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And all is told with an almost prophetic Biblical tone, with infinite foreboding and dark overtones.
According to traditional Georgian accounts, Georgians are descendants of Thargamos, the great-grandson of Japhet, son of the Biblical Noah.
There are three dates where Assyrian and Biblical histories are supposed to intersect.
Anyone who reads the Biblical Commission's document will find these and many other prejudiced views thoroughly discredited.
A widower forensics expert investigates perverse serial killings with a Biblical link to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The closest the FBI gets to a motive for the smallpox attack is an apocalyptic Biblical passage left behind by the terrorist.
The English system of yards, pounds, and acres is more compatible with Biblical measurements such as cubits.
Cast in Biblical terms, the poem announces that humankind is unable to recognize the divine reflected in such symbols as archangels.
Stott seeks out to explain the significance of the Cross and answers the objections commonly brought against Biblical teaching on the atonement.
He spoke on the importance of believing in Biblical creationism and the Flood, and why it needs to be a part of our evangelism.
Prior to the 1790s farmers in Europe and America threshed their wheat much the same as their predecessors had done since Biblical times.
As a movement, they are unwilling to align themselves with Biblical creationism.
Biblical creationism, which is a separate line of argumentation, appeals to the authority of the Genesis account.
To add to my difficulties he began to swallow the theory of evolution, and I held firmly to the Biblical revelation of Creation.
The Biblical logic says that God's foreordination does not deprive man of freedom or responsibility.
The history of Egypt is thus counterpoised to the Biblical memory of Egypt.
However, within the context of the Biblical record of human history, this individual is likely to post-date the dispersion from Babel.
The Walk the Plank theatre company will be staging a family show based upon the Biblical tale and the great flood.
The Epic of Gilgamesh describes a flood which preceded the Biblical inundation by at least a thousand years.
This stance has been immortalized by the infamous Biblical fiend Haman, the father of ethnic cleansing and the historic author of anti-Semitism.
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The greatest interpreter of Biblical stories, Rembrandt did not paint to please any patron, but was piously fulfilling a divine command.
Lemoine's stylized language dances all around Biblical convention, but throws in contemporary colloquialism wherever humour and rhythm demand.
These were the people who reached deep into the well of Biblical language and imagery to express their visions of the present and the future.
Some will say it was a remarkable act of self denial akin to the penitential days of renunciation in Biblical times.
Hard-liners say settlements and outposts reinforce their claim to Biblical lands.
I suddenly believed all those Biblical stories that I had learned as a child, such as the Flood and the parting of the Red Sea, were true.
By contrast, scientists working from a creation perspective view all significant geological events within a Biblical chronological framework.
One of the Biblical stories that forms a central part of creationist beliefs is the supposed universal flood of Genesis.
Then the inevitable and auspicious slice of baklava, flaky and honeyed, which brings to mind ancient pleasures, Biblical decadence.
This requirement is based on the Biblical injunction that during Passover no chometz be eaten.
Even in the twentieth century, Leonard Woolley referred to his excavations at Warka by the Biblical name of Ur of the Chaldees.
Though the poems were in a European habit, Bialik imbues them with Biblical strophes, as well as prophetic metaphor, syntax, and meter.
The extreme atmospheric changes from streaky red sunset over blue sky to foreboding blackness felt Biblical.
There is a significant contrast here with the slow and unsteady emergence of both Biblical canons.
Biblical Calvinism has always included a system of living as well as a system of doctrine.
As plainly described, the Biblical reference to calamus is merely as one of the ingredients in the Holy Anointing Oil.
The sensational painter of Biblical disasters, John Martin, was one of many who enjoyed a wide vogue in reproduction.
But she starts in Biblical times, where the template is laid for the future treatment of wives as obedient, unpaid servants.
Unlike her Biblical namesake, Maria sees very little evidence of God's grace.
Because it was the eve of Rosh Hashana, the image of a shofar flashed through my mind, and I recalled a Biblical story I'd learned in school.
