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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Biblical Narratives"”.
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Embroidering Biblical Heroines in Seventeenth-Century England
… in the seventeenth century frequently depict biblical narratives that feature examples of proper female behavior. Produced by young girls and women, they were made to adorn the embroiderer’s home in the form of wall hangings, framed pictures, and trinket boxes. In this thesis, I focus on …
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Bab edh-Dhra', Numeira, and the Biblical Patriarchs: a Chronological Study
… as possible candidates for two of the biblical cities of the plain, but their existence in the Early Bronze Age III is too early to match the biblical narrative (Gen 19) by many chronologies of ancient Canaan. This study sought to determine if there is sufficient flexibility in the …
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Compositional Techniques in Hodie by Ralph Vaughan Williams
… will be examined. Secondly, the treatment of biblical and non-biblical texts will be studied. Therefore, Hodie will be seen to represent a synthesis of compositional techniques based on the unique individuality of the musical style of Vaughan Williams. This project is divided into four …
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The Parables and Miracles of Jesus Christ: A Musical Drama
… be regarded as a musical exegesis of the twelve biblical natives. Second, this dissertation briefly explains the twelve pieces of the musical drama regarding their theological meaning, musical devices, harmonic structure, and symbolism. While some pieces are intended to mimic as real as possible …
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The Banquet Type-Scene in the Parables of Jesus
<p>Biblical narratives abound in ancient literary and oral conventions. One such convention is the type-scene. The study of the type-scene originated in 1933 with Walter Arend who studied compositional recurrent patterns and variations in the epics of Homer. Later, the study was developed by Robert …
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The Lord Opened Her Heart: Women, Work, and Leadership in Acts of the Apostles
… of Tabitha and Lydia within their discrete biblical narratives, but also how placement within the macro-text of Acts has bearing on the interpretation of these pericopae.</p>
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A Study of Nones in Brazil and the USA in Light of Secularization Theory with Missiological Implications
… of religion. In the absence of a direct biblical text related to the Nones, as they are a phenomenon much later than the biblical period, a suggested biblical framework for mission with the group was chosen based on biblical narratives describing the missio Dei among what the Bible calls …
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Defoe, Dissent, and Typology
… his writing, however, his attachment to Biblical typology, which is informed by his dependence on the Bible as a stable locus of indisputable “plainness,” comes into conflict with his political tenets, as Scripture provides no firm precedent for the mode of contractual kingship introduced …
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Testing the Spirits: A Biblical Assessment of the Islamic Jibril
… Islamic representations of Jibril by means of biblically derived criteria for identifying spiritual beings and by comparing the representations of the Islamic Jibril with the representations of the biblical Gabriel. Gabriel is one of two angels named in canonical Scripture. He stands in God’s …
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The analysis of representations of disability in Western culture within a feminist framework
… magazines, literature for children, film, biblical narratives and pornography. My analysis of these sites suggests that there are parallels between the ways in which women's bodies and the bodies of disabled people are represented. In Chapter 1 I analyse the discourse of charity advertising …
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The didactic utilization of the Bible and Midrash in the plays of Zalman Aaron Lison
… order to familiarize the children with various biblical narratives that he believed had to be taught. The idea behind the dramatization was not only to impart knowledge of the characters and events, but also to force the children to memorize the plays, which are in Hebrew; thus, providing the …
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Surveilling Sin: Locating Sodomy in the Early Modern Florentine Bathhouse
… could provoke divine wrath, as it had in the biblical narratives of Sodom and Gomorrah—sexual sins could lead to urban destruction. Police forces were created to surveil and punish such abominable acts in order to maintain the sacrality of the urban interior. While these magistracies policed …
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The Ark of the Covenant as a Material Actant: Adapting New Materialist Concepts for Cause and Effect
… discussion of cause-and-effect in Hebrew Bible narratives has been limited by assumptions restricting agency to will and intention and causation to a strict linearity from subject to object. The field of new materialisms through its explorations of the meaning of matter — the materiality of the …
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Inordinate Desire: The History of and Exegetical Basis for the Sin of Gluttony
… the appetite is an ascetic rather than a biblical purpose for fasting. Chapter 5 proposes a biblical and theological framework for overcoming the sin of gluttony by integrating Aquinas’s concept of inordinate desire and Augustine’s ordo amoris (“ordered love”) with a robust pneumatology …
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Sanctifying Boldness: New Testament Women in Narsai, Jacob of Serugh, and Romanos Melodos
… three ancient Christian poets scripted female biblical figures as models of emboldened faith for all to emulate. Through imagined speech and narrative embellishment, they brought familiar figures to life for the entertainment, edification, and instruction of their audiences. These male poets, …
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Aspects of the Oral Heritage of the Neo-Aramaic-Speaking Jewish Community of Zakho
… of Zakho, Kurdistan: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative, and the folktale. During the past three decades, there has been a renewed interest in research on Neo-Aramaic, and a substantial growth of research in the field has been seen. However, the contemporary study of Neo-Aramaic has …