Sentences with phrase «cultic use»

The thanksgiving psalm no doubt had its regular cultic use as a part of the sacrifice of thanksgiving.

4 - 9) is enigmatic: does it preserve the memory of actual casualties inflicted by serpents; or is it a cultic etiology to explain the presence of a bronze serpent in the Jerusalem temple in Hezekiah's time (II Kings 18:4); or is it distantly related to ancient, primitive cultic use of the serpent symbol?

At the same time, form critics remind us that any interpretation must take into account the confessional form of the story, that is, its present structure, intent, and emphasis as derived from its cultic use, as imparted from its repeated recitation throughout Israel's generations on the occasion of the annual celebration of the great deliverance.

Both the early cultic use of the Ten Commandments and their present - day meaning will be sought in this volume.

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Rather, the condemnations must be seen in the light of ritual impurity - homosexuality is condemned because of its use in cultic worship practices, as found in Canaanite religions and then imitated in ancient Israel.

In that time, the word was associated with cultic practices of women priestesses using their sexuality to dominate men for selfish gain, which applied to specifically this church, in this location at this time.

Far from repudiating the cultus, the prophet as exemplified in Second Isaiah can and does appropriate the liturgy in common use in the daily round of cultic exercise and, again in the case of Second Isaiah, make frequent appeal to familiar lines in the common ritual in the repeated words, «Have you not known, have you not heard...» (Isa.

We suggest, then - though still holding that specific, dogmatic answers are impossible - that the poem in substantially its present form came into existence within a century or so of the event of the Exodus; in repeated, annual liturgical use it probably became relatively «fixed»; and probably it was appropriately modified, possibly chiefly in interpretation, when the cultic rehearsal of God's creation of Israel was shifted to Jerusalem.

alleging that GFI has consistently exhibited «cultic tendencies,» including authoritarianism, isolationism, physical and emotional endangerment and hardball tactics used against naysayers.

Kicked out of the Surrealist movement by André Breton at age 19, he served in the U.S. army during WWII, ran a restaurant in Tangier, invented a «cut - up» technique of Dada - inspired writing that he shared with William Burroughs (who called him «the only man I truly respected»), and created a brand of experimental art that ranged from cultic drawings to his famed «Dreamachine» of 1961, which used a flicker effect to mesmerize audiences.