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The Biblicist's stated goal in Biblical interpretation then, is to find the single, pristine, and true meaning of a particular passage.
At one point, he felt compelled to elevate his cause to Biblical heights.
Therefore, there is contextual Biblical evidence for equating these two Hebrew words, at least in some cases.
For most Americans, it appears, the Biblical account of the endtimes continues to resonate because there are few competing narratives.
Hopefully the Biblical passage above will serve to act as a timely reminder of the evils and perils of dancing.
He needed the cigarettes to perform his secondary role as coordinator of Biblical pyrotechnics.
While the use of grapeseed oil dates back to Biblical times, it has only recently become a staple on healthfood store shelves.
This is a fight that's been going on not only in modern history but in Biblical times.
Patriotic speeches and publications during the period of the struggle for independence were often infused with Biblical motifs and quotations.
In their philosophical work, both relied on texts drawn from Biblical, Talmudic, and other Judaic sources.
For reasons such as these we must take great care when a particular moral view claims to be Biblical.
With all Puritan preachers, Biblical texts provided the fundamental concepts for religious discourse.
The title was also used of Tatar khans, Biblical kings, and of various rulers in folk genres.
Residents of a tower block were left wondering whether their homes were due to be hit by a flood on a Biblical scale.
The book is a compilation of Biblical narrative, rabbinic legends, prayers, homilies and songs.
In scenes from other cycles, he demythologises Biblical heroes and figures from history.
Such Biblical allusion was in stark contrast to the welter of less printable comments being bellowed by the faithful.
Milton's marital experience underlies his reinterpretation of at least two Biblical passages.
It first appeared in Creation magazine, which is a great way to keep your thinking on a whole host of issues clear, unclouded and thoroughly Biblical.
From Cyrus on, however, it was all, to borrow another Biblical allusion, fire and brimstone.
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Especially not when the display in question includes an angel falling from the sky in flames, surrounded by Biblical verses.
He said Jacobovici and Wilson were simply the latest in a long line of people hoping to find further Biblical insight.
Professor candida Moss look at other Biblical directives that could get you killed.
Even if it was a crutch, the Biblical language in these older writings did justice to the enormity of the forces at play.
For the fathers of the PCA of the last 40 years and today, for this sinner saved by grace, Ben Wilkinson, uncompromised reformational Biblical Truth is the major issue.
Even the Rastafarian character relates it to the Biblical Babylon city.
Each of the three Biblical patriarchs is regarded as the exemplar of a particular trait, and Abraham is remembered above all for his acts of loving-kindness.
Being premillenialists, however, they were not Biblical literalists and had no problem constructing elaborate symbologies from, for example, the book of Daniel.
A later unscrupulous Pope decided to conflate the sundry Biblical Marys into the single persona of Mary Magdalene to avoid confusing the lumpen faithful of the times.
Burgon was a believer in Biblical inerrancy, or what we'd call a fundamentalist.
He is especially good on the evolution of the Biblical text itself, demonstrating how slight shadings in word choices colored the meaning of entire verses.
His philosophy, his syntax, his lifestyle are all cast in a Biblical mold.
It's beautiful in summer, he says, but not quite so today, the back of the house buffeted by howling winds and Biblical rains coming in across the river.
The crucifixions may be disturbing to Western eyes because of their Biblical resonance.
Pope notes that Job has more hapax legomena than any other Biblical book.
Rather, it is an attempt to clarify some issues in Biblical chronology, so that some common ground can be established amongst creationist chronologists.
Although there are occasional contemporary references most of the text reads like a pastiche of an Old Testament prophet and much of the language and imagery is Biblical.
Biblical manuscripts, Gospels and psalters, were the most elaborately illuminated products of insular, Carolingian, Ottonian, and Anglo-Saxon art.
Biblical preaching calls us to pay attention to the portents of death masquerading as success and the tokens of resurrection hope in the midst of despair.
Biblical scholars who name Noah as the first cultivator of wine grapes describe him as settling down after the flood to become the first wine maker.
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Biblical prophecy is not easily translated to the twenty-first century.
