Sentences with phrase «written a century after»

Similarly, the Torah was written centuries after the events it describes by a series of anonymous authors with different and sometimes contradictory perspectives.

This crap is taken from the «word» of god (Again, written centuries after his death and subject to hundreds of interpretations and language translations from Latin, Italian, Middle English, Modern English, etc.) which you describe as a literal truth.

We have copies of copies, the earliest COPY was written a century after Jesus was on planet Earth.

Actually, ask any theologian and they will tell you how historically the written accounts of those «events» were not written centuries after the life of Jesus, but shortly after.

According to one chronicle written a century after Genghis's birth, there were more than 20,000 people of his lineage «living in the comfort of wealth and affluence.»

Not exact matches

After two or three thousand pages of Caro's highly oral writing, one finds oneself chanting along as he repeats the classic anecdotes and mottos, and yearning, in the end, for the fifth and final volume, which will complete this epic chronicle of a 20th century political genius.

You miss the mystics of all traditions who are far closer to the teachings and path of Christ than anyone who simply follows a book written by man centuries after he lived.

So the bible stories are just that, stories written half a century after the fact and no without any other secular history to back it up.

A childhood memoir written half a century after the events it describes is inevitably novelistic, and Oz explicitly alludes to the shaping of his narrative in fictional terms.

Writing about a quarter of a century after the death of Jesus, he says that the tradition passed on to him, presumably when he became a Christian some twenty years earlier, contained the following statements: «that Christ died; that he was buried; that he was raised to life on the third day; and that he appeared to Cephas and afterwards to the Twelve.

It was probably written toward the end of the first century or the early part of the second, after Christianity was well established in the Greek world.

Other than a book that was written down centuries after the events it speaks about occurred, what proof can you present?

In fact, it was written during the 6th - century BCE, about 100 - 200 years after the original author of the Book of Isaiah died.

A little while after writing this, I came across a poem by an eighteenth century Persian poet called Hatif Isfahani, which praises Christianity for its affirmation of Divine Unity.

Even in the second century, a hundred years and more after the time of Jesus, there were doubtless still in circulation oral accounts of incidents in his life and quotations of his teachings which had not until then been committed to writing.

More critical still is to recognize that what God hated is not specifically Esau, for Malachi 1:3 was written many centuries after he had died, nor was God saying He hates the people of Edom.

A book that was written decades or centuries after the characters were said to have existed.

We have noted that the Old Testament prophet on whom Jesus seems most to have patterned his life work was the one whom he knew as Isaiah, though we may now speak of him as Second Isaiah, since he wrote during the exile and about one hundred and fifty years after the Isaiah of the eighth century.

These letters were written over a span of not more than twenty years just before and after the middle of the first century and therefore within what might be called the first Christian generation.

I think being written only a few decades after these events is about as good a deal as you can get w / ancient history; same goes for finding early 2nd century samples of m in Egypt.

That the Bible was written decades and centuries after Jesus supposedly lived?

It's a compilation of dozens of books written by men in the first century, voted into canon by a council of bishops from a selection of - hundreds - of such books after being «sanitized» of anything that didn't jibe with church dogma.

and please bear in mind that these words are at best hearsay written down decades or centuries after jesus was said to have existed and written by people who had never seen or heard jesus.

Why do Christians on this blog persist in posting that «jesus said this» or «jesus said that» when any words attributed to jesus in the bible are at best unverifiable hearsay written down decades or centuries after jesus was said to have existed and written by people who had never seen or heard jesus.

The oldest authoritative list of books which corresponds exactly with our Table of Contents comes from A.D. 367, three centuries after the earliest parts were written.

Seldom after that did a major biblical scholar attempt to write a life of Jesus, which had been commonly done in the previous century.

In the third and fourth chapters we traced how the Bible came to be written, over a period which stretches from the tenth century before Christ to the second century after, in the midst of widely varying situations.

