Sentences with phrase «as apocryphal»

I interpret the OT as an apocryphal history of the Jewish people and the NT as the mythologized account of a radical Rabbi's quest to bring the Word of God to the gentiles.

As the apocryphal saying of Jesus has it: «The world is a bridge.

However, there are 18 books recognized as Apocryphal or Dueterocanical by the Protestant, Angelican, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox communities.

These things all pile up, piece by piece, bit by bit, and eventually when the total is looked at, it becomes quite clear that the Bible is almost entirely mythical, and certainly no guide to understanding the world objectively, and that any claims made therein should be regarded as apocryphal or just outright fiction.

Not exact matches

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»).

Among the apocryphal writings (rejected by the Hebrew canon, but present from the beginning in the Greek) I Esdras, Tobit, and Baruch may be classified as wisdom writings, and Ecclesiasticus and the Wisdom of Solomon are consistent and classical models of the wisdom type.

J. K. Elliott, who prepared the comprehensive translation of such early texts notes: «These apocryphal books are of importance as historical witnesses to the beliefs, prayers, practices, and interests of the society that produced and preserved them.

There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, of a man at a Sunday worship service in a Reformed Protestant church, who was giving expression to his feelings by shouting «Amen» in response to various comments being made as the minister preached.

While Brock found images of redemption in Scripture, New Testament scholar Gail Paterson Corrington found hers in pre-Christian figures such as Isis and Sophia, ancient female divinities whose legacy lives on in apocryphal literature in the figure of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

He treated the story as possibly apocryphal, but it is, in fact, true....

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.

Our ordinary historical documentation comes almost entirely from a class of scribes, generally those concerned with fiscal matters, for whom the official praises of hired annalists are as suspect as the underhanded slanders of apocryphal memorialists.

Similar studies have appeared on the Apocryphal and the Pseudepigraphal books as well, and the wisdom trends were identified in several of these booksxxi.

In The Other Gospels, a collection of 16 apocryphal Gospels (Westminster, 1982), he also dates the Gospel of the Hebrews as circa 100 AD.

(Jude has also been suspect since the earliest days because it appears to quote apocryphal books — the Assumption of Moses and Enoch — as Scripture (9, 54,15).)

However, the use of «she» as a pronoun for the Holy Spirit is more than a matter of personal choice; such usage appears to have some theological possibilities, especially if serious attention is given to certain research on early Christian texts, apocryphal as well as canonical.

The fact that many apocryphal stories of Jesus doing miraculous acts as a boy were rejected by the church shows that for early Christians it was perhaps more important...

The varied significance of the disciples is clearly distinguished in the historical individuality of each of Jesus» disciples — as we learn to know them from the canonical and apocryphal writings of the New Testament.

James contains a great many moral maxims, though it must be remembered that he has a doctrine of grace as well: God «yearns jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us» (4:5) from some apocryphal tradition).

It's also false to think that all Christians interpret God or the Blible in quite the same way — any basic analysis of the biblical and apocryphal texts would show you that God isn't gendered when, frequently, God is refered to as male.

Similarly those apocryphal writings which grind special theological axes must be viewed as belonging to the periphery of Christianity.

The first to mention the table as an altar seems to be the apocryphal Acts of John.

My mother always made a cherry pie on President's Day as a tribute to George Washington and the myth, now thought to be apocryphal, of him chopping down a cherry tree.

As a Varsity team, we uphold the tradition of representing the University of Oxford in the annual ice hockey Varsity Match, which has been held since the first recorded Varsity Match in 1900, and apocryphal match of 1885.

But applications such as WhatsApp, which are used for one - to - one or small groups chats, became an important channel for crazy, nasty and apocryphal rumours.

In fact, the patent - official story is purely apocryphal, and the description of 19th - century physicists as smug know - it - alls is greatly exaggerated.

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.

Perhaps it's telling that Manifesto's best segments extol the virtues of conceptual art, in which, as Lewitt - via - Blanchett puts it, the idea behind the work is far more important that its execution, and artistic appropriation, via the (probably apocryphal) Godard dictum, «It's not where you take things from; it's where you take them to.»

But Assayas also refers specifically to Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944), a recently rediscovered Swedish pioneer of abstract art who claimed that her paintings were directly dictated by spirit forces, and to 19th - century French literary titan Victor Hugo, who practiced «table turning» sessions to contact the dead (Assayas fabricates an «extract» from an apocryphal French TV film of the 1960s, featuring actor - singer Benjamin Biolay as a solemn Hugo).

He doesn't so much have supporting players in the film as he does an extended family of cherished guests who he invites to stay for a while, relax and soak up the ambience: French it girl Léa Seydoux has a part as a maid which may as well be non-speaking; Owen Wilson plays one of M Gustave's concierge brethren and gets a line (if not a laugh); even Tilda Swinton makes a flying visit to Wesworld, caked in gristly prosthetics as an ageing dowager who drops dead after her first and only scene, her passing acting as deus ex machina for an elaborate art heist involving the whereabouts of the apocryphal, priceless chef d'oeuvre, «Boy With Apple».

We hear half the story is told without spoken dialogue, as one of the main characters is deaf, though that could be apocryphal.

Like Rhys Ifans, who Deadline announced will be joining as «Sherlock's older brother» (Mycroft, or the apocryphal Sherrinford — why the mystery?)

As I note in my new book, The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday's Ideas, apocryphal or not, this line is a devastating assessment of a half century's worth of school reform.

And as far as I have been able to tell, the whole story was apocryphal.

Morris's ebullience permeates the tale (possibly apocryphal) of his assurance to Hamilton that the great Washington was not so austere as often thought.

The title of this post comes from a (probably apocryphal) story about Oliver Cromwell asking to have his portrait painted without any of the flattering techniques of portraits of the time — he wanted to be shown as he really looked, «warts and all».

Giotto got the gig and, apocryphal or not, his feat still stands some 700 years later as the litmus test for artistic achievement.

There is a tale, perhaps apocryphal, of a posse of wealthy collectors turning up, only to find that as they waited the artist had sneaked up behind them and urinated down the backs of their coats.

Some people think of Hershman Leeson entirely as a film - maker, so it's terrific to see her early paintings, photographs, photo collages — her apocryphal affair with Elvis: «Photos make things so real, don't they!»

A piece of work reportedly liked by the great British painter Francis Bacon; although that story may be apocryphal, as Hirst drew many of his ideas from works by Bacon.

Although clients and the public make some distinction between junior and senior practitioners, or the apocryphal ranking of the lawyer's law school, there is scant appreciation for the divergence of competence among lawyers as thinkers, between the drones and the worker bees.

As with so many things, the legendary — and ofttimes apocryphal — Yogi Berra said it best: «It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.»

While spectators of the past week have foretold of everything from rosy outlooks to apocryphal warnings, we, at least for the moment, seem to be on a path toward embracing cryptocurrency futures as a new wave of derivatives.