The fact is that the bible is a collection of
ancient timed documents written by men.
and then the last post I read to be David saying, «The fact is that the bible is a collection of
ancient timed documents written by men».
Not exact matches
Boethius... thx for yr reply... I don't think it's that simple to say that» they got that from reading
ancient documents incorrectly»... the specifically Christian apocalyptic thinking that has survived in various theologies, whether traditionally Catholic or the most horrific end
time sect appears to have it's roots in both the old and new testaments, but that begs a question.What are those
documents?
Then, instead of reading like the «Around Home» section or the obituary column of a small - town newspaper, it could have provided a more worthy
document of the life and
times of the
ancient world, a register of the designs and deeds of the truly great men and nations of the
ancient Near East.
This has been a
time, finally, when the literary analysis of
ancient literature has become a very significant force within the field, insisting that
documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations of religious experiences and convictions.
In
ancient and biblical
times, the word is often used regarding things like children who recovered from sickness, a battle which was won, or a successful trading voyage (See my article on the gospel where I
document this in more detail).
Our earliest copies of those
documents are more plentiful and closer to the
time of Jesus than the histories of many major figures of the
ancient world (whom the general public seem to have no problem believing in).
At first scholars had high hopes that inscriptions and other written
documents from
ancient times («epigraphical» sources) would confirm the biblical account and add further information.
Although many moms didn't diaper their babies because the «trend» was to go naked, there are
documents that suggest forms of diapers were used in
ancient times.
He has particular interests in (1) the use of
ancient DNA methods to
document changes in genetic variation through
time and phylogenetic relationships of extinct or endangered organisms (especially of the recently extinct Hawaiian avifauna); (2) the use of highly variable genetic markers to measure genetic structure and relatedness, and to ascertain mating systems, in natural populations, and (3) the use of genetics to study the evolutionary interactions between hosts, vectors and infectious disease organisms (e.g., major projects on introduced avian malaria in native Hawaiian birds and invasive chytrid fungus in amphibians).
This database starts with
ancient and medieval
documents and moves into present
times.
More than 70 works, from
ancient Egypt through the Renaissance and to modern
times,
document the cat as a source of artistic inspiration.
As this NPR article
documents (click on image), modern U.S. western region wildfire occurrence (and severity), despite the huge increase atmospheric CO2, is below what took place during historical and
ancient times.
Materials span
ancient Greece to contemporary
times, and include such pre-Eighteenth Century
documents as the Athenian Constitution by Aristotle, the Code of Hammurabi and the Magna Carta.
We may not be pulling dinosaur DNA from insects fossilized in amber any
time soon, but fossilized insects can still give us a window into the past: a team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have
documented 39 examples of
ancient insects disguising themselves with various items, from general debris to the exoskeletons of dispatched foes.
There are so many digital platforms available today for
document storage that keeping paper files in the office seems like the work of
ancient times.