Word: akin
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...Crossan, Jesus' deification was akin to the worship of Augustus Caesar -- a mixture of myth, propaganda and social convention. It was simply a thing that was done in the ancient Mediterranean world. Christ's pedigree -- his virgin birth in Bethlehem of Judea, home of his reputed ancestor King David -- is retrospective mythmaking by writers who had "already decided on the transcendental importance of the adult Jesus," Crossan says. The journey to Bethlehem from Nazareth, he adds, is "pure fiction, a creation of Luke's own imagination." He speculates that Jesus may not even have been Mary's firstborn and that...
Awarding Garza the Vice-Presidency on the basis of a minor technicality of parliamentary language was akin to awarding a proven thief his freedom on the basis of a minor typographical error in the arrest report; the difference is that under the law technicalities preserve freedom and the rights of the innocent, while under the council's decision technicalities preserve and reward ignorance, injustice and irresponsibility. Garza's "victory" is a hollow one at best, both personally and for the council as a whole; it serves as yet another reminder of UC ineptitude and casts a dark shadow over...
...family he hears for the first time his family's legendary epic song. He is struck by how the "words and voice alike might as easily have come from the mouth of dead as of the living." The music of the strange boxlike instrument the musicians carry is akin to "the hollow...inside his own chest...
...closely akin. Although her six novels contain few autobiographical traces, they constitute intensely imaginative responses to the specific historical and social pressures she has experienced as a black woman in the U.S. The imagination is all hers; the pressures have been the inheritance of millions, including, now, those who have read her books...
...Writing and publishing "The Real Anita Hill' has been a real education," Brock told an audience of about 100 in a lecture sponsored by the Government Department. An education, he said, that was akin to being tarred, feathered and ridden out of town on a rail...