Bernhard Weiss ascribes to Mark the original narrative of the closing events, making Matthew a simple copyist--a matter of no ultimate importance, seeing that it is the same impossible and unhistorical narrative in both documents.
It is of another provenance, although, as Wellhausen notes, quite as unhistorical as the rest.
It has been already said that to represent her as after a fashion intercepted by love for Lancelot on her way to Arthur, like Iseult of Ireland or Margaret of Anjou, is, so to speak, as unhistorical as it is insufficiently artistic.
Be that as it may, Senebier's prose is in some respects as unhistorical as Byron's verse, and stands in need of some corrections and additions.
Byron's Doge is almost, if not quite, asunhistorical as his Bonivard or his Mazeppa.
And now let us see what we can make of this wholly unhistorical and legendary tale.
Here and frequently elsewhere in biblical history it is necessary to allow that a genuine historical tradition may be clothed in an unhistorical dress, but since many diverse motives are often concentrated upon one narrative (e.
Four observations shew how unhistorical and unjust such a view is, at least with regard to the chief systems.
But the most unhistorical and the most uncritical form of this contention is the astonishing endeavour to vindicate a "classical" character for Naturalism.
In the second place--and this has been overlooked by modern theology because it had already declared them to be unhistorical in its own characteristic fashion, viz.
In the narrative of the baptism we may take it as certainly unhistorical that the Baptist received a revelation of the Messianic dignity of Jesus, otherwise he could not later have come to doubt this.
If he had done this, it would have been impossible for him to extract an absolutely unreal and unhistorical conception of the Second Coming out of the discourses of Jesus.
How comes so completely unhistorical a temperament to be combined with so historical an intellect?
Owing to this arbitrary spiritualisation of the Synoptic Jesus, Strauss's picture is in essence much more unhistorical than Renan's.
He blames Schleiermacher for setting up his "presuppositions in regard to Christ" as an historical canon, and considering it a proof that a statement is unhistorical if it does not square with those presuppositions.
What is really unhistorical is any softening down of the wording, and the meaning which it naturally bears.
Reverently and in the deepest love for Christianity he had made the unhistorical character of the Pentateuch clear as noonday.
These books, no matter how unhistorical in parts and at times, are profoundly true.
It is a little unhistorical to decry a man of genius as wanting in speculative originality, who was born into an age when speculation had run dry, and thought was only subsidiary to conduct.
Arbitrary interpretations of myth, alike unhistorical and unscientific, make us wonder how they could ever have occurred to men of intellect and learning.
But it is just there that we find the reality of a true unhistorical culture--and in spite of that, or perhaps because of it, an unspeakably rich and vital culture.
But an excess of history makes him flag again, while without the veil of the unhistorical he would never have the courage to begin.
This is the point that the reader is asked to consider; that the unhistorical and the historical are equally necessary to the health of an individual, a community, and a system of culture.
The unhistorical is like the surrounding atmosphere that can alone create life, and in whose annihilation life itself disappears.
And yet this condition, unhistorical and antihistorical throughout, is the cradle not only of unjust action, but of every just and justifiable action in the world.
They do not know how unhistorical their thoughts and actions are in spite of all their history, and how their preoccupation with it is for the sake of life rather than mere science.
The Greeks, the famous people of a past still near to us, had the "unhistorical sense" strongly developed in the period of the greatest power.
History, so far as it serves life, serves an unhistorical power, and thus will never become a pure science like mathematics.
They had an immense reverence for them and were diligent in the study and skilful in the use of them, though of course they used them in a thoroughly uncritical and unhistorical way, as did also their opponents.
That this view is unhistorical is self-evident; and that it contradicts the genuine tradition we have seen.
We may also remark that the contrast of historical and unhistorical is obviously inapplicable to this case, and, moreover, is unessential for the end we have in view.
But, even if Zerah were really a historical personage, of what avail would this be for the unhistorical connection?
Guðmundr of Glæsisvellir is a well-known figure in the unhistorical parts of sagas.
The effect of Stage III was to disintegrate the stories and to introduce unhistorical elements of all kinds.
In the group of stories which cluster round Dietrich von Bern we find a number of unhistorical situations, which may largely be due to similar mistakes rather than to deliberate invention.
The evidence adduced in favour of this view consists in the first place of unhistorical situations, chronological dislocations, etc.
Clearly, this is mere unhistorical guesswork on the part of the monk of Bury; but it may enclose a genuine tradition so far as Hyring is concerned.
Here again the obviously unhistorical character of the main facts throws the utmost doubt upon the nature of the details.
In short, the legends of the settlement, unhistorical and meagre as they are, refer only to the Jutish and Saxon conquests in the south, and tell us nothing at all about the origin of the main English kingdoms in the north.
It was this unhistorical spirit which, as Burke rightly preached, was the most fatal element in the French Revolution.
At first, being weary of war and politics, he was minded to try his hand upon something altogether imaginary, some unhistorical drama of passion.
We are told that it is unhistorical to seek in the New Testament for "the modern liberal Christ"; but it is not unhistorical to look for the human beneath the Jewish, the eternal and universal within the temporary and limited.
That Pilate on the contrary found Jesus innocent and wished to save him, while the Judaeans had determined upon putting him to death, is unhistorical and merely legendary.
Equally unhistorical is the account of Jesus entering the Temple by force, throwing down the tables of the money-changers, and chasing away those who were selling doves.
For such a removal would be no disparagement to the prophet, who had, of necessity, a thoroughly unhistorical mind (p.
Thinking Muslims will more and more come to see that the position assigned by Muhammad to himself and to the Kur'an implies that he had a thoroughly unhistorical mind.
Nothing is more unhistorical than to imagine that his guiding idea was “By the Word only,” in the sense of deprecating all recourse to earthly weapons and desiring that the Word should prevail simply by its own inherent strength.
This is an unfair and unhistorical aspersion on a sort of literature then much read and which, though now little known, is slowly coming to its due owing to research.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unhistorical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
