Sentences with phrase «ancient mythological beings»

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Tryggve N. D. Mettinger in The Riddle of the Resurrection: «Dying and Rising Gods» in the Ancient Near East wrote: «There is, as far as I am aware, no prima facie evidence that the death and resurrection of Jesus is a mythological construct, drawing on the myths and rites of the dying and rising gods of the surrounding world.»

There is the simple recognition that Zeus, considered god of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods in ancient Greece and corresponding to the Roman god Jupiter, is a mythological god, the same as Hermes.

The issue is dramatized in an ancient psalm which is heavy with mythological imagery:

I believe the bible story attempts to describe, in its ancient mythological way, how the spiritual is totally enmeshed in the material.

We have seen that when the Bible is read against the background of the ancient mythological cultures, it is found to be pointing in a different direction.

Reading all the comments, frankly why people should take some mythological figures and ancient history made out in mordern times to hate a section of people, frankly who knows how Jesus was and what exactly the «Jews» did to him 2000 years back, these are just stories made up in the minds of people.

In the new world the mythological world view of ancient man is obsolete, but poetry is not obsolete.

In the succeeding chapters we shall examine the distinctive marks of the Judeo - Christian heritage, as they come to light when the Bible is studied against the background of the mythological world of ancient man.

Now that we have briefly sketched the role of myth and ritual in the ancient world we can see why it is convenient to use the label «mythological» to describe the world of ancient man.

They are related in that the mythological world view of ancient man was expressed in the form of stories or myths, but it shall be argued later that there is something more permanently valid in «myth» than in what has been here called the «mythological».

It should be an automatic disqualifier when anyone running for president claims to hear voices from a mythological ancient mesopotamian sheep diety.

We may freely admit that there is a danger that, if we continue to use the word «myth», it may be mistakenly assumed that we are attempting to restore the mythological view of ancient man.

Thus in contrast with the ancient mythological cultures and with holy scripture outside the Judeo - Christian stream, most of the Old Testament either consists of historical material, or is expressed with due regard to the historical nature of human life.

Whereas the ancient myth bore all the marks of the mythological world to which it was orientated, the myth which the man of faith in the new world finds meaningful will be orientated to the human situation as contemporary man understands it, and it could even be called a «demythologized myth» or «historically - grounded myth».

The mythological world of ancient man forms the real background for the appreciation of the Old Testament, and the first thing which strikes one is that the Old Testament contains so much writing of history.

The glorious freedom in which the early church rejoiced had by the Middle Ages been transformed into a new form of bondage, actually the resurgence of an ancient form of bondage, that in which man was enslaved to his own mythological world.

Within this cosmopolitan Israel the sense of freedom, sparked off by the deliverance from Egypt and consummated in the kingdom of David, gave rise to a new kind of faith, which as we have seen, was destined to diverge more and more from the mythological religion of ancient man.

The Old Testament almost completely lacks this mythological interest, one of the few examples being the prologue of the book of Job, and this is very likely an ancient myth which a post-exilic writer adapted to provide the setting for his magnificent poem on the riddle of human destiny.

It was not because ancient man had never entertained any such hopes of immortality that Israel focussed her attention upon the earth, but because Israel deliberately turned her back on such hopes, as she cast off the mythological outlook to which they properly belong.

This name is derived from the Mythological ancient Roman divinity Diana who was noted for beauty and swiftness; often depicted as a huntress.

The rock art, Boyd says, displays an archaic core: an ancient belief system that has been widely shared in Mesoamerican mythological traditions.

Perseus is the mythological hero of the Ancient Greeks who rescued Andromeda from Cetus the Sea Monster.

The story was full of mythological lore and ancient gods, spanned multiple centuries and characters, and messed with your mind.

The Pyramid, a new archaeology - themed horror movie being dumped into theaters like a bad date, concerns a group of idiots who stomp into an ancient tomb and uncover long - buried mythological evils.

If it's not the picturesque views waiting for you around every bend, it's the mythological tales and small mountain villages steeped in ancient history that leave us wanting more.

Titan Quest is a hack and reduce dungeon crawler set in the mythological world of ancient Greece > Egypt > Babylon and China.

I'm sure many of the demographic of this article have all considered the possible wonders of taking the great mythological stories of the ancient Greek gods and goddesses and slamming it head first li...

Hazelnut Bastille tells the story of a young woman who travels to a foreign shore on the outskirts of her world, in order to seek out the promised gifts of mythological ancients, in hopes of retrieving something which was lost to her.

The game is set in ancient Greece, where the generally peaceful rule of the Olympian gods is disturbed by the rise of all the mythological monsters that seem somehow organized.

This game is based on ancient Persian mythology bringing to life the epic battles of the mythological hero, Garshasp, in the ancient lands against the evil monsters.

Whether historical or mythological, this event is a cornerstone in the story of ancient Rome since it was said to have led to the establishment of the first Roman Republic and the overthrow of tyranny.

His investigation of ancient mythological creatures has long been understood as a parable for the forces of nature, and it was characterized by Clement Greenberg as the best and the worst of nineteenth - century painting.

Whether historical or mythological, this event is a cornerstone in the story of ancient Rome since it was said to have led to the overthrow of tyranny and the establishment of the first Roman Republic.

Delving into our fascination with super heroes and monsters in contemporary pop culture, We Could Be Heroes will examine the relationship between today's super heroes and the ancient quests of mythological and religious heroes against villainous monsters in recorded history and folklore.

The name (Orpheus was a mythological poet and musician of ancient Greece) was coined by French art critic Guillaume Apollinaire when describing the «musical» effect of the abstract paintings by the Cubist Robert Delaunay (which comprised overlapping planes of contrasting or complementary colours) in order to distinguish them from Cubism generally.

The works presented in this exhibition are nourished by a number of influences, which range from ancient mythological forms to modern poetry.