Sentences with phrase «written by historians»

The surviving documents were written by historians and scholars during the Islamic Golden Age between A.D. 816 and A.D. 1009.

The two books that I cited in my recent book review on bubbles were written by historians, not economists.

This activity involves giving students ten primary sources and four secondary sources written by historians and sorting them under the headings of hero or villain.

Two (Noel and Gier) discuss Altizer's relation to other nontraditional options for religious thought, and two are written by historians of religions (King and Eliade), who view Altizer in perspectives provided by the discipline in which he did his doctoral study.

Not exact matches

As a historian by background who has written quite a bit on the Great War, it's always nice to see the media cover things that otherwise have been long forgotten outside the ranks of historians and buffs.

The Spanish historian and Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas (1484 — 1566), who accompanied Spanish conquistadors to the New World wrote of the atrocities committed by the Spanish Christians against the native peoples, including the slaughter of women and children.

The Roman historian and senator Tacitus referred to Christ, his execution by Pontius Pilate and the existence of early Christians in Rome in his final work, Annals (written ca.

(g) Two very brief and references to him in letters by Roman administrators, written about 90 years after his death, and two references by Josephus, a Jewish historian.

The Jesuit Alessandro Valignano (1539 - 1606) was among the first to articulate missionary policies, not only emphasizing the importance of «accommodation and adaptation to Chinese culture,» as historian Daniel H. Bays writes, but also «indirect evangelism by means of science and technology to convince the elite of the high level of European civilization.»

They came so close to Hebrew and Christian moral insights that some early Church Fathers wondered whether some Greeks had received private divine revelations; a contemporary secularist historian of ancient philosophy once wrote that almost the same sex ethic was espoused by Plato and Paul VI.

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.»

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

If, willy - nilly, they decide in favor of interment, I expect that twenty or fifty years from now historians will write that «the greatest crisis in the history of Catholicism in America» was promptly followed by one of its greatest missed opportunities.

Hirsch, an authority on writing and a professor of English at the University of Virginia, assumes that responsibility himself, aided by his Virginia colleagues historian Joseph Kett and physicist James Trefil.

It is first written by a Roman trained historian who was also a doctor.

Historian David Ramsay wrote to South Carolinians to «consider the - people of all the thirteen states, as a band of brethren, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, inhabiting one undivided country, and designed by heaven to be one people,» but the religion is unspecified.

The historian Richard J Evans wrote that, by 1939, 95 % of Germans still called themselves Protestant or Catholic, while 3.5 % identified as «gottgläubig», i.e., someone who still believes in God, although without having any religious affiliation, and 1.5 % atheist.

Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne by edward haviland miller university of iowa press, 596 pages, $ 35 Jefferson's public career focused on securing for Americans,» the historian Edmund S. Morgan has written, «a right of expatriation from the past.»

I just can not believe a book that has been modified and ideologically re-written by kings and popes... and selectively excludes other Scrolls and Gospels written by «historians» at the same time.

With adroit precision, French historian Henri Marrou wrote: «By the end of the reign of Theodosius, Christianity, or to be more precise, orthodox Catholicism, became the official religion of the entire Roman world.»

When an historian is trying to uncover the facts about some past event, he looks for written material contemporary with the event, especially, if possible, for material which has been written by eye - witnesses of the event.

It will contain a series of essays on the history of the Christian ministry written by Church historians who have met in several conferences and submitted their manuscripts to one another so as to produce a genuine symposium.

Medical historian Robert Jay Lifton has identified the 1920 book Permitting the Destruction of Life Not Worthy of Life (Die Freigabe der Vernichtung Lebensunwerten Lebens), written by law professor Karl Binding and physician Alfred Hoche, as «the crucial work» promoting the agenda of death.

Throughout I have depended on the scholarship of others, most of whom are historians, literary critics, or political scientists, but the primary data are the original texts written or spoken by Americans from the 17th century to the present, that are liberally scattered through every chapter.

This basic methodological insight was implemented by the results of detailed analysis: William Wrede demonstrated that Mark is not writing with the objectivity or even the interests of a modern historian, but rather as a theologian of the «Messianic secret».

On positivist grounds many historians have written off the Gospels as unreliable, insofar as they portrayed Jesus as an utterly unique figure, conscious of a special relationship to God, and working miracles by divine power.

«The Byzantine period,» writes Michael Avi - Yonah, an Israeli historian, «represents a very high point of material development attained by this country.»

