Sentences with phrase «yahwist prehistory»

While hierarchy is natural — stretching back to prehistory when hunters worked in teams and someone needed to take charge so the group could be successful — the top - down approach today hinders participation, particularly when someone has to gather the courage to challenge his or her boss.

Homer is the vehicle not only for the story of Troy, but also for much of what is known about Greek mythology, prehistory, geography, religion, and the arts.

People look at this from the stand point of NOW... the early religious building were built to overwhelm and scare people so as to control them... early religious structure were not for the people to ENTER... they were places where the priest visited to SERVE THE GODS THAT LIVE OR VISITED THERE... AND GET MESSAGES FROM THE SECRET UNSEEN GODS to convey to the people... this goes back even before the great Egyptian temples and gods... way way back into prehistory.

And while it is true that history is seen as the context and vehicle of divine activity, it does not follow that the creation accounts are to be interpreted as history, or even prehistory.

Now we have vague claims from prehistory about the evolutionary development of social sympathy, or perhaps some chimerical implications derived from the most recent neuroscience.

Blumhofer, who was on the faculty of the AG seminary when she published the history (she is now at Wheaton College in Illinois), devotes a full third of her text to the church's prehistory.

Had Blumhofer used the restorationist framework to interpret the history of the denomination as she did its prehistory, the work would have been even more illuminating.

The fact that the human female does not have limited periods of sexual desire and availability (although she does have times of heightened and diminished desire), is probably a major reason for the development of two - parent family life in the dim prehistory of human beings.

Many of the religious conflicts we read about in the newspapers have prehistories and antecedents that need to be traced over a period of several decades or longer, and many represent reactions and counterreactions to other movements both in the same society and in the larger international system.

On the Evangelical side, the founding of ECT in the early 1990s would not have been possible without the prehistory that included the catalytic ministries of Harold J. Ockenga and Billy Graham.

On the other hand, the bible makes no mention of them at all and shows no awareness of prehistory in the slightest (hence the magical creation stories).

This line of critical questioning can of course go on indefinitely, to issues of context (the relation of Mark 2:1 - 12 to the conflict block, 2:1 - 3:6 and its prehistory), redaction, historicity, etc..

Dillard feels as if time were unraveling back toward prehistory, to the darkness before consciousness.

He shows the many stages of social change through prehistory and history and their negative consequences socially and psychologically, In short, he shows that our vaunted civilization, history, and progress have all been forms of self - destructive self - alienation.

She interpreted her prehistory, as seen in the persons of the patriarchs, in cubic form, and she continued to appropriate that prehistory cultically in the institution of circumcision.

Ancient though prehistory may make it seem to our eyes, Mankind is still very young.

Marriage goes back too far into prehistory to know where it came from, but it was certainly not a product of the Abrahamic religions — it clearly predates them by thousands of years and is common in parts of the world which were never influenced by it.

Nineteenth century literary criticism of the Gospels thus dealt not with them but with their prehistory.

Here we see not only the same focus on the prehistory of the text that had been prominent in source criticism, but also the tendency already strong in source criticism to fragment or disintegrate the text in search of its antecedent components.

Although redaction criticism tended to give more respect and credit to the individuals who wrote the Gospels than source or form criticism had, it still placed a great emphasis on the prehistory of each Gospel and tended to disintegrate each text into material labeled «tradition» and other material labeled «redaction.»

Through the corporate efforts of various modern scientific disciplines such as philosophy, ethnology, prehistory and history, archeology, psychology, sociology, and philosophy, the methods of the science of religion have become increasingly broadened and refined.

But the time had now come to resist the longstanding impulse to disintegrate the Gospels in the effort to comprehend the prehistory of each text.

Name ONE «moral absolute» that is / was shared by ALL religious faiths throughout all of recorded history (I'll let you off the hook for prehistory since I will assume you don't believe such a thing existed).

Thus, the entity Israel, formed out of a process of tribal confederation leading to monarchy, has a highly complex, heterogeneous prehistory now understandably simplified and idealized.

Only when humanity has emerged from its adolescent prehistory and reached the maturity of socialization, writes Teilhard, will «this consciousness be truly adult and of age» (Science and Christ [London: Collins, 1968], p. 83).

Special exhibits describe the natural history and prehistory of this easternmost island of the West Indies, complete with early artifacts.

