Sentences with phrase «ancient literature with»

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It offers examples of consummate literary skill; parts can be ranked with the best of the contemporary ancient histories; and nowhere else in all the world's literature and history is God so consistently and passionately the center of action and contemplation.

The modern crisis of narrative is very different from the ancient one in that we are here dealing with artful stories, with «literature.»

The fact of Eve's seduction is verified by noting the acceptance in ancient Jewish literature of the idea that angels could have sexual relations with human beings.

Here is the sheer miracle of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in science and the immense scope of modern knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere of the ancient countryside, with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total of man's writing, translated into the world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.

A tipping point occurred during a sleepy, 9 - a.m. Introduction to World Literature class when my class read the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Mesopotamian poem purportedly written before the book of Genesis, which tells the story of a worldwide flood, a favored family, and an ark full of animals, only with Sumerian gods and heroes at its center instead of the familiar Yahweh.

Many said that the teacher should have, a broad acquaintance with the Bible and with literature in general, and with parallel stories from other ancient cultures.

With this analogy in mind, Enns moves on to apply it to the first of three Old Testament «problems» — the Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Literature — which will be the subject of next week's discussion.

As we move to Chapter 2 — «The Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Literature» — I am struck afresh with just how perfect this book fits with our theme.

In this respect the New Testament was perfectly in accord with the canons of ancient Jewish tradition and literature.

Christianity and Mohametanism: — For two thousand years the Greek art - forms lifelessly repeated: The Greek schools of philosophy, Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian, Neo-Platonic, arguing with barren formulae: Conventional histories: A stabilized Government with the sanctity of ancient ceremony, supported by habitual pieties: literature without depth: Science elaborating details by deduction from unquestioned premises: Delicacies of feeling without robustness of adventure.

Already in the literature of the first millennium there are references to people with prodigious memory, particularly in the Naturalis historia (Natural History) of Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus, 23 — 79 A.D.), a sort of encyclopedia that in 37 books describes everything from the geography, science, and technology to the agriculture, medicinal herbs, and insects of ancient Rome.

Putting together the genetic data on the ancient and modern samples, namely those already present in the literature and those analysed in this study, researchers have now proposed the following scenario to explain the Iceman's genetic history: Ötzi's paternal lineage, G2a, is part of an ancient genetic substrate that arrived in Europe from the Near East with the migrations of the first Neolithic peoples some 8,000 years ago.

«Ancient Vedic (the oldest known Sanskrit literature) knowledge tells us that we have a vital energy called prana moving through the energy channels in the midline of the body, with each chakra, or center of energy, identifying a core human need,» says Candice Covington, a certified aromatherapist, massage therapist, and energy worker at The Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California.

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The underlying concepts are present in many profound literatures, both modern and ancient, but no descriptions of actual conversations with the Ri - iha - mo that reveal profound revelations about our Universe, our planet, and our true nature, revelations that can greatly assist in understanding our world, its history, and our role and power in creating precisely the life we desire.

In popular literature it denotes the prick - eared, leggy dog with a curled tail from the early Egyptian age, but it was also used with reference to the lop - eared «saluki / sloughi» type; it was one of several types of dogs in Ancient Egypt, particularly the latter type had an appearance most similar to that of a greyhound.

According to the AKC, while Irish literature refers to this ancient breed in many ways, including «Big Dogs of Ireland,» Irish Wolfhounds were documented in Rome in the year 391 A.D., where they were presented to the Roman Counsel as gifts, which «all Rome viewed with wonder.»

The silver - blue cats with the emerald - green eyes are said to date to the 14th century based on their depiction in ancient literature.

With a background that includes studies of ancient Greek literature and a stint at famed theater director Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, the Istanbul - born Köken Ergun brings both classical humanism and experimental approaches to his film and video work.

A well - read academician and a professor at Hunter College with a thorough understanding of philosophy and literature his work, maybe more than anyone else's in the group drew its inspiration from literature and philosophy rather than ancient Greek, Christian and Judaic mythology and religion.

While all three artists look to literature as a primary source of inspiration, Bas's fascination with the paranormal and bizarre traces back to his childhood; Chu draws from a wide range of cultures and eras, referencing ancient mythological and ritualistic tales; and Kristalova mines the lost territory of childhood dreams, memories and nightmares.

Köken Ergun studied acting at the İstanbul University and after completing his postgraduate diploma degree in Ancient Greek Literature, began working with American theater director Robert Wilson.

Cy Twombly's Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves (IV), which was shown in Athens at the last gallery exhibition of his work prior to the artist's passing, employs rich tones of turquoise with vermillion and yellow to portray the Mediterranean landscape and reference ancient literature and mythology.

While ancient characters and tales, including Homeric literature, Old Testament stories, Greek mythology, and European painting are evident sources, underlying the work is the artist's own elegiac confrontation with the joys and struggles that pervade our daily lives.

They looked to ancient Greek literature as well as to «primitive» cultures for a more authentic connection with the underlying forces of nature, especially human nature, than contemporary Western society seemed to provide.