Sentences with phrase «in ancient manuscripts»

She specializes in ancient manuscripts and research, and therefore she's stunned when her superiors need her expertise in a new assignment - identifying unusual tattoos on the corpse of a dead Ethiopian.

Such divisions are very uncommon in ancient manuscripts, but they do show up frequently in manuscripts that were used in educational contexts,» said Landau, a lecturer in the UT Austin Department of Religious Studies.

The cross was not the means of execution used to kill Jesus of Nazareth, but an upright pole or «tree» as the Greek term literally means in ancient manuscripts.

Usually the doxology, which appears in some ancient manuscripts, is added: «For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever, Amen.»

Not exact matches

Princeton doctoral student Xiyue Wang, who went to Iran to study ancient manuscripts, was arrested in August 2016, accused of spying for the United States, and sentenced to 10 years in prison in July 2017.

Lastly, look up the word «gloss» in the context of ancient manuscripts.

In most of the ancient manuscripts the Gospel according to Mark ends with 16.8: whether he deliberately stopped there, or meant to write more but was prevented, or did write a conclusion which was afterwards lost, is an open question.

In terms of number of manuscripts available, the NT is unparalleled among ancient literature.

Today attempts to arrive at the text of the New Testament center on three sorts of materials: ancient Greek manuscripts, ancient versions in languages other than Greek (e.g., Latin, Syriac and Coptic), and early quotations said to come from the New Testament.

Well, although I don't believe that there is any way to prove God nor do I think we will ever come particularly close even, I believe that the historical evidence in the form of copies of biblical manuscripts and the ancient towns archeologists have found that are in the Bible point to the Bible is a true authoritative book.

For the event to which we have been led back by all lines of approach, from outside and from inside, is not some remote, forgotten episode of the past, recovered, as it might be, through digging up an ancient tomb or unearthing a manuscript in a cave.

A groundbreaking report by the Wall Street Journalwriter, Andrew Higgins, makes the astonishing claim that a priceless photo archive of ancient manuscripts of the Qur» an, which were considered to have been destroyed in the bombing of the Bavarian Academy of Science, is still in existence.

«Parts of the New Testament have been preserved in more manuscripts than any other «ancient» work, having over 5,800 complete or fragmented Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages including Syriac, Slavic, Gothic, Ethiopic, Coptic and Armenian.»

Ironically, the passage in Colossians you gave (in vs. 13) is used to argue for Christus Victor, and the «through his blood,» in that verse isn't present in the most reliable ancient manuscripts... but that's besides the point.

The earliest Gospel never mentions — at least not in the best ancient manuscripts — the risen Jesus» reunions with his followers as described in Matthew, Luke and John.

In 2012, another drama played out in headlines across the world: a fragment of ancient manuscript in which Jesus purportedly refers to his «wife» was trumpeted as evidence that Jesus had been a married maIn 2012, another drama played out in headlines across the world: a fragment of ancient manuscript in which Jesus purportedly refers to his «wife» was trumpeted as evidence that Jesus had been a married main headlines across the world: a fragment of ancient manuscript in which Jesus purportedly refers to his «wife» was trumpeted as evidence that Jesus had been a married main which Jesus purportedly refers to his «wife» was trumpeted as evidence that Jesus had been a married man.

The New Testament has been preserved in more than 5,800 Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages including Syriac, Slavic, Ethiopic and Armenian.

As for Ehrman's 400,000 variants, Blomberg explains, they are «spread across more than 25,000 manuscripts in Greek or other ancient languages....

In building his case for why we can still believe the Bible, Blomberg effectively positions himself between liberal scholars who refuse to acknowledge the firm textual base on which the scriptures stand and ultraconservatives who insist on a rigidly literal reading of the Bible (often in the King James only) in the face of legitimate developments in our understanding of ancient manuscripts and genreIn building his case for why we can still believe the Bible, Blomberg effectively positions himself between liberal scholars who refuse to acknowledge the firm textual base on which the scriptures stand and ultraconservatives who insist on a rigidly literal reading of the Bible (often in the King James only) in the face of legitimate developments in our understanding of ancient manuscripts and genrein the King James only) in the face of legitimate developments in our understanding of ancient manuscripts and genrein the face of legitimate developments in our understanding of ancient manuscripts and genrein our understanding of ancient manuscripts and genres.

Second, when science say's that the sun will burn out in about 4 billion years they are using data that has been gathered about our sun as well as many other star's to come up with their theory, not an ancient manuscript written by nomadic goat herders.

Since that time Protestant scholars have not ceased to search for other ancient Greek manuscripts, to collate them, and to revise the text in accord with the findings of scholars in contributing fields.

The intervening years had seen the discovery of numerous ancient manuscripts which had made possible a great improvement in the Greek and Hebrew texts.

Some early Christian writers were aware of the importance of old manuscripts for the study of the Bible, and copyists during the Middle Ages, both in the East and in the West, made efforts to find ancient models.

The only ancient manuscripts we have are in Greek.

