Sentences with phrase «own ancient source»

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.

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

Did moses «borrow» from these ancient sources or did he set the record straight?

According to all the ancient sources, Jesus was executed by order of the Procurator Pontius Pilate; according to Luke 3:1, 2, the Baptist also appeared under Pontius Pilate.

As a supplement to the reading of the stories of the life of the Buddha, and an aid to understanding the role of the Buddha in Buddhism, Anil De Silva - Vigier's The Life of the Buddha Retold from Ancient Sources serves a unique function for it tells the life of the Buddha with illustrations of Buddhist art.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

Along more conservative lines, a distinguished German scholar, Martin Noth, has recently proposed and presented evidence for a more ancient source than J (he does not commit himself as to whether it was an oral or written source) underlying both J and E and utilized by both.

Here is some from two ancient sources — Aristotle and the rabbis of the Talmud.

But he looked at ancient sources, he observed his teacher, and he did the best he could.

It was with him that Krishnamacharya studied philosophy, learned ancient source texts as well as the physical yoga practice.

As son of a family of scholars, Krishnamacharya, who, in addition to that worked himself a lot and with great attention on the ancient source texts, knew precisely where to look: already at the beginning of the 20th century, scholars knew that the Nāṭh tradition or, Hatha Yoga, had been passed on in the remote mountains of the Himalaya.

On the occasions when Pattabhi Jois would lecture on the philosophy of yoga, and students would have the opportunity to ask him questions (which he abhorred because his mastery of English was always left wanting), he would quote verses from the ancient sources, reeling off lengthy verses in Sanskrit.

The foundations for alignment, i.e. a healthy practice, were thus already laid in the ancient source texts of Hatha Yoga.

So, in many ways this is an ancient source of sugar that has been on the planet for a very long time.

About Blog Visionary Fiction embraces spiritual and esoteric wisdom, often from ancient sources, and makes it relevant for our modern life.

The finished entity feels like a rip - off of a film that ripped - off several rip - offs of Carter's own ancient source material.

Billy and Paddy are the two obvious targets and their mutual interest dregs up the related, ancient source of their current feud.

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The Viking Akun was, according to ancient sources, one of two sons of Djilki who was an older brother of the Viking leader, Rurik.

# 5 Major Nelson: «And here's the Brick» Yes, here's the power brick, that ancient source of electricity powering the Xbox One....

Abstraction has an ancient source; it didn't begin in the modern era.

Around 1910, he began contributing cartoons to magazines like Life and Judge, doing cartoon series like «In Ye Goode Old Days» (in Life), «In Ancient Times» and «Ancient Sources of Modern Inventions» (both in Judge) throughout the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s.

Ranging from the intimate to the monumental, these new works resonate with both modern and ancient sources.

Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century examines early efforts of stylistic reform, how the renewal of classical taste found its roots in ancient sources, and how artists in a variety of disciplines forged an imaginative, classical style that satisfied the needs of their own age.

«Climate information recovered from these ancient sources mainly refers to extreme events which impacted wider society, such as droughts and floods,» study researcher Fernando Domínguez - Castro of the University of Extremadura in Spain said in a statement.

About Blog Visionary Fiction embraces spiritual and esoteric wisdom, often from ancient sources, and makes it relevant for our modern life.

Not exact matches

They range from great novels to celebrated nonfiction and even classic sources of ancient wisdom:

Scarlett Johansson's casting as a Japanese human - cyborg in «Ghost in the Shell» caused an uproar earlier this year, as did Tilda Swinton's role as the Ancient One in «Doctor Strange» — a character depicted as an Asian male in the comic source material.

The ancient Chinese, Indians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks and Romans all revered hemp as an incomparable source of food and medicine.

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.

In view of the importance we attached to our discussion of the Son of man concept in ancient Jewish apocalyptic, above, we would like to point out that Colpe accepts the German contention that such a concept is to be found, but finds that the existing sources (Daniel, I Enoch, IV Ezra 13) are inadequate to present it to us.

For those who do not read ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, we must study the research and opinions of biblical scholars who do and who have access to the biblical source documents.

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.

Vengeance might, indeed, be individual, as it was represented to be in Lamech's case, although probably a tribal experience was the source of the ancient folk - song:

This does not, however, imply that the results are no good, since they are largely the only good sources of insight into ancient Israel and their knowledge of Yahweh, their God.

There were some noble reasons to try and organize ancient peoples, but in our current stage in history, religion has become an outdated, hypocritical source of leadership motivated by power and greed like all big business.

After Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Leo XIII corrected the Kantianism and Hegelianism of some early - nineteenth century Catholic intellectuals» namely Georg Hermes and Anton Günther» a tradition - oriented ethos developed in which Catholic thinkers, by and large, resisted the temptations of modernity and instead harvested the wisdom rooted in ancient and medieval sources.

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.

10 Paul Radin, The Sources and Authenticity of the History of the Ancient Mexicans, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1920, P. 71

-- forgetting that ancient religious writers, unlike scholarly historians, did not as a rule feel it incumbent upon them to give, in a footnote or otherwise, their source for every anecdote or event, or to anticipate the modern reader's constant query, «How can we know that what you say is true, in every detail?»

To those theologians who contend that the life and resurrection of Jesus is one of the most documented events in ancient history, both in scripture and recorded history, Berger asks them to produce «one single police report» from a nonpartisan source that wasn't inserted into the text far after the fact!

Critical historical exegesis during the past hundred years has undoubtedly aided unprecedented advancements in our biblical knowledge: in the better understanding of literary genres, source history and textual composition; in etymology and archaeology; in the penetration of ancient languages and cultural settings.

The ancient core of Christianity relied on teachings from many sources beyond the Bible, most of which promote equality amongst the genders.

This is purported to be an improvement over the ancient Greek idea that to be ethical is to value as the only source of secure happiness that which can not be taken away from one, such as, for example, a simple, ordered, tranquil life, passed mainly in contemplation and the enjoyment of secure friendship — a life relatively immune to disaster.

Nevertheless, in spite of the interpretations offered by liberal thought, ancient or modern, the doctrine of divine choice did in actuality work out as a prolific source of national arrogance.

Unlike most modern Western males, I read in various sources that men of the Ancient Near East didn't feel «weirded out» by sharing a bed with another man.

Abinadi, Odds are that you are a Mormon because your parents were Mormons and you were taught as a child that it was the correct religion by adult authority figures and most people you knew held the same beliefs, just as ancient Greek children were taught that the source lightening was Zeus hurling bolts of lightning from Mt. Olympus.

We will do better to keep to the old categories of almighty God and eternal God, because, as God is utterly and totally Being, «pure act», and the transcendental source of all dependent reality, these ancient categories of natural theology are going to be true.

The heroes of modern - day evangelicalism, from scholars like N.T. Wright to pastors like Rob Bell, are passionately and unapologetically contextual textualists, working diligently with a host of ancient literary and archaeological sources to make sense of biblical texts as they would have been understood in their day.

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.