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This isn't Tom Wright writing the definitive history of Israel, but a New York Times chart - topper with 50 times Wright's global influence, choosing to put an ancient biblical story at the heart of the cultural zeitgeist.

What the camels in Genesis reveal, in fact, has nothing to do with the «truth» of the biblical story at all.

Not exact matches

Surely people need comfort, but at this critical time they need biblical truth, which was completely lacking in the story.

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, an Italian biblical scholar, suggests that we might begin to appreciate how Easter changed everything — and gave the birth of Jesus at Christmas its significance — by reflecting on the story of Jesus purifying the Jerusalem Temple, at the beginning of John's Gospel.

And it's unlike any other book I've ever written, for in addition to the memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay — all aimed at capturing the wonder and beauty of Scripture, while honoring the best in biblical scholarship and acknowledging the challenges of its most difficult passages.

My quest for biblical womanhood led me to these stories late at night, long after Dan had gone to sleep, and I conducted my nightly research by his side in bed, stacks of Bibles and commentaries and legal pads threatening to swallow him should he roll over.

From the decision at the Jerusalem Council to free new converts from Jewish Law, to the debates of the third of fourth century that led to the biblical cannon the Apostle's Creed, to the Protestant Reformation which resulted in increased availability of Scripture, to the Galilean controversy which opened and changed minds, the story of the Church is a story of constant adaptation and change.

This morning, I'll be sharing some pictures and stories from my year of biblical womanhood with the students at Baylor University.

A Christian theology that respects the meaning of the biblical narratives must begin simply by retelling those stories, without any systematic effort at apologetics, without any determined effort to begin with questions arising from our experience.

Imagine adding short stories, poetry and even biblical material to one's performance season at a «Christian» university or church!

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

I'd refer you to «Who Wrote the Bible» by Richard Elliott Friedman, a biblical scholar who is the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia regarding the authorship of the flood story in the Bible, specifically pages 53 to 60 in the «The Story of Noah — Twice&rastory in the Bible, specifically pages 53 to 60 in the «The Story of Noah — Twice&raStory of Noah — Twice».

If the divine mystery is present in a special way among the poorest and most misused of his or her children, as the biblical images and stories — from the slaves in Egypt to the official lynching of Jesus — constantly remind us, then allegedly religious people who insulate themselves from the city are putting themselves at considerable risk.

If art means inspirational stories and pretty metaphors, there is so much in the Bible that is neither inspirational nor pretty that biblical preaching, at least, will probably not be mistaken for art.

At the conclusion of his talk about six biblical stories of so - called «wealth transfers» in scripture, Hinn points at the audience and declares «the seventh wealth transfer is coming to you»At the conclusion of his talk about six biblical stories of so - called «wealth transfers» in scripture, Hinn points at the audience and declares «the seventh wealth transfer is coming to you»at the audience and declares «the seventh wealth transfer is coming to you».

A biblical example of this can be found in the stories of Jesus in the temple at Jerusalem.

We can learn skills that will enable us to memorize and recite biblical stories in corporate worship and other gatherings, or at least read them aloud as stories, letters, poems, and other expressions of oral art.

Others may believe that the biblical stories portraying God as an interventive being are at least in some general sense accurate and for this reason reject the process contention that God is not capable of such activity.

So even if the biblical account of the «guards at the tomb» story is correct, the fact that there is a time period when the tomb was left unguarded, blows a hole in the Christian claim that a resurrection is the best explanation for the empty tomb and the disciples» belief that Jesus had been resurrected.

Though he is spoken of anthropomorphically (as a being in human form) at some points in the Bible, particularly in the early «J» stories of the Old Testament, this is not the normal biblical understanding of his nature.

Start a Jesse Tree tradition in which ornaments representing various biblical figures and events in the redemption story are placed on a tree, their stories unfolding one at a time each day of Advent, building up to the arrival of Jesus.

«you are not interested in reading about and rationalizing the real story of your Jesus» is a silly claim bearing in mind the academic robustness required of me in studying theology at honours level and biblical interpretation at masters, validated by the secular Aberdeen University in Scotland.

The biblical story, at this stage, can hardly show all these difficulties, especially because it features only one man and one woman.

Obama made the following comments about the Biblical story of creationism at CNN's Compassion Forum at Messiah College in April 2008.

According to the biblical story, Israel pined for their slavery in Egypt again because at least there they had leeks and onions.

Thus our congregations are often at the mercy of the latest kooky cult (witness Shirley MacLaine and New Age religion), and there is no common biblical story that binds them together in their faith.

How I wish any of our friends at Occupy Ghana in their personal capacities had remembered this biblical story then and had at least encouraged us as Christ admonished.

Texas, USA About Blog I am a thirty - something wife and stepmom of two, for over ten years now.If you love Biblical principles sprinkled with practical application, personal stories, and a little bit of humor, you will feel right at home here!

That said, despite his poisonous tone, Carver's best wisecrack, derived from a Biblical story is a corker (I won't spoil it for you) and brought the house down at the State Theatre.

Euripides's Iphigenia at Aulis is one such timeless story, similar to the biblical tale of Abraham and Issac in its exploration of faith and sacrifice.

A Biblical drama with a stylish high - art look and a timely feminist angle, Mary Magdalene sets out to right historical wrongs by putting Jesus of Nazareth's most famous female follower back at the heart of his story.

You could call it their take on the story of Job, relocated to the Jewish community of 1967 Minneapolis and reincarnated in the person of university physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), who at least is better off than the Biblical Job, with his suburban home and teaching position.

Faith - based distributor Pure Flix is launching Biblical story «Samson» at about 1,200 sites with forecasts in the $ 3 million range.

You could call it their take on the story of Job, relocated to the Jewish community of 1967 Minneapolis and reincarnated in the person of university physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), who at least is better off than the Biblical Job.

It looks at the idea of being your «brothers keeper» through engagement with two biblical stories.

The fact that it's a twist on the Noah's Ark story doesn't hurt either; L'Engle is at her best when she's working with biblical themes.

At times it's like reading an insane version of Finnegan's Wake, since you're decoding the misspelled cat words using half - remembered biblical stories.

While the previous anthologies focused entirely on the Biblical settings as a prerequisite for publication, Deluge: Stories of Survival & Tragedy is looking at a broader theme.

Texas, USA About Blog I am a thirty - something wife and stepmom of two, for over ten years now.If you love Biblical principles sprinkled with practical application, personal stories, and a little bit of humor, you will feel right at home here!

Texas, USA About Blog I am a thirty - something wife and stepmom of two, for over ten years now.If you love Biblical principles sprinkled with practical application, personal stories, and a little bit of humor, you will feel right at home here!

London About Blog My overriding theological interest at the moment is in how we retell the biblical story as we negotiate the difficult transition from the centre to the margins of our culture following the collapse of Western Christendom.

Texas, USA About Blog I am a thirty - something wife and stepmom of two, for over ten years now.If you love Biblical principles sprinkled with practical application, personal stories, and a little bit of humor, you will feel right at home here!