How To Use Biblical In A Sentence
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The first, built by Solomon (1012 B.C.) appears from the Biblical description [6] to have combined Egyptian conceptions (successive courts, lofty entrance-pylons, the Sanctuary and the sekos or “Holy of Holies”) with
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
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Their readings have roots in and derive their stimulus from historical and political schema of dissent outlined in the biblical narratives.
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Through their work, the fruits of biblical scholarship were disseminated to an ever-widening audience.
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This Frankfurt-born artist who was based in Rome specialised in biblical and mythological subjects in oil on copper panels.
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His closest friends had no time for biblical Christianity, his church attendance lapsed, and his work became increasingly secular, including writing for the theatre.
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William Ragsdale, playing the Sheriff oof, playing sheriffs... well, life is short of a small bayou town hagged by what seem to be Biblical plagues.
Oh, you're so COOL, Brewster!
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More biblical exegesis is needed to sustain and to further the position of Vatican II.
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The prose is strewn with biblical and poetic tags and pang full of rhetorical devices.
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As Tunisians flooded Lampedusa earlier this month, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, of the anti-immigrant Northern League, stoked fears that terrorists and al-Qaida supporters could have mingled among what he described as a "biblical exodus" of migrants.
The Seattle Times
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There is a contradiction here, both within his statements and with the biblical text.
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The only other surviving writings that are exclusively apocalyptic in style come from outside our biblical canon and are usually unfamiliar to anyone but scholars in the field.
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The word patriarch as applied to Biblical personages comes from the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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The outlay to make forged clay bullae -- clay lumps used to seal papyri and packages -- and add a biblical name to them is virtually nothing, and these things go for anywhere from $100,000 on up depending on what is on the bulla.
Conversations: Forgery Fallout
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Where the Sumerian tale presents the deluge as the work of an intemperate overlord whose attitude to humanity is far from benevolent, whose might may not be right, and offers an ethical opposition to him in figure of a merciful intercessor, the Biblical tale ultimately sanctions the genocidal destruction of most of humanity by ascribing it to a God whose wisdom, justice and mercy are presented as unquestionable.
Creative Control - Part 4
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Part of Goody's almost biblical redemption was that she admitted her faults.
Times, Sunday Times
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Biblical exegetes intent on recovering historical origins treat the text as an object on which to practice methodical procedures when they should instead be acknowledging the traditions to which they themselves belong.
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It could be a hypocoristic or baby-talk form of hysterical, or it might be from the imitative word hiss; or perhaps it is a variant of another dialect term, jesse, meaning a ` severe scolding, 'which is probably from a Biblical allusion.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
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The constitution of the League was termed by Mr. Wilson a Covenant, a word redolent of biblical and puritanical times, which accorded well with the motives that decided him to prefer Geneva to Brussels as the seat of the League, and to adopt other measures of a supposed political character.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
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After a year reading history at King's College, London, W. J. Martin persuaded him that study of the biblical world and its languages would be more valuable to the church and biblical studies, so he turned to Hebrew and Assyriology.
Donald Wiseman was key figure at Tyndale House | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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To develop the tools of social transformation she convened an activist community of pastors, preachers, biblical exegetes, theologians and theology students, laymen and laywomen to develop tools to guide the Christian churches in an engagement with the pandemic.
Karen Torjesen: Feminist Theology In The 21st Century
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He describes an idea to build a “Web site with a biblical basis” that will be a “one-stop shop for people who want to talk intelligently about life issues,” which seem to include everything from eugenics to euthanasia to abortion.
American Grace
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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.
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(In fact, some modernist critics would say that Evangelicals and other biblical literalists engage in "bibliolatry" or text worship.)
Valerie Tarico: Psychology of God: Do Christians Believe God Has Emotions?
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A proper interpretation of the rocks arid fossils speaks of a global, dynamic, watery catastrophe: the biblical Deluge.
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As a movement, they are unwilling to align themselves with Biblical creationism.
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In Levenson's approach, biblical particularism contains a universal horizon, but this universal horizon is not a new superior stage of religious faith.
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On paper, Lieutenant Commander Brian K. Waite, a United States Navy chaplain, appears to be one of the nation's foremost scholars on a wide-range of topics such as traumatology, theology, and Biblical history.
