I'm not convinced that just because
another ancient group of people believed it was a «hard dome» that necessarily we have to force that belief on the Hebrews.
Genetic studies suggest that liverworts — humble, stumpy plants related to mosses, which now commonly grow on damp soils — are the most
ancient group of plants alive today.
Lungfish are members of
an ancient group of lobe - finned fishes (Class Dipnoi), having a continuous fossil record originating in the Devonian period around 400 million years ago.
The probe from DeLong and Hinrichs, on the other hand, had worked right away: The Hydrate Ridge sediments were loaded with their methane eater, which is not a bacterium at all but a species of Archaea,
an ancient group of microbes that diverged from bacteria billions of years ago and are as distinct from them now, genetically speaking, as humans are.
This frog genus is endemic to the Western Ghats of India and represents
an ancient group of frogs that diversified on the Indian landmass approximately 70 - 80 million years ago.
Indian night frogs are
an ancient group of frogs, which diversified approximately 70 - 80 million years ago.
Marine sponges are the most
ancient group of multicellular animalsliving on Earth.
If that's the case, Odontochelys may have descended from a more
ancient group of armored terrestrial turtles.
In an article in Nature, researchers from the California Polytechnic State University say that their specimen was one of
an ancient group of conifer - feeding beetles.
Until now, many researchers had thought that the Botai culture,
an ancient group of hunters and herders that relied on horses for food and possibly transport in what today is northern Kazakhstan, first harnessed horses 5500 years ago.
Hagfishes are
an ancient group of eel - like animals found at the bottom of the ocean.
But in 2010, researchers discovered a finger bone from a previously unknown
ancient group of pre-human folk.
Its small but important genetic tweak almost certainly came from
an ancient group of pre-human relatives, scientists now report.
Sponges are
an ancient group of animals that diverged from other metazoans over 600 million years ago.
The most endangered tribe in the world live deep in the Amazon rainforest, they are
an ancient group of around 400 who carry everything they own; t...
The most endangered tribe in the world live deep in the Amazon rainforest, they are
an ancient group of around 400 who carry everything they own; their children, their weapons and their pets.
The greyhounds belong to a very
ancient group of dogs.
Not exact matches
The
group also took the
ancient city and Assad - regime stronghold
of Palmyra, in Syria.
More than two thousand years after the original Colossus
of Rhodes, one
of the Seven Wonders
of the
Ancient World, was destroyed in an earthquake, a
group of architects wants to build a 21st - century version
of it.
An image taken by the Curiosity Rover has turned viral after a video posted by a
group insisted that the image was the vestige
of an
ancient Martian tree on the planet as an assertion
of life on Mars.
In the
ancient Norse faith, Odin leads a
group of Hunters during the time
of the Winter Solstice, and they take shelter at a mortal farmstead for the night when a nasty storm hits.
Dalahäst The
ancient Hebrews certainly seem to have hated a few
groups of people.
It does not describe said individuals and their posterity,
ancient or modern, as
of less worth, or value as human beings than any other
group.
what is best for the
group» is what is written in the law, not YOUR opinion
of what is written in an
ancient book.
The terror
group carried out its slogan, «We will break your crosses and enslave your women,» with literal precision against the
ancient Christian community
of several Middle Eastern countries.
The time has come to remove the distraction
of a
group gathered around a microphone and to rediscover our inheritance, to revive the
ancient musical traditions
of the Mass, which are inextricably linked to the liturgy.
Rather, the evidences
of modern people -
groups and
ancient people -
groups show a high percentage
of humankind reaching for the supernatural no matter what life they have encountered.
After studying a series
of Western societies from
ancient Greece and Iran through the history
of Israel, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and on into the twentieth centuries, Polak concludes that the most important single factor involved in the generation
of change is the image
of the future held by a given
group.
I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's
groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view
of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace
of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.
