Sentences with phrase «in ancient records»
This is not the same Eshba'al who is referenced in 1 Chronicles 8:33, a son of King Saul, but that's the only other mention of the name in ancient records, both from the identical era.
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Ancient Jewish believers (as recorded by the Talmud and the Toledot Yeshu) described Jesus in the following ways:
So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».
He also likely suppressed the Ancient Olympic Games, since the last record of the Olympics being celebrated in ancient Rome is from 3Ancient Olympic Games, since the last record of the Olympics being celebrated in ancient Rome is from 3ancient Rome is from 393 A.D.
no records) Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.
The Romans were the most efficient record - keepers of the ancient world, but no record of this guy who was supposedly a rabble - rouser who was brought in front of the local governor (and his scribes, by extension).
As one who accepted the strange vocation of being an apocalyptic seer, Blake was not in quest of a hidden but ancient mythical form; instead, he was engaged in a desperate search for a new mythical «system» by which he might record the dawning of a final movement of redemption in the arena of our totally fallen history.
Doubtless this pleasant young man soon found someone unacquainted with Joseph Smith's Testimony, that ubiquitous missionary tract which contains the official account of the prophet's visions and his discovery of the ancient record chronicling the lives and times, vicissitudes and final destruction of a Hebraic people whose patriarch immigrated to America with his family in 600 BC.
The Records of Ancient Matters is then the oldest extant book of the Japanese people — indeed, according to W. G. Aston, it is the first book written in any Turanian tongue.3 Chamberlain regards it as the most important book in all the mass of Japanese literature.
The centuries - long drama of the religious journey of the people of Israel, as it is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, was a gigantic struggle with the immensely powerful «other» of the religious world of the ancient Near East.
Heretofore in Israelite Yahwism the meaning of the present was taken primarily from the understanding and interpretation of the past, as, for example, in the ancient cultic confession of faith recorded in Deut.
In the case of the Hebrews it is simply a matter of historical record that this people, in some respects alone amongst all of the peoples of the ancient world, possessed religious insights which were destined to endure and to become formative principles of the mighty stream of western civilizatioIn the case of the Hebrews it is simply a matter of historical record that this people, in some respects alone amongst all of the peoples of the ancient world, possessed religious insights which were destined to endure and to become formative principles of the mighty stream of western civilizatioin some respects alone amongst all of the peoples of the ancient world, possessed religious insights which were destined to endure and to become formative principles of the mighty stream of western civilization.
To those theologians who contend that the life and resurrection of Jesus is one of the most documented events in ancient history, both in scripture and recorded history, Berger asks them to produce «one single police report» from a nonpartisan source that wasn't inserted into the text far after the fact!
After antifederalist riots at Carlisle, Franklin returned to the scene with a satire against the rioters, comparing them to the ancient Jews who rejected a constitution handed down by God and «recorded in the most faithful of all Histories, the Holy Bible.»
The Book of Abraham, which is described as «a translation of some ancient records that have fallen into our hands from the catacombs of Egypt, the writings of Abraham while he was in Egypt,» is also included.
Of course, folly in the tradition of ancient wisdom literature involves something more tragic than wasting energy trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records.
Far more than simply a historical issue, the unique events leading to the Flood are a prerequisite to understanding the prophetic implications of our Lord's predictions regarding His Second Coming.1 (italics are mine) The strange events recorded in Genesis 6 were understood by the ancient rabbinical sources, as well as the Septuagint translators, as referring to fallen angels procreating weird hybrid offspring with human women - known as the «Nephilim.»
Like most things, this sort of perversity was already recorded in ancient Athens.
«These Biblical records can be and are used as are other ancient documents in archeological work.
The ideas on which the formula was based came out of ancient ancestral traditions; the logic of the doctrine was unassailable once the premises were granted; great prophets, such as Amos, Micah, and Jeremiah, held stoutly to it; and the formula was confirmed and solidified by the final rewriting of the Hebrew historical narratives to illustrate the thesis that every calamity in Israel's record had been a definite punishment for Israel's transgression.
The flood account is recorded in all ancients civilizations.
Indeed, a major incentive to archaeological discovery lay precisely in the desire of students of the Bible to find in the records of this ancient culture some support for their faith in the Bible.
While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.
The wars fought by ancient Jews are corroborated in the records of the Assyrians and Babylonians.
In modern as well as ancient times we understand history to be more than the accurate record of event.
