Ellen Davis, professor of Bible and practical theology at Duke Divinity School, has turned her attention, in recent years, to the Old Testament's seemingly anachronistic discussion of land use.
They may — owing to the anachronistic Law of Return — be able to leave Great Neck, land in Israel, and claim citizenship; but they are usually less attuned to Israel's Hebrew culture than the state's Arab citizens are.
Indeed, the very concept of the land battle is "anachronistic".
And while the agriculture department becomes increasingly progressive and diverse, the idea of women's-only land has only become more anachronistic.
The old guard members in the Palestinian Authority are struggling to remain relevant at a time when their failed 20-year quest to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands makes them seem both anachronistic and obsolete.
Farming seemed downright anachronistic.
The subdivision will finally undo an anachronistic property-leasing arrangement created under the state's 1913 Alien Land Law, which effectively blocked Chinese immigrants and their children from owning land.
But as urban sprawl has extended into what used to be seemingly endless pasture land, cow-friendly open range laws are under fresh scrutiny, criticized as anachronistic throwbacks to the Wild West days before Interstate highways and tract homes.
Sutphen's next book landed somewhere in between: a story of New York's future, but in a curiously anachronistic voice.
Anachronistic stripling,.
