Sentences with phrase «ancient texts also»

Several ancient texts also described attempts by servants to clear the skins of pharaohs.

Not exact matches

The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of churches and discussion about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and, in particular, regulations of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious world.

The teaching of Jesus, on the other hand, not only regularly uses the verb to come in connection with the Kingdom and avoids the other verbs more characteristic of ancient Judaism, it also never speaks of God «appearing» as king as do the Jewish texts.

Critical scholarship — not only historical critical scholarship, but also newer approaches to the Bible using critical theory — has pressed our understanding of the texts and traditions of ancient Christianity to the point where organized Christianity, if it were to be guided by such work, would have to begin to rethink some of its basic theological commitments.

Hidden allusions are never easy to be sure of and particularly is this the case with an ancient text, but one can at least see the reasons why Martin - Achard comes to the conclusion that these verses from the book of Hosea not only apply the idiom of resurrection to Israel's hope for the future, but also show where it came from.

On the other hand, the assertion of nationhood demanded the projection of a distance from Europe... Thus, the Hindu nationalists claimed that the Vedic texts and ancient history had not only expressed India as a nation but had also displayed attributes that colonialism defined as exclusively European.6

WORLD: I'll agree that some of the science relevance of ancient relgious texts may be poetic and effort might be required to understand... and I also agree that all science isn't there....

Ancient Greek translations of the Hebrew texts, both in Exodus and in Deuteronomy, also present variant orders for the three prohibitions.

Other groups were the Scotists using the works of the philosopher Duns Scotus, championed by the Franciscans; the Thomists using the texts of Thomas Aquinas, championed by the Dominicans — Aquinas had worked philosophy and religion into a great single Summa, transposing Aristotle into the context of Christian theology under the influence of Augustine and Bernard, in which fides quaerens intellectum, faith seeking understanding, was integrated organically with philosophy; finally there was also a via antiqua, the ancient way, which was centred on Plato, but was also used to describe the Thomists.

Cannabis is also mentioned in the Talmud, Judaism's key ancient text, and evidence of its pollen or oil has been found in several ancient Egyptian tombs, including that of the pharaoh Ramses II.

According to the ancient text, cannabis was used to relieve conditions ranging from constipation to malaria, though its hallucinogenic qualities also were noted.

It is referred to in ancient text as the best medicine to prevent aging and also as a rasayana (a promoter of health, longevity and great complexion).

It is also known as «Shula» (pain) in Madhava Nidanam (ancient Ayurvedic text) and treated as a separate condition.

In the far east it has been used for at least two thousand years, and probably much longer, particularly in China where its benefits were documented in the ancient Chinese text, the Divine Farmer's Materia Medica, also know as the -LSB-...]

Still, for every Breath of the Wild there's also a Horizon Zero Dawn, and though enamouring and immersive, the post-apocalyptic setting finds itself rife with a glut of metal flowers, ancient vessels, and Banuk artefacts that do little than to add minor lore amongst walls of text.

Also, the entire project is being funded by the Polonsky Foundation that has allotted # 2 million for the digitization process that will make available online text and ancient literary pieces that were once or are still a close guarded entity.

The author of «Love, Miracles and Animal Healing», the moving story of his own journey from physical medicine to spiritual understanding, he also edited the text «Problems in Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Acupuncture»,» Veterinary Acupuncture: Ancient Art to Modern Medicine», and co-edited «Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine: Principles and Practice».

These ancient treatises contain concepts, but the way language is used in these texts also seems to produce an altered experience.