Navy Chaplain Who Called for Attack on Islam Finds His Credentials Under Scrutiny
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One thing is clear to me: If biblical studies is to survive in academia, it must move beyond its still religionist, Euroamerican, and bibliolatrous orientation and offer us a more convincing rationale for how it will benefit our broader world and not just faith communities.
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The earliest written reference to Malta is in the biblical account of Saint Paul's shipwreck.
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I couldn't help but think of that column as we faced news of truly biblical proportions last week.
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Families used to boast of their biblical view over the lush valley.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, Moulsworth vows to transmute the faulty model provided by the Biblical Martha, the archetypal busy housewife: Moulsworth plans to "dight" (or make ready) her "Inward house" (l. 19) and thus prepare an appropriate habitation for Christ.
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
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I see you providing no evidence that the wisdom language ascribed to Jesus is "the one and only top-ladder creation language idiomatical biblical language which is uniquely associated with Godhead in the history of Judaism.
HANDS Across the Godhead?
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James Carville thought it was appropriate to liken Bill Richardson to Judas who sold out Jesus for 30 pieces of silver when he endorsed Barack Obama and reiterated his incongruous biblical analogy on CNN by saying that Richardson was being "disloyal" - not to the country, but to the Clintons.
Sam Sedaei: The Price of Loyalty
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He had left his church, spoken of Jesus as a human role model, and used biblical history and Christian dogmas simply as figures of speech, supportive exempla in his powerful rhetoric against the dead incarnations of past spirit.
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If you buy the biblical spin of the Religious Right folks -- that make up the bulk of the Tea Party movement -- the implication is clear: Jesus will soon return, send all Democrats, gays, blacks, progressives, liberals, college-educated unbelievers, etc., to Hell, while saving what Sarah Palin calls "us" "Real Americans" -- in other words unreconstructed frightened and resentful white lower middle class Americans.
AlterNet
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Biblical injunctions often are all the more valuable for their impracticality in the real world.
St. Warren Casts Not the First Stone
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Contrary to initial reports, a great flood of biblical proportions is not being considered as a possibility.
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Then the inevitable and auspicious slice of baklava, flaky and honeyed, which brings to mind ancient pleasures, Biblical decadence.
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Even during the Reformation it was biblical scenes likely to promote superstition and idolatry that came down.
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Read theology and biblical studies from global voices, or from historically marginalized peoples or groups.
Christianity Today
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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.
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Even the Rastafarian character relates it to the Biblical Babylon city.
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The play abounds in biblical and religious allusions, typical of Romantic works, and also prevalent in the comedia lacrimosa.
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The downpour did not intensify by degrees but simply gushed forth with biblical fury, vertical and windless.
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They counteract the tendency in twenty-first century America towards biblical illiteracy.
Christianity Today
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Far from being based in a biblical vision, the case for intelligent design seems to lead at best to a kind of deism.
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Well, I am a biblical scholar - complete with tenured academic post - and I think your analysis is convincing.
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Specially not a heavenly pascha with such bloodstained hands as the biblical one.
Evolution and Liberal Christianity
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In 1902, two years after the physicist Max Planck first coined the term quantum to describe the core reality of light, a young British writer named James Allen penned a little book entitled As a Man Thinketh, which drew its title and its message from the biblical verse “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
The Answer
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American neo-orthodoxy in the 1940s and 1950s typically meant a compound of Brunner's dogmatics, Niebuhr's theological ethics, and the scripture scholarship of the biblical theology movement.
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Not just longer, but bushier, thicker, glossier, more luxuriant - downright biblical many of them.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the bishops they saw pomposity and rampant corruption, disdain for biblical teaching, and addiction to ceremony.
Christianity Today
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Even with abstracts, the theme was, more often than not a Biblical one.
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In the abolition of such Biblical ordinances he laid down the principle of Abrogation which forms the basis of Islamic theology.
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Angels and biblical scenes covered the ceiling.
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Upper-level college texts focusing on individual biblical books from both Testaments further complement the series.
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Other sources, give the biblical, patristic and theological arguments for this better than me though.
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In other words, it is a biblical and doctrinal criterion, not an ecclesiastical or historical one.
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Some people, who misinterpret Barr's own observations, declare that our inability to understand the biblical worldview by the analysis of its language should prevent us from theologizing.
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I enjoyed that the supernatural threat had biblical underpinnings, which is always a plus in my book.
