Sentences with phrase «ancient works from»

In the morning sesh, you'll learn about the city and the surrounding territory, ancient works from Palmyra in the Met collection and how to be a «proper citizen» of Palmyra.

You will find ancient works from Plato and Hetodotus to medieval authors such as Chaucer and literary greats such as Shakespeare.

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From novel scheduling systems, to exhortations to invest in health, and even spiritual reminders that «work - life balance» is really a modern spin on the ancient and fundamentally difficult question of what constitutes a life well lived, you can spend hours upon hours neither working nor living but simply reading through posts and columns on the topic.

The new work by Okubo and his USGS colleagues zoomed out for a wider view of the canyons, yet used incredibly detailed images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera to look for signs of ancient shallow pools.

She and her students spend their time trying to understand how the atmosphere worked in the ancient world — sometimes finding themselves knee - deep in bogs collecting buried pollen or ash from ancient fires.

Dear Ancient Marinator: Well, your comment offers proof that Christians can't tolerate anyone who questions whether their Bible magic works or not, even when an exact quote from Jesus is used.

It was the first public evidence of the project that had gradually taken shape in my mind during the preceding years: to work out on the level of systematic theology the ancient Israelitic view of reality as a history of God's interaction with his creation, as I had internalized it from the exegesis of my teacher Gerhard von Rad, after I had discovered how to extend it to the New Testament by way of Jewish eschatology and its developments in Jesus» message and history.

God said we should not kill (murder is the word from the direct translation from the Ancient Greek and Hebrew) and He did not tell people to stone their servants if they worked on the sabbath (the metaphore was generated by mortal man).

My grandfather and many others from the village were against the Nazis and worked hard to prevent them from getting their hands on people and ancient artifacts.

But from what I understand out of the ancient monastic materials I work on, prayer is really an entire relationship, and the verbal part is only one element.

Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.

If I kept walking through the Met, I would find works of art from Iran and China, from the ancients to the moderns to the postmoderns.

In his significant work Christianity in World History, a prominent theologian Arend Theodor van Leeuwen has argued that the idea of separating out the things of God from the things of people in such a way as to deny the divine nature of kingship was first formulated in ancient Israel and then became a major motif of Christianity.

In his historical tour of the proofs for and against God's existence, Nathan Schneider, a journalist and activist whose last work treated the Occupy movement, unfolds the story of provers and their arguments from the ancient Greeks through medieval Muslims to today's analytic philosophers and New Atheists.

The heroes of modern - day evangelicalism, from scholars like N.T. Wright to pastors like Rob Bell, are passionately and unapologetically contextual textualists, working diligently with a host of ancient literary and archaeological sources to make sense of biblical texts as they would have been understood in their day.

In this long and wonderfully passionate work, Las Casas cites authorities ranging from ancient Greeks to medieval scholastics.

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.

The community of the New Testament understood and accepted the interpretation of David as the king of ancient Israel, as peculiarly the Yahweh - man, as uniquely foreshadowing the fulfillment of the covenant purpose; and from that interpretation, already given in the history of David, they understood and interpreted the work and mission of Jesus.

The most ancient work is the Instruction to Ptahotep dating from around 2400 BC.

On the left are my roasted tomatoes from 2010 in what appears to be a very photogenic Tupperware container... Back then I used an ancient point - and - shoot camera which I bought in 2004 and used for so long that eventually every cell phone was being manufactured with a better camera than what I was working with.

Outback Harvest, based in the NSW Riverina is working with CSIRO and Food Innovation Australia Ltd (FIAL) to develop certified gluten - free foods made from the ancient grain, teff, grown in Australian.

Their work on ancient DNA from Viking Age horses is more promising: Kool and Boessenkool have collected about 100 samples, in different states of preservation, from which they hope to build a detailed picture of how equine populations moved and changed.

«Some parts of Boulby mine are similar to environments we see on Mars, and so we'd like to use Boulby to work out where the best places are to look for signs of ancient life on Mars,» says Charles Cockell, an astrobiologist from Edinburgh University, who heads up the Mars Analogues for Space Exploration project.

There, a team led by Uma Ramakrishnan, known for using DNA to trace the heritage of ancient South Asians, set to work identifying individual tigers from intestinal cells in the excrement.

So instead, I volunteered with the marine group, working on everything from lipids in fish to ancient bacteria.

The work proved for the first time that DNA from nonliving tissue could be reproduced, and Berkeley quickly became a hotbed of ancient DNA research.

