Handel\u27s Messiah:A Heaven on Earth

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. George Frideric Handel’s Messiah has been an oratorio that has attracted me to its music since the beginning of high school. Every year in December my high school performs selections from Messiah as a community event. In my sophomore year of high school my chorus class studied Messiah and its origins. [I feel that] Handel’s work is attractive to me because it gives life to Biblical events. I have never read the Holy Bible straight through, but I have learned that Handel took the exact words from the Holy Bible and put them to music to create his Messiah. This particular oratorio still has relevant messages for our world today because it is timeless. The oratorio, Messiah, can speak to those who may not understand words on a page, but receive them when to music

The Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version

In the fall of 1952 Thomas Nelson and Sons placed on the market the Revised Standard Version of the complete Holy Bible. The New Testament section remains substantially the same as the one which already appeared in 1946, but a few changes of a lesser import were given room when this text was issued in combination with the Old Testament translation. The latter, however, is new and represents the results of years of intensive research by the Revision Committee

Page from The Holy Bible printed by Robert Barker

Micah Chapters 2-6. An original leaf from the Holy Bible, printed in London 1608 by Robert Barker. Edition of the influential Geneva translation.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1062/thumbnail.jp

Bible Letters

For devotees of the Double-Crostic and similar word games, we present a little problem involving the identification of a verse taken from the King James Version (Authorized Version) of the Holy Bible

DEICTIC EXPRESSIONS IN THE HOLY BIBLE OF LOCAL NIAS LANGUAGE

This research deals with the deictic expressions in the Holy Bible of local Nias language. The objectives of the study are to discuss and identify the deixis in the Holy Bible.  The research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. The data were the epistle of Paul to Philemon which consist of 25 verses. They were collected and analyzed by using a documentation method. The steps were (1) reading the text, (2) finding and marking the deixis, (3) classifying the types of deixis, (4), finding the data, putting sign and making checklist on it, and (5) drawing the conclusions. The results of this research show that there are five types of deixis found in the epistle of Paul to Philemon in the Holy Bible of local Nias language; they are person deixis, spatial deixis, temporal deixis, discourse deixis, and social deixis. The results also show that the deixis mostly found is the person deixis with the frequency of 65 (70%). The following deixis is social deixis that appears 10 times (11%). The discourse deixis appears with the frequency of 9 (10%) while the temporal deixis appears with the frequency of 7 (7%). The deixis that appears the least is spatial deixis with a frequency of 2 (2%)

Ветхий Завет

Подаються енциклопедичні відомості про Святе Письмо трьох авраамічних релігій - Старий Завіт (ТаНаХ)Encyclopedic statements about the Holy Bible of the three Abrahamic religions - the Old Testament (TANAH)Подаются энциклопедические ведомости о Священном Писании трёх авраамистических религий - Ветхий Завет (ТаНаХ

Adapting Genesis

This essay explores two 1990s African films--The Emigrant (Egypt, dir. Youssef Chahine, 1994) and Genesis (Mali, dir. Cheick Oumar Sissoko, 1999)--as radical adaptations of the Holy Bible, expressing an Afro-centric view of the foundation myth of the Judeo-Christian world

Unity in Diversity: An Exploration of the Indonesian Concept of 'Bhinneka Tunggal Ika' According to the Bible

This research explores the concept, principles, and implementation of 'Bhinneka Tunggal Ika,' the official national motto of Indonesia, according to the Holy Bible. The objective is to enable Christians to biblically evaluate and implement the values of 'Bhinneka Tunggal Ika' in the context of the nation. The research methodology involves a combination of literature review and theological study. The findings indicate that the Holy Bible teaches the concept of diversity in three categories: uncreated diversity, created diversity, and diversity resulting from human sin. The second type of diversity should be appreciated, while the third type should be accepted as it is. The Holy Bible does not address the unity of believers with individuals of different religions but emphasizes unity among the people of God. Nevertheless, the Holy Bible teaches one to appreciate and not belittle anyone of a different faith, maintaining a neutral stance towards their religion – neither demeaning nor respecting it. Christians, in fostering unity within the national context, should operate within the social sphere rather than the religious one. While Christians should be exclusive in their faith in Jesus as the Saviour, they should be inclusive in their social interactions with all people as ‘God is love’.

The Medium/Message Is The Message: Intersemiotic Complementarity in James Hogg\u27s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a (Justified) Sinner

This semiotic analysis identifies and characterizes how textual, compositional, and mathematical resources have been strategically articulated to project intersemiotic complementarity in the book The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner; Written by Himself: With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The Editor attributed to Scottish author James Hogg. This qualitative study approaches the original 1824 edition as a literary work in its original compositional medium as a printed book—not as a text. A theoretical extension of philosopher and media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s maxim The Medium Is The Message serves as a basis for the overall theoretical perspective and metatheoretical argument of this study: The Medium/Message Is The Message. Following an approach based upon close reading within a framework for page-based analysis of intersemiotic complementarity developed by semiotic theorist Terry Royce, this study investigates how intersemiotic complementarity appears to be an integral part of The Confessions (1824) along with satirical parody of the content and composition of The Revelation as printed in The Holy Bible. This study includes a chapter devoted to the analysis of intersemiotic complementarity within The Revelation in the 1611 edition of The Holy Bible and a chapter that compares subsequent editions of The Holy Bible (1655, 1662, 1806) that belonged to Hogg. Another chapter of analysis identifies the empirically evident instances of intersemiotic complementarity and other forms of compositional significance in the original 1824 edition of The Confessions. The findings of this study evidence Hogg’s extraordinary strategic interfusion of content and composition in producing the original 1824 edition of The Confessions and indicate how ultimately The Medium/Message Is The Message