Sentences with phrase «of ancient women»

When we look back at the ancient time, we can see that the child rearing of ancient women is not like today's world.

In addition, Del Federico will give a lecture, Portrait of an Ancient Woman Uncovered by New X-Ray Technology, at Pratt Institute's Manhattan campus on November 9, 2017.

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In ancient Greece there was a religious sect of women who would go to parties and orally pleasure the guests... They saw it as a religious duty.

Now think back on what it took for African Americans and women to get their civil rights, it took good people fighting the prejudice and bigotry of those brainwashed by ancient beliefs.

Origen, the fecund Christian teacher from ancient Alexandria, said, «Genuine transformation of life comes from reading the ancient Scriptures, learning who the just men and women were and imitating them.»

In point of fact, there were many strictures against «gender fluidity» in the ancient Near East (e.g., men who assumed the role of women were generally denigrated).

We read in ancient history, that, at a certain period, many of the women of Sparta murdered themselves.

The terror group carried out its slogan, «We will break your crosses and enslave your women,» with literal precision against the ancient Christian community of several Middle Eastern countries.

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.

The Yazidis, another ancient religion, saw ISIS abduct more than 3,000 of its women and girls for sexual enslavement, and mass graves of their men are now being unearthed.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

The ancient writers of Scripture seem to affirm what all women know -

The stories of the synagogue leader, the healed woman and the ancient patriarch teach us about daring to hold God accountable for promises God has made to care for God's people.

Terrible Queen Jezebel of the Old Testament was a warning to women in my circles, the death knell for any woman in leadership, carrying the accusations and implications of female bitterness, manipulation, emasculation, power, idol - worshipping, hyper sexuality, layers upon layers of pet sins encapuslated in one woman's ancient story of Israel.

And in the ancient churches it's easy to construct a vision of the medieval man or woman who once sat in the same hard pew — a person who understood, as we never can, his or her place in the universe.

I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

Yet the basic social and cultural patterns that today condemn men and women to death, in accordance with the wishes of 65 per cent of the American public, remain in some ways remarkably unchanged from ancient times.

Liberation theology looks to the words of Jesus in Luke 4 where he describes his call to ministry (echoing the words of the ancient prophet Isaiah) and at the ways that he included many of the outcast (women, Samaritans, tax collectors, etc.) in his ministry and parable.

From ancient times until today, childbirth remains one of the most fearful and oftentimes painful moments in a woman's life.

The first explores the inferiority, subordination and abuse of women in ancient Israel.

This lack of attention to women having sex with each other is understandable because in that ancient time it was thought that only men initiated new life, only men carried the seed for new life.

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

To the people of that ancient time, a woman only provided a womb which is a «nest» or «fertile ground» or «incubator» — a place where the seed of a man could grow.

Adam is close to the ancient hebrew word for man sowhy can't we assume that Adam is merely the first set of men and Eve is mereley the first set of women?

Encouraged by this apparent openness, advocates for the admission of women to the diaconate have continued to examine the historical sources — early Church orders, ancient and medieval rites, and literary and epigraphical evidence.

Some of it utilizes historical - critical and sociological biblical scholarship, since it attempts to recover and reconstruct the historical reality of women's lives in ancient Israel and in the Greco - Roman world of early Christianity and early Judaism.

@PUZZLED — well see my issus lies with the fact of how women were treated in ancient times — they were property and so allowing them to go thru all the emotionals and physicals of carrying and then giving birth only to toss it off a cliff isn't what i'd call good parenting — having an abortion for many people who should NEVER have kids is (in my opinion) good parenting!

Radical women and flamboyant homosexuals are easy (and ancient) targets, but neither undermines heterosexual marriage more than an array of other factors, such as financial instability, emotional dysfunction, unfair distribution of domestic labor, widespread divorce, interreligious differences and intercultural conflict.

Throughout the ancient nations that included Egypt, Babylon, Assyria and Persia; homosexuals were exalted to such positions as eunuchs that watched the women of the harem.

The much - debated Exodus 21 passage gave instruction to ancient Israel about how to handle the accidental killing of a fetus when a pregnant woman is injured by fighting men.

Then there are the dangerous questions that challenge the tradition itself, like why can't women teach men, why can't I teach your children in Sunday school if I'm not straight, what's this head of the household crap, why can't we have marriage equality, why is the church so myopic, and isn't it possible that the whole human race is connected and one and that there is no separation illustrated by the ancient paradigm of heaven and hell.

While the flustered bailiff searched for her in the witness room and the halls, the ancient black woman, her countenance ruined by many cares, got up from the spectators» section of the courtroom, where she had been listening to all preceding testimony, and gravely made her way to the stand.

Regarding malakoi, Matthew notes that most uses of the word in ancient literature are not related to same - sex behavior but rather to men who were self - indulgent and enslaved to their passions... for women.

Women were excluded from the service of the Ara Maxima, men from the temple of the Bona Dea in ancient Rome.

There is overwhelming biblical scholarship for the full equality of women and that the interpretation of scripture to exclude women from roles by gender (rather than gifting) has been found to be rooted in patriarchy, an ancient worldview that became intertwined in the growth and doctrine of the church.

Because It was not created for that reason whether were males or females... nor it was meant that men go for men or women go for women... And those laws were among God's commandments to mankind which he had narrated as a sin within his Holy Scriptures and the Holy Quran giving examples of ancient generations that were doomed for disbelieving and breaking heavenly laws... those narrated tales were for us to learn and take heed rather than repeat same ill doing...

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ancient and deep identification of women with nature, an identification so profound that it touches the very marrow of our being: our birth from the bodies of our mothers and our nourishment from the body of the earth.

Third, it is the first major translation mandated to eliminate linguistic sexism in reference to men and women (but not to God), without altering passages that reflect the historical situation of ancient patriarchal culture.

Ishmael was born of Sarai's maidservant (a common custom for barren women in ancient times was to give a maidservant to her husband to bear the child — akin to surrogacy and then claim the child as her own for inheritance purposes).

I Suffer Not a Woman: Rethinking I Timothy 2:11 - 15 in Light of Ancient Evidence by Richard Clark Kroeger and Catherine Clark Kroeger

You could say that it is very disrespectful to the men and women who have worked very hard to give us all this knowledge and understanding of how things works over the last few centuries to still believe in these ancient stories.

Far more than simply a historical issue, the unique events leading to the Flood are a prerequisite to understanding the prophetic implications of our Lord's predictions regarding His Second Coming.1 (italics are mine) The strange events recorded in Genesis 6 were understood by the ancient rabbinical sources, as well as the Septuagint translators, as referring to fallen angels procreating weird hybrid offspring with human women - known as the «Nephilim.»

The references to widows appear not as the history of an ancient social welfare system but as a radical response to present - day problems affecting millions of women.

I Suffer Not a Woman: Rethinking 1 Timothy 2:11 - 15 in Light of Ancient Evidence - Richard Clark Kroeger and Catherine Clark Kroeger

Thus, for instance, the philosophes of the secular Enlightenment (overwhelmingly male) frequently disparaged women as weak and emotional, and in seeking to restore an ancient, «classical» model of society undermined the rights women had enjoyed since the Middle Ages (a process which culminated in the laws of the Code Napoleon, promulgated in 1804).

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) terrWomen 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) terrWomen 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) terrwomen's Bible study that isn't either a) Beth Moore, or b) terrible.

Furthermore, anyone who has studied ancient Near Eastern culture knows that the familial structure we see represented in scripture was nothing like the nuclear family epitomized by the Cleavers, but would rather have included multiple generations and relatives living together in clans, with women working long hours «outside of the home» in the fields, tending sheep, gathering food, trading goods, etc..

Part of his Ancient - Future Bible Series, the books highlight the fascinating women of the Torah and the Gospels in short chapters that are beautifully written, insightful, and empowering.