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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Apocrypha"”.
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Chasing That Ghost On Stage: The Haunted Continent And Andrew Bird's Apocrypha
… attention paid to Bird's album Armchair Apocrypha (2007) - apocrypha being narratives that exist alongside a canon. I also address certain technological shifts in Bird's performance methodologies in this time period that further the reach of bird's apocrypha. I look at Bird's recent …
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The Afterlife Views and the Use of the TaNaKh in Support of the Resurrection Concept in the Literature of Second Temple Period Judaism: The Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha
… the resurrection passages appearing in the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha to gain a comprehensive overview of the texts used from the TaNaKh in support of these various resurrection beliefs. This study also provides a better understanding of how the TaNaKh was read by differing communities …
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Susannah
… The opera is based on a story from the Biblical Apocrypha. For the live performance of this opera at the Jefferson Center in Roanoke, I designed the animations that projected onto a screen which was designed and fitted as a part of the set design. I created the series of animations that enhanced …
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ΙΟΥΣΤΙΝΟΣ. Ο ΜΑΡΤΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ ΩΣ ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΤΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΑΣ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗΣ
… WELL STUDIED THE O.T., HEBREW HERMENEUTICS AND APOCRYPHA, AND ALSO PHILO THE JEW; AND HE WAS THE FIRST TO REFER TO DIVINE INSPIRATION IN THE O.T. AND TO THE UNITY OF THE TWO TESTAMENTS, ARGUING AGAINST THE GNOSTIS. THE MAIN TENETS OF HIS INTERPRETATION ARE THE APPEARANCESOF THE LOGOS, THE …
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Haima in Hebrews
… Philo and Josephus, Rabbinic literature, the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, the Qumran community, and the NT. The final chapter of the dissertation deals with the meaning of blood in the Epistle itself, where the author of Hebrews uses his rhetorical skill to present blood as a most powerful …
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The unity of Biblical man
… are the "extraneous" compositions comprising the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. Therefore, this literature has also been reviewed. The first topic covered in this investigation is "Man in Community. This has been examined in order to understand Biblical Man's relationship to society. Other topics …
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Israelite Interactions with Gentiles in the Old Testament and the Implications Regarding Missions
… attention is given to the Jewish writings of the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Josephus, and the Tannaim with references to NT opinion. Chapter 5 synthesizes the data from the Hebrew Scriptures and intertestamental witness and draws conclusions about God's intention for Israel in relation to the …
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The figurative use of "son(s) of" in the New Testament
… the genitive in Classical Greek, the OT and NT apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, other early Jewish and Christian writings, coins and inscriptions, and the papyri and ostraca. Chapter 3 surveys the use of υἱός in the NT. Chapter 4 explores the father-son relationship in the social context of the NT …
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Reconsidering Eternal Life in the Old Testament: The Idea of Resurrection Rooted in the Torah
… of the Hebrew Bible, intertestamental apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, the rabbinic literature, and Christian writers from early church Fathers. Jewish and Christian interpretative traditions consistently support the presence of the idea of resurrection in the OT. Chapter 3 examines …
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The power of the medieval Solomon-magus and Solomon-auctor revealed through the "Canterbury Tales", "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", and the "Tale of the Sankgreal"
… the world. This tradition was carried forward by apocrypha and texts of ritual magic, and influenced vernacular works like the <em>Cursor Mundi</em> and <em>Solomon and Saturn Prose Pater Noster Dialogue</em> in the milieu of medieval texts.</p> <p>In the <em>Canterbury Tales</em>, two brief …
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Saint, martyr, killer of Christ? The legend of Longinus in medieval Irish tradition
This dissertation is the first comprehensive and synthetic study of the Irish presentation and legends of Longinus. Longinus was the soldier at the crucifixion who pierced Christ with a spear, who believed and, according to some texts, was healed of his blindness by the blood and water issuing from …