| 单词 | biblical |
| 例句 | “The tourist industry has found this place! Too bad. It used to be so quiet and tucked away. Now the meals have biblical names.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I gagged up a big, hateful laugh for that lame biblical cliche. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Her “sweetie” felt condescending, not romantic, like a boy enduring his first biblical rainstorm couldn’t possibly understand her problems—whatever they were. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z In his graduation day robe, he looks like a cross between a biblical prophet and a Christmas elf. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As they toured Cange in the priest’s pickup, the treeless, dusty landscape struck Farmer as “amazingly, biblically dry and barren.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Besides, we were only able to dress up as biblical characters. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Rather than a colossal biblical Flood, Lyell argued, there had been millions of floods; God had shaped the earth not through singular cataclysms but through a million paper cuts. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Lanning grinned too, and, as always at such times, his long white hair and shrewd little eyes made him the picture of a biblical patriarch, “True for you, Dr. Calvin.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Rabbinic tradition compelled him to accept the biblical account of the universe’s creation from the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I couldn’t tell if it represented Greek mythology, or if the characters floating in the clouds above were meant to be biblical. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Charles Lyell took the geological side, and he wrote a book a few years later called The Antiquity of Man, which argued against the biblical story of the creation and the flood. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Given present circumstances, Deacon Hurd began, this was a difficult matter, but he felt it was the sworn biblical duty of this board to bring a recommendation to the congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It was all around me from the beginning, the weight of female suffering, with its biblical justification and vanishing acts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Wash made a point of knowing every pretty black girl within walking distance from Egypt Town—knowing in whatever sense he could get away with, biblical if possible. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She found that the senior sisters monopolized the priests and bishops with biblical doubts more sophisticated than hers would ever be, and that it might be years before she got anywhere near Father Mulligan. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Jewish to me was something vague, something biblical. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Father Guste says, “No modem biblical scholar would subscribe to any such theory.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z One girl my age got a large coloring book of biblical characters, while a less greedy girl who selected a smaller box received a glass vial of lavender toilet water. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment I was sure she was about to hurl one of her biblical curses at me, but she didn’t. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Darley and Batson met with a group of seminarians, individually, and asked each one to prepare a short, extemporaneous talk on a given biblical theme, then walk over to a nearby building to present it. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was in my room after lunch, reading James chapter five because I would talk about the biblical roots of the anointing of the sick during family time, when I heard the sounds. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They reached across the biblical rift for a selfish purpose. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z After all, the whole story is rather biblical, isn’t it? 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I felt cursed like the biblical king Nebuchadnezzar, stripped of power and pride, and driven into the wilderness to live like an animal. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It’s also customary to drop the final s when forming the possessives of ancient classical or biblical names that already end in s: Whose biceps were bigger, Hercules’ or Achilles’? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There is considerable overlap: a naked goddess wreathed in flowers, with a couple of dogs standing by; biblical people with or without clothes, plus or minus animals, trees, and ships. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z As if to confirm people’s biblical fears, the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Lisbon in 1755 struck on 1 November: All Saints’ Day. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Though the Semitic biblical cosmos toppled the Aristotelian one, the idea of an eternal, unchanging universe was not expunged completely, enduring even to the twentieth century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Whites lived downstairs and blacks lived upstairs, and to bridge that separation was to heal a biblical wound. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At these times, she resembled a biblical prophet, her face clouded over, her immense body trembling with holy rage, one finger thrust like a spear straight at the sinner’s heart. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Leon did not take the biblical reference here. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Charles still struggled with religious questions, and with how Emma and other religious people would react to his going against the biblical story of creation. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nope. I want something biblical, like my sister’s name, Deborah. She was a judge. The only woman judge in the Bible. I like her. I like that.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z They made notations in their family Bible, indicating places where biblical scholars deemed passages inauthentic, added later by unknown authors. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rain and all, the entry into Montgomery had a grandeur that was almost biblical.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Because chiefdoms and state societies have economic specialization, the defeated can be used as slaves, as commonly happened in biblical times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like the priest and the Levite in the biblical story, they choose to pass by on the other side and to see nothing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The sky is biblical today—rays of sun forming straight lines from behind rounded, fluffy clouds. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z But why did this lead Holmes to assume that Indians must have migrated to the Americas in the recent past, a view springing from biblical chronology? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In it she denied any biblical justification for the inferior position of woman. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Catastrophism was particularly comforting to clerics like Buckland because it allowed them to incorporate the biblical flood of Noah into serious scientific discussions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Nineteenth- century writers attributed the mound complexes to, among others, the Chinese, the Welsh, the Phoenicians, the lost nation of Atlantis, and various biblical personages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He spoke about the social injustices in our society and the way they mirrored those in the biblical books of Amos, Hosea, Micah, and others. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Now, look. I will tolerate, for now, your little biblical menagerie in the living room. But I refuse to have this,” he said, flicking at one of the painted peanut-tears, “displayed in our home.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Some religious people were furious that it ignored the biblical account of creation and man’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He believed in giving his children and grandchildren names that meant something, like parents did in biblical times. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Even as in biblical times, there were miracles on the earth in those days. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The effect was only a little short of biblical, with barking, gurgling, screaming dogs, swearing, gurgling, screaming fisherman, and a thrashing, tearing, panicking doe in a mess of rolling canoe, mud, and water.... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was truly biblical; a fog I could imagine God, in one of his lesser wraths, cursing the Egyptians with. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Bobby wrote a preachy letter to his mother, enthusiastically discussing Armstrong’s teachings and his intense biblical studies, which had “changed my whole outlook on life.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One of the two sources Danny had quoted contained a biblical verse, and his father asked him who else had based a law upon this verse. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He said that people had rearranged God’s order by segregating the races and that the Civil Rights movement was attempting to restore a rightful order to the universe based on biblical principles. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit," he said. New transgender discrimination lawsuit marks decade of anti-LGBTQ controversies for Chick-fil-A 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z During the Middle Ages, clerics and cartographers tried to locate such biblical sites as the Tower of Babel and the Garden of Eden. Review | A look at the maps that shaped our world 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Named after the biblical fathers of Judaism and Islam, Isaac and Ishmael was Sorkin’s rapid response to 9/11. When good TV goes bad: how The West Wing went south 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z With Henry Morris, he helped found the Institute for Creation Research in 1972, which advocates for the biblical story of creation to be taught in public schools alongside evolution. Tim LaHaye, evangelical author of ‘Left Behind’ book series, dies at 90 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Any hint as to who the suspects are, biblically? Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Comprised of nine biblical passages, each followed by a carol sung by a boys choir, the original “Festival of Lessons and Carols” is rooted in a historic — and moving — Anglican observance. Young voices rejoice with ‘Festival of Lessons & Carols’ 2012-12-20T21:44:32Z The Cohen song that became an unlikely pop perennial, “Hallelujah,” veers between biblical allusions and ecstatic sex. An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z The collection includes medieval books, rare works of Jewish ritual law and mysticism, prayer books and biblical commentaries amassed by three generations of the Russian-Jewish Guenzburg family. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts to go online in Israel-Russia deal 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z They named him Jacob, after their great grandfathers, and a biblical struggle that is happening in many forms today. Here are some good things about this year 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z In a 1790s scrapbook, a Bavarian priest glued down cutouts of biblical scenes and saint portraits. Antiques: At Home With Artifacts in Their Natural Habitats 2011-04-28T19:58:24Z Still others illustrated biblical scenes or depicted secular subjects including portraits and still lifes. Folk Works Known as Fraktur 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Gal essentially follows the biblical narrative but moves the action to Brooklyn, with the colonnades supporting the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway as the pillars of an Egyptian palace. Provocative Opera at 2 Extremes: Early and New Music 2011-12-17T05:03:15Z An award-winning novelist in Hebrew, Namdar likes to infuse the ancient and biblical into our contemporary world, creating a story that brims with blood and incense. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z There is of course the biblical reference to the Book of Exodus, where Canaan is described as a “land of milk and honey.” 'Mad Men' recap: The Big C 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Some call it the Rapture, the biblically predicted instant wherein God lifts the faithful to Heaven, leaving the Earthly unselected to tough out the balance of the Book of Revelations. Artful 'Leftovers' on HBO leaves viewers wanting more 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z His earlier poems reflect the formal style of the time and are influenced by classical myths, biblical stories and medieval poetry and ballads. Why W.S. Merwin endures, and other best poetry to read this month 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z “I’ve never seen a later text that managed to fake good biblical Hebrew,” she said. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Thomas’s monologue is a combination of sacred and fleshly imagery, with lofty biblical cadences wrestling with the nagging patterns of daily speech on petty subjects. | 'Misterman' : Cillian Murphy in ?Misterman? by Enda Walsh - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:06Z Other clues, including the biblical description of the alignment of the stars on the night that Jesus was born, back up that Jesus was likely born sometime in the spring, not winter. Atheists aren't fighting a "war on Christmas" — many of us even celebrate it 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z They may walk the Stations of the Cross — a processional ritual marking key points in the biblical narrative — attend a pageant or simply gather in church for religious services. Best Easter pageant ever? Half a century of "Jesus Christ Superstar" 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z There are other biblical texts that seem to celebrate the choices that women make for their bodies, even in contexts in which such choices would have been socially shunned. What the Bible actually says about abortion may surprise you 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z The emperor sought a second opinion from Johannes Reuchlin, a linguist in Stuttgart, who decided that Hebrew was a biblical tongue worth preserving. Antiques: Museum Resurrects Tiffany?s Laurelton Hall 2010-08-05T20:35:00Z At the larger end is Rehoboam, an enormous server named after a biblical king that uses its vast store of personal data to determine the life-paths of every human being. What Is ‘Westworld’ Without Westworld? 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z A 1894 picture, “The Thankful Poor” by Henry Ossawa Tanner, is a major example of the genre work produced by this long-lived artist before he turned to biblical scenes. Bill Cosby’s Art Collection Joins African Art at Smithsonian 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z However, many biblical commentators have noted that God’s anger is because Onan failed to live up to his legal obligation to impregnate his brother’s widow, and not because he wasted his sperm. Biblical birth control: The surprisingly contraception-friendly Old Testament 2014-01-05T19:00:00Z Constructed in the 16th century and now running on a mechanism from the 1800s, the multistory, many-tiered clock is outfitted with biblical automatons, Zodiac imagery, elemental motifs, religious statues and moving dials. 36 Hours in Strasbourg, France 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Far from biblical, he is a Golden Age aristocrat. Murillo, Not So Saintly: A Quiet Master Reassessed 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z “The best way to describe it is as almost biblical in scope,” Mr. McQuillen said. Tolkien’s World: An Exhibition Transports Us to Middle-earth 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Curious about the route, I rode the No. 955 bus north from Jerusalem to Nazareth last February, and for the next four days hiked through a biblical landscape, staying at small inns along the way. Explorer: Hiking Through Biblical Backcountry 2012-06-22T15:21:54Z Katy B is an evangelist for sunny, Ibiza-friendly euphoric dance beats, so it was unfortunate that her spirited set coincided with a biblical deluge. Lovebox - review 2011-07-18T11:35:56Z The conclusion was William Walton’s “Belshazzar’s Feast,” amiably bombastic, with the baritone Igor Vieira holding his own, though slightly anticlimactic in the big vocal and instrumental swirlings surrounding the story of a blasphemous biblical ruler. Review | Christopher Bell strikes soundly in his first D.C. outing 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z In 17 paintings Thompson made from 1958 to 1965, most of the figures are based on royal portraits and Renaissance scenes both biblical and pagan. Review: Maureen Gallace, Lynda Barry, and Louis M. Eilshemius and Bob Thompson 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z And Americans, as they move — as they first come here, as they move west, as they move out into the world — they’re telling a story, and the story they are telling is the biblical story. Faith and Politics, a Rocky Romance 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z Some biblical scholars and scientists believe that manna was a real food, though there’s disagreement on which one. Is this biblical food the next foodie fad? This chef thinks so. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z He lay, like the biblical David, a dying king, a maker, if not of psalms, then of a tower of sardonic, tempestuous and tragic imaginings. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z His biblical work is infused with lively portraits and extraordinary detail. Fame finally comes to little-known Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z As Dawkins reveals in today's Observer, support for the Bible plan is justified on the grounds of literary merit and he lists a range of biblical phrases which any cultivated English speaker will instantly recognise. Richard Dawkins the arch-atheist backs Michael Gove's free Bible plan 2012-05-19T20:30:01Z Following “I Can Only Imagine’s” success, biblical drama “Paul, Apostle of Christ” opened in line with estimates with $5 million at 1,473 sites over Palm Sunday weekend. 'Pacific Rim Uprising' conquers 'Black Panther' at weekend box office 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Her son, Sir Philip Sidney, was writing an epic, “Arcadia,” based on Ariosto, and was translating the biblical Psalms when he died. Exhibition Review: ?Shakespeare?s Sisters? at the Folger Shakespeare Library 2012-02-23T23:43:59Z He kicks while playing guitar, while singing; this straight-ahead momentum offsets the troubled yearning of his lyrics, littered with biblical references and lifts from Shakespeare. Mumford & Sons; Tom Odell – review 2012-12-16T00:06:02Z Warwick Thornton Australian director Warwick Thornton has crafted a superb movie – Old Testament cinema, with an almost biblical starkness in its cruelty and mysterious beauty. Prowling panthers, paranormal spies and vengeful ice-skaters: must-see movies of 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z A signal example was “Sheep Under Clouds,” depicting a compact flock of sheep with a biblically threatening sky overhead. Harold Feinstein Dies at 84; Froze New York Moments in Black and White 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Seven is a biblically significant number, the number of completion and perfection, and in this spring of 2007 the Praise-a-thon began on Easter Sunday, the seventh day of Passover. “Empty suit” preacher sinks Indiana megachurch 2013-03-05T16:47:00Z Among the roles are the poet Homer, a mastodon, the biblical Cain — and the actress playing the maid, who keeps breaking character. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z His brand of mythic realism lent an irresistible luster to “The Four Wise Men,” a retelling of the biblical tale of the Three Magi. Michel Tournier, French Novelist Who Fused Myth and Philosophy, Dies at 91 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z It was September, and the refugee crisis at Hungary’s southern border with Serbia was an exodus of biblical proportions. On horseback through the symbolic heart of Hungary 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z A 2010 trip to the Middle East set in motion an intense anthropological and scholarly journey into the many cultural manifestations of the biblical figure. Dance Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T00:43:41Z Dutch woodcarvers once sculpted slivers of boxwood into biblical scenes smaller than walnut shells, and for a few decades in the 1400s and 1500s, elite clients, including Henry VIII, vied to own the miniature works. Unlocking the Secrets of Boxwood Miniatures 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z He combined insights from biblical prophecy with a social worker’s concern for human events in the here and now. Maurice S. Friedman, Biographer of Martin Buber, Dies at 90 2012-10-06T01:01:48Z Green says the museum will display his family’s extensive collection of biblical artifacts. Hobby Lobby president shares plan for Bible museum 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Images of biblical scenes were projected onto the wall above the stage along with parts of the libretto. Review: ‘The Road of Promise,’ Warning to All About Jews in Germany 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z But Martin gives us a biblical meditation rather than a musical drama in the manner of Bach, who alternated passages of urgent recitative and choral outbursts with reflective arias and chorales. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z Lanning, a retired dam builder in Republic, Mo., let the public roam his lawns studded with stone and concrete mermaids, hearts, two-headed creatures and life-size biblical figures. Antiques: Search for de Soto in Southeast Georgia 2010-05-20T22:44:00Z It brought an ancient biblical story about a cataclysmic flood to life for audiences today. Was it biblical? “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z Another important thing that biblical prose taught me was objectivity. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak 2013-05-14T14:19:53Z Lurid biblical tales such as “Susanna and the Elders” are upstaged by the dramatic action of brush on canvas. In the galleries: Remapping the boundaries of drawing 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z There he found success as a painter of luminous pictures of biblical subjects that made no reference to the African-American experience. Art Review: Henry Ossawa Tanner at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 2012-02-09T22:46:14Z Although the place is called the Sea of Death, there was a surprising amount of green, but there were no birds and no other people, just a solitude, which felt, well, biblical. Explorer: A Desert Blooms Along China?s Silk Road 2010-10-15T19:26:00Z The six-day creation story is part of the biblical cosmogonical research agenda, and Genesis is "the world's first biology textbook". The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones – review 2013-04-26T08:00:21Z He keeps the biblical faith, he consistently attends church even though he never joins one, he starts talking about God in his speeches. Abraham Lincoln, bare-knuckle brawler? 2012-12-12T22:26:00Z The 20th-century artist Stanley Spencer became renowned either for the painful honesty of his nude portraits or for the highly personalised Christianity of his visionary reinventions of biblical resurrection. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-15T23:07:37Z Because of their massive size, these were inevitably likened to the biblical Behemoth or to the dragons of fairy tale and myth. Perspective | The Loch Ness monster may not exist, but such mythical beasts fascinate for good reason 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Then Dan Brown took over the conspiracy/biblical analysis industry, and I lost interest. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2012-05-25T21:55:02Z As Dalila — the biblical seductress who lures Samson to destruction — she hopes to dispel such thoughts. A Frenzied Run-Up in a House Full of Divas 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The biblical supernatural drama series premiered in April to low ratings. 