Sentences with phrase «ancient syrian»

An earlier version of this article misstated the length of time the Getty Villa will host an exhibition on artworks from Palmyra, an ancient Syrian city.

That gallery's first show, open for more than a year, will feature funerary relief portraits from Palmyra, an ancient Syrian city that flourished during the Roman Empire, owned by the museum Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.

Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free.

Münster classical scholars discovered invaluable ancient Syrian mosaics and buildings and are excavating one of the few sites that are currently accessible for studies on ancient Roman Syria despite the tense political situation in the Middle East.

Ephrem represents the ancient Syrian - thought world.

Also the tradition of scriptural interpretation in the ancient Syrian church bears the mark of Jewish interpretation.

Not exact matches

In fact, he used Namaan's healing by Elisha as the ancient Hebrew warrant for his own ministry to the gentiles: «There were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Namaan the Syrian» (Luke 4:27).

In the fifth century Theodore found a very favourable hearing in the East Syrian Church as his teachings were very congenial to those who were reared in the ancient traditions of Ephrem and Aphrahat.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, ISIS gathered a large crowd at the ancient amphitheater in Plamyra and executed the individuals who had been accused of being part of the Syrian government's forces.

The litany of their ancient names rings in the minds of Sunday school children and all who have studied or read the Bible: Moab and Ammon and Edom and Amalek and the Philistines and the Arameans or Syrians.

This confession, rooted in the ancient piety and worship of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church and nourished in the ecumenical movement, underlies an ethic of profound involvement in the struggle for social justice, profound realism about the powers of this world including those which possess the righteous, and a profound hope which is never satisfied by the achievements of this world.

Such skepticism may be justified, yet we find ourselves wondering whether DH has not in fact preserved here the very ancient but real encounter of free - ranging Syrian forces with the Yahweh - tribes (notably the Othnielites) inhabiting southern Canaan in the general area south of Hebron.

Bretschneider led the German team from University of Mnster, which worked between 1992 and 2000 at the Euro - Syrian excavations at Tell Beydar, and is now excavating with a Syro - Belgian team in Tell Tweini (ancient Gibala) on the Syrian coast.

The mitochondrial DNA sequences from the Syrian skeletons showed what the team calls «strong affinities» with ancient DNA recently recovered from roughly 7000 - year - old farming villages in both Germany and Spain, confirming that populations in the Middle East were indeed the source of later farming populations in Europe.

But commerce still flows in the ancient Hamidiyeh bazaar in the Syrian capital, where the war feels very distant.

A Short History of Iraq (map showing Kurdish and Shia areas) The Republic of Iraq (about the size of California) spans the lands of ancient Mesopotamia, (between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers), the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range and parts of the Syrian Desert.

In many ways, The Map of Salt and Stars is at once a testament to the brutality of the current Syrian conflict and a reverent ode to ancient Arabian history.

A swooping bird of prey that threatens to devour the ancient story's traveling companions finds its modern - day analogy in the form of Syrian fighter planes dropping bombs on besieged cities.

And I definitely want to write about the delicate indigo light in the Syrian Desert and the way it illuminates the ancient structures of Palmyra.

While critics often cite Al - Hadid's Syrian background as influential to her ornate works, the artist is just as likely to reference to ancient Rome, the Renaissance, or Mannerist painting.

Syrian government forces recapture Palmyra The ancient site of Palmyra has once more returned to Syrian government control.

What is truly unique about Schulz - Dornburg's work is her spot - on intuition about capturing the landmarks in peril, such as ancient sites of Palmyra before the Syrian war or lonely Soviet - era bus stops in Armenia, reminiscent of Bernd and Hilla Becher's work, but with an air of tenderness and mystery that is truly her own.

The Penn Museum's exhibition Cultures in the Crossfire sheds light on the ongoing destruction of cultural heritage in the Middle East, featuring ancient art and artifacts alongside the contemporary artwork of the Syrian artist Issam Kourbaj.

«During Hanukkah, we eat a lot of fried foods to celebrate the miracle of the burning oil lamp lasting eight days instead of one while the Holy Temple in ancient Jerusalem was under siege by Syrian - Greek emperor Antiochus.