Sentences with phrase «of ancient historians»

I am sorry to disappoint you Ms. Atheist Sherron Teal, but the vast majority of the world's BEST scholars all agree that Jesus of Nazareth absolutely DID exist and there is plenty of evidence in the writings of ancient historians to prove it.

The tendency towards uniformity in these speeches has been explained as due to the common practice of ancient historians who invented speeches suited to the occasions they were describing.

Actually it does, see many of the ancient historians, that our modern historians except as factual, don't have nearly as many copies of their manuscripts as the Bible.

Though the lands at the heart of today's Europe were completely outside of the visual field of the ancient historian, the formation of the Hellenistic states and the Roman Empire led to the establishment of a «continent» that would be the basis for the later Europe.

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Last week I attended a wonderful conference in the university town of Tübingen, Germany, on «Debt: The First 3500 Years,» to bring ancient historians together to discuss David Graeber's book Debt: The First 5000 Years.

----- I will not bore you with all of the proofs such as --- the # of ancient documents of the Bible, of its contemporary historians, archeology, etc, verses other religions.

Science Works We have traced the evolution of salads and food historians tell us salads (generally defined as mixed greens with dressing) were enjoyed by ancient Romans and Greeks.

I'm a historian who feels a part of a great community and who wants to make sense of what ancient people said and to appreciate it.

Actually sir, the execution / crucifixion of the ancient itinerant apocalyptic preacher you refer to WAS well doc - um - ented by the the contemporary Roman historian T - i - tus Flavius Josephus.

According to some historians, at this time of year, as the days grow darker, ancient Celts would don costumes as stand - ins for deceased spirits, going door - to - door and performing tricks in exchange for treats.

They came so close to Hebrew and Christian moral insights that some early Church Fathers wondered whether some Greeks had received private divine revelations; a contemporary secularist historian of ancient philosophy once wrote that almost the same sex ethic was espoused by Plato and Paul VI.

Historians of religion in the nineteenth century referred to the sacrificial system of ancient Israel as a form of do ut des, which could be paraphrased: «I am putting this small animal I have reared on an altar as a gift for you in hopes that you will bestow your blessing on me.»

Perhaps you've seen the flurry of chatter about an ancient piece of papyrus discovered by Harvard Divinity School historian Karen L. King in which the words «Jesus said to them, «My wife...,»» appear very clearly, before the sentence is broken off.

All historians agree that the Indian church is very ancient but they differ as to how early the Gospel had been brought to India and who or what agency brought it and to which part of India.

But most ancient historians, from Herodotus and Thucydides down, recognized the literary nature of their craft.)

exhibit so that I could text my sister from the hall — she's a historian and even though her specialty is more in Canadian history, one of her secret joys is ancient civilizations.

Belief in resurrection, historians tell us, emerged in ancient Judaism only when disaster followed disaster and Jews could no longer feel confident that their memory and legacy would be preserved in the life of their own descendents in particular and the Jewish people in general.

Lind argues convincingly that this is an ancient story, predating the work of the Deuteronomic historian.

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.

For example, at one point he quotes the distinguished historian of ancient science G. E. R. Lloyd, who said of Greek science: «Much as the Egyptians and Babylonians contributed to the content of these studies, the investigations only acquire self «conscious methodologies for the first time with the Greeks.»

Pausanias, an ancient Roman historian who wrote about the feats of strength and skill that the athletes of his day accomplished — I guess this makes him the worlds first sports writer — tells the story of a statue that is in the Phigalian marketplace of a famous wrestler named Arrachion.

Of the old church an ancient historian said, «The church in the first three centuries won the empire because it outlived, it outthought, and it outdied the pagan world» — including intellectual and artistic achievement.

But I learned that famed classical historian A.N. Sherwin - White of Oxford said it took more than two generations in the ancient world for legends to develop and wipe out a solid core of historical truth.

Of great interest to some historians is the fact that the ancient Sumerians, at their temple in the city of Eridu, worshipped the water god EOf great interest to some historians is the fact that the ancient Sumerians, at their temple in the city of Eridu, worshipped the water god Eof Eridu, worshipped the water god Ea.

