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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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account
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There is nothing in the biblical account to suggest that Mary was extraordinary in any way.
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Then Father Mapple begins his sermon based upon the biblical account of Jonah and the whale.
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Milton departs from the biblical account which has the people suffer with their rulers.
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The biblical account of Adam naming the world can easily be applied to the mass media.
reference
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It has a biblical reference , meaning the basic matter of what woman and man are made of.
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Compulsory regular attendance at services in King's College chapel may account for numerous biblical references in later poems.
scene
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Even during the Reformation it was biblical scenes likely to promote superstition and idolatry that came down.
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Angels and biblical scenes covered the ceiling.
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The lower parts of the walls were restored in the eighteenth century and represent biblical scenes .
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The facade was small but ingeniously worked; scrolls and biblical scenes appeared beside swastikas and rain patterns.
scholar
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Catholic biblical scholars , theologians and many active lay groups had good reasons to be grateful.
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The existence of sub-sects such as the Zadokites and the Nazareans has generated considerable confusion and uncertainty among biblical scholars .
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His Ark is estimated by biblical scholars to have been four hundred and fifty feet long.
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A page of Herodotus would have been sufficient to put a battalion of biblical scholars out of action.
scholarship
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The Biblical Commission, originally established to foster biblical scholarship , had been used by Pius X to repress it.
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Despite these difficulties, Catholic biblical scholarship had advanced, albeit cautiously, particularly as far as the Old Testament was concerned.
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On the other hand, there is the lay congregation, to whom biblical scholarship is totally unknown territory.
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We can not deny the reality of biblical scholarship and this has to be expressed clearly.
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Why should biblical scholarship , which is pertinent to so many lives, be thus immune to evolution and development?
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Most biblical scholarship involves some degree of speculation.
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These examples illustrate the extent to which biblical scholarship opened up new territory for the arts.
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Through their work, the fruits of biblical scholarship were disseminated to an ever-widening audience.
story
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The biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood and their ancient Mesopotamian analogues belong to this same family of images.
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During the Middle Ages, living pictures of biblical stories were used in churches to educate the illiterate masses.
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Roth captures essential truths about faith, hope and despair within his reworking of a biblical story .
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Ishmael now argues with himself about the biblical story of Jonah being swallowed by the whale.
text
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In this way, apparent contradictions between Copernican astronomy and biblical texts would be eliminated.
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Most of these are paraphrases of biblical texts , and like hymns they vary in theological emphasis and musical appropriateness.
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The biblical text suggests simply that he spoke of them, knowledgeable man that he was.
times
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Mr Harel may still live in biblical times , but I happen to live in the present.
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In biblical times , according to the book of Leviticus, women at work were valued at thirty silver shekels.
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An overwhelming body of evidence indicates that Nazareth did not exist in biblical times .
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Although my subject is medieval history, we used to read and discuss all history from biblical times onward.
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Not much later a man who was probably a Samaritan composed another history of biblical times .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both he and Wilkins were able to invoke past precedent for their concepts of biblical accommodation.
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It is hard to refute these biblical arguments.
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Recent discoveries suggest that the biblical Garden of Eden was less metaphoric that we presumed.
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So the recommendations are a helpful guideline, not a biblical edict.
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The Church cites biblical prohibitions to support its position, but Jim found these ambiguous.
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The second important task of historical criticism is to verify information found in the biblical sources.
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Traces of Parisian teaching are to be found in some of Innocent's letters, with their biblical quotations and scholastic distinctions.
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We would argue that the chain-of command perspective is neither a biblical nor a psychologically sound pattern for the marriage relationship.