Sentences with phrase «many apocryphal»

The most popular (and likely apocryphal) version of events then goes something like this: One soldier and two plant workers, all volunteers, bravely strapped on wetsuits and clamored into the radioactive water.

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It speaks to that perhaps apocryphal quote of the 20 something guy who says «I don't seek out news, news finds me.»

Narayen's turn of phrase is hardly original — since at least the 1990s, corporate bosses have been referencing apocryphal tales of military commanders in hostile territory motivating their troops to conquer or be killed by destroying their ride home.

When you see crypto people tell each other to hodl or make hodl jokes, they're referencing this apocryphal posting to the Bitcoin Forum way back in December 2013:

These things all pile up, piece by piece, bit by bit, and eventually when the total is looked at, it becomes quite clear that the Bible is almost entirely mythical, and certainly no guide to understanding the world objectively, and that any claims made therein should be regarded as apocryphal or just outright fiction.

In a perhaps apocryphal story, Adolph Hitler recalled to his General Staff in 1939 the amnesty that outside powers gave to the Turkish officials who massacred over one million Armenians nearly a quarter century earlier, quipping «Who after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?»

When the word «Son» or «Son of Man» in apocryphal texts from this time it is not in a literal sense.

Part of his reasoning is that the longer ending has Jesus claiming that miraculous signs shall follow believers, which, for Warfield, «bear an apocryphal appearance.»

Portions of some of the Apocryphal books were found among the dead sea scrolls: Starting in 1947, in the caves of the Qumran region about 14 miles East of Jerusalem, there were found in eleven separate caves, approximately 900 Manuscripts in some 25,000 pieces.

Apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas

In addition to those 225 Biblical manuscripts there was recovered three Apocryphal Scriptures: «Tobit», «Ben Sira» (also known as «Sirach» or «Ecclesiasticus»), and «Baruch 6 ′ (also known as «Letter of Jeremiah»).

However, there are 18 books recognized as Apocryphal or Dueterocanical by the Protestant, Angelican, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox communities.

The so - called 1611 King James Bible found in most book stores is actually the 1769 King James Version with the 14 apocryphal books removed.

Available on computers, smart TVs, tablets, iPhones and a hundred other devices not even conceived when that apocryphal dinner party took place, iPlayer has become a key element in the nation's viewing habits.

This episode is recorded in full in the apocryphal books of Maccabees, and it has left deep traces upon other literature of the period, some of which we shall notice presently.»

Among these are the Book of Proverbs and the apocryphal Ecclesiasticus, full of wise saws and simple pieties.

Then I was studying the King James Version, how it was translated from other existing versions, and how much scholars believe was deleted (much of it being the Apocryphal books found in the Catholic Bible).

The apocryphal stories, in some instances, were understood to be «Gospel truth» on par with accounts found in Scripture.

A careful examination of these images shows clearly and convincingly that medieval artists were not only familiar with the stories of the canonical Gospels, but also with many noncanonical apocryphal tales of Jesus.

It is only a later second - century apocryphal gospel that speaks of Mary miraculously giving birth with her sexual organs intact.

There is an apocryphal story told about some of the followers of Rene Descartes, who, on the banks of the Seine River in Paris, would nail dogs to wooden boards, cut them open, and watch them bark and writhe.

This legend, which is very much in the manner of the later apocryphal gospels, is interwoven with the Marcan narrative.

Conrad Hyers's witty parable, The Chickadees, went into two fast printings this year, and perhaps the most controversial religious book of the year is Thomas Klise's apocryphal novel The Last Western.

The name Didymus Judas Thomas may point towards Syria, where the Acts of Thomas originated, but the parallels with traditions and apocryphal books known to Clement and Origen suggest Alexandria instead.

By 1977 an expanded edition of the RSV had come to include the apocryphal / deuterocanonical books, thereby making it the closest we would come to a Common Bible for all Christians — protestants, Catholics and Orthodox.

A priori it is quite possible that «apocryphal» traditions can be valuable historically.

The tale of his crossing over into the dreamer society may be apocryphal.

I've discussed this with Jewish people and have found that very few interpret their Holy Book literally and instead see it for what it is — an apocryphal history of the semitic people.

In fact, there are works in the Bible that were considered heretical or apocryphal prior to the 1800's.

Several of them have pointed out that the tradition concerning the correspondence between King Abgar and Jesus is only apocryphal and hence spurious and that the king who became Christian in Edessa was not Abgar V but Abgar VIII (called the Great) who came to the throne in AD.

This apocryphal gospel is mentioned in patristic allusions, and has been more or less identified with a late and purely fanciful infancy narrative known for some time.

A prayer in the apocryphal book of Sirach begins, «O Lord.

There is a story, perhaps apocryphal,...

Among the stories, many no doubt apocryphal, told about George Bernard Shaw is one in which the dancer Isadora Duncan suggests to Shaw that they should have a baby, saying, «Think of a child with my body and your mind.»

He was referring, I believe, to interpretations of the Lord's teachings; but the existence of the agrapha — the «unwritten sayings» of the Lord — and the composition of the older apocryphal Gospels both testify to the continuance of the oral tradition at least beyond the time of Papias.

Another story from the apocryphal gospels of the childhood of Jesus.

It contained three gnostic writings, which purported to present the teachings of the risen Jesus and part of an apocryphal work about Peter.

Remarkable stories are told of his childhood which remind one of some of the stories told of the child Jesus in the apocryphal gospels.

Among the apocryphal writings (rejected by the Hebrew canon, but present from the beginning in the Greek) I Esdras, Tobit, and Baruch may be classified as wisdom writings, and Ecclesiasticus and the Wisdom of Solomon are consistent and classical models of the wisdom type.

(Quoted from M. R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953], pp. 314f.)

A possibly apocryphal story has Thoreau standing by his pond and watching the first telegraph lines from Maine to Boston being strung and saying, «What if they have nothing to say to each other?»

J. K. Elliott, who prepared the comprehensive translation of such early texts notes: «These apocryphal books are of importance as historical witnesses to the beliefs, prayers, practices, and interests of the society that produced and preserved them.

[50] One must not lose sight of the fact that parallel to such literary work, a growing corpus of «apocryphal» writing was being circulated and transmitted.

This inclination, which reaches its extreme expression in some of the later apocryphal literature, clearly appears in the canonical narratives.

It becomes apparent that many of the details in the synoptic accounts are paralleled in the Hellenistic literature; that Christian writers did use Hellenistic models can be seen quite clearly in the apocryphal Acts of Peter, where the author improves on a version of a story similar to that told by Philostratus.

There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, of a man at a Sunday worship service in a Reformed Protestant church, who was giving expression to his feelings by shouting «Amen» in response to various comments being made as the minister preached.

While Brock found images of redemption in Scripture, New Testament scholar Gail Paterson Corrington found hers in pre-Christian figures such as Isis and Sophia, ancient female divinities whose legacy lives on in apocryphal literature in the figure of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

As the apocryphal saying of Jesus has it: «The world is a bridge.

This diverse material is now available in the translation by M. R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament [New York: Oxford University Press, rev ed., 1953]-RRB-.