Sentences with phrase «old early century»

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Old Ox, which says it takes its name from a Virginia road that dates to the early 18th century, has now responded with a letter of its own.

The Old Testament, in its Hebrew and Greek versions, wasn't included, nor were the later chapter and verse divisions (those came in the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries respectively), which makes these earliest codices similar, in some ways, to what Green's Bibliotheca project is attempting.

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

Second, the earliest extant manuscripts date from the 11th century and are not 6000 + years old.

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

He was active early in the second century CE and is well known for having posited not one but two Gods, one represented in the Old Testament and seen as responsible for the world's creation, the other encountered only in the New Testament in the teaching of Jesus and specifically in the theology of Paul.

From the days of Marcion in the second century, certain Christians, troubled by the anthropomorphisms of the early Old Testament and by the immoralities attributed to Yahweh, have discredited the Hebrew books and have even wished to drop them from the Christian Bible.

It is clearly as old as the first century, for an early second - century Roman arch rests on it.

When reading the Old and New Testament, one finds that right from the start, both in Judaism and early Christianity, family relationships were considered extremely important, and this is also seen in the work of the churches throughout the centuries.

By the early - to - mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25, [17] a date later adopted in the East, [18][19] although some churches celebrate on the December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which corresponds to January in the modern - day Gregorian calendar.

The «Bible» you read today is only 350 years old, far different form the earlier know version of the 8th century and differ greatly from the current version... So what was that again?

Thucydides» history of the Peloponesian War and Herodotus» history of the Persian War (both written in the 5th century BC) survives in about eight early copies, the oldest ones dating from the 10th century AD.

CNN: Newly revealed Coptic fragment has Jesus making reference to «my wife» A newly revealed, centuries - old papyrus fragment suggests that some early Christians might have believed Jesus was married.

It gave him an aura of priestly strength, like a Confessor from the early centuries or an Old Testament prophet.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

Still, the old patriarchal institutions were not completely unsuited to land tenure, and through these early centuries the idea of family possession took such firm hold as to be written into the laws and to provide the background for the colorful incident of Jezebel's theft of Naboth's ancestral property.

He proceeds sequentially, from the sacred architecture of the Old Testament to the early Christian basilicas, then on to the Byzantine and Romanesque cathedrals and churches, and from there to the Gothic, the classicism of the Renaissance, the baroque and rococo, the neoclassicism and «revival» styles of the nineteenth century, and on to the present day.

Often this tension was felt to have been so painful that one or another heretic sought to suppress either the Hebrew or the Hellenic element, as with the efforts of the second «century Marcion to get the Church to excise the Old Testament from the Christian Bible, or, from the opposite side, the sneering rhetorical question from the puritanical pen of the early «third «century Tertullian, «What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?»

It is believed to have been written on gold plates, whose whereabouts was revealed to Joseph Smith as a very young man, but written and hidden away centuries earlier by Moroni, last remnant of the people who had migrated from the old world to the new.

The oldest authoritative list of books which corresponds exactly with our Table of Contents comes from A.D. 367, three centuries after the earliest parts were written.

We recognize, of course, the relatively late emergence in the Old Testament of a positively and precisely articulated belief in Yahweh's universal creation, and that it is not, indeed, until the time of Second Isaiah that such a belief is taken for granted.24 On the other hand, the J story of creation in Gen. 2 reflects an early if imprecise creation faith25 while the eighth - century prophets clearly stand upon a thoroughly practical though untheoretical belief in Yahweh's creative function.

The oldest new religions of Japan trace their history to the early 19th century.

There can be no doubt that what we identify in the Tetrateuch (Genesis - Numbers) as P employs and incorporates in the fifth century some material as old or possibly older than J. And J in the tenth century may well have had as a primary source an earlier effort to bring together coherently a wide assortment of stories deemed to have significant bearing on the life of the people Israel.2 Certainly individual units in the J corpus had been in existence for centuries before they were integrated; and beyond any doubt these units were often strikingly modified in meaning in the context of the J work.

(CNN)- A newly revealed, centuries - old papyrus fragment suggests that some early Christians might have believed Jesus was married.

As in earlier centuries, the tide of reform gave birth to new monastic movements and to the elevation of the character of some of the older orders.

On the whole, this reflects mid-nineteenth century Old School ways, not necessarily early twenty - first century.

