Having been an ordained pastor with a doctorate in divinity and a Master's degree in biblical studies, he knew what had taken place.
Elevated Jacobean English By and large, biblical English is elevated Jacobean English, comparable to the style of Shakespeare and Thomas Browne.
It is doubtful that their Adoptionism was derived from the Bonosians, who were biblical unitarians.
Most readers of this magazine have a biblical worldview and are inclined to accept your arguments.
Discard the myths in which biblical stories are wrapped and hold on to the kerygma to which they point.
Simple reckoning of the ages at which each of the biblical patriarchs produced his son would not suffice.
Yet, exegetes can hardly ignore the unbroken consensus in the biblical witness, where the words are so clearly supported by the cross itself.
I didn't know him from Adam, though it might have been nice to know him in the biblical sense, ha ha.
Well I never knew her in the biblical sense, we just bumped into each other at some party and you know how it goes.
But when I got a better grasp of biblical teaching, I saw worldliness in sharper perspective.
It was difficult to avoid getting caught up explicating all the biblical allusions in the alphabet.
Instead of being classified alphabetically, the knowledge in his encyclopedia was structured around biblical history.
The church is entered via a Norman south porch with a door of eight continuous orders, alternate bands of which are carved with biblical scenes.
In making his libretto from the biblical text, he has boldly put that figure at the centre of his scheme.
There is a contradiction here, both within his statements and with the biblical text.
Local legends and some native historians trace their ancestry to the biblical figure Yafith, the son of Noah.
The key to accomplishing this must surely be the biblical training of pastors and active laymen.
The Zwinglian principle of the primacy of scripture is evident in his appeal to a lack of biblical warrant for auricular confession.
Some of his ideas resonate closely with the contemporary consensus of critical biblical scholars.
More radical feminists, however, have attempted to show that the biblical traditions are thoroughly and irredeemably antifeminist.
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He repeatedly returns to comparisons with more biblical Protestant traditions, feminist theology, and liberation theology.
The biblical patriarch Jacob mourned over his son Joseph for 22 years, mistakenly believing that he had been killed by a wild animal.
If a writer isn't careful, even the best biblical exegesis can render a parable lifeless.
In so many places, the lectionary seems to have a tin ear, without regard for the artistic, musical, dramatic quality of biblical texts.
There are plenty of apposite biblical quotations, and a series of questions by way of recapitulation and meditation at the end of each chapter.
Whatever happened in the past, the biblical message is little known in those lands today.
As the treasury of Anglican liturgical resources grows more biblical, it will also grow in size.
I was simply fighting against what I perceived as biblical, doctrinal, and ascetic fundamentalism.
The result is a lordless, man-centered religion supported by an elaborate biblical system.
The biblical hero who avenged himself in a suicide mission is the wrong role model for the oppressed.
She was a keen letter writer, an avid reader and biblical student, and was active in church and community.
This is summed up in the biblical antitheses between the wheat and the tares, the old man and the new, outward and inward.
Drawing on biblical metaphor, he looks to Jesus' parable about the wheat field sowed with tares, not to be separated until the final harvest.
Milingo broke it and went very much against the basic biblical teachings not to divorce.
Critical biblical scholarship can and should help protect people of faith from perilous exploiters of the biblical message.
One volume looks at the nature of biblical interpretation, covering both Testaments.
A biblical theology should make comprehensible the context of commonality and difference between the two Testaments.
Upper-level college texts focusing on individual biblical books from both Testaments further complement the series.
It is more or less a given, by convention if not by conviction, that one must have a biblical text for a sermon.
The first is that all the readings of texts and the sermons have been provided by biblical specialists, attempting to read theologically.
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But we need biblical and theological answers for biblical and theological issues.
Today, we have the tools of historical scholarship, biblical criticism, and science.
The book consists of an interesting introduction followed by a biblical, theological and historical study.
So in other words, they're using the biblical gospel narratives in a symbolic way in these novels.
The biblical texts are full of suffering and self-reproach and the intensity of these responsores may well amaze you.
