Sentences with phrase «more ancient times»

Once the team discovered the link between volcanic eruptions and reduced Nile flooding, they turned their attention to more ancient times — specifically, to the period from 305 B.C.E. to 30 B.C.E., when Greeks ruled a dynasty centered in Egypt.

«We expect to find fossils of animals that have persisted from more ancient times, and I'm hopeful we will one day find the ancestral type of both the mandibulate and chelicerate nervous system ground patterns.

Not exact matches

Biblical interpretation naturally absorbs a lot of ink; but «modern biblical scholars» will be surprised to learn that many of them regard miracle stories as fictions «designed to influence the common folk of an ancient and more simple time»: a view closer to old - fashioned anticlericalism of Thomas Paine's vintage than modern scholarship even of a radical stripe.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

Then, instead of reading like the «Around Home» section or the obituary column of a small - town newspaper, it could have provided a more worthy document of the life and times of the ancient world, a register of the designs and deeds of the truly great men and nations of the ancient Near East.

The Jews had an ancient law prohibiting more than 40 lashes which is why Paul several times received 39 lashes.

First, N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham, responded (Correspondence, June / July 2008) to Richard John Neuhaus» comments on his new book, Surprised by Hope, which had included a criticism that its «concrete eschatological expectation» of a physical resurrection on a perfected earth was «more suggestive of Joseph Smith than St. Paul»» noting that Mormons were simply taking seriously the relevant passages in the New Testament at the very time that «the Western Protestant church... was eliminating the ancient concrete eschatological expectation.»

At a time when both the pastoral counselor and the spiritual director are borrowing profusely from the psychiatrist, the social worker and the psychologist, Lifton is going in another direction and challenging the secular therapist to reclaim some of the wisdom of these more ancient traditions of the cure of souls.

In ancient and biblical times, the word is often used regarding things like children who recovered from sickness, a battle which was won, or a successful trading voyage (See my article on the gospel where I document this in more detail).

Our earliest copies of those documents are more plentiful and closer to the time of Jesus than the histories of many major figures of the ancient world (whom the general public seem to have no problem believing in).

One of the ancient prophets — the same, indeed, who spoke of the «king coming in gentleness» — also drew a picture of a good time to come when men of all nations will go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts; and on that day the prophet adds, «there shall no more be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts,» 11 Jesus was offering symbolically a fulfillment of that prophecy, in line with his basic affirmation that the kingdom of God is here.

For example, «the fresh and vivid style of Mark» has been explained as the result of Peter's vivid personal recollections — forgetting that people did not usually write that way in ancient times, but far more prosaically, far less romantically; the exploitation of literary personality is a very modern innovation.

I then took that tiny folded paper, which contained more pain and names than I care to share, and wedged it deep into a crack in the ancient red rock where it will disintegrate in time — along with my pain.

It warns against believing the calculations of the understanding, which are more perfidious than the oracles of ancient times.

Berlin fears the ancient faith in and search for a perfect and harmonious society, «an ideal for which more human beings have, in our time, sacrificed themselves and others than, perhaps, any other cause in human history.»

I think that will be very clear to everyone that the predominant religions of today is ancient beliefs that might have been reasonable at the time when they were written, but that was more than 1,600 years ago and we have learnt a lot since, even though I sometimes question that when I see what is going on in the world.

If the Bible needs to be interpreted for modern times that just proves it's nothing more than an ordinary book written by ordinary ancient people, and there's no more reason to base our laws or our lives off it than the Iliad or Beowulf.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

The autonomy of humanity from the realm of supernatural forces was considered by Marx as an axiomatic ontological truth that had been developed since ancient times, and he considered it to have an even more respectable tradition than Christianity.

In modern as well as ancient times we understand history to be more than the accurate record of event.

Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self - control» Since most would agree that Paul's writings are surely divine inspiration for the total concept of «mutual gratification» in that time was not entertained in the minds of most ancient cultures it was seen more so as a «chore» that women did for their husband so that he would not stray into adultery.

-LSB-...] «Without any doubt it is a great thing to add innumerable other stars to the immense multitude of fixed stars that until today it has been possible to discern with the natural faculty of sight, and which exceed by more than ten times the number of ancient stars already recorded».

