Sentences with phrase «other ancient source»

workingcopy12 Would you accept supernatural accounts coming from some other ancient source, like Roman historians, Egyptian holy books, or Hindu scriptures?

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And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

On the other hand, the image of some large beast passing through a needle's eye, as a piquant figure for something impossible, is found in other ancient Near Eastern sources, and the vastly preponderant weight of textual evidence still favors the contortionist dromedary over the elastic hawser.

Yet as others point out here, the discovery of more ancient sources casts light on obscure usage in the originals thus providing for updated scholarship.

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.

At first scholars had high hopes that inscriptions and other written documents from ancient times («epigraphical» sources) would confirm the biblical account and add further information.

In short, were we dependent upon the epigraphical sources alone for information about ancient Israel, we would know little more than that an entity known as Israel existed toward the end of the 13th century BC, and that two minor kingdoms, called Israel and Judah, existed alongside each other in the central Palestinian hill country after the mid-ninth century BC.

Given that Solomon is not mentioned in any other known sources from ancient times, a modern historian also has to wonder about what to make of the Bible's description of his extensive empire, fabulous wealth and renowned wisdom.

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 samples are frequently degraded and prone to contamination by DNA from other sources, and coaxing data out of the ancient material is costly and painstaking work.

None of these results has been independently replicated, though, and critics have long suspected that the «ancient» DNA was actually contaminants from people handling the amber or other modern DNA sources.

It is also possible that some gene and local species tree incongruence could reflect ancient hybridization during the radiation, but distinguishing between this and other sources of hemiplasy (83) would require more complete assemblies, genes without missing data across species, and development of new methods (84).

However, the sequencing of ancient DNA recovered from two separate burials in Western Georgia — one over 13,000 years old, the other almost 10,000 years old — has enabled scientists to reveal that the Yamnaya owed half their ancestry to previously unknown and genetically distinct hunter - gatherer sources: the fourth strand.

The discovery of this ancient strain of blue - green micro-algae Aphanizomenon flos - aquae (AFA) has led to a new super food that contains more protein and chlorophyll than any other food source.

(Source) Ancient Aztecs used the seeds for food, and other components of the plant for medicines, paint and chia oil.

Mangold's use of subtle color and curvilinear abstract forms are associated with Minimalism but also recall other sources from Ancient Greek pottery to Renaissance frescoes.

Since ancient times, music and visual art have been an important source of passing down stories through the generations, and musicians and artists have drawn upon each other for inspiration and stimulation.

On the other end of the booth, an installation of locally sourced bricks by Swiss installation artist Daniel Robert Hunziker (priced at $ 40,000), combining patterns and material found in Mexico City that reference the rich history of the ancient Maya, was an undeniable crowd - pleaser.

Kelley's «harem», as he called it, brought together mannequins, waxworks, automatons, medical dolls, sex dolls, movie stand - ins, religious and ancient statuary, along with recent sculpture and photography that evoked these various sources, by Bruce Nauman, Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Kiki Smith, Charles Ray, Laurie Simmons and others.

In our increasingly technological world, therapy seems to be directing our attention to the very core of our primeval being, the «ancient emotional systems» that are the source of love, hatred, rage, desire, compassion, of our unquenchable need for connection with others of our own species.