Sentences with phrase «many written sources»

The evidence indicates that the written sources of our Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) are not later than c. AD 60; some of them have even been traced back to notes taken of our Lord's teaching while His words were actually being uttered... We have then in the Synoptic Gospels, the latest of which was complete between 40 - 50 years after the death of Christ, material which took shape at a still earlier time, some of it even before His death, and which, besides being for the most part 1st hand evidence, was transmitted along independent and trustworthy lines.»

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

The existential meaning of the kerygma is still visible in the earliest written source, the Pauline epistles.

Mark's Gospel could not have been written before 65 A.D., and any written sources upon which he may have depended can hardly have been much earlier.

As in the written sources, so in the visual monuments Christ has many guises, depending on who is visualizing him.

It may be that sometimes Thomas uses written sources, sometimes oral.

It is hard to determine the precise relation of Thomas to oral and written sources because of the fluidity of the situation in second - century Christianity.

It includes several sayings found also in Luke and one in both Mark and Luke, but so much of it is peculiar to Matthew and distinctive in content and language that the use of a special written source seems probable if not certain.

Many attempts have been made to trace in the gospel a definite written source which can be identified with Mark's record of Peter's preaching, but none of these attempts has gained general approval.

Critical analysis confirms that both written sources and oral tradition have entered into the composition, but that tile continuity has, in both volumes, been largely supplied by the author.

They were doubtless told again and again in the early church, as today one remembers the illustrations in a sermon, and thus found their way into not only the oral tradition of the church but the earlier written sources of the Gospels.

There is as good reason to suppose that these were in the oral and written sources as any of the others.

So, in any single instance, or in any number of instances, it must always be considered possible that the tradition which the first written gospel source has used has lived on to affect the later gospel traditions in cases where they have used the earlier written source.

A maximalist is one who is prepared to write a relatively full history of early Israelite history by beginning with the Genesis — 2 Kings narrative and filling it out with information from other written sources and from archaeology.

I think that the writers of Scripture often used verbal and written sources that they thought were reliable.

Along more conservative lines, a distinguished German scholar, Martin Noth, has recently proposed and presented evidence for a more ancient source than J (he does not commit himself as to whether it was an oral or written source) underlying both J and E and utilized by both.

That is was also distinctly possible that gathered fragmented written sources as well as oral traditions regarding the laws of Moses and histories of the kings of Israel and Judah coming from prior to Babylonian captivity were then secured and placed into a combined written sources from which what we know as the Books of Moses as well as other books that would be comprised into what we refer to as the Old Testament.

No written sources.

Given the vitiated versions of oral tradition and biased written sources the task is difficult but not impossible.

Whether or not the passage from which this abstract is taken was once a written source used by Luke, and therefore a very «early» document, it certainly rings true; and it represents the central conviction uniformly presupposed by the earliest Christianity of which we have any record.

As a result, what they called literary criticism was rapidly reduced to the search for the written sources lying behind the biblical books.

The solution most widely agreed upon to the question of who is borrowing from whom is still the Two - Source Hypothesis, according to which Mark is understood to be the first Gospel written, and Mark and the hypothetical source Q are proposed as the primary written sources used by Matthew and Luke.

It was probably inevitable that questions about written sources, pieces of oral tradition and the editing or redaction of it all would be raised and addressed first.

Far more promising is the approach of Professor Branscomb in «The Moffatt New Testament Commentary» (1937), who views the Gospel as based upon «the common tradition of the Gentile churches,» though the use of sources, even of written sources, is not only not denied but even presupposed in the discussion of more than one section of the Gospel.

In Gospel studies this was primarily the era of source criticism, the quest for the written sources that were thought to lie behind the Gospels as they now exist.

These passages are all narratives of a synoptic type and include the Miracle at Cana (2:1 - 11), the Cleansing of the Temple (2:14 - 16), the Healing of the Nobleman's Son (4:46 - 53)» the Anointing at Bethany (12:1 - 8) and the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem (12:12 - 15); it is at least possible that the evangelist was here using a written source or oral tradition that had become comparatively «fixed» in form.

This distinction is an important one, as the former type of theory reduces the status of the final author of a gospel almost to that of an editor writing at a late period when trustworthy oral traditions were comparatively scarce; the latter type of theory assumes the existence of smaller, but earlier and more valuable written sources, some of which may even be apostolic, which have been combined with considerable oral tradition, of varying historical value, by the final author.

Two types of theory can be distinguished, that which seeks to explain almost the whole of a gospel as compiled from written sources, and that which argues from peculiarities of style, language, and form, that written sources of limited extent were used by the final author of a gospel in conjunction with a mass of oral tradition.

We have already seen that the gospel in its present form is based upon written sources, certainly upon Mark and «Q.» The latter may have been originally collected by Matthew, and so have given his name to the gospel.

(2) On the other hand, the notion that there was a single written source to be designated as Q is also untenable, first because of the argument just advanced, and second because sometimes the resemblances are very close and at other times they are rather remote.

JUST A THOUGHT: Five Guys sure scored big when they wrote the sourcing for their current inventory of potatoes on a white board.

Because of the volume of responses, when writing sources listed in this column you must enclose an addressed, stamped envelope for replies.

Nevertheless, good research and experienced authors know how to mine the memories of participants and observers and use what written sources are available.

Yet written sources suggest that the Romans occasionally campaigned in Germany, probably to punish German tribes for raids on Roman territory.

«The existence of the Port of Theodosius was known from written sources — from the writings of historians and voyagers — but we had no idea about its exact location or dimensions,» Kocabaş explains while sitting in his lab, a nondescript warehouse near the Yenikapı dig site.

Many written sources from ancient Egypt show precedence to the maternal line, «from the official lists of Egypt's early kings whose names are accompanied by those of their mothers to nonroyal individuals, who likewise cite only their mother's name,» Fletcher explains.

«Those writing the source code for the simulator aren't necessarily fully aware of what the mathematicians and physicists are doing — and vice versa,» he says.

Written sources reported that the Norse routinely rowed up to 1500 kilometers to walrus migratory grounds near Disko Bay in western Greenland.

Archaeologists piece together the history of a civilization from pollen grains, kitchen middens, potshards, tools, works of art, written sources and other site - specific artifacts.

Although written sources report that the Aztecs and Tarascans were constantly at war, the excavations nonetheless provide clear evidence that Tarascan bronze and obsidian were traded across the border and that they made their way into the homes of provincial commoners through the Aztec marketing system.

Written sources tell us that Aztec commoners were subject to nobles, who owned most of the land and monopolized power within the city - states.

Historic, written sources, however, show that whitefish has been found in Hotagen at least since the 18th century.

«Over hyping,» writes a source, «is very dangerous.»

Beautiful Russian women from all corners of the former Soviet Union seek The Celts were the first population in the territory of present - day Slovakia who can be identified on the basis of written sources.

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What follows, unsurprisingly since Patricia Highsmith wrote the source novel, is a slow - boil suspenser whose true subjects are envy and the dual nature of identity (the title refers to Janus, god of transitions, whose two - faced gaze looks to both past and future).

On the other hand their Best Screenplay category encompasses all scripts, unlike the division the Academy Awards make in order to recognize the writers for either creating an original story, or succeeding in translating a previously written source material for the screen.

An executive (the great Sylvia Chang, who also wrote the source play) begins to see her power slip away while a hard - working young assistant (Wang Ziyi) tries to get his foot in the door, and everybody seems to be making a different back room deal or keeping a different secret.

Graham Greene wrote the source novel.