Sentences with phrase «most ancient societies»
A wider reading of the New Testament, especially John and Paul, suggests that such injunctions are only a moment of eschatological delay within a wider promotion of gift - exchange beyond the fetishized limits upon such exchange imposed by most ancient societies.
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Most of them are perfectly aware that the stories of the Bible was written in historically ancient time with very different customs than our own that are not applicable to today's society.
While most in our «enlightened» Western society would assume we are beyond the actual worship of the gods out of ancient myths, the truth isn't so clear - cut.
After studying a series of Western societies from ancient Greece and Iran through the history of Israel, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and on into the twentieth centuries, Polak concludes that the most important single factor involved in the generation of change is the image of the future held by a given group.
This answer also makes me the most happy, not that we haven't had other non-christian presidents before (Thomas Jefferson comes to mind) but Obama is the first is a long time and as an Agnostic myself I am proud to have a leader that puts the ideals of science and civil society above those of ancient and antiquated religions
In ancient societies, place and relationships were the most important considerations.
«Most people thought ancient society was peaceful, and that Bronze Age males were concerned with trading and so on,» says Helle Vandkilde, an archaeologist at Aarhus University in Denmark.
Although unknown to most Western scholars, this ancient civilization dates back 4,000 years — to the time when the first great societies along the Nile, Tigris - Euphrates, Indus, and Yellow rivers were flourishing.
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«These results are transformational in that they demonstrate the power of ancient DNA research and suggest that some members of a particular matrilineage formed an elite hierarchy with far more prestige than most members of the society,» says Robert Hard, an anthropologist at the University of Texas in San Antonio, who was not involved in the research.
While the world believes they are a poor third world nation, in reality they are the most technologically - advanced society on Earth thanks to an ancient meteorite containing «vibranium.»
To the Ancient Egyptians religion was the most powerful force animating Egyptian society, politics, and controlling the River Valley's economics.
In fact, the Maya were among the most advanced ancient societies in a couple of ways.
Chichen Itza is considered to be the most important ancient city of the Mayan Culture and has the most amazing examples of architecture in Mayan society.
Alienation of affection lawsuits are among the most talked - about topics in family law, not only because they occasionally involve soap opera - like fact patterns but also because they're rather ancient to modern society's way of thinking.