What is "biblical"

Usage examples of "biblical".

The assistant to the surgeon-superintendent, whether at the behest of his master or by his own decision, came to conclude that the becalming of the vessel and the invasion of the pestilence from the cracks and the bilges, which had in itself a biblical connotation as if one of the plagues upon Egypt, had come about because of the blasphemy of the whores on board.

It includes scripture suggestions and reflections on Biblical passages, some of them written by social critic and environmentalist Bill McKibben.

Biblical exegesis to a fixed theory appears in its historical greatness and importance.

The mystical visions themselves, concludes Rabbi Hai Gaon, are all historically true, successors to a long tradition of visionary transformations experienced by biblical saints and prophets in higher states of consciousness.

This intensive, exclusive immersion in spiritual readings provided an anchor and gave them something to sustain them through the days ahead Jake DeS hazer seemed especially moved, and he worked deliberately to change his LIFE in accordance with biblical teachings.

Gramercy Place, they were unable to get a coherent story of why he had done the disgusting act, for he had lapsed into a stentorian tone of Biblical fervor, pontificating about the blood of the Iamb and the curse of Jezebel and the eternal fires of Perdition.

Judith had made clear to them, long since, that whatever disputes she might have with aspects of their beliefs and customs, she was a firm believer in the Biblical precept about not muzzling the kine that tread the grain.

Botanists have plants whose passionate emotional lives can be monitored with He detectors, anthropologists have surviving ape-men, zoologists have extant dinosaurs, and evolutionary biologists have Biblical literalists snapping at their flanks.

If you would like your dispute mediated based on Christian biblical principles of conflict resolution, you may want to contact the Institute for Christian Conciliation, a national group with members and affiliated organizations around the country.

When quoting biblical passages myself, I have indicated the translation used.

He was pastor of the Presbyterian church of Roselle, New Jersey, 1869-1874, and professor of Hebrew and cognate languages in Union Theological Seminary 1874-1891, and of Biblical theology there from 1891 to 1904, when he became professor of theological encyclopaedia and symbolics.

Hassan unleased the al-Anfal campaign, an operation of biblical brutality.

Biblical women with ancient hard eyes and no yashmaks carried hashish-dreaming fowls in upside-down bundles, scaly legs faggoted together.

Although most Americans knew little about anthrax until recently, the disease has been around at least since biblical times.

These tales Winter would relate to the old Earl, sitting opposite him in a tall oak-backed chair, her small feet dangling well clear of the floor, and translating direct from the language of Zobeida and Aziza Begum so that they assumed a strongly Biblical flavour.