Quotes About Historicity

#1. There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

William F. Albright

#2. The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.

Odell Shepard

#3. Don't you feel it?" he kidded her. "The historicity?

Philip K. Dick

#4. The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.

William Lane Craig

#5. the dissolution of reality in interpretation is also an (act of) interpretation, which puts the historicity of the interpreter into play, and is not a discovery or a shedding of light onto a past error that would be uncovered on the basis of an objective awareness of the facts.

Gianni Vattimo

#6. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.

F.F. Bruce

#7. In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.

Paulo Freire

#8. Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity.

Medard Boss

#9. Whatever you do today, impacts your historicity.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#10. Do you believe in the existence of Socrates? Alexander the Great? Julius Caesar? If historicity is established by written records in multiple copies that date originally from near contemporaneous sources, there is far more proof for Christ's existence than for any of theirs.

Dinesh D'Souza

#11. Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

Franz Grillparzer

#12. The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

Karl Jaspers

#13. Age is just a number. Who cares how old the girl is that I date?

Niall Horan

#14. He'll have nightmares about Kit diving for his knees," Hi added. "I'm pretty sure that was an illegal tackle. Chop block. Something.

Kathy Reichs

#15. The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ... is a reflection of no sociopolitical entity of the historical state of Israel of the Assyrian period

Thomas L. Thompson

#16. As Christina held my hand and Ms. Mina held Mama's, there was a moment - one heartbeat, one breath - where all the differences in schooling and money and skin color evaporated like mirages in a desert. Where everyone was equal, and it was just one woman, helping another. That

Jodi Picoult

#17. Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Quintilian

#18. Look at the longing, the anguish of a sad fossil world / that cannot find the accent of its first sob.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#19. Sceptics have often pointed out that no archaeological evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ has been discovered. And they are correct.

John D. Morris

#20. This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.

W.G. Sebald

#21. By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met.

Joe Zee

#22. I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

Bear Grylls

#23. The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

James Joyce

#24. I am concerned that in their efforts to evade the Sapphire stereotype, black women may be discouraged from demanding equal consideration of their specific political needs within black political discourses.

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#25. If you eliminate what no longer works, you illuminate what does.

Cheryl Richardson

#26. We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast.

George Dyson

#27. Bauer's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found.

Albert Schweitzer

#28. It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.

Paul Louis Couchoud