Sentences with phrase «of ancient authors»

While recent research helps confirm the testimony of ancient authors, little press is given to such studies.

We earlier asked if our «intellectual activity» in doing this is anything like the «intellectual activity» of the ancient authors as seen in von Rad's tradition - historical hypothesis.

But, the lessons of Jesus (whether they came from God or from the mind of an ancient author) are indeed life changing if you allow them to be.

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And that's because what you have done with the above approach is displayed an empathy towards the other party, which, according to Kevin Du, author of Split - Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art & New Science of Changing Minds, is key to properly managing differences.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

In FIVE STARS: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great (St. Martin's Press; June 5, 2018) bestselling author of Talk Like TED, Carmine Gallo argues that mastering Aristotle's «ancient art of persuasion» — combining words and ideas to move people to action — is the key to standing out and getting ahead in the age of AI

It's not one book like I always thought - It's an ancient collection of writings, comprised of 66 separate books, written over approximately 1,600 years, by at least 40 distinct authors.

Okay, you're right, Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese war general and author of The Art... Read Full Article

«We found that instead of recent wolves being closest to domestic dogs, ancient European wolves were directly related to them,» said Robert Wayne, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in UCLA's College of Letters and Science and senior author of the research.

The Author correctly says «The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years» but she forgot the most important thing - the bible is mostly a work of fiction.

Stephen M. Barr is professor of physics at the University of Delaware and author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith and A Student's Guide to Natural Science.

Dr. Gafney is the author of Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel, and the Peoples» Bible, which she co-edited, available through Fortress Press.

But God was not the author of those ancient texts, because it was obviously penned by men, and being the fallible creatures that we are, there are many mistakes.

It is common for ancient authors to refer to beheading and the sword even when many of those they are speaking of were executed by other means.

Few if any ancient authors are more needful and deserving of the Landmark treatment than Julius Caesar.

The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.

Editor's Note: David Hazony is the author of «The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life» (Scribner, 2010).

He is the author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press.

It may be true that the ancient authors of sacred history drew some of their material from current popular stories.

The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old - fashioned sound and structure of our King James's translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel — half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity.

Duffy, the author of a popular history of the papacy, Saints and Sinners, offers a fresh defense of some very ancient ideas.

Historical criticism is the process by which modern scholars examine the text of ancient documents and try to determine when they were truly written and whether or not they were authored by the person whose name is on the document.

For instance, there are the hermeneutical questions of whether the image of Christ emerging through the glasses of Islamic mysticism is what the Bible or Biblical authors «intended»; If the purpose of the crystallization of the supposed authorial intention or purpose is to connect the ancient and the present «viewpoints» or the worldviews, one may ask if such a possibility of a pure state of intention possible to extract at all, or is it not that the reader often always creates» at least some elements of the supposed «intentions».

Though it might be true that the ancient Israelites had undeveloped cosmology, this is not true of God, and so for this view to be correct, we must either deny inspiration, or have God inspiring the authors of Scripture to write about Himself in inaccurate ways.

We owe a great deal, of course, to the classic cultures of Greece and Rome, but we tend to read back into the ancient literature conceptions that the classic authors did not really hold.

He is author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faithand A Student's Guide to Natural Science.

The great fallacy of this authors argument is it fails to acknowledge the HIGHLY subjective nature of any modern effort to translate the true meaning of ancient religious texts.

I would be willing to entertain the possibility that both Cain and Abel were historical figures in one of the tribal ancestries of ancient mid eastern culture, but the intention of the author is not to convey Actual information on the first murder but instead to show how murder is endemic to sin and how grace is available even to the worst of sinners.4

The author apparently used to some extent the liberty which all ancient historians claimed (after the example of Thucydides), of composing speeches which are put into the mouths of the personages of the story.

Nonetheless it is remarkable to find these ancient authors employing all the modern devices of the literary craftsman, surprise and suspense, rapidity and delay, humor and solemnity, vividness, realism, untempered callousness, dramatic shift of scene — all permeated with their feeling for what is intrinsically interesting, what makes a good story.

John Gay in his Beggar's Opera notes that «A covetous fellow, like a jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it» Ancient Greek authors tell how a jackdaw, being a social creature, may be caught with a dish of oil which it falls into while looking at its own reflection.

Editor's note: David Hazony is the author of «The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life,» published recently by Scribner.

Thus, emerging churches often characterize themselves as «ancient - future,» a phrase that comes from a series of books authored by Webber (Ancient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - Futureancient - future,» a phrase that comes from a series of books authored by Webber (Ancient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - FutureAncient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - FutureAncient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - FutureAncient - Future Time).

The ancient monks saw zeal as the virtue opposed to sloth, and in the Christmas readings we find the «zeal of the Lord» invoked by both the prophet Isaiah and the author of the letter to Titus.

Knowing things like the parallelism of Hebrew poetry, the ancient letter form, and the characteristics of apocalyptic literature would help us receive the books that biblical authors actually wrote.

In that journal in October, Stephen Barr (author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith, reviewed in «Cutting Edge» in November / December 2003) wrote an article entitled «The Design of Evolution.»

The best part about ancient partial out of context text in dead languages with the authors long dead is it can be made to mean a wide rage of sometimes contradicting meanings.

One of its founders, Marsilio Ficino (1433 - 99), made prominent the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, supposedly an ancient Egyptian author.

But his narrative wobbles most of all in the description of Christianity's link to ancient philosophy, a relationship that is both closer and more remote than the author allows.

We need to invent a new word for people willing to believe the writings of unknown authors, of unknown origin, of an unknown but ancient time, which is badly worded, internally AND externally (with modern science) inconsistent, full of statements with no actual arguments to back them up, with the only decently educated people to back it all up are theologians who twist the meaning of words and commit logical fallacies and still only try to prove that SOMETHING must exist, not that christianity is the truth.

When the author talks about interpretation of an ancient book, he means to take literally the scripture the way you are putting.

To suggest that a collection of ancient texts, written by multiple authors and in multiple genres, spanning thousands of years and countless cultural contexts provides a single, uniform prescription for how to be a woman is absolutely ridiculous.

«No responsible doctrine of inspiration can deny that the biblical authors were thoroughly encultured, ancient people, who spoke as ancient people.

According to the same author, this law was equally found in the ancient codes of Rome and even Aristotle and Plato included this practice in their legislative proposals.

This was the sect of the Essenes, described by three ancient authors: the naturalist Pliny the Elder and the Jewish Hellenists Philo and Josephus.

The author shows a clear ignorance of the ancient near eastern sitz - im - leben in which Scripture was written.

She places the same level of authority in ancient traditions and the personal views of uninspired authors on passages like the Creation account as she does in scripture itself.

We do it a wrong, and we exaggerate the supernatural thought of its authors when we take it literally as precise formulation of ancient expectations.

The same line of thought, carried a little further, brought the author of the Book of Daniel to describe how thrones were placed and the Ancient of Days seated, with a fiery stream flowing out in front of him, while millions of ministrants stood in his presence or performed his bidding; then «there came with the clouds of heaven one like a son of man, and there was given him dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples and nations should serve him» (Dan.

Once again, using descriptions found in the OT, the author argues that it was not only the old Covenant that was defective, but the whole of the ancient cult was ineffective.