Sentences with phrase «ninth century»

The stories from the hand of this great ninth century writer are rapidly - moving narrative, but they are more.

Hou Hsiao - hsien's beautiful wuxia, set in ninth century China, won the Taiwanese filmmaker the Best Director prize at Cannes.

The compilation of the Traditions took final form at the hands of Bukhari and Muslim in the third century (ninth century A.D.), and today most Muslims recognize their work as the two correct books on Traditions.

She writes in her book Holy Fire: The Battle for Christ's Tomb (Macmillan): «The earliest recorded reference to the miracle is Muslim and dates from the early ninth century... Its author simply tells of a bright white fire spontaneously appearing inside the shrine as if sent from heaven, and of Christians lighting their candles from the Greek patriarch's Holy Fire before rampaging home in triumph, brandishing their divine favour and shouting «Hasten to the religion of the cross!

Court School of Charles the Bald Lindau Gospels, in Latin, Switzerland, Abbey of St. Gall, late ninth century ca. 880, 350 x 275 mm.

In the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries such of the Germanic peoples in Western Europe as had not been converted earlier were won.

«A wide range of scientific testing indicates that a papyrus fragment containing the words, «Jesus said to them, my wife» is an ancient document, dating between the sixth to ninth centuries CE,» Harvard Divinity School said in a statement.

The other more «spontaneous» approach, more reflective and respectful of open rational enquiry, is represented by the eighth and ninth century Mu» tazila school of thought, the tolerant Arab civilisation of Andalusia, and by Sufism.

If the gates at Megiddo were built during Solomon's reign between 970 and 931 B.C., then any structures found in layers directly above those gates are bound to be ninth century B.C.; structures buried directly below the gates would, de facto, be 11th century B.C., and so on.

Based on Bernard Cornwell's «Saxon Stories» bestselling book series, the eight - episode series combines fact and fiction to tell the story of Alfred the Great's efforts in the late ninth century to unite the separate kingdoms into what would become England.

Back in the 1980s our team was investigating a ninth century A.D. site in northern Japan.

The guy misspoke, The guy just gave false information The guy offended everybody and their neighbor The guy lives back in the ninth century, The guy is intolerant to others The guy has his own version of Sharia law Yeapp he is a republican..

It was into a religious situation much like the one reflected in the Puranas that Shankara came in the early part of the ninth century.

A confused struggle for control of southern and central Italy continued for the rest of the ninth century and into the tenth.

How strange that in the space of just one week a book reviewer in the New York Times mentions the «frisson - inducing» discovery only nine years ago of a ninth century B.C. stele referring to the «House of David,» thus issuing «a stony rebuff to those who think that David is a mythical figure,» while another...

When in the ninth century Jehu's revolt avenged the death of Naboth, not only were the perpetrators of the deed, Ahab and Jezebel, slain, but also their sons.

He moved to France about the middle of the ninth century and was one of the leading scholars of the Carolingian Rennaisance.

As early as the sixth century there were Christians on Socotra, not far from the entrance of the Gulf of Aden, and by the ninth century that island is said to have been Christian.

The beginning of the ninth century of the millennium now almost past was promising enough.

King and Word are brought into most moving conflict in the collision of Ahab and Elijah earlier in tile second quarter of the ninth century.

In the Byzantine East an upswing began in the ninth century.

It was there by the ninth century.

The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine life and will upon human events.

Important prophetic figures of the tenth and ninth centuries — Samuel, Nathan, Ahijah, Elijah, Micaiah, and Elisha — are analyzed.

In the ninth century occurred the conversion of many of the Slays in the Balkan Peninsula, including the Serbs.

The Carolingian monarchy, in the eighth and ninth centuries the strongest political force in Western Europe, and a champion of Catholic Christianity, was partly responsible for the halting of the Moslem Arab advance from the South and the conversion of some of the peoples on its northern and eastern marches.

In the ninth century a large proportion of Moravians and the Bohemians were baptized.

The Avars were converted, largely in the latter part of the eighth and in the ninth century.

In order to explain the Zen perspective, Kasulis recounts the following story about the ninth century master Lin - chi or (in Japanese) Rinzai.

We do not necessarily infer that legend is early and history late, for legend and history may develop simultaneously around the same subject, as they apparently do, for example, in the case of the prophet Elijah, in the ninth century.

When Constantine - Cyril and Methodius came as Christian missionaries to the Slavs in the ninth century, they translated not only the Bible but the Eastern Orthodox liturgy into Slavonic.

While this book itself is too late in origin to have affected Christian thought since it comes from perhaps the ninth century A.D., it is probably true that Zoroastrian beliefs concerning eschatology, here carried to such an extreme, did materially affect late Hebrew and early Christian ideas of the ending of the world and the final judgment.

The God right for the Hebrews of the ninth century BCE.

We have known for well over a century that there are flood stories from the ancient Near East that long predate the biblical account (even the most conservative biblical scholars wouldn't date any earlier than the ninth century B.C).

The ninth century was a century of persecutions in China.

The Europe of the high Middle Ages is arguably a commonwealth that emerged from the ruins of the Carolingian Empire of the eighth and ninth centuries.

Apart from this ecclesiastical relationship, there were at least two important waves of emigration of groups of Persian Christians to South India, one in the fourth century and the other in the ninth century, which reinforced and strengthened the existing St. Thomas Christian community.

Here, as Fowden says, was a path out of antiquity that did not lead to the Renaissance.The second commonwealth arose from the disintegration of the Islamic caliphate in the middle of the ninth century.