Sentences with phrase «classified as myth»

These accounts are today classified as myth or legend.

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To classify a story or theme as Christian Myth is therefore not at all to dismiss it but rather to elevate it to a special status.
Upon such criteria as literary form, the nature of the tradition, the social and theological concepts underlying and the apparent motivation of the story, Gunkel classified the myths and legends of Genesis.
Most atheists read pagan and other holy books and then equate them to those of ethical monotheism, classifying all of them as myths.
He quickly classified it along with other Amazonian myths: the activities of the boto dolphin, blamed for all unwanted pregnancies because it assumes the form of a handsome man, penetrates village parties, and lures young women into the floral night; or the transformation of the curupira, a protean creature that appears as an animal or a hairy, ugly man and plagues hunters.
It was a shock for me to find out after my immigration that I was, in fact, classified as a mail order bride, which set me on the path of dispelling the myths about Russian and Ukrainian women seeking love abroad.
O.J.: Made In America likely would have made the cut if not for a (totally defensible) editorial decision to classify it as television rather than film, but I voted for three other docs this year: Tower (addressed in the «outlier» section of my ballot), Author: The JT LeRoy Story (which correctly recognizes that letting Laura Albert expand on her own «myth» makes for better cinema than any objective investigative alternative), and Weiner... which ranked lowest on my personal list, but is the one I'm most surprised not to see on the collective list.
Myth # 1: Modular Homes Are Trailer Homes While modular homes can be classified as prefabricated, they aren't the same as a manufactured trailer or mobile homes.
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