Sentences with phrase «ancient documents like»

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.

Especially when we understand it in light of its historical and cultural contexts (which is the only way to read an ancient document like the Bible).

Not exact matches

This document is like an old pair of khakis you wear into the office on Saturdays or that one ancient delivery truck that never seems to break down.

This document is like an old pair of khakis you wear to the office on Saturdays or that one ancient delivery truck that never seems to break down.

Then, instead of reading like the «Around Home» section or the obituary column of a small - town newspaper, it could have provided a more worthy document of the life and times of the ancient world, a register of the designs and deeds of the truly great men and nations of the ancient Near East.

In ancient and biblical times, the word is often used regarding things like children who recovered from sickness, a battle which was won, or a successful trading voyage (See my article on the gospel where I document this in more detail).

Additionally, it has been well documented that a monotheistic conception of ultimate reality is indigenous to almost all of traditional African culture, and that it is highly probable that traditional African theism, like Judeo - Christian and Islamic theism, has its historical genesis in the monotheism of a black pharaoh of ancient Egypt — Iknaton ---- who was the first person known to have popularized the religious conviction that there is one, and only one, god.

Since absolutely nothing like those awesome and spectacular miracles have ever been documented outside the ancient stories in the Bible they can only be explained as just that.

Because the Ptolemaic era is one of ancient Egypt's most well - documented periods, the dates of major political events are known with some confidence, note the researchers, adding that what is often less clear from the ancient writings is what specific factors triggered events like revolts.

I understand that those slim 20th - century periodicals, which recounted the exploits of heroes in colored and paneled storyboards, are now the founding documents of our popular culture, and that we must revisit them each summer with solemn pomp, like ancient Norsemen making their annual pilgrimage.

Large - scale archaeological excavations were in full swing at pre-Columbian sites like Monte Albán and Mitla in Oaxaca, and Josef and Anni took it all in with tremendous interest, exploring the ancient architecture and documenting their findings, as well as acquiring beloved pieces from marketplaces and merchants.

Like «champagne bottles being opened»: Scientists document an ancient Arctic methane explosion What could possibly go wrong, ignoring climate change, the warnings or clues from what science tells us, even if we were just creating a better world with clean energy, and millions of new jobs?

There are so many digital platforms available today for document storage that keeping paper files in the office seems like the work of ancient times.