Sentences with phrase «sacred texts requires»

On the one hand, reliable understanding of sacred texts requires some sense of the context in which their statements were originally uttered: «Because of their ignorance about hyssop many people, unaware of its power to cleanse the lungs or even (so it is said) to split rocks with its roots, in spite of its low and humble habit, are quite unable to discover why it is said, «You will purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean» (Ps.

Not exact matches

For example, the Torah [the first five books of the Bible] assumed that Yahweh, like all the other gods, required ritual blood sacrifice, but eventually the psalmists and prophets take the sacred text beyond this earlier assumption.

assumed that Yahweh, like all the other gods, required ritual blood sacrifice, but eventually the psalmists and prophets take the sacred text beyond this earlier assumption.

For example, the Torah assumed that Yahweh, like all the other gods, required ritual blood sacrifice, but eventually the psalmists and prophets take the sacred text beyond this earlier assumption.