Sentences with phrase «ancient documents»

Some people treat the book as though it were some kind of ancient document of magical formulas.

I know, you are going to say that they got that from reading ancient documents incorrectly, without an open and critical mind.

The Ukrainian authorities are delaying their return to investigate where they came from, requesting the museum to provide ancient documents proving ownership.

As to the history of best disposable diapers, several ancient documents refer that special clothing was used for babies in the early stage of mankind.

It is important to note that, in the last resort, the truth of the claim that Jesus is risen is to be tested primarily by the examination of contemporary Christian experience rather than by research in ancient documents.

The technique is also illuminating ancient documents like the Dead Sea Scrolls and manuscripts known as palimpsests, in which the original writing was scraped off so the parchment could be reused.

«These Biblical records can be and are used as are other ancient documents in archeological work.

Boethius... thx for yr reply... I don't think it's that simple to say that» they got that from reading ancient documents incorrectly»... the specifically Christian apocalyptic thinking that has survived in various theologies, whether traditionally Catholic or the most horrific end time sect appears to have it's roots in both the old and new testaments, but that begs a question.What are those documents?

The preacher should not look upon these disciplines as otherwise, for the Bible as a collection of ancient documents surely deserves the compliment of objective examination as much as other literature.

Seales» ability to decode CT scans of ancient carbonized texts may open the door to recovering many more ancient documents, including an entire library of a Roman villa destroyed in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 73 A.D., as well as discarded papyrus documents used to create Egyptian mummy casings.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient documents discovered in the caves of Qumran (in Israel) during the 1940s and 1950s.

The challenge for feminist Biblical interpretation is to find another way, another approach that finds new ground, neither accepting blindly traditional interpretation nor ignoring the Bible as a useless ancient document.

«These three texts are among Earth's most ancient documents, created over 3000 years ago.

Interpreting ancient documents is «often very complicated,» Manning says.

To do this, as they describe in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, the team developed an approach to nondestructively identify and quantify the concentration of light - absorbing molecules known as chromophores in ancient paper, the culprit behind the «yellowing» of the cellulose within ancient documents and works of art.

In this case, the Ontario Labour Relations Board allowed a document to be introduced based on the business records and ancient document rules and did not rely on the statutory provisions for discretion in admitting evidence.

Finally, we learn from Robert Langdon, the novel's hero, that the so - called Priory of Sion's aim has been to present «to the world thousands of ancient documents as scientific evidence that the New Testament is false testimony» (451).

----- I will not bore you with all of the proofs such as --- the # of ancient documents of the Bible, of its contemporary historians, archeology, etc, verses other religions.

They must show reasoned thoughts — a rationale — to a world that believes the bible is just an ancient document — it is easier to quote a strange scripture than to show reasoned evidences.

Just some thoughts: David - re: with the support of an ancient document, So the Bible is an invalid standard based on it's age?

Historical criticism is the process by which modern scholars examine the text of ancient documents and try to determine when they were truly written and whether or not they were authored by the person whose name is on the document.

-- yes, hospital is a good analogy, human nature is flawed and plenty of ancient documents support this... people can question whether Christianity or some other hospital or no hospital is better.

Ever since the principles of historical criticism have been applied to ancient documents the criticism of the Old and New Testaments has never been silent.

Frankly I don't give a damn what the catechism of the catholic church thinks about it and that ancient document will NEVER represent any kind of «proof» for me.

«A wide range of scientific testing indicates that a papyrus fragment containing the words, «Jesus said to them, my wife» is an ancient document, dating between the sixth to ninth centuries CE,» Harvard Divinity School said in a statement.

Implied, of course, in this as in all study is the bringing to the material all one's faculties: questioning, discussing, applying all available tools for prying open the mysteries in the ancient documents.

But never mind, he found its source and justification in that ancient document's «penumbras» and» emanations,» which because they are not limned in words have, shall we say, a certain useful plasticity.

- Other ancient documents that state new and contradictory info about NT books, such as quoting parts of I Timothy and stating that the book was manufactured in Paul's style, but had nothing to do with Paul.

To say this is not to imply that he is not interested in understanding the text as an ancient document.

Add an enigmatic, neo-Pythagorean cult that is scouring the world for the reincarnation of The Master, his identity revealed only in an ancient document now in pieces, and voila, you have a mathematical thriller.

The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in the 1960s, but a new study claims it is both genuine and likely the most ancient of all surviving manuscripts from ancient America.

Geophysics and soil science, carbon dating, knowledge of cultural artefacts, stories and other evidence provided from ancient documents and carvings, pollen analysis, human DNA from local populations, etc. — each had evolved in independently of one - another, but would now be combined to deepen any 21st century archaeology's approach to understanding the pot.