Not exact matches
It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one
historical period and another; and among the more misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between our
own age... and the epoch
in which the Roman Empire declined into the Dark Ages.
Complex
historical and literary issues are involved here, but a consensus exists for viewing the genocidal violence recounted
in many of the stories
in Joshua and Judges as the product of a royal
period in which kings were attempting to justify their
own nationalistic ideologies by appeal to divine favor.
«47 And third, it is through this work of reinterpreting its
own traditions that Israel as a community develops a
historical consciousness, thereby becoming a
historical reality, if it is true, as critical scholarship suggests, that Israel did not exist as a unified entity until the amphictyonic
period after the settlement of Canaan, then we can say that «by elaborating this history as a living tradition, Israel projected itself into the past as a single people, to whom occurred, as to an indivisible totality, the deliverance from Egypt, the revelation on Sinai, the wandering
in the desert, the gift of the Promised Land.
Study of any particular congregation thus inescapably is study of it
in its
own tradition,
in its likeness to other congregations
in previous
historical periods who share its basic construal of what the Christian thing is all about, what it is to understand God, and so forth (see chapter 2).
site the washing of the feet and the drying with the hair... that my friends is a marriage ceremony
in Judaic law and custom of that
period and yes they did have a daughter named Sarah) but... not it seems to be a shock to many who really did not dig into their
own religious dogma... blind faith is great if you can achieve it... normally people today need to inspect... inspect and you find the truths... then you will have faith based on the truth, not twists and turns and the human politics of history that changed
historical truth.
The impression one receives is of apot - pourri of contemporaneous and non-contemporaneous sources brought together to support or embellish the point being made, but without the
historical filter necessary to distinguish between their various degrees of usefulness
in understanding the
period on its
own terms.
A tradition of revolutions exists and can be identified very precisely,
in any place,
in any
historical period, from where it constantly emerges
in its popular form — for what is universal about this collective treasure is that it is
owned by no particular region
in the world, nor did any single intellectual tradition create it.
They get drawn into the elaborate
historical Holy Week festivities,
in period costumes, at a castle
owned by sleazy Russian oligarch Alexei (Jordi Molla).
In her
own words: «I would love to find the next Outlander — or a romantic adventure story that is going to take me into another world and time
period and introduce me to a new set of supernatural and / or
historical elements.
Apparently the «
historical» meant anything
in a setting with a technology level or cultural mood similar to that from a
period of our
own world's history.
Still, how families handled these challenges can not be told
in a book of history, because each family had its
own manner of living through these significant
historical periods.
Not from any specific piece or
period, but the variety and depth of the collection reflects my
own interest
in historical sculpture from different times and places.
Based on both
historical records and our
own knowledge of physics and climate, the earth should, by all measures, be slowly but inexorably sinking into another glacial
period, as can be seen
in the temperature record below.