Hebrew-scriptures Sentence Examples

Beetles (Scarabaei) are the subjects of some of the oldest sculptured works of the Egyptians, and references to locusts, bees and ants are familiar to all readers of the Hebrew scriptures.

According to the Kabbalah all these esoteric doctrines are contained in the Hebrew Scriptures.

In the Hebrew scriptures the waters were gathered together in one place at the word of God, and the dry land appeared.

The ancient name of the people of Yemen was Saba (Saba' with final hemza); and the oldest notices of them are in the Hebrew Scriptures.

Spinoza undertakes to prove his case by the instance of the Hebrew Scriptures.

The inference is not expressly drawn, though it becomes perfectly clear from his refutation of William Whiston's curious counter theory that there were in the original Hebrew scriptures prophecies which were literally fulfilled in the New Testament, but had been expunged at an early date by Jewish scribes.

His critical edition of the Psalms (1882-1883) was his chief contribution to biblical exegesis, but after his death Professor Bacher edited Graetz's Emendationes to many parts of the Hebrew scriptures.

The latter, in twenty books, of which only the first ten and fragments of the fifteenth are extant, endeavours to prove from the Hebrew Scriptures themselves that the Christians are right in going beyond the Jews and adopting new principles and practices.

The name in the Hebrew Scriptures hardly had a definite territorial significance.

The modern name is Bahr Lut or "Sea of Lot" - a name hardly to be explained as a survival of a vague tradition of the patriarch, but more probably due to the literary influences of the Hebrew Scriptures and the Koran filtering through to the modern inhabitants or their ancestors.

Demetrius's use of proper names and characteristic expressions match the Septuagint, the Greek Bible, not the Hebrew scriptures.

As long he didn't try to argue that the Hebrew Scriptures were the truth and the pagan religions were not.

Various genealogical lists appear in the Hebrew scriptures which greatly aid our understanding of certain events.

From this point of view it is most significant that in the older parts of the Hebrew Scriptures the new moon and the Sabbath are almost invariably mentioned together.6 Nor are other traces wanting of the connexion of sacrificial occasions - i.e.

As long he did n't try to argue that the Hebrew Scriptures were the truth and the pagan religions were not.

Various genealogical lists appear in the Hebrew Scriptures which greatly aid our understanding of certain events.