Sentences with phrase «ancient types of»

«The art of self - adornment is as old as man,» Gutina explains, «and beadwork is among the most ancient types of jewelry.»

Chances are, they offer new - yet - ancient types of flour and dried beans, too.

As we continue to look at the spiritual armor God has given us for our spiritual battle, we look at the ancient type of bulletproof vest — back then, they called it the breastplate.

I make my cake with einkorn flour which is an ancient type of wheat, but if you want to make your cake gluten - free, you can use coconut flour or rice flour.

Another superfood used by the Aztecs, spirulina is an ancient type of blue - green algae that grows in lakes around the world.

Spelt is an ancient type of wheat cultivated for 7000 years.

Not exact matches

Again, in my opinion, Tony's article was a good «I'm rethinking my world view of ancient history» type of article.

The first is relatively uncontroversial to most believers except, perhaps, to evangelical philosophers and fundamentalists of various types — namely, that laypeople are in no position to adjudicate disputes among experts in New Testament scholarship because the scholars have an expertise in languages and ancient history that laypeople lack.

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.

If the term «ecstasy» is applied at all to the giant figures in the succession from Amos to Second Isaiah, I would want to insist on Lindblom's distinction between ecstasy of the absorption type (involving loss of rational control) and that of the concentration type, and a very clear further distinction between the circumspective religion of the prophets and the more common ancient Eastern type of introspective, mystical piety.

In the Revised Standard Version (1946) this passage is set apart in small italic type, and the marginal note reads: «Other ancient authorities add 7:53 - 8:11 either here or at the end of this gospel or after Luke 21:38, with variations of the text.»

In general, I don't care what a candidates cult affiliation is unless he seems to be the type of cult member that will want to press his cults ancient (or not so ancient) beliefs on others through the force of law.

In accord with the «Athens» type, Wood insists that what makes theological schooling excellent schooling is that it shapes sound theological judgment; through this paideia we acquire a habitus, albeit a habitus for action that is self - critical in the modern sense of «critique» — a sense that ancient Athens knew nothing of.

He will include all that is known of ancient and medieval and modern Oriental cultures and societies (Near, Middle and Far East) and extend his examination of Western society and cultures back beyond the classical world finally to include the successive types developed in the various great periods of the Christian era down to this day.

It used to be thought that ancient Greek zoologists had estimated the number of types of fish to be 153, 50 that the number was said to symbolize a perfect and a complete catch.

Perhaps in highly personalized societies of the ancient type, such a usage might make sense — under kings, tyrants, or tribal chiefs, for example, where one person made all the crucial social decisions.

Because it was the picture of schooling celebrated in the culture of ancient Greece, we will let «Athens» stand for a type of schooling for which paideia is the heart of education.

The ancient cities of Jerusalem, Sparta and Athens can stand for three different types of leaders — charismatic, military and persuasive.

Attendantly, from within this millenarian orientation, Jesus himself was identified with the bar nasha of Daniel 7:13 — 14, a type of new Adam, who, on the basis of his appearance before the Ancient of Days, recovered the characteristics that distinguish the human being created in the image and likeness of God: dominion, glory, and kingship (see Ps.

(For the uninitiated, it's an ancient form of personality types / temperaments.)

Though the roots of this attitude can be found in ancient mythic and religious forms of thought, in the past three centuries the estrangement of human subjects from the natural world in turn has been built up in our imaginations under the influence of certain types of scientific epistemology and cosmology.

You sciency - types do nt abandon your worldview even though the ancient greek scientific philosophy that we base our western scientific tradition on, arose in a society founded on the belief in 12 capricious anthropomorphic gods, an animistic «universe», and an unshakeable belief in the idea of «fate».

These types of stories that «explain» how things got the way they are, were quite common in the ancient world.

Rhetoric was defined as the «art of persuasion» and as such constituted the very acme of ancient education because the ability to persuade others entailed a grasp of all types of knowledge.

We know that covenants in the ancient east were of several kinds.10 In the Old Testament story at least two primary types of covenant are emphasized.

The company is also expanding its range of free - from foods with new Grain & Seed Bars, the first bars to combine three types of the ancient grain sorghum in four enticing flavors: Chocolate Marshmallow, Banana Caramel, Maple Sweet Potato and Cranberry Orange.

Our most popular seller, Emmer is a type of farro (an ancient hulled wheat) that dates back to early civilization.

Since my Celiac diagnosis six months ago, I've been in search of an ancient grain to replace my beloved farro, a type of hulled wheat and therefore verboten on a gluten - free diet.

