Sentences with phrase «studied the texts of»

It is forbidden in Jewish law to study the texts of other religions or even to mention the deities of other faiths (Shimon Agasi's Yesodei HaTorah 5:5 for one example).

In the study, astroarcheologist Mathieu Ossendrijver studied the texts of Babylonian tablets from 350 - 50 BCE.

Not exact matches

Studies show that checking texts and emails for even a minute or two at a time can add up to huge chunks of time every day.

Research about how interruptions from technology affect people's well - being is beginning to emerge: One study of college students found a link between excessive texting and diminished well - being.

In one example, SAS studied transactions of customers and text transcripts from call centres of a financial services provider, then looked at what individuals said about the firm through social media.

First, to determine if this effect was in fact true, the researchers conducted a series of lab experiments in which they asked study subjects to talk about products both face to face and through text messaging.

If you look closely at the results of the study, images get the lowest organic impressions, links and text - only status updates perform better and video is the highest impression generator of all.

Tan's book is both a case study for a western audience of the emerging Chinese approach to innovation and a text on innovation generally — still a concept poorly understood in concrete terms.

The median ad post text is only 14 words long, while the link description is around 18 words, according to one study of 37,000 + Facebook ads.

One 2011 study in the Journal of Consumer Research (full text, PDF) concluded that, even though the researchers started the study with the assertion that mess was an averse condition that would lead to lower efficiency, their experimentation actually showed that in some people, some clutter actually made them more efficient, helped them make decisions, and made them feel more creative.

The Mormon then takes the crap pieces from the toilet and studies them in a special baseball cap made of yak pubes, and quotes the text from the crap pieces to another who writes them down on legal note pads.

The ones in english are of course translations that have varying problems of translation, all of which are clearly understood at this point (as the bible is the most studied text on the face of the earth, by orders of magnitude).

Partisans of the new scientism are fond of recounting the «Sokal hoax» — physicist Alan Sokal submitted a paper heavy on jargon but full of false and meaningless statements to the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text, which accepted and published it without quibble — but are unlikely to mention a similar experiment conducted on reviewers of the prestigious British Medical Journal.

I also endorse the most immediately doable reform effort of all, which is for adults to themselves form and promote book - groups dedicated to the study of such texts.

BTW I have a PHD in Koine Greek, one of the requirements for that degree is studying the texts, I have actually seen every text available

This post is not exactly a word study of those words, but a general theological clarification for how to deal with some of these tough texts in the Bible that deal with the topic of punishment.

As a scholar of the biblical languages, Peterson was frustrated that his parishioners in Maryland couldn't see how revolutionary the text was, during their Bible study classes.

The trick to studying well is to steer clear of liberal theologians who care little for truth, and would rather render the text in as «politically correct» a manner as possible.

David Johnston, author of Earth, Empire and Sacred Text, Christine Schirrmacher, a scholar with the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and Joseph Cumming, director of the reconciliation program at Yale Divinity School, discuss whether Christians should support laws that ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil in public.

The atheist chaplaincy is just a maudlin imitation of Christian life: weekly meetings, text studies, tithes, and even rallies (revivals?)

Preachers and teachers particularly, but thoughtful Christians more generally, have long lamented the slide of biblical scholarship into hyperspecialized studies of ancient texts in remote contexts.

This, combined with our approach of studying the Great Masters rather than secondary texts and doing this in seminar - style groups of maximum 15 students, makes the education and formation we offer truly life - changing.»

God is Redeeming Scripture Bible & Theology Topics: Bible Study, Bible translations, exegesis, Greek, Hebrew, Majority Text, NIV, Theology of the Bible

It had the text of Scripture, which was a loose translation (almost a paraphrase) from the Hebrew into Aramaic, and just like our study Bibles, it had explanatory notes that went along with the text.