But it also nourishes the achievement of a vastly larger number of voluntary associations, a higher degree of voluntary social cooperation, a broader base of love and gratitude for the commonwealth, and a more explicitly consensual national community than was known in ancient or medieval times.

The longing to withdraw from, escape, or transcend the vicissitudes of political life in favor of a more perfect world permeates Western culture from ancient times to our own, though the responses to it have taken many forms.

Spelt is a species of wheat much more common in ancient and medieval times but newly popular as some people look to explore older varieties of common foodstuffs and others feel that health benefits may accrue from avoiding some varieties of wheat in favor of others.

Unlike other «superfoods» on the market that cost a fortune - this ancient health tonic can be made right in your own kitchen with little time or money, and provide you with the same, if not more, benefits than the most expensive products available today.

«My family meets every October at the Windsor Court Hotel it's a mystical place that makes you feel as if you have been whisked back in time to an ancient Castle, and from the moment you arrive the staff treats you as if you are Royalty... They are always looking for ways to make your stay is a little more magical».

by Ron Cichowicz In the United States more and more parents of baby boys are agonizing over circumcision, a practice that dates back to ancient times and remains shrouded in religious, social and medical issues.

Whereas a school may take a term to cover — say — basic trigonometry, or Ancient Rome — a child educated at home can cover these topics in far more diverse time periods.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, swings [read more]

During the ancient times and even until this day, parents use traditional cloth as baby slings; although there are more sophisticated baby slings that are made of synthetic and nylon materials with added padding.

Is this just the sign of a guy who has spent too much time watching sci - fi or is it a more sinister attempt to rouse ancient anti semitic imagery?

China has four times more population, vast natural resources, venerable ancient culture, and the Chinese are in no way less intelligent, resourceful or determined than Americans.

But clawed paws in these northern «true seals,» which include harbor and harp seals, seem to be more than just a holdover from ancient times, says David Hocking, a marine zoologist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

They found that the striped cat was much more common in ancient times.

Ellis, his PhD student Dan Stark and their colleagues trained one of the world's biggest telescopes, the Keck 2 atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, to scan light grazing massive clusters of closer galaxies [see image above], which focused the light coming from more ancient galaxies behind them and magnified it 20 times in a process called gravitational lensing.

Ancient DNA could potentially reveal much more: When compared to other Bronze Age samples from around Europe at this time, it could point to the homelands of the warriors as well as such traits as eye and hair color.

They stem from the idea that evolution makes minuscule changes over millions of years, so we haven't had enough time to adapt to the modern industrial world — and that we would be healthier and happier if we lived more like our ancient ancestors.

Last April, Pfefferkorn and Wang, a paleobotanist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, described the full magnitude of the find: an entire swath of ancient swamp forest frozen in time beneath more than 20 square miles of volcanic ash.

At the time, Mahan, a CU - Boulder assistant professor of geological sciences, noted that the alteration of garnet was thought to be far too ancient, from more than a billion years ago, to fit the theory.

At the same time, it is unclear just how modern these fossils can be because they both have stubby legs — presumably a leftover feature from more ancient snakes.

Just as London and Paris are built on more ancient Roman or even older remains, our Milky Way galaxy also has multiple generations of stars that span the time from its formation to the present.

But those rulers may have had more to blame than just bad luck: According to a new study, volcanic eruptions around the ancient world likely suppressed the Nile's annual floods — critical for agriculture — by altering rainfall upriver in the Ethiopian highlands several times from the third to first centuries B.C.E..

Tap water from ancient Rome likely contained up to 100 times more lead than local spring water, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Trained in geology, the elder Pumpelly believed that Central Asia in ancient times was wetter and more fertile that it is now.

Classically trained poets and writers at the time would have been exposed to a few sources that painted ancient Romans as just the sort of people who would vomit just to eat more.

His group showed that the petrous bone, containing the tiny inner ear, harbors 100 times more DNA than other ancient human remains, offering a huge increase in the amount of genetic material available for analysis.

Nucleic acids and proteins trapped in ancient mummies and still more ancient bones can serve as time capsules of history.

The distribution of ERV - Fc among these ancient mammals suggests the viruses spread to every continent except Antarctica and Australia, and that they jumped from one species to another more than 20 times.

They would be shorter and more productive, Reiners says, if the geochemical methods for determining the timing of ancient erosion and canyon formation were improved.