Given that Solomon is not mentioned in any other known sources from ancient times, a modern historian also has to wonder about what to make of the Bible's description of his extensive empire, fabulous wealth and renowned wisdom.

Tom Wright explains why, as an ancient historian, the resurrection of Jesus from death makes historical sense.

He is mentioned in at least two no religious texts by historians of that era in ancient Judea.

Bible scholar and Ancient Near Eastern historian Kenneth Kitchen wryly comments, «One minute biblical David did not exist (we were told), because no scrap of first - hand evidence was available to vouch for him.

We historians of the ancient Greeks» democracy need to keep banging on not only about the virtues of their peculiar political form, but also about the key differences — theoretical, ideological, and pragmatic — between any modern versions of «democracy» and theirs.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

It should be added that Thucydides did not provide the only model known to ancient historians, in any event; Polybius, in the second century BC., severely criticized some of his predecessors for inventing speeches and said that the historian's business was to record what was actually said.

According to Pierre Hadot, a prominent historian of ancient thought and professor emeritus at the CollËge de France, philosophy today» specialized, professional, and detached from life» is but a shadow of its glorious Athenian past.

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.»

Anthony Le Donne is a New Testament historian whose book The Wife of Jesus: Ancient Texts and Modern Scandals (Oneworld) examines the infamous Karen King manuscript as well as other historical claims that Jesus was married.

The critical historian has shown that much of this legislation is shared with the ancient Near East in general; that is, the specific commands reflect the historicity of the Bible.

Perhaps you've seen the flurry of chatter about an ancient piece of papyrus discovered by Harvard Divinity School historian Karen L. King in which the words «Jesus said to them,...

Historians of religions (Eichhorn, Alfred Jeremias, Gunkel, Gressmann, Bousset, Heitmilller, Clemen, Preisker, et al.) have revealed the intimate connection between the Old Testament and ancient oriental religion and between New Testament Christianity, late Judaism, and oriental - Hellenistic syncretism.

Flavius Josephus, Ancient Jewish Historian, The Complete Works — The Antiquities of the Jews: pg.576, 18.3.3, «Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works — a teacher of such men as received the truth with pleasure.

The historians of Israelite religion have traced all of the borrowings and appropriations from ancient Near Eastern culture and religion.

These are invariably drawn according to the historian's implicit models of how the ancients thought their societies worked.

Some historians of the American experience emphasize the radical break between the ancient, classic tradition of the «liberal» arts and the modern liberal tradition.

Ancient historians often speculate about what would have happened if Alexander the Great had gone west instead of east.

Chocolate has a near - ancient history — some historians estimate that humans» consumption of the cacao bean began around 2000 years ago, and some date its origins even further back than that.

Other historians point to the arrival of British gunboats in the 1830s, when industrialising Europe collided with ancient China, as the dawn of China's modern age.

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus tells a famous story of the Persian king Darius who one day decided to summon a group of Greeks to his court to ask them a very strange question; for what price would they eat the bodies of their dead parents?

The first centuries of the thermometer record were intriguing but unreliable, and people like Callendar, Manley and Böhm approached them with the same caution as historians examining ancient manuscripts.

The ship would not be disturbed again until 1900, when a sponge diver clad in a clunky dry suit and brass helmet saw an unattached bronze arm from a sculpture on the seabed, says Alexander Jones, a historian of the ancient world at New York University who has studied the shipwreck and its cargo.

Historians once assumed that the number of wrecks in the deep sea was negligible because ancient ships must have hugged the coastlines, but in the 1990s Ballard found eight ancient wrecks far from shore between the islands of Sicily and Sardinia (Foley was Ballard's graduate student at the time).

During a four - year excavation of an Etruscan well at the ancient Italian settlement of Cetamura del Chianti, a team led by a Florida State University archaeologist and art historian unearthed artifacts spanning more than 15 centuries of Etruscan, Roman and medieval civilization in Tuscany.

In Agricola, 8000 years later, the Roman historian Tacitus divides the inhabitants of Britain into three categories thus: «The reddish hair and large limbs of the Caledonians proclaim a German origin, the swarthy faces of the Silures, the tendency of their hair to curl, and the fact that Spain lies opposite, all lead one to believe that Spaniards crossed in ancient times and occupied that part of the country.