Sentences with phrase «of other ancient cultures»

His far - reaching creative output from 1930 - 1990, the earliest influences of which include Cubism, Pointillism, Surrealism, aboriginal art and art of other ancient cultures, also contains sculpture and graphic art.

Not exact matches

Ancient Egyptians and Sumerians and others who came before the Hebrews had lots of medical treatments and scientific observations which the Hebrews undoubtedly drew from; but those cultures also were given to many superst «itious beliefs.

But what do they share with religions such as those embraced by the ancient Greeks, the ancient Egyptians, early native American Indians, or the thousands of other religions made up by isolated cultures not influenced in any way by Christianity or its founding influences?

However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job, living in an ancient culture that knew nothing about space or planets, asserted that God hung the earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the earth free floats in space.

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.

So will the messages of Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, paleolithic cave paintings and lots of other remnants of ancient past cultures.

I consider myself a Christian, and I am perfectly aware of the similarities between Old Testament stories and ancients stories told by other cultures in the same area.

We must remember that by the beginning of the second century a wide rift had opened up between Jew and Christian, and Christianity was primarily spreading among the Gentiles, to whom the traditions of ancient Israel were foreign, and who, on the other hand, were mostly Greek - speaking and immersed in Hellenistic culture.

«Scripture's male - female prerequisite for marriage and its attendant rejection of homosexual behavior is pervasive throughout both Testaments of Scripture (i.e. it is everywhere presumed in sexual discussions even when not explicitly mentioned); it is absolute (i.e. no exceptions are ever given, unlike even incest and polyamory); it is strongly proscribed (i.e. every mention of it in Scripture indicates that it is regarded as a foundational violation of sexual ethics); and it is countercultural (i.e. we know of no other culture in the ancient Near East or Greco - Roman Mediterranean basin more consistently and strongly opposed to homosexual practice).

As we discussed a couple of weeks ago, if Esther was anything like a typical teenage girl in this ancient Near Eastern patriarchal culture, she would not have expected to have any say in her marital future to begin with, and so when she is «taken» with the other virgins into the harem, the chances that she would even think to defy her male guardian, or even worse, the Persian Empire, are incredibly slim.

Most of you are viewing other ancient cultures through the eyes of a modern Western European.

The history and culture of ancient Israel was the chief source from which this stream issued but there were many other tributaries, such as Persian Zoroastrianism and Hellenistic philosophy.

In no other culture or span of time has man's understanding of God's ways progressed so much as in ancient Israel.

The sum of all of these generations of reimagining the Bible is a Jewish mythology as rich as that of other great ancient cultures.»

These bizarre events are also echoed in the legends and myths of every ancient culture upon the earth: the ancient Greeks, the Egyptians, the Hindus, the South Sea Islanders, the American Indians, and virtually all the others.

The Bible is a book which includes * some * history of primitive Hebrew culture, and * some * good, practical, advice for beneficial human behavior (advice which can be gleaned in other places and by other means, btw); but mostly it is a compilation of ancient Middle Eastern historical fiction, myth, legend, superst.ition and fantasy.

These similarities raise some important questions: Does the Bible report historical fact, or is it just a bunch of stories culled from other ancient cultures?

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.

Like other Ancient Near Eastern cultures, ancient Israel bisects reality into two overarching realms — the heavens and the earth — and two kind of beings — mortals and immAncient Near Eastern cultures, ancient Israel bisects reality into two overarching realms — the heavens and the earth — and two kind of beings — mortals and immancient Israel bisects reality into two overarching realms — the heavens and the earth — and two kind of beings — mortals and immortals.

In some of the most vivid pages in The Fascist Revolution, Mosse describes Schuler trying to cure Friedrich Nietzsche of his madness with an ancient Roman spring rite, bizarre seances, theosophical preachments, and much other anti «Christian and anti «Enlightenment nonsense» seemingly harmless until one realizes the culture of irrational barbarism it did its part in conjuring.

What little they have to say in their ancient texts on this topic (and many other topics) reflects their distate for the practices of all foreign peoples and cultures, as well as their discomfort with all things pertaining to the erotic, such as nudity, intimacy and bodily fluids — things that they themselves kept hidden and quiet about.

The most ancient of breads, flatbread has been used as an eating utensil in some cultures for thousands of years, and as a wrap to hold meats and vegetables for food «on the go,» in others.

In creating this evidence supported parenting resource, we found again and again that the latest scientific research supports many parenting practices that have been and still are part of the ancient wisdom of many other cultures.

