Sentences with phrase «roman rule»

A few outer areas of the country stayed free of Germanic dominance (as they had of Roman rule also), and their Celtic languages survived.

Italy might never have been unified under Roman rule, strangling a juggernaut in its cradle.

After six hundred years of Roman rule, the town of Aquincum was taken by the Huns.

Today, the town is a World Heritage Site due to the remaining Roman infrastructure left over from the Roman rule over 2,000 years ago.

To live up to his ancestors, Messala joins the Roman army, while Judah marries Esther (Nazanin Boniadi) and tries to keep his family out of the affairs of zealots plotting against Roman rule.

But tonight it is across the city, at the Etihad Stadium, that the Giallorossi will take on England's reigning champions in an attempt to maintain Roman rule over the «Group of Iron».

At least, the oral exposition of the Old Testament had no authority for the Sadducees; they were conservative in clinging to the written text of the Bible, conservative in guarding the Temple traditions, intent on maintaining the status quo, and therefore stood in fairly good relations with Herod and the Roman rule.

When Herod the Great died, his kingdom was divided among his three sons, one of whom had been deposed and his tetrarchy put under direct Roman rule through a procurator sent out from the capital.

In the North were peoples who had never been under Roman rule, and had never been Christian.

In the Low Countries Protestantism prevailed in the portion which had not been within the Roman lines, and Roman Catholicism was dominant in the southern sections where Roman rule had been established.

«Across the globe, Christians are under attack almost as if we lived in the Middle Ages or we lived under early pagan Roman rule,»

Rather, Jesus and his followers, inspired by the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament prophetic writings, were expecting a supernatural divine intervention that would end the Roman rule, restore the Davidic Kingdom with Jesus as the divinely anointed monarch, and inaugurate the Messianic age of peace and prosperity for the whole world.

it was created as a way to control the masses using a Jewish mythic base that was needed to control the Jewish population at the time who were violent and anti Roman threat to Roman rule.

The Lakhmids rebelled openly against the Persians, while religious divisions made the Ghassanids ever more discontented with Roman rule.

The underlying subtext of the Gospels is an expectation that Jesus is going to rescue the Jews from the oppressive yoke of Roman rule.

Roman rule brought political unity to the lands bordering on the Mediterranean Sea.

«Across the globe, Christians are under attack almost as if we lived in the Middle Ages or we lived under early pagan Roman rule,» Sen. Rand Paul

But one year, when the Jews were under Roman rule, the Roman Procurator Caponius took away this last shred of ruling power.

In Luke 1, we saw that both Mary and Zacharias, but especially Zacharias, looked upon Jesus as the coming Messiah who would deliver them from Roman rule, and who would conquer the enemies of Israel.

The power and dominion of Roman rule spread its tentacles into every nook and cranny of human existence.

Not to raise up Israel and deliver them from Roman rule, but to cause the fall and rising of many in Israel, and to be spoken against.

One evident slap at Roman rule in Mark is the story of Jesus healing the demoniac that no one had the strength to subdue.

«We were not quite listening in the 1990s» when scholars like Horsley and Crossan, two speakers at the Union conference, were proposing that Jesus was crucified primarily for his political opposition to Roman rule.

Actually, everything Jesus said and did was in retaliation to Roman rule.

The crowds stirred with Messianic hopes often used no violence, but expected the end of the Roman rule and the coming of the Kingdom of God to be achieved purely by a miracle of God's working.

It is true that the official class of the Jewish people welcomed the Roman rule, which gave peace to the land and, in the very act of depriving the race of its national existence, allowed the religious man to work in peace and live faithful to the Law.

At Passover, thousands of Jews concentrated in a rather small area in and around the temple to celebrate, while under Roman rule, their deliverance from ancient Egyptian bondage.

In Hitchens's own England, Roman rule stopped at a wall, not an ocean.

This, despite the fact that Jesus was born to poor Jewish parents, a minority group under Roman rule.

In the «intellectual conversations» you have at your church, do you all ever bring up the reason you believe that a first - century man who perfectly fits his time as a Jewish revolutionary against Roman rule, who died in the same manner as most revolutionaries and blasphemers, became your god?

Wasn't the Messiah supposed to throw off Roman rule and give Israel her liberty?

In catholic school, as vicious as Roman rule I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black And I held my tongue as she told me «Son fear is the heart of love» So I never went back

Not only where they symbolic of Roman rule, they often abused their power and took unjust liberties.

Mark is preaching the gospel; he is doing it by telling a story belonging to the world of actual fact: the world in which Herod Antipas and Pontius Pilate played the parts on the public stage which secular historians ascribe to them; the world in which the machinery of Roman rule operated in ways known to all students of the period; the world which was disturbed by the familiar tensions and conflicts of the last half century of the Jewish state.

It may well be that the church at the end of the first century, living under Roman rule and permission, is anxious to underline the Jewish responsibility and to minimize the Roman part.

Jesus must be «liquidated» to avert the danger of disturbing the extremely delicate balance by which Judaea enjoyed a limited autonomy under Roman rule.

Even by the time of Roman rule there was little difference between slaves and free due to poverty among the majority and most slaves that wanted freedom were able to buy back their freedom.

Under Roman rule, the Jewish people did not own much.

(One region of Asia, west of Euphrates was under the Roman rule.)

(Donald Dubley, Roman Society, p. 115) Under the Roman rule Carthage experienced an economic bloom, becoming the largest city in the West after Rome.

First of all, His unpopularity directly stemmed out of the fact that He would NOT lead a societal revolution for the Jews under Roman rule.

Look, when we say that God waited to send Jesus until there was a common tongue and a good road system, what we are also saying is that the only part of the world that God really cared about was the part under Roman rule (Most of Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia).

We are also able to see more and more clearly the political and economic situation in Palestine — the character of Roman rule and of popular reaction to it; the burden of state and temple taxes; the extent of wealth and poverty.

One should subvert Roman rule by living from the values of a very different order.

And obviously the overthrow of the Roman rule is equally necessary to the picture.

The people whose interpretations of experience we are studying are not Trobiand Islanders, but Jews of the first - century Mediterranean world; to understand how they interpret their lives, we need to learn as much as possible about the properly historical realities within which they lived: the social and symbolic worlds of Roman rule, Hellenistic culture, and a variegated Judaism.

Throughout the period of Roman rule, there were a series of armed uprisings against them, which the Romans cruelly suppressed.

However close study of the time shows that Roman rule was no more oppressive and usually less so than the people they conquered.

Since he was executed by Rome, the inference is that he broke Roman Law, or was seen as a threat to Roman rule.

Here was the long expected leader who would free them from the tyranny of Roman rule.