Within his hymns, Romanos the Melodist gives voice to a wide range of biblical characters.
We must learn from them as they bear witness to and engage the biblical witness to God's revelation.
This has nothing to do with biblical tales for tinies, but is the name of a weekly street party that can be heard by ships far out to sea.
The tradition of biblical translation being coloured by evangelical interests goes back to the time of the Septuagint.
The biblical word for conversion, metanoia, means not just a shift in one's views or opinions but a fundamental change in direction.
Next will be that perennial complaint by predictable hand wringers that children's toy advertising is a modern evil of biblical proportions.
In the biblical story, the Fall of Man follows his eating from the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
To understand the biblical concept of peace, reflect on the Hebrew word shalom.
The peaks and fertile slopes of these biblical lands are strategically and militarily valuable.
What has been experimentally demonstrated is in no way inconsistent with the biblical account of creation.
In this biblical account we encounter the power of recognition intertwined with the power of faith.
Thus, early accounts of human diversity were framed within the biblical story of the creation emphasizing the unity of human kind.
People wonder how millions of years could be squeezed into the biblical account of history.
Honest and loving dialogue between churches is a biblical and evangelical imperative.
So it shouldn't be surprising that there have been many scientists who believed in biblical creation.
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The earliest written reference to Malta is in the biblical account of Saint Paul's shipwreck.
Adoption in the New Testament is the central biblical image for entrance into the family of faith.
Therefore he takes the biblical account of creation and the flood as true, and then interprets the evidence in the light of that.
The empty tomb was mentioned in each of the four biblical accounts of the Gospel.
There is no compatibility between evolution and the biblical account of creation.
Perhaps this is evidence for the biblical account of the human race spreading over the earth after a universal flood.
He laments the decline in commitment to the biblical text even among evangelical preachers.
In the biblical account, Christ miraculously feeds thousands with just a little bread and a few fishes.
Adam, who has the almost biblical language construction of the native Gaelic speaker, was brought up in the Highlands.
Perhaps that is why his testimony is full of language which has an almost biblical resonance.
It also deals with a country divided by class, language and biblical argument.
The language of the book from the very beginning reveals its biblical nature.
To be fair, he employs biblical language and imagery at strategic points along the way.
The biblical language that the author recreates for her story further evokes Puritan regions.
The premise that this biblical style was started by a French Huguenot teacher even seems debatable.
The poem is mythical and biblical not only in its style but also in its sources.
Despite his high rhetorical tone and biblical cadences, even Jack sounded bored and out of touch.
If only they had used biblical language at least it would have sounded less trite, hackneyed and cliched.
Suddenly, the heavens opened and there followed a rainstorm of biblical proportions.
His prose can rise to majestic, biblical heights and his cast of mind has a peculiarly North American sadness.
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It may have been behind the worst climatic disaster of recent times, responsible for famine and death on a biblical scale.
It would take a miracle of biblical proportions for them to find a single useful bit of information from all the dirt and debris.
I couldn't help but think of that column as we faced news of truly biblical proportions last week.
On the second day, a storm of biblical proportions unleashes hail, rain and floods that carry away valuable equipment on rivers of mud.
The heavens opened and a deluge of biblical proportions had within minutes, turned roads into fast-flowing rivers and gardens into lakes.
I have just returned from a visit a country ravaged by disease, poverty and hunger on a biblical scale.
There is no doubt in my mind at all that volcanic eruptions of biblical proportions have occurred many times in the history of this planet.
Now, a year later, a new locust threat is poised to wreak havoc of biblical proportions, but this time, it's headed for Montreal.
Another seems to be happily hanging on, which is surely a miracle of biblical proportions.
The slightest indiscretion from me would be enough to cause a tantrum of near biblical proportions.
Contrary to initial reports, a great flood of biblical proportions is not being considered as a possibility.
This group of millionaires and billionaires believes in the biblical adage that says, to whom much is given, much is required.
But a second problem is that such views misrepresent the biblical idea of election in a number of important ways.
Theorizing about biblical translation was often undertaken and emerged within the framework of missionary practice.
