Sentences with phrase «early ninth century»

Others have seen in Deuteronomy 12 - 26 (and 28) a very early North - Israelite work — late tenth or early ninth century.

Not exact matches

King and Word are brought into most moving conflict in the collision of Ahab and Elijah earlier in tile second quarter of the ninth century.

There is reason to think that both these passages reflect Israelite prophetism no later than the ninth century, 7 and it is not impossible that the Balaam oracle rests upon a much earlier original form.

We do not necessarily infer that legend is early and history late, for legend and history may develop simultaneously around the same subject, as they apparently do, for example, in the case of the prophet Elijah, in the ninth century.

While this book itself is too late in origin to have affected Christian thought since it comes from perhaps the ninth century A.D., it is probably true that Zoroastrian beliefs concerning eschatology, here carried to such an extreme, did materially affect late Hebrew and early Christian ideas of the ending of the world and the final judgment.

argues for an early ninth - century date.

As early as 554 A.D., priests who disclosed confessions were severely punished (William Harold Tiemann and John C. Bush, The Right to Silence: Privileged Communications and the Law [Abingdon, 1983], p. 35) By the close of the ninth century, priests revealing the matter of a confession were deposed and exiled for life (p. 36) In the Catholic tradition, confession is seen as a sacrament that conveys grace.

Hints of the transition appeared as early as the first half of the ninth century.

They first spoke of a «renaissance of the twelfth century» (C. H. Haskins), then discovered an earlier one in the ninth century.

Ma Huan, a Chinese Muslim traveler who accompanied a high dignitary from China on an official journey, visited Tuban, Gersik, and Surabaya — all on the north coast of Java — in the ninth century, at the earliest in 855 (A.D. 1451).

The term as a title applied to these individuals can hardly originate earlier than the latter part of the ninth century, and much more likely reflects the development of tradition in the eighth or seventh century.

It may have taken form as early as the middle of the ninth century, B.C., that is, about a century and a half after the time of David.

The earliest of the numerical murals, created in the ninth century, are the oldest Mayan astronomical tables ever found, and the place where they were created is the first documented Mayan office space.

All sequenced samples were radiocarbon dated (Supplementary Table 2), and fall into three time periods: the Linton sample and two Hinxton samples are from the late Iron Age (∼ 100 BCE), the four samples from Oakington from the early Anglo - Saxon period (fifth to sixth century), and three Hinxton samples from the middle Anglo - Saxon period (seventh to ninth century; Fig. 1c).

As far as I can tell from a quick read of the ninth installment, titled Take the Money and Run, Escapology is a kind of very extreme early retirement worldview that puts the focus on freedom rather than material possessions and the myriad of costly services most of us regard as a necessity in this gadget - crazy 21st century (i.e. wireless access, cable TV, smartphones and social media, subscriptions to movie services and magazines and all those other services provided by businesses such as my employer, Rogers).

However, ancestors of the Chihuahua may have been present earlier than the ninth century.