Both a compelling story and an intimate look
at ancient life, Nile Crossing shines with the ancient Egyptian canon — hieroglyphics, the Nile and scarab beetles — and will fill multiple roles in any library.
Not exact matches
It's just so sad that
at this point you've been able to fool yourself into reconciling modern 21st century science with
ancient hebrew nomadic
life.
And if this be so, our work as educators and as advocates of a well - functioning American educational system is to develop citizens who are
at home in the canons that comprise the formal reality of their heritage, who are equally
at home with the varied individual things that comprise the material reality of that heritage and of their present
life, and who are able to devise constantly new frames that are adequate to both, that marry
ancient canon and novel particular in a new canon which integrates as fully and complexly as possible all its participant elements.
Christian churches (
at least the fundamental ones I've attended) have been quite adept
at deconstructing the
ancient jots and tittles of Scripture only to reconstruct vague mottos that everyone repeats and claims to
live by but no one can explain to those who ask.
we are direct descendants of the Egyptians
living at the times of the pharaohs and the greeks that have come afterwards... we still use the
ancient demotic language (spoken
ancient Egyptian) in our liturgies and prayers.
Whereas
ancient man felt himself to be
at the mercy of capricious forces seated beyond his control in an unseen world, Israel came to recognize that man himself has been given power and responsibility to act decisively, and that it is on his own moral decisions that his
life and destiny largely depend.
A more
ancient view, still apparent
at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long
life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.
Dance seems to have been a common feature of
life in
ancient Israel, particularly
at festival time.
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.
Looking
at the process of agriculture as an ecological activity of divine providence stems from our understanding that farming was an integral part of the
ancient life.
Were Jesus to arrive
at many of our congregations today he may find us no more inclined to embrace his vision of God's domain in everyday
life than his peers in
ancient Galilee.
I think an
ancient mayan, a muslim, a christian, or an atheist all would have the same shot
at getting into «heaven» if they
lived a moral
life.
The Bible was not the ingrown musing of some remote peasant folk; it was the achievement of a people whose painful destiny it was to
live at the crossroads of the
ancient world; it gathered up the best that that
ancient world had created and, under the genius of a people who were uniquely fitted for their task, transmuted all into forms and expressions of their own incomparable convictions.
The great cultures of the
ancient world lay
at the two ends, Babylonia near where the sweep of the Zagros Mountains terminates its length of eastern bulwark and barrier to the Semitic world, and Egypt nestling among her brooding deserts
at the northeast corner of Africa in the perennial delight of her sunny clime and her
life - giving river.
It is the problem that arises in its acutest form when
life itself becomes a problem, when the goodness of existence is questionable, as it has been for most men
at most times; when the
ancient and universal suspicion arises that he is happiest who was never born and he next fortunate who died young.
For this aspect of tradition — the dimension of symbolic distinctiveness preserved in the
ancient patterns of the worship and ritual
life of the Church — is
at least as central to Catholic identity as many of the doctrinal positions worried about by those who conceive of tradition primarily as a body of authoritative teaching.
I have now finished studying «Genesis 1 — 11: A Real History of the
Ancient World» facilitated by brother Tim Patterson whom God has brought to our
lives at a time as this for divine purposes.
The backdrop of legend, which in the
ancient world made
life's history on the earth seem a matter of centuries, has for us been lifted, revealing a vista of uncounted millenniums of organic
life, suffering unfathomable agony long before man was here to sin
at all.
It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain
at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by
ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the
life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.
What the event of Christ accomplished was the purification of
ancient Jewish insight and the completion of
ancient Jewish aspiration; in him Love was seen
at work in a fashion that those who responded knew to be both mysterious and full of meaning in their
lives.
Ancient Judaism did not have a true concept of the after
life, so no Hell and no Heaven, although the later prophets started hinting
at the concepts.
Preachers and theologians are adept
at tracing literary images: linking Old and New Testament figures whose
lives reflect eternal patterns and renew the
ancient message.
According to Pierre Hadot, a prominent historian of
ancient thought and professor emeritus
at the CollËge de France, philosophy today» specialized, professional, and detached from
life» is but a shadow of its glorious Athenian past.
We have known for a long time that the
ancient Israelite believed that through certain actions or rites he was able to be present
at, and actually share in, the events of the past which had created his people's
life and thus had made him what as a member of that nation he was: a man who belonged to «the chosen people of God».
And with the cup, so clear a symbol of his blood in that red wine, he saw, as we did, that his
life, poured forth, would seal a new commitment, would form upon the altar of God's grace a whole new covenant that would replace the
ancient, worn - out slaughter of the animals with one complete and final act, the sacrifice of God's own son to show the world, to show us all the height and depth and majesty, the eternal glory of God's love, which gives itself forever, or until we come,
at last, and offer up our own
lives in return.
And as I scratched harder
at the surface of my assumptions about what the liturgical
life meant, I begin to wonder how I could
live a liturgical
life at home with my kids, celebrating all the lovely,
ancient, traditions I was discovering.