REVIEW: Any Given Doomsday, Lori Handeland
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Rhinos … WHOLE FKN KINGDOM IS IN FEAR … and well it fkn should be, for death and chaos, shall decent upon his skanky arse, wreak HAVOCK and fkn RETRIBUTION in biblical fkn scales.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Brief note from Der Bünker.
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There is a final item in the cascade of causes and consequences, a retribution for pollution that seems almost biblically apt.
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The British Evangelical Council, first formed in 1952 as an Evangelical response to unbiblical ecumenism, is now known as ‘Affinity’.
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Another strength of the book is its attempt to synthesize homiletics, theology, and biblical hermeneutics.
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What these passages show is that the biblical vision for God's creation is completeness, fullness, wholeness, and well-being.
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She doesn't quote the great biblical injunction ‘to do justice but to love mercy’, but that is the general drift.
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In place of conventional biblical and hagiographic narratives, we find subjects based more loosely on the bestiary, the Psalms, moralizing treatises, and monastic accounts of dreams and hallucinations.
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Because the incarnate Logos is the source and measure of all creaturely being, a full account of Jesus' identity includes the whole of creation no less than the particular features of the biblical narrative.
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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.
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There being little or no biblical evidence for any of these claims, the programme focused on apocryphal writings - including a Gospel of Mary Magdalene which turned up in 1945.
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He was accused of inciting violence with his biblical hyperbole and then denouncing loyalists when they carried out atrocities.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were shivering outside in the rain like biblical shepherds, watching their flocks of celebrity sheep get themselves into all kinds of trouble.
The Sun
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Bugnini goes on to list the biblical scholars who were then asked by the coetus in 1965, thirty-one in all, to select all the passages from both Testaments that they thought would be suitable for liturgical use.
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Let the word dissociate from the literal Biblical meanings and instead focus on its mystical intent - a name for the unnameable.
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The Biblical Commission, originally established to foster biblical scholarship, had been used by Pius X to repress it.
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I have long been interested in christianity and Biblical criticism.
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But for Biblical literalists, this poses quite the problem.
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But before we grasp for a quick fix to our condition, we need to consider the longer arc of biblical ecology.
Christianity Today
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This was a suite of six prose poems, mostly composed in an ironic and decorative biblical style replete with anaphora and the artificiality of thee's, thy's and thou's.
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This initial was traditionally decorated with a depiction of David playing his psaltery. 79 That the psalms were associated with the biblical figure and his instrument was not lost on Dominican women.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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There are not many olive wood carpentry shops left in the biblical city of Bethlehem.
Times, Sunday Times
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He demands a Biblical concordance which is in folio.
Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
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Heretofore Biblical writers have given to us battles, laws, histories, songs; now we have in Solomon's writings a new style in short, epigrammatic sentences.
The Woman's Bible
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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.
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Conversely, once cultural exposure is established as an urgent desideratum, can areas of inquiry like biblical criticism continue to be viewed as off limits?
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Although Buddy did not know the word "sententious," the people he described were the embodiment of it -- licensed bores, as all aborigines seemed to be (so he implied), who had a proverb or a biblical passage for every reversal in life.
Beard
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His Ark is estimated by biblical scholars to have been four hundred and fifty feet long.
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A much earlier development than the biblical canon was the evolution of the threefold ministry of bishop, presbyter, and deacon.
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Since this collection of essays comes from scholars of history, theology, and homiletics, as well as from biblical scholars, it will surely engage the attention of a wide body of those committed to theological education.
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Modern writers of fiction seem to be more attracted to realistic biblical characters, involved in verisimilar situations.
Biblical Women in World and Hebrew Literature.
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Her claim that the term impure (teme’ah) is obfuscated because of its biblical connotation of transmission of impurity and the rabbinic usage of unavailability for sexual purposes needs further clarification.
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.
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The chapter also contains self-help exercises for those who wish to pursue postcolonial biblical criticism further.
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I tried to find a biblical justification for it, but no matter how hard I looked, I always ended up at Leviticus 11:10 which calls scaleless fish, "an abomination.
Archive 2004-12-05
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There is definitley a school thought that the "stone of scone" that was blagged by eddie longshanks was simply a lump of local sandstone subsituted by the monks at scone Abbey, as they knew edward was coming to get it, as he reckoned that Robert the Bruce could not be crowned legaly or at least traditionaly without the "STONE "you have to bear in mind that to the monks, this stone was in fact "Jacobs Pillow " of biblical fame.
