Sentences with phrase «classical scholar»

Augustine, who was a very great classical scholar, said in his Confessions (6:9) that he had found in the great classical thinkers some kind of parallel for everything in the Gospels except this one statement, «The Word became flesh.»

Classical scholars of the day thought they saw in the literature of Greece and Rome puzzling suggestions of this sort of descent.

Classical scholars from Münster are excavating one of the few sites of ancient Roman Syria in Turkey that are currently accessible as a result of the political situation in the Middle East.

Münster classical scholars discovered invaluable ancient Syrian mosaics and buildings and are excavating one of the few sites that are currently accessible for studies on ancient Roman Syria despite the tense political situation in the Middle East.

George Kennedy, a renowned classical scholar, became interested in rhetorical criticism of the Bible when graduate students in Old and New Testament asked to study with him.

According to a first assessment, the one and a half metre (five feet) high basalt stele which was used as a buttress in the wall of a monastery shows a fertility or vegetation god, as classical scholar and excavation director Prof. Dr. Engelbert Winter and archaeologist Dr. Michael Blömer of the Cluster of Excellence «Religion and Politics» said after their return from the sacred site of the god Jupiter Dolichenus close to the ancient city of Doliche in Southeast Turkey.

As John Ferguson (b. 1921) a great classical scholar, wrote, «one of the paradoxes of history is that the profound and subtle medieval scholastics succeeded in identifying this Unmoved Mover with the ever - working Father of Jesus».4 Certainly Greek influence encouraged them to seek for rational proofs of God's existence.

Classical scholars from the Cluster of Excellence «Religion and Politics» of the University of Münster discovered a large number of sealings in south - east Turkey.

The onus is on you to show how the bible is considered by the majority of serious historians and classical scholars to be a reliable historical reference.

There's no dispute amongst reputable (as in real) historians and classical scholars that the bible is not even close to being consistently accurate to the degree that it could be used as historical reference material.

This has been demonstrated anew by Co-lin Hemer, a classical scholar who turned to New Tes - tament studies, in his book The Book of Acts in the Setting of He - llenistic History (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1989).

Equally enamored of a matriarchal age and of the deity who ruled it was Robert Graves, the English poet and classical scholar.

In 1994, Wade was contacted by the classical scholar Bob Brier, a professor of philosophy and Egyptology at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University in New York.

«This unique group of artefacts comprising more than 1,000 pieces from the municipal archive of the ancient city of Doliche gives many insights into the local Graeco - Roman pantheon — from Zeus to Hera to Iuppiter Dolichenus, who turned into one of the most important Roman deities from this site,» classical scholar and excavation director Prof. Dr. Engelbert Winter from the Cluster of Excellence explains at the end of the excavation season.

Classical scholars, however, point out that few took Plato's account literally before modern times.

Among the great polymaths of the Scientific Revolution, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, jurist, physician, classical scholar, Catholic cleric, governor, administrator, diplomat, economist and soldier.

It's a cheeky proclamation and it doesn't take a classical scholar to note that, if it's indeed true, they've taken liberties with the material.

After leading the hunt for objects looted from the Iraq Museum, Manhattan assistant district attorney Matthew Bogdanos — classical scholar, Marine Corps Reserves colonel, and middleweight boxer — is setting up New York's first task force on the illegal antiquities trade Kelly Devine Thomas

She is also the Principal of K.Theodotou LLC, Nicosia, Cyprus and is a classical scholar who practices the law firmly under the principle of justice for all.