This is a biblical text.

In Southern Azerbaijan, many people reach biblical ages.

The number 13 also has a biblical significance.

The biblical Tower of Babel is what architects call a ziggurat.

This was a popularized interpretation of the Biblical end of the world.

Its ancient biblical past can now coexist seamlessly with its ultra modern present.

In Southern Azerbaijan, many people reach ages that can almost be considered biblical.

In a couple of early biblical manuscripts, the number is cited as 616.

The Holy Land combines the splendour of biblical truths, modern comfort and primeval nature.

Moses Portrait of a Leader. In Messengers of God Biblical Portraits Legends , 174 210.

In Encyclopedia of Biblical Personalities Anthologized from the Talmud, Midrash and Rabbinic Writings , 340 99.

It is used to help determine the lifestyle and practices of people living in biblical times.

So one third of it reprises the stories of Biblical figures like Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Mary, Jesus.

Mahatma Gandhi criticized the biblical justification of retribution, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

Netanyahu s claim that this extended Jerusalem is the biblical capital of the Jewish people is a historical travesty.

However, the fact remains that the people of the region surrounding Lerik reach a biblical age with striking regularity.

The only remedy to our fragile existence in the Diaspora lies in the return to the Biblical Land of Israel.

But others are biblical fundamentalists, who reject modern science because they take the word of the Bible as literally true.

Biblical Roots of Separation of Power , Moscow Letny Sad, 2005, ISBN 5 94381 123 0, http lccn.loc.gov 2006400578 Barzel, Hillel.

Are a couple of data points and a biblical parable enough to take the hypothesis of a 15 year cycle seriously?

But, unlike the EU, the Dominican Republic is not an economic giant that can assume exclusive responsibility for extracting Haiti from its Biblical destitution.

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Proposed topics included Orthodox Christian Understanding of the Meaning of Human Life and Distorted Interpretations of Biblical Texts in the Literature of Destructive Sects.

But that biblical adage was in fact invoked originally to curb blood feuds from claiming the innocent relatives of the person who committed the killing.

At this point Europe, witnessing an exodus of biblical proportions, could no longer ignore the challenge and the consequences of the crises in its neighboring region.

Johann Salomo Semler (18 December 1725 14 March 1791) was a German church historian, biblical commentator, and critic of ecclesiastical documents and of the history of dogmas.

The Fund s policy change drew the ire of Chinese officials, who have been intervening on a biblical scale to hold down the value of their currency, the Yuan.

Everything will end up like Sodom and Gomorrah , a reference to the Biblical cities present in the Old Testament that were destroyed because of the perversions of their people.

Confucianism s tenets still provide an inner compass to most East Asians in a post Confucian age, just as Biblical admonitions remain standards for the West in a post religious age.

And when I'm on my bike, I feel that I connect with the profound beauty of Israel, and I feel that I'm united with this country's history and biblical law.

Sadly, in many places in the world, it seems that men and women have not advanced beyond the biblical admonition of an eye for an eye in their yearning for retribution.

These things resonate with us, and, if you think about blogs, you think of high art blogs, the history paintings about, you know, all biblical stories, and then you have this.

For example, Modern Hebrew was modeled on Biblical Hebrew rather than engineered from scratch, and has undergone considerable changes since the state of Israel was founded in 1948 (Hetzron 1990 693).

Its ancient biblical past can now coexist seamlessly with its ultra modern present. Israel s new millionaires can easily live in far flung settlements in Judea and Samaria and commute daily to their coastal startups.

But the settlers driven by a nationalist religious ideology, devoted to the myth of a Great Israel and convinced that they are fulfilling the biblical dictate of repossessing the sacred land, will oppose evacuation.

And if that wasn't good enough motivation for everyone out there, they also have more how shall I say this on this stage? they know each other more in the biblical sense as well.

According to the Biblical story of the Binding of Isaac, a ram is sacrificed as a substitute for Isaac after an angel stays Abraham's hand (in the Islamic tradition, Abraham was about to sacrifice Ishmael).

The Zionist project of creating a Jewish state in Palestine entails a return of the Jewish people to their ancestral homeland, a land in which Jews lived since biblical times and which the Diaspora never abandoned.

He spoke of the Holy Land as the source of Christianity and the home of sacred shrines of Islam, but intentionally ignored the Biblical roots of Judaism and Jerusalem as the home of Hebrew kings and prophets.

Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

Not only does it advocate an Israeli presence in the West Bank (the Biblical homeland of Judea and Samaria) it also links territorial concessions to the Palestinians to the neutralization of existential threats emanating from the outer circle of the region.

Now by taking the biblical epithet abomination and attaching it to the ultimate image of innocence, a baby, this joke short circuits the emotional wiring behind the debate and it leaves the audience with the opportunity, through their laughter, to question its validity.

He was far less shaped by religious and biblical teachings than all of them, and the narrative of Jewish history and of Israel s heroic emergence out of the ashes of the Holocaust is not the primordial sentiment in his attitude toward the Arab Israeli conflict.

These are clearly biblical archetypes, and the thinking behind that was to create that could be tied to the same things that other people were pulling mean messages out of because then the person that's using religion for the wrong purpose just becomes a bad man with a bad message.

The thought that simply by pulling money out of our pockets, raising it in the air, collecting it in a basket and putting it on some imagined altar is what is going to turn the economy around belongs to the world of witchcraft and not to the world of biblical Christianity.