Sentences with phrase «how ancient texts»

We can guide them to thoughtfully consider how ancient texts are relevant to our modern world.

Not exact matches

How about the most accurate ancient text that has never been proven wrong by any archeological finding.

Then I was wondering how it can be explained that ancient Egyptian text supports Joseph's time as the leader under Pharaoh or pictures have been taken of chariot wheels at the bottom of the Red Sea or even how recently the location of Sodom has been found.

Gambling your soul away on a guess based on ancient texts out of fear of torture doesn't sound logical at all, especially considering how many other versions of the scriptures have been found and conflict with today's bible.

Both Lincoln and King knew how to invoke prophetic biblical texts and ancient moral injunctions and join them to calls to action.

American virtuosos like Lincoln and King knew how to invoke prophetic biblical texts and ancient moral injunctions and join them to calls to action.

Editor's Note: David Hazony is the author of «The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life» (Scribner, 2010).

So we fight back with logic and ask them to prove their beliefs with something substantiative that can be tested without a doubt and not some ancient texts written by MEN (no matter how many times they claim it's «HIS» word).

I like how John Walton points out, that Bible texts were not written to us, but for us, meaning it was written to the ancient Israelites of Moses» day et.

How do we engage with the truths from Scripture without reducing this diverse collection of ancient texts to a blueprint or list of bullet points?

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

Editor's note: David Hazony is the author of «The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life,» published recently by Scribner.

This may seem like a minor point, but really, it makes a world of difference in how we approach some of the ancient biblical texts, like those of Moses and David.

How sad that it's all just ignorance based upon some ancient text that says its equally as evil to wear poly - cotton blends.

You need to pick up a text book and drop your ancient book of lies and control and maybe you will see just how harmful your spiteful imaginary friends are.

To suggest that a collection of ancient texts, written by multiple authors and in multiple genres, spanning thousands of years and countless cultural contexts provides a single, uniform prescription for how to be a woman is absolutely ridiculous.

When you compare these manuscripts to modern Bibles it's unmistakable how accurately these render the ancient texts.

Most adults in this country don't have the intelligence to make it through a novel, how can we trust them to make good judgments based on an ancient text from an ancient people?

How dare you use logic and the ancient texts to prove a point.

You see kids, back when I joined the online world in the ancient days of 1995 (you wouldn't BELIEVE how much of a pain it is to cram a cuneiform tablet into a modem), the internet was a much different realm — email existed, FTP existed, a few text - heavy websites existed, but a significant part of our social interaction took place in a huge and diverse set of discussion groups collectively called the Usenet.

However, outside of the ports mentioned in a handful of ancient texts, it's unclear just how merchants, and their goods, traveled inland.

Until recently, she directed the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif. «We read these ancient texts, and the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese — they were all wondering how we humans fit into the universe.»

For lovers of ancient literature, it doesn't come close to supplanting the baser pleasures of the original text, but from a modern standpoint, it does make for an interesting contrast in narrative elements to show how times have changed in terms of what audiences find appealing.

The text describes the possible reasons behind the construction of the pyramids and gives an account of how these ancient wonders were constructed.

The Renaissance was triggered by a new interest in the ancient classical texts and a desire to learn how they could be applied to the arts and sciences - the result was a rebirth of European culture as a whole.

The Renaissance was triggered by a new interest in the ancient classical texts and a desire to learn how they could be applied to the arts and sciences - the...