Sentences with phrase «century apocryphal»

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

Not exact matches

In a perhaps apocryphal story, Adolph Hitler recalled to his General Staff in 1939 the amnesty that outside powers gave to the Turkish officials who massacred over one million Armenians nearly a quarter century earlier, quipping «Who after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?»

I heard someone suggest yesterday that certain apocryphal material was left out because it wasn't profitable for the faith... Just made me think there were a few more things that maybe shouldn't have made the cut... (besides the obvious that those negotiators of the 3rd century probably didn't really care about not making Jesus a misogynist...)

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

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).

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.