Sentences with phrase «biblical heroes»

Why, in the eyes of the tradition, did biblical heroes so often suffer adversity?

The number of biblical heroes who had turbulent relations with sons is depressingly long.

It did not soft - pedal the Jewishness of great biblical heroes, nor of Jesus himself.

Christian Bale is continuing his provocative statements about Biblical hero Moses leading up to the release of Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings.

Heinous acts of cruelty were committed in the name of God by biblical heros, David comes to mind.

A plaster face of biblical hero David from David Stypmann antiques hangs above a late 19th century gilt clock that Patrick purchased from a Connecticut estate sale when he was twenty - one.

«There's kind of a folk understanding of biblical heroes that they're all just saints, and they have little halos over their heads, and some of the old films seem to present things like that,» Mr. Strawn says.

Yet if you look in throughout the Bible, many of the greatest biblical heroes — Abraham, Jacob, David - had many wives.

While there are biblical heroes, they are a curious lot indeed; the terms «nonhero» and «comic hero» are really more appropriate.

This is certainly a problem for those who treat the biblical text as sacred, regard the biblical heroes as models, and suppose that everything said about God is true.

The pit literally served as the vehicle for elevation in the life of this Biblical hero.

David Instone - Brewer investigates the underhand tactics of this biblical hero.

Despite being the Biblical heroes, they were a dodgy lot.

Ezra comes from the Hebrew word meaning, «help»; which is exactly what the Biblical hero is known for doing after he led a group of Israelites out of slavery.

Rutger Hauer plays the father of the Biblical hero who still stands as the ultimate symbol of strength in «Samson,» an epic co-starring Lindsay Wagner, Billy Zane, and Jackson Rathbone, with newcomer Taylor James in the title role.

In fact, the story of the Biblical hero sometimes approaches the outrageous acts depicted in «Game of Thrones» based on the novels of George R.R. Martin.

Although this art museum contains many notable artworks from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it is the presence of Michelangelo's original marble statue of the biblical hero, David, that truly justifies a visit.