Filmstalker: Stone of Destiny theft gets filmed
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It reminds me of the joke about a biblical zoo where a wolf and a sheep shared a pen.
Times, Sunday Times
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This reflects the Biblical command, " You shall not false witness against your neighbor.
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Subsequently, he pursued his study at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and received a degree in Master of Divinity with Biblical Languages.
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Its contents mirror the core genres of stories depicted on cassone frontals: Roman poetry, contemporary Tuscan verse, ancient Greek, Roman, biblical and modern history.
Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence (Courtauld Gallery, London, 12 Feb-17 May 2009)
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So, for thirty-two years I have preached to the most intelligent, biblically ignorant people I know, and as our introducer has said, it has made my reputation.
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Unusually, instead of classical scenes, Poussin uses biblical stories to depict his Seasons, with each canvas colouristically distinct.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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It is true that biblical creation is not the only alternative, so it is not proven by disproof of evolution.
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He pursues his tale in biblical style, through the testimony of four ‘alternative’ gospels.
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Was I witnessing a spectacle of biblical proportions?
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The Bible stands at the center of our faith in that we read the biblical texts as Scripture.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh describes a flood which preceded the Biblical inundation by at least a thousand years.
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Here in the parched mountains, victims fight for survival in conditions worse than biblical.
The Sun
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When it rains the downpour is of biblical proportions.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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The relatively recent controversial permissions to remarry the divorced and make women presbyters arguably had biblical warrant, though minorities disputed this.
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A meeting was arranged for August 5, and Sam tagged along to see firsthand the notorious defier of federal and biblical authority.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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• From Genesis to Revelation, the preponderant biblical voice condemns the vast disparities of poverty and wealth that conservative policies cause and actively maintain.
Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., Ph.D.: Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and the Sins of Ideological Christianity
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The YEC of Answers in Genesis is not the same thing as the systematic calculations of biblical scholars like Ussher.
Alternative to Dembski's Theodicy?
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He propagated ideas and emphases which departed from the biblical tradition established by the Reformers and Puritans.
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The narrative technique is deliberately non-linear and complex, the language richly poetic and suffused with biblical references.
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Biblical illiteracy is running rampant within many contexts.
Christianity Today
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Maxwell's text, in opening and closing monologues, overwrites the story of his family's trans-American migration onto the biblical arc of the Creation and Redemption allegories, a contemporary flavor skillfully affected by somehow tasteful references to free-basing.
Selby Drummond: Half-way Between Gesture and Thought: Choreographer Sarah Michelson's "Devotion"
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The world of biblical interpretation is a calm and sedate world.
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Catholic biblical scholars, theologians and many active lay groups had good reasons to be grateful.
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Today, the Reformed Evangelische Kirche, while professing to adhere to The Helvetic Confession, has departed completely from the historic Reformed faith and biblical ethics.
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The language of old carols, she thought, was too tricky and biblical.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why should biblical scholarship, which is pertinent to so many lives, be thus immune to evolution and development?
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The title was also used of Tatar khans, Biblical kings, and of various rulers in folk genres.
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Reading biblical texts intertextually with a hermeneutics of other deconstructs the familiar and conventional.
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Moby-Dick: Polyphony: Learn how Biblical references and imagery are used in popular literature of the 20th century, namely Moby Dick, in this lecture.
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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If only they had used biblical language at least it would have sounded less trite, hackneyed and cliched.
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The Walk the Plank theatre company will be staging a family show based upon the Biblical tale and the great flood.
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We see this in three biblical passages.
Times, Sunday Times
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He does not, however, represent recognizable Jewish thought or practice in his mis- representations of the Torah and other Jewish sancta -- or for that matter, New Testament and Christian biblical interpretation and theology.
Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.: Eddie Long Is Not A 'King'
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They remember that concern for the weak is at the heart of Biblical religious tradition.
Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie: Religion, Politics and the Return of Ralph Reed: Is That God or Ambition Talking?
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It would seem, then, that the shophar and not the hacocerah was in Biblical times used on the feast of the new moon of Tishri.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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His Ark is estimated by biblical scholars to have been four hundred and fifty feet long.
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The language of hymnology has often been strongly biblical, especially in the compositions of John and Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts.
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The Greek metanoia is a widely honored biblical way to speak of conversion, but metamorphe constitutes a more profound change that has eschatological significance.
