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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"John the Baptist"”.
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John the Baptist and the Jewish Setting of Matthew
<p>Although recent discussions on the Gospel of Matthew have emphasized the document's setting within first-century Judaism, these studies have not analyzed how the figure of John the Baptist functions within this setting. The failure to address the significance of the Baptist for the Gospel's …
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Devotion to St John the Baptist in England in the Middle Ages.
This study examines the cult of St John the Baptist in England during the period between the Norman Conquest and the Henrician Reformation. It seeks to identify the ways in which medieval men and women viewed the Baptist and to place this in the context of veneration for the universal, scriptural …
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The "Lamb of God" Title in John's Gospel: Background, Exegesis, and Major Themes
… <p>This study focuses on the testimony of John the Baptist—“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” [ἴδε ὁ ἀμνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ὁ αἴρων τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου] (John 1:29, 36)—and its impact on the narrative of the Fourth Gospel. The goal is to provide a …
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The Monastery Tou Libos: Architecture, Sculpture, and Liturgical Planning in Middle and Late Byzantine Constantinople
The monastery tou Libos is one of the most important imperial foundations to survive in Constantinople. The earlier church, dedicated to Theotokos Panachrantos, was erected in the early tenth century by Constantine Lips, a high military official of the imperial army. At the end of the thirteenth …
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Church as the ‘Hermeneutic of the Gospel’: a study of the themes of ‘message’, ‘response’, and ‘community’ in Luke-Acts
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the themes of ‘message’, ‘response’, and ‘community’, in Luke-Acts, with particular attention focused on John the Baptist, Jesus, and the Early Church. The ‘message’ sections will enquire into the content of the truth claim being made in …
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Salome : Äitinsä hyväksikäyttämä tyttö vaiko tanssiva viettelijätär?
… Salomé (1870) ja Jan Adam Krusemanin Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (1861). Käyttämäni aineisto analysoinnin avuksi nojaa enimmäkseen Raamatun kommentaareihin sekä taide- ja reseptiohistorialliseen kirjallisuuteen. Kommentaarit tarjoavat teksti- ja historialliskriittisiä näkökulmia …
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The Effectiveness of the Church of England Guidance for Assessing Significance
The thesis aims to determine the effectiveness of the Church of England’s (C. of E.) guidance for writing statements of significance. It examines the adoption of ‘significance’ as a system for deciding what elements of the historic environment should be conserved and in what way. The growing …
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Domenico Veneziano and his public commissions in Florence
This thesis is a monographic study of the life of Domenico Veneziano (†1461) and his Florentine public works. It aims both to bring the study of Veneziano’s fragmentary oeuvre up to date and to correct the persistent and prevailing historiographic tendency to interpret his painting within a …
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Depicting Orthodoxy: The Novgorod Sophia icon reconsidered
The Novgorod icon of Divine Wisdom is a great innovation of fifteenth-century Russian art. It represents the winged female Sophia flanked by the Theotokos and John the Baptist. Although the icon has a contemporaneous commentary and it exercised a profound influence on Russian cultural history …
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Old Testament characters as Christological witnesses in the Fourth Gospel
This dissertation examines the Christological witness function of the Old Testament characters in the Gospel of John. Chapter 1 discusses the problem concomitant to the bi-partite nature of the Christian Bible and the scholarly solutions suggested to remedy this issue. The importance of Christology …
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Till Coffee Do Us Part
… violins, cello, electronics, soprano, and tenor. The opera was written as a part of Black House Collective’s and the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance's Rites of Being project. The electronics in the piece are playback files designed to be triggered by a person, and are constituted …
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Indicators of Typology in the Narrative of Elijah: An Investigation into the Predictive Nature of Biblical Theology
<p>Elijah is among the most popular prophets in the Judeo-Christian tradition. In Judaism, the hope for his return has evolved into a plethora of legends in which he functions as a helper to the righteous in the present and avenger to the wicked in the future eschaton. In Christianity, the …
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Incarnation and Covenant in the Prologue to the Fourth Gospel (John 1:1-18)
<p>Most scholars would agree that the Prologue to the Fourth Gospel--as John 1:1-8 is usually called--introduces Jesus Christ as a divine, pre-existent being who at a certain point in time was made flesh and lived among humans. No agreement, however, exists on the point in the narrative at which …