Sentences with phrase «written centuries later»

If the unreliable Icelandic Sagas, written centuries later, are to be believed, an enterprising Icelander named Erik the Red led several ships to Greenland around 985 C.E..

MZH... quran was written centuries later.

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«Even today, approaching a half century later, I swallow hard when I think back to the Apollo 1 fire and the deaths of our buddies,» Young wrote in his memoir.

Authorship of John — many if not most NT scholars believe that John nor one of 12 wrote John; James — most agree not authored by James, and sometime in 2nd century AD; Peter — a mystery — some think that it could have been an early template for the other gospels; Luke — a mystery; Mark — finally it seems like we really might have another original author here — or were he and later Paul just using a very early Peter story?

The oldest section — an invented Report of Pilate to the Emperor Claudius, inserted as an appendix — may have been composed in the late 2nd century, but most of the «Acts» were written later.

The first person to do so at length was Augustine, whose Confessions, written in the late fourth century, is regarded as the founding document of autobiography, spiritual and secular.

At the time of the purchase, wrote Morrison later, «I had no other thought nor ambition than to keep the Century within the Disciples denomination, both as to its editorial outlook and its constituency....

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

Alan Geyer wrote a defense of selective conscientious objection in early 1966 (February 2, 1966), and he became the Century's editor two years later.

Living and writing in the late twentieth century has its burdens as well as its privileges.

Centuries earlier the psalmist and later the writer of II Peter wrote, «Do not be ignorant of this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day» (3:8).

Yet his ideas later flourished in the writing of Hegel, Schelling, Schleiermacher and Feuerbach in the nineteenth century and in Buber, Teilhard de Chardin and Tillich in the twentieth.

In the course of a very successful ministry — informed by piety (he wrote wonderful prayers), pastoral experience (he cared for his flock) and learning (he regularly wrote reviews and articles for journals)-- he became increasingly critical of the economic system of the late 19th century.

Boomershine identifies a further development during the late 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and 19th and 20th centuries in America, a time of rapid technological advances in the production and distribution of written texts.

Quoting Jeremy Bentham, the late eighteenth - century utilitarian philosopher, Singer writes: «the question is not, Can they reason?

There are nine, possibly ten, of these letters to the churches (Ephesians being of disputed authorship); ant three others, I ant II Timothy and Titus, called the Pastoral Epistles, may have been written by Paul but more likely were the work of some unknown Christian toward the close of the first century or even later.

Such a view was accepted by Justin and Irenaeus in the later second century, although in the third century Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria, attempted to minimize the authority of the book by proving that since John son of Zebedee wrote the gospel ascribed to him, he can not have written the book of Revelation, since the two writings employ different ideas, styles and vocabularies.

Jaroslav Pelikan, the late professor of history at Yale University, wrote of the Christian tradition on a scale that no one else attempted in the 20th century.

Memories of division written into authoritative statements of faith are so powerful that centuries later they can continue to shape a community's perceptions.

This book was probably written towards the end of the Persian period, though some date it as late as the second century BC.

We have looked at the types of understanding of the kingdom most influential in the twentieth century; at the position which this author holds to be most acceptable; at the ideological framework of the times within which Jesus spoke and the evangelists later wrote; and in particular at the parables as giving our clearest evidence of the mind of Christ upon this matter.

it was written over decades from the mid to late first century.

St Augustine wrote in his «Confessions» «I was deeply moved by the sweet chants of your church»; they were still being sung in the churches 700 years later during the Norman invasion; they were still being sung in the priest holes of England in the seventeenth century; these same chants were sung at Masses celebrated during two world wars.

Then everybody got together and wrote a whole bunch of stories about him... and centuries later, a Muslim convert got together with some of his homies and put them all into one book... kinda like Readers» Digest.

(a) the Pentateuch was composed over many centuries through these four oral traditions, which were later written down;

It should also be pointed out that Daniel was most likely written in the mid second century BC some 300 years later than Lawrence claimed.

The Exile had already taken place, but whether the second Isaiah wrote around 540 B.C., as some scholars think from references to the Persian king Cyrus, or a century later, is not certain.

As late as the twentieth century some dissertations were written in Latin.

There is, however, another and better reason why Palmer ignored James and other late - nineteenth - century critics of objectivism: he did not set out to write a piece of intellectual history.

I, by faith, believe that onlly God knew these things and revield them to Job (and Moses who later wrote the book of Job) How would you account for these people knowing these astronomical facts that were not proved until centuries later?

Balmer wrote his book, however, as an evangelical who wanted to recover what he considered to be the heart of the movement, which was its late - nineteenth - century coalition of conservative theology and progressive social activism around the poor, women, and ethnic minorities.

The central Kabbalistic text is the Zohar, «The Book of Splendor,» written by Spanish Rabbi Moses de Leon in the late thirteenth century.

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.

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

Then apparently the old stuff was outdated so he sent his son to «fulfill» the old scriptures but then the son doesn't write anything to replace it, then nearly half a century later other people start writing about the son and claim that as the updated word of God in the form of hundreds of letters to the different congregations, mainly from the new «leader» of the Church Paul, who again changed the tenor of the message.

This is nowadays regarded as the latest writing to find a place in the Hebrew Bible, being, in its final form at least, a product of the second century BC.

Allow me to provide some proof based on Jeremiah 16 14 - 15, which was written in either the late 7th or the 6th century BC.

For example, it has contended that the ideas expressed in John are too late in time for it to have been written in the first or early second century and so could not have been composed by an apostle or contemporary of Jesus.

We begin with the Didache of the late first or early second century, perhaps written in Syria and we end with Hymns by Simeon the New Theologian, Byzantine mystic and spiritual writer, who lived from 949-1022.

Writing in the late fifth century, when many Greeks resented Athens» aggressive imperialism and credited Sparta with the lion's share of the victory, Herodotus protested that without the Athenian navy, the Persians would have outflanked and defeated Sparta's forces, despite their heroic resistance.

These are the prescriptions which later, from the second century onward, in combination with other traditional material, was deposited in writing in the steadily growing collection known as the Talmud.

Josh wrote: «until late 20th century Christians were able to pray in schools, have the Ten Commandments displayed and mention God in the public arena»

The idea that Mark wrote a gospel is attested by Papias, early in the second century; he says that Mark never encountered Jesus but later became the disciple and «interpreter» of Peter.

The other letters, Hebrews, and the general epistles, as they are called, were probably written considerably later than those of Paul; some of them, notably that of second Peter, are definitely regarded as products of the second century.

Jose de Acosta, a Spanish Jesuit missionary who lived in Peru and then Mexico in the later 16th century, wrote of its growing influence on the Spaniards.

Ferguson would later describe Hargreaves» Red Devils career as a «disaster», writing in his autobiography that he considers the midfielder, who made just 27 Premier League starts in four seasons, one of his worst signings in over a quarter of a century as United boss; a sad indictment for Hargreaves when you consider that flops such as Bebe and Anderson had pitched up at the Theatre of so - called Dreams since the turn of the millennium alone.

He has written an excellent book on the British experience of the late nineteenth century The Age of Decadence Britain 1880 - 1914 (Random House).

EDIT: Yuval Levin has just written a book which argues that the positive rights vision of liberalism originated not with Dewey in the early twentieth century as I suggested, but rather in the late 1700's with Thomas Paine, one of America's founding fathers.

Specific references to the northern capital appear more than a century later at La Corona in written records of Calakmul royal ceremonies and a local nobleman's transformation into a ruler under the supervision of Calakmul's king.

But the only account of that prediction comes from the historian Herodotus, writing more than a century later.