biblical
Example Sentences
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Although their popularity waxes and wanes like everything else, stories inspired by biblical texts have had a consistent presence on TV and film since the industry’s dawning.
From Salon
The message echoes a stark biblical warning.
From Salon
And belying urban legends, there was no link to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve or the death of computing pioneer Alan Turing.
From Barron's
Displacement and persecution is part of the Jewish narrative and identity, from the biblical exodus from Egypt, which Jews will mark next week with the celebration of Passover, to being kicked out of Spain in 1492 to being rounded up and gassed in Germany, Poland and elsewhere in the 1940s.
The Protestant defenders of England’s Glorious Revolution of 1689, which deposed an autocratic monarch and established a constitutional government, were armed with a biblical text deeply rooted in Tyndale’s translation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
