Sentence examples for biblical legend from inspiring English sources
Biblical legend makes much of a romance between the Queen and Solomon, and his granting her "all that she desired, whatever she asked" (1 Kings 10 13) has been interpreted to include a child.
(Green's project is something of a response to Jean-Luc Godard's own vision of the Nativity, "Hail Mary," which distills Biblical legend into a story of fathers and daughters).
Now Damascus and its twisting bazaars contain innumerable sights of historical interest, including the tomb of the famous Islamic warrior Saladin and the Street Called Straight, where Biblical legend maintains that Saul of Tarsus became St. Paul the Apostle.
Perhaps too well, however, for everything has been placed into thematic categories that are sometimes justified, like the sections dealing with ritual and biblical legend, but in too many frustrating instances appear to compartmentalize a work that should have been allowed its wings.
The unofficial symbol for Cagliari, the name comes from a biblical legend.
According to Biblical legend, the original ark was built to protect Noah's family and two of every kind of animal during a flood that lasted 40 days and 40 nights.
That makes Abrams just the person to plug the newest ready-made pre-fab blocks of quasi-Biblical legend into the template left by Lucas, and Abrams does so with a vigorously responsible enthusiasm joined with a palpable wonder at his contact with the venerated text.
Bissell, a lapsed Catholic, proves an able guide through Biblical scholarship and legend.
THE Talmud is the bedrock of traditional Judaism: a repository of law and lore, chaotically interwoven with biblical explanation and legend.
Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends); Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné (1980; "The Testament of a Murdered Jewish Poet"; Eng. trans.
Wiesel, in his "Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends" (1976), argues that, contrary to the usual reading, Job did not submit when God told him that he must.
