Sentence examples for biblical origin from inspiring English sources

(N.B. This is of Biblical origin).

In his informative review of Alister McGrath's "In the Beginning" (April 8), Simon Winchester, citing the book, says that the idiom "sour grapes" has a biblical origin.

I talked to him about the Biblical origin of the idea of Jubilee Year, the idea that every 49 years, you were supposed to release people from their debt and slaves were supposed to be set free.

That is why he begins his book not with the Biblical origin stories but with the retelling of those stories by a Jew, Flavius Josephus, who lived in the first century C.E., well into the period of recorded history.

In Italy, the oratorio achieved what was beyond the motet's capabilities by projecting through verse and music a story of Biblical origin that the public could enjoy while learning.

Whereas these rules are of biblical origin, they have been interpreted, modified, and argued about over the long history of the Jewish people, up to this day (Kraemer 2007).

The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins.

Turns out he has biblical origins, and he's not a big fan of humanity.

Shaving the heads of women as a public humiliation has biblical origins and has been used as a punishment in Europe since the dark ages.

Some of those details on warring religious sects and their biblical origins came from research at the Yale Divinity School library, he said.

"We interpret this as the president using his bully pulpit to support freedom of inquiry and free speech about the issue of biblical origins," said Stephen Meyer, the director of the institute's Center for Science and Culture.