Sentences with phrase «eighth century»

So said a wise old bird named P'ang in eighth century China.

This breed descended from the St. Huberts Hound of eighth century Belgium.

We want to know whether Isaiah of Jerusalem (eighth century B.C.) wrote the entire Book or whether the different styles, vocabulary, and concerns indicate additions to it.

If we take, for example, Isaiah (eighth century BC.)

However, this practice was not widespread until the late eighth century AD, when Emperor Charlemagne developed the parish system for the church.

A technique called micro-Raman spectroscopy, which measures the scattering of light from a sample, revealed that the carbon in the ink matched samples of other papyrus documents that date from the first to eighth centuries A.D.

Eighth century prophets like Hosea continued the struggles against the Baal cult.

It was not until the advance of Islam in the seventh and early eighth centuries that a border would be drawn across the Mediterranean, subdividing what had been a single continent into three: Asia, Africa, and Europe.

In the seventh and eighth centuries Moslem Arabs conquered about half the coast of the Mediterranean, or, in other words, about half the area in which Christians constituted a majority of the population.

While much of the revival of Roman Catholicism was through leaders from Italy, it was from the Iberian Peninsula that Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the chief organization of the Roman Catholic Reformation, the Society of Jesus, came, and it was from Spain and Portugal, only recently emerged from the Moslem yoke and where in the seventh and eighth centuries Christianity had suffered some of its worst defeats, that the next chief geographic expansion of Christianity issued.

The Turks of Central Asia in the sixth, seventh and eighth centuries occupied a strategic situation.

The 2012 official report on the dig concluded, «It can no longer be argued that the Kingdom of Judah developed only in the late eighth century BCE or at some other later date.»

Here, in this sitewe have three superimposed levels — belonging to the Umayyads (seventh to mid eighth centuries), Abbasids (mid-eighth to ninth centuries) and Fatimids (ninth to eleventh centuries)-- which allow us to reconstruct the cultural life in the houses from these periods,» he said.

An emperor of the Tang Dynasty, circa eighth century, was said to have owned a kennel facility that housed some 5,000 Chows and a permanent staff of twice that number.

The Order: 1886's back story involves an ancient seventh and eighth century order refered to as the «Knights» and their battle against «half - breed monsters,» a race of creatures that are half animal and half human.

His travels in Asia — Japan, China, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand — provided a range of influences, from the seashells of Thailand to eighth century Chinese poetry to Japanese rock gardens.

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Migration from China into what is now known as Laos began in eighth century, with the first Laotian state - the kingdom of Lan Xang - established six hundred years later.

They dated one of the covers to the period between the 10th and eighth centuries B.C., considered the Iron Age, and the other to between the 16th and 14th centuries B.C. (Late Bronze Age).

Islamic forces had poured into Spain in the early eighth century and had been repelled at the French border by the army of Charlemagne's grandfather, Charles the Hammer.

Until the end of the second century (eighth century AD.)

In his discussion of the eighth century, Lambert relies too heavily on the writings of the astonishing Bede, substantially excluding other figures who left significant paper trails of different kinds, such as St. Aldhelm, and causing him to downplay the continuing Irish influence on British Christian writing, including the shift to rhyme and accentual prosody in hymns.

Such was the burden of the prophecies of Amos in the middle of the eighth century BC History takes place within a moral order.

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

In the middle of the eighth century BC.

A renewal of the power of the Byzantine Empire in the eighth century was to some degree accountable for the acceleration of conversions in the Balkan Peninsula.

Late in the eighth century the Vikings, from Scandinavia, began ravaging the coasts of Europe from Germany and the British Isles into the Mediter ~ ranean as far east as Constantinople.

Amos in the middle of the eighth century reflects the common definition of «prophet» as denoting professional association, down to this time deemed necessarily neither bad nor good.

In 697, Carthage, the centre of Byzantine power in North Africa, fell to the Arabs and then early in the eighth century the Muslims crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and took control of much of Spain until their advance was halted at the battle of Tours or Poitiers in 732.

The Saxons continued to resist the gospel and their conversion in the latter part of the eighth century followed their conquest by Charlemagne.

The rigorism of the Donatists, named after their second bishop, was not accepted by the majority, but the Donatist church survived into the eighth century, by which time North Africa had come under Muslim rule.

Even more serious was the Arab invasion of the seventh and eighth centuries.

The northern segment of the severed monarchy suffers political execution at the hands of Assyria in the last quarter of the eighth century B.C., and Judah at the hands of resurgent Babylon in the first quarter of the sixth century B.C..

Bede the Venerable did it in the eighth century.

When those fundamental values are translated into concrete moral choice, the resulting norm may in fact differ from one historical situation to another — from the premonarchic agricultural setting in Israel to the affluence of the eighth century to the period of Hellenistic or Roman domination to today's secularized society.

Today, as in the eighth century before Christ, we find greed, exploitation, callous indifference to human need, and vast amounts of conflict and strife between nations and social groups.

The prophet Isaiah, in the latter part of the eighth century B.C., put it this way:

This tradition, which emerged in the eighth century and was eventually institutionalized in hundreds - perhaps thousands - of different orders, is now known, however, more for its godliness than for its garb.

The rapid rise and spread of Communism must be accepted by Christians as the most seriously challenging deviant form of the Judeo - Christian heritage, just as, in the eighth century, the rise of Islam came about because of the tendency for Christian Trinitarian doctrine to revert to polytheism, adding weight to Mohammed's call for a pure monotheism.

The new, both of the external history and the related internal prophetic mind of classical prophetism, was initially produced, beginning in the middle of the eighth century, simply by the aggressive ambition of Assyria, backed, for the first time in several centuries, with leadership and power to implement it.1 Tiglath - pileser III assumed the throne of Assyria in 745 B.C., the first of an uninterrupted series of great soldiers on the throne of Assyria.

It was Adam who brought the church of the T'ang dynasty to its classical period of literary production in the second half of the eighth century.

The concept obviously underlying the use of the Word in the Elijah narratives makes clear that certainly by the eighth century the prophetic understanding of the Word was matured and substantially established.