" Thus Sanchuniathon is placed firmly in the mythic context of the pre-Homeric heroic age, an antiquity from which no other Greek or Phoenician writings are known to have survived to the time of Philo.

Philo of Alexandria refers to ritual washing in the context of the Temple and Leviticus, but also speaks of spiritual " washing.

An early conflation of these tenets of Greek philosophy with the narratives in the Hebrew Bible came from Philo of Alexandria ( d. AD 50 ), writing in the context of Hellenistic Judaism.

It was his new halakhic-historic approach, of quoting even non-rabbinic sources, such as Josephus and Philo, for context that set him apart.

Sylvia Tamale wrote in 2011 that some African feminists interpret traditional practices such as FGM within a post-colonial context that makes opposing them a complex issue.

In the context of library science, a manuscript is defined as any hand-written item in the collections of a library or an archive ; for example, a library's collection of the letters or a diary that some historical personage wrote.

The historical context within which Plautus wrote can be seen, to some extent, in his comments on contemporary events and persons.

In Classical times, many of the great thinkers and political leaders performed their works before an audience, usually in the context of a competition or contest for fame, political influence, and cultural capital ; in fact, many of them are known only through the texts that their students, followers, or detractors wrote down.

Cuvier wrote, in 1834, in the context of the new science of paleontology:

Just prior to this he wrote Theory of Moral Sentiments, explaining how it is humans function and interact through what he calls sympathy, setting up important context for The Wealth of Nations.

Economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek wrote about emergence in the context of law, politics, and markets.

'" Lewis sought to cast Welshness into a new context, wrote Dr. Davies.

In most cases, however, knowledge about what individual sophists wrote or said comes from fragmentary quotations that lack context.

This was the context in which Blaise Pascal wrote his famous Provincial Letters in defence of Arnauld's position in the dispute at the Sorbonne.

The term binary was first used in this context by Sir William Herschel in 1802, when he wrote:

In the context of discussing code words used in the President's Daily Brief ( PDB ) during the Johnson and Nixon administrations, former CIA Director Richard Helms wrote:

Roger Ebert gave the film one and a half stars and wrote, " The film has been directed without grace, vision, originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialogue, it will not be because you admire them " and criticized its liberties with historical facts: " There is no sense of history, strategy or context ; according to this movie, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because America cut off its oil supply, and they were down to an 18-month reserve.

Orwell wrote that in the context of a war against Fascism, pacifism was " objectively pro-Fascist ".

Miller often wrote about Swiss history and myth, such as the William Tell legend, to provide a context for patriot support in the conflict with Britain.

Karl Beveridge, Ian Burn, Sarah Charlesworth, Michael Corris, Joseph Kosuth, Andrew Menard, Mel Ramsden and Terry Smith wrote articles which thematized the context of contemporary art.

Within this American context, Marty wrote that Americans approved of " religion in general " without being particularly concerned about the content of that faith, and attempted to distinguish " priestly " and " prophetic " roles within the practice of American civil religion, which he preferred to call the public theology.

In addition Norman Mailer, who had been part of the press corps sent to cover the event, wrote a book, The Fight ( 1975 ), describing the events, and placing them within the context of his views of black American culture.

" Meanwhile, critic Robert Christgau wrote, " Some of the individual pieces are quite nice, but the gestalt is the concept album at its most counterproductive — the lyrics render the nostalgic instrumental parts unnecessarily ironic and lose additional charm in narrative context.

In contrast, Jasper Kim, a law professor at Ewha Womans University, wrote that Konglish is necessary in a global context and that strict adherence to grammatical rules shouldn't trump getting the message across.

It was in this context that, in a letter he wrote to scholar and ecclesiastic Mandell Creighton, dated April 1887, Acton made his most famous pronouncement:

For six months, LaRouche worked with American Healyite leader Tim Wohlforth, who later wrote that LaRouche had a " gargantuan ego ," and " a marvelous ability to place any world happening in a larger context, which seemed to give the event additional meaning, but his thinking was schematic, lacking factual detail and depth.

In 1957, Artin wrote a book on geometric algebra an insightful development of the classical groups in a Kleinian context.