Working in the murk of a river in Florida, the team found stone tools dating back 14,550 years that could have been used to carve up ancient elephant - like beasts called mastodons, whose remains have been recovered from the same site.

«It's almost as if we had traveled back in time and sampled the same plant that gave rise to cultivated peanuts from the gardens of these ancient people,» said David Bertioli, an International Peanut Genome Initiative, or IPGI, plant geneticist of the Universidade de Brasília, who is working at UGA.

Prompted by the extraordinary DNA identity, the scientists used information from decades - old botanical collections, knowledge of the seasonal movements of ancient hunter - gatherer - farmers and molecular DNA clock calculations to work out that the plants» seeds had almost certainly been transported by humans about 10,000 years ago.

The samples are frequently degraded and prone to contamination by DNA from other sources, and coaxing data out of the ancient material is costly and painstaking work.

He is working at the other end of the analysis pipeline, developing methods to extract meaning from the increasing amount of genetic data, ancient and modern, that his wet lab colleagues are generating.

After interviewing for a position as a Ph.D. candidate at one of the top ancient DNA labs, she was offered a spot — but in the meantime she had also received an invitation from Thomas Gilbert, who was just starting out at the time and has since become a leader in the field, to work with him at the University of Copenhagen.

The authors summarized work that investigated the genomes of more than 20 ancients in the Eurasian family tree, including the 45,000 - year - old Ust» - Ishim individual from Central Siberia, for their paper.

During her Ph.D., she worked with ancient DNA from a variety of organisms — including whales, koalas, and maize — before settling on humans, to study their evolution.

Ardren has «brought together studies from throughout the ancient Maya world to show that women were not sidebars in Maya society, but significant actors in their own right,» says Reese - Taylor, who is now building on Ardren's work as she looks for clues about powerful queens who were also fierce warriors.

Bretschneider led the German team from University of Mnster, which worked between 1992 and 2000 at the Euro - Syrian excavations at Tell Beydar, and is now excavating with a Syro - Belgian team in Tell Tweini (ancient Gibala) on the Syrian coast.

«I'm also working on ancient inundation stories and myths from India, and I've been trying to stimulate some interest among Asian scholars.»

Those who practice the ancient Chinese art have enriched lives, enhanced health and well - being, and created better living and working conditions for thousands of people around the world, from Donald Trump to Tony Blair.

The probe from DeLong and Hinrichs, on the other hand, had worked right away: The Hydrate Ridge sediments were loaded with their methane eater, which is not a bacterium at all but a species of Archaea, an ancient group of microbes that diverged from bacteria billions of years ago and are as distinct from them now, genetically speaking, as humans are.

Previous attempts to get DNA from parchment did not work well, but by using modern sequencing techniques, researchers can now get abundant livestock DNA from parchment, such as the 16th century deed from Lancashire, U.K., shown above, the team reports online today in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Not only is parchment plentiful, but as a legal document, it also has been carefully stored and often dated, making it a more readily available source of ancient DNA than bones.

Ancient DNA researchers have succeeded beyond all expectation in retrieving entire genomes from - long dead organisms, and their work is transforming the study of the past, as discussed in Science's special news package and in the video above.

Simmons and Howarth hope that future work with ancient DNA extracted from the fossils might help them solve the mystery.

But another kind of DNA might help them in their work — ancient human DNA that details migration and population patterns from that time.

Despite a lack of scientific knowledge of how it works, cement has been used for everything from building ancient Rome's Pantheon to securing oil wells kilometers beneath the ocean's surface

Researchers have worked diligently to extract information from ancient teeth.

Genomes from ancient horses show the genetic changes wrought by domestication — and their costs.

New work from Carnegie's Peter Driscoll suggests Earth's ancient magnetic field was significantly different than the present day field, originating from several poles rather than the familiar two.

To do this, as they describe in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, the team developed an approach to nondestructively identify and quantify the concentration of light - absorbing molecules known as chromophores in ancient paper, the culprit behind the «yellowing» of the cellulose within ancient documents and works of art.

In the Molecular Ecology special issue, various research teams worked out the diet of a leopard by sequencing DNA in its faeces; tracked earthworm communities in soil4; and reconstructed ancient Siberian habitats from DNA preserved in permafrost.

And realizing the inherent difficulty in working with highly degraded and aged bits of DNA sparked creative strategies for recovering short fragments of truly ancient genetic material and for differentiating them from modern DNA.