Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

Although it is not possible to sunder old and new in this era, I shall consider in the present chapter primarily the first decades of the eighth century and shall interpret them as an apogee of the first stage of Greek civilization.

The improvement of the old Anatolian god, and his elevation to an intellectual sphere, may be considered an achievement of the Greek people.

Abd al-Rahman and a small selection of his family fled Damascus, where the center of Umayyad power had been ; people moving with him include his brother Yahiya, his four-year old son Sulayman, and some of his sisters, as well as his former Greek slave ( a freedman ), Bedr.

After a period of confusion, Demetrius's son Antigonus II Gonatas was able to establish the family's control over the old Kingdom of Macedon, as well as over most of the Greek city-states, by 276 BC.

Cognates are found in old Norse, Slavic and also Greek and Sanskrit.

Moses I. Finley observes " this typical bit of fiction must mean that there was an old Theban hero Hector, a Greek, whose myths antedated the Homeric poems.

The prefix hyper-( comes from the Greek prefix " υπερ -" and means " over " or " beyond ", while having common origins with the English word " super ") signifies the overcoming of the old linear constraints of written text.

Standard patterns of graduation in the arts curriculum offered 3-year ordinary and 4-year honours degrees and separate science faculties were able to move away from the compulsory Latin, Greek and philosophy of the old MA curriculum.

Embedded in Greek myth, there remain fragments of quite variant tales, hinting at the rich variety of myth that once existed, city by city ; but Hesiod's retelling of the old stories became, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus, the accepted version that linked all Hellenes.

Lieutenant Nikolaos Votsis scored a major success for Greek morale on 31 October: he sailed his torpedo boat No. 11, under the cover of night, into the harbor of Thessaloniki, sank the old Ottoman ironclad battleship Feth-i Bülend and escaped unharmed.

His tally of the total population taken from captured Helvetian records written in Greek is 263, 000 people, including fighting men, old men, women and children.

Andronicus also translated Homer's Greek epic the Odyssey into an old type of Latin verse called Saturnian.

They generally call the New Testament the " Christian Greek Scriptures ", and see only the " covenants " as " old " or " new ", but not any part of the actual Scriptures themselves.

Assuming that it was not abandoned it would certainly have been closed down in 425 by the Christian emperor Theodosius II when he prohibited the worship of the old Roman and Greek gods.

Pliny the Elder told about a sacred Greek olive tree that was 1, 600 years old.

The term itself originates from Greek: παλαιός ( palaios ) meaning " old, ancient ," ὄν, ὀντ-( on, ont -), meaning " being, creature " and λόγος ( logos ), meaning " speech, thought, study ".

The Paleozoic Era ( from the Greek palaios ( παλαιός ), " old " and zoe ( ζωή ), " life ", meaning " ancient life ") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon, spanning from roughly ( ICS, 2004 ).

In the case of Greek manuscripts, the consumption of old codices for the sake of the material was so great that a synodal decree of the year 691 forbade the destruction of manuscripts of the Scriptures or the church fathers, except for imperfect or injured volumes.

The name pais ( the divine child ) appears in the Mycenean inscriptions., and the ritual indicates the transition from the old funerary practices to the Greek cremation.

Palaeography or Palæography, also spelt paleography ( from Greek palaiós, " old " and graphein, " to write ") is the study of ancient writing.

Although he was too old to attend the 1894 Congress, Brookes would continue to support Coubertin's efforts, most importantly by using his connections with the Greek government to seek its support in the endeavour.

In 1946, he faced his old rival Edvin Wide in Stockholm in a benefit for the victims of the Greek Civil War.

The use of Greek in liturgy eventually gave way to the Nubian language, which was written using an indigenous alphabet that combined elements of the old Meroitic and Coptic scripts.

In earlier Greek art, satyrs appear as old and ugly, but in later art, especially in works of the Attic school, this savage characteristic is softened into a more youthful and graceful aspect.

For these reasons, old encyclopedias are a useful source of historical information, especially for a record of changes in science and technology .< ref > Kobasa, Paul A.

Nineteenth century scholars and commentators mention the widespread belief that an old Scots carol, " Remember O Thou Man " was the source of the tune.

Historically, the source code for each engine has been released once the code base is 5 years old.

A far more likely explanation is that " the nuts " originated from the old English usage of " nuts ", meaning " any source of pleasure ".

The paper found between the old quilts has become a primary source of information about pioneer life.

When a new source is required and an older source was previously downloaded, then Sorcerer will download a tiny patch that transforms the old source tarball into a current source tarball.

The practice of keeping old source tarballs and downloading patches for updates allows Sorcerer systems to be updated using less bandwidth than distributions that provide pre-compiled packages.

This has resulted in a huge number of deaths of old people, who may have had their pension ( ranging from $ 10 to $ 90 ) as the only source of money.

This is from a very old source, and reflects the cooking at the turn of the 20th century.

In the chapter, King Gylfi sets out to Asgard in the guise of an old man going by the name of Gangleri to find the source of the power of the gods.

* September 13 – Scavengers open an old radiation source abandoned in a hospital in Goiânia, causing the worst radiation accident ever in an urban area.

Two officially supported compilers exist: a commercial product, CodeWarrior Development Studio for Palm OS, and an open source tool chain called prc-tools, based on an old version of gcc.

Linguistically, the name of both rivers, Weser and Werra, goes back to the same source, the differentiation being caused by the old linguistic border between Upper und Lower German, which touched the region of Hannoversch Münden.

An old European source mentions a hake that was transplanted from the coast of Ireland to Cape Cod.

It is a source of joy and pride for your old professor .” In 1922, Ravel completed his Sonata for Violin and Cello.

The deep marine record, the source of most isotopic data, only exists on oceanic plates, which are eventually subducted — the oldest remaining material is old.

Professor Davies tells us that Gerald, whom he calls " an admirable story-teller ", is the only source for some of the most famous of the Welsh folk tales including the declaration of the old man of Pencader to Henry II which concludes Descriptio Cambriae: " This nation, O King, may now, as in former times, be harassed, and in a great measure weakened and destroyed by your and other powers, and it will also prevail by its laudable exertions, but it can never be totally subdued through the wrath of man, unless the wrath of God shall concur.

This source of income is just over a decade old.

This is significant because some critics argue that in an original version of the play, now lost, Hortensio was not a suitor to Bianca, but simply an old friend of Petruchio ( this is a modification of the Ur-Shrew theory, which instead of arguing that a play by someone other than Shakespeare served as a source, argues that an earlier draft by Shakespeare once existed ).

The earliest Norwegian written source, Historia Norwegiæ ( late 12th century ), states that Olaf was born in Orkney after his mother fled there to escape the killers of Olaf's father-another late 12th century source, Ágrip, says Olaf's mother fled to Orkney with Olaf when he is three years old, for the same reason.

They are also known for their use of source material, adopting melodies from medieval literature written in an old system of notation called neumes but otherwise using their own interpretations for arrangements and the rhythm.