Unlike Easter, Pentecost, Christmas or Epiphany, Trinity Sunday, has no narrative, no biblical story to ground us in space and time.
It contains short biblical passages with explanatory commentaries, often in the form of moralizations, allegories, and analogies.
Using biblical typology as his method of interpretation, Paul treats Moses as a type of the apostles and their ministry.
The literature dates from the 14th and 13th century B.C., so the Ugaritic material has great importance for biblical studies.
Conservative evangelicals fear that a younger generation is straying from unbendable biblical truths.
In the years thereafter Barr kept up an unrelenting criticism on what he considered slipshod thought among biblical theologians and scholars.
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They depict portraits, mythological stories, biblical scenes and landscapes.
This Frankfurt-born artist who was based in Rome specialised in biblical and mythological subjects in oil on copper panels.
Some of our leaders want to remove things biblical for the sake of being fair to other faiths in the name of human rights.
On the other hand, it was open to non-priests to adopt a quasi-priestly life voluntarily, like the biblical Nazirites.
The little bureaux de change, with a nice biblical turn, call themselves moneychangers.
The narrative technique is deliberately non-linear and complex, the language richly poetic and suffused with biblical references.
Until then I had been a very spoiled child by my mother, my grandpa and my maternal family which was kind of a biblical family.
His voluminous writings on biblical criticism show him to have been the first liberal textual critic.
In the light of the furnace flame, one of the men got up and started to recite the biblical passages by heart.
Why such fear of modern critical biblical studies and new understandings of hagiography and ecclesiastical history?
Modern-day numerologists profess to find hidden codes in computer analyses of biblical texts.
They read into certain biblical texts a message consistent with their own statist environmentalism.
The biblical narratives of the Old Testament together with other texts that never made it into the canon provide useful background.
Many Baptists believe that within the biblical canon, the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are preeminent.
General readers wishing for fresh insight into the hermeneutical significance of the biblical canon are advised to look elsewhere.
It is more than just another book on this puzzling book of the biblical canon.
It is, in fact, the economic system that is most in harmony with the biblical understanding of human nature and human destiny.
To be truly biblical is to think and act Hebraically, as Jesus did during his incarnation.
According to the evolutionary sequence, the biblical order of creation is all wrong.
This is fitting, as originalism has more in common with biblical exegesis than any responsible form of judicial decision-making.
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On Sunday, for example, the celebrant would read the biblical story of the resurrection of the Lord.
Can we continue to argue for a collectivist hermeneutic when eliciting biblical theology?
Moreover, the social experiences of African Americans have provided the matrix for both the theological conception and the biblical hermeneutic.
It also means, moreover, that in disputes about biblical authority nobody has the high ground morally or hermeneutically.
Reading biblical texts intertextually with a hermeneutics of other deconstructs the familiar and conventional.
The biblical virtues of modesty, chivalry, chastity and fidelity are ignored.
Mice in near biblical plague numbers crowd my abode, also pack rats and kangaroo rats.
Another strength of the book is its attempt to synthesize homiletics, theology, and biblical hermeneutics.
I have noted that biblical religion opposed the supernaturalism of the ancient pagan.
The pivotal exemplar is Origen, who built an alternative paideia based on an alternative classical culture expressed by biblical literature.
Baldwin weaves biblical imagery deftly into this surrealistic episode, as John undergoes a trial by fire for his soul.
Far from being based in a biblical vision, the case for intelligent design seems to lead at best to a kind of deism.
The prose is strewn with biblical and poetic tags and pang full of rhetorical devices.
The following year he attended a lecture on biblical prophecy which was held by the Christadelphian sect.
Thomas was a biblical commentator, an educator of his fellow friars, a theologian, a preacher, and a great contemplative.
The result is a limited understanding of basic biblical truths, leading to corrupted theology, syncretism and shallow commitment.
He also steeped himself in the biblical languages of Greek and Hebrew, and even found time to master Aramaic and Syriac.
The language of hymnology has often been strongly biblical, especially in the compositions of John and Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts.
Other sources, give the biblical, patristic and theological arguments for this better than me though.
