biblical narrative

collocation in English

meaningsofbiblicalandnarrative

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biblical
adjective
uk
/ˈbɪb.lɪ.kəl/us
/ˈbɪb.lɪ.kəl/
in, from, or relating to ...
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narrative
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
a story or a description of a series ...
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(Definition ofbiblicalandnarrativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbiblical narrative

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Thebiblicalnarrativeof suffering and hope, of loss and recovery, of alienation and reconciliation, is missing, leaving only the celebration of arrival.
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In our modern account of what gave rise to and shaped human societies, anthropology, geology, and biology have replaced thebiblicalnarrative.
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Neither symbolic language nor myth (as historicists might have put it), and not factual accounts of past events (as literalists insisted), were the primary features ofbiblicalnarrative.
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It fills in gaps left in thebiblicalnarrativeregarding events and personalities that are only hinted at.
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Note: fathers of biblical figures who have no important part in thebiblicalnarrativeare not listed separately.
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Archaeologists are divided over whether thebiblicalnarrativeis supported by the evidence from excavations.
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This room is immediately followed by a second room of placards explaining various natural phenomena using two distinct starting points mainstream science and thebiblicalnarrative, respectively.
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Robinson suggests that the text will provide insights into the religious situation during the 2nd century rather than into thebiblicalnarrativeitself.
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Borgman is a specialist inbiblicalnarrative.
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Women who wrote these narratives had a clear knowledge of literary genres and biblical narratives.
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These quests were distinguished from previous approaches in that they applied the historical method to the study of biblical narratives.
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His plays may be further divided into pastoral acts, religious allegories, biblical narratives, episodical farces, and narrative acts.
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Rohl claims that this solves many of the problems associated with the historicity issue of the biblical narratives.
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