But when historian Jan Tomasz Gross saw the photo, he was moved to write Golden Harvest, a controversial new book in which he argues that many Poles enriched themselves during the war by exploiting Jews, from plundering mass graves to ferreting out Jews in hiding for reward.

Paul Schubert, in a symposium devoted to the The Idea of History in the Ancient Near East writes: «When it comes to the idea of history, it must be said that Israel, through its sacred scripture... has proved to be the strongest and most influential single force observable by the historian in shaping the idea of history throughout two millennia of Western history.»

In many radiant lives known to him who even now are bearing what Paul called the fruits of the Spirit, in thousands of whom he has read who across the centuries have displayed those fruits, and in the many millions who, passing, have left behind them no written records but presumably have also been characterized by these fruits, the historian sees the beginnings of the fulfillment of that purpose.

There's not even anything written by any of the contemporary historians of the time.

Karl Barth understood this well when he wrote: «Strange as it may seem, it is still true, that those who fail to understand other churches than their own are not the people who care intensely about theology, but the theological dilettantes, eclectics, and historians of all sorts; while those very men who have found themselves forced to confront a clear, thoroughgoing, logical sic et non find themselves allied to each other in spite of all contradictions, by an underlying fellowship and understanding, even in the cause which they handle so differently and approach from such painfully different angles.

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.

The very fact that, a) Jesus left NOTHING behind, no writings, no physical evidence, nothing written by any first century historian, and b) there were no less than 12 deities prior to Jesus throughout the world who were born of a virgin, taught at the temple when young, preached, healed, fed the hungry, were killed and rose from the dead.

Another constitutional historian, Carl Brent Swisher (also writing almost twenty years before Roe), remarked: «By handling the case in this manner, he [Taney] hoped he could do something toward suppressing anti-slavery agitation and ward off the conflict between the two sections of the country.

«The history of bars and drinks has been written by people who are terrible historians,» he said.

The Greek historian Thucydides shrewdly wrote that when a nation makes too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors it winds up having its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.

Titled «The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation,» the book — published in March 2018 — is written by a collection of authors from zoos and aquariums, including Shedd Aquarium's Vice President of Conservation Research Dr. Chuck Knapp, as well as an impressive roster of university - based historians, biologists, ethicists and social scientists.

This is an expensive but magnificent set of volumes written by a team of professional historians whose research began in 1986.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

Sir David Cannadine is one of our most distinguished historians and in The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences (Allen Lane # 30) he attempts to show how so much of our writing of history has been driven by a desire to dramatise differences rather than common similarities.

On last night's BronxTalk, host Gary Axlebank discussed the Bronx» first - ever guide book, «The Bronx, the ultimate guide to New York City's Beautiful Borough» written by Borough Historian Lloyd Ultan and Shelley Olson.

The concert will include a program performed by acclaimed soprano Audrey DuBois Harris, who will feature some of the songs from the repertoire of Ms. Davis, spirituals, and selections from the original opera, The Gentle Lark of New Rochelle, which was written by local historian Karen S. Allen.

«In contrast to the long tradition of field guides authored by expert natural historians, Map of Life draws on collective wisdom, amalgamating global data sets of species observations from published sources and using a series of modeling techniques to convert them into species range maps,» Goldsmith wrote.

Science Historian Owen Gingerich describes how he recently discovered hand - written notes by Galileo pinpointing the moment in which he realized the Earth was not the center of the Universe.

Margaret Thatcher's fame, however, did not arise from the undergraduate degree she earned at Oxford University, although she wrote her thesis under future chemistry Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin, who declared her a «good» student, according to an article in Notes & Records of The Royal Society by historian of science Jon Agar.

Cicero wrote of a bronze device made by Archimedes in the third century B.C. And James Evans, a historian of astronomy at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, thinks that the eclipse cycle represented is Babylonian in origin and begins in 205 B.C. Maybe it was Hipparchus, an astronomer in Rhodes around that time, who worked out the math behind the device.

The study, published in the journal Molecular Autism, and written by medical historian Herwig Czech, reports on eight years of research that included previously unseen Nazi - era documents, The New York Times reported.

Written by David Hare (The Reader) and directed by Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard, Temple Grandin), the film vigorously conveys the tense story of Lipstadt's legal battle with British historian David Irving, of whom she was accused of libel.

Extras: Audio commentary by critic and author Jasper Sharp on «Smashing the 0 - Line»; «Tony Rayns on the Crime and Action Movies» in which the critic and historian discusses the background to the films, their place within Suzuki's career and the talent involved with them; trailers; stills gallery; reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys; 60 - page illustrated collector's book featuring new writing by Jasper Sharp.