Sentences with word «semitic»

Some of these groups harbor a less than stellar view of semitic people and / or Israel.

Also, Henry Ford was one of the most anti semitic people in history.

In Semitic tradition, there is a strong tendency to reduce human history to an aesthetic number structure.

In 1952, a team was set in place by the world - famous, preeminent scholar, archaeologist and pioneer discoverer of Holy Land historical sites and docu «ments, Dr. William Foxwell Albright, the professor of Semitic languages at the Johns Hopkins University.

And in 1989 Alastair M. Taylor and Duncan M. Taylor tried to prove that dualistic nature of Semitic religions paved the way for ecological crisis.

Billy Graham was heard to make anti semitic statements in Nixon's notorious tapes.

There was relatively little writing in those days, not because the people did not know how to write, for a good many of them did, using the old Semitic alphabet script in Old Testament times and Greek in the New.

The idea of being sons of God recalls the ancient Semitic idiom used in the Old Testament to indicate belonging to a particular species or group of any kind (Ps 8:4; 90:3).

The ashes imposed upon the forehead is an old semitic tradition where someone in mourning wears sackcloth, pours ashes on himself, dishevels his hair, sits in ashes and goes without water.

Islam is more given to fundamentalism than other religions with Semitic roots.

This reflects the age - old Semitic idea of blessings and curses as actually conveying the good or evil by an almost physical power (cf. Is 55:11).

We must reject extreme positions which seek to clarify all possible uncertainties in Old Testament prophetism by analogy with associations of cultic personnel in ancient Mesopotamia, the broader West Semitic areas, and in Arabia.

D, d The fourth letter of the alphabet since Semitic times, D derives from Greek delta,?.

It has also been proposed that the source may be the Proto - Central Semitic root q - h - h meaning «dark».

Jesus, if he looked like his contemporary semitic males odf his day was about 5» 3» tall, weighed maybe 130 #, had a swarthy (oily) complexion, had a distinctive hook nose and close set eyes, probably had few teeth, and smelled (no baths, no indoor plumbing, no toilet paper existed then),

If Jesus was black in a mostly Greek and Semitic world he would have stood out, and none of the gospels mentioned that.

I hear Hebrew and Arabic, not surprising since they're part of the same Semitic language group and probably influenced both.

We already know why some people are against ethnically semitic peoples.

It is a well - known feature of Luke's editorial work that he follows his sources as closely as he can; to restrict himself to the explanatory addition rather than to remove the, to him, unnecessary Semitic circumlocution would be quite typical.

Our goal is to help Muslims around the world Palmyra (/ ˌ p ɑː l ˈ m aɪ r ə /; Palmyrene: Tadmor; Arabic: تَدْمُر Tadmur) is an ancient Semitic city in present - day Homs Governorate, Syria

B, b B has been the second letter of the alphabet since Semitic times, a consonant whose name was beth (meaning «house»).

This denial comes most often in the form of a blindness to the particularity of creation, the same kind of blindness that has burdened so many of our Sunday - school classroom walls with a generalized, handsome, and Teutonic Jesus when in fact our Lord was and is no doubt far more Semitic in his actual appearance.

The muslim thing is a little different considering when I was in the middle east, just being semitic looking made them want to hurt me, but the other deal is even though once you're muslim and you can't convert to anything else, Muslim people remain to this day the only people that haven't tried to convert me.

«You can continue teaching Semitic languages which you enjoy, or you can act on what you know — that we have saved your life over the years, and we can save the lives of others as well if you chose to teach them about us.»

cit.; but see also H. H. Rowley «Ritual and the Hebrew Prophets,» Journal of Semitic Studies (1956), pp. 338 ff.

I'm glad arsenal are getting done for this, it's about time that the club realised their over the top tactics with the home fans, for a bit of swearing, standing up and so called semitic chanting against spurs is nothing compared to people bringing in flares and throwing them.

Just like Arabs who are also of the same Semitic Ethnic group which is NOT Caucasian.

A gift for wordplay is the sign of an active, engaged mind, and I always appreciate seeing evidence of Jesus's vigorous intellect in the bits of affectionate, word - based and rather Semitic humor on display in scripture; I marvel at Jesus's deft tongue.

This story, so embedded in ancient Semitic ideas, accents God's role as the initiator, stipulator, and guarantor of the agreement.

... It is more likely that Paul is using the term know in the customary Semitic sense of affection rather than in a merely cognitive sense.

While exploring their new property and neighborhood, they discovered the half - degraded film, which documents the efforts of Rabbi Jacob Weiss to build a golem, a supernatural being made of animated clay, to protect his congregation from their anti- Semitic neighbors in the early 1940s.

Islam, which best preserves the archaic elements of Semitic thought, has elaborated a very complete theory of the real elite, in is «numbered peoples.»

Not against semitic people living in the Middle East.

In it he found the great myths of the creation, the fall, the flood, the escape from Egypt, the promised land, the twelve tribes, the exile, the prophets, all full of Semitic poetry and wisdom, and great human stories, followed by the incomparable religious texts of the New Testament — «He who would save his life must lose it».

The official languages are Maltese (the only Semitic language written with a Roman alphabet) and English - making it a popular destination point for people from English speaking countries!

Who today would share Paul's anti — Semitic attitude, his belief that the authority of the state was not to be challenged, or that all women ought to be veiled?

I say «writing systems» because, thanks to Omniglot, I've learned to distinguish among abjads (Semitic scripts using no vowels), alphabets, syllabic alphabets (using symbols for consonant - vowel combinations), and syllabaries (such as Chinese).

That wikipedia semitic some of that is accurate.