Sentences with phrase «of ancient material»

, a large - scale survey of contemporary artists whose «work demonstrated a revolutionary redefinition of an ancient material.»

Following a historical precedent for utilizing glass in adornment, contemporary artists create dynamic art jewelry that underscores the aesthetic and theoretical potential of an ancient material.

Thorsby acknowledges that more DNA studies of ancient material are needed but remains hopeful that he can clinch the case.

«We now know that there are more relatively large chunks of ancient material coming from the Oort Cloud than we thought.»

The samples are frequently degraded and prone to contamination by DNA from other sources, and coaxing data out of the ancient material is costly and painstaking work.

«We can now obtain meaningful human, pathogen and dietary DNA from a single sample, which minimizes the amount of ancient material required for analysis,» said Warinner.

And they are looking for new samples of ancient material to fill in details about ancient events.

- Fluent in French, German and Dutch - Can read and understand Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Swiss - Competent with Microsoft Office Suite and database software - Detail oriented with exceptional analytic and problem - solving skills - Able to work flexible hours and travel internationally as needed - Skilled at in - depth analysis of ancient materials and texts

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And if this be so, our work as educators and as advocates of a well - functioning American educational system is to develop citizens who are at home in the canons that comprise the formal reality of their heritage, who are equally at home with the varied individual things that comprise the material reality of that heritage and of their present life, and who are able to devise constantly new frames that are adequate to both, that marry ancient canon and novel particular in a new canon which integrates as fully and complexly as possible all its participant elements.

Both the material and the script looked authentically ancient at first glance, and though the notion of Jesus having a wife was remarkable, these «lost» Christian writings, such as the Gnostic Gospels, are full of unorthodoxies.

With this in mind, Walton argues that Genesis 1 is reflective of ancient cosmology and that ancient cosmology is typically function - oriented rather than material - oriented.

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

Today attempts to arrive at the text of the New Testament center on three sorts of materials: ancient Greek manuscripts, ancient versions in languages other than Greek (e.g., Latin, Syriac and Coptic), and early quotations said to come from the New Testament.

Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World (http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/gender.html).

Material Culture of the Ancient Canaanites, Israelites and Related Peoples: An Information DataBase from Excavations (http://staff.feldberg.brandeis.edu/-jackal ANEP/ANEP.html).

Rather, the Bible is a gathering of traditional materials that gradually emerged among the people of ancient Israel and early Christianity and eventually became their authoritative statements about their God, the nature of their believing community and their terms for living.

In the dictionary, a Philistine is not only «a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia» but «a crass, prosaic, often priggish individual guided by material rather than by intellectual or artistic values.»

But from what I understand out of the ancient monastic materials I work on, prayer is really an entire relationship, and the verbal part is only one element.

It has been characterized as a late book, but as containing a great deal of very ancient material, reflecting the folk religion of the early Aryans, and as carried along, it represents the cultural lag of the Vedic people.

Unlike the pagan religions of classical antiquity, e.g. ancient Egypt and the Far East, Christianity does not seek to explain the physical phenomena of the material world as a dramatic struggle between warring gods and goddesses, i.e. μυθος (myth).

Implied, of course, in this as in all study is the bringing to the material all one's faculties: questioning, discussing, applying all available tools for prying open the mysteries in the ancient documents.

Ancient - Future Bible Study: Women of the Torah and Women of the Gospels by Stephen J. Binz — I've been asked on several occasions if I could recommend material for a women's Bible study that isn't either a) Beth Moore, or b) terrible.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

If there remained no other inscriptions or written material concerning Egypt, it would be possible to reconstruct, to a very considerable degree, the life and thought of ancient Egypt from this important book, for in the process of preparing for death and immortality, almost everything that is important in life itself is considered in one way or another.

Just how reliable are English translations of ancient language documents with no reliable source material?

Many ancient thinkers conceived of the supreme God as far removed from the material world and too pure to have anything directly to do with it.

