Sentences with phrase «ancient structures in»

This is considered a small site, but it's certainly a pleasant surprise to find this green oasis of 1000 square meters of jungle with meandering paths leading to a variety of ancient structures in the middle of Cancun's hotel zone.

Damage to certain evolutionarily ancient structures in the brainstem robs people of consciousness entirely, leaving them in a coma or a persistent vegetative state.

THE PYRAMID A team of archeologists unearths an ancient structure in the Egyptian desert.

Not exact matches

At the beginning of the modern era, two events took place that were at the base of non-Western, Byzantine Europe: the break - up of ancient Byzantium and of its historical continuity with the Roman Empire; and the establishment of a second Europe, with a new capital in Moscow, whose borders extended eastward, and of a type of pre-colonial structure in Siberia.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

This has been a period in which the categories of the social sciences have been employed for the study of such ancient literature, alerting us to the ways in which ancient communities are rooted in social realities, as well as the ways in which social structures and ideologies reinforce each other.

(CNN)- Archaeologists are reveling in the discovery of an ancient synagogue in northern Israel, a «monumental» structure with a mosaic floor depicting the biblical figure of Samson and a Hebrew inscription.

The English law is inseparably bound up with the history and structure of the Inns of Court, those ancient collegiate societies to which, until recently, every barrister had to belong, and which, in my days as a student, insisted that you could not be called to the Bar without first dining for a requisite number of nights in the Hall of your Inn.

If it gives us a sense that we come from nowhere, that our past is inchoate and our tradition shallow, so that we begin to doubt our own identity and some of the sensitive among us flee to more ancient lands with more structured traditions, it also gives us our openness to the future, our sense of unbounded possibility, our willingness to start again in a new place, a new occupation, a new ideology.

Governments are not in the business of either knowing about or «approving» the dating of ancient buildings, AND there is no reason to believe the entire structure was built at the same time.

What, then, shall we say of the structure of existence in ancient civilized man?

Ancient cities, Weber notes, were socially structured by a separation between those who made a claim of descent from the founding clans (patricians) and those who could make no such claim (plebeians), a separation often spatially represented by the isolation of plebeians either at the foot of the sacred hill of the polis or in ghettos clustered at the walls.

CNN: Mosaic in Israel shows biblical Samson Archaeologists are reveling in the discovery of an ancient synagogue in northern Israel, a «monumental» structure with a mosaic floor depicting the biblical figure of Samson and a Hebrew inscription.

On the matter of redistributing goods and helping others, Theissen argued that in early Christianity we find a merging and mutual correction of two different structures of social benevolence: that of the ancient Near Eastern authoritarian monarchies, in which charity and compassion are shown by the upper classes to the lower classes, and» that of the Greco - Roman republican townships, in which philanthropia is extended between persons of equal social status.

Not only its aesthetic value, which is apparent in the power of its expression, in the depth of its sensitivity, and in its monumental structure; but also its content — the bold and colossal struggle with the ancient, and at the same time always new, human problem of the meaning of suffering — all this puts the work, in its universal significance, in a class with Dante's Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.8

But there is nothing in the universe that points to any of the gods of ancient myth as anything other than the desire for self - acknowledgement within a narrative structure.

Furthermore, anyone who has studied ancient Near Eastern culture knows that the familial structure we see represented in scripture was nothing like the nuclear family epitomized by the Cleavers, but would rather have included multiple generations and relatives living together in clans, with women working long hours «outside of the home» in the fields, tending sheep, gathering food, trading goods, etc..

(39) The basis for that model is rooted in the social history of ancient Israel and is evidenced textually in the Old Testament tension between the transformative vision of Moses, which belonged to the earliest voice of liberated Israel, and the stabilizing tendency of royal theology which sought to build institutions and establish a reliable social structure.

Would you not agree that Indian Christianity, ancient or modern, orthodox or protestant, not only failed to recognize the need to liberate the oppressed in its midst but built up its structures essentially as exploitative and oppressive structures?

As Gerhard von Rad has established in his great work, The Theology of the Old Testament, and principally in volume one, «The Theology of Traditions,» Israel essentially confessed God through the ordering of its sagas, traditions, and stories around a few kernel events from which meaning spread out through the whole structure.4 Von Rad believes he has discovered the most ancient kernel of the Hebraic Credo in a text such as Deut.

A church is technically a term for a gathering of citizens in a town (origins from ancient Greek), but is commonly understood by the Christian adoption of the word as gathering of Christians in a building or structure to facilitate worship and the meeting of its members, specifically in Christianity

One of the most robust veins of wisdom lies in the structures and patterns of ancient prayers.