Educators often assumed that religious principles and biblical knowledge were coextensive with science, history, and languages.
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We can indeed see this suggested in the biblical statement about human beings made in the image of God.
While the church saw the importance of art as a method of instruction, it also faced a biblical injunction against images.
This identity, in a culture of affluence, is no better declared than through the biblical image of the steward.
To use another biblical image, God did not choose to wash the earth clean in a flood again.
But, alas, like all conjured foes, the biblical piety contained in his book is a mere phantom of the real thing.
The central symbol of much of the ancient pagan cult in biblical Canaan was the Ashera tree, symbol of the Goddess Ashera incarnate.
The idea of spiritual fathership that these biblical passages suggest became a dominant theme among early Egyptian solitary monks.
The particular concern for biblical translators is how not to lose sight of the richness of indigenized English.
And for thirty years I missed the ineffable wonder cradled within that biblical imagery.
Strongly tied to biblical inerrancy was dispensational premillennialism, which predicted the imminent return of Jesus Christ to earth.
Every scholar and teacher has a list of infelicitous translations which misrepresent or distort the meaning intended by biblical authors.
It combines a comprehensive scope, concisely written entries and the best in current biblical scholarship.
I saw females wearing trousers and wondered at the biblical injunctions which forbade such things.
Some prisons restrict inmates' access to Bibles, or prohibit inmates from having concordances or biblical commentaries.
The publication of this concordance of the non-biblical texts from Qumran meets a need that biblical scholars have felt for decades.
It might help to recall that dreams of a pitched battle between East and West were Hellenistic and Mesopotamian before they were biblical.
But then an almost biblical plague of insects descended on the crops and began eating them.
Located in Salt Lake City, the seminary is an interdenominational school of biblical and theological studies.
To have a sign remains insufficient, however, for it is biblical contextualization and argumentation that gives a sign meaning.
True to form, he gave what amounted to a sermon, complete with invocations of god and a biblical quotation.
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The biblical, theological and rational case against Calvinism has never been stated more clearly, concisely, irenically or convincingly.
Johannes' famous term is actually Kierkegaard's shrewd way of pointing to the irreconcilability of philosophy with biblical narrative.
One way in which to analyze biblical narrative is by examining the ways in which the ancient Israelites perceived and used space.
A point that may draw fire from biblical scholars is Berrigan's linear-developmental understanding of Israelite religion.
The chapter also contains self-help exercises for those who wish to pursue postcolonial biblical criticism further.
I believe that the biblical design would be friendship, courtship and then marriage.
Ted said thanks for the evening and Mary crossed herself and invoked some sort of biblical curse.
His superb appendix provides an exhaustive guide cross-referencing Williams's works and biblical references.
What these passages show is that the biblical vision for God's creation is completeness, fullness, wholeness, and well-being.
In other words, it is a biblical and doctrinal criterion, not an ecclesiastical or historical one.
He refused to transact business on Sundays, held regular family prayers, and was a student of biblical prophecy.
The message must be preached within the larger context of the biblical framework of God's holiness.
But that kind of clarification of my understanding of biblical teaching for evangelical groups has usually been a preface to a plea for humility.
I became aware that I have both a Hollywood biblical epic version and a Pre-Raphaelite version of Ruth in my mind's eye.
Of course, priests have preached deicide from the pulpits, biblical commentaries have explained it, and pogroms were based upon it.
I went outside into a biblical deluge, with no plan beyond having a big kip in the car.
A titanic crash of thunder heralds the return of the darkness and the onset of a truly biblical deluge.
Yet, if one studies the four Gospels and the Book of Acts, he immediately realizes that this type of church is biblical.
He propagated ideas and emphases which departed from the biblical tradition established by the Reformers and Puritans.
Folklore, biblical tradition, Egyptology, African history, and lore combine to inform her creative voice.
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But what could be better than a biblical ingredient for enhancing and dignifying the material?
And there is something elementally biblical in that, something intoxicatingly divine.
Students get a diploma in biblical studies when they complete 12 courses in four years.
