Sentence examples for traditions of interpretation from inspiring English sources

Two major traditions of interpretation have provided the basic assumptions of religious eschatologies and have often found expression in mortuary rituals and funerary practice.

All music, that is, encourages particular kinds of reactions among its listeners; all music participates in traditions of interpretation; all music has the ability to inspire resonant understandings or sympathies.

Modern understanding of the Philosophy of Roger Bacon is largely conditioned by two distinct traditions of interpretation from the nineteenth century.

Despite the polarity generated by two separate modern traditions of interpretation, it should be noted that there is great continuity between the interests of Bacon the Aristotelian commentator and Bacon the writer on science.

Her sermon was thus part of a necessary, continuing tradition of interpretation.

The human rights activist: "But there is a tradition of interpretation in Shariah, we may need to adapt parts of it to the modern world".

The Greek translation of Isaiah by Jewish scholars (the Septuagint), accomplished before the Christian Era, reflects a developing tradition of interpretation; it renders the Hebrew ʿalma ("young woman") as parthenos ("virgin") in the verse (7:14) about Immanuel, thus drawing Isaiah further into the messianic ring.

The astute deployment of the Aristotelian logical treatment of homonyms by the ninth-century Iconophile thinkers Nicephorus and Theodore the Stoudite was prepared for by a long tradition of interpretation starting with Porphyry.

Variations in this tradition of interpretation occur for two primary reasons, namely the unfolding of world events and continual but gradual revelation from Jehovah (8).

On the bright side, there is something to be said for editions by players who knew Bach as well as the lute and the performance style of the day, and who, unlike modern editors, are uninfluenced by 250 years of accrued (and constantly changing) traditions of Bach interpretation.

The public political culture of a democratic society, Rawls says, "comprises the political institutions of a constitutional regime and the public traditions of their interpretation (including those of the judiciary), as well as historic texts and documents that are common knowledge" (PL, 13 14).