Sentences with phrase «ancient records»

When Constantine ordered the New Testament written in 300 AD, they sifted through a lot of ancient records and cherry picked the ones he approved with edits.

This is not the same Eshba'al who is referenced in 1 Chronicles 8:33, a son of King Saul, but that's the only other mention of the name in ancient records, both from the identical era.

Sometimes ancient records have been examined for a natural explanation of the moving star (in 7 B.C. there was a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, and in 12 B.C. a record of a comet).

Their findings have stirred a lot of skepticism in the community of specialists examining ancient records of past climate changes and how they might relate to variations in Earth's orbit and orientation toward the Sun and other factors.

The term «guest star» is used in the context of ancient records, since the exact classification of an astronomical event in question is based on interpretations of old records, including inference, rather than on direct observations.

Doubtless this pleasant young man soon found someone unacquainted with Joseph Smith's Testimony, that ubiquitous missionary tract which contains the official account of the prophet's visions and his discovery of the ancient record chronicling the lives and times, vicissitudes and final destruction of a Hebraic people whose patriarch immigrated to America with his family in 600 BC.

The Book of Abraham, which is described as «a translation of some ancient records that have fallen into our hands from the catacombs of Egypt, the writings of Abraham while he was in Egypt,» is also included.

The Ancient Record of the T'ang Dynasty notes that in the second year of the rule of Yung - wei (31; A.D. 651) an emissary from Arabia came to the royal court bearing gifts.

To write off the ancient record with one sentence is pretty ignorant, especially when we find that the farther we go back in archeology, the more amazing the accomplishments of humans in architecture and astrology and scientific understanding become.

Eventually the problem was solved, and specialists now read these ancient records with almost the same ease with which one reads a modern foreign language.

Time and time again, Earth has been pummeled by asteroids, but that ancient record is often faded and dubious.

An ancient record Assessing lake sediment cores from the region reaching 15,000 years into the past, a Montana State University team found whitebark pines more abundant despite higher summer temperatures and fire frequency than today.

12 By comparing those ancient records with modern calculations of eclipse patterns, scientists have determined that the day is 0.047 second longer today than it was back then.

On top of that, the ancient records show that the workers would have hiked on average about 161 days each year.

The family member was healed and in gratitude Master Murai was granted access to the ancient records of Japan.

ID Watchdog's ability to dig up ancient records was impressive; it found all but two of my previous addresses over the past 50 years.