Sentences with phrase «what ancient people»

Modern science backs up what these ancient people knew to be true.

It can not know for sure what ancient people thought about death or even the things they made.

I'm a historian who feels a part of a great community and who wants to make sense of what ancient people said and to appreciate it.

Judgment alone never comprised the whole of what ancient peoples, least of all the Jews, thought government was about.

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Let him declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my ancient people, and what is yet to come — yes, let him foretell what will come.

If someone wanted to make papyrus the way the ancient Egyptians did, we know what the end result has to look like, the person trying to recreate it just has to keep trying different methods, using tools and materials we know existed at the time, until they get the right result.

The treaties we possess from the Hittites (an ancient Indo - European people who once inhabited what is now the modern state of Turkey) established the way these suzerains interacted with the city - states under their control.

The Jews people are great people, but what the Zionist are doing in the region is a complete hijacking to the good spirit of the ancient people.

Who cares what the bible says, it is just a compliation of ancient stories told by people who thought the earth was flat.

Now think back on what it took for African Americans and women to get their civil rights, it took good people fighting the prejudice and bigotry of those brainwashed by ancient beliefs.

Rather, the evidences of modern people - groups and ancient people - groups show a high percentage of humankind reaching for the supernatural no matter what life they have encountered.

Given that we are rich when the world is poor, that we cling to our nuclear arms as if world extermination were a noble risk, destroy ancient forests, gouge the landscape, pollute the soil, water and air, that we copulate and abort with unrestrained abandon — how then are we to interpret Jesus» words, «It is what comes out of a person that defiles,» so as to come up smelling like roses?

Like I said, people rush to believe any ancient manuscripts EXCEPT what we now call the Bible.

What helped the spread of Christianity are the facts that, 1) ancient people believed myths to be true and 2) violence & brutality come in handy when enforcing law... or so they thought.

What we know of this process of oral transmission in ancient times, especially among Oriental peoples, gives ground for considerable confidence in its fidelity.

And if your bias to an entire group of people based solely on what an ancient book tells you, then you're a bigot.

@PUZZLED — well see my issus lies with the fact of how women were treated in ancient times — they were property and so allowing them to go thru all the emotionals and physicals of carrying and then giving birth only to toss it off a cliff isn't what i'd call good parenting — having an abortion for many people who should NEVER have kids is (in my opinion) good parenting!

How did ancient People speak mythology, and what meaning were they able to convey by employing it?

What was at stake here was even more than a humanitarian principle, because the animals were also mentioned (surely a concern not common to other peoples in the ancient Near East; cf. Deut.

But in ancient times as well as in the Middle Ages people were aware of the need of solitude and had respect for what it signifies.

As for what goes on inside it, the great adversarial parties which in my time still reflected the ancient divisions of our people, have both died.

We have almost no concept of the culture and day - to - day lives of those ancient people, so how could we take what they said and apply it to the 21st century?

If in our time we have seen a great people brought near to the point of extinction, we are also witnessing in Israel what can genuinely be called a resurrection of an ancient people.

People have always struggled knowing which verses / doctrines apply today, how they are meant to be applied, or what the ancient writer actually meant when they penned the verse itself.

What is needed at the present time, then, is a theology of sin that builds upon the work of the persons cited here, but that can develop a stronger connection between social structures and individuals, and with the ancient insights concerning original sin.

Reading all the comments, frankly why people should take some mythological figures and ancient history made out in mordern times to hate a section of people, frankly who knows how Jesus was and what exactly the «Jews» did to him 2000 years back, these are just stories made up in the minds of people.

The alti.tude above Earth at which people look like grasshoppers is probably around 1000 feet - I'm sure that lots of ancient Israelis hiked those hills and looked down... so what?

Viktor von Strauss, the first to notice the ancient cultural change that was later named the Axial Period, described what he observed as «a strange movement of the spirit [which] passed through all civilized peoples».3 Such «movements of the spirit» may be the key to our understanding of the next phase.

In the ancient church, each converting person had a sponsor who was a spiritual director and a living example of what it means to be a Christian.

People who come here are experts in their field, they want to know that if you're telling me something about an ancient text that you're an expert in that, or that you're reading what I'm reading.

Ancient man may have hunted and eaten some dinosaurs (this is supported by many cave paintings that show people hunting what looks like dinosaurs).

What makes otherwise intelligent, educated people buy into ancient mumbo jumbo stories?

William Webb notes that in ancient Near Eastern literature, including Scripture, «when the blessing / curse formulas assign status, they generally initiate a change in status different from what the person formally held.

As among early peoples generally, morals were to the ancient Hebrews what the etymology of the word suggests — mores, «customary behavior.»

We have known for a long time that the ancient Israelite believed that through certain actions or rites he was able to be present at, and actually share in, the events of the past which had created his people's life and thus had made him what as a member of that nation he was: a man who belonged to «the chosen people of God».

When we read Genesis in an awareness of what is to follow, we know that these stories of origins were created and preserved through the centuries not so much to inform ancient Israel about the past as to inform about the present; not so much to speak of what once was as to make clearer what now is; not so much to show interest in what had gone before the history of the people of Israel as to make that very history clear in its significance and meaning.

You can imagine the shock on the faces of simple faithful people trying to follow age old rules pertaining to what you do when you go to the one temple allowed in ancient Israel in those few centuries before Hadrien destroyed ancient Israel.

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Sometimes, then, we are content to read the story simply for what it adds out of the fullness of her experience and her memory to our penetration into the entity of that ancient people.

What little they have to say in their ancient texts on this topic (and many other topics) reflects their distate for the practices of all foreign peoples and cultures, as well as their discomfort with all things pertaining to the erotic, such as nudity, intimacy and bodily fluids — things that they themselves kept hidden and quiet about.

This person called Will Butler (who told me he just was a musician) came to buy what he called my «black beast» (an ancient Heinzman piano).

Also, commenting on Paleo diet, I'm not sure just what it is, except that it's a diet of what some people think that our ancient ancestors ate ten thousand or more years ago.

(Before people go googling and demanding what my expertise is I should tell you that I'm writing a dissertation on ancient medical texts and am an expert on this very topic.)

People: I don't care how sturdy the construction is or how safe the clasp claims to be, or what ancient cultures used to let their babies wear, please please please don't put your infants in a crib unsupervised with beaded jewelry wrapped around their necks or limbs, okay?

It was most certainly heavily used by known ancient rulers - from Persian emperors who left behind what was clearly fictitious accounts of themselves, to Cleon of Athens; from Alexander the Great's mom claiming he was a product of an affair with a god to Augustus who commissioned art to portray himself as humble and a man of the people.

«Sixteenth - century Europeans developed a taste for meat that was just this side of rotting, based on what they thought the peoples of ancient Rome and Greece ate,» Davies writes.

So what were ancient people looking for when striking up friendships with the feathered animals — or any other creatures?

«Several years ago, people would have said we'd never be able to tell what colors ancient creatures were,» he notes.

DNA from an ancient woman who lived in what is now Romania indicates that people in Asia trekked to Africa starting between 45,000 and 40,000 years ago.