Sentences with phrase «ancient authors as»

We earlier asked if our «intellectual activity» in doing this is anything like the «intellectual activity» of the ancient authors as seen in von Rad's tradition - historical hypothesis.

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His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

An ancient book by unknown authors, which makes wild extraordinary claims such as snakes talking, a man living in a giant fish for days, the dead rising, and so on.

Thus, emerging churches often characterize themselves as «ancient - future,» a phrase that comes from a series of books authored by Webber (Ancient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - Futureancient - future,» a phrase that comes from a series of books authored by Webber (Ancient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - FutureAncient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - FutureAncient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - FutureAncient - Future Time).

The ancient monks saw zeal as the virtue opposed to sloth, and in the Christmas readings we find the «zeal of the Lord» invoked by both the prophet Isaiah and the author of the letter to Titus.

«No responsible doctrine of inspiration can deny that the biblical authors were thoroughly encultured, ancient people, who spoke as ancient people.

She places the same level of authority in ancient traditions and the personal views of uninspired authors on passages like the Creation account as she does in scripture itself.

We do it a wrong, and we exaggerate the supernatural thought of its authors when we take it literally as precise formulation of ancient expectations.

Plus, as an athlete, I require carbs as a quick source of energy — when the book The Paleo Diet for Athletes: The Ancient Nutritional Formula for Peak Athletic Performance came out, the authors finally acknowledged that the right carbs have a time and place.

Lead author, Matthew Baron, says: «When we started our analysis, we puzzled as to why some ancient ornithischians appeared anatomically similar to theropods.

Extinction, certainly of really ancient creatures, is forever, as the authors themselves make clear.

Now ancient DNA has rewritten the evolutionary history of this iconic group,» said first author Peter Heintzman, who led the study as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Santa Cruz.

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from climate modelling of large 20th - century eruptions, annual measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human record of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions of Nile flood quality in ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.

Earlier surveys incorrectly labelled ancient savannas as newly deforested regions, said A. Carla Staver, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and senior author of the study.

As the authors show with examples from ancient and modern teeth, the method is valuable for understanding a health condition that today affects more than 1 billion.

Many living Europeans retain traces of this influx, which the authors link to an ancient culture of steppe herders known as the Yamnaya.

Authors of a new study suggest that 520 - million - year - old structures, previously identified as the brains of ancient arthropods, are instead preserved microbial biofilms.

The authors next built mathematical models that describe how ancient populations might have interacted as they moved from place to place.

Used as a personal growth tool and sometimes described as «like the Zodiac, but more scientific» the Enneagram has roots which date back to ancient times, but only began gaining popularity in the 1970's through authors like Helen Palmer and Don Riso / Russ Hudson.

So I have integrated the teachings of hundreds of the top masters, authors and transformational leaders of our time as well as the wisdom of ancient sages to synthesize a new, direct, no - nonsense program.

This set includes twelve Latin quotes, by both famous and lesser known authors, with their English translations, to use as display posters in the classroom, for example when teaching a unit on Romans or Ancient History or in any Latin class.

Michael Armstrong, author of several books on human capital and performance management, is quoted as saying, «The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.»

That prepping has taken her all over the world: working as a research assistant for an author in Venice, Italy; getting a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Cambridge in England; helping on an archeological dig of Ancient Tiberias in Israel, where she unearthed a stack of ninth - century vases; working in Iraq as a public diplomacy officer and conducting research for generals; raising money for schools in Afghanistan for Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (R - OH); traveling to China to learn about how children of migrant workers access education; learning Arabic.

We love stories, and we love learning about the world through the vivid and personal voice of an author — whether anonymous, contemporary, ancient, or as immediate as the evening news.

I even included to impressive epic and exotic historical novels, SISTER OF THE LIONHEART by Hilary Benford, the amazing tale of Joanna, sister of Richard the Lionheart, as well as A GOD AGAINST THE GODS, an epic story of turmoil in ancient Egypt, written by Pulitzer Prize - winning author Allen Drury.

The author began his study of Latin as a schoolboy in London, studied ancient history at Oxford University and worked as a Latin tutor before becoming a journalist.

I give it four stars instead of five because I felt the sense of place a bit lacking — the author didn't draw me into ancient Egypt as much as I would have liked.

You will find ancient works from Plato and Hetodotus to medieval authors such as Chaucer and literary greats such as Shakespeare.

So having used other print on demand services, as an author traveling, calling three months in advance, and this was even with Barnes and Noble, years and years ago because remember, I was in print on demand in 2004 back in the really archaic or ancient days of digital.

Dr. Jones has contributed to various publications, including serving as co-editor and author of the introduction for The Art and Archaeology of the Moche: An Ancient Andean Society of the Peruvian North Coast, and contributing to the University of Texas Collections Book.