Sentences with phrase «ancient writers for»

An interesting note, which should not be ignored: «The same phenomena and portents of the sudden darkness at the sixth hour, a strong earthquake, rent stones, a temple entrance broken in two, and the rising of the dead have been reported by multiple ancient writers for the death of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC.»

An interesting note: «The same phenomena and portents of the sudden darkness at the sixth hour, a strong earthquake, rent stones, a temple entrance broken in two, and the rising of the dead have been reported by multiple ancient writers for the death of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC.»

Not exact matches

All in all this is a remarkable and valuable book, not only for the illustrations it offers of ancient rites, but also for the accurate accounts it offers of the way in which baptism was addressed by early Christian writers from the New Testament to the fourth century, making great use of Cyril of Jerusalem and John Chrysostom in the east and Ambrose and Augustine in the west.

In terms reminiscent of the fervor of ancient prophets, the writer proclaimed that the current epidemic of venereal herpes was a direct punishment by God for people's disobedience of the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae.

-- forgetting that ancient religious writers, unlike scholarly historians, did not as a rule feel it incumbent upon them to give, in a footnote or otherwise, their source for every anecdote or event, or to anticipate the modern reader's constant query, «How can we know that what you say is true, in every detail?»

The story of Ruth the Moabitess is symbolic of a free intercourse which the ancient writer finds no basis for criticizing.

And it also makes a place for a religiously minded «humanism,» such as that found in some words of the ancient Christian writer Tertullian when he said, «When you see your brother, you see your Lord.»

11 of the Ancient Christian Writers Series (hereafter noted as PC) is better than the 1894 translation by James Barmby (hereafter noted as BPR) for the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (NPNF), though it, too, remains seriously deficient.

This candid acknowledgment of insufficient light for the understanding of God's ways with man is a perpetual memorial to the intellectual honesty of the unknown writer of the ancient drama.

Many Catholic writers who admit that the times have changed in this respect do so resignedly; and even add that perhaps it is as well not to waste feelings in regretting the matter, for to return to the heroic corporeal discipline of ancient days might be an extravagance.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

This is no less true of Warren's literary criticism, whether in such ambitious works as the famous essay on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner («A Poem of Pure Imagination: An Experiment in Reading»), the more modest but nonetheless incisive essays on such writers as Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter, or in the textbooks themselves — just hardheaded practical sense for anybody who loves literature and believes it is an autonomous discipline and not a substitute for anything else.

It fits easily in the pocket; it is physically beautiful; it contains the Mass readings for each day of the month; and it also has articles and meditations that supply spiritual reading for each day from a wide range of orthodox sources (fathers, saints and doctors of the Church, mystical writers ancient and modern).

The Old Testament almost completely lacks this mythological interest, one of the few examples being the prologue of the book of Job, and this is very likely an ancient myth which a post-exilic writer adapted to provide the setting for his magnificent poem on the riddle of human destiny.

Some early Christian writers were aware of the importance of old manuscripts for the study of the Bible, and copyists during the Middle Ages, both in the East and in the West, made efforts to find ancient models.

; Susan Reid, editorial director of Sift (King Arthur Flour's publication); Alice Medrich, the author of the new alternative (non-wheat)- flour cookbook, Flavor Flours and baker extraordinaire; and Maria Speck, food writer and author of the thoughtfully - researched Ancient Grains for Modern Meals.

In San Francisco, aficionados of the ancient and bloody art of bullfighting who find themselves hankering for the sights and sounds of the bull ring can find satisfaction of a sort no farther away than Broadway, in the picturesque El Matador bar, which is owned and operated by sometime matador and eminently prolific writer on bullfighting lore Barnaby Conrad.

A Non-governmental organisation - HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has condemned governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state for flouting a subsisting order of an Imo State High Court by forcefully demolishing the Ancient EkeUkwu Market in Owerri leading to many fatalities.

The expected offerings from ancients such as Francis Bacon, interim players such as Charles Darwin, and moderns Stephen Jay Gould, Isaac Asimov, Lewis Thomas and Carl Sagan are complemented by gems from less familiar writers, making the book excellent value for anyone involved or interested in science.

Plato and other ancient writers linked Mount Lykaion specifically to human sacrifices to Zeus — the legends say a sacrificed boy would be cooked with sacrificed animal meat and those who consumed it would become a wolf for 9 years.

Reception to this idea has been mixed, but in this fast - moving field, the letter - writers argue it would help preserve specimens while leveling the playing field for everyone studying ancient genomics to do their research.

It speaks of final breaks from the past (the writer of an old television show Walter reveres and partly credits for his survival in Vietnam is cocooned in an ancient iron lung) and of the hopelessness of the future in the old guard's illiterate, mute, criminal, and insolent offspring.

Adapted for the screen by acclaimed horror writer Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed) from his short story of the same name, Rawhead Rex sees a hulking, ancient demon tearing a bloody swathe across the Irish countryside.

Mariam Bakacho Khatchvani (co - writer / director), Vladimer Katcharava (co - writer / producer) and Irakli Solomanashvili (co-writer) / Dede (Georgia): As Georgia fights for its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a young woman struggles to make a life in the remote, isolated villages high in the Caucusus Mountains, where ancient patriarchal laws threaten to separate her from her daughter.

For instance, if you teach language arts and the goal of the unit is teaching students how to write an effective response to literature or a literary analysis essay, who says everyone has to write about the same book written by some ancient dead writer (no offense, dead writers)?

For the past decade, Brian Doerries, a classical scholar, translator, writer and director, has been bringing performances of the ancient Greek tragedies to communities devastated by loss and grief, and with them a surprising and cathartic healing.

From hiking up ancient rocks in search of aboriginal art to being awoken in the wee hours of the morning by playful wallabies, the tour was as a gold mine for a budding travel writer.

It's impressive to see how writer John Ferguson has sewn together hundreds upon hundreds of years of Scottish myth and folklore with more traditional super-hero elements and modern ideas, creating a fascinating ancient Scotland for Saltire to inhabit.

Developed by Marvelous Inc. and expanding upon the extensive Fate universe with an original story from acclaimed series writer Kinoko Nasu (of Fate / stay night fame), Fate / EXTELLA: The Umbral Star previously released for PlayStation ® 4 and PlayStation ® Vita, features a diverse cast of 16 playable «Servants» — ancient warriors of legend and imagination, always at the beck and call of their Masters — who survived the Holy Grail War that took place on the Moon.

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The Leaps of Aesop» The exhibition «The Leaps of Aesop» tracks the many implications generated by Aesop, the writer of the ancient fables, who, in Geta Brătescu's system of thinking, becomes a playful and mischievous character and can be regarded as a metaphor for the condition of the artist.