Sentence examples for major bible from inspiring English sources

Until then, major Bible translations in English had taken an approach now known as "formal equivalence," striving to maintain the sentence structure, phrasing, and idioms of the original Hebrew and Greek.

One of the last major Bible film productions, Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" (2004), was heavily criticized for its depiction of Jews and charged with lacking historical accuracy.

Five of the seven major English Bibles of the 16th century were produced in exile; two of their makers died at the stake.

On May 29, the Society for Biblical Literature, the major association for Bible scholars, announced that it had received $140,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation to help it spin off this new society "to give the academic study of the Qur'an the attention it deserves," according to John F. Kutsko, who teaches at Emory University, in Atlanta, and helped secure the grant.

I began my studies as a Bible major and proceeded to spend countless hours memorizing ancient Greek in order to increase my ability to study and decipher the nuances of the Holy Scriptures.

What it really means to do is discredit major texts, and the Bible is a major target of deconstructionism.

All the major players from the Bible's early books are here in their pivotal moments, without all the detailed geography and genealogy.

I felt there needed to be both a graphic bridge and a chronological structure to help (especially the younger ones) to grasp and understand the major themes of the Bible.

Sin is a major theme of the Bible and in the religious texts of other faiths.

The story of Noah's Flood, more so than any other major story in the Bible, has been known for centuries to be impossible.

Compare that to the more than 250 verses on the proper use of wealth or more than 300 on our responsibility to care for the poor and work for justice, and you appreciate quickly that homosexuality was not exactly a major theme of the Bible.