The other reason to go underwater is that it's the place to find evidence of ship hulls, which were as important to ancient cultures as architecture, pottery, anything.

Even as the first Clovis tools were being found at Blackwater Draw, other archaeologists were discovering evidence of ancient human activity in Chile at about the same time as the Clovis culture.

Sauerkraut and other pickled foods were once cultured by being left out on the shelves at room temperature to naturally ferment using salt or whey, but now these food items undergo a fundamentally different process replacing natural fermentation with a combination of vinegar and preservatives to achieve the same acidic pickled flavor, however lacking the beneficial byproducts of fermentation.Another ancient method of fermentation that is now regaining popularity is kefir - fermented beverages.

This technique was standard practice in many other cultures, including ancient Rome and Greece and the Ayurvedic tradition of India.

Each chapter of the book provides well - researched information on the traditional food in question, as well as recipes for these other ancient food techniques, many of which have largely disappeared from our present food cultures.

I love every aspect of my culture and exploring a few others as well; even as far back as ancient Egypt.

The Other Side of Life (Germany) Directors: Stefanie Brockhaus and Andy Wolff Being arrested for murder, two brothers exist between modern township life, gangsterism and ancient African culture.

A discussion of U.S. monuments might lead to a discussion about monuments from other cultures, such as the Egyptian pyramids, or to the recent destruction of ancient Buddhist statues by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Examples of rock art representing various ancient cultures are carved and painted into the stone right next to each other.

The B'on theogony of the Qinghai - Tibet Plateau's ancient Zhang Zhung culture relates that their «king of the gods» arrived from the emptiness of space in a «resplendent jeweled egg» of «lha of bright light,» at which time «in the sky there appeared dazzling lights, melodious sounds in space, and many other wonderful occurrences.»

In other cultures the star is associated with the leg of a running stag (ancient India), the leg of a cayman or turtle (Brazil); part of a ceremonial drum (Japan), or one of four vultures about to devour a criminal (Peru).

Christian hagiography parallels closely that of other cultures and religions — the stories, for instance, of Moslem and Buddhist saints, and the hero - cults of the ancient Greek city - states.

The important thing is that I didn't base the book exactly on any one other book, it's a mashup of themes and elements I found in several other books; and those books are borrowing themes and elements from ancient mythology or pop culture (public knowledge).

In other words, the rigid structure of the symposium could lead to a broad range of outcomes — sometimes pleasant, but more often less so — and ancient Greek drinking culture left participants with little option but to follow the symposiarch - led herd.

Peru is a country of varied climate because the influence of the following phenomena: The territory now covered by Peru included ancient cultures such as the Chavin Culture and the Moche Civilization among other significant civilizations.

Komodo Tour Package include to visit and experience of Jungle Trekking into Komodo National Park, Flores island and the other Lesser Sunda islands offer all guests a feast of ancient cultures and natural diversity as a part of your Travel in Indonesia.

«I think the Chozo artifacts and some of the other objects that appear through the franchise, probably some of that is inspired by the Egyptian cultures as other ancient civilizations.

From Greece the centre of that culture was to move gradually to Italy and over the centuries cultures built themselves on top of others with dizzying density; Christian Rome on top of Pagan Rome, the Goths, Vandals, Lombards, successively on top of Ancient Rome, reducing it through wars often to village status, the Normans from the north of Europe meeting up with Byzantine and even Islamic cultures, traces of which can indeed be found in Benevento in the twelfth century in cloisters of the Church of Santa Sofia; the battles of Guelphs and Ghibelines, the Renaissance in all its glory and seemingly endless histories down to the disastrous vainglories of Fascism».9

The collection also presents art from other ancient cultures, the Americas, Europe, Africa, Papua New Guinea, and many more regions of the world.

Because of the grand scale and artistry of the emperor's mausoleum, «we can compare his achievement to other great cultures in the world, for example Alexander the Great and the civilization in ancient Egypt,» archaeologist Zhang Weixing told the museum group through interpreter Li Jian, co-curator of the VMFA exhibition.

Present in the gallery's two other spaces will be new works by Los Angeles - based sculptor Nathan Mabry, who is known for his humorous juxtapositions of minimalist forms with those from ancient cultures.

Western modes of rationality and reasoning derive from ancient Greek notions of the mind / body, nature / culture, male / female dichotomies, with each element within the binary standing in categorical opposition to the other.