Sentences with phrase «most ancient near»

In most ancient near Eastern cultures, including Israel, unmarried women were considered the property of their fathers (or the male head - of - house), and under biblical law could either be sold into slavery to pay off debt or married for a bride price (Exodus 21:7, Nehemiah 5:5; Genesis 29:1 - 10).

Not exact matches

As expected, I found that most of the folks calling for a return to «biblical womanhood» aren't actually calling for a return to the ancient near Eastern familial structure, but for a return to the nuclear family of pre-1950s America.

Perhaps most misinformed theory that rolls around the Internet this time of year is that Easter was originally a celebration of the ancient Near Eastern fertility goddess Ishtar.

Unlike most modern Western males, I read in various sources that men of the Ancient Near East didn't feel «weirded out» by sharing a bed with another man.

In a fascinating parallel with Thomas Aquinas» view of the matter, Novak shows that the covenant does not abolish nature but builds on it: Where natural justice was the most that other nations in the ancient Near East could imagine, justice was for Israel the bare minimum the covenant guaranteed.

The story had its dim beginnings and it betrays its distant involvement in an ancient myth of creation out of the Near and Middle East which survived in various forms but best and most fully in the Babylonian Enuma Elish (a title derived from its opening words, «When on high»).4 Here chaos is represented in the goddess Tiamat, a name perhaps echoed in the Hebrew word for «deep» tehom (1:2).

Paul Schubert, in a symposium devoted to the The Idea of History in the Ancient Near East writes: «When it comes to the idea of history, it must be said that Israel, through its sacred scripture... has proved to be the strongest and most influential single force observable by the historian in shaping the idea of history throughout two millennia of Western history.»

Most religionists have no clue about the literature and cultures of the ancient Near East.

So goodbye Wenger and thanks for the ancient history glory days but most of us, - pires and Ken, being dinosaur type exceptions on here and also the sweet, naive and ever water guzzling TY from Arsenal fan TV — prefer living in the here and now and looking forward to the near future, for we are all a long time dead, as our club has effectively been this last decade.

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The most ancient viable seed, from a 2,000 - year - old date, was excavated from a fortress near the Dead Sea.

In the 9th century BC, the Assyrian Empire of northern Iraq relentlessly started to expand into most of the ancient Near East.

The crayon was found near Lake Flixton, an ancient lake that has been in - filled with peat helping preserve Great Britain's most important Mesolithic site, Star Carr.

A new study has found geochemical clues near the summit of volcanic Mauna Kea that tell a story of ancient glacier formation, the influence of the most recent ice age, more frequent major storms in Hawaii, and the impact of a distant climatic event that changed much of the world.

Ancient Egyptian Pyramids; Giza, the site of the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx Most pyramids are located near Cairo, with only one royal pyramid being located south of Cairo, at the Abydos temple complex.

A few minutes walk from the most important ancient Roman monuments in a trendy location near Piazza Navona with many small restaurants and bars where night life never ends.

Most Maya live in traditional villages but some also live near the now - ruined cities of the Ancient Maya Empire.

The 5 * Anassa sits amidst some of the most enchanting countryside in the Mediterranean enjoying a great location overlooking a beautiful sandy beach close to the world famous ancient baths of Aphrodite and near enough to the resort centre to make the most of its good shops, fine cafes, lively bars, restaurants and nightlife to suit a wide array of tastes and budgets.

Aman Tokyo's birds - eye perch above the city centre offers a serene window onto urban dynamism, while the ancient tradition of thermal springs is embraced by Amanemu, set within Ise Shima National Park near ancient pilgrimage routes and Japan's most sacred Shinto shrines.

The most radical departure for Frieze this year is that a brisk 10 - minute walk from the contemporary fair will be, near the zoo, a new Frieze Masters fair showing and selling art from ancient times right up to the year 2000.