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biblical

of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible biblical names biblical Hebrew in keeping with the nature of the Bible or its times or people biblical styles in writing a beard of biblical proportions biblical costumes

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Simple sentences

The biblical Tower of Babel is what architects call a ziggurat.
In 1342, the cities on the Rhine, Main, and Danube were plunged into a flood of biblical proportions. Thousands of people lost their lives.
This is a biblical text.

Movie subtitles

I'm gonna take you back to Biblical times. 1823.
Then, in a biblical sense. we might say that such a person is possessed of devils.
We may be witnesses to a Biblical prophesy come true.
Since biblical times, man has witnessed and recorded strange manifestations in the sky and speculated on the possibilities of visitors from another world.
I'm being biblical.
What is the biblical evaluation of sex?
A fine biblical scholar, Bishop Usher, has determined for us the exact date and hour of the Creation.
Joe, what made you choose a biblical setting?
That's a Biblical name.
Captain, you are aware of the biblical story of Genesis.
Oh, I was a biblical scholar when I was young.
He's here now in Rome to act in a film which treats the biblical story of redemption as a Western.
Even biblical events, such as the detraction. I mean destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah can be explained as result of thermo-nuclear reactions, caused by civilisations of other worlds.
Yet it looks like some kind of Biblical, epochal unbelievable scene!
Even if a biblical man like yourself has no need for it. - Think it over again.
I always thought of leprosy as the horror of biblical times.
Very biblical.
Sort of biblical, isn't it?
Harsh colours and crude costumes,.to harmonise the prairie with the biblical landscape.
Someone is using these ancient biblical curses to kill everyone associated with the Phibes operation.
Living with the ministers made you kind of biblical.
We were in a biblical frame of mind on the 23rd of May, 1943, at the Berghof.
I don't wanna get mad in a biblical place like this, but I think you're a hell of a lot more than that, kid. A hell of a lot.
Give it up to whom? It might help my analysis if I knew what Genesis was. beyond the biblical reference.
It's a biblical story. Yes?
So you see. it was a biblical story.
It's a Biblical name, right?
It's the biblical concept.
Or you could accept the fact that this city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
I love biblical names.
The Jewish people had a state here in Biblical times.
This doesn't make any sense. What do Biblical prophecies have to do with the baby?
Yes, I've had sexual intercourse with her, yes, but only in the biblical sense.
We take Biblical injunctions literally.
Biblical miracle!
Otherwise, their behavior could incite other women. leading to anarchy of biblical proportions.

News and current affairs

The Zionist project of creating a Jewish state in Palestine entails a return of the Jewish people to their ancestral homeland, a land in which Jews lived since biblical times and which the Diaspora never abandoned.
They erred gravely in allowing Jewish settlers to have their way on the Biblical mountaintops, while Middle Israel looked the other way.
Its ancient biblical past can now coexist seamlessly with its ultra-modern present.
But that biblical adage was in fact invoked originally to curb blood feuds from claiming the innocent relatives of the person who committed the killing.
Confucianism's tenets still provide an inner compass to most East Asians in a post-Confucian age, just as Biblical admonitions remain standards for the West in a post-religious age.
Are a couple of data points and a biblical parable enough to take the hypothesis of a 15-year cycle seriously?
He spoke of the Holy Land as the source of Christianity and the home of sacred shrines of Islam, but intentionally ignored the Biblical roots of Judaism and Jerusalem as the home of Hebrew kings and prophets.
The only remedy to our fragile existence in the Diaspora lies in the return to the Biblical Land of Israel.
But others are biblical fundamentalists, who reject modern science because they take the word of the Bible as literally true.
In their classical religious form, such beliefs rely on signs and omens, like earthquakes and sunspots, which can be interpreted, by reference to biblical passages, as portending a great cataclysm and cleansing.
Circles close to the Bush administration, it is rumored, take current distempers like terrorism as confirmation of biblical prophecies.
Like Biblical prophecy, scientific doomsday stories seem impervious to refutation, and are constantly repackaged to feed the hunger for catastrophe.
And it may be that Europe - because of its relative prosperity - is less in a mood for the biblical seven lean years than was a much poorer Latin America in the 1980's.
The Fund's policy change drew the ire of Chinese officials, who have been intervening on a biblical scale to hold down the value of their currency, the Yuan.
At this point Europe, witnessing an exodus of biblical proportions, could no longer ignore the challenge and the consequences of the crises in its neighboring region.
CAMBRIDGE - The biblical story of Saul finding his kingdom by chance while searching for his father's lost donkeys offers an important lesson for scientists.
But, unlike the EU, the Dominican Republic is not an economic giant that can assume exclusive responsibility for extracting Haiti from its Biblical destitution.
Netanyahu's claim that this extended Jerusalem is the biblical capital of the Jewish people is a historical travesty.

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