But in any issue, we should be prepared to think carefully, and not let our reaction to extremists goad us into overlooking any Biblical principles that apply.
By maintaining the practice of episcopacy, the post-Reformation Church of England drew its legitimacy from Medieval custom, not Biblical authority.
Common to all these groups, either white or black, is either a total reinterpretation of Biblical text to support a racist agenda or an espousal of neo-pagan beliefs.
As with Deism and Materialism, the German Rationalism invaded the department of Biblical exegesis.
Especially in Orthodox Judaism, the Biblical laws are augmented by Rabbinical injunctions.
It only stood to reason that a woman who knew Him in a Biblical sense would have to be His bride.
Chicken and other kosher birds are considered the same as meat under the laws of kashrut, but the prohibition is Rabbinic, not Biblical.
However, they keep many valuable manuscripts of Greek, Latin, and Biblical works.
What most interested the poet, however, was the literal sense of Biblical sources as opposed to their typological or allegorical significance.
Yet the only Biblical references in Beowulf are to the Old Testament, and Christ is never mentioned.
The Nowell Codex contains a Biblical poetic paraphrase, which appears right after Beowulf, called Judith, a retelling of the story of Judith.
Latkes are one of the world's very oldest culinary creations, originating in Biblical times as small discs of fried dough.
In the mainstream of the Protestant Reformation there is the Biblical Unitarian Movement.
The city has unleashed messianic passions since Biblical times.
Biblical and literary references to tripudiary acts are almost too common to require mention.
As it is, one must turn to some authority not liable to the charge of being tinctured with the Biblical element.
This decision violates our Biblical faith and agreements within the Anglican Communion.
His Biblical ideal of congregations choosing their own ministers had proved unworkable.
The lesson here would seem to be that simplistic Biblical literalism had to be on the side of the pro-slavery apologists.
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It was with Biblical texts that Pelagius and Arius maintained their doctrines.
Fundamentalist theology tends to stress Biblical inerrancy and Biblical literalism.
In Biblical Hebrew, relative clauses were headed with the word asher, which could be either a relative pronoun or a relativizer.
His 1828 American Dictionary contained the greatest number of Biblical definitions given in any reference volume.
The elite declared themselves as kings who developed burhs, and identified their roles and peoples in Biblical terms.
A few more extensive notes clarify Biblical names and units of measurement or currency.
This hagiographic theme draws on the Biblical account of the staff of the prophet Moses.
Gion is the name of Biblical Gihon river that stems from the Garden of Eden and flows through Ethiopia.
Deists reconciled science and religion by rejecting prophecies, miracles and Biblical theology.
Cranach, apart from portraits, developed a format of thin vertical portraits of provocative nudes, given classical or Biblical titles.
Ten Biblical plagues over Egypt, ranging from locusts to the death of the crown prince, finally forced Pharaoh to let Moses's people go.
He succeeded as a theologian despite his juridical training and his comparatively late handling of Biblical and doctrinal subjects.
It analysed the whole field of available Biblical commentary, for the use of those preparing sermons, and was reprinted many times.
Important topics addressed in these letters include ecclesiology, the sacraments, the role of bishops, and Biblical Sabbath.
It is not certain if a period like that of the Biblical judges occurred nor if there was ever a United Monarchy.
He used these, in conjunction with the Biblical texts themselves, to write his commentaries and other theological works.
It is a play about the Biblical Magi, three wise men from the East who followed a star and visited the baby Jesus in Bethlehem.
Sometimes, as in the triumphant Song of Deborah found in the Biblical Book of Judges, these songs celebrate victory.
Traditionally, many Brethren groups did not celebrate Christmas or Easter, arguing that there is no Biblical command to do so.
Many of its members left the largely liberal PCANZ because they were seeking a more Biblical church.
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He had long condemned vows of celibacy on Biblical grounds, but his decision to marry surprised many, not least Melanchthon, who called it reckless.
African Americans developed a theology related to Biblical stories having the most meaning for them, including the hope for deliverance from slavery by their own Exodus.