'Hart of Dixie,' 'The Messengers' canceled by the CW 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z That means zombies were slightly more popular than biblical figures on Sunday. Cable TV has big night Sunday 2013-04-02T21:42:08Z She graduated from the University of Oxford and received a master's degree in biblical studies from Yale, from which she also received a Ph.D. in religious studies. Candida Moss, Justin Foa 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z What better way to show the world that you support free enterprise – and traditional, biblical marriage – than by going out and purchasing a tray of mouthwatering cinnamon clusters? Happy Chick-fil-A Day! 2012-08-01T20:35:00Z For centuries since, Jews fulfill the biblical commandment to remember and retell the story of the Exodus with a special ceremony, the Seder. Why we need eggs at Passover 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Still, the new show “Falling for Eve,” which recounts the early days of biblical creation in alternately jokey and sentimental fashion, makes for a numbingly bland 90 minutes of musical theater. | 'Falling for Eve': Joe DiPietro?s Look at Eden by York Theater Company 2010-07-16T03:54:00Z In the biblical witness justice cannot be fully realized, however, unless provision is made for the welfare of the poorest and most vulnerable among us. The “macroethics” of Martin Luther King Jr.: When he spoke out against the Vietnam War even his supporters deserted him — here’s how he endured 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Those translations use common, modern language, not the more common biblical construction. Why music from 1594 still moves us in 2016: The deep meaning of 'Tears of St. Peter' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z To prevent this loss of a living sense of the Old Testament, it helps Christians to experience firsthand the biblical faith of modern Jews.” Lawrence Boadt, Priest, Publisher and Bible Scholar, Dies at 67 2010-07-30T20:47:00Z Fabric isn’t just something to be rendered; it seems essential to some inner compulsion in the artist’s reimagining of classical biblical scenes. El Greco is focus of two U.S. shows on 400th anniversary of his death Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, was renowned for stark and violent novels of the American South and West that were distinguished by a merciless vision and nearly biblical prose. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z The biblical account, meanwhile, which has strikingly similar wording, gives the credit for guiding Cyrus to Jehovah. Babylonian relic to visit US with historic message of tolerance 2012-11-27T19:03:48Z With Tolstoy, a biblical descent into baseness, to show how human beings, entangled in sex, death and treachery, really are. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z “Derrick’s interpretation from the biblical story of the angels moving up and down the ladder speaks to Lawrence’s ability to constantly inspire him as well as future generations.” Lost, and Now Found, Art From the Civil Rights Era 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z One of my favorite things to do with “Hitchcock/Truffaut” is to open the book, in biblical fashion, to a random place and read. The Book That Gets Inside Alfred Hitchcock’s Mind 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z That dichotomy is essential to sustaining the mystical omniscience of a play that draws heavily from biblical scripture and Jewish ritual. Review: ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Is a Transfixing Epic of Riches and Ruin 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z In January 2021, the biblical tale of David and Goliath became a reality of sorts in the high-stakes world of Wall Street. The 6 wildest GameStop short squeeze revelations from Netflix's "Eat the Rich" documentary 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Underwater, Caribbean pasts fuse with biblical scenes and the rhythms of marine life, evoking both classical underworlds and the sunken island afterlife of Haitian Voodoo. In Praise of Derek Walcott’s Epic of the Americas 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z One of the most developed relationships in the book, I think, is Sheila’s relationship to the biblical Moses. If Lena Dunham wrote a memoir 2012-07-22T16:00:00Z Do you think of this pandemic in almost biblical terms? Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z It's effectively a cantata telling the biblical story of Jacob wrestling with the Angel, with tenor and countertenor soloists and a chorus. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z Earth is annihilated after aliens destroy the moon, giant robots battle monsters, and in a comedy take on the biblical rapture, mortals are left behind to deal with atheists and spirits. Aliens, rapture, giant robots: Hollywood takes on the apocalypse 2013-04-19T15:27:01Z "In the beginning were the fields," Gavron starts things off, and the biblical rhythms are no accident. 'The Hilltop' views everyday absurdism in occupied territories 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The premiere of his oratorio, which Dett described as a “biblical folk scene,” was a major breakthrough for a black composer. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z Even biblical commandments must stand up to logic before becoming law. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z One final example shows that the biblical epidemic of crotch grabbing had not entirely died out in the Victorian era. The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z The story’s biblical language manages to be simultaneously sincere and mocking; Nassar is particularly good at casting a dark, troubling shadow over his nostalgic vision of rural life. Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z “It’s so wild, but there’s also a lot of very interesting biblical thought at play here. Albert is very, very serious in his way.” Albert Innaurato Returns to the Stage With ‘Doubtless’ 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z His work often featured biblical characters — the sisters Martha and Mary were some of his favorites — as well as angels, animals and community leaders. A ‘Holy Grail’ of American Folk Art, Hiding in Plain Sight 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Why does heavy metal use so many biblical references and symbolisms? ‘Oh creator, it’s you I now renounce’: How death metal lyrics echo some Bible passages 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Laderman’s other compositions include “Celestial Bodies,” for flute and string ensemble; a set of 25 organ preludes; the opera “Goodbye to the Clown”; and vocal settings of biblical psalms. Ezra Laderman,Weaver of Eclectic ‘Marilyn’ Opera, Dies at 90 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z For a long time, only biblical or Christian names were allowed. “Nirvana,” 11 countries that don’t trust their citizens to name their babies 2014-04-02T12:45:00Z “There’s a lot of theories out there,” says Susan Masten, the Museum of the Bible’s curator of antiquities, who has studied biblical plants extensively. Is this biblical food the next foodie fad? This chef thinks so. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Then the Eastern State staff noticed his talent and invited him to line the Catholic chaplain’s office suite with biblical murals. Antiques: Penitentiary Restores Prisoner?s Biblical Murals 2011-07-22T05:15:25Z A sketch of an old man in robes, for instance, could be repurposed as Moses, David or other biblical figures. Antiques: ‘Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion’ at Biblical Art 2012-10-12T05:20:06Z The belief in equality is sanctioned by biblical texts. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire 2010-07-21T21:15:00Z Chicago native Robinson, 41, will star in two comedies centered around the biblical end of the world, playing a megalomaniac Satan in indie comedy "Rapture-Palooza" that is out in theaters on Friday. A Minute With: Craig Robinson masters the apocalypse. Twice 2013-06-05T10:48:48Z Moshe Greenberg, Biblical Scholar, Is Dead at 81 Moshe Greenberg, one of the most influential Jewish biblical scholars of the 20th century, died Saturday at his home in Jerusalem. Moshe Greenberg, Jewish Biblical Scholar, Dies at 81 2010-05-20T04:04:00Z This almost biblical epiphany sounds like a scene from one of Mr. Lynch’s movies in which inanimate objects like curtains and radiators seem imbued with supernatural consciousness. Exploring David Lynch’s Paintings and Drawings 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Prompted by the Jewish subject matter, a winding train of thought leading to this perspective might begin with the biblical injunction against graven images. Art Review: Hyman Bloom’s Rabbi Paintings at White Box 2013-08-29T22:07:24Z By evening, torrential rain had turned biblical, as Mr. Kihlgren drove his motorcycle to meet us for dinner. An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Laden with biblical metaphor, drawn especially from the Book of Job, “Leviathan” is a hyperrealistic portrayal of modern Russia. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z I cut back on all that academic and historical and biblical, archaeological info. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Stephen Tobolowsky’s ‘My Adventures With God’ 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z He’s a nearly biblical, certainly biblical-looking, caretaker — of people, places and things. Review: In ‘Saving Brinton,’ an Inveterate Accumulator Finds Treasure 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. Chick-fil-A starts a culture war 2012-07-23T21:20:00Z To an influential segment of the American electorate, the ascension of Donald Trump to the White House appeared biblically ordained. Books About Losing Faith That Will Give You Hope 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z There's a fable-like quality to the way the author juxtaposes darkness and light in "The Night Alive," which resembles at times a short story by O. Henry, indebted to Dickens and with biblical overtones. Reaching toward the light in 'The Night Alive' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Answering that question depends on how you define manna, which could be its own concentration in biblical studies and ethnobotany. Is this biblical food the next foodie fad? This chef thinks so. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z For his French text he combined all four of the Gospels, interspersing the biblical excerpts with writings of St. Augustine. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z It adjoined a study for her husband, Calvin, a biblical scholar and her literary agent. Twain and Stowe Homes Being Renovated for Historical Accuracy 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Set in a gorgeous ebony frame, Lucas van Leyden's 1530 masterpiece relegates the biblical scene to the background. Rijksmuseum to reopen after dazzling refurbishment and rethink 2013-04-05T15:55:13Z But sweeping biblical narratives soon give way to earthier and more diverting genre scenes. Art Review: ?Rembrandt?s World,? at the Morgan Library & Museum - Review 2012-01-19T22:43:55Z The disaster movie seemed like a pretty typical action drama, but one that the studio probably greenlighted to lure the faithful by using nothing more than a biblical title. From ‘Exodus’ to ‘God’s Not Dead 2’: The new wave of religious movies, explained 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Genuinely odd in its mixture of bluntness and indirection, screenwriter Angus MacLachlan's study in biblical temptation is saved from its own heavy-handedness by a fine quartet of actors. 'Stone': A vexing web of encounters between a fine quartet of actors 2010-10-14T20:39:00Z Cain – his rewriting of the biblical story – was his final novel, and is in some ways a fitting conclusion. Cain by Jos? Saramago ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:02Z Here was a crow conjured from the biblical tale of Cain's murder of Abel, or the "floating knuckle" of honeycomb in a jar, "attesting to the nature of the struggle". The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z With an increasingly majority of younger Americans accepting evolution as fact, Christianity for many under 35 is becoming a watered-down hybrid of eastern philosophy and biblical teachings. Atheists have their number: How the Christian right is hastening religion’s decline 2014-03-25T11:50:00Z The same techniques, however, can make Cameron’s stagier shots — those rooted in literature, art history and biblical narrative — a bit cloying. Art Review: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-08-22T19:55:31Z Each of the 150 works is printed opposite the psalm it’s named after, the biblical texts superimposed on swirling backdrops of veined marble. Damien Hirst’s “Psalm” Series Is Shown In A New Book 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z And while the biblical rainbow was a divine promise, here another message appears projected on a wall: “Build a Better World.” Critic’s Notebook: ‘Noah’s Ark,’ at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles 2014-04-21T21:43:03Z Was it the least biblical Bible movie ever made? “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z This conflation of the high and the low — biblical morality juxtaposed with the mundane details of domesticity — is key to Smith’s frisky and irreverent comic attack. Review: ‘White Teeth,’ by Zadie Smith 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Their songs revolved around folky modal tunes, insistent drones and lyrics with biblical and allegorical overtones. Music Review: Counseling Women on Self-Respect Amid Tunes of Punky Rage 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z Supporters can point to other biblical texts that would seem to count as evidence in their favor. What the Bible actually says about abortion may surprise you 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z Something about floods brings out the biblical in conservatives. 6 most absurd things the Christian right has blamed on gays 2014-04-11T12:15:00Z In that setting, Burnett speak-sings his way through free-associative songs that contain biblical allusions, echoes of the blues, tall tales, lovers’ plaints and warnings about disinformation, the cult of personality and the encroachments of technology. T Bone Burnett Wants to Make Music to Heal Shrinking Attention Spans 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z This approach worked—the biblical chapters devised in Paris in the first two decades of the thirteenth century are the ones we still use today. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z And he’d end with a story — usually a biblical story — that was perfectly crafted and choreographed so by the time he left the pulpit, it was a rock concert. David Alan Grier on Navigating the Art World as a Black Collector 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The music wondrously animates the rich details of the biblical story. Music Review: Haydn’s ‘The Creation,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-24T22:38:21Z Transforming the Harvey Theater into a village, with live animals and a pond, “300 el” drew inspiration from the biblical story of Noah’s ark. 10 Stages and Screens Where I Saw Connection 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Her narration combines biblical cadence with ready clichés. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 2013-05-03T17:41:01Z His writing, with its Western landscapes, noir-inflected dialogue and biblical inclinations, proved to be catnip to filmmakers, including the Coen brothers, Ridley Scott and Billy Bob Thornton. Stream These Five Cormac McCarthy Film Adaptations 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z A second later, it was biblical, pelting the umbrellas like punishment. The Italian Winemakers’ Cult 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z If their rituals recall Beckett’s tramps in “Waiting for Godot,” they also reference plantation America and biblical Egypt; this is a tragedy too big for any one era to encompass. 10 Works Over 5 Years by Black Playwrights. All Intended to Unnerve. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Jacob, for example, one of the biblical patriarchs, took his older brother’s birthright when he tricked their father into blessing him as the firstborn. Can "Game of Thrones" teach us about the meaning of life? 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z This frankly biblical inquiry may not cohere, but there are things in "The Tree of Life" I am very glad to have experienced. Cannes: Director grabs spotlight, but films stand out 2011-05-19T19:56:12Z She was in her element this weekend, wrapping up the kind of signature spectacle she has become known for: a 12-concert marathon of 150 biblical psalms set to music by 150 different composers. Lincoln Center to End Its Namesake Summer Festival 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Goeldner also caught the sinister inflection of the biblical temptress’s music. Review | Can’t even sex sell opera? 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Many of the objects they collected were printed bibles, biblical artifacts, illuminated manuscripts, artworks and ephemera, most of which date from the 1500s to the present. Bible Museum, Admitting Mistakes, Tries to Convert Its Critics 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z When Joshua spars with Paul over the meaning of biblical verses, he is as ticked off as he is injured by his mentor's reasoning. In the laudable 'The Christians,' characterizations are a saving grace 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z We've heard it was biblical, that they proved beyond doubt that they were deserving of the slot and that an actual shooting star fired across the sky during Power Out. The Libertines rekindle the good old days at Leeds festival 2010 2010-08-28T15:35:00Z His biblical tableau of the imprisoned prophet Jeremiah, which belongs to a Massachusetts boarding school, “is deteriorated beyond repair,” Mr. Weber wrote in the catalog. ‘Every Kind of a Painter’ Features a Retrospective of Thomas Prichard Rossiter 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Seeing confirmation of biblical prophecy in terrorism and tsunamis may not be the most helpful way to forge foreign or environmental policies. 2010-01-08T03:41:00Z “One emanates from the heavens, one represents a biblical narrative, and the Zero movement were interested in cosmic light, the vastness of the universe.” The Royal Museum With a White-Cube Gallery Inside 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Speaking of church, this “Leftovers” hour was awash in biblical overtones. 'The Leftovers' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Do You Believe in Miracle? 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The biblical theory of knowledge presented is based chiefly on a reading of the book of Jeremiah and borrows heavily from pragmatism and Thomas Kuhn’s theory of paradigm shifts. The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z It’s hard even to explain Kings, a retelling of the biblical story of David set in an alternate history version of our modern times. From Supertrain to The Crown: TV's most expensive shows ever 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z It was this biblical gift after the biblical, horrible s**t. Pamela Adlon wants you to let "Better Things" wash away the anger 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The press conference also saw director Ridley Scott address the controversy surrounding his biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, claiming he doesn’t regret his choice of a largely white cast. Matt Damon: the refugee crisis is a reason to release The Martian 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The heart of the book contains evidence from the biblical text that not only were human beings more permeable, the Deity was different too: far less abstract and distant than later conceptions. Two Authors Examine Biblical History for Clues About Faith 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Like Jonah, whose biblical tale is invoked by Melville, we are in the belly of the beast. At South Coast Rep, a stunning, gravity-defying stab at 'Moby Dick' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Contemplating such biblical production headaches as pandemic and flood, Fuqua sighed. Gyllenhaal, Fuqua on the van that made ‘The Guilty’ possible 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Brahms leaned more toward death, in “less troubled” texts; this composer saw death as Heine’s “cool night” as early as 1885, 11 years before his biblical contemplations of the subject in “Four Serious Songs.” Review: Two Masters Unite in a Meeting of Musical Minds 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Hope abounds here, an unshakable faith of almost biblical proportions, in the persistence of some form of life — some sort of enduring relevance — beyond the grave. Johnny Cash’s Poems Get a Second Life as Songs 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z A sense of outrage at Mel Gibson's gratuitously gross The Passion of the Christ and the US hit biblical thriller book series Left Behind prompted him to begin his Jesus paintings. Artist of the week 2011-03-10T16:29:20Z He adds that the timeline on biblical interpretation isn't as important as its truth. Hollywood gets caught up in the Rapture 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Steve Jones considers that the holy book does indeed contain lots of supposed facts, embedded in a series of "questions" that constitute a biblical research agenda. The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones – review 2013-04-26T08:00:21Z Two of them, believing themselves to be Einstein and Newton, have strangled their female nurses; the third, called Möbius and suffering visions of the biblical King Solomon, looks dangerously set to follow suit. The Physicists – review 2012-06-08T11:37:54Z At the Bargello, statues depicting the biblical hero David by various artists have been assembled in the Donatello Room, so named in 1887, after it hosted an exhibit commemorating 500 years since the artist’s birth. Donatello Gets His Due 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Last year, poultry purveyor Chik-fil-A started a culture war by declaring its allegiance to “the biblical definition of the family unit.” Dick Cheney and Laura Bush plead support for marriage equality 2013-02-20T16:47:00Z Capital punishment’s strongest supporters justified executions as acts of biblical retribution. 5 things you may not know about death penalty 2013-04-03T13:05:00Z Their suits, made in Milan and Germany, are trimmed in red velvet and engraved with winged snakes, classical gods and biblical figures including Daniel fighting lions. Antiques: Panoramic ?Vision? Back From Tour of Spain 2010-03-04T22:22:00Z Using Talmudic excerpts, biblical citations, songs, liturgical prayers and folk material, it commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. Critic?s Notebook: Put Yourself in the Story of Passover 2011-04-17T23:21:25Z Earnest scholars describe biblical stories and related matters much as they would narrate a history of the civil rights movement or a world war, with a studied urgency meant to convey credibility and importance. More Networks Jumping on the Biblical Bandwagon 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z He’s appearing in Ridley Scott’s biblical epic “Exodus” at the end of the year, and credits “Breaking Bad” as that rare opportunity from which all current blessings flow. Aaron Paul Grabs the Wheel in ‘Need for Speed’ 2014-03-05T17:00:19Z She predicts a long life and great things — biblical things — for this child. Review: ‘Go down, Moses,’ Romeo Castelluci’s Mostly Wordless Story of Abandonment 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z A work that relates the biblical creation story is by definition spiritual. Three Varied Visions of Spirituality at the White Light Festival 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Creating biblically inspired pop culture that attracts religious and non-religious audiences alike can also be a delicate — if not impossible — balancing act. Television puts more faith in religious-themed projects 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z Set in a preindustrial, agrarian world, the play charts a relationship that suggests a biblical parable rewritten by Thomas Hardy. Minds in Meltdown, and a Risk-Taking Director Back on Form 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z To Mormon detractors, Steinberg notes, it’s a telling verbal tic that strongly suggests “a weak ventriloquism of biblical idiom.” The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z I would like to arrange a biblical marriage for myself. Put away your Bible, Justice: The new “religious freedom” arguments are neither 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z But there was expressive sincerity in every solo as well as keen attention to the dramatic charges of the biblical texts. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street’s ‘Messiah’ 2013-12-08T22:27:39Z Despite their biblical names, Adam and Eva learn little from their time in Eden. ‘Barbarians’ Review: Unexpected Visitors 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Crowe is on Long Island filming a new biblical epic, Noah. Crowe gets lost on kayaking trip 2012-09-03T10:46:54Z Caravaggio’s “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy,” a painting of the biblical figure that was found in a private collection in 2014, is one of 11 Caravaggio works on view here. What's on This Week Around the World 1457-12-02T05:00:00Z All other thinkers, however great, must be measured against the biblical authors. Thomas Aquinas, part 3: scripture, reason and the being of God 2012-02-13T15:24:07Z But again lacking texts, the audience was often in the biblical dark. 