patriarchs

Sydney Smith quoted the anonymous teacher who rebuked a careless student for reading the word patriarchs as partridges with the scathing comment, "You are making game of the patriarchs."

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1 1980

&c. But the foreign clergy was envious, the pope disapproved this national monopoly, and of the six Latin patriarchs of

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Future successors to Gautama are known as patriarchs and they found different interpretations of his teachings, resulting in the various sects.

Buddhism: Growing With Time 2010

The experiences of the patriarchs are a foreshadowing for their descendants.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Peretz on the Cairo Speech: 2009

Abraham, his son Yitshak (Isaac), and grandson Jacob (Israel), are referred to as the patriarchs of the Israelites.

Zionism, Zionists; Defining meaning, Abuse, Overuse 2007

Abraham, his son Yitshak (Isaac), and grandson Jacob (Israel), are referred to as the patriarchs of the Israelites.

Zionism, Zionists; Defining meaning, Abuse, Overuse 2007

He informed me that since the death of the last Haik monarch, which occurred in the eleventh century, Armenia had been governed both temporally and spiritually by certain personages called patriarchs; their temporal authority, however, was much circumscribed by the

Lavengro 2004

All these elements convinced Albright that the age of the patriarchs was a real one.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

The biblical account of the life of the patriarchs is a brilliant story of both family and nation.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

All these elements convinced Albright that the age of the patriarchs was a real one.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001