Sentences with phrase «of ancient texts»

That's how it goes with the study of ancient texts.

Although the texts of the teachings don't change much, societies interpretation of ancient texts evolves as social awareness and social consciousness evolves.

Dude don't go there, there are more secondary manuscripts of both old and new testament then there are of all ancient text put together.

With the help of ancient texts, the two sat down and figured out the math.

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Preachers and teachers particularly, but thoughtful Christians more generally, have long lamented the slide of biblical scholarship into hyperspecialized studies of ancient texts in remote contexts.

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As a short, inductive introduction the emphasis is on meaning and especially on the meaning of the ancient text in the life and faith of that ancient people, Israel.

Obviously Jesus Christ actually existed because of the existence of the calendar we all use (i.e. BC and AD) but we should all search for answers within ourselves and not out of an ancient text written for the purpose of controlling the mob.

The analyses that follow upon a close analytic examination of ancient texts require a social context — a context that often looks very much like the social and churchly setting of the investigators.

However, outside of the ports mentioned in a handful of ancient texts, it's unclear just how merchants, and their goods, traveled inland.

If the analogy seems grandiose, I remind myself that the writers of the ancient texts, the sacred texts of our religions, attributed the Little Bang of their own written cosmologies not to the impersonal product of their generation but to God.

What someone believes / feels / wantstobetrue has nothing to do with what is / isn't true nor does it have anything to do with the validity or not of an ancient text which is the topic of this article.

But the conventional anthem and the traditional libretto seem to be given over primarily to systematizing the concepts and clarifying the stories of ancient texts and modern communities.

It's simply one of hundreds, likely thousands of misunderstandings of ancient texts, which were mistranslated and hijacked later for assorted purposes, and taken out of their original cultural context, and used to suit a later worldview, which had nothing to do with their original meaning and iintent.

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.

Are you so illiterate and un-read, the only book you can quote is a set of ancient texts non-unanaimously VOTED into a canon?

Scraps of that ancient text were found in the same cave as the Dead Sea Scrolls but have yet to be publically released.

I enjoy reading all kinds of ancient texts... as you find out when doing this, reading about other religions and their texts of faith... you find that there are alot of common denominators..

You can assert that god exists and you can have the strength of numbers to back you up, but it is your responsiblilty to prove the existence of God through real physical evidence instead of ancient texts and leaps of faith.

For all the modernity of Freud's approach, it has important points of continuity with the perspective of the ancient texts.

And yes, Bill P, if the «End Religions» of the world were more educated about things like «voluntary servitude» as a synonym for «slavery» in the Bible, they might understand the library of ancient texts that they continue to deride.

The authorship of this ancient text is unknown, but it seems to have originated in Syrian Christian circles.

But it also involves squaring the authority of ancient texts with modern theological understanding and developments in biology.

Appropriation of these ancient texts requires a responsible hermeneutic as we hear the message for that day and adapt it for our own.

He argues that we do have serious and academic methods by which we can «say definitively that some readings of ancient texts are historically preferable to others,» and that those should be employed thoughtfully and humbly by the Church.

To Pagels and company, the discovery of the ancient texts in the Nag Hammadi library in 1945 has had the salutary effect of forcing Christianity to reconsider its past.

Harvard geneticist George Church wrote of the latest feat, «Printing out a copy of an ancient text isn't the same as understanding the language.»

But he recognizes that the task is of enormous proportions, particularly because of the need to examine a large number of ancient texts, most of which remain scattered across libraries in different countries and are available for limited viewing.

In part this variety results from the brevity of the ancient texts upon which our modern practices are based.

Scalia recognized that «it is often exceedingly difficult to plumb the original understanding of an ancient text» and to apply that understanding to contemporary issues.

While Alan Bennett's Oxford education may not have led him to the Euthydemus, his highly successful play The History Boys embodies a reprise of that ancient text.

The funding will assist in the digitization efforts of ancient texts and manuscripts.

In this incredible age of increasing awareness and the rise of consciousness, where the intellect is craving to find the answers to the place and purpose of one s existence, we often find ourselves at an intersection of ancient texts and modern science, falling into an array of dichotomies.

New York About Blog The Ancient Philosophy Society was established to provide a forum for diverse scholarship on ancient Greek and Roman texts.It is the intention that, within the larger aim of assessing the meaning and significance of ancient texts, the Ancient Philosophy Society serve as the site of critical engagement and that it encourage creative and rigorous independent readings.

There are thousands of sects of christianity, all with a different interpretation of your ancient text.

Philology is progressive in that it scientifically destroys «word of God» claims, and conservative in that it attempts to recapture the original meanings of ancient texts.

There are plenty of ancient texts that do a much better job telling the story of JC then the four gospels that are the foundation of the NT.

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.

There are a handful of ancient texts that modern day yogis turn to for foundational wisdom.

And, to soothe the anxieties of print - culture stalwarts, in sleep mode the Kindle displays retro images of ancient texts, early printing presses and beloved authors like Emily Dickinson and Jane Austen.

Yet for a source that you give to back up your subjective opinion on what you perceive as «truth», it's often quite easy to find a another source — from some of the most respected names in the study of ancient texts — that yields a different opinion.