Sentences with word «apocryphal»

There's a possibly apocryphal story of Lord Denning MR changing his mind on who won an appeal after the judgment had been released to the WLR so that the WLR version has the plaintiff winning 2 - 1 while the All ER version had the defendant winning 2 - 1.

The second century saw the production of apocryphal gospels, acts, epistles and apocalypses, usually written in the names of various apostles and almost always reflecting special points of view.

In the Muratorian fragment the book is described as containing the acts of all the apostles, presumably in order to reject apocryphal books of acts by implication.

There are lots of apocryphal tales from Jesus» childhood.

There is a possibly apocryphal story about one of the early twentieth century editors, Ring Lardner I think, memory is failing me now.

It's not nearly as apocryphal as the Bertone, but we're sure this 1944 Ford GPW 4 × 4 will tickle all the right off - road fancies.

Such apocryphal writings, Smith said, would have fallen outside the canonical boundaries set by Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, in his «Easter letter of 367» that defined the 27 - book New Testament: «No one may add to them, and nothing may be taken away from them.»

When the word «Son» or «Son of Man» in apocryphal texts from this time it is not in a literal sense.

It speaks to that perhaps apocryphal quote of the 20 something guy who says «I don't seek out news, news finds me.»

Not apocryphal: happened recently in a review of Chuck Gannon's Fire With Fire.

There were many apocryphal gospels in existence as well as the four synoptic gospels.

Similarly, when Thomas makes use of sayings which are also found in such apocryphal gospels as those «according to the Hebrews» (i, perhaps 12, 104) and «according to the Egyptians» (22, 37, perhaps 61), we can not be absolutely sure whether he was using written documents or some of their sources, perhaps including oral traditions.

And yet certain apocryphal works are valuable for a fuller understanding of teachings attributed to Jesus — some teachings only dimly seen in the New Testament.

There are some really interesting revelations here that set the record straight on apocryphal events through art history, like that Damian Hirst spot painting that supposedly landed on Mars and Martin Creed's 3,500 quid sheet of paper crumpled into a ball.

In addition to those 225 Biblical manuscripts there was recovered three Apocryphal Scriptures: «Tobit», «Ben Sira» (also known as «Sirach» or «Ecclesiasticus»), and «Baruch 6 ′ (also known as «Letter of Jeremiah»).

Several of them have pointed out that the tradition concerning the correspondence between King Abgar and Jesus is only apocryphal and hence spurious and that the king who became Christian in Edessa was not Abgar V but Abgar VIII (called the Great) who came to the throne in AD.

The Pasadena show, curated by Walter Hopps, is now symbolized by Julian Wasser's drolly matter - of - fact photograph of a nude woman playing chess with Duchamp, referring both to his scandalous Armory painting and his legendary (though apocryphal) later abandonment of art for chess.

For more information, visit Kenneth Zeichner's research paper, Independent Teacher Education Programs: Apocryphal Claims, Illusory Evidence, published by the National Education Policy Center.

Narayen's turn of phrase is hardly original — since at least the 1990s, corporate bosses have been referencing apocryphal tales of military commanders in hostile territory motivating their troops to conquer or be killed by destroying their ride home.

Most of the video (and I watched the last part) seems to be arguing against certain apocryphal writings using statistics, as I said, to show why names, places etc. used in the canonical gospels make sense unto themselves (and that would jive with Josephus, etc.).

This notion, perhaps developed from Paul's words in Galatians 3:28 («in Christ there is... neither male nor female»), is also found in apocryphal tradition reflected in II Clement 12:2 and in the Gospel of the Egyptians.

EGM: I've heard and read so many ridiculous apocryphal anecdotes about the making of this game.

Additionally, he has published his first editioned print, Apocryphal Now, in 2014.

I'm open to including apocryphal animals, just because I want to include some.

It's horrible that they were accused of something so serious that they didn't do, but that kind of «data» is purely apocryphal: all the evidence and studies points to women getting ignored and having their cases tossed far more than the reverse.

Right now, there are tales, many probably real, others merely apocryphal, of reported attempts to undermine Acting President Yemi Osinbajo's authority.

As you can see from what we've written, Ghee is reputed to have many health benefits, some which seem to be based in scientific fact, and some that are of a more apocryphal nature; that is often the way when it comes down to alternative medicine cultures and natural product benefits.

He recounted the possibly apocryphal origin of the figures: On a cold winter night, an African - American boy who served George Washington during the Revolutionary War was asked to keep watch on the horses and light the way until Washington returned.

The most popular (and likely apocryphal) version of events then goes something like this: One soldier and two plant workers, all volunteers, bravely strapped on wetsuits and clamored into the radioactive water.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Totally Apocryphal Technologies (TAT), a fast - rising player in the rapidly expanding field of genetic engineering, recently announced that it would proceed with a controversial program to take tissue samples from top - performing members of its engineering, sales, and management staff.

There are sleazy predators who cook up completely apocryphal news stories and try to get them circulated on social media and on the internet.

An important part of all great companies» cultures are the (sometimes apocryphal) stories passed down over the years; of special efforts, extraordinary gestures, and honored commitments by the founders and senior management as well as instances when they put the welfare and concerns of the employees ahead of their own.

If I remember correctly apocryphal «Gospel of Thomas» refers to woman being changed to a man to make her worthy of heaven.

Apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas

A careful examination of these images shows clearly and convincingly that medieval artists were not only familiar with the stories of the canonical Gospels, but also with many noncanonical apocryphal tales of Jesus.

It is only a later second - century apocryphal gospel that speaks of Mary miraculously giving birth with her sexual organs intact.

Conrad Hyers's witty parable, The Chickadees, went into two fast printings this year, and perhaps the most controversial religious book of the year is Thomas Klise's apocryphal novel The Last Western.

But it should be added that since the norms for determining authenticity must lie in the canonical gospels, it is hard to see what contribution apocryphal gospels could make even if some of the materials in them should be judged genuine.

If it can be shown that Thomas made use of the synoptic gospels in their present form it becomes fairly likely that he also employed apocryphal gospels in written form.