They referred to him as 'David', a reference to the Biblical king David.
Pearson, a gifted monologuist, reimagined the Biblical figure as a Jewish-American woman in the 1950s, arguing with God and her husband in old-time, borscht-belt routines.
Mahn, who replaced unsupportable etymologies which were based on Webster's attempt to conform to Biblical interpretations of the history of language.
He studied the Old Testament, the text and commentaries of the Talmud, the Mishna and Gemara, also delving into the intricacies of Biblical exegesis and the Targum.
Based on the Biblical injunction against cooking a kid in its mother's milk, this rule is mostly derived from the Oral Torah, the Talmud and Rabbinic law.
Her gilded sculpture is a winged palm figure, based conceptually on The Winged Victory of Samothrace, and is intended to be evocative of the Biblical Tree of Life.
According to David Allen Harvey, Voltaire often invoked racial differences as a means to attack religious orthodoxy, and the Biblical account of creation.
Burton's second and final film of the year was in the Biblical epic historical drama, The Robe, notable for being the first ever motion picture to be made in CinemaScope.
Burns's poetry drew upon a substantial familiarity with and knowledge of Classical, Biblical, and English literature, as well as the Scottish Makar tradition.
The title is said to be a reference to the Biblical devil, Beelzebub.
Lamech was the father of which Biblical pictures of the Moulin Rouge?
After comparing Biblical prophecies to recent history, Priestley concluded that the French Revolution was a harbinger of the Second Coming of Christ.
The Evolution of Dependent Clause Morpho-syntax in Biblical Hebrew.

Examples from Classical Literature

And that was the nearest the little adventuress ever came to making a Biblical quotation.
And what an epic, what a Biblical numbering of that people suggested itself!
Assyriology, the study of the monuments of Assyria, chiefly in a Biblical interest.
Biblical Hebrew has also had light thrown on it by the discovery of the original Hebrew text of large portions of Ecclesiasticus.
The emphatic construction is identical with the one frequently employed in Biblical Hebrew.
It is not impossible that metre and rhyme grew naturally from the Biblical Hebrew.
The daric is mentioned in several Biblical books that were written after the beginning of the Persian period.
At that time the study of the Halachas had not yet superseded that of Biblical exegesis.
But to return to Professor Stokes's excursion in the region of Biblical exegesis.
It is a sort of Biblical hermeneutic, in which homiletic questions are also dealt with.
They did not believe either in verbal inspiration or in Biblical infallibility.
Biblical critics are inclined, however, to accept in its strict sense the translation of the jacobian divines.
And they worked this unhistorical belief to its breaking point in their Biblical exegesis.
The presentation is based on the Biblical story of John the Baptist, King Herod and Herod's stepdaughter, Salome.
Biblical Distribution of plene Spelling of qal Infinitive Construct from Strong Verbs Book Total plene Percent plene Gen.
Religious idioms had nurtured the CCF's social gospellers but they rejected theological perplexities and Biblical literalism.
They are congruous with the deepest Biblical truths, about faithfulness and stability.
Such mistakes never were really a part of the Biblical idea.
His mind went back to the Biblical story of the burning bush.
As it turns out, the Biblical prohibition against inclusion of Moabites extends only to the male members of that nation.
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As always in this exalted state his phraseology grew Biblical.
Here, by the way, gmilath chesed is excellent Biblical Hebrew.
Biblical writings identify this area as Edom, home to a kingdom that barred Moses during the Exodus and warred with King David.
The synopses of the contents of Biblical books will be found helpful.
They are immobilised by the dead weight of Biblical literalism.
O'Rourke discovers someone is impersonating him online, who claims he is descended from a Biblical tribe called the Amalekites.
The Biblical descriptions of heaven she accepted in all their literalness.
Everything I see in him corresponds to his pamphlet on Biblical Cosmology.
These range from landscape painting in verse and sonnets on artists through Tennysonian idylls and epistolary travel diaries to Biblical typologies and medieval narratives.

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