Dr. Robert W. Funk, New Testament scholar and organizer of the Jesus Seminar, points out that all four New Testament gospels were written forty years or more after Jesus» crucifixion, and though church tradition says that the disciples Matthew and John both wrote gospels, Bible scholars for more than a century have believed that none of the gospel writers actually knew Jesus during his lifetime.

It is of no surprise to us that Epiphanius (the Bishop of Salamis in Cyprus), writing in 375 - 378, [47] almost two centuries after the birth of the Montanist movement, in his book Panarion (Medicine Chest against all heresies), could pass judgement on the Montanists as follows:

The Synoptic Gospels were not written until some 30 years after Jesus» death: the first century Christian community had a number of years before they were written to mull over the meaning of Christ's life.

The book of Acts, the second of the two volumes written by the evangelist Luke (probably after his gospel), is first certainly utilized by Irenaeus of Lyons, towards the end of the second century.

In the wilderness of Xerxes» (Ahasuerus») Persian Empire, centuries after Moses, «the command of Queen Esther fixed these practices of Purim, and it was recorded in writing» (Esther 9:32).

Over a half - century after it was written, it still stands as essential reading for anyone who cares about justice.

In attempting to determine the original text of the New Testament books, some modern textual critics have identified sections as additions of material, centuries after the gospel was written.

It appears from the list of suggested authors that there were no Catholics writing in English after the death of Geoffrey Chaucer (with the notable but limited exception of Dryden) until Gerard Manley Hopkins took up his pen in the late nineteenth century.

Further, the story is not given an explicitly and dominantly sexual interpretation until several centuries after it was written — in the intertestamental Book of Jubilees.

what a funny story, this is a 4th century gnostic writing that this «scholar» is trying to tie to the 2nd century, at least 100 years after all the eye witnesses have passed away.

After describing the hopes of those who wrote the Constitution, Carter takes note of the assumption that almost all men of affairs in the eighteenth century shared about the fate of governments like the one proposed in Philadelphia.

In fact, four centuries after Muhammad's death, some Muslim writers, like Abu Nu`aym al - Isfahani and Ahmad al - Bayhaqi, expanded a genre of Muslim writing, Dalā» il al - nubuwwa (The Signs of Prophethood), detailing extensive accounts of metaphysical miracles attributed to Muhammad as proofs of his prophethood.

In so doing, they rely on later sayings attributed to Muhammad or works written about him centuries after his death.

After the death of Charlemagne darkness again descended, and by the middle of the tenth century Christianity had sunk to a lower nadir than, to the date when these lines were written, it was ever to know.

After describing various features of liberalism as it came to be expressed in the early nineteenth century, he writes,

In a passage which deserves a great deal of attention in our country, more than two centuries after it was written, he said: «The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur.

Thus Luke's dates, and other clues in the New Testament, are not at all reliable, partly because they were written nearly a century after the event and partly because they were determined by religious interests rather than by a concern for historical accuracy.

Written by «historians» decades and in one case a century after the «fact» before they were even alive from second - hand sources when Christianity was considered a cult.

After publishing Postwar in 2005, a tour de force of European history since World War II, winning the Arthur Ross Book Award for best book in international affairs and numerous other awards, Tony Judt prepared to write an ambitious intellectual and cultural history of Twentieth Century social thought.

Written by the award - winning Kevin Toolis, the one - man show is on its way to the Edinburgh Festival where, judging by the buzz it has already created after a short preview run in London, punters will be lining up with morbid curiosity to renew acquaintances with a man whom Toolis believes is the worst prime minister in over two centuries.

Centuries after it was last read, the scroll's writing was once again accessible.

First, no matter how devastating an extraterrestrial impact might be, are we to believe that after centuries of flourishing every last tool, potsherd, article of clothing, and, presumably from an advanced civilization, writing, metallurgy and other technologies — not to mention trash — was erased?

Andrew Stanton on his new film, John Carter Almost a century after it was written, Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic sci - fi novel, the swashbuckling interplanetary romance A Princess of Mars, is finally coming to the big screen.