Pereg is pleased to introduce an extended choice of gluten - free and ancient grain flour types, which offer health - conscious consumers more variety for delicious cooking and baking,» says Gill Schneider, Pereg Natural Foods president.

So goodbye Wenger and thanks for the ancient history glory days but most of us, - pires and Ken, being dinosaur type exceptions on here and also the sweet, naive and ever water guzzling TY from Arsenal fan TV — prefer living in the here and now and looking forward to the near future, for we are all a long time dead, as our club has effectively been this last decade.

``... while my baby nursed, fussed or was just otherwise awake,... [I would recall] every detail of his birth so that I c ould commit it to memory... Then I started writing it down during those hours - long midnight visits, typing one - handed on my now ancient Blackberry in a memo folder.

This book is of course a narrow range of information (and frankly very dry if you're not interested in economics), but these types of works will get you much closer to minute details on the everyday realities and decisions ancient governments faced.

Indeed the critical portrayal of republicanism as a system only suited to the small cities of ancient Greece bears some resemblance to the Leninist - type argument that anarchism was a primitive form of socialism that had no place in a revolutionary movement or a modern industrial economy.

But ancient DNA now reveals that the «Tianyuan Man» has only traces of Neandertal DNA and none detectable from another type of extinct human known as a Denisovan.

This ancient theory, recounted by Pliny the Elder, is one of the many bizarre early attempts to explain one of life's greatest mysteries — how a nearly uniform egg cell develops into an animal with dozens of types of cells, each in its proper place.

Last week at the American Astronomical Society's meeting, astronomers announced the detection of a second type of radio static from the heavens, and although it may not come from an era quite as ancient as TV snow does, it may probe the period immediately afterward — an equally mysterious time when the first stars and black holes were lighting up.

In some 3000 elderly people, Nir Barzilai of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, and his colleagues plan to conduct a trial in which half the subjects would get a placebo and half would get an old (indeed, ancient) drug for type 2 diabetes called metformin, which has been shown to modify aging in some animal studies.

This might give clues to what type of ancient predators, such as marine reptiles, they were facing.

The metals» solubility depends strongly on the amount of oxygen present, so the amount and type of those metals in ancient sedimentary rocks reflect how much oxygen was in the water long ago, when the sediments formed.

To better gauge how women's skeletal strength has changed over time, Macintosh's team compared bones of ancient farm women with those of living women, including different types of athletes.

Brusatte and colleagues know that the fossil belonged to an ichthyosaur, a type of ancient marine reptile, and that it probably reached 3 to 4 meters in length, about the size of a small rowboat.

Still, factors other than climate fluctuations, such as hominid population declines or surges, may also have spurred ancient tool innovations to acquire more or different types of food, cautions archaeologist Yonatan Sahle of the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Team members have dubbed the newly described predator Pentecopterus after the penteconter, a type of ancient Greek warship that roughly mirrors the creature's body shape (artist's reconstruction shown above).

To estimate the density of ancient slabs, Klein compiled a large dataset of more than 1,400 previously analyzed samples of both modern rocks and komatiites — classic rock types that were around 3 billion years ago but are no longer produced today.

The investigators, led by Dr Jo Appleby of the University of Leicester School of Archaeology and Ancient History, surmise that the postcranial injuries, including the potentially fatal one to the pelvis, might have been inflicted after Richard's death, on the basis that had he been alive he would have been wearing a specific type of armour worn in the late 15th century that would have prevented such wounds.

While studies of ancient gold metallurgy and the colour characteristics of gold alloys are well supported by modern research, the colour properties of prehistoric copper alloys, such as tin bronzes or arsenical copper, the most abundant type of metal artefacts in prehistory, have largely been understudied.

In North America, the Ice Age was marked by the mass extinction of several dozen genera of large mammals, including mammoths, mastodons, American horses, Western camels, two types of deer, ancient bison, giant beaver, giant bears, sabre - toothed cats, giant bears, American cheetahs, and many other animals, as well as plants.

By analyzing the leaf wax from ancient marine sediments, the team determined the region's past rainfall patterns and also gathered clues about what types of plants were growing.

Ancient stars, of a type known as RR Lyrae, have been discovered in the centre of the Milky Way for the first time, using ESO's infrared VISTA telescope.

«We expect to find fossils of animals that have persisted from more ancient times, and I'm hopeful we will one day find the ancestral type of both the mandibulate and chelicerate nervous system ground patterns.