Also in the running are Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh and The Secret Scripture by the previously-shortlisted Irish writer Sebastian Barry.
May God bless the memory of the victims and, in the words of Scripture, heal the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds.
Interestingly, as Christians and Jews celebrated Easter and Passover this past week, their commemorations prompted much public talk about the relationship between religious scripture and the role of government.
But nothing beats scripture and the reminder of the eternal.
Mr. Burton's treatise, like the man himself, rests between two ages one in which the authority of Scripture reigned supreme, and a newer era acknowledging the power of deductive reasoning to sort out life's great questions.
Variations of place names for Nazareth (sometimes called Natzrat or Nazara), Capernaum (Kapharnaum) and Tzippori (Sepphoris) appear in biblical texts and in the Talmud, an ancient Jewish rabbinical scripture written in Hebrew and Aramaic.
There are plenty of metaphors and allegories in scripture, but the plain reading of the text does not in any way indicate that Genesis is an example of this.
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The law is distilled from rural custom and Hindu scripture, and generally holds that land is owned collectively by families and then passed to the next generation, as represented by sons.
In his 2011 book, "Jesus of Nazareth, " he made a sweeping exoneration of the Jewish people for the death of Christ, explaining biblically and theologically why there was no basis in Scripture for the argument that the Jewish people as a whole were responsible for Jesus' death.
Where are our authors and playwrights working with translators to preserve the poetry of scripture?
At fifteen she decided that the unprovable did not exist, and told her scripture teacher so without prevarication.
Scripture tells us that there is evil in the world, and that terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding.
Begin by selecting a phrase from a poem, scripture, lyric or advertising jingle, and create a word using the first letter of each word.
"Indeed, his life story has emerged as an odd sort of holy scripture for entrepreneurs, a gospel and an anti-gospel at the same time, " said the article, by Ben Austen.
He knows how to make his message personal, empathetic and powerfully uplifting all at once, quoting choice bits of scripture to maximum effect and personalizing heartbreak by expressing his own feelings and the universal emotions of being a parent.
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Christian Zionists - like Jewish religious Zionists - are unmoved by the media's intimidation because of their faith in God, and their reliance on scripture.
He quoted scripture, in a way to elevate the discussion to a higher plane, and in a humanely universal way that spoke to no exclusive faith.
The rest consists of essays on how history has treated Francis and his relationship to God, nature, Scripture, and so on.
Scripture was the other source for information on Cyrus, as it chronicled the invasion of Babylon and the freedom of Jews.
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