It is also the very meaning of the name of God in the Old Testament.
Often ill, he began to devour books the Old Testament, Shakespeare, the great 19th-century Russians.
Commenting on The Song of Songs from the Old Testament, Escriva once put this idea in lyrical form.
Homosexuality, according to the old testament at least, is a sin (witness 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and Leviticus 18:22).
The first category of prayer comes out of the urgency of the Old Testament prophets and the Gospel itself.
"Abigail" was taken from the wise woman in the Old Testament and "Van Buren" was one of her favorite presidents.
The iron-and-carbon-based ink used in one of the oldest Hebrew commentaries on the Old Testament is an example of this.
Eight kilometres west of town is Mount Nebo where, in the Old Testament, Moses saw the Promised Land from its peak.
The Talmud describes and expounds upon the passages of the Old Testament.
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But judging sharia law on that basis would be like judging Christianity on a couple of chapters of the Old Testament, he added.
It is a commonplace of Jewish-Christian dialogue that both have a common root in the Hebrew Scriptures which Christians call the Old Testament.
But as readers of the Old Testament know, Jonah emerges from the whale a changed man, redeemed and willing to carry on God's work.
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Higher Criticism had shown that the Old Testament was not dictated solely by figures like Moses but was the synthesis of many cultures and traditions.
For investors' sake, let's hope the Old Testament parallels stop there.
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In the Old Testament, God places Adam in the Garden of Eden and has him name the animals, an act of a parent to a child.
In that sense, Mingus, for whom spirituality was another recurring theme, was like the God of the Old Testament: He wanted to be loved as well as feared.
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Over time, argues Mr Eigen, who has the touch of the Old Testament prophet about him, corruption threatens to reduce a country's entire administration to a Zairean state of decay.
Not only was it convincingly shown that the Old Testament was not dictated by figures like Moses, but it was also amply demonstrated that the work was the synthesis of many stories and traditions.
Mr McLellan's story is based on the Old Testament story of Rahab - a prostitute from the city of Jericho, who saves the lives of two Jewish spies and is, in turn, saved by them.
Save for the Old Testament look he tried on in "Evan Almighty, " he's maintained the same boring businessman haircut for as long as he's been in the public eye (and well before that, I'll bet).
Another piece is a clay vessel in the form of a piglet that was made nearly 3, 000 years before the Old Testament book of Leviticus made the pig anathema in most of the Middle East.
And so, as I pondered and worried and accomplished nothing, the winter blew in with a wild snow that scoured the streets and roared through my meagre shelter like the vengeful God of the Old Testament.
That's the story of the Old Testament.
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Read in this spirit, large chunks of the Old Testament the territorial feuds, the constant threat of exile or extinction, the sexual jealousy and sibling rivalry begin to resemble the handbook for a grim new scarcity economy of land and love.
But the Old Testament still matters.
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That is a doctrinal fight that any of us can have any time (and I love it how these same Bible thumpers ignore the biblical story of Deborah, who was a judge in the Old Testament -- and was over men).
Smith mimicked the endless, generation-counting longueurs of the Old Testament so skillfully that he rendered the book dead as literature while giving it credibility as a sacred text: a book as boring as this could have been inspired only by the breath of God.
The virtue of the One Year Bible has always been that it offers daily readings from the Old Testament, the New Testament, the Psalms, and Proverbs, but it still offers the psychological barriers that come with such a massive undertaking as trying to Read the Whole Thing.
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