«There were a lot of people in the ancient world who thought that lying could serve a greater good,» says Ehrman, an expert on ancient biblical manuscripts.

Later, manuscripts were found that had been hidden away, written in the «ancient script,» one in Confucius» own house, where it had been concealed in a wall.

According to an ancient chronicle (preserved in the Abd - Al - Kadir manuscript), Omar, who was known for his ability to cure the sick through prayer, was once exiled from Mocha in Yemen to a desert cave near Ousab (modern day Wusab, about 90 km east of Zabid).

According to an ancient chronicle (preserved in the Abd - Al - Kadir manuscript), Omar, who was known for his ability to cure the sick through prayer, was once exiled from Mocha in Yemen to a desert.

While I examined the khipus, Bill, an expert in medieval history with experience reading ancient Latin manuscripts, skimmed the documents, which were written in antiquated Spanish.

Though carbon dating placed the manuscript in the 13th century, skeptics argued that it was not uncommon for looters to create forgeries on period - correct paper taken from ancient caches.

The numbers appear in an ancient Indian text called the Bakhshali manuscript, which consists of 70 leaves of birch bark, filled with mathematics and text in the form of Sanskrit.

It's like an archeological discovery where you find some manuscript that confirms an ancient oral tradition, he says, except instead of digging in the dirt, we dug into the genome.

The numbers appear in the Bakhshali manuscript, an ancient Indian text consisting of 70 leaves of birch bark filled with mathematics and text in Sanskrit.

The technique is also illuminating ancient documents like the Dead Sea Scrolls and manuscripts known as palimpsests, in which the original writing was scraped off so the parchment could be reused.

The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in the 1960s, but a new study claims it is both genuine and likely the most ancient of all surviving manuscripts from ancient America.

But one type of sprouted - grain bread — called «Essene» bread because it's described in a surviving manuscript written by that ancient religious sect — takes a different approach.

August 19, 2015 • The Jaffna library once held irreplaceable, ancient manuscripts, lost when it was torched in 1981.

Whether she's imagining the history of an ancient manuscript, as in People of the Book, or an English town determined to survive the plague in A Year of Wonders, Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist Geraldine Brooks is a master at bringing history's little - known but fascinating stories to life.

The funding will assist in the digitization efforts of ancient texts and manuscripts.

The plot hinges on an ancient silk manuscript written in a mysterious tongue, torn in half by the teeth of the last Chinese emperor, Puyi, in a fit of rage, and destined to be a...

St. Catherine's Monastery is located on Mount Sinai in Egypt and it currently houses the oldest continually operating library in the world, containing ancient and medieval manuscripts second only to those held by the Vatican Library.

Compelling references continue through the millennia in numerous esoteric texts: the sacred B'on treaties, manuscripts of the Kalki lore, the Puranas, the earliest texts of the Kalachakra Laghutantra, in the even older Kalachakra Mulatantra, and in the ancient wisdom traditions of civilizations throughout the Himalayan regions of Asia and beyond.The Zhang Zhung and Tibetan scriptures refer to the mysterious world as Shambhala I lam - yig, B'on treaties as Olmolungring, Hindu histories as Aryavarth, Chinese as Hsi Tien, and Russian traditions as Belovoyde.In an esoteric treatise composed in the early 1500s by Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup, the Third Panchen Lama describes his remarkable visit to a land of wise masters hidden deep in the Himalayas.

Compelling references continue through the millennia in numerous esoteric texts: the sacred B'on treaties, manuscripts of the Kalki lore, the Puranas, the earliest texts of the Kalachakra Laghutantra, in the even older Kalachakra Mulatantra, and in the ancient wisdom traditions of civilizations throughout the Himalayan regions of Asia and beyond.The Zhang Zhung a...

The breed was depicted in ancient art and 13th century manuscripts.

The library - museum was made public in 1924 and today holds a much more expansive collection which includes Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, literary and historical manuscripts, printed music, ancient seals and tablets, paintings, art objects, drawings, bindings and prints.

He bought on an astonishing scale, collecting art objects in virtually every medium, including the rare books, manuscripts, drawings, prints, and ancient artifacts that are the core of The Morgan Library & Museum's holdings.

Ancient seals, drawings, prints, books, and medieval, music and literary manuscripts will illustrate the place of animals in the creative process — as symbols, teachers of moral lessons, talking characters, companions, and subjects of scientific study and artistic inspiration.

Covering everything from sculpture, antiquities from across the ancient world, fine and applied arts, manuscripts and coins, the Fitzwilliam, which celebrates its bicentenary in 2016, has been hailed as «the finest small museum in Europe».

At times, the wood appears like wafer thin pages of an ancient manuscript, in others it forms sculptural shapes that approach the essence of a Brâncuși.

In tandem with the 2006 expansion project by architect Renzo Piano, the Morgan now provides visitors unprecedented access to its world - renowned collections of drawings, literary and historical manuscripts, musical scores, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, printed books, and ancient Near Eastern seals and tablets.