The earliest use of the word " jinx " to refer to something other than the bird seems to have been in the context of baseball ; in the short story The Jinx ( 12311 ) – later collected in the book The Jinx: Stories of the Diamond ( 1911 ) – Allen Sangree wrote:

In 1995, Simon Keynes observed that " if Bede's concept of the Southumbrian overlord, and the chronicler's concept of the ' Bretwalda ', are to be regarded as artificial constructs, which have no validity outside the context of the literary works in which they appear, we are released from the assumptions about political development which they seem to involve ... we might ask whether kings in the eighth and ninth centuries were quite so obsessed with the establishment of a pan-Southumbrian state ".

Systems theory, in this context, may be regarded as an extension of Braid's original conceptualization of hypnosis as involving a process of enhancing or depressing nervous system activity.

To explain stellar aberration in the context of an aether-based theory of light was regarded as more problematic, because it requires that the aether be stationary even as the Earth moves through it — precisely the problem that led Newton to reject a wave model in the first place.

According to Rand, " he term ' measurements omitted ' does not mean, in this context, that measurements are regarded as non-existent ; it means that measurements exist, but are not specified.

In this context, fasting is regarded by certain Subud members as spiritually edifying, although its practice is not expected.

However, the city and northern parts of its district can be regarded as belonging to that region in a wider regional and cultural context.

Laozi is traditionally regarded as the founder of Taoism and is closely associated in this context with " original ", or " primordial ", Taoism.

Nevertheless, few if any Biblical uses of " Baʿal " refer to Hadad, the lord over the assembly of gods on the holy mount of Heaven, but rather refer to any number of local spirit-deities worshipped as cult images, each called baʿal and regarded in the Hebrew Bible in that context as a " false god ".

In this context the pisiform is regarded as a sesamoid bone embedded in the tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris.

Buddhism is also the context of all large portrait sculpture ; in total contrast to some other areas in medieval China even painted images of the emperor were regarded as private.

:: Example: ... the term ' Fifth Amendment ' in the context of our time is commonly regarded as being synonymous with the privilege against self-incrimination.

The 1922 novel Ulysses by James Joyce has its first chapter named after Telemachus, and Stephen Dedalus is generally regarded as corresponding to Telemachus within the context of the novel.

Often regarded in the context of D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, which had appeared five years earlier, critics have considered Micheaux's project as a response to Griffith.

In later interpretations, which begin with Jordanes ( 6th century AC ) and have proliferated during the 19th and 20th century, mainly in Romania, he was regarded as the sole god of the Getae ( not to be confounded in this context with the Thracians or their relatives, the Dacians ) or as a legendary social and religious reformer of the Getae people to which he would have taught, following Herodotus, the belief in immortality, so that they considered dying merely as going to Zalmoxis.

In 1967 a stone was found at Wroxeter in a Sub-Roman context ( dating to c. 460-475 AD ) with the inscription CUNORIX MACUS MAQVI COLINE, which translates as " Cunorix (' Hound-king ') son of Maqui-Coline (' Son-of-Holly '), both of which are regarded as Irish personal names.

* Stealing underwear, sometimes regarded as more serious when done in a sexual context.

It was coined in this context in reference to a form of art that had arguably existed since prehistory but was not regarded as a discrete category until the mid-twentieth century.

In the present context, the electrochemical potential can be regarded as the work that would be needed to add an electron at the Fermi level of the body ( or part of a body ) under analysis.

( Several other books of the Hebrew Bible are set in a historical context or otherwise give information which can be regarded as historical, although these books do not present themselves as histories ).

In human context, the term has other subordinate meanings associated with social and legal concepts ; for example, a legal adult is a legal concept for a person who has attained the age of majority and is therefore regarded as independent, self-sufficient, and responsible ( contrast with " minor ").

) Jackson ( 2002 ) argued against the " fiction " of a strict traditionalist / rationalist dichotomy, and asserted instead that traditionalism and rationalism, in the Islamic context, should be regarded as " different traditions of reason.

The passage is often regarded as presenting a significant chronological issue, as the surrounding context appears to constrain the events of the passage to happening within 22 years, and the context together with the passage itself requires the birth of the grandson of Judah and of his son's wife, and the birth of that son, to have happened within this time ( to be consistent, this requires an average of less than 8 years gap per generation ).

This was the context for Rome's conflict with Christianity, which Romans variously regarded as a form of atheism and novel superstitio.