Most biblical scholars largely reject the eschatological assumptions of this kind of pop end-times literature.
It is true that biblical creation is not the only alternative, so it is not proven by disproof of evolution.
Mostly, though, his opponents were disquieted by his notion that the world might be older than the biblical chronology would indicate.
Their readings have roots in and derive their stimulus from historical and political schema of dissent outlined in the biblical narratives.
I hear that there is a crisis of biblical and doctrinal authority in the churches.
That is to say, it is concerned with academic biblical exegesis and academic dogmatic theology.
It's official name in the UK is explosive cyclogenesis, which sounds a little biblical, and no-less scary.
We note when historical figures expound the meaning of Scripture in ways that are consistent with the biblical text, and times when they do not.
With the biblical passages you've given me, you've given my mind enough grist to turn over for the next couple of weeks.
Dating to the 8th century BCE, it was found in the Jordanian village of Deir Alla, which was Moabite territory in biblical times.
In most biblical poetry, lines consist of two or three versets, most with 2-3 stresses.
Aginut is a biblical or talmudic tragedy, a lapse of legality or hagiocracy whose vileness is recognized.
They looked backwards to a classical past rather than biblical precedent to provide new political ideologies with intellectual credibility and authority.
A substantial number of biblical scholars have invested much energy in demonstrating parallels between the religions of the Ugarites and of the Israelites.
It is not a representation of the past but presents the understanding and meaning that the biblical authors' contemporaries attributed to the past.
You can call my language flamboyant but it is also biblical.
All three synoptists mention that in this period, which some biblical scholars view as a time of ritual preparation, the devil, or Satan, tried to tempt Jesus.
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His placing of the location of numerous Gothic, Celtic, and other early manuscripts is a virtual travel guide to Old and Middle English biblical manuscripts.
Assume that any biblical verse you cite has an obvious meaning, and lead your hearers to think that it is identical with the point you're trying to make.
The paper will try to demonstrate how the night meeting of Ruth and Boaz at the threshing floor could have served as a kind of biblical example of pious, virtuous bundling.
The world of biblical interpretation is a calm and sedate world.
Traditionally, it was accepted that wives and children were subordinate and subservient to the husband father, either because of biblical prescription or natural inferiority.
Their story is told in sacred writings of the biblical period, although the two books of the same name are not officially a part of either testament.
But the name Cohen is reserved for the priestly caste descended directly from the biblical Aaron.
The biblical world, however, does not assume the existence of polytheism.
Although the tomb was shattered and empty, leaders of the team said they will dig on in the hope of finding jewelry, other artifacts, or even the biblical monarch's remains.
Here, the biblical narrative describes how Christ was baptized, how he defeated Satan and the work of sin, and how he ascended to reign on his heavenly throne.
A hymn can be defined as an original composition by an author while a metrical psalm or paraphrase is an author's arrangement of an existing biblical text.
He cast himself as the hero, at 22 years old trying to put his troubled past behind him and go straight, but beset with biblical problems and temptations at every step.
The quoted date does not seem compatible with the time-scale of biblical history, even allowing for some leeway in interpreting the genealogical information.
The Greek metanoia is a widely honored biblical way to speak of conversion, but metamorphe constitutes a more profound change that has eschatological significance.
First, with respect to prosody, he believes that the syllable count of poetic lines, strophes, stanzas, and poems was essential to the writing of biblical poetry.
When theological professors and pastors abandon the biblical and confessional doctrine of justification, they sacrifice the gospel and the souls of men.
The most pressing question becomes whether or not Watson's biblical theological approach can coexist peaceably with Vanhoozer's Trinitarian approach.
He was concerned with subtle shifts in the commitment to the biblical gospel in the organisation that he had been intimately involved with over many years.
In Levenson's approach, biblical particularism contains a universal horizon, but this universal horizon is not a new superior stage of religious faith.
On the surface, Watson's emphasis on biblical theology and Vanhoozer's Trinitarian hermeneutics seem somewhat compatible, but there are crucial differences.
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The biblical parables of banquets are illustrations of such encounters.
