Sentences with phrase «most ancient books»

The word Vedic is derived from the Vedas, the world's most ancient books of knowledge from India.

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It's funny how most all those books were written by men in different time periods, and yet there stories all go back and match those of the ancient Egyptians.

Mosul, the second - largest city in Iraq, is built on and adjacent to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, the setting for the biblical book of Jonah and once the most powerful capital of the ancient world.

And what is most amazing to me is that by your own admission (and the millions or billions who believe as you do) you consider the words in your ancient book to carry more weight than your own personal experience in the here and now.

due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....

It allows the Word of God to remain alive rather than shrouding it in the binder of the most read, but yet the most misinterpreted book ever written — because many of those who read it, read it through the eyes and mind of an ancient civilization that was only beginning to understand the mysteries of creation.

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 two books that are most basic are the Kojiki, or Records of Ancient Matters, and the Nihongi, or Chronicles of Japan.

Ancient scrolls and bits and pieces of some books and some verses yes, but there's no such thing as an original intact Bible Most intelligent people realize that.

In a recent book, The Geography of Genius, Eric Weiner sets out on what he calls «a search for the world's most creative places, from ancient Athens to Silicon Valley.»

In large measure the Jewish element in it was explained away and its primitive flavor neutralized, for it was now no longer a Hebrew book, but a Greek thesaurus of most ancient oracles.

The use of biblical language to express a Victorian worldview makes it very difficult for most Protestants to remember that the books of the Bible address questions posed in another time in terms of the worldviews of ancient cultures.

Homer's Iliad, the most renowned book of ancient Greece, is the second best - preserved literary work of all antiquity, with 643 copies of manuscript support discovered to date.

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.

In Part III of this book, we shall discuss ancient Israel's most notable development and her finest, most widely appropriated legacy to us and the world — classical prophetism.

While most such publications are low - key, passably written and poorly produced affairs, Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World by Herlaine Silverman is an ambitious, beautifully produced book.

To date, it is the most ancient scroll from the five books of the Hebrew Bible since the Dead Sea Scrolls.

And now, there is a beautifully written book on the subject, HOW TO CLONE A MAMMOTH: The Science of De-extinction, by Beth Shapiro at UC Santa Cruz, where she does most of our ancient DNA analysis and supervises Ben Novak's graduate work.

The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in the 1960s, but a new study claims it is both genuine and likely the most ancient of all surviving manuscripts from ancient America.

According to most in - the - know experts on this sort of thing (like Dr. Mark Sircus, who wrote the book on transdermal magnesium therapy), Ancient Minerals is the best brand of magnesium flakes and magnesium oil available on the market.

A book, titled «Kennewick Man: «The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton», provides the most thorough analysis of the find made in Tri-City Herald funeral notices and Death Notices for Kennewick Washington area.

In the movie, of course, the Ancient One will be played by Tilda Swinton, so this means that when the movie Ancient One passes over Ejiofor's Mordo in favor of Cumberbatch's Strange, what will ensue is the most elegant comic book movie conflict to date.

Michael Armstrong, author of several books on human capital and performance management, is quoted as saying, «The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.»

Meet the most outrageous women of ancient times in a book from author Vicki Leon and publisher John Wiley & Sons.

The apple is so prominent in the Western world's collective imagining of Eden that it came as quite a surprise when I learned, while researching this book, that many of the most ancient biblical texts, written in Hebrew and Greek, never identified the fruit as such.

-- Mark Twain Drawn from the archived journals and field notes of explorer M.G. Hawking's five years in exceedingly remote areas of the world, this book explores several of the most captivating of all ancient legends, stories that for thousands of years have fascinated and inspired millions.

Inarguably, it is true that the ancient book is the most imperceptible work in the known literature of human race.

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