Sentences with phrase «almost old western»

Violence, substance abuse and prostitution of an almost Old Western sort are commonplace here.

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Creation from nothing, the origin of death among humans, the murder of Abel by Cain, a cataclysmic flood of judgement, the righteous judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Mosaic origin of the Torah, manna from heaven, the reliability of Deuteronomy, the driving out of the Canaanites, Isaiah's authorship of the servant songs, and so on — it's almost as if Jesus and his followers went out of their way to validate all of the most awkward apologetic curveballs in the Old Testament just to make life difficult for post-Enlightenment Western interpreters.

In a paper the journal Science published last June, Tom Dillehay, an anthropological archaeologist at Vanderbilt University, revealed that the squash seeds he found in the ruins of what may have been ancient storage bins on the lower western slopes of the Andes in northern Peru are almost 10,000 years old.

However, the sequencing of ancient DNA recovered from two separate burials in Western Georgia — one over 13,000 years old, the other almost 10,000 years old — has enabled scientists to reveal that the Yamnaya owed half their ancestry to previously unknown and genetically distinct hunter - gatherer sources: the fourth strand.