'The Poet in Exile' at the Wallis lacks full picture of Walter Arlen 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z In “Don Verdean,” starring Sam Rockwell as an unscrupulous biblical archaeologist, something fascinatingly depressing occurred: in touching the Bible directly, Hess also touched upon and gave vent to a primal Christian hostility toward Judaism. Jared Hess’s Spiritual Gross-Out Comedy, in “Masterminds” 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In Cain, however, Cain gets to enjoy his endless exile, ambling aimlessly through a number of other biblical episodes and scenes, like an Old Testament Zelig. Cain by Jos? Saramago ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:02Z Each of these fascinating works by renowned biblical scholars addresses a great question, one historical and the other theological. Two Authors Examine Biblical History for Clues About Faith 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z According to the season announcement, the piece – created by Mr. Patinkin and Mr. Mac – centers on the two survivors of a flood of biblical proportions, who find that their common language is song and dance. ArtsBeat: Patinkin Collaborating With Taylor Mac on ‘Apocalyptic Vaudeville’ for Classic Stage 2013-06-17T16:18:05Z And the presentation, in sharp contrast to biblical tradition, implies that there were no other divine laws communicated by Moses. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z It did some things quite well—scene-setting, music, cinematography, and the occasional invocation of biblical plagues. “Fargo” recap: Season two is already so much better than season one 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Everything that happens there is weighted and contoured by everything that has happened there, stretching back to biblical times. Sundance's 'The Honorable Woman' a brave foray into conflict 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z My parents’ generation, lucky enough to pass the biblical three score and 10, would describe themselves as living on “borrowed time.” What Matters in Old Age: Rereading, Reconsidering and Reassessing 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Inspired by the biblical tale, this 8,000-square-foot indoor playground includes about 400 life-size animal constructions, many of them interactive machines. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Noah’s Ark,’ at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles 2014-04-21T21:43:03Z The language of biblical Palestine was Jacobean English. Anne Boleyn and the theatre of reformation 2011-07-08T21:55:13Z On any given day, they might have published a literary satire, a gender critique, biblical fan fiction and a fantasia about raccoons. Dear Prudence, how did Slate’s advice columnist find himself here? 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Two years on, though, the opposite seems to be true; far from a biblical, end-of-dating-days scenario, we are spending more money and time on wooing strangers than ever. Hookups, sexting and unwanted threesomes: first-time dating in the age of Tinder 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z It features Josh Brolin as a careworn studio troubleshooter and George Clooney as the star of a biblical epic who gets kidnapped. Berlin film festival 2016 roundup: serious gems and stylish risks 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Yet where such artists illustrated established biblical and mythological narratives, Sandberg devises eclectic scenarios. Review | In the galleries: Renaissance influences synchronize with Magic Realism 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z During your short stay with us, however, you will nevertheless be subjected to erroneous and perhaps hurtful comparisons to biblical plagues and the like. Perspective | Dear Brood X cicadas: Welcome back to our messed-up world. Here’s what you missed. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z The misadventures of Mr. Ferguson’s character are likely to raise the question: How do you live biblically? In ‘Living Biblically,’ a Man Teeters Down the Straight and Narrow Path 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The dancers, who also include three men, calmly fold in Pietàs and the decapitations and stabbings prevalent in biblical and historical subjects. Review: Dance That Playfully Brings Art History to Life 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Kushner embarked on a ten-year project of reading and collecting different versions of the Hebrew Bible in English and traveling the world retracing the steps of the great biblical translators, searching for their motivations. What can we learn from translations of the Bible? 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z His purpose is “a firm belief in the biblical account of creation and the worldwide flood” and, according to the company brochure, exploring “the Christian heritage of the U.S.” Is the Museum of the Bible that tourist-destination evangelicals have been waiting for? 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z If you have heard his voice, then you will know that it is rich and sonorous, barrel-aged, with cadences that border on the biblical. Wendell Pierce Fulfills His American Dream: Playing Willy Loman 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Yep, Ham is the most extreme type of biblical literalist, and has no compunctions about using the Bible as the complete guide to history, geography, paleontology and theology all in one neat package. From Puritans to Ken Ham: The long history of creationism in America 2014-02-22T19:00:00Z “Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel well?” asked the gospel choir, and then pushed the question further from the biblical to the political: “Then why not every man?” How Alvin Ailey Opened the Eyes of a 12-Year-Old Zadie Smith 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Blake, the mountain’s co-founder, had died that month, and Mother Nature responded a week later with a blizzard of biblical proportions, setting up dangerous avalanche conditions. Taos Had History and Mystique, but Few Skiers. Can a New Owner Change That? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Obsessed with tangled biblical prophecies, Pearl announces, “I am dynamite” and hunkers down with his guns and his gold. ‘Fourth of July Creek,’ by Smith Henderson This divine skill, which manifests in certain people at 13 or before, is believed to originate from globally scattered fragments of the biblical Tower of Babel. Fascinating Alternate Histories in Four New Novels 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z But given the widespread association of same-sex behavior with lustful excess in the ancient world, it isn’t surprising that the biblical writers didn’t contemplate the possibility of same-sex marriage. The Bible backs same-sex couples: Point by point, why the haters are wrong 2014-05-10T15:00:00Z Yet his music brims with biblical imagery, cut with Old Testament menace, deceit and blood. Concert review: Leonard Cohen at Akoo Theatre 2012-11-24T07:58:00Z For one, its story represented a departure from Handel’s typical biblical oratorio subjects. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z I'm not a religious person but I do think the biblical stories, like all great stories, continue to resonate in our lives. Sheila Heti: 'I love dirty books' 2013-01-19T17:30:01Z Noah never feels anything in the biblical account. “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z Among the works in the exhibition are the rarely exhibited “La Derellita,” a depiction of the biblical story of Mordecai lamenting the proposed extermination of the Jews. In Transit Blog: Two Masters Explored in Roman Show 2011-10-30T10:00:31Z Elsewhere in the studio, artisans were piecing together a biblical scene for the window of a Los Angeles megachurch. The Artist Creating a 150-Foot-Long Glass Rainbow 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z At other times they were excursive, especially his blow-by-blow account of the biblical book of Jonah. Alasdair Gray honoured by Edinburgh book festival on Lanark anniversary 2011-08-14T17:58:03Z “I thought he meant the mother of God,” Elliman, now 69, said in a recent phone conversation, explaining that she had been unfamiliar with the biblical story. ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at 50: What Was the Buzz? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z The big winner was religion: Those who trafficked in biblical warnings about the end of the world got more attention. Climate Change and Human History 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z The 24-year-old Brit, who spent part of her college career at Oxford, enrolled at Brown in 2009, but continued to work on several films while studying, most recently the biblical epic Noah. Emma Watson Will Graduate This Month (From Brown, Not Hogwarts) 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The biblical scenes include depictions of Abraham, about to sacrifice his son, and Adam, being expelled from Eden with Eve, the only woman in this Foundry Gallery show. Review | In the galleries: ‘Time Capsule’ retrospective highlights jazz’s influence on Frank Stewart 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Jared Leto, who meandered the room in a biblical Gucci ensemble, succinctly described the evening as “fantastic” and breezed onward. Jennifer Lopez, Michael B. Jordan and Emma Stone Keep Partying After Met Gala 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z What, after all, were a bunch of naïve teenagers doing in this surreal, existential tragicomedy by the author of “Our Town,” with its mash-up of biblical revisionism, theatrical satire and apocalyptic escapades? Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Had this been The Exorcist then Fredrichs would have swept in and destroyed the demon with a flick of water and some mad-eyed biblical posturing. Paranormal Activity recap: reliving a phenomenon 2013-07-26T10:00:00Z The work, based on the biblical story of Jonah, was played at the debut concert of the London Sinfonietta and later recorded on the Beatles' Apple label. Obituary: Sir John Tavener 2013-11-12T17:29:21Z The song's chorus quotes from the Book of Psalms, referring to the exiled Jewish people's yearning to return to the biblical land of Israel. Boney M asked to skip hit in West Bank gig 2010-07-22T11:41:00Z Cannes may have the aquamarine sea and beaches, Los Angeles the star wattage and sunshine – but only Bafta serves up a selection of sleet, snow and rain of biblical proportions. The Baftas are so British, and no one blubs when they win 2012-02-12T14:30:01Z You were stuck with biblical vocabulary until someone updated it. Natalie Portman talks to Salon about her directorial debut: “I felt lucky to make the film in Israel because being a female director there isn’t unusual” 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The Gullah Geechee, who called Tubman Black Moses, helped create a rich book of spirituals that fused biblical imagery with their own plight. Her Symphony Reclaims an Ancestral Story, and Classical Music 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z And now the fires, biblical fires, wild and unchecked, were swallowing up acreage comparable to whole eastern states. Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey have never been more relevant in the drought-stricken West 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z My choices for 2020 span history from biblical times to the present, as well as wine’s role in modern politics, and a lively memoir from a winemaker who shares his blueprint for success. Crack open the best 2020 wine books for rich history, international politics and a vintner’s lively memoir 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z The assembly of biblical characters was featured in an international exhibition that traveled to Rome, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Tel Aviv before returning to the institute for permanent display. A ceramics tour along the Adriatic coast 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z That would make it the oldest known biblical manuscript by far, and an unprecedented window into the origins and evolution of the Bible and biblical religion. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Which is why – notwithstanding the 400th anniversary celebrations of the King James Bible – the real hero of biblical translation is William Tyndale. 500 years of church intolerance 2011-02-15T07:30:02Z His paintings on biblical, mythical or historical subjects were closely scrutinized for subversive content. Our country’s first spin doctors: The painters of the American Revolution 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Curtis said the hope was that the museum would show artefacts from richly historical sites, including the biblical city Ur of the Chaldees, birthplace of Abraham. Iraqi palace could show BM artefacts 2010-12-01T00:05:00Z Here was a mythological world potentially as distinct as Middle Earth: a biblical, fantastical world. | The Thing About Noah and the Ark 2014-03-19T22:15:45Z The show ran for 16 months, and each performance included no fewer than 18 dances, a tour de force that left British critics reaching for biblical superlatives: “Nothing like them since the Flood.” ‘The Astaires,’ by Kathleen Riley 2012-06-01T22:36:06Z View "The best tweets from #readingfestival" on Storify Talking of "the weather" we did wonder if people in Leeds were still tweeting, what with biblical floods raining down on them throughout yesterday. Reading and Leeds 2011: The story so far (part two) 2011-08-27T12:46:25Z The painting, currently on display at the Colnaghi Gallery in London, dates from 1607 and depicts biblical heroine Judith beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes. Long-lost Caravaggio painting to be auctioned in June in France 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Even in the blazing episodes of the “Dies irae,” with pounding bass drum, vehement brass and frenzied runs in strings, he had the music sounding more grave and biblical, less operatically dramatic. Review: For 9/11 Tribute, the Met Opera Returns Home 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z From the witness box, he quoted biblical and literary works to justify his use of naked children as part of his "state of grace" body of work. Artist convicted for child sex 2013-04-02T19:16:04Z The horse’s name of course also suggests the biblical patriarch who bargains with God to try and save Sodom and Gomorrah from destruction. The Oscars: Manohla Dargis Looks at the Overture to ?Melancholia? 2011-12-30T17:03:44Z I had only known of the biblical references to Egypt before then. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images is set to play Moses in Ridley Scott's retelling of the story of the biblical hero, according to Deadline. Christian Bale to play Moses in Ridley Scott's biblical epic 2013-03-18T10:53:08Z This also seems aligned with the Haggadah’s specification that each person should look at the biblical story of liberation as a personal event: not just “you are there,” but what happened there is about you. Critic?s Notebook: Put Yourself in the Story of Passover 2011-04-17T23:21:25Z After my editor and I saw the film, we immediately were Googling different biblical references and Dante passages and paintings. Michelle Pfeiffer on the Meaning of mother! and 'Unfiltered' Jennifer Lawrence 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Gates himself is working within a biblical tradition. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Her luminous, feathery portraits and staged literary or biblical scenes are often grouped with Pre-Raphaelite paintings, which certainly influenced them; this was the case in two recent exhibitions in Washington. Art Review: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-08-22T19:55:31Z Reality shows that exalt indolent, loud-mouthed exhibitionists may seem like almost biblical retribution for our materialistic, celebrity-obsessed age. The TV Watch: Reality TV Is an Old Entertainment Form 2010-08-19T21:25:00Z She's played by the singer Pixie Lott, who's less expressive than her biblical ancestor after being turned into a pillar of salt in Sodom. Fred: the Movie - review 2010-12-19T00:05:57Z Of two dozen paintings total, all but one of the remaining female images is biblical, the Virgin Mary or Eve. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z This might be shocking, given their proximity to biblical narratives and detailed, psychological portraits. Review | The Rijksmuseum displayed ‘all the Rembrandts,’ and crowds went crazy 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z So, according to Dudley, instead of following biblical law, Evangelical Christians have been swept up in a 30-year-old reactionary political movement. Biblical birth control: The surprisingly contraception-friendly Old Testament 2014-01-05T19:00:00Z “These same arguments, largely taken from a generation of biblical scholarship from mainstream academics, have circulated for decades in those communities.” Matthew Vines Won’t Rest in Defending Gay Christians 2012-09-14T22:53:06Z The biblical epic, which stars Christian Bale as Moses, overtook the third instalment of The Hunger Games, following three weeks at number one. Muted opening weekend for epic Moses 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Immediacy is the goal of the Passover Seder, commemorating the biblical story of the Jews’ deliverance from slavery in Egypt. Music Review: In a Tale of Deliverance, It?s Moses to the Rescue 2011-04-22T22:56:01Z We’ve seen the biblical horsemen, of course, but also the ancient god Moloch and assorted others, either directly or by reference. 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: Ben Franklin Taps His Inner Frankenstein 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z That would have been a biblical zinger there, but that wouldn't have brought a pillar of fire down from the heavens to destroy the Westboro Baptist Church. Comic-Con report: Geeks vs. fundamentalist Christians 2010-07-23T15:12:00Z Christians may scoot past these passages, but one hell-bound humorist used them to create a biblical curse generator. 11 kinds of Bible verses Christians love to ignore 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z If there is a next time, he ought to take a theologian with him who might penetrate their carapace of biblical certainty and challenge them on their own ground. I'd rather see Rowan Williams meet the Phelps family 2011-04-06T13:59:00Z The Shrine of the Book, containing the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest known surviving copies of biblical documents, sits next to it. James S. Snyder?s Facelift of the Israel Museum 2010-07-20T21:45:00Z Lang’s composition, adding cello, viola and percussion, is a kind of analysis of the biblical text, pulling phrases that begin with possessive pronouns. Review: In Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Song of Songs’ the Beloved Is Beauty 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z In an interview, Christopher Rollston, a leading epigrapher at George Washington University who is writing a book about biblical forgeries, was blunt. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z When discussing the book the other day, Bissell, veering from biblical legends to primal urges, smiled like a man who had overheard an indiscreet whisper. Tom Bissell's 'Apostle' takes a ride-along through unanswerable questions about Jesus' disciples 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Mussolini, indulging his martyr fantasies, draws inspiration from a biblical epic depicting Jesus' crucifixion and projected on a church ceiling. 'Vincere' follows Mussolini's charismatic impact on World War II through tragic lover 2010-04-01T18:56:00Z But a century later, the English Puritans frowned upon the disorderly holiday for lacking biblical legitimacy. The Christmas tree is a tradition older than Christmas 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z The biblical drama “Mary Magdalene” will hit theaters next month with Rooney Mara in the title role alongside Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Women, War & Peace II’ and ‘The Salesman’ 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Like earlier works, this compared biblical with literary texts. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z Though much was made of last year's trio of biblically inspired films — "Noah," "Exodus: Gods and Kings" and "Son of God" — religious epics have been a mainstay of cinema since the silent era. Television puts more faith in religious-themed projects 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z That formula gets a big shake-up next Friday, with the release of his biggest undertaking to date, the biblical epic “Noah.” Movie Listings for March 21-27 2014-03-20T22:36:36Z Mr. Halim has studied how the original artists layered, rippled and painted glass to depict saints and biblical scenes. Magnificent Obsession Morphs Into a Stained-Glass Museum 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Punching the air, making crucifixion poses and initiating clapalongs, this man could convince an audience that there was a biblical text on the back of a jar of marmalade. RPA and the United Nations of Sound 2010-06-16T20:29:00Z A group of 19th-century Mormon settlers, upon first spotting a Yucca brevifolia, termed it a “Joshua tree” because they believed it resembled the biblical Joshua, hands raised in prayer. Finding Yourself in Los Angeles 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z They are undoubtedly readings into the biblical text, but they show some of the creative theological engagement that the texts themselves do. The Book of Genesis, part 3: Creation ? and afterwards 2010-12-27T10:00:05Z Loose biblical associations are threaded throughout: a census is about to be held, the family meets many sinners, listens to parables and discusses sin, guilt, redemption and how miscreants should be treated. Life and afterlife 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z In the lower-level chapel, the azure ceilings are studded with gilded fleurs-de-lis, while in the upstairs — originally reserved for the king and the royal family — 15 stained-glass windows narrate biblical stories in wonderful detail. Medieval city on the sea is a repository of French history — and unexpected U.S. connections 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z In biblical times, covenants were often sealed by the ritual slaughtering of an animal. Motherlode Blog: I Enjoyed My Son’s Bris 2013-05-31T15:17:42Z In St Matthew and the Angel, and in many other religious works, Caravaggio has resurrected, as it were, the ancient dialect of biblical wine porters. Prince of darkness 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z “It’s funny, it’s thought-provoking, it sprang from biblical sources, but it’s 100 percent contemporary,” David Binder, the artistic director of BAM, said of the show in a phone interview. A Show With a Cryptic Cryptic Title but No Code to Crack 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z The Dead Sea is linked to the sites of the biblical Sodom and Gomorra, and one conservative Israeli lawmaker compared the photo shoot to that ancient debauchery. Israelis get nude for art at lowest point on earth 2011-09-17T18:16:04Z Among the characters added to the biblical tale, Charlotte Daw Paulsen, a mezzo-soprano, as Jephtha’s wife, was especially fine in her harrowing “Scenes of horror, scenes of woe.” Music Review: Handel?s Old Testament Dramas Revived in New York 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z The recovered coin and two others surfaced only recently during what Israeli authorities described as looting that took place in the Elah Valley area, the biblical site of the battle between David and Goliath. U.S. Returns Rare Coin Minted by Jews During Rebellion From Rome 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Click to enlarge In 1945, two brothers in Egypt found discarded biblical texts. Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho – review 2013-03-24T18:59:01Z It tells a series of biblical tales wordlessly through lively, wonderfully detailed, cartoonish images rendered in jewel-bright colors and shiny gold leaf by six or seven unknown painters. Exhibitions of Medieval Biblical Masterworks 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z “This weekend, I saw a biblical scholar who said, ‘I don’t believe that King Solomon existed.’ Who connects Jewish cooking the world over? The whirlwind named Joan Nathan. 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z As the biblical giant raises his mighty club to smash it down on his enemy, his face is a hate-filled mask. Sculpture's lost in the third dimension 2010-05-12T20:35:00Z The cultural view of the new America is that the biblical view of homosexual sex is backward, the stuff of cavemen or the Ku Klux Klan, ” Dickerson said. The last evangelical celebrity? Tim Tebow’s firing may signal a recession among the faithful 2013-05-07T11:45:00Z It also brought biblical icons down to earth, especially Jesus. ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in a Live TV Revival 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Hollywood moguls including Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg and three of the Warner brothers stepped forward to fund key features of the historic building, including the temple's dome, windows and a mural of biblical scenes. L.A. arts patron selling Cy Twombly painting to fund synagogue events center 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Yet even when he’s trudging through a biblical genealogy of one-hit wonders, he stays profoundly fascinated by his subject. ‘Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé,’ by Bob Stanley I am not a biblical or kosher expert, being raised Reform, but there is no workaround to let observant Jews eat "some other form of kosher". A Different Kind of Christmas Dinner: Spicy Shrimp Stir-Fry 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z “The Young Messiah,” based on Anne Rice’s 2005 novel “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt,” envisions a kind of biblical prequel: Jesus at the age of 7 traveling with his parents from Alexandria to Nazareth. Scripture as a Springboard in Hollywood 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z This production, directed by Drew Minter, with music direction by Mary Anne Ballard, begins with a storyteller, a woman costumed appropriately to biblical times, who welcomes the audience in conversational English. ‘The Play of Daniel,’ at Trinity Church 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z It comes at the start of the tenor aria that closes the first act of this grand biblical oratorio from 2012, modeled on the Bach Passions. Review: John Adams’s ‘Gospel’ Displays an Orchestral Wizard’s Tuneful Ear 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z The scrolls include the biblical Book of Isaiah, the manuscript known as the Temple Scroll, and three others. 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls go online 2011-09-27T00:31:04Z The cardinals fling these on and off as they switch characters in their race through a couple millenniums of biblical and Catholic history. ‘The Cardinals’ at the Public Theater 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z I was wondering, did you always have this many biblical stories in you or was it something that had to be refined for the book? "Insecure" star Yvonne Orji reflects on DMX and her destiny: "God's out here playing tricks on me" 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z In pictures such as the Museo Civico’s “Rachel at the Well” the mass of livestock and attendant peasants so dominate the composition that the biblical incident, relegated to the background, becomes almost incidental. Review: Bassano's Pastoral Idyll 2010-04-23T13:25:00Z When the Kim family’s home floods – a biblical torrent that sends sewage streaming from the toilet and destroys their miserable belongings – the rock endures. Built on rock: the geology at the heart of Oscars sensation Parasite 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The biblical Flood emphasizes the unique role humans played in corrupting the earth. “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z But like the biblical Joseph, my sister and I were the collateral damage of my parents’ actions and I wouldn’t wish such treatment on my worst enemy. A letter to … my parents, whose favouritism ripped our family apart 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Both brothers worked in their native Haarlem within the growing field of genre painting, distilling moments from daily life, as opposed to biblical, historical or mythological themes. Dutch Old Master Paintings Exposed (in More Than One Sense) 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z She will also star in “Messiah,” a biblical suspense thriller produced by Mark Burnett for Netflix, due out later this year. Stefania LaVie Owen, Snoop Dogg Co-Star and Vogue Darling 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “A Handful of Rice,” told in the cadence of a biblical tale, explores the friendship of two men after one becomes a powerful king. Review | Best new science fiction and fantasy this month 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The apocalypse crashes James Franco's Hollywood house party, resulting in a enjoyably crude comedy that mixes stoner-buddy goofing with biblical disaster movie and celebrity self-satire. The Act Of Killing, This Is The End, Despicable Me: this week's new films 2013-06-29T05:00:11Z The Christian Broadcasting article described Second Coming as “closer to blasphemous than biblical” and noted the comic’s plans to present Jesus as a failure. Comic Book With Jesus as a Character Finds a New Publisher 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z This adaptation, which starts off succinctly, starts to strain as soon as it has to shoulder the biblical proportions. Review | A new TV version of ‘The Stand’ pits good against evil after a deadly pandemic. Been there, done that. 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Twelve children and their parents are on vacation when a storm of biblical proportions lashes the United States. 11 Books to Watch For in May 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z "Courageous" is a challenge to "men of courage," to fathers to measure up to the biblical definition of the word. 'Courageous': 4 officers deal with faith, family 2011-09-29T20:03:04Z The preacher sprinkles his calls for affordable health care with biblical allusions, reminding voters that Bartimaeus, a blind man healed by Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, “suffered from a preexisting condition.” Raphael Warnock’s campaign for the moral high ground 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z You see, within the original Examiner.com piece, Ampong went off on a bit of biblical tangent. HGTV: Winning the war for gay marriage 2012-05-17T16:00:00Z Alternately wistful and satirical, Wilde’s tales are suffused with biblical phraseology and an Arabian Nights atmosphere, even as they explore the dualities of beauty and ugliness, body and spirit, appearance and reality. Review | A reading list just right for Christmas 2020: A little Dickens, a little Wilde, a little Donald Duck 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z July 2, “David & Jonathan, a “modern-day retelling of the biblical story” set in a contemporary black church. Land of the free: No-cost activities in and around Seattle 2013-06-26T22:29:21Z The boldface names in “The Mysteries” belong to the characters: God, Jesus, Lucifer, the rest of the biblical crowd. The ‘Mysteries’ Cast Discuss Life as Struggling Actors 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The handles and knobs are shaped like animals, and the planks are carved and painted with foliage, animals, cherubs and biblical scenes, among other motifs. The Arcane Charms of Mangle Boards 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The church’s Tiffany windows with biblical scenes now illuminate a wedding chapel at a hotel in Riverside, Calif. Madison Square’s stone columns and some terra-cotta flourishes were transferred to a former newspaper headquarters in Hartford. Antiques: Madison Square Presbyterian Church Fragments Found 2011-12-01T22:39:26Z But creationism is part of the larger crusade within the religious right to make “biblical literalism” Christian doctrine and federal law. Why creationists can’t be scientists 2014-02-20T20:16:00Z Of course, one way round this is the argument that a much smaller number of biblical "kinds" or baramins were carried, and that the species we see today developed from them. Questions about Noah's Ark that may bug creationists 2011-01-18T14:15:10Z But none of those films were as ambitious or rooted in overall biblical narrative as “Exodus.” 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' Portrays the Deity as a Boy 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z So, if the source isn't biblical, how was December 25 first linked to Jesus' birth? Atheists aren't fighting a "war on Christmas" — many of us even celebrate it 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z We need to determine, from a biblical standpoint, whether the essence of Christian marriage permits the inclusion of same-sex couples, or whether it necessarily involves the union of a man and a woman. The Bible backs same-sex couples: Point by point, why the haters are wrong 2014-05-10T15:00:00Z A riff on both the biblical Exodus and “Waiting for Godot,” it stars Jon Michael Hill as Moses and Julian Parker as Kitch, bantering young black men with dreams of leaving their beleaguered block. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Modern metal sculptures circle the font depicting biblical scenes, including, of course, the Last Supper. Leonardo’s spirit lives on in his hometown of Vinci, Italy 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z In the beginning," he suggests, in biblical fashion, of the first web generation, "there was this era online of let's just be cool and criticise everything, and we were very guilty of that. Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice – it's within my grasp' 2013-03-23T22:24:20Z A champion of humanistic Christianity, Sayers had Christ speaking in modern rather than biblical parlance, thereby triggering a fierce public debate. Taproot woos fans of Dorothy L. Sayers in upcoming 'Gaudy Night' 2012-09-12T23:05:04Z Known for his psychological films like ballet drama "Black Swan," Aronofsky said the easiest and most humane way to show the biblical animal kingdom he envisioned was through visual effects. Animal rights group honors 'Noah' director avoiding animal use in film 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The engine driving the plot — apart from the biblical apocalypse, which is as literal a deus ex machina as you could wish for — is Jay’s jealousy. Movie Review: ‘This Is the End,’ With Seth Rogen and James Franco 2013-06-11T18:01:14Z The towers are a glorious hybrid of Angkor Wat and art deco, part hallucinatory, part biblical, rendered in glorious amber and turquoise. Alternative Guide to the Universe – review 2013-06-15T23:05:34Z DeMille’s silent movie is about biblical Exodus — Greek for “the way out” — and Vegas is one contemporary definition of escape. 'Made in L.A. 2016': Hammer Museum biennial proves a thoughtful place to ponder the possibilities 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z I winced, wary of Holt’s allergy to antiquity, but he was awed by the intricacy of its facade, replete with biblical scenes, grumpy lions and saints frozen in various karate poses. Pasta Dreams and Flying Machines: Our Tuscan Adventure 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The unwelcome answer that emerged in the nineteenth century was that the received biblical history was not history at all. The Bible’s racist monstrosities: How the “word of God” has been — and still is — used to oppress 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Before then, most American universities held that biblical study was primarily the domain of Christian scholars, said Jonathan D. Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University. Moshe Greenberg, Jewish Biblical Scholar, Dies at 81 2010-05-20T04:04:00Z Bill Nye "The Science Guy" is set to visit Kentucky to debate evolution and biblical creation with the founder of the Creation Museum. Bill Nye to visit Creation Museum for debate 2014-01-03T16:07:10Z And like the anonymous composers of the spirituals, Black gospel singers learned early that survival sometimes meant veiling their anger in biblical imagery that only those in the know could decode. 50 Years Ago, They Did Something Rare in Gospel: Tied Music to Protest 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Their goal was to establish a state with a Jewish majority in the biblical land of Israel. Israel’s First Prime Minister Was Complicated. So Is This Book About His Life. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z “I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something,” he said between chews. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z The collection includes medieval books, rare works of Jewish ritual law and mysticism, prayer books and biblical commentaries amassed by three generations of the Russian-Jewish Guenzburg family. Ancient Hebrew manuscripts to go online in Israel-Russia deal 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Like many of Ms. Harris’s songs, “Goodnight Old World” hints at biblical phrases. A LifeDigging For Veins Of Gold 2011-04-24T00:49:06Z American Jews in particular, he optimistically concludes, “retain a commitment to social justice in ways that resemble a biblical commandment,” adding, “Religious or secular, universalism is part of who they are.” ‘At Home in Exile,’ on the Jewish Diaspora, by Alan Wolfe 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Sure, the titles sound like something from Sunday school, but the stories aren’t too concerned with biblical accuracy. From ‘Exodus’ to ‘God’s Not Dead 2’: The new wave of religious movies, explained 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z He and the other performers are part of “Messiah/Complex,” an iconoclastic new production of Handel’s classic oratorio, which draws on biblical texts to form a stylized narrative of suffering, hope and redemption. A ‘Messiah’ for the Multitudes, Freed From History’s Bonds 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z “Rapfest 2014,” a free concert on Saturday at Vidalia Park in the Bronx, will showcase over 20 Christian acts, connecting the raw rhythms and lyricism of rap with biblical traditions of poetry and prophecy. Art at the Terminal and Beyond 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The titular apple must be that biblical fruit, whose consumption unleashed a new era, for better or worse. The Alan Turing effect: Show explores the evolution of art in the Digital Age 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z In the 1940s Foss had already done two cantatas for voice and orchestra, “Song of Anguish” and “Song of Songs,” that were also on biblical texts. Eight Ways of Looking at a Singular Composer 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z This spirituality is less in the biblical sense than for the natural world. Etel Adnan’s Bittersweet Arrival at the Guggenheim 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Particularly riveting is the black-and-white composition considering the concept of “the son of man” — an ambiguous biblical phrase sometimes referring to Christ and sometimes to humanity itself. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z And despite apples being dipped in honey at so many holiday tables, the fruit, originating in Kazakhstan, was not a biblical species. This Rosh Hashana Salad Is a Fresh Take on Ancient Flavors 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The Michael Green-created series was loosely based on the story of King David and lasted just one season despite being a bold and visually engrossing modern retelling of the biblical tale. Beyond the Winter Soldier: Sebastian Stan has always played roles that exist outside the binaries 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z Immortalized in the chapel’s art, Louis IX is portrayed as the legitimate successor to the biblical kings. Medieval city on the sea is a repository of French history — and unexpected U.S. connections 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z I’m from a very religious background, so I grew up on biblical text. 'All the hood rats would jam with us': Grandmaster Flash, AJ Tracey and other artists on the generation gap 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Based on the biblical story of Susanna and the Elders, the opera, set in rural Tennessee, centers on a community’s condemnation of a sensual young woman and the tragic consequences that ensue. Phyllis Curtin, American Soprano Who Championed New Music, Dies at 94 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Like the sectaries of the mid-17th century with whom they were compared, they saw the Exodus, in which God liberated a vulnerable and victimised people from slavery, as the paradigm of biblical politics. The political Bible, part 1: A foundation for British attitudes 2011-08-09T09:40:00Z The novel, written in a rich, Shona-inflected English, draws on biblical language, oral narrative style and folk proverbs. Chenjerai Hove, Chronicler of Zimbabwean Struggles, Dies at 59 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Not only did these writers often invoke the biblical text or find inspiration in it; they also embraced its perspective, judging the behavior of their characters and meting out their fates. Exhibition Review: ?Manifold Greatness? and King James Bible at Folger - Review 2011-09-29T22:15:20Z Touwaide would also want those biblical gifts of frankincense and myrrh, derived from tree gum resins. What the ancient Greeks can teach us about herbs 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z It is no wonder, he points out, that "2,700 biblical passages contain words like joy, happiness, pleasure, laughter, gladness, feasting and celebration." Want to know what happiness is? Pastor Greg Laurie shares one key secret 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z He did however have advice on how to read the biblical texts. Reza Aslan destroys biblical literalism: “The gospels are absolutely replete with historical errors and with contradictions” 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The song fragments — carefully pieced together, balancing tempos and musical keys and biblical themes in the lyrics — are a reminder of the profound and fundamental human needs that only spiritual music can fully satisfy. The Museum of the Bible: The last place in D.C. you might expect to hear Queen, Kanye and the Clash 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z With "Exodus: Gods and Kings," director Ridley Scott tackles the biblical story of Moses leading his people to freedom. 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' hit by plague of ho-hum reviews 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z In the 1960s, toward the end of Hollywood's fascination with biblical epics, De Laurentiis planned a series of Old Testament drama, beginning with Genesis, to be directed by the great French minimalist Robert Bresson. In Remembrance of Erratic Film Producer Dino De Laurentiis 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z “The lavishness of a biblical imagination,” Steinberg writes, “is sometimes born out of a poverty of space and resources, from a poor person’s urgent need to amplify.” The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z "All teachers at my school make a visit there and you are confronted with these biblical images," recalls Mulligan. Andy Mulligan talks Trash 2010-12-20T14:00:00Z The palais is a manic fusion of biblical characters, animal gatherings, Egyptian tombs, stucco arches, grottos, fairies, fountains, popular sayings and classical columns. 10 of Europe’s oddest attractions and events 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Live camels and variously cooperative sheep join in a biblical pageant. What the Rockettes and ‘The Hard Nut’ teach us about the meaning of life 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z But instead, he chose to play David — not the biblical figure but the statue itself, for which Longfellow proudly went bare-chested with his face and body painted a marbly white. ‘Saturday Night Live’ Tackles the Trump Indictment 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z For our reviewer, Luis Alberto Urrea, the title of this debut collection of stories exploring “the true meaning of borders” called to mind “empty lots, our lots in life, even the biblical figure Lot.” New in Paperback: ‘American Carnage’ and ‘Mrs. Everything’ 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z The movie pauses just long enough to observe the Crucifixion, which, like every other biblical element, comes across as a rushed, perfunctory nod to tradition, devoid of emotional or spiritual resonance. Review: ‘Ben-Hur’ Is a Savage Update for a New Generation 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z “If you are looking for a biblical movie, this is definitely not it,” said Glenn Beck, one of many detractors, speaking to the Gospelherald.com. ‘Noah’ Floats to Top of the Box Office 2014-03-30T20:35:08Z He has scored every Aronofsky film since — from the remixed Tchaikovsky in "Black Swan" to the biblical epic "Noah" — shaping the filmmaker's aesthetic with his churning, hypnotic music. 'Moon' and 'Fountain' composer Clint Mansell will perform soundtrack pieces at Theatre at Ace Hotel 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Even a biblical know-nothing like me can see the similarities between cutting the baby in half and strangling her with a wedding veil. Social Q’s: Sweet and Sour 2013-08-08T22:01:22Z In one town I found a strange cinematic world of biblical episodes, Buddhist masters and James Bond villains. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Q: You have two movies coming out, and both are about the biblical rapture. A Minute With: Craig Robinson masters the apocalypse. Twice 2013-06-05T10:48:48Z Hamm, whose biblical name does double duty for a character who conducts himself like a ham actor, speaks of auditions, asides and soliloquies. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Those he painted were not royal, biblical or mythological, but tended to be his contemporaries and near equals. Art Review: Faces Still Alive, Centuries Later 2011-07-28T22:44:45Z An internal drama of sorts, conveying little of the action associated with the biblical hero, it proved moderately stageworthy if only for the riveting presence of the indomitable tenor Jon Vickers in the title role. Music Review: ?Messiah? by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - Review 2011-12-05T23:25:14Z Yet the biblical tale about a man looking for his god who helps a people flee enslavement is in many ways the original road story. 'Exodus,' 'Unbroken,' 'Wild' take the road-trip movie on new paths 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z To me, the lake was as mysterious as a biblical abyss. From Chicago to Mackinac Island, a Tour of Lake Michigan 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z When Chandra questions the driver, he refers to the biblical story of Samson and Delilah and talks about Andrea as a destroyer of men, “like she the cat and you the yarn.” ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Cat or the Yarn? 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z There’s a strangely biblical cadence to that statement. Take a ride through artist Salvatore Scarpitta’s works in Hirshhorn exhibition As for the biblical stuff: "I don't know many artists who've managed to go a career without bringing these things up," says Dwane. How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world 2012-11-15T16:50:01Z He is a scholar of Haida mythology – from the Pacific north-west coast – and many of his poems are influenced by this as well as by biblical, classical and Buddhist texts. Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Harrison Birtwistle's dramatic cantata Angel-Fighter, first performed at the Leipzig Bach festival last year, is his third recent work to be based on biblical subject matter. BBC Singers/London Sinfonietta/Atherton ? review 2011-08-22T14:57:59Z At the same time, they draw liberally on historical, mythical or biblical sources. Review | Yusef Komunyakaa again brings his distinctive music to the page 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Cezanne’s symbolic apple, the biblical fruit of knowledge gone secular in a clear-sighted effort to redeem the fall from grace, here becomes uncanny. At Park View gallery, a spellbinding trip into a world turned upside down 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z One district treats the Bible stories like history by “listing biblical events side by side with historical developments from around the globe.” 11 heinous lies conservatives are teaching America’s school children 2013-03-13T16:34:00Z In “Crawling,” two men, arms flailing, struggle under a burning, biblical sun. Review | For Dana Schutz, a new show after her controversial painting of Emmett Till 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z The Long Night is mentioned in my books here and there, but it’s an ancient event that people tell stories about — it’s like the Garden of Eden or a biblical flood. George R.R. Martin Is Finally Getting the Show He Wanted 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Abortions were known and practiced in biblical times, although the methods differed significantly from modern ones. What the Bible actually says about abortion may surprise you 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z A recent performance of “Solomon” at Carnegie Hall was a reminder of the sumptuous power of Handel’s English oratorios, his genre of concert-format, loosely plotted, often biblically inspired works that made choruses the stars. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z There royal power was still validated on biblical grounds and coronation services marked with ritual anointing from at least the eighth century. The political Bible, part 2: justice. When is a king not a king? 2011-08-15T09:00:00Z Olson employs “apocalypse” in the biblical sense, meaning a “revelation — literally an uncovering — about the future that is meant to provide hope in a time of uncertainty and fear.” A Forgotten Town at the Center of the Manhattan Project 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z And while biblical in theme, the pictures offer a glimpse into a friendship fostered 400 years ago. Paintings reunited at National Gallery of Art for first time since 1881 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z He points out that Isaac Newton, no less, devoted as much time to biblical exegesis, alchemical experiments and other occult matters as he did to theorizing about gravity and working out the principles of calculus. Review | How scientists came to be 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z While real-life mothers valiantly struggle to assimilate the conflicting advice of parenting experts, the mothering instinct in horror films is all too easily perverted by tragedy into a biblical lust for vengeance. Mothers of invention: why Hollywood always returns to mum-horror 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z That book spawned a million biblical conspiracy theories, as well as “The Da Vinci Code,” Dan Brown’s hyperventilating novel. Books of The Times: ?Revelations,? by Elaine Pagels 2012-03-20T13:36:02Z That perception tied in well with the choice of Nabucco, the tale based on biblical king Nebuchadnezzar's capture and sacking of Jerusalem and his exiling of the Jews to Babylon. Israel breaks ground with opera on Dead Sea shores 2010-06-07T13:48:00Z It might have called into question the notion of “biblical inerrancy,” which gives God’s seal of approval to every form of Iron Age bigotry in the biblical record. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z "Bamboozled by Jesus" documents Orji's life through the lens of faith, biblical stories and witticisms. "Insecure" star Yvonne Orji reflects on DMX and her destiny: "God's out here playing tricks on me" 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Her book reflects its author’s upbringing, and often cites biblical passages to explain why Westboro’s members were so persuadable. At 5, She Protested Homosexuality. Now She Protests the Church That Made Her Do It. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Kendrick uses strong biblical metaphors as he pushes his bombastic lyricism. “An outburst of emotions black America can relate to”: Kendrick Lamar’s newest release feels like the back story to his masterpiece, “To Pimp a Butterfly” 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z I don’t quite get the demonic myth that fuels “Moloch”; it’s got biblical roots and has something to do with a hungry female spirit. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The language, she said, is “standard biblical Hebrew, similar to 7th-6th century B.C.E. texts.” Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Michelangelo set to work on the chapel ceiling in 1508 after devising the perfect scaffolding for painting his biblical scenes 20 metres off the ground. Vatican in row over 'drunken tourist herds' destroying majesty of the Sistine Chapel 2012-09-29T10:48:32Z Ms. Eskenazi, a biblical scholar at the Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, did not respond to repeated messages and telephone calls from a reporter. Venerable Art Dealer Is Beset by Lawsuits 2011-04-19T14:48:06Z But this was another thing entirely: a deluge, a biblical plague, a thousand-year flood, the biggest monthly rainfall in recorded history. To Ride Again Another Day in Colorado 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z In the meantime, he is promoting his latest book, whose title, Freedom – a word with an almost biblical place in the American vocabulary – is the one subject Franzen refuses to discuss. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z “We loved that theory, but we have always seen Review as being more of a Job story,” Daly teases, before revealing that the show’s director read the biblical tale in preparation for the final season. Andy Daly on Review: 'There is a limit to how horrible things can get' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z I browse the small selection of books and DVDs – all the usual pseudo-scientific silliness, biblical proofs of the Ice Age and Grand Canyon. My return to the Creation Museum 2012-07-31T00:00:00Z For inspiration she drew on the biblical story of Mary and Martha, two sisters, one who symbolizes devotion to worldly affairs and the other devotion to the sublime — life, you might say, and the afterlife. Music Review: Orchestral Recitations Of 2 Symphonic Poems 2011-04-14T22:04:47Z “The pre-Raphaelite works were biblical, and they were figurative, but they just didn’t resonate with me,” he said. Perspective | Barnett Newman’s ‘Stations of the Cross’ draws pilgrims to the National Gallery 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z This week’s selections highlight two affordable wines from western Turkey, where wine grapes flourished in biblical times. This $15 red from Turkey tastes like a young Bordeaux without the price tag 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Even so, with their portentous biblical imagery and long beaten leathers, they looked like the swarthy cowboy vampires in Kathryn Bigelow's terrific film Near Dark. World Goth Day has roused dark memories in me 2012-05-22T15:34:40Z Duchovny doesn’t do much more than raise questions about these issues as the story speeds to its fittingly biblical climax. Review | David Duchovny wants to be taken seriously as a novelist. His new book makes a good case. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z A staple of the band’s later tours, “Walk Unafraid” harkens to the troubled guitar jags and biblical references of 1985′s “Fables of the Reconstruction.” R.E.M.’s 10 best songs after Bill Berry: Daring, brilliant, underappreciated 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z His act of pious vandalism got him name-checked in a 139-page legal opinion that prohibits the teaching of any form of biblical creationism in public school science classrooms. Make them talk about evolution: Why won’t a single Republican presidential candidate admit that Darwin’s right 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z What makes Pearson’s story so unique is his starting point: the harsh biblical literalism of Pentecostal faith, and the smarmy world of American televangelism. Come Sunday: how one of America's biggest preachers became a pariah 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Now Hollywood studio Warner Bros has been tipped to present a big-screen epic about a less likely biblical figure: Pontius Pilate. Warner Bros planning film about Pontius Pilate 2012-08-22T14:39:23Z His descriptions of the horn were increasingly elaborate, even biblical. Tony Kushner’s civil war Handel himself was initially accused of sacrilege in some orthodox quarters for transposing the biblical text. A ‘Messiah’ for the Multitudes, Freed From History’s Bonds 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Its title echoes numerous historical depictions of “Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem,” the biblical event preceding his betrayal, trial, death and resurrection; but perhaps journalism’s death and resurrection is the main point. Kara Walker Traces Slavery’s Bitter Legacy with New Ways of Drawing 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z “We’re not good Samaritans,” one man tells him, comparing his center with the biblical parable about a man, a Samaritan, who brings a wounded stranger to recuperate at an inn. Tim Kaine is back at his old Senate job. It’s never seemed more important. 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Dogged fealty to immutable traditions, above all funeral practices that insisted upon the ritual washing of the dead, had condemned the region to an epidemic of potentially biblical proportions. Best practice 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z All this stuff is very biblical, you know, which again leads you to write a little bit beyond the constraints of ordinary life. Carolyn See's California, as told to Barbara Isenberg 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z In the beginning … the biblical version of creation flies in the face of Big Bang theory. The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones – review 2013-04-26T08:00:21Z The exterior walls of its whitewashed buildings are painted Bavarian-style with biblical scenes and imagery depicting the varying trades of the shopkeepers and restaurateurs within. On a Family Road Trip Through Germany: Fairy Tales, Castles and Cuckoo Clocks 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Goldberg attempted to lift the Holocaust above the white/Black U.S. racial binary to differentiate it from Black "problems" – an interpretive move that seemed to frame the Holocaust in biblical proportions. "Blacks and Jews" authors: "Whoopi is not the enemy" but "it may be too late" for America anyway 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The arrival of a superstorm that, with biblical specificity, is expected to last 40 days, forces Finch and his pals into a solar-powered R.V., destination San Francisco. ‘Finch’ Review: Three for the Road 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Even inadequately, this Adam struggles because, as with his biblical namesake, “the world and history lay all before” him; by contrast, these lay all behind Katniss, who has endured history, violence and death. Review: ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2,’ Katniss’s Final Battle 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Two floors include exhibitions that traffic mainly in the substance of biblical history, while a third floor is devoted to immersive rooms with a stronger admixture of entertainment. Perspective | The new Bible museum tells a clear, powerful story. And it could change the museum business. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Just what are these two scenes, biblically unrelated, doing together? From Colonial Mexico, a Towering Vision of Grace 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Yet the seductions succeeded because Hacheney used his authority as a spiritual leader and his deep yet twisted command of biblical interpretation to overcome the hesitations of his prey. 'A Twisted Faith': Gregg Olsen's story of betrayal and murder in a Bremerton church 2010-04-12T20:23:00Z She encouraged her son to listen to Davies’s sermons, which were laced with biblical and classical references delivered in the vernacular. On a Virginia driving tour, tracing patriot Patrick Henry’s path to history 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The ones here are of three types: landscapes, semiabstract cruciform compositions and figurative illustrations of biblical scenes. Art Review: Louis C. Tiffany Works at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-12-31T23:14:26Z Thousands of penguins tramping away into the distance do look like people in mass migration or biblical exodus, plagued by exhaustion, hunger and storm. Sebastião Salgado: Genesis – review 2013-04-13T23:06:24Z Interestingly, despite the fact that almost all the literature indicates that the Nazareth of biblical times was so small as to barely count as a village, at least one important archaeological site indicates otherwise. Visiting modern-day Nazareth, no longer in biblical times 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The biblical epic "Exodus: Gods and Kings," starring Christian Bale as Moses, debuted with a solid $1.2 million in ticket sales from Thursday night showings. 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' rides in with $1.2 million Thursday night 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Other windows include haunting war memorials – soldiers among ruins – alongside the more expected biblical scenes. When the church turns into a pub 2012-12-27T08:00:05Z Twelve North Carolina radio stations broadcast his sermon explaining why her views contradicted biblical teachings, Mr. Perlstein writes; so many calls came into the church that the pastor published his remarks. ‘The Invisible Bridge,’ by Rick Perlstein 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Unable to study anatomy and paint big biblical or mythological scenes, she achieved something new by enlarging the area in art reserved for personal experience. Old Mistresses Turn Tables on Old Masters 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z During his plea to the court, he explained his concept of God, which he believed to be in keeping with the biblical symbol of God as a lamb. Sex with God as a donkey: What constitutes blasphemy today? 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z In this version of the biblical story, in which Judith saves Israel by slaying the all-powerful Holofernes, both characters are prone to windy, contradictory philosophical discourse. Review: ‘Vinegar Tom’ and ‘Judith’ Examine Woman as Myth 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z A few steps north from the biblical "Straight Street", where the blinded Paul was led after his conversion, sits the eighth-century Umayyad mosque, the spiritual heart of the city. The civil war's threat to Damascus 2013-01-02T08:00:02Z His balding, gray-bearded head plays the part of Holofernes’s severed one in a tableau based on the biblical tale of Judith — the only one of these mostly unbloodied scenes with a gory body. Review | In the galleries: From artist Timothy Johnson, a heady exhibition 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Neshama Spielman, 12, and her family took part in the Temple Mount Sifting Project, a project to sort through earth discarded from the area of the biblical temples in Jerusalem. Israeli girl discovers good-luck charm from ancient Egypt 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Its formidable collection, now reorganized on freshly painted walls, includes Caravaggio’s “Judith and Holofernes,” in which the biblical heroine winces slightly as she draws her blade. 36 Hours in Rome 2010-10-07T18:10:00Z The hierophant, under his neon-yellow mitre and mask, was the Rev. Dr. Robert M. Price, theologian, professor of biblical criticism, and former fundamentalist Baptist. Croissants with Cthulhu 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The biblical precedent is the story of Jacob and his two wives, Rachel and Leah, and their two handmaids. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The Princeton president tried to stop the polygenesis theory that the races are created unequal, stoutly defending biblical monogenesis and the notion that first humans were white. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Adia Victoria Paul — her full name — was raised in a strictly religious Seventh-day Adventist family that imbued her with biblical teachings and thoughts of mortality. Adia Victoria Wants to Make the Blues Dangerous Again 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Yet just as much as in the darker pictures, a majority of these biblical portraits display an exactitude of characterization that belies the frisky, open brushwork Zurbarán favored. ‘Jacob and His Twelve Sons’: Zurbarán’s Biblical All-Stars 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The chronology is this: as in the biblical account, Adam and Eve are expelled from the garden and have children, one of whom is Cain. Cain by Jos? Saramago ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:02Z Although it avoids the crude cliche of money as religion, the poem uses parallelism here, and skims a biblical lexicon in phrases like "got up and walked" and words like "faith" and "trust". Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z But none are like his latest, which offers 366 devotionals, each with a biblical passage, a personal story and an original prayer. Jimmy Carter's latest book offers lessons in faith 2012-01-04T20:41:08Z By representing Jesus as a charismatic celebrity whose fame spirals out of control, "Superstar" offers audiences a contemporary framework for understanding the ancient biblical narrative. Best Easter pageant ever? Half a century of "Jesus Christ Superstar" 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z "We are very much supportive of the family, the biblical definition of the family unit," he said. "Et tu, Chick-fil-a?": Far-right pundits turn on Chick-fil-A over diversity and equity initiative 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Early on, the book reads a bit like a biblical genealogy: Hank Williams begat Bob Wills, Ahmet Ertegun begat Atlantic Records, “Teen Angel” begat “Tell Laura I Love Her,” and so on. Once upon a time, rock-and-roll was strange, wild and dangerous 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z The museum’s goal: Portray a biblical understanding of creation, and dispute the widely accepted theory of evolution. New creationism museum in Boise says Noah brought baby dinos aboard the ark 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Photograph: Rex Features Will Smith looks set to reinvent his cheery everyman persona by signing up for the latest biblical epic to gain traction in Hollywood: the story of Cain and Abel. Oh, brother: Will Smith considers Cain and Abel film 2012-07-13T11:43:24Z A graduate of the Cormac McCarthy school of elemental language, Ms. Froderberg isn’t one to let up on the intensity; the weight of her words can feel biblical. Newly Released Books 2010-12-16T06:34:36Z The Drama: Turns out that one of the contestants already knew Nick, biblically speaking. Nick Viall Is Back On The New Season of 'The Bachelor' 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Last May, he made what was widely interpreted as a biblical case for addressing climate change, warning that “if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us.” Pope Francis on climate change: “It is man who continuously slaps down nature” 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z "It's like something biblical," one woman exclaimed, as other spectators wandered between the lights. Lights go out across Britain, 100 years on from World War One 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Floods, pestilence, famines, wildfires: What he calls the “elements of climate chaos” are veritably biblical in scope. In ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ Apocalypse Is Now 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Bern’s in Tampa, Fla., is legendary for its list, which is almost biblical in length and mind-boggling in depth. Breaking Free of Steakhouse Wine List Tradition 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z There's nothing wrong with Sternhold's poem – and yet, compared with the biblical verses, his tripping rhythms lack dignity and force. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z Buckley was famous for rebooting biblical stories in hipster slang, a tactic Dylan appropriated in songs such as “Highway 61 Revisited.” Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z The authors also miss chances to compare Baptists’ stances with those of their counterparts in other denominations on issues such as the biblical justification for holding slaves. Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z As a university professor of biblical studies, I am familiar with faith-based arguments Christians use to back up views of abortion, whether for or against. What the Bible actually says about abortion may surprise you 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z He could summon righteous anger, absurdist humor and a sense of language that might be casually down-home or biblical in its gravity. Playlist: Younger Folk, Older Folk, Noises Tempered and Psychedelic 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 3-D Theatricals stages Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical about the biblical Joseph, whose brothers sold him into slavery in Egypt. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 9-16: Pat Kinevane's 'Underneath' and more 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z She decided to create a tribe of 12, an allusion to the biblical Jacob’s 12 sons. Buzz Over Ayana Mathis’s ‘Twelve Tribes of Hattie’ 2012-12-10T22:42:33Z With the shift from Talmudic analysis by scholars in the nations of the Diaspora, he was convinced that Israel was becoming the focus of Jewish biblical study. Moshe Greenberg, Jewish Biblical Scholar, Dies at 81 2010-05-20T04:04:00Z Apparently, Republicans remember those three respective biblical stories a little differently. Republicans confuse “Atlas Shrugged” for the Bible 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z In the biblical narrative, Job loses his wife, his children, his health and his home. Your guide to Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" 2011-07-02T16:54:00Z Organizers said Tuesday that the festival would feature performances of settings of all 150 biblical psalms, by 150 different composers, in “The Psalms Experience.” 150 Psalms, 150 Composers at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z A congregation will teach a biblical position on the sinfulness of same-sex acts, or it will affirm same-sex behaviors as morally acceptable. Southern Baptist Convention kicks out church for being too tolerant of LGBT members 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s a book of biblical stories, but it wasn’t the text that inspired Barrett. Can a Papermaker Help to Save Civilization? 2012-02-17T21:39:00Z “A mere 75-watt bulb sparked an exodus beyond biblical proportions in less than four seconds.” Books of The Times: Sad and True Love Story, Worthy of Its Soundtrack 2011-01-12T22:25:13Z Lee plays a director, Kang, who is in Paris to film a movie in the Louvre about the biblical story of Salome. ‘Face’ Review: Close Encounters 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z His canvases are lyrical studies of ruins, built up with layers of rubble, ash, sand, scavenged clothes and straw, and dense with historical symbols, like a coiled snake associated with seraphim, the biblical angels. Anselm Kiefer and His Hallmarks Have a Moment 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Snyder designed sculptures, “The Seven Columns of the Temple of Wisdom”; a paving stone design, “Upright”; and a chair symbolizing the biblical throne of Solomon that is atop a bridge joining the complex’s two towers. Demolition for Jail Can Go Forward, Judge Rules in a Suit Brought by Artists 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Why do you think it’s important for biblical scholars in their ivory towers to weigh in on what the Bible says about issues like those listed above? Faith in ignorance: Politicians who quote the Bible often don’t know anything about the Bible 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Those of a more authoritarian bent tend to hear the biblical message of political order above any other. The political Bible, part 1: A foundation for British attitudes 2011-08-09T09:40:00Z Not Madonna the disco singer, Madonna the biblical icon. New band of the day ? No 888: The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black 2010-10-15T15:33:00Z I was reading the Old and New Testament and turning emails from friends into text in the manner of biblical passages. Sheila Heti: 'I love dirty books' 2013-01-19T17:30:01Z Anthony Smith, a pastor at Houston’s Tabernacle of Meeting Church, performed the ceremony preceded by a demonstration of biblical humility. Bible Study Brought Them to the Altar, Where They Shared Their First Kiss 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z “If I were to believe in the Bible, I would say these are biblical times.” A Choreographer Dances Out His Feelings About Race and Religion 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The picture is an imaginary likeness of the biblical King David that curiously anticipates 19th century revivalism. Tracking the Elusive Masters 2010-07-09T14:30:00Z They made their debut in 1993 with the romp “Peer Gynt” and the pocket opera “Let’s Get This Show on the Road, ” a retelling of the biblical creation story. John Eaton, Composer and Electronic Innovator, Dies at 80 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z The song "Away from God" by Immolation discusses salvation, heaven and hell in a way that could be seen as an extreme form of biblical lament. ‘Oh creator, it’s you I now renounce’: How death metal lyrics echo some Bible passages 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Some Christians question it in light of the many biblical references to grain. Gluten-Free Eating Appears to Be Here to Stay 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Premiering Friday on the CW, "The Messengers" is an eschatological biblical thriller from the network of "Supernatural," "iZombie," "Arrow" and "The 100." 'The Messengers' brings tidings of great doom 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z “I understood why biblical angels always say right off, ‘Be not afraid,’” he said. Now Damien Echols Will Teach You the Secrets of Magick 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z “Very few people seem to understand that when you talk about the biblical land of Israel, it’s all right here.” Jaffa Is Tel Aviv’s Unexpected Luxury Hotspot 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Titled "Peaceable Fruit," it finds inspiration in Edward Hicks' famous early-19th century paintings of "the wolf dwelling with the lamb" in nature's pacific harmony, as biblical Isaiah 11:6-8 has it. Around the Galleries: Matt Wedel's 'Peaceable Fruit' ceramics have a hint of fiery apocalypse 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z “I don’t know if there’s a gender affinity with the desert, but historically a lot of the mythologies of the desert — starting with biblical examples of being cast into the wilderness — are male.” ‘Desert X’ Treats Arid Space as a Rich Canvas 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z As far as the author of “Great Expectations” is concerned, such a presentation — even from a former president of the United States, in biblical exegesis mode — simply won’t do. Review: Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy Debate Jesus. ‘Discord’ Ensues. 