Sentences with phrase «ancient manuscripts»

Lastly, look up the word «gloss» in the context of ancient manuscripts.

Jesus himself was nowhere to be seen in 1640, and the only witnesses to the truth of his claims were found in ancient manuscripts, the veracity of which were easily doubted.

After hearing a friend's lecture on ancient manuscripts, biochemist and evolutionary biologist Christopher Howe of the University of Cambridge says he suddenly realized, «hang on, that's what I've been doing all morning.»

There are many ancient manuscripts by which to challenge inerrency.

Translated I'm not capable of reading ancient manuscripts and take something out of it, so I automatically dismiss it because of its age.

Princeton doctoral student Xiyue Wang, who went to Iran to study ancient manuscripts, was arrested in August 2016, accused of spying for the United States, and sentenced to 10 years in prison in July 2017.

Yet even they must admit that it was to their good fortune that, in a small family of cultures, a decisive number of inquirers, scholars, and copyists of ancient manuscripts did learn to expect pervasive intelligibility in the universe because of their faith in an ordering Intelligence.

The earliest Gospel never mentions — at least not in the best ancient manuscripts — the risen Jesus» reunions with his followers as described in Matthew, Luke and John.

[107] On noting the large number of surviving ancient manuscripts, Bruce Metzger sums up the view on the issue by saying «The more often you have copies that agree with each other, especially if they emerge from different geographical areas, the more you can cross-check them to figure out what the original docu ment was like.

The first centuries of the thermometer record were intriguing but unreliable, and people like Callendar, Manley and Böhm approached them with the same caution as historians examining ancient manuscripts.

«We are delighted the process of digital archiving will make these wonderful ancient manuscripts more widely available to the world and thereby strengthen the deep spirit of humankind's shared universal heritage.»

Day 2 Visit Charminar, the Mecca Mosque, Salar Jung Museum, exhibiting ancient manuscripts, paintings and weapons, Chowmahalla Palace and the Archaeological and Nizam museums.

Armed rebels threatened civilians and destroyed many of Timbuktu's sacred tombs and other historic architecture, and also burned ancient manuscripts.

The cross was not the means of execution used to kill Jesus of Nazareth, but an upright pole or «tree» as the Greek term literally means in ancient manuscripts.

In 2012, another drama played out in headlines across the world: a fragment of ancient manuscript in which Jesus purportedly refers to his «wife» was trumpeted as evidence that Jesus had been a married man.

Why do we keep reading those ancient manuscripts?

I can understand how from your vantage point basing an entire life on an ancient manuscript seems asinine!

This does not even look like an ancient manuscript.

In most of the ancient manuscripts the Gospel according to Mark ends with 16.8: whether he deliberately stopped there, or meant to write more but was prevented, or did write a conclusion which was afterwards lost, is an open question.

It's always fascinating that people will scoff at 800 pages of ancient manuscripts now called the Bible, but as soon as any scrap of ancient manuscript comes along that presents a different story, that scrap is revered as more significant than the 800 pages.

Like I said, people rush to believe any ancient manuscripts EXCEPT what we now call the Bible.

Huge numbers of ancient manuscripts were taken from the great monastic libraries and either torn apart for their precious bindings, or simply burned.

The handsome script, specially designed for the SJB, is as beautiful as that of any ancient manuscript.

A groundbreaking report by the Wall Street Journalwriter, Andrew Higgins, makes the astonishing claim that a priceless photo archive of ancient manuscripts of the Qur» an, which were considered to have been destroyed in the bombing of the Bavarian Academy of Science, is still in existence.

Would your view of the Scripture change if: 1) Ancient manuscripts were discovered that fell into either or both of these categories: - Autographs of books we find in the NT.

He meant, as is universally known and accepted, that the Greek and Hebrew texts of the Bible are copies of ancient manuscripts, and these copies have textual errors which have crept in over the course of time.

In building his case for why we can still believe the Bible, Blomberg effectively positions himself between liberal scholars who refuse to acknowledge the firm textual base on which the scriptures stand and ultraconservatives who insist on a rigidly literal reading of the Bible (often in the King James only) in the face of legitimate developments in our understanding of ancient manuscripts and genres.

It was ostensibly a translation of an ancient manuscript discovered in a monastery in Tibet, telling of travel, study, and preaching by Jesus in India and Persia.

Although the Vulgate is to be the official text of the Bible, ancient manuscripts must not be neglected;

Second, when science say's that the sun will burn out in about 4 billion years they are using data that has been gathered about our sun as well as many other star's to come up with their theory, not an ancient manuscript written by nomadic goat herders.

Obviously the evidence provided by ancient manuscripts is of primary importance.

Such divisions are very uncommon in ancient manuscripts, but they do show up frequently in manuscripts that were used in educational contexts,» said Landau, a lecturer in the UT Austin Department of Religious Studies.

August 19, 2015 • The Jaffna library once held irreplaceable, ancient manuscripts, lost when it was torched in 1981.

Whether she's imagining the history of an ancient manuscript, as in People of the Book, or an English town determined to survive the plague in A Year of Wonders, Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist Geraldine Brooks is a master at bringing history's little - known but fascinating stories to life.

They have hundreds of old books and ancient manuscripts on display.

Based on an ancient manuscript, the tale follows a young Portuguese Jew as he searches the burning city for his uncle's killer.

She specializes in ancient manuscripts and research, and therefore she's stunned when her superiors need her expertise in a new assignment - identifying unusual tattoos on the corpse of a dead Ethiopian.

Tour of Yerevan including the History Museum of Armenia and an ancient manuscript repository.

On the playing field, at your disposal there are swords, ancient manuscripts, Tibet coins, Chinese lanterns, and other sacred relics.

At times, the wood appears like wafer thin pages of an ancient manuscript, in others it forms sculptural shapes that approach the essence of a Brâncuși.

Here, I picked up an ancient manuscript and, with trepidation, approached a giant bony finger enclosed in a glass cabinet — the relic of a yeti?

By his death in 1936, he had amassed an extraordinary collection of over one million objects related to medical history, ranging from diagnostic dolls and Japanese sex aids to African masks and amputation saws, from amulets and ancient manuscripts to Napoleon's toothbrush and George III's hair.

Examples of these ancient manuscripts and collected specimens accompany the works of today in an eclectic but focused survey and a carefully orchestrated installation.