Biblical

That means planting what he refers to as "biblical wheat" over the coming weeks. ❋ Lucette Lagnado (2012)

Speaking of tongue-blistering, I was gonna tell you how I came to know my Maytag man in what you call the biblical sense. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The finest illustration of this is furnished by the French curé, who, to avoid being compelled, like other citizens, to pave the street in front of his house, quoted a saying which he described as biblical: paveant illi, ego non pavebo. ❋ Unknown (2004)

As Tunisians flooded Lampedusa earlier this month, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, of the anti-immigrant Northern League, stoked fears that terrorists and al-Qaida supporters could have mingled among what he described as a "biblical exodus" of migrants. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Green has attributed his out-of-state popularity to a public speaking career that has taken him around the country over the past 10 years as part of WallBuilders, which seeks to educate the public about what it calls the biblical principles behind the nation's early history and the U.S. Constitution. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well aware that most of the sources on which she must rely were written in biblical times, 50 B.C. to A.D. 150 -- anywhere from two decades to two centuries after Cleopatra was born -- she informs us whether she is quoting Plutarch or Cicero or Dio in her characterizations, and, in the process, these thoroughly feisty, opinionated bards, too, become part of the tale. ❋ Marie Arana (2010)

Why do fundy trolls always speak in biblical cliches? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also archaeologists, the Gears apply over thirty years of research with their backgrounds in biblical archaeology, religious studies, Greek, and Latin, to reveal a new and relatively unknown and historically unsupported biography of Jesus Christ, or Yeshua. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also of interest are items which include Latin biblical inscriptions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rhinos … WHOLE FKN KINGDOM IS IN FEAR … and well it fkn should be, for death and chaos, shall decent upon his skanky arse, wreak HAVOCK and fkn RETRIBUTION in biblical fkn scales. ❋ Unknown (2009)

BSG is steeped in biblical references, and so the religious nature of the ending should have been no surprise to those who spotted the references, particularly for those who remember the original series. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Arabs who live in biblical Israel, he said, can either choose “to get along with us, to live peacefully, or to leave.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's a comedy set in biblical times being produced by Judd Apatow and directed by Harold Ramis (of Caddyshack, Groundhog Day, Bedazzled, The Ice Harvest). ❋ Unknown (2008)

A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But this does not diminish the fact that their generalizations and phobias were circulated in biblical commentaries, treatises, instructional literature, pastoral manuals, and sermons, all of which in some form eventually reached the ears (if not the illiterate eyes) of the general public. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Leavened by humor and amusing anecdotes, Professor Kugel outlined how our conception of the bible was shaped by early commentators to suit their own purposes and how elements that we consider part-and-parcel of certain biblical narratives are really the work of those early interpreters. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Anyway I liked Knowing better when it was set in biblical times. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sometimes we accept certain biblical teachings as truth without placing those teachings up against God's overall message of love, forgiveness and redemption. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I sifted through all the events, including the one's I didn't post last week, and found most of the material - while plentiful - lacking in biblical reference. ❋ Unknown (2007)