7:1 - 5); but the basic structure of this speech of the Lord (probably verses 20 - 22, 25b - 28, and 3la) may be as old as the tenth century and may rest upon an oral form of still earlier date.

A solution had to be found, but it would have to come from sources other than the old English order [that is, the «ancient realm or the Anglican tradition»] The deep - seated tensions of early seventeenth - century English society had to be solved by some rather novel rearrangements of political and legal institutions.

The earliest known writings for the Old Testament are taken from the «Septuagint» written in Konic Greek dated from the 2nd century BCE, some 200 + years before the arrival of the Nazarene.

He set a record of 25 consecutive wins and 7 consecutive Old Firm derby wins while managing Celtic in the early years of this century, and also got them to a UEFA Cup final beating Liverpool on the way.

In the very early years of this century, before online booking had really caught on, I used to take the morning off (or throw a sickie) to queue up at the old box office in Avenell Road to buy tickets for certain key fixtures, instead of risking the phone.

If you look at early - 19th century Ordinance Survey maps, Old Park Farm, poked up into a space between where the prison is today and Plumstead bus depot.

The Center Village and Common at Old Sturbridge Village reveals the genteel tastes that were emerging in the early 19th century.

Old Sturbridge Village historians will dye wool as it was done in the early 19th century — in kettles over an open fire using natural dyes that produce a variety of colors.

Old Sturbridge Village historians will dye wool as it was done in the early 19th century — in kettles over an open fire using natural dyes that produce brilliant colors.

Old Sturbridge Village is an outdoor living history museum and re-created New England town of the early 19th century.

Six weeks after a ferocious hail storm shattered more than half of the glass ceilings that cover the century - old West Side conservatory, the cleanup and rebuilding process is still in the early stages.

Plimoth Plantation and Old Sturbridge Village are two open - air or «living» museums in Massachusetts, recreating life as it was in the 17th and early 19th centuries, respectively.

One mother, the wife of Dr. Luther Emmett Holt, the early 20th - century baby expert who championed early training, commented dryly on the subject in a diary she kept of her 14 - month - old son: «He positively declined to conform to some of the habits in which he has been drilled since he was two months old.»

Welcome to Old Sturbridge Village - a «must - see» New England attraction which depicts life in an early 19th - century rural Village, featuring costumed historians, antique buildings, water - powered mills, and a working farm.

Groups visiting Old Sturbridge Village will be immersed in a re-created early 19th - century rural New England community.

Historians at Old Sturbridge Village are often asked if St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in early 19th - century New England.

OSV Collectors» Forum speakers will include Colleen Callahan, Independent Historian: Put the Manly Breeches On: Boys» Clothing as Symbols of Manhood in the 19th Century; Laura E. Johnson, PhD., Associate Curator at Historic New England: From Stays to Skeleton Suits: Dressing Children in Early America; Chris Bates, Old Sturbridge Village Costume Coordinator: Making A Portrait Come Alive: Creating Reproduction Clothing at Old Sturbridge Village, presented with Rebecca Beall, Old Sturbridge Village Collections Manager, and Jean Contino, Old Sturbridge Village Coordinator of Households and Women's Crafts.

Potty Training: In the early nineteenth century, many parents subscribed to the «behaviorism» parenting method — the idea that everything in infancy can be mechanically learned — and began potty training babies as young as one - month - old.

It can be difficult to find material that is reliably documented from pre-Dynastic Egypt, but textile expert Jana Jones of Australia's Macquarie University managed to identify the perfect specimen at the Bolton Museum, north of Manchester, England: fragmentary funerary wrappings more than 6,000 years old, collected in the early 20th century from a region of Upper Egypt.

The earliest documentation of tea in Tibet dates to the seventh century A.D., but these buds would be 400 to 500 years older.

In the early 20th century, 11,000 - year - old cave paintings of woolly mammoths were found in France, suggesting, along with other discoveries of that time, that the creatures once lived side by side with humans.

The sizes of the earliest equines followed the ancient temperatures through major climate change, adding evidence to a centuries - old evolutionary theory

That glimpse into the past was provided by 66 tree - ring data sets scientists used to stitch together an annual record of snowpack far older than modern observations, which began in the early 20th century.

For a century and a half, the 150 - million - year - old feathered creature called Archaeopteryx has reigned as the earliest known bird and as a symbol of the link between ancient dinosaurs and living fowl.