With his anachronistic attitude toward the biblical story, Bale is just following the lead of his director.
In both the biblical book of Proverbs and the apocryphal book of Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom is personified and is said to participate in God's creative activity.
These include biblical, apocryphal, sectarian, and legal writings.
Oxen were a common beast of burden during biblical times, and I believe that the sledges were probably drawn by those beasts, either individually or in small teams.
And the rest of his policy ideas, even when right-leaning, were bathed in a soft, summer camp biblical glow.
Those of us who appeal to biblical or churchly authority would do well to admit the ways in which our formulations of these appeals differ from our premodern forebears.
Although it does carry standard grammars and dictionaries for the biblical languages, I've owned them all for over thirty years now and they are of no interest to me.
In spite of these quibbles, Lancaster's book should prove a valuable resource to ministers and serious laity who are willing to grapple with issues of biblical authority.
The promise went to Abraham's singular seed, Christ, but other people can be incorporated into Christ and thus inherit the biblical promises to Abraham.
The biblical hero of hospitality, Abraham, had a tent that was open to all four directions, welcoming wayfarers from all sides, of all sorts, at all times.
And the diseases of conceit are a familiar notion from the biblical tradition that goes along with its partner diseases of hubris, idolatry and faithlessness.
If many current students come to seminary without fixed notions of biblical authority, how can a prime teaching goal continue to be disabusing students of rigidity?
Today, the Reformed Evangelische Kirche, while professing to adhere to The Helvetic Confession, has departed completely from the historic Reformed faith and biblical ethics.
The running narrative tone has a majestic, almost biblical cadence to it.
They spend much time attacking biblical creationism and creationists.
Plotz was, by his own estimation, an inattentive Jew, a biblical ignoramus.
And Gill was probably the greatest Hebraist of the 18th century and staunchly defended biblical inerrancy, and only very rarely pointed out textual problems.
Sloth, the biblical term for laziness, is one of the deadly sins.
It's not clear whether this debt is owed to all Egyptians, or just the descendants of the slave-owners from whom the biblical Hebrews presumably expropriated this bounty.
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There is also an index that serves as a concordance for the biblical text.
In her opinion, Judaic biblical laws and tradition are sacred and unchangeable, and Kornfeld's presumptuousness in altering them makes him a pagan.
This surely entails renewed commitment to catechesis and education in those nations, including our own, where there is widespread biblical and religious illiteracy.
The movie goes a little overboard with its repeated use of Plato's discussion of Atlantis, but makes up for it with the more obscure reference to the biblical leviathan.
Robbins was an impecunious 27-year-old journalist when he first met Hurst, then aged 80, who commissioned him to pen a screenplay for a biblical blockbuster.
The Russian Orthodox Church had long forbidden the creation of sculpture in the round as contravening the biblical prohibition against graven images.
The church had interpreted the biblical prohibition against graven images to forbid the creation of sculpture in the round until the early eighteenth century.
Although any aromatic herb is ideal for holiday decorations, wreaths, and table centerpieces, the following three have biblical links with Christmas.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu was looking at the biblical length of South Africans waiting in line to vote that Wednesday morning.
Camels, both the one-humped Arabian or dromedary and the two-humped Bactrian variety, have been used to support campaigns in desert areas from biblical times onwards.
It is to these factors, as much as to studies and use by scholars and writers, that the widespread survival of biblical usage and allusion can be attributed.
Groups such as the Diggers and the Levellers believed that after the execution of Charles I, a biblical monarchy was nigh and that Jesus would be the king.
A battle of biblical proportions is brewing in full-size pickup trucks.
Football truly is in the midst of a crisis of biblical proportions.
Much less well educated than the lay society at Thagaste, which broke up on Augustine's departure, the Hippo brothers daily chanted the Psalter and biblical canticles.
More recent work by other archaeologists and biblical scholars has questioned the association of the scrolls with the Qumran ruins and the Essenes.
It's a film with a few biblical themes in it, either from the quick glances of Jesus, Joseph and Mary, or from the words that Ben-Hur repeats to Arrius or other figures.
Although the elevation of mind and heart of people and preacher alike is the purpose of biblical proclamation, teaching or instruction is hardly outlawed.
Indeed, the biblical law is that debtors may not be dunned for repayment.
It does not require great skills in biblical theology and hermeneutics and exegesis to understand God's message concerning the depth, extent, and significance of the Flood.
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Leading catastrophists such as them promoted the so-called diluvial theory, which accounted for many geological phenomena by the action of the biblical flood.
Later writings were directed not so much by new biblical interpretations as by long accepted conciliar traditions, and inspired, too, by philosophical reasoning.
The relatively recent controversial permissions to remarry the divorced and make women presbyters arguably had biblical warrant, though minorities disputed this.
If Ham were truly a biblical literalist he would be endorsing The Principle.
That's why many view the law of the river with nearly biblical reverence.
Beyond the role of biblical editors, biblical historical criticism also provides insight into other aspects of early American history such as millennialism.
Since biblical times, disasters have been experienced as defining moments.
Puthenveed has analysed the psychology of most the biblical characters.
Then, aged 26, he took on the seemingly impossible challenge of sculpting a colossal statue of the biblical hero, David, from one piece of flawed marble.
In an era of biblical illiteracy, this approach will help some.
The pluriformity of biblical data seems to call for a modest but correct exegesis of biblical texts that recognizes whatever unity or disunity there may be.
Conversely, once cultural exposure is established as an urgent desideratum, can areas of inquiry like biblical criticism continue to be viewed as off limits?
Of course, I can understand the secular world calling it a theory, but we would say it's devoted to biblical history and true operational science.
Some students will readily conclude that this rule of law rejects the biblical view of marriage as two in one flesh and the family as an integrated moral unit.
The Ketuvim is the last of the three portions of the Tanakh to have been accepted as biblical canon.
Similarly, the purging of emotional associations, particularly biblical ones, gives a dry pungence to Amichai's poetry.
That kind of biblical hope is always in the indicative mood, a declaration of how things are for people of faith.
Warfield, a biblical inerrantist at the Princeton Theological Seminary, who shared Wright's openness to biological evolution.
Thus we have a clear division between homicide, which falls within the biblical law of persons, and aborticide, which is treated as a tort.
He was considered the most learned man of his time, and wrote excellent biblical and historical books.
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In his own time, Bede was as well known for his biblical commentaries and exegetical, as well as other theological works.
Well, I'm no longer seeing him in the biblical sense, but I do run him from time to time.
Under the leadership of John Calvin, Geneva became the chief international centre of Reformed Protestantism and Latin biblical scholarship.
Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president named Jimmy.
As for Modigliani he is not a painter I know so I don't know if he knew Bianca in the biblical sense or not.
The leopard is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common.
He popularised modern biblical scholarship, including the new higher criticism.
Ultimately, Smyth became committed to believers' baptism as the only biblical baptism.
During the Middle Ages, standing stones were believed to have been built by the giants who inhabited the earth before the biblical flood.
Trade guilds began to perform plays, usually religiously based, and often dealing with a biblical story that referenced their profession.
During the period of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, he produced a series of small woodcuts in which biblical villains were dressed as monks.
At times, he included classical and biblical references and inscriptions, as well as drapery, architecture, and symbolic props.
The bench is inscribed with biblical verses in Hebrew, Greek, Arabic and English.
Of the surviving prose, the majority consists of the homilies, saints' lives and biblical translations from Latin.
Blyton had an interest in biblical narratives, and retold Old and New Testament stories.
The text is a translation of the traditional antiphon, Unxerunt Salomonem, itself derived from the biblical account of the anointing of Solomon.
There are four complete or nearly complete extant English biblical collections of plays from the late medieval period.
The question is, then, what is the relationship of biblical narrative to its literary milieu?
Although Ezekiel shares with other biblical authors this view of Egypt as a monster, Ezekiel's monstrification of Egypt is unique.
The biblical story of Adam and Eve relates this choice by mankind to participate in evil, accomplished through disobedience to God's command.

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