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Recent Examples of scriptural
The play allows for heady scriptural dialogue, which speaks to Weinstein and Rafaeli’s faith in the audience’s intelligence.
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Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
The rabbi fills it with scriptural exegesis in a mixture of Russian, Hebrew, and English.
—David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
Even as Christians moved away from Judaism, the evangelists continued to work within a Jewish scriptural tradition that expected later writers to build on earlier ones.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
The soft-brain theory has been pretty thoroughly debunked, but scriptural notions have proved harder to dismiss.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
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Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
The rabbi fills it with scriptural exegesis in a mixture of Russian, Hebrew, and English.
—David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
Even as Christians moved away from Judaism, the evangelists continued to work within a Jewish scriptural tradition that expected later writers to build on earlier ones.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
The soft-brain theory has been pretty thoroughly debunked, but scriptural notions have proved harder to dismiss.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scriptural
biblical
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When not painting biblical scenes and images of saints, these artists were portraying the rich and powerful.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
15 July 2025
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Darrow called Bryan as a witness for the defense and grilled him on a number of biblical stories.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
13 July 2025
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“Scriptural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scriptural. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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