Here is no pedestrian enumeration of mechanical details; we have rather what is essential to the theme and what is, therefore, of enduring meaning
at every stage in the ensuing
life of
ancient Israel and in the
life of the New Israel, the Church of Jesus Christ.
The invaders were called Amorites («Westerners») and for centuries they dominated the
life of the Fertile Crescent, with city - states firmly established
at such sites as Haran (from whence came Abraham, 11:31), Ugarit, Mari, and Babylon, which was ruled in the decades around 1700 by the renowned Hammurabi, Ugarit and Mari, among other
ancient sites, have yielded profuse contemporary information of several kinds.
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This book takes a fresh look
at the
ancient healing system of Ayurveda and applies it to the way we eat and
live.
She
lived in a tiny apartment just off the courts
at Klamovka, the
ancient, drafty hall that housed the only indoor courts in Prague when Martina began playing there in 1965.
At the moment the world is their school, and education is in front of and around them every day, with
ancient history, new cultures, different ways of
life and more.
Harvard Magazine, November 2015
Life On a Tabletop: An
ancient art form thrives
at the Puppet Showplace Theater (Download PDF)
Now
ancient DNA from the fossilized skeleton of a short, dark - skinned, dark - eyed man who
lived at least 36,000 years ago along the Middle Don River in Russia presents a different view: This young man had DNA from all three of those migratory groups and so was already «pure European,» says evolutionary biologist Eske Willerslev of the Natural History Museum of Denmark
at the University of Copenhagen, who led the analysis.
WASHINGTON — A trio of dogs buried
at two
ancient human sites in Illinois
lived around 10,000 years ago, making them the oldest known domesticated canines in the Americas.
But he doesn't share it with other
ancient humans who
lived at roughly the same time in Romania and Siberia — or with
living Europeans.
The study, led by Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary geneticist
at the University of Copenhagen, compared the genomes of three
ancient skeletons — a 24,000 - year - old child found in central Siberia, a 12,600 - year - old Montana child known as Anzick - 1 and a 4,000 - year - old Saqqaq Eskimo from Greenland — to the genomes of 31 indigenous people currently
living in Asia, North and South America, and the Pacific islands.
Most
living fish do not produce it, but Per Ahlberg, a paleontologist
at Uppsala University in Sweden, found an
ancient exception.
3 - D printers can create models and prototypes, replicas of your head, even
living tissues — and
at Lehman College, they reproduce and reconstruct
ancient fossils
Perched on a leather sofa in a downtown Toronto office, his host, a wealthy businessman, uncorked a $ 7,000 bottle of wine and outlined the multimillion - dollar offer: leave behind his research position
at McMaster University's
Ancient DNA Centre in Ontario and work full time to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to
life.
They studied genetic data from 1,983
living individuals across Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas and concluded that Neanderthals or another
ancient hominid group must have interbred with our ancestors
at least once, in the eastern Mediterranean, soon after humans migrated out of Africa.
Mundane notes about daily
life on 16 ceramic shards written about 600 B.C.
at an
ancient military fortress in the Negev Desert reveal that literacy had to be common.
Using information from fossils, and the DNA of
living species, we were able to further determine that
at around 24 million years old, Palaeopotorous is not just primitive, but likely represents the most distant forerunner of all known kangaroos, rat - kangaroos and their more
ancient ancestors,» said Dr den Boer.
Curiosity's onboard laboratory, the Sample Analysis
at Mars, heated up several samples of Martian soil and found nitric oxide, suggesting that
ancient Mars had the basic ingredients to support
life.
He spotted the glassy shards of
ancient diatom shells — the remains of microscopic phytoplankton that
lived here
at warmer times in the past, when a shallow sea covered much of West Antarctica.
Schweitzer believes understanding preservation
at a molecular level could help paleontologists find traces of
ancient life on Earth, as well as on planets like Mars.
Herb Maschner, an Arctic archaeologist
at the University of South Florida in Tampa, agrees and says the careful excavation methods and analysis serve as a good example of what archaeologists need to do to answer questions about
ancient people
living in central Alaska where the conditions for preserving bones and artifacts are «notoriously» bad.
A new paper documents the intricate arrangement of the muscles and ligaments that controlled the main feathers of the wing of an
ancient bird, supporting the notion that
at least some of the most
ancient birds performed aerodynamic feats in a fashion similar to those of many
living birds.
A new discovery published in the journal Scientific Reports documents the intricate arrangement of the muscles and ligaments that controlled the main feathers of the wing of an
ancient bird, supporting the notion that
at least some of the most
ancient birds performed aerodynamic feats in a fashion similar to those of many
living birds.
A professor in the medical school
at the University of Pisa and the father of team member Antonio Fornaciari, he's famous for investigating the
lives and deaths of the
ancient nobility of Italy, including the Medici of Florence, who
lived just 60 km from Badia Pozzeveri.