Sentences with phrase «good historian»

I mean, the Romans were very good historians, AND here was a man who could walk on water, heal the sick, raise the dead... seriously, the Romans didn't want this guy, they wanted to crucify a man with that power..

At best historians try to find acceptable analogies to resurrection stories — Crossan suggests that Holy Saturday may have lasted years and that presumably at the end of that long period faith somehow emerged.

Holt is too good a historian to deny the deep moral, political, and economic differences over slavery extension that were the heart of the matter and that ultimately caused secession and war.

You must not be a very good historian.

All in all, Eusebius is one of the best historians of the early church, and this new edition by Paul Maier is the best available edition of Eusebius.

According to Bloch, «the good historian resembles the ogre of legend.

Of course Josephus is not a very good historian.

I would have to be a better historian, and take a lot of time before I could trust this, if I ever could.

To be a good historian according to our present standards, one must have the capacity to see the interplay of human and physical factors that caused important events to take place, and if the history is to be widely read the historian must have a clear and vivid literary style.

In the autumn of 1886, when he read a paper entitled, «Is the playwright the best historian?»

All of this gives the reader a one - dimensional view of progressive politics, and one can not but help conclude that the author, a good historian and writer, and someone deeply committed to the Labour Party, is in something of a time warp.

Although Kirgo is both a good writer and a good historian, based on this essay I feel like she has a bias against horror that retroactively impacts some of the fine work she's done with noir, since horror and noir are opposite sides of the same nihilistic coin.

Like any good historian, she decided to set the record straight.

Hinchingbrooke School in Cambridgeshire invited subject teachers to think about what makes a good historian, mathematician or linguist, and then to come up with a maximum of five assessment objectives for each subject.

He had never been a good historian of science.

A good historian or social scientist exhausts the available sources, but sooner or later must make decisions about which to accept or reject.

The mode feels repetitive as players have to traverse the same areas constantly using different life goals (such as being the best swordsman, best historian, etc) if they wish to unlock all the weapons and characters for chronicle mode.

These are the real histories of our time, and you are our best historians,» said Alec Holowka, co-creator of Night in the Woods, in his BAFTA acceptance speech.

No, it is the trust in the Other that comes first, as all good historians know.

Would you make a good historian?

Would you make a good Historian?