broader field of hermeneutics, which involves the study of principles of interpretation, both theory and methodology, for all forms of communication, nonverbal and verbal. [1]