There are a number
of discussion
groups on the Bible and the
ancient world and hundreds
of Web sites that provide exegetical, archaeological or other helps.
And if your bias to an entire
group of people based solely on what an
ancient book tells you, then you're a bigot.
The seventh and last chapter, «The World After Jesus,» eloquently points to
ancient and modern individuals and
groups who have been faithful to the Spirit
of Jesus, including those who have seen better by the gospel light than some who are privileged to carry it.
@ Cedar Tree:????? All sorts
of miraculous, superhuman nonsense has been attributed to
ancient rulers
of other figures
of yore whose existence was once accepted by this or that
group and who may or may not have been based in part on some historical person or persons and absolutely NO ONE these days takes every word in every text written about these figures to be literal truth.
For a long time in Western history clergymen, like the priests
of ancient Egypt, were the only learned
group and hence represented the mystery and power
of learning.
A more
ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and
groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people
of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.
One
of the phenomena most difficult for the Catholic Church to understand, as Gilfeather O'Brien points out, is how the Guatemalan cofradias (religious fratemities based on the syncretism
of Roman Catholic and
ancient Mayan teachings) have been unable to compete with Pentecostal
groups that offer «personal transformation
of the kind the Catholic Church has desired but never achieved over the centuries.»
The idea
of being sons
of God recalls the
ancient Semitic idiom used in the Old Testament to indicate belonging to a particular species or
group of any kind (Ps 8:4; 90:3).
The contemporary renaissance
of small
groups in the churches follows an
ancient, time - tested path.
Since institutional or public religion is a manifestation
of group consciousness, the
group consciousness and
group conscience
of ancient Israel constituted its experience
of God's presence (INNW 32).
First, in the depths
of the past, we find a thin scattering
of hunting
groups spread here and there throughout the
Ancient World.
In any case the story reminds us again
of the strong sense
of group solidarity in the
ancient East and specifically in
ancient Israel.
However, if I was an
ancient Israelite, and I saw things like the Red Sea parting, staff turned into snakes, and the Shekinah glory, and prophets predicting specific future events with 100 % accuracy, and other nations setting their face against Israel to destroy her and / or engaged in human sacrifice, and they weren't typical humans but were actually a
group of hybrids like the Nephalim or the Rephaim that were polluting the gene pool to try to foil God's plan
of ultimately bringing a Messiah to save all mankind one day, and God wanted them to repent and sent them warning after warning, and they refused, and God commanded me thus....
For Bell, there was something about standing up in front
of a
group of people and reading «an
ancient text and then unleashing it in the space» that changed him.
Found in one
of the
ancient libraries one day was a
group of rather better tablets
of large size, which, when deciphered, turned out to be the story
of creation.
«It seemed eminently natural, accordingly, to the
ancient Hebrew,» writes Professor Paton, «that Yahweh should deal with the
group rather than the individual, and should bring the punishment
of the sinner, or the reward
of the righteous, upon his family, his clan, or his nation, rather than upon himself.»
While we all take some inspiration from
ancient paganisms, there are some
groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records
of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use
of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.
There's no reason to elevate the thoughts and experiences
of certain
groups in the
ancient Middle East above those
of philosophers and sages in
ancient India or China.
In Jesus time when he fled Herod with his parents, the largest
group of Jews where he possibly fled to, were located in Alexandria, a place where 300 years earlier Alexander, who conquered as far as India and tried to have his subjects learn about and understand each other... had followers that built the great library
of Alexandria, holding much
of the knowledge
of the
ancient world.
The term «Hebrew» appears prominently now (1:15, 16, 19; 2:6, 7, 11, 13) to remind us
of the nature
of this
group in relation to the life
of the
ancient Near East.
It is the purpose
of Exodus 1:1 - 7 to underline the fact that the total Jacob - Joseph
group originally resident in Egypt was very small - simply, in terms
of the
ancient East, a family - but that life in Egypt was for a while benign, beneficent, and altogether blessed.