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In most biblical poetry, lines consist of two or three versets (sections of a line), most with 2-3 stresses.
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The heavens opened and a deluge of biblical proportions had within minutes, turned roads into fast-flowing rivers and gardens into lakes.
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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.
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According to the evolutionary sequence, the biblical order of creation is all wrong.
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One might, for instance, have considered the changing popularity of biblical (as opposed to hagiographical or even secular) imagery in general, assessed diachronistic patterns in the relative popularity of individual subjects, and examined the iconographic evolution of particularly important ones.
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But before we grasp for a quick fix to our condition, we need to consider the longer arc of biblical ecology.
Christianity Today
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Proclaiming himself to be the penultimate defender of Israel and thus the Jewish people, Hagee’s motives came into public question when two his incendiary quotes surfaced; one calling the Catholic Church the “Great Whore, the other suggesting Nazis were God’s plan to corral the Jews into the biblically mandated Israeli territories in order to facilitate the Second Coming.
McCain and Hagee: Still Joined at the Hip by Joe Lieberman
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That is to say, it is concerned with academic biblical exegesis and academic dogmatic theology.
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And beyond just the unusual premise of controlling little computer people as they live, work, make friends, make potty, and make "woohoo" (the game's euphemism for getting to know someone in the biblical sense), the console version will have extensive tools for editing content and sharing it online with your friends.
GameSpot's Array News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
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The biblical figures bracket seated personifications of Virtues, and they establish the underlying context: mankind's redemption through Christ's advent.
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The first discussion of female homoeroticism in Jewish texts is found in Sifra, a postbiblical commentary on the book of Leviticus, edited in the second century a.d.
Lesbianism.
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The scene was almost biblical.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Augustinian monk had come to the correct conclusion that the entire scheme, including penance, was unbiblical.
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But before we grasp for a quick fix to our condition, we need to consider the longer arc of biblical ecology.
Christianity Today
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Cutting back on sickness benefit will deliver miracle cures of biblical proportions.
The Sun
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If it was, then the country could be graduality taken over by a religious majority that takes the biblical permissions to own slaves seriously, and they would then “legislate the morality” of owning other people.
Should male legislators decide if abortion is legal?
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For 200 years, to be an American hero was to be mythicized as being almost biblically good.
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One of the little known biblical figures who has attracted contemporary Jewish women writers is Lilith, who in Jewish folklore and rabbinic commentary is described as Adam's first wife, prior to Eve.
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Also archaeologists, the Gears apply over thirty years of research with their backgrounds in biblical archaeology, religious studies, Greek, and Latin, to reveal a new and relatively unknown and historically unsupported biography of Jesus Christ, or Yeshua.
“The Betrayal: The Lost Life of Jesus” by Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear (Forge, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog
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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.
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The play abounds in biblical and religious allusions, typical of Romantic works, and also prevalent in the comedia lacrimosa.
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During the Middle Ages, living pictures of biblical stories were used in churches to educate the illiterate masses.
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The day began with a Biblical downpour, and concludes with the same; in between, a blaring sun and soupy air.
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In the Biblical story of the Israelite journey through the desert to the promised land what was in geographical distance only a three month trek took forty years.
Rabbi Irwin Kula: Gridlock Is Good
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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 (whether of a verse or pericope or book).
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For both scholars, the two Testaments are part of the theological enterprise; theirs is a biblical theology.
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Often it is frankly biblical, beginning with John Winthrop's famous 1630 sermon "A City Upon A Hill" that gave a much-needed dose of self-confidence to the Massachusetts Bay colonists.
Jonathan D. Moreno: America's Problem With "Progress"
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But a second problem is that such views misrepresent the biblical idea of election in a number of important ways.
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Daniel researches his role as Christ, gathers a motley cast of veteran players, and mounts a daring and provocative re-telling of the Biblical tale that horrifies Le Clerc but becomes a smash hit in Quebec.
John Farr: Getting Religion: The Ten Best Films on Faith
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The manner in which Sabbatarians emphasize the phrase “My Sabbath,” and “My holy day,” is well calculated to mislead the unsuspecting, but those who are schooled in biblical literature will regard it as mere _rant_, _cheap theology_, _mere display_!
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880
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What has been experimentally demonstrated is in no way inconsistent with the biblical account of creation.