Wild onions were likely consumed during prehistory, probably originally from present - day Iran, and were first cultivated around 7,000 years ago.

I find it very difficult understanding exclusive food choices especially more extreme then veganism for instance (since 99.9 % of ALL humans cook from the very discovery of fire in the prehistory; I don't think there is any tribe left out there that doesn't use fire) I have a feeling you are ready for compromise though (Cooked potatoes, hot vegetable broth etc.) so that sounds reasonable and good for your child who will not be marginalized and left out of society.

The New Mexico State Legislature and Governor King quickly passed Senate Joint Memorial 5, which stated, in part and with considerable exaggeration: «Whereas, despite New Mexico's long and rich chile history and prehistory, with solid archaeological evidence indicating the continuous use of both red and green chile since the time of Folsom Man some twelve thousand years ago [this is not true], we now find «Texas Man» claiming the noble chile as his; and whereas despite the facts, we hear boasting from east of the Pecos that «The Lone Star State» is the chili capital of the Southwest... and Texas chefs malign the noble «red and green» by blending it into a slurry of kidney beans and onions called chili; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico that the Land of Enchantment bets the «whole enchilada» and its reputation as the Chile Capital of the World against the Lone Star State in the Mother of All Chile Wars Festival to be held May 29 - 31, 1993 at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds.»

There are echoes here of football's cultural prehistory.

«Across prehistory, serial pairing was probably the norm — as it is becoming once again,» she says.

@DavidGrinberg the 3 / 5th compromise had nothing to do with the legal basis of slavery, which was an institution that extents to prehistory.

If correct, they demand a rewrite of human prehistory, starting from the very beginning.

They targeted areas known to be rich in fossils from information - poor periods of prehistory.

The results focus on European prehistory in the Stone and Copper Ages.

Bone tumors are exceptionally rare finds in the evolutionary fossil and archaeological records of human prehistory, with the earliest known instances, before now, dating to 1,000 to 4,000 years ago.

In that period, the university didn't offer a specific course in biological anthropology, but instead I got the opportunity to work with the research team of the department of prehistory and anthropology at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

Since humans have been altering the environment since prehistory, she says, there is no untouched nature to preserve.

LaLueza - Fox sees such research as an indication that scientists can reliably collect ancient DNA from hotter climates, where much of human prehistory played out.

Epigenetic data spanning a much longer interval in human prehistory could reveal that the process was key to adapting quickly to a wide range of environmental conditions during the Pleistocene.

All of a sudden, there's an explosion of complex artifacts, symbolic representation, measurement of celestial events, complex social structures — a burst of creative activity that almost every expert on prehistory assumes must have been connected with the sudden emergence of language.

«The study of the Dravidian languages is crucial for understanding prehistory in Eurasia, as they played a significant role in influencing other language groups,» explains corresponding author Annemarie Verkerk of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

«Here we have a really exciting opportunity to investigate the interactions between these people, and other cultural groups in the area such as Indo - European and Austro - Asiatic on one of the great crossroads of human prehistory,» states author Simon Greenhill of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

But they believed they could work with the kinds of tools employed in evolutionary ecology to answer important questions about language prehistory.

Horses» wild ancestors are also extinct, but remains from the warrior steeds of Genghis Khan and medieval knights, the Romans» chariot horses and the mounts of the ancient Scythians, Greeks and Persians might fill in gaps in horse history and prehistory.

The man's maternal DNA, or «mitochondrial DNA», was sequenced to provide clues to early modern human prehistory and evolution.

In prehistory, group selection (that is, the competition between tribes instead of between individuals) lifted the hominids that became territorial carnivores to heights of solidarity, to genius, to enterprise — and to fear.

«With large present - day genomic datasets and increased international collaboration to handle the many newly sequenced ancient datasets, there is huge potential to understand the biology of human prehistory in a way that has never been accessible before.»

LeBlanc contends that researchers have unearthed evidence of warfare as far back as they have looked in human prehistory, and ethnographers have observed significant levels of violence among hunter - gatherers such as the!

While studies of ancient gold metallurgy and the colour characteristics of gold alloys are well supported by modern research, the colour properties of prehistoric copper alloys, such as tin bronzes or arsenical copper, the most abundant type of metal artefacts in prehistory, have largely been understudied.