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Moses and Kitch specifically recall not only Beckett’s vaudevillians, but also enslaved African-Americans working a plantation and even biblical Israelites escaping from Egypt. Review: Waiting for Po-Po in a Searing ‘Pass Over’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The collection is one of the world’s largest private collections of biblical antiquities. Hobby Lobby president shares plan for Bible museum 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z At two hours long, and with decidedly mixed levels of artistic interest bound together with a bewildering compilation of increasingly gnomic biblical nuggets, it is not short. Prom 37: Hallé/Elder – review 2012-08-12T10:57:06Z Metaphorically, Eve’s trouble in the biblical garden hangs unavoidably in the air. Polly Apfelbaum's fallen paintings and beads of devotion in her secular chapel of abstract art 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z In addition to his Holocaust art, which he began in the 1980s, he painted circles as symbols of life’s continuity and representational pieces depicting angels and biblical stories like that of Abraham and Isaac. Fred Terna, Creator of Fiery Holocaust Paintings, Dies at 99 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Abortion opponents turn to several biblical texts that, taken together, seem to suggest that human life has value before birth. What the Bible actually says about abortion may surprise you 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z It will faceoff against "Scandalous," a musical with book and lyrics by TV host Kathie Lee Gifford about the American evangelical leader Aimee Semple McPherson, who preached about a return to simple biblical Christianity. Big-name actors, writers take the stage for new Broadway season 2012-08-30T18:37:04Z It has taken eight years, Genesis is its title, and its scope is unashamedly biblical. Sebastião Salgado: Genesis – review 2013-04-13T23:06:24Z The biblical allusion to the story of Moses is plain to see, only in this context the untethered basket is a visual metaphor for a people . . . but also, for escape. "Black Is King" continues Beyonce's immortalizing of the Black American experience through art 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z She has introduced values that are contrary to the biblical message.” 10 weirdest things the Christian right thinks will turn your kids gay 2014-03-29T12:00:00Z But while the program will have fun with biblical lore, it will also emphasize that Passover, which begins next Friday at sundown, is a serious holiday. Spare Times for Children for March 27-April 2 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The book includes all these and artworks created for DeMille when he was making his films, particularly his biblical and historical epics. Authors of grand new book 'Cecil B. DeMille' to sign Thursday 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z It is also a biblical story, and now a global story in which we play a central role. Racism is “America’s original sin”: Unless we tell the truth about our history, we’ll never find the way to reconciliation 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Of course, these bring about a pretty spectacular conclusion, though for a man with a great belief in the biblical meting out of justice, David Morrissey's Thorne is pretty untroubled by laws or guilt. Renaissance Revolution: Bosch 2010-10-23T05:45:00Z There was a biblical experience with ladybirds, meaningful meetings with swallows, kestrels and a peregrine falcon, a badger, a bizarre encounter with a tortoise on a lead. ‘Home is a state of mind. You don’t need walls’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z But inside, the restored medieval murals painted with local ocher spoke of artistic and biblical grandeur. The childhood home of lauded author Colette is open to the public in this small French village 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Don’s specialty is biblical artifacts — actual stuff mentioned in the Old and New Testament — and he captivates church audiences with tales of his discoveries. Review: ‘Don Verdean,’ a Sendup of Ambitious Pastors and the Lure of Religious Relics 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z He continued, "We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles." New transgender discrimination lawsuit marks decade of anti-LGBTQ controversies for Chick-fil-A 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Sure, it’s been around since biblical times, but suddenly the shofar is trending among Bay Area billionaires. Is the Shofar … an Instrument of Technological Disruption? 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Dr. Michael Brown, biblical scholar and host of the nationally syndicated daily radio show "The Line of Fire," told Fox News Digital on Thursday from Concord, N.C., T.D. Jakes, other faith leaders weigh in on Ukraine's fight for freedom 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Aronofsky sticks with the premise that this movie is “about environmental apocalypse,” don’t expect any type of traditional biblical epic. Unless, of course, Paramount gets its way. The Strange Battle Over Darren Aronofsky’s Noah 2013-10-17T17:14:57Z Gone is the biblical story of freedom from slavery, the journey through the desert with only the unleavened bread, or the parting of the Red Sea. “Empty suit” preacher sinks Indiana megachurch 2013-03-05T16:47:00Z There are earlier versions of this same biblical scene that are equally odd, in that the scene is relegated deep to the background, with food as the main course, so to speak. The art mystery in the menu: The meal in this painting is more than just lunch — but what? 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z It wasn’t lava that caused the destruction, though, but a mudslide of volcanic ash triggered by rain, which I experienced as a biblical deluge four of my five days in Pumalín. Place 11 of 52: In Chile, a Gorgeous, Very Rainy and Sometimes Lonely Journey 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z From a biblical perspective, it is the task of macroethics to judge whether policies and laws and cultural practices treat the people’s needs as holy — or not. The “macroethics” of Martin Luther King Jr.: When he spoke out against the Vietnam War even his supporters deserted him — here’s how he endured 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Solomon’s novel spans generations, stretching millennia to weave three vibrant and transporting tales from the fabric of a biblical past. Review | Anna Solomon’s ‘Book of V’ will please fans of ‘The Hours’ with its sprawling take on a biblical tale 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Instead, with diction that is often measured and biblical, they mingle regrets and desires, hope and disillusionment, spiritual aspirations and carnal appreciation. Music Review: Leonard Cohen at the Barclays Center 2012-12-22T00:28:21Z Then there’s the final biblical shot with the lioness face and tail. Meet the 24-Year-Old Director Bringing Kanye West’s Visions to Life 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The biblical epic “Exodus: Gods and Kings” will probably top the box office this weekend, replacing "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1" as No. 1. 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' expected to champion box office 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z At the Sunday night premiere of his latest film, “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” director Ridley Scott addressed critics of the biblical blockbuster — and his response was completely tone-deaf. Ridley Scott gives terribly tone-deaf response to “Exodus: Gods and Kings” critics 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z You assemble those little tiles, the tesserae, from as many interviews as possible, and create the image of a biblical scene or portrait of a saint, proceeding in chronological order. Let Us Now Praise Mike Nichols 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Unexplainable things have happened in this location long, long ago, as that biblical prologue to last week’s episode illustrates. 'The Leftovers' Season 2 Episode 2 Recap: What if It's No Safer Here? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z The result in Salome, and in his next opera Elektra, was an unremittingly heady mix of sound driving outrageous treatments of these classical and biblical dramas. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z But it also recalls the Technicolor biblical pageants of the 1950s and early ’60s, bland and solemn spectacles that invited moviegoers to marvel at their favorite stars in sandals and robes. Movie Listings for Dec. 19-25 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z It not only helped mainstream the term “pick up,” but it’s also referred to as a biblical text among some of today’s leading “pickup artists” or PUAs. “For an instant you even consider rape”: The terrifying 1970s manual that shaped the pickup-artist movement 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z She must not be distracted by a nervous church protecting its control of biblical hermeneutics. 500 years of church intolerance 2011-02-15T07:30:02Z Great stuff, marred only by a soundtrack seemingly lifted from a Cecil B De Mille biblical epic. TV highlights 04/01/2013 2013-01-03T20:00:01Z The end of the book is a touch too biblical for my taste but it's still an amazing journey. Anthony Horowitz's top apocalypse books 2012-10-04T10:49:38Z In the dark, I would conjure thoughts of death — my loved ones dying, nuclear war, biblical plagues, my own demise. My Klonopin fog 2012-07-28T22:00:00Z Premised on a European obsession with the Tutsis as a eugenically or even biblically chosen race of “Hamites,” it ultimately proved a curse. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The simplest gestures sound biblical, such as these lines from "The Unbelievable Nightgown": Swept away by 'What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The grooms said “I do” in a traditional Christian ceremony, which included a biblical reading and Mr. Fulton’s family members sharing stories from his childhood. A Celebration Designed Specifically for the Groom, Each of Them 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Antoinette Nwandu’s solution in this searing drama is to weld the story of two black youths in a city like Chicago to spiritual antecedents including enslaved African-Americans, biblical Israelites and Beckett’s hobos Vladimir and Estragon. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z This is what audience members find on their seats upon arrival at “A Song of Songs,” Agnes Borinsky’s new theater piece inspired by the biblical Song of Songs, and it’s something of a puzzle. Review: ‘A Song of Songs’ Makes a Sacrament of Remembrance 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z There's a lot more to it, of course, but even with all this biblical gossip I can sense you're itching to comment, "just give us the recipes, already!" 13 Purim recipes to feast on this year 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z His brochure promotes the signature Grand Staircase biblical Creation Tour to the Grand Canyon and other national parks as “life-changing” and offering “proof of a young Earth and global flood.” Is the Museum of the Bible that tourist-destination evangelicals have been waiting for? 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z The central gallery of the museum’s 18th-century Villanueva building is dominated by Rubens, whose mastery of mythological and biblical arcana makes him seem the smartest boy in the room. Review | A Rubens exhibition asks: Are first thoughts best? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z “El Niño” is technically a staged oratorio based on the biblical story of Jesus’ Nativity, which plays out as a sort of pageant. The Operas ‘Facing Goya’ and ‘Katya Kabanova,’ at Spoleto 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Like a biblical epic, “The Comedians” seems to have a cast of thousands. ‘The Comedians’: An antic history of the people who make us laugh 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z But one of his last paintings, the 1870 “Ruth and Boaz,” takes a languid, biblical turn, romanticizing an episode made famous by Victor Hugo. Review | Young, gifted, and cut down by a stupid war 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z But not even Herbert can match the power of the biblical text: in fact, he doesn't try to. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z In 1956, he played a shepherd in the biblical epic “The Ten Commandments,” then — adopting the name Mike Connors — starred in the short-lived TV detective series “Tightrope” in 1959 and 1960. Mike Connors, brawny star of ‘Mannix’ TV detective series, dies at 91 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z To put it in biblical terms, judge not that ye be not judged. Annoyance is part of family life, so get over it 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Some of the diction is biblical; some is dryly sardonic. Leonard Cohen's new album, 'Old Ideas' wrestles with death 2012-01-30T22:33:07Z It is this conflict between the individual conscience and biblical tradition that offers the richest seam for a religious novelist to mine today. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z Eve, watched closely by a serpent, cradles an apple on her own panel moments before the act that will lead to the biblical couple’s expulsion from Eden. Centuries-old paintings, a Russian aristocrat, an obscure Nazi past: Why nothing about the Norton Simon 'Adam' and 'Eve' case is simple 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Schumacher isn’t the only medium to attest to channeling biblical figures. In Good Spirits 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z As the rain went biblical on Friday, we were speaking to Elbow's Guy Garvey. 10 things we learned at Glastonbury 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Writer Anthony Jaswinski definitely favors biblical allegories, starting with the "7" in the title and ending with a religious experience at church. 'Vanishing on 7th Street': Folks go poof in end-of-days tale 2011-03-10T22:36:09Z Mr. Padmore is one of the major Evangelists of our time, and he is heartbreakingly eloquent here, less a biblical narrator than a guide through a dark night of the soul. In DVD of ‘St. Matthew Passion,’ Hints of Sellars’s Future 2012-06-08T19:21:28Z And to say they are lazy — and will not under any circumstances clean anything — is an understatement of biblical proportions! Perspective | Carolyn Hax: As my messy daughter’s landlord, should I evict her over cleanliness? 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z It’s true, most of these text message conversations are pretty straightforward; they hardly require a biblical exegesis. Does he like me? 2012-10-11T00:00:00Z There was something biblical about it, and I realised in that moment that we’d constructed a crazy world around a wounded messiah. 'If anyone was going to wake from a coma, it was my brother' 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z “It’s a scene, a biblical scene which is turned political,” he said. Banksy's 'Scar of Bethlehem' nativity unveiled in West Bank hotel 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z At the brink of the cataclysmic Great War, the rush evokes a biblical deluge without ever resorting to recognizable objects. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z A lot of people who leaned toward religion experienced it in a spiritual way, not in a biblical way. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Vital, innovative and lying in obscurity for too long, these life-size biblical portraits display a painterly frankness that seems to be calling modern art into being centuries ahead of its time. ‘Jacob and His Twelve Sons’: Zurbarán’s Biblical All-Stars 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z As usual, Grafton presents largely unfamiliar material — his last essay looks at precursors to Spinoza’s rationalist approach to biblical interpretation — in a clear, even breezy style. Review | My nightstand runneth over: A proud nerd recommends new intellectual and cultural histories 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Q: In what ways does biblical translation differ from the translation of secular texts? What can we learn from translations of the Bible? 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Dr. Andrew Snelling, a geologist who works for the museum and creationist organization Answers in Genesis, calls this skeleton evidence of the biblical flood 4,500 years ago. Ken Ham’s latest pseudo-science: Creation Museum to unveil a dinosaur skeleton as proof of biblical flood 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The 20th century brought a biblical apocalypse uncomfortably close. Jerusalem, Jerusalem by James Carroll ? review 2011-08-05T21:54:01Z Mr. O’Farrill was inspired by the idea of conscience, using biblical and Eastern texts and concepts to illuminate his work. Music Review: Latino Music, From Tango Back to the 16th Century 2011-05-16T21:12:01Z Painted on a pair of wooden panels around 1530, they depict a nude Adam and Eve holding forbidden fruit at the biblical moment when they succumbed to temptation in the Garden of Eden. Norton Simon fails to stop lawsuit over Nazi-looted 'Adam' and 'Eve' 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z In this it is not as far as it thinks from the gold calf standard of biblical epics, "The Ten Commandments," a story that Cecil B. DeMille liked so much he filmed it twice. 'Exodus' follows its own path 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z In-n-Out, as its name notes, is a classic hamburger chain whose wrappers and cups cite biblical quotes. Fast food restaurants don’t need to pay starvation wages 2013-09-11T15:11:00Z "Clearly, we are lighting a fuse of a story and biblical prophecies that surround this murder mystery," said show runner and executive producer Tim Kring. Producers and cast of Jerusalem-set 'Dig' address Israel-Gaza crisis 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z You have Tommen as king of Westeros – well, there’s this biblical verse: “Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child.” Game of Thrones: how to win – by the British army and other experts 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Oftentimes in period pieces, they can be rigid about the language being biblical. From "Perry Mason" to "Severance," Jen Tullock explores the various shades of "American loneliness" 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Painters such as Barry, or another founding academician Benjamin West, commanded admiration for huge, morally elevating canvases depicting clinching episodes of classical or biblical narrative. The Royal Academy: a story of sulks and squabbles 2013-01-04T22:55:14Z Some consider Twelfth Night and the Epiphany to be as important as Christmas Eve and Christmas because the holiday includes the fun of receiving gifts but also focuses on the biblical story. Christmas might be over, but for some, the holidays are just beginning 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Dett ingeniously wove spirituals into the typical oratorio structure of soloists and chorus expounding a biblical story with orchestra. Review: ‘The Ordering of Moses’ Shines at Riverside Church 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z “If you are in conversation with dead biblical figures, then that is really special and holds a lot of power,” she said, adding that it also served as a shield against skeptics. In Good Spirits 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The piece depicts biblical scenes, including the Nativity; the flight into Egypt; the entry into Jerusalem; and an angel at Christ’s empty tomb. Elijah Pierce, Outsider Artist, Finds a Spotlight at the Right Time 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z If “The Passion” catches on, perhaps it will become the way new generations learn about the biblical story, serving a function previously filled by Hollywood films starring Charlton Heston. ‘The Passion’: Jesus’ Final Hours as Halftime Show 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z But unlike the biblical stories, in life we are never granted full resurrections. Someone to hold me 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z Dawn, and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of the night on the plains outside Korem, it lights up a biblical famine, now, in the 20th century. The Eighties: One Day, One Decade by Dylan Jones – review 2013-07-08T09:00:02Z “All About Me!,” which landed on bookshelves Tuesday, is indeed chock full of stories, anecdotes and memories from a comedy master of biblical proportions. Q&A: Mel Brooks, 95, is still riffing 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z We're going into biblical — I don't want to say end times, because I'm not on that side — but it is getting pretty biblical out there. Susan Sarandon on life, career and politics: "It is getting pretty biblical out there" 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z “It’s not even a biblical name,” he writes. Review: ‘Born a Crime,’ Trevor Noah’s Raw Account of Life Under Apartheid 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Instead, our question is: Can we translate basic biblical principles about marriage to this new situation without losing something essential in the process? The Bible backs same-sex couples: Point by point, why the haters are wrong 2014-05-10T15:00:00Z The offerings are diverse: Brahms’s “German Requiem,” hymns by Arvo Pärt, a Chinese martial-arts-inspired dance work called “Sutra,” and a semistaged dramatization of the biblical story of Judith, using Croatian verses and melodies. White Light: Is It Driven by the Soul or by Sales? 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z DeMille is often criticized for the campy excess of his biblical spectacles, but at heart he is the most severe of logicians — a Protestant posing as a revivalist preacher. DVDs: Samuel Fuller?s ?Verboten!? Makes It to DVD 2010-07-09T07:35:00Z Despite a biblical rain, its sinuous white tent, designed by the Brooklyn company SO-IL, was bright and looked already like a local landmark in what is after all just the second year of the fair. The Elite Browse and Forage at Frieze Art Fair 2013-05-10T21:06:57Z Ridley Scott is taking a break from biblical plagues to focus on a modern-day plagues. Ridley Scott Is Creating an Ebola TV Series 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The biblical translation he has sponsored is all but done. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z He does share with Murry a penchant for biblical imagery and there is a sense throughout of someone coming to terms with a religious upbringing, albeit laconically. New band of the day – John Fullbright (No 1,471) 2013-03-14T16:01:50Z The Serpent's Promise is an attempt to do just that, to "scrutinise the biblical pages from the point of view of a scientist". The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones – review 2013-04-26T08:00:21Z With massive battle scenes, biblical plagues and a towering tidal wave, British director Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings" is an epic historical drama and retelling of the story of Moses as a reluctant prophet. Epic 'Exodus' casts Christian Bale's Moses as reluctant leader 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Arabic inscriptions were wrapped around menorahs, and Greek gods appeared on coins with zodiac signs and biblical characters. Antiques: Hamilton Grange National Memorial Reopening in Manhattan 2011-09-01T22:05:43Z Fareed Zakaria cited the biblical injunction against “holding the sins of the father against the son” in his statement supportive of DACA. The case for open borders 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z In Gentile da Fabriano’s 1423 “Adoration of the Magi,” a famous biblical scene, the golden halos of Mary and Joseph are inscribed with Arabic letters, in a strikingly harmonious overlap of cultures and religions. Amid an Anti-Muslim Mood, a Museum Appeals for Understanding 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Raised in the Pentecostal faith, Fox longed to recover an artifact that would validate the biblical stories of her childhood. Megan Fox on Becoming a Real-Life Indiana Jones 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z As with “Mrs. Dalloway” to “The Hours,” the biblical echoes throughout offer a sort of treasure-hunt gratification, but the novel succeeds on its own. Review | Anna Solomon’s ‘Book of V’ will please fans of ‘The Hours’ with its sprawling take on a biblical tale 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The regime uses biblical symbols, as any authoritarian regime taking over America doubtless would: They wouldn’t be Communists or Muslims. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z But other respected Israeli archaeologists say recent finds match the biblical account more than naysayers claim. Israeli says he has found King David's citadel 2014-05-07T04:00:00Z No sooner has the biblical Song of Songs begun than the speaker is making a move. Review: In Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Song of Songs’ the Beloved Is Beauty 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Like movies, they dramatized and romanticized epic events: wars, natural disasters, biblical stories. A Victory for the Civil War ‘Cyclorama’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z She knew the stakes, since she'd won the costume design Academy Award for Scott's 2000 film "Gladiator," which also required a biblically proportioned number of stellar costumes. Costume designer Janty Yates knew 'Exodus' posed 'enormous' challenge 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z A poem she penned for the show's first act was inspired by the biblical verse in which God says "let there be light." Seattle artists imagine the apocalypse, set to music and poetry 2012-03-28T19:56:08Z “We are using fiction to teach biblical truth,” he once said. Tim LaHaye, evangelical author of ‘Left Behind’ book series, dies at 90 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z He believes that dinosaurs prowled the planet alongside humans and that the biblical flood created the Grand Canyon. A giant ark is just the start. These creationists have a bigger plan for recruiting new believers. 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Rev. Collier’s Church of God’s Chosen is affiliated with the racist, anti-Semitic Christian Identity movement, which claims Jews are “the devil’s spawn,” and whites the true biblical chosen people. Church denies black couple 2012-07-31T19:52:00Z Hence the biblical title “Genesis,” suggesting a prelapsarian state of nature. Light and Dark at MoMA, the Morgan, the Armory and Beyond 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z A tall, soft-spoken man with shaggy white hair and a biblical beard, Baldessari was easy to recognize. John Baldessari: An Artist in a Class by Himself 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z During his presidency, he had literally cut and pasted the standard biblical account into a text more to his liking, omitting Jesus’ virgin birth, resurrection and supernatural miracles while maintaining the ethical teachings. Faith and Politics, a Rocky Romance 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z With its biblical Hebrew text, "Chichester Psalms" harmoniously combines the obvious Jewish element with invigorating jazzy touches. Symphony's tribute to Leonard Bernstein is a festival high note 2010-06-25T18:35:00Z Nonetheless, the director is already shooting his next movie in Paris: a story of a young man's search for his father, with the somewhat biblical title "The Son of Joseph." Baroque architect reaches across centuries to influence another in 'La Sapienza' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Angels are central characters in biblical stories, and when human beings die, telling believers that loved ones will “always be with them” as spiritual guides is common practice. Psychic Mediums Are the New Wellness Coaches 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z From the fire-and-brimstone biblical epics of early cinema to the boom years of the 1970s in which the US producer Irwin Allen became the “master of disaster”, spectacular destruction has been a saleable movie mainstay. Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema – from Oscar-winning strategies to 007’s debt to Hitchcock 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Just as the sower plants seeds that reap a thirty – a sixty – or a hundredfold return in the biblical story, the believer who gives an offering in church can expect a return on their investment. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z But to find "true God-given happiness, we need to forgive those who have wronged us. We need to start thinking biblically. Then we will discover true and lasting happiness." Want to know what happiness is? Pastor Greg Laurie shares one key secret 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z All three sections are, fundamentally, backstage soap operas accented with comedy and a little bit of mysticism, as biblical imagery bleeds from the stage into life and vice versa. | 'Passion Play': Sarah Ruhl?s Play Within a Play at Irondale Center 2010-05-13T03:53:00Z Like the biblical character, Mr. Bankman-Fried’s symbolic shearing for his courtroom appearance may become a fabled reflection of promise brought low in the tales to come of our digital age. The Shearing of Sam Bankman-Fried 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z But the tale is as biblical as it is ultimate, and the man implies that the end has happened through godly fanaticism. Review: ‘The Road,’ by Cormac McCarthy 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “Why was there suddenly so much interest … in extending a biblical metaphor of spiritual cleansing into a place or stage in the afterlife with defined dimensions, geography, time and inhabitants?” "The Good Place": Ethics comedy asks if there’s a second chance at life 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Christianity helped find a way through the toleration maze in the 16th and 17th centuries by drawing on and working through biblically grounded ideas of what was and wasn't indifferent to temporal affairs. The political Bible, part 4: toleration 2011-08-29T08:59:00Z Rabbi Pinchas Taylor, born and raised in Plantation, Florida, and based there today, said to Fox News Digital, "Two Vladimirs, two sides, fighting each other. One aggressor, one defender — sounds almost biblical." Why Purim is important in 2022 as the Russia-Ukraine war rages 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Aslan explains that biblical literalism is actually a relatively modern phenomenon. Reza Aslan destroys biblical literalism: “The gospels are absolutely replete with historical errors and with contradictions” 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z But because of funding problems, it withdrew that application and now is seeking approval for a $73 million first phase of the biblical theme park. Group seeks tax incentives for ark park 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Toews captures the Mennonites’ antique way of speaking, a language thick with biblical tropes and Christian ideals challenged by the obscenity of what has been done to them. Review | More than 100 women were raped by their neighbors for years — but no one would believe them. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Another had caches of seeds hermetically sealed behind glass: arks for replanting the world in case of a biblical flood or a Soviet first strike? T Magazine: King of the Jungle 2010-12-05T17:00:00Z Even if Frieder adopts biblical or mythical themes, he renders them less as high drama than as the familiar theater of everyday life. Andrew Frieder's blunt poetry born of the urgent and intimate 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The purple canvases feature Giotto’s biblical scenes, with Mr. Baldessari painting over an angel here and there but still reinforcing the power of Giotto’s forms. These Days, John Baldessari Cribs From the Masters 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z She has upended not just his sense of decorum but a stringent, and oft-misunderstood, dress code dating from biblical times. In ‘My Unorthodox Life,’ Fashion Is a Flash Point 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z “Sometimes it felt biblical, like I was just wandering in this desert, making things but never seeing what happened to them out there in the world,” she recalled. An Artist With Roots in Nairobi and New York Imagines a New Destiny 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Rogen and Mr. Goldberg wrote the comedies “Superbad” and “Pineapple Express,” but their most relevant credit here is their directing debut, “This Is the End,” a disaster comedy set amid a biblical apocalypse. Review: ‘Preacher’ Goes to Heaven, Hell and Texas 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Several politicians called the Florida Family Association a fringe hate group, a title Caton shrugged off, saying the group aims to "defend traditional American biblical values." Fla. group in Lowe's flap has history of protests 2011-12-13T08:16:10Z And Mr. Currier, who is not Lutheran, gives the piece a decidedly secular twist, though without losing the biblical context. 500 Years Later, the Reformation Is Still Creating Music 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Tyson tells us that 17th-century scholar Archbishop Ussher “like almost everyone one else of his time and his world… accepted the biblical account of creation as authoritative.” Neil DeGrasse Tyson reveals age of Earth, creationists’ heads collectively explode 2014-04-25T11:50:00Z Now he turns to the Old Testament with these four popular biblical tales; and, though the results are uneven, the four stories demonstrate Berkoff's directorial range and display his familiar caustic comic scepticism. Biblical Tales 2010-08-11T21:45:00Z Under the romantic spell of Wordsworth and Coleridge, a generation of young artists turned away from composing historical and biblical scenes in the studio to face their native landscape head on. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z In the biblical book of Exodus, God inflicts the 10 plagues — including the killing of each family’s firstborn child — to persuade Pharoah to let the Jewish people go. ‘Blackness Deserves a Seat at the Seder’ 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Remixing a biblical form for these tales of thwarted romance is not a purely stylistic choice but an intentional one that elevates everyday black men and women to the importance of biblical figures. Review | For many writers, Zora Neale Hurston’s work has been a guiding light. Now there’s even more to read. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Coming up first, though, is Triple Nine, a heist action flick with Kate Winslet, and Exodus, Ridley Scott’s hyped biblical epic, in which Paul will play Joshua, opposite Christan Bale as Moses. Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul: ‘I miss Jesse Pinkman’ 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z White could not immediately be reached Tuesday afternoon, but the outgoing message on her voicemail included a biblical quote: “No weapon formed against me shall prosper.” Seattle singer Lady A and former Lady Antebellum band end lawsuits 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z And last May, China's film censors also refused to release the Paramount Pictures biblical epic "Noah," starring Russell Crowe. Nicolas Cage movie, 'Outcast,' pulled from theaters in China 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z True, it may not be biblically accurate – but neither is having the holy family dressed in Mexican folk costume, or even having the shepherds and wise men at the scene at the same time. The world's best – and most controversial – nativity designs 2012-12-20T15:12:08Z Some biblical scholars have concluded from this that Bach acted like an astute textual critic, poring over Calov’s volumes and painstakingly comparing them, line by line, with other Lutheran Bibles. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z How many plays, after all, include a consideration of the biblical issue of dispensationalism? Kushner’s ‘Guide’: Long, gabby and intelligent Dense with layers of biblical lore and Greek tragedy, it's like a cake that's impressively tall but also unpalatably dry. Colin Farrell Finds Darkness in The Killing of a Sacred Deer 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z After “The Beverly Hillbillies,” Ms. Douglas worked in real estate, recorded country and gospel music albums, and wrote a book for children that drew on biblical themes. Donna Douglas, who played Elly May Clampett on ‘The Beverly Hillbillies,’ dies 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z The sole survivor of the biblical city of Sodom, the white-haired wraith recalls a place of lush beauty, sexual license and flowing wine. Sodome, My Love | Theatre review 2010-03-23T23:40:00Z She went and excelled quickly until she was making embroidered compositions on cloth that tied eastern and western traditions together with biblical imagery set against Bharatanatyam scenes. How I looked for clues to my sister’s inner world in her art 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z If mere mischief can stir boys’ souls and imaginations, what effect might something on the scale of biblical plagues have? Review: St. Thomas Choir and Concert Royal Perform Handel 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 3-D Theatricals stages Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical about the biblical Joseph, whose brothers sold him into slavery in Egypt. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 25-Oct. 2: 'Phoebe Zeitgeist Returns to Earth' and more 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z It is a biblical message: Adam and Eve. Sebastien Tellier on Eurovision 2012-05-25T23:03:00Z The earliest known Hebrew biblical manuscripts are the Dead Sea Scrolls, which date from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D. Oldest Nearly Complete Hebrew Bible Heads to Auction 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Later the phrase takes on larger meaning as their plight evokes and even merges with that of Black people escaping slavery and the biblical Israelites recalled on Passover. Review: ‘Pass Over’ Comes to Broadway, in Horror and Hope 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z Preceding Elbow, Nick Cave added a biblical intensity to the story of Lazarus with 2008's Dig!!! From Help! to Build A Rocket Boys!, exclamation marks rock! 2011-01-15T00:07:06Z Reich said it was not possible to reach definitive conclusions about biblical connections without more direct archaeological evidence. Israeli says he has found King David's citadel 2014-05-07T04:00:00Z His wife, Julie, teaches at a school specializing in classical Christian education, based on biblical readings and emphasizing grammar, logic and rhetoric. Rod Dreher is the combative, oversharing blogger who speaks for today’s beleaguered Christians 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z I assuaged myself of this inkling of jealousy by noting that I knew her biblically, which was far superior than knowing her preferred wine region. Dominatrix for a day 2012-11-04T01:00:00Z “This is a Noah for the 21st century, one of the most dazzling and unforgettable biblical epics ever put on film,” Richard Roeper, one of the fans, wrote for The Chicago Sun-Times. ‘Noah’ Floats to Top of the Box Office 2014-03-30T20:35:08Z It’s an invasion for sure, and it’s widespread, but biblical? Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z That leaves us with the “Adam’s rib” bit, an allusion to the biblical origin story of women. Perspective | Republicans thought defining a ‘woman’ is easy. Then they tried. 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z For deluded Young Earth creationists, the prospect of an America without a clear-cut biblical version of creation that provides answers to life’s hard questions is too much to bear. From Puritans to Ken Ham: The long history of creationism in America 2014-02-22T19:00:00Z “The Last Testament” is given a biblical ambience by means of the numbers it attaches to each individual passage and the sprinklings of “Lo,” “Verily” and “Checketh it out” that make it pseudoquaint. Books of The Times: ?The Last Testament: A Memoir by God? - Review 2011-11-27T22:24:27Z The experience sent Montgomery, author of the popular "King of Fish" and "Dirt," on an investigation of the biblical story of Noah's flood. 'The Rocks Don't Lie': looking at the evidence for a Noah-style flood 2012-08-15T19:03:03Z In a recent interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, Mr. Gibson said he thought the biblical books chronicling the revolt were “ripping good reads.” ArtsBeat Blog: Mel Gibson Takes on Judah Maccabee 2011-09-09T17:42:26Z The plan is to build a full-sized ark, based on the biblical story of Noah and the flood. Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter, no non-creationists need apply 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z This atmosphere draws me to the museum every time I go to Paris — more than his own Delacroix-inspired illustrations of mythological, historical and biblical scenes. T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z Who succeeds at upstaging a biblical miracle with a musical one? ‘Amazing Grace’: How Aretha Franklin Took Us All to Church 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z How could this Manhattan libertine outperform Ted Cruz, the preacher’s son with a command of biblical verse and brimstone oratory — and in the South, of all places? What Do This Season’s Political Books Tell Us About the Election? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z And Mr. Gates, too, like the biblical Noah, uses his ark to salvage things. Theaster Gates Turns the Stain of the Past Into Art 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z We put a twist on the format, replacing the customary biblical readings with Christmas stories and poetry. Byrd Ensemble opens holidays with 'What Sweeter Music' at Trinity Parish Church 2012-11-21T22:36:05Z Ben Carson believes Egyptian pyramids were used by biblical Joseph Carson: Pyramids Were for the storage of grain. Style Invitational: Oops? Do it again — try an earlier contest 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Suddenly the heavens opened in a deluge of biblical or comical proportions. Olive Kitteridge at Venice: An Our Town for Our Time 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z That same year, flying home from a conference on biblical prophecy, he watched as a married pilot flirted with a younger, unmarried attendant and imagined that the pilot might have a Christian wife back home. Tim LaHaye, evangelical author of ‘Left Behind’ book series, dies at 90 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z The story begins with a biblical explanation for the planet’s rapid population growth based on the great ages assigned to the first generations. The Bible’s racist monstrosities: How the “word of God” has been — and still is — used to oppress 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z The college is named for former presidential candidate Williams Jennings Bryan, who wished to establish a school that teaches a biblical perspective. News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Yet Coover’s starting point has always remained classical, biblical and Continental. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z “These are Bil Baird’s,” he added of marionettes representing biblical figures carved by the puppeteer best known for “The Lonely Goatherd” sequence created for the film version of “The Sound of Music.” Everything Here Is Tabboo! 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z As in “Godot,” there is hardly any plot in “Pass Over”; the title itself is a biblical double entendre. Review | ‘Pass Over’ opens — the first Broadway play in what feels like forever. And it’s funny and poignant. 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z Within Calov’s scripture verses, there are many small printing errors that would doubtless go undetected by even the most biblically literate reader. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Revelation: The End of Days This two-night miniseries uses actual news footage of wars, disasters, etc., to create a dramatic interpretation of a biblical apocalypse. Monday's TV highlights: 'It Takes a Choir' and more 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Italian composer, sacred oratorio master and priest Giacomo Carissimi responded to the tumult of the mid-17th century by setting the deeply moving stories of biblical prophets — and their sacrifices — to music. Carissimi's 'Prophets' at St. James Cathedral 2012-01-12T21:17:04Z His father’s papers, Mr. Cash said, included biblical studies and even a dog-eared copy of Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” Johnny Cash, the Poet in Black 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z She then tells the whole story of the play based on “Belshazzar’s Feast” and “Daniel in the Lion’s Den,” two incidents from the biblical account of the Hebrew prophet Daniel. ‘The Play of Daniel,’ at Trinity Church 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z At a time when we face many plagues — pestilence, fire, drought, floods — I find it particularly meaningful to return to the biblical riches that symbolize rebirth and renewal, which we so deeply need today. This Rosh Hashana Salad Is a Fresh Take on Ancient Flavors 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The photograph he took of some women on a hill in India looking at the sunset is the most biblical picture I've ever seen. Don McCullin 2012-11-15T10:39:19Z Depicting mankind in the ominous moment before the biblical Fall, the painting's ownership battle, too, points to a period in human history fraught with uncertainty: a 20th-century Europe ravaged by war. Nazi-looted "Adam" and "Eve" paintings to stay in California 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z She earned the biblical nickname “Moses” for freeing her people. A new stop for Harriet Tubman along the Underground Railroad 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z And for no other reason than he liked the sound of it, Lee wrote Thor's dialogue as biblical/Shakespearean. Comics: Thank God it's "Thorsday" 2011-05-04T17:48:04Z Related: Risen review – biblical CSI: Jerusalem loses faith in its premise The top new film at the US box office last weekend was the faith-based drama Risen. Deadpool set to smash all-time R-rated record while The Witch casts a spell 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z The redolent monologues, biblical resonance and poetic fire of August Wilson. Review: 'The Brothers Size' at Seattle Rep, wrestles with the passions, the perils of brotherhood 2011-02-10T21:57:04Z And there’s biblical Adam, a rendering of the scriptural figure the statue depicts. A Shattered Adam Statue Comes to Life at the Met 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z There are biblical allusions to Jesus, Mary, Judas and perhaps another disciple, but the story line is muddled and hard to interpret. Kenneth MacMillan’s School of Ballet Sex, Neurosis and Grit 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Dog years would perhaps be more appropriate, which would take the age of Newcastle's Shindig to biblical do-gooder proportions. Clubs picks of the week 2013-05-04T05:00:18Z George Green finds himself watching old biblical epics on television, to excellent effect. A Raging Pandemic Inspires Poetry With Little Bite 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The best of his own songs, like the biblical “Turn! Turn! Turn!” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” reach for cycles and archetypes, not ephemeral complaints. Pete Seeger, 1919-2014: A Folk Revivalist Who Used His Voice to Bring Out a Nation’s 2014-01-29T02:31:11Z In the biblical story, 13 people sat at the Last Supper table – Jesus and his 12 disciples – and the next day, Jesus was crucified. Why is Friday the 13th believed to be unlucky? A history of the superstition 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Cain — the biblical figure who slew his brother, Abel — metamorphosizes first into a cruel Roman emperor, then a bloodthirsty medieval king, then a fascist dictator. Perspective | The president opens his mouth daily, and the American theater bites back 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z You see that in a song like “Story of Isaac,” which is based on the biblical account of Abraham’s preparing to sacrifice his son Isaac on God’s orders. Review | How spirituality shaped Leonard Cohen 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z David Hartman “Mother!” has beautiful cinematography and may pretend to intellectual high-minded allegory, but in reality the repetitive theme of creation and destruction plays out more like “Groundhog Day” in hell than a biblical allegory. Hating ‘Mother!’: Readers Speak Out 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Churchill, author of such probing pieces about science and politics gone haywire as “A Number” and “Far Away,” here presents the degradation of the world as an absurdist word salad of biblical horrors. Review | Four fine actresses bring order to a world undergoing climate change in Signature’s ‘Escaped Alone’ 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z You always have something to write about, and you have these biblical references, which is basically like a collection of things we all have in common. Jason Isbell’s got hope for the high road: “If you yell at people they’re going to stop listening” 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Display cases are again piled with copper reliquaries, brass ewers, iridescent earthenware jars and bronze reliefs of biblical scenes. Antiques: Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont as Impulse Buyer 2010-05-06T20:50:00Z These gun-toting settlers in knitted skullcaps viewed Rabin’s decision to transfer parts of the West Bank to Palestinian control as an existential threat — a forfeiture of their biblical birthright. ‘Killing a King’ Examines Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Along with the character of God and this newly minted monotheism, the biblical authors take up the problem The Flood attempts to solve. “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z The portico adjoins a newly re-engineered gallery for Renaissance enamel vessels and plaques with biblical scenes. Antiques: Patent Models, Roger Broders Posters, Meissen Porcelain 2011-12-08T22:10:53Z Likewise Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings fought to overcome the British veteran director’s strange decision to cast Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, and Aaron Paul as biblical figures of Middle Eastern descent. Why is Hollywood still using 'yellowface' in 2016? 