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There is also an anagrammatic name which is nearly equivalent to "That Which Is" in Biblical Hebrew, but since The Way of Liberation cannot be named, I shall refrain from attempting to do so.
Blind Faith?
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The biblical texts are full of suffering and self-reproach and the intensity of these responsores may well amaze you.
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He said he did not walk away from the discussion because he had a ‘biblical duty’ to show his fellow man the correct way.
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Next will be that perennial complaint by predictable hand wringers that children's toy advertising is a modern evil of biblical proportions.
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Some are literally just snakes, but others are used according to Biblical symbolism to show the chaotic and chthonic powers of Satan in conflict with the saints, angels or Christ.
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It's a beauty of biblical proportions.
The Sun
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Local legends and some native historians trace their ancestry to the biblical figure Yafith, the son of Noah.
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Beginning 'There is is no longer any Temple of the Sun' there is a disturbing resonance with the recognition by both Lettrists and Situationists that the 33rd degree Masonry embodied the final syllable of the secret word JAHBULON as a reference to the Biblical city of On - more recently Heliopolis - refined by ANONYMOUS to the deceitful (cunning) Albertopolis - a name which covertly draws in the European Monarchical cabbala linking the Kaiser to Ra, the sun-God, rededicated to Osiris, God of the Dead.
Brit Lit Blogs
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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.
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Reuchlin and other masters of this new syncretism looked back to Pico as their model; German theologians and biblical scholars were still debating his theses when the young Immanuel Kant began teaching in Königsberg.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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The biblical psalmist wrote, ‘Without vision, the people perish.’
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To be fair, he employs biblical language and imagery at strategic points along the way.
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Why such fear of modern critical biblical studies and new understandings of hagiography and ecclesiastical history?
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A titanic crash of thunder heralds the return of the darkness and the onset of a truly biblical deluge.
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Specifically, Robert cannot accept Christ's divinity, the biblical miracles, or the ‘damnatory psalms'.
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We need our biblical scholars and theologians.
Christianity Today
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Given the practical limits on the size of books, most introductory texts in biblical studies emphasize either extensive work with the text itself or thorough introduction to issues of authorship, date, canonicity, and the like.
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General readers wishing for fresh insight into the hermeneutical significance of the biblical canon are advised to look elsewhere.
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Secret compartments and a false floor hid the biblical contraband.
Times, Sunday Times
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The debt they owe to Reformation theology is explicitly acknowledged; and unbiblical ecumenism and charismaticism are rejected.
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Indeed, the biblical law is that debtors may not be dunned for repayment.
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Using the techniques of source criticism and form criticism, historical-critical scholarship analyzed biblical pericopes and looked through them to reconstruct the history of the traditions that lay behind the canonical documents.
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Even the last measure, being ‘close to a powerful spiritual force’ does not necessarily relate to Biblical literalism.
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She was a keen letter writer, an avid reader and biblical student, and was active in church and community.
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That bias rightly reflects the biblical concern with patrilineage — tracing families through the male line.
Rebekah: Bible.
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Israel cites historical and Biblical links to the West Bank, which it calls Judea and Samaria.
Reuters: Press Release
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While all three novellas center on alienated and deracinated people -- doubters, outcasts, the detritus of biblical stories -- they are slight and unmemorable as fictional characters.
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A much earlier development than the biblical canon was the evolution of the threefold ministry of bishop, presbyter, and deacon.
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The author's claim that the biblical creation story associates woman with ‘inborn evil’ relies upon a Christian interpretation of the Fall of Man story in Genesis, which ascribes the dogma of Original Sin to Eve's eating the apple.
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Barr suggests not only that biblical theology is not theology in the doctrinal sense, but that a serious unification of both Testaments can be accomplished only with doctrinal, not biblical theology.
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In place of conventional biblical and hagiographic narratives, we find subjects based more loosely on the bestiary, the Psalms, moralizing treatises, and monastic accounts of dreams and hallucinations.
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The American biblical scholar Bart Ehrman, in a book whose subtitle is The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why, unfolds the huge uncertainty befogging the New Testament texts.
The God Delusion
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This is partly because it is willing to access premodern Bible studies, which often took seriously the coherence and impact of the biblical narrative.
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It also deals with a country divided by class, language and biblical argument.
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This depiction, often sculptural as the Vesperbilder usually were but sometimes painted or illuminated, is based on the biblical passages describing the Last Supper.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
