Sentences with phrase «use ancient literature»

Why use ancient literature to prove whom should be a slave or whom should be free?

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Yooz, the way you just used the word «myth» shows you can't be a very good scholar of ancient literature or religion, if you are one at all.

The immediate background to Jesus» use of Kingdom of God is certainly the use in the ancient Jewish prayers and in the apocalyptic literature.

John Barton shows how the prophets used persuasive techniques that are found in ancient Near Eastern literature.

Regarding malakoi, Matthew notes that most uses of the word in ancient literature are not related to same - sex behavior but rather to men who were self - indulgent and enslaved to their passions... for women.

If we are unwilling to welcome great matters, even when they come to us in obsolete vehicles of thought, it is of no use to read any ancient literature whatsoever.

This admiration of nature finds its climax in the book of Job, where the wonders of the natural order are used for a didactic purpose unique to the Bible, and possibly in all ancient literature: to make the point that humanity's whole attitude to the created order is wrong, because it is totally egoistic, totally anthropocentric.

Indeed, syzyge is used for «wife» in ancient Greek literature, and Clement of Alexandria believed Paul was addressing his wife.

The Vedas and other ancient literature mention the use of honey as a great medicinal and health food.

Lin was eager to give people a framework for enjoying life, and he built it using the wisdom of ancient Chinese literature as well as a large helping of common sense.

In popular literature it denotes the prick - eared, leggy dog with a curled tail from the early Egyptian age, but it was also used with reference to the lop - eared «saluki / sloughi» type; it was one of several types of dogs in Ancient Egypt, particularly the latter type had an appearance most similar to that of a greyhound.

Such a complex analysis of a whole country's history, culture and tradition will be explored by examining artworks and literature in which ancient kings and heroes are used in later contexts as examples of idealism and virtue, or as objects of derision.