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Clever, intense and mind-bendy, filled with a dark mythology of biblical proportions and the kind of elaborate action sequences that would become one of Cameron's trademarks. 5 best Arnold Schwarzenegger movies 2011-05-26T21:38:08Z When I ask Phelps what biblical figures have inspired him, he cites the long line of prophets and faithful servants of God from the eleventh chapter of the Book of Hebrews. My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z In the response to the Supreme Court's decision, Christians on both sides of the partisan divide have appealed to any number of texts to assert that their particular brand of politics is biblically backed. What the Bible actually says about abortion may surprise you 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z The Red Tent The two-part biblical drama concludes. Monday's TV Highlights: 'Hollywood Sessions' on EPIX 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z The Dead Sea Scrolls are considered the oldest copies of biblical books in the world. Museum of Bible Removes Dead Sea Scrolls It Suspects Are Fake 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z At least as far as biblical marriage goes, he got it all wrong. Put away your Bible, Justice: The new “religious freedom” arguments are neither 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z At the center a figure of uncertain gender in a loincloth reaches up to pluck a piece of low-hanging fruit, evoking the biblical fall. Art Review: ‘Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-07-01T22:11:53Z Cohen is, first and foremost in many minds, a poet, as evidenced in his highly evocative imagery throughout, whether in the service of grim biblical apocalypse or playful sensuality. Leonard Cohen's New, Beautiful Old Ideas 2012-01-31T14:30:28Z Hebrew newspapers and the first Hebrew novel appeared early in the nineteenth century, but the language was stilted and biblical. Amos Oz and the Politics of the Hebrew Language 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z In antiquity, he said, people who copied biblical texts might add or compile different versions. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z The pastor added, "I pray that we use this moment to recognize how out of control we are and to hopefully re-center ourselves back on biblical principles and godly wisdom." Faith leaders on true forgiveness in Will Smith aftermath: Is saying 'I'm sorry' enough? 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z She not-so subtly draws biblical parallels to Tore's plight — complete with a metaphorical resurrection. 'Nothing Bad Can Happen' contradicts itself: It's cruel 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z So what is that biblical authority that Tyson mockingly rejects? Neil DeGrasse Tyson reveals age of Earth, creationists’ heads collectively explode 2014-04-25T11:50:00Z Other than the biblical account of the Nativity and Dickens’s classic of spiritual awakening, what else might one read during this holy and festive season? Review | A reading list just right for Christmas 2020: A little Dickens, a little Wilde, a little Donald Duck 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s not in great shape, but offers an impressive dome and fragments of tawny mosaics depicting some biblical and hunting scenes. Overnighter: Near Barcelona, Gems From Ancient Rome 2011-06-03T19:03:42Z In 1898, the director of the Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery here proudly displayed it in the museum as “Saul and David,” one of Rembrandt’s most important biblical works. Disputed Painting Is Declared an Authentic Rembrandt After Decades 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The group least likely to be pleased with these series is biblical scholars, said Timothy Beal, a professor of religion at Case Western Reserve University. Television puts more faith in religious-themed projects 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z Among the first-timers is the Vatican, whose group show examines the biblical story of creation. A Contemplative Venice Biennale, With Less Financial Frenzy 2013-06-02T20:17:59Z He falls headlong into a supernatural adventure that pits him against biblical demons in a story involving secret codes, lost civilizations, hidden fortresses and fallen angels. Guggenheim to write "Da Vinci" action feature 2010-04-28T06:38:00Z In the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, mankind’s coordinated efforts to build a tower to heaven are thwarted by the divinely sent obstacle of mutually incomprehensible languages. Review: A Sunny but Disappointing Take on the Tower of Babel 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Hope Wakube’s “The Leaving” draws on biblical imagery to convey her family’s flight from Kenya to the United States, where she often fears violence. ‘New-Generation African Poets’ showcases rich and varied artistry 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z “My inclination is to first apply a biblical worldview to my vote,” he says. Trump and Biden are both courting the votes of Black men. Will it make a difference? 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Isherwood vividly conveyed the stream-of-consciousness monologue, with its biblical lines in Greek; excerpts from kabbalah; German profanities; guttural, gasping noises; and philosophical observations. Elliott Sharp’s ‘Port Bou,’ an Opera About Walter Benjamin 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Aslan is steeped in the history, languages and scriptural foundation of the biblical scholar and is a very clear writer with an authoritative, but not pedantic, voice. ‘Zealot’: Jesus as revolutionary in a turbulent age 2013-07-20T00:02:24Z One last factor in biblical all-or-nothingism is the part that biblical criticism plays in evangelical conversion, which is none at all. How biblical literalism took root 2011-02-21T10:59:00Z Her biblical stories are framed as the work of a lapsed Catholic who comes back to church on Good Friday after an absence of 30 years. Mary Rakow’s ‘This is Why I Came’ asks us to reimagine biblical tales 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z The clouds, like overstuffed down pillows, split the evening sun into biblical beams. Classic rock: Exploring the spectacular landscape of south-central Utah 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Buchinger was especially noted for elaborate drawings featuring biblical passages written in letters too small to be read by ordinary naked eyes. Astounding Feats in Pen, Ink and Magnifying Glass 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Since the days of the earliest biblical epics, audiences have revelled in seeing temples crumble, worlds shake, ships sink and towers fall. Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema – from Oscar-winning strategies to 007’s debt to Hitchcock 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z The biblical heft of Jensen’s title suggests what he’s searching for, but far too often the narrative devolves into a gruesome parade of suffering. A Different View of the Afghan War Yields the Same Grim Truth 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z In Swamp Thing No. 1, which arrives in stores on Wednesday, a plague of biblical proportions fells birds, bats and fish around the world. Scott Snyder Writes a New Swamp Thing for DC Comics 2011-09-06T22:13:31Z And the promise of Gaga as Mary Magdalene and actor Norman Reedus as biblical villain Judas Iscariot doesn't exactly scream "Greatest Story Ever Told." Lady Gaga's religion-baiting controversy 2011-04-12T16:01:00Z Daniel believes the enmity between Jews and Arabs is biblically decreed, which probably explains why he thinks it's OK to say things like that. TV review: Marchlands, Louis Theroux: Ultra Zionists 2011-02-04T10:09:57Z According to Dr. Hurtado’s calculations, 97 percent of Christian biblical texts that survive from the first three centuries A.D., including those from the Old Testament, are codexes. Greek New Testament Papyrus Is Discovered on eBay 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Campbell, wearing a white shirt and black sunglasses, was flanked by Palestinian guards and her own private security detail as she toured the biblical town of Bethlehem. Model Naomi Campbell in Holy Land for birthday 2012-05-22T20:01:04Z Breslin’s debut novel is a historical romance and a retelling of the biblical Book of Esther, set at a transit camp for World War II prisoners bound for Auschwitz. An Everest memoir, a how-to guide to treehouses 2014-04-28T18:34:06Z When the topic was reproductive rights, he didn’t simply voice a pro-life stance, he suggested Democratic ideology in biblical times would have led to the abortion of Jesus Christ. Rush Limbaugh, radio king and architect of right wing, dies 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Peterson illustrates his arguments with copious references to ancient myths — bringing up stories of witches, biblical allegories and ancient traditions. Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The opera’s libretto fuses contrasting stories: the biblical tale of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, and a story line from the Chinese kunqu drama “The Peony Pavilion,” a multipart, 19-hour epic. Review: A Powerful Opera of Eastern and Western Allure 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Back in 1984, journalists reported from Ethiopia about a famine of biblical proportions caused by widespread drought. Humans – the real threat to life on Earth 2013-06-29T23:05:50Z Abraham’s Well Visitor’s Center, a gleaming complex that emphasizes Beersheba’s history as the biblical home of Abraham, a major figure in Judaism, Islam and Christianity, opened this month. In Israel, a History of Abraham 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z It claims to be the world’s oldest inhabited city — replete with biblical and Koranic lore, Roman ruins, ancient Islamic edifices and Ottoman-era palaces. 36 Hours in Damascus 2010-12-03T15:37:00Z It’s been quite an exciting time ever since Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy admitted earlier this month that he was about his company’s supportive position for “the biblical definition of the family unit.” Happy Chick-fil-A Day! 2012-08-01T20:35:00Z A different young woman is glimpsed to either side of him, bringing to mind the biblical story of Lot and his daughters. Museum & Gallery Listings for June 19-25 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images File under growing trend for origins stories and new glut of biblical films: a prequel to The Passion of the Christ is in the works. Peter O'Toole tipped to make comeback in The Passion of the Christ prequel 2012-09-28T12:02:22Z These are among the richest and indeed raunchiest of biblical texts, but Palestrina's settings are quite cool, an impression supported by the rather cool approach to the polyphony here. Palestrina: Cantica Salomonis – review 2013-07-27T23:05:22Z Saint-Saëns thought this biblical story of a fateful love affair, set against the backdrop of enslaved Israelites and their Philistine oppressors, would best be presented as a stirring concert oratorio. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Professor Lipton is now researching how medieval priests interpreted the biblical imagery in diverse ways in their sermons. Not All Medieval Sacred Art Was Anti-Semitic 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z What the French traveler and diplomat Alexis de Tocqueville described as "individualism" had a profound influence on biblical interpretation and the way laypeople read the sacred text. Cherry-picking the Bible and using verses out of context has been done for centuries 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z We ended up seeing this biblical epic six times. Vanessa Redgrave: 'I've sung the High Noon theme song by heart all my life' 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z The brilliance of the fresco painting, the drama of the biblical story, and the extraordinary draughtsmanship and colour can arguably be better grasped by seeing every panel and lunette illustrated in accurate reproduction. The maestro’s maestro 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z "A mere 75-watt bulb sparked an exodus beyond biblical proportions in less than four seconds." 'Chinaberry Sidewalks': Rodney Crowell's folksy, bittersweet, rollicking memoir 2011-02-04T20:16:07Z There is hardly ever a mention of Jesus or the biblical setting of his birth. What makes Christmas movies so popular 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z The singer said he wanted to bring attention to the devastation that wildfires have caused, saying it has reached a “biblical scale.” Celebs donate millions to aid Australia wildfire efforts 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The movie is a modern adaptation of the biblical story of the prodigal son. New movie to premiere in Omaha theater, 2 churches 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z In other parts of Europe, drier methods marked the Epiphany, the biblical story of three wise men who follow a star as they travel from the East to find the baby Jesus. Swimmers, singers and sled speedsters mark Epiphany feast day 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z And everywhere else is welded iron and hand-painted biblical signage and bric-a-brac to overrun a landfill. House Proud: Joe Minter’s African Village in America 2013-04-24T22:17:36Z He said the biblical account of the relationship between Jesus and Judas left him room for interpretation. ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ at 50: What Was the Buzz? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Some original owners are identifiable, based on initials and coats of arms inscribed alongside snippets of prayers, hymns and biblical quotations. Unlocking the Secrets of Boxwood Miniatures 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Because the last year, they went on, was “almost biblical in its drama.” The Avant-Garde Is Alive and Well and Making Fashion 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z All of a sudden, there is this biblical language that hasn’t been spoken in thousands of years, except in religious contexts. Natalie Portman talks to Salon about her directorial debut: “I felt lucky to make the film in Israel because being a female director there isn’t unusual” 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z In that opera, a biblical drama, this uplifting music is sung by a group of Israelites suffering under Babylonian Captivity who long for their homeland. ‘Don Giovanni’ Revival by the Paris National Opera 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z You don’t have to be a biblical scholar to know that the Three Wise Men used a star to navigate their way to Bethlehem. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z He also portrayed Joseph, husband of Mary, in George Stevens’s 1965 biblical epic “The Greatest Story Ever Told.” Robert Loggia, actor known for his tough-guy roles, dies at 85 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Along with biblical literalism being a new phenomenon, Aslan also points out that the gospels are full of errors, and some of them don’t even match up in terms of date. Reza Aslan destroys biblical literalism: “The gospels are absolutely replete with historical errors and with contradictions” 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The intense, almost biblical relationship of brothers is a time-honoured tradition in movie boxing. The Fighter ? review 2011-02-03T22:00:02Z Pepper's a preference but we need salt to preserve food; biblically we're the salt of the Earth. One last thing... Salt-N-Pepa 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z His rival William Gladstone published scholarly studies of classical and biblical subjects. Review | Looking back to a time when leaders and millionaires were also men of letters 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z “Very similar to the story of Joseph,” Nimoy said, referring to the way Joseph, in the biblical book of Genesis, declined to seek retribution against his brothers for selling him into slavery. To Boldly Explore the Jewish Roots of ‘Star Trek’ 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z The lower image portrays the biblical story in which Moses used the image of the brazen serpent to heal snake-poisoned Israelites. De Villalpando’s Holy Canvases Arrive at the Met 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z In Denmark he’s the only director who tells stories on that scale – he tells stories of biblical proportions about good and evil, death and life, these really grand themes and questions. Sofie Gråbøl: ‘Lars von Trier is a very caring person… he's not like his films’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z When Davenport focused his capacious intelligence on, say, Kafka’s story “The Hunter Gracchus” or the biblical paintings of Stanley Spencer, the result was as much a work of art as a work of explication. Review | The most intellectually exhilarating work of the year 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z She filtered folklore, biblical rhythms, dreams, choral voices and a steep awareness of history into her work. Toni Morrison, a Writer of Many Gifts Who Bent Language to Her Will 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z We don't see much actual calamity in director Vic Armstrong's picture, described in the production notes as dealing with a "biblical event," which sounds like a sales initiative. Review: 'Left Behind' 0 stars 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z In his latest exhibition at LA Louver, the painter is showing 18 new, large-scale works inspired by Armenian manuscripts, biblical stories and a variety of literary characters, including Homer and Euripides. Datebook: Surreal scenarios, art that mines data, light works by James Turrell 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Because of its resemblance to Jerusalem, it’s often used as a stand-in for biblical films. Discovering the Ruins of Italy’s Ionian Coast 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z “The Visitation” at the National Gallery, borrowed from Dumbarton, recasts the biblical encounter of Mary and her cousin Elizabeth as a dialogue of two cloaks, the faces barely teased out from the shadows. El Greco is focus of two U.S. shows on 400th anniversary of his death The other windows contain a biblical reference and other phrases. Simmons offers window into thoughts on NYC mosque 2010-08-25T14:23:00Z This new emphasis on personal faith grounded in the word of God led to intense spiritual self-examination, as well as a flowering of biblical scholarship and translation. Review | How scientists came to be 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z For example, Superman’s arrival on Earth as an infant in a rocket ship parallels the biblical story of baby Moses being delivered to Pharaoh’s daughter in his papyrus basket. Model for Superman Comes to Center for Jewish History 2013-01-02T23:08:29Z This refers to a biblical passage Washington admired, and which the character of Washington sings in the musical. At the Inauguration, Amanda Gorman Wove History and the Future Into a Stirring Melody 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Luther Dunphy is a religious nutter who thinks in a kind of high-toned biblically inflected language. Joyce Carol Oates’s Novel Plumbs the Depths of America’s Abortion War 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z I had spent a dozen years tracing biblical stories around the world and had written four books about God. This Life: For a Child, God?s Back Story 2010-10-15T21:10:00Z He was so fascinated by its spatial effects that he made his own, monumental version, which again injects bright colors to the biblical scene. Hockney close to home with Yorkshire landscape show 2012-01-17T16:58:00Z He spent at least three hours each day in the hair-and-makeup chair getting into biblical mode to play Joshua, the latter-day leader of the Israelites. For Aaron Paul, seeking good after 'Bad' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z A reader with even a smattering of biblical knowledge will realise two things fairly quickly. The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian – review 2012-08-24T21:55:01Z According to Jewish tradition, Kohanim are descendants of Aaron, Moses’s brother, whose offspring served as priests in the biblical temples of Jerusalem. Tens of thousands at Jerusalem's Western Wall for priestly blessing 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Shaw sheds her biblical raiment and steps before us in mufti, her face scrubbed raw, in a long black dress over work pants. Theater Review: ‘The Testament of Mary,’ at the Walter Kerr Theater 2013-04-23T02:00:01Z This exhibition largely sets these concerns aside and turns its attention to around 50 of Gauguin’s artworks, including early biblical imagery and his iconic paintings of Tahitian women. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z My inquiry pointed me in the direction of date syrup, a fruity reduction of that bready, biblical fruit that was said to carry all the sweetness of honey without the shame. I’m Jewish and vegan — here’s how I celebrate Rosh Hashanah 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z The writing is nearly biblical in its stateliness, shot through with compressed, poetic description and its main figure's sense of righteousness. 'Lonesome Animals': Crimes, punishment in 1930s Eastern Wash. 2012-05-24T20:21:04Z Setting a text that the composer fashioned from scripture and folklore, the oratorio tells of the biblical Exodus, focusing on the divine “ordering” of Moses to take his people to the Promised Land. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z After The Beverly Hillbillies she worked in real estate, recorded country and gospel music albums and wrote a book for children that drew on biblical themes. Beverly Hillbillies star Douglas dies 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The fake news approach to both biblical lore and the history of Western civilization is commonplace in fantasy movies, but the filmmakers are really pushing it here. Review: ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Whisks Michael Fassbender to 1492 Spain 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z And though it never gets to "cue the locusts" territory, the plot twists required to hit certain biblical touchstones throw up a lot of dust. Lifetime's 'The Red Tent' kept standing by leading ladies 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z At what point does a biblical epic cease to be biblical? The Strange Battle Over Darren Aronofsky’s Noah 2013-10-17T17:14:57Z The 1956 film essentially incorporates this plot — with further complications — into the biblical tale. Video: When DeMille Parted the Red Sea 2011-04-01T21:39:04Z He said this explained why “movies dealing with that story are seen as Academy Awards contenders, while ones dealing with biblical stories are laughable.” Torbjorn Rodland’s Puzzling Photos Are Unsettling and Arousing 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The biblical account owes much to the Gilgamesh version in numerous nit-picky details, but not in ethos or theme. “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z Josef Stalin, who trained as a cleric, appealed to the nation when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union using the biblical “brothers and sisters” and enlisted the church as an ally during the war. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z If biblical liberation and my experience coincide, then the Seder is not about just the departure from Egypt, it is about my own trials. Critic?s Notebook: Put Yourself in the Story of Passover 2011-04-17T23:21:25Z Some of the diction is biblical; some is drily sardonic. Arts & Leisure: Leonard Cohen Reckons With God in ?Old Ideas? 2012-01-27T16:00:00Z Yet despite faults, these biblical heroes have a stirring sense of their duty, destiny and responsibility. Can "Game of Thrones" teach us about the meaning of life? 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z But with Spielberg already lining up a "Braveheart-ish version of the Moses story," is there room for another retread of the biblical tale? Close up: What's next for Ridley Scott? 2012-06-07T16:45:00Z Otis Redding singing the simplest words can sound biblical. Happy hour again: Paul Heaton tours UK pubs on his bike 2012-06-06T17:30:11Z The biblical witness, often perceptive on issues of human nature, is enlightening here. A