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- 481: Monasticism and the Code of Chivalry
- ... the Roman Government. The Christians had enough and were ready to leave. Some Christians went to a place where they could have communion in peace without the fear of the Roman government, this place was Egypt. They were called hermit monks. But others, Christians, had their ideas of the way that a Christian life should be lived. They wanted to live in a community, so they could worship together as a ...
- 482: Ethical Values In The Old Testament
- ... and he did so in complete liberty without any preceding obligation or rational motive. This covenant is for the Jewish and Christian faith a historical fact which is tied to Moses and the exodus from Egypt, and its stipulations contained from the beginning religious and ethical norms. This can explain why Old Testament ethics takes on a strong historical quality. For example, the Lord says to Moses, On the eighth day ...
- 483: Greek Gods
- ... like people were endowed with many weaknesses. The gods could be jealous, envious, spiteful, and petty. The gods were held to be immortal, but they had a beginning. The rites of many gods came from Egypt. Most of the gods lived on Mt. Olympus. the first gods The first gods were the Titans. They were before all the other gods. The Titans were the brothers Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and ...
- 484: Old Testament vs. Hellenic Divine Intervention
- ... and his family line. The Hellenic texts choose based on prestige, family, and honor. Another example of this is the story "Joseph" in the Old Testament. Joseph was chosen to be a powerful ruler in Egypt for no reason whatsoever, just because God wanted him to be. In The Illiad, this would never happen, Achilles is chosen to defeat Hector because of his prestige, honor, and family line. Achilles is not ...
- 485: Eastern Rite of the Catholic Church
- ... is the body and blood of Jesus Christ. All of their liturgy is sung or chanted. They also see Greeks as the center of spiritual vitality. The Coptic Church is the greatest Christian organization in Egypt. The faith separated from the Roman Church in the fifth century because of their beliefs that Jesus Christ only had one nature or the belief in monophysitism. The word Coptic which in Greece mean Egyptian ...
- 486: "Babi Yar" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko: An Analysis
- ... could occur at the hands of other humans. The poet feels the persecution and pain and fear of the Jews who stood there in this place of horror. Yevtushenko makes himself an Israelite slave of Egypt and a martyr who died for the sake of his religion. In lines 7-8, he claims that he still bars the marks of the persecution of the past. There is still terrible persecution of ...
- 487: "Babi Yar" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko: An Analysis
- ... could occur at the hands of other humans. The poet feels the persecution and pain and fear of the Jews who stood there in this place of horror. Yevtushenko makes himself an Israelite slave of Egypt and a martyr who died for the sake of his religion. In lines 7-8, he claims that he still bars the marks of the persecution of the past. There is still terrible persecution of ...
- 488: Origin Of Musical Instruments
- ... used by them: the harp, the lyre, the flute, the tambourine, and cymbals. Dancing was commonly connected with the use of musical instruments. Some phases of Egyptian musical customs most probably followed the Israelites from Egypt into the land of Canaan. Musical Celebration Of Red Sea Victory After the miraculous crossing of Israel through the Red Sea, the victory over the Egyptians was fittingly celebrated with music. "And Miriam the prophetess ...
- 489: The Grateful Dead
- ... many famous rock and roll groups, played in front of thousands of people. From 1965 and on,there has been over 3,000 Grateful Dead concerts, that range from San Francisco to the pyramids in Egypt. After each of them, at least one more person became obsessed with the band and became part of the group known as the "deadheads". According to the Dead heads "there is nothing like a Grateful ...
- 490: The Story of Chanukah
- ... Greek culture. It was at this time that King Ptolemy, to promote a better understanding of the Jews, commissioned the famous Greek translation of the Bible known as the Septuagint. Later, the Ptolemaic Empire of Egypt and the Sleucid Empire of Syria fought to gain control of Judea. The Selucids won. Judea was ruled by the Syrian king Antiochus IV who did not allow the Jews to freely worship one God ...
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