As to the times of Nestorian contact, Robin Boyd writes «We shall leave aside the question of the theology of the Indian Church in Nestorian times, as no recordings are available, noting merely that there is still a small Nestorian church in South India and that India has never ceased to be conscious of the ancient Nestorian associations.»
It should be added that Thucydides did not provide the only model known to ancient historians, in any event; Polybius, in the second century BC., severely criticized some of his predecessors for inventing speeches and said that the historian's business was to record what was actually said.
Indeed, their paranoid fascination with the fossil record (which includes, almost, surreally, a «creation museum» in Cleveland, Ohio where one can see biblical children playing with dinosaurs) Hell, American Indians, Australian Aboriginals, «true» Indians, Chinese, Mongols, Ja.panese, Sub-Saharan Africans and the Celts and other tribes of ancient Europe were speaking thousands of different languages thousands of years before the date creationist say the Tower of Babel occurred — and even well before the date they claim for the Garden of Eden!!!
As the ancient record puts it, «In those days there was no king; in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes» (Judges 17:6In those days there was no king; in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes» (Judges 17:6in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes» (Judges 17:6in his own eyes» (Judges 17:6.)
The ancient Chinese also recorded deforestation, followed by floods and droughts and other environmental changes in densely populated areas.
Erasmus recorded it as an ancient proverb in his Adagia, although the earliest known instance is in the Alexandreis, a 12th - century Latin epic poem by Walter of Châtillon.
One who loves ancient Greece turns back in days like these to the fifth century B. C. Man was there presented with one of the supreme chances that history records.
Salt has been known for centuries for its healing properties, both mentioned in the Bible and in several records of ancient medicine.
While archaeobotanists and archaeologists today have a much clearer picture of the range of foods used by ancient peoples of Mesoamerica in their daily subsistence and dietary practices, the information on the nature, extent, structure, and timing of chili pepper use or consumption in the archaeological record remains scant.
In prestige event of a record year, the ancient and aristocratic sport of horsemanship comes to its climax in New York's Madison Square GardIn prestige event of a record year, the ancient and aristocratic sport of horsemanship comes to its climax in New York's Madison Square Gardin New York's Madison Square Garden
The drama in the 2017 edition was tied up in three things, all non-serious: Whether a team would break the 200 - point barrier (nope), whether Russell Westbrook or Anthony Davis would break Wilt Chamberlain's ancient All - Star scoring record (it was Davis), and whether Westbrook and Kevin Durant would fight at midcourt despite being on the same team (nope).
Ancient Title shipped East from California in July, bringing with him an entourage of fascinating people and a record of nine stakes victories.
If anyone out there remembers some of our ancient Cal - Hi Sports newsletters from the 1980s or 1990s, they'll recall that founder and record book compiler Nelson Tennis (my uncle, who died in 2004) did a short series of comments he called «Random Remarks.»
The team coached by Carlos Ancelotti reached the best score ever in the CLUB WORLD RANKING, surpassing the former record by FC Juventus Torino with 372, 7 points in 1993 - when it was ancient rules -.
Did you know that in the ancient civilizations of Babylon, Egypt and China, they have found records of exorcisms performed on women in childbirth?
According to Governor Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation records, least half a dozen oil releases have been reported in towns above the ancient pipeline, but according to they have not been cleaned up.
According to New York State Department of Environmental Conservation records, at least half a dozen oil releases have been reported in towns above the ancient pipeline.
To vote in a way which effectively abandons the bill to filibuster and delay would be a shameful decision for Labour, with its fine record, ancient and modern, on Lords reform.
Anthropologist Gary Urton, the world's leading expert on khipu, proposed a provocative theory that the cords and pendants recorded information in an ancient binary code.
The island is one of the best places to peer into the history of Earth's magnetic field because its fluctuations are recorded in the ancient volcanic rock.
But wings are so fragile that it's possible the ancient lepidopterans also had smaller scale structures that weren't preserved in the fossil record, he says.
Well before an asteroid struck the planet some 66 million years ago, Earth was already in turmoil, a record from an ancient lakebed in northeastern China suggests.
Ancient lake sediments in China record epic temperature swings, biotic turnover before the mass extinction.
More than 500 seismologists and geologists worked for 6 years, using satellite measurements, field surveys, historical records of earthquakes, and geologic evidence of ancient ground motions to document the hazards for all land areas on Earth, says the project's director, Domenico Giardini of the Swiss Seismological Service in Zürich.
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