He believes that this model better fits what we know of the way early Jews handled revered or sacred traditions than does the Buitmannian one, which contends that the Gospel material was handled rather like ancient folklore such as Homer's Odyssey or Iliad.

Future scholars will be expert in topics such as the material culture of ancient Palestine or the religious politics of ancient Alexandria, but not in the synoptic gospels or the letters of Paul.

The ancient schools that had not disappeared (Platonism and Aristotelianism in particular), removed from the ways of life that inspired them, «were reduced to the status of mere conceptual material which could be used in theological controversies.»

The study of ancient liturgical materials is a potent antidote to the cultural captivity of Christianity in this or any other culture, for liturgies embody ancient wisdom.

Thus in contrast with the ancient mythological cultures and with holy scripture outside the Judeo - Christian stream, most of the Old Testament either consists of historical material, or is expressed with due regard to the historical nature of human life.

Dr. Austin, the «scientist» in question, is a young earth creationist who went to the site with the stated purpose of finding «proof against evolution,» gathered material which was a mix of newly formed rock and ancient rock which had been ejected from the mountain, dated them with imprecise methods, and then skewed the results, as thousands of actual scientists have already reported.

It forms an early and discerning protest against the powerful and perennial tendency in every cult, ancient or modern, so to proliferate, so to elaborate, so to glorify the total «equipment» of worship as to make of worship's material representation an end in itself.

This is an early and discerning protest against the perennial tendency in every cult, ancient and modern, to elaborate the «equipment» of worship so as to make of the material representation of worship an end in itself.

On the other hand, there are quotations from the Book of History found in writings that recognizably go back of the time of the destruction of the books, which give support to the belief that the «Ancient Script» is reliable, or that at least it contains genuine early material.

Companies throughout the world are building new formulas and product concepts around the «ancient grains» category of ingredients and this marks the first customer to include RBT's proprietary rice bran raw materials as part of an «ancient grains» formulation.

During the ancient times and even until this day, parents use traditional cloth as baby slings; although there are more sophisticated baby slings that are made of synthetic and nylon materials with added padding.

FG Provides Relief to IDPs in Dikwa President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday sent a very powerful delegation of NEMA officials to the ancient town of Dikwa where some Internally Displaced people (IDP's) are presently taking refuge in temporary camps to provide them relief materials.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday sent a very powerful delegation of NEMA officials to the ancient town of Dikwa where some Internally Displaced people (IDP's) are presently taking refuge in temporary camps to provide them relief materials.

Sophisticated carbon dating helps narrow in on the age of organic materials found in ancient ovens.

Lot's of interesting materials about the ancient critters is included, too.

But new analyses of fish fossils, as well as genetic analyses of a living fish species, suggest that this specialized material once served a very different function: to toughen some bones and scales of ancient fish.

The first was a constant influx of genetic material from ancient Africans, who had no Neanderthal DNA and who continued to pass through Western Asia for thousands of years as human societies grew in Europe and Asia.

The object is located in the center of a colorful cloud of material consisting of the remains of an ancient star that exploded as a massive supernova.

The ancient Maya who built the great cities of Tikal, Palenque and Calakmul used the region's trees for building material and fuel wood.

The finding could help engineers and materials scientists produce solar cells and other opto - electronics without the help of the high temperatures required to shape glass today — making this ancient arrangement a boon for modern technology.

Jackson's new tests of lead isotopes there confirm the rocks» ancient pedigree, which should help researchers better understand the raw materials from which our planet formed.

For all the skill and craftsmanship evident in the Mersa Gawasis caves, ancient Egypt's ocean voyages were most likely an exception to the usual modes of trade, born out of necessity in order to obtain exotic raw materials.

Taken together, the ancient unheated PAH carbon as well as the phosphides, the metallic aluminum, and the moissanite suggest that Hypatia is an assembly of unchanged pre-solar material.

The researchers also found that, compared with today's rocky material, the ancient crust was composed of much denser stuff, enriched in iron and magnesium.