Sentences with phrase «of older texts»

As if the bible was anything more than just a spotty collection of old texts wrapped up together centuries ago.

For Gadamer, as for Burke, new understanding arises when our present - day horizon fuses with the horizon of the older text.

Recently, I picked up one of my old text books — from the only religion course I took on the subject — and reread the chapters about Luther and Calvin, so it's fresh in my mind.

Among those older books, Heiberg realized, was Codex C. Armed with a magnifying lens, Heiberg painstakingly transcribed what he could read of the older text, including parts of two treatises that no other eyes had seen in modern times.

Some of these include the tenth - century Book of Deer, which is probably the oldest surviving Scottish manuscript and contains the earliest known examples of written Gaelic; the thirteenth - century Life of Edward the Confessor, which contains masterpieces of illumination; the Cairo Genizah collections, which are glimpses into the everyday live of a Jewish community in Egypt over a period of 1,000 years; digital versions of its Islamic and Sanskrit collections of both secular and religious texts, including some of the earliest surviving Qur» ans; the Nash Papyrus, which contains one of the oldest texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Codex Bezzae, one of the most important New Testament manuscripts; and others.

The compositions are resolutely two - dimensional, like the template grids of the old text books themselves, and each painting is titled with a number — presumably the original plate number of the collaged image.

The status of old text messages is one many wish the Supreme Court would have determined, to provide clarity to the lower courts.

Not exact matches

One day, while Gayno and his wife were both at work, he got a text message containing an audio file from the nanny of his 20 - month - old daughter.

It first identifies snippets of old books that can not be digitized automatically because digitization - helping software can not recognize the old text.

Assumption Parish Sheriff Leland Falcon told local media that on Friday a deputy received the misdirected text message arranging to deliver crystal methamphetamine from 39 - year - old Dwayne Paul Herbert of Pierre Part.

The newer ad is a little less aggressive, though some of the text proclaims «not sipped,» «not soft,» and «not a fruit cup» (when that last text appears, an older man can be seen flicking a lemon slice off the rim of his pint).

For centuries, older people have felt that the youth speak a different language, and with the rise of texting and emojis as tools of communication, that communication gap seems to widen.

Today, the 29 - year - old is the CTO and co-founder of San Francisco - based Discord, a voice, video, and text chat platform that connects individuals with a shared passion for video and computer games.

It may sounds old - fashioned in the age of texting and social media, but it can be a highly effective way to get a friendship off the ground.

Michelle Carter, 20, is charged with involuntary manslaughter after sending hundreds of texts that the prosecution says encouraged her 17 - year - old boyfriend Conrad Roy III to kill himself in 2014.

Old - school, text - only resumes are dying with the advent of graphic design technologies.

Like the Art of War, the Laozi is a 2000 - year - old text full of inscrutable and aphoristic sound bites.

Are you bored of trying same old text fonts in your document?

Several older respondents said they find it difficult to communicate with younger colleagues who prefer email or text instead of talking face - to - face.

Your attacking the spelling and grammer of a guy who cleaned your clock, between patrols, using a old PDA that shows only two lines of text and all while connecting with a single bar of open wifi.

The Hindus had a rich heritage of the 4 Vedas — the oldest of the sacred texts.

Figures at top of stele «fingernail» above Hammurabi's code of laws.The Code of Hammurabi is the longest surviving text from the Old Babylonian period.»

Arguing in a vacuum over what Jesus would do in 2012 using a 2000 - year - old text is an academic waste of time and an outrage to those who are actually sick and dying right now, even if it is not completely irrelevant.

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.

Most religious laws are based off of laws that are much older than the religious texts they appear in.

225 of these are Biblical Scrolls with the text of the Hebrew Old Testament books.

The perception that God is a God of Love is supported by consistancy in the text throughout the Bible, including the Old Testament.

you are putting your faith in a 2000 year old text written by men hundreds of years after the supposed events.

In other words, the Church's determination to read the Old and New Testaments together, to consider them a sequential set of texts with theological integrity, led to, or at least made itself deeply at home with, a widespread use of a single codex for the unified Christian Bible.

I'm sure that many of these «moral» believers who claim to derive their «morality» from bronze - age texts truly desire a return to the «good old days», when Atheists were burned at the stake for blasphemy.

Seriously though, this is a tough text in the Bible — maybe the toughest of all the violent passages in the Old Testament.

Several major commentaries on both Old and New Testament works omit any serious discussion of suicide, even when the texts themselves deal with an episode of precisely that kind.

The truths of Genesis 6 - 8 (and especially 6:7, 13, 17; 7:23) can be understood differently when we grasp the Scriptural and cultural contexts in which these texts were written, what other Old Testament authors had to say about the flood, and also what the Apostle Peter writes about it in his second letter.

An example from a text on Old World History and Geography, by Laurel Elizabeth Hicks of Beka Publications (Pensacola, Florida, 1981, p. 37).

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 31 - year - old Democrat said she will take her oath of office on the Hindu religious text Bhagavad Gita in January.

Professor Bates helps us see a way in which the New Testament speaks of the Holy Trinity: it recognises the Divine Persons speaking to or about each other in certain Old Testament texts.

What was new to me — listening with the ear of the heart (as St. Benedict puts it) to sacred texts until they lead the listener to prayer — was actually very old.

If, therefore, the God of the Old Testament looks nothing like Jesus in the gospel, we need to question how we are reading and understanding those texts in the Old Testament.

Here, even if we assume some historical connection between the messenger of God in the Man texts and the prophet of the Old Testament, we are struck by the radical difference in the character and content of the divine message which the prophet receives.

So, for instance, in 17th - century Europe a huge dispute arose over the Hebrew vowel points and accents, which were not originally part of the Old Testament texts but were inserted by the Masorete scribes hundreds of years later.

When Christians searched the Old Testament for texts bearing on the Resurrection they would be struck by Psalm 16:10: «Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let thy loyal servant suffer corruption», This prophecy was a powerful weapon in the armory of Christian apologetic.

Treating this saying as an interpretation of the exorcisms, we should note that it interprets them in terms of an Old Testament text, for the reference to «finger of God» is an allusion to Ex.

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

But as with the Old Testament Psalms and the New Testament Pauline letters, early church liturgical texts are improvisations on established patterns which are full of theological and pastoral significance.

I have lots of conversations with Christians young and old who, from different starting points, all want to talk about the same problem: their struggle with the text of the Bible.

Some of its text 3,500 years old, yet the Bible is the most profound and the deepest writing in the entire universe.

We experience God and revelation as perennially - unfolding, which means there's always room for new ways of understanding divinity and sacred text, especially when the old ways of understanding them (e.g. antiquated readings of Leviticus 18:22) turn out to be hurtful or to seem misguided.

Once a deeper significance of a word or phrase or image is discerned, texts from the Old Testament resonate with a fullness that could be found only in Christ.

So we are justified in recognizing that Jesus has availed himself of an Old Testament text in this interpretation of the exorcisms, and that, in addition, he has also probably alluded to an existing Jewish interpretation of that text.