Ancient Literature Quotes

• No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.

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  Elie Wiesel

  Ancient Literature   Style   Example  

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

  2467

• Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.

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  Hermann Hesse

  Wise   Squares   Games  

  1308

• ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.

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  Samuel Johnson

  Religious   Science   Men  

  Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British Poets”, p.205

  1622

• At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not so with the New Testament.

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  Daniel B. Wallace

  Ancient Literature   Creative   Criticism  

  2411

• We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.

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  Sam Harris

  Christian   Real   Land  

  "Religion Reason Debate". Video, C-SPAN.Org, January 25, 2007.

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• There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

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  F. F. Bruce

  Ancient Literature   World   Body  

  5028

• I thought it was strange that I was called after a woman who killed herself in ancient literature. You just don't call your kid Dido and send her to school. But it's great for me now. It's just another thing that makes me stand out.

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  Dido Armstrong

  School   Kids   Ancient Literature  

  Source: www.sfgate.com

  2963

• Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise. Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it.

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  Dennis McKinsey

  Jesus   Real   Believe  

  714

• Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

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  Matthew Arnold

  Ancient Literature   Want   Sanity  

  Matthew Arnold, Robert Henry Super (1960). “On the Classical Tradition”, p.17, University of Michigan Press

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