In theological studies, however, I frequently encounter people who read a text of Scripture that seems difficult to them and their preconceived ideas of what should be in the Bible, and when they read these troublesome texts, they jump straight to the conclusion that best fits their current theological system.

These same essays do go on to offer conscious conceptual accounts of some of the possibilities presented by the texts they study, construing the texts as expressions of «propositions.»

The second sort of argument, designed to show that certain process doctrines are compatible with certain Biblical texts, was warranted by interpretations of certain Biblical texts that were hacked by exegetical studies.

These texts were studied in the conviction that doing so would lead to deeper knowledge of the divine.

emphasize literary - critical studies of scripture and other texts, but still as a practice of paideia.

But as I've already stated, a knowledge of ancient Middle Eastern culture plus a study of the Hebrew text itself does not support that interpretation.

(2) Boomershine sees historical criticism as the biblical method of this era, where the truth of the text is achieved by personal study of the text in silence on your own.

• that the process of developing a sermon extends over enough time to allow for careful study of the text (s), theological reflection beyond the text (s), and direct influence from the life of the world and from the life of the congregation.

In the end, the author believes that the Enlightenment thinkers developed a «theological» model, even though he completes this exhaustive study by citing a grim text from one of Nietzsche's «Letters» that sounds anything but theological: ««The family will be slowly ground into a random collection of individuals,» haphazardly bound together «in the common pursuit of selfish ends.

Among the factors that make that «context,» of course, are those texts and practices whose study is believed to lead to understanding of God, that is, scripture and the practice of the way of the Christian life, including but not limited to worship of God.

During that time, we studied the story of Joseph as it appears in both of our traditions — in holy text (Torah and Qur «an) and in commentary (midrash and tafsir)-- and also learned a lot about each other.

I know that you will likely disagree with my interpretation of those texts, but you should at least know that I have not ignored them, and have done my due diligence in studying the text.

There's a kind of sharing and intellectual / spiritual intimacy which is only possible after a few days of dining together, learning together, studying our sacred texts together.

We began talking about the close study of word patterns and structures and ended up reflecting on the authoritative function of biblical texts.

I picked up mark l. Strauss, four portraits one jesus text book as a compliment to my study of the harmony of the gospels and was introduced in the 2nd chapter to historical criticism.

First, I did some quick study of the Greek in the text, and decided that the various translations are fine.

Then, once you have a basic idea simply from reading through and praying over the text, if you want, you can start consulting some of Bible study guides which are available.

For the New Critics the literary text was considered an autonomous work of art, to be studied independently of its authors intentions and of the sociopolitical currents of the time in which it was produced.

However, I am learning that as important as Greek and Hebrew textual study is, we must not think that the critical study of the text is going to solve all our exegetical and theological dilemmas.

only in the last 15 years have we obtained the databases of information to consider certain facts of the text literarily — in this case, the study of the use of names.

Those who have had basic courses in the biblical languages and are willing to devote 20 minutes a day to such language study should gain enough language ability to base their sermon text study on the original text, and they should have enough linguistic skill to use the best of the great philological commentaries, which often cite words from the original languages.

After the flood, we will begin to work our way through some of the violent texts in Scripture, until we eventually arrive at the Book of Revelation, and then conclude with a study on Hell.

The remainder of the book (chapters 4 — 7) provide a detailed explanation of how to study and teach the texts of the General Epistles, beginning with interpreting them from the Greek and moving on into exegetical outlines and homiletical exposition.

The following study of Galatians 1:8 - 9 is drawn from my Gospel Dictionary Online Course, which defines 52 key words of the Gospel, and considers hundreds of texts from the Bible related to these key terms.

Giving further impetus to literary study of the Bible was the work of several scholars of English and comparative literature, who extended their expertise in the analysis of literature to biblical texts.

Kregel Publications recently sent me a review copy of Philip Wesley Comfort's new study resource, A Commentary on the Manuscripts and Text of the New Testament (Get it on Amazon or at CBD.