Sentences with phrase «many ancient literatures»

Yooz, the way you just used the word «myth» shows you can't be a very good scholar of ancient literature or religion, if you are one at all.

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.

In the ancient literature known as «gospels», BELIEVERS placed what they wanted (as a literary device) * Jesus to say *.

This has been a period in which the categories of the social sciences have been employed for the study of such ancient literature, alerting us to the ways in which ancient communities are rooted in social realities, as well as the ways in which social structures and ideologies reinforce each other.

This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis of ancient literature has become a very significant force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations of religious experiences and convictions.

they have forsaken Yahweh, they have despised the Holy One of Israel,» (Isaiah 1:4) and then he uttered one of the most solemn and moving denunciations of moral wrong and one of the most momentous pleas for social justice in ancient literature.

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

The more one perceives in ancient literature, whether of Judea or Greece, values of permanent validity, the more one tends to lift them out of their original frameworks of concept and present them in modern terms and ways of thinking.

There is no other work of ancient literature that can be verified by other corroborative evidence as the Bible.

Think of all the brainpower and money that has been wasted on this planet studying and worshiping ancient literature.

This concentration of verbs is found in no other genre of ancient literature.

We owe a great deal, of course, to the classic cultures of Greece and Rome, but we tend to read back into the ancient literature conceptions that the classic authors did not really hold.

Ancient literature, like modern fairy tales, is full of narratives in which gods and other supernatural beings disguise themselves as human beings, sometimes as the lowest of the low, and roam throughout the world to see how people will treat them.

Regarding malakoi, Matthew notes that most uses of the word in ancient literature are not related to same - sex behavior but rather to men who were self - indulgent and enslaved to their passions... for women.

You only have instances of correct names and places within the bible, something that can be found in other examples of ancient literature.

He scoffs at the idea that some modern proponents of homosexual marriage see homosexual behavior in the deep male friendships of ancient literature.

Why use ancient literature to prove whom should be a slave or whom should be free?

The bible is ancient literature that has been edited by hundreds of different religions for 2000 years.

For the rest of us it's just ancient literature.

If we are unwilling to welcome great matters, even when they come to us in obsolete vehicles of thought, it is of no use to read any ancient literature whatsoever.

Ever since the work of the great philologist Erich Auerbach, scholars have recognized the note of realism that the Gospels introduced into ancient literature.

It is thus one of the supremely important books, not only of the Old Testament but of all ancient literature, and its common caricature, as the narrative of a fish literally swallowing a man and disgorging him alive after three days, is one of the most regrettable absurdities in the Western world's long mistreatment of the Bible.

Joseph's forgiveness of his brethren, for example, presents one of the most moving scenes in ancient literature, (Genesis, chap.

(If, like me, you had a mini faith crisis in Intro to Ancient Literature after reading Enuma Elish or Gilgabmesh, you will know exactly what he's talking about.)

This admiration of nature finds its climax in the book of Job, where the wonders of the natural order are used for a didactic purpose unique to the Bible, and possibly in all ancient literature: to make the point that humanity's whole attitude to the created order is wrong, because it is totally egoistic, totally anthropocentric.

Where in ancient literature can one find a more reverential tribute to the good woman than in Proverbs, chapter 31?

The Vedas and other ancient literature mention the use of honey as a great medicinal and health food.

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.

«Elenore Walker, ancient literature thief.

Magical numbers abound in ancient literature.

The silver - blue cats with the emerald - green eyes are said to date to the 14th century based on their depiction in ancient literature.

The decor's textures and shapes evoke the spirit of local soft sand, curling waves, rocky mountains and ancient literature.

Cy Twombly's Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves (IV), which was shown in Athens at the last gallery exhibition of his work prior to the artist's passing, employs rich tones of turquoise with vermillion and yellow to portray the Mediterranean landscape and reference ancient literature and mythology.

If you speak more than one language, have expertise in ancient literature, study other cultures or have any other experience where you could be considered an expert, this is the section to list those traits in.

Not exact matches

A former ancient and medieval literature teacher, he has been reporting on cryptocurrency since 2014.

Sylvania, for example, was «erudite and fond of literature» (a kind of patron saint for female seminarians); day and night she read the ancient Christian commentators, three million lines of Origen and two and a half million lines of Gregory, Basil, and others.

If it was compared as just another collection of ancient, man - made, literature I don't think there wouldn't be the polemic responses.

A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature (London: Williams and Norgate, 1859), chapter IV and his Chips from a German Workshop (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Neither those who would set aside Genesis as primitive science nor those who would try to defend it as the true science of origins seem to grasp the differences between modern scientific and ancient cosmological literatures.

Anyway, last week, we talked about Chapter 2 — «The Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Literature» — in which Enns tackles the difficult question of how to understand the Bible as special and revelatory when Genesis in particular looks so much like other literature from the ancient Near EasternAncient Near Eastern Literature» — in which Enns tackles the difficult question of how to understand the Bible as special and revelatory when Genesis in particular looks so much like other literature from the ancient Near EastLiterature» — in which Enns tackles the difficult question of how to understand the Bible as special and revelatory when Genesis in particular looks so much like other literature from the ancient Near Eastliterature from the ancient Near Easternancient Near Eastern world.

Because an ancient piece of literature tells you too or else?

As far back as Horace deserting ancient Rome for his Sabine farm — and indeed, far further back — there has run through Western literature a contrast between urban corruption and rural innocence.

It offers examples of consummate literary skill; parts can be ranked with the best of the contemporary ancient histories; and nowhere else in all the world's literature and history is God so consistently and passionately the center of action and contemplation.

The immediate background to Jesus» use of Kingdom of God is certainly the use in the ancient Jewish prayers and in the apocalyptic literature.

John Barton shows how the prophets used persuasive techniques that are found in ancient Near Eastern literature.

After nearly a century of form criticism, all students of the Bible are aware how much the ancient social situation affected the meaning of the literature that grew up in its midst.

For example, S.K. De, Ancient Indian Erotics and Erotic Literature, (Calcutta: K.L. Mukhopadhyay, 1959), 82; Norvin Hein, «Radha and Erotic Community,» in The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India, John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, eds.

From one perspective, this is a good thing, for the textual evidence of the New Testament is much stronger than any other ancient Greek piece of literature.

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 modern crisis of narrative is very different from the ancient one in that we are here dealing with artful stories, with «literature.»