Indeed there is every reason to believe that both concepts appeared early in the structure of ancient Israel's faith and practice.

At the same time any interpretation must take into account the confessional form of this tradition; that is, that its present structure, intent, and emphasis are derived from its use in worship and its repeated recitation throughout ancient Israel's generations during annual celebrations of the great deliverance.

While archaeobotanists and archaeologists today have a much clearer picture of the range of foods used by ancient peoples of Mesoamerica in their daily subsistence and dietary practices, the information on the nature, extent, structure, and timing of chili pepper use or consumption in the archaeological record remains scant.

But wings are so fragile that it's possible the ancient lepidopterans also had smaller scale structures that weren't preserved in the fossil record, he says.

These micrometer - scale structures are probably remnants of microorganisms that once lived amidst ancient hydrothermal vents, researchers suggest March 1 in Nature.

Hook structures stand out in the baby's ribs — probably the remnants of arms from an ancient squid relative.

The researchers, including Stanford's Schnitzer, used the same microscopic technique as Dulac's team but implanted the lens in the ventromedial hypothalamus, an evolutionarily ancient structure involved in social behavior.

From ape to human, the brain grows about fourfold, but most of that increase occurs in the cortex, not in more ancient structures.

The graptolites built many theca together to form a branching structure that then drifted in ancient seas and therefore can be found in sedimentary rocks of a certain vintage all around the world.

«But with the information from the several individuals available for ancient DNA sequencing we do have hints at interesting population structure, migration and interaction in East Asia.»

However, similarities in the brain shape between the ancient species and diving birds living today suggest that diving behavior may be associated with certain anatomical structures in the brain.

The researchers thought that loss of flight would impact brain structure — making the brains of ancient penguins and modern penguins similar in certain regions.

This large - scale fold structure is a witness of ancient deformation associated with the rise of the Pyrenees in the middle Eocene, 45 Million years ago.

«The base of the structure — which was once on dry land — is lower than any water level that we know of in the ancient Sea of Galilee.

The Arch of Triumph, an iconic structure that stood for nearly 2000 years in the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, is now rubble, Al Jazeera reports.

Importantly, none of the ancient horses analyzed in the study were inbred, which suggests that Scythian breeders succeeded in maintaining natural herd structures and did not perform selection through a limited number of valuable lineages.

In treeless areas, such geographic features often indicate ancient settlements formed from mud - brick structures that later human occupation has compressed over time into artificial hills.

The specimens document the full evolutionary spectrum of feathers, from simple strands — previously inferred only from fuzzy halos seen in rocks — to complex structures adapted for flight and diving, which Wolfe's team believes came from ancient birds.

The scientists identified 656 zircons containing dark specks that could be revealing and closely analyzed 79 of them with Raman spectroscopy, a technique that shows the molecular and chemical structure of ancient microorganisms in three dimensions.

From millimeter - scale dots in surface waters to relative giants in the depths, larvaceans have jellyfish - translucent bodies but a cordlike structure (called a notochord) reminiscent of very ancient ancestors of vertebrates.

This concentrically expanding system, as ancient as it is enormous, provides a wonderful example of the intricate, interrelated structures that are sculpted in galaxies by the lives and deaths of stars.

Walking upright is one of the defining features of the human lineage, and as feet are the only structure that make contact with the ground in bipeds, they can tell us a lot about our ancient relatives» way of moving.

Inspired by the ancient food art of «blown sugar», Bando and his team reasoned that the strutted, coherent nature of conjoined bubbles would lend itself to strength and conductivity if graphene could be structured in the same way.

Probing the finer details of those ancient, extragalactic stars» chemical structures would take many years, even with the most powerful telescopes on Earth or in space.

Historic structures at the other five sites, including ancient mosques, schools, and civilian as well as government buildings, have all been damaged and, in some cases, destroyed, AAAS reported.

At the heart of the peptide - RNA theory are enzymes so ancient and important that their remnants are still found in all living cells and even in some sub-cellular structures, including mitochondria and viruses.

Moreover, the observatory bears a striking resemblance to similar Andean structures still in use nearly 1,800 years later, suggesting that by the time the Incas inhabited this region of Peru, solar astronomy — and its political ramifications — were already ancient knowledge.

If found in rocks having experienced a diagenetic history, these structures could help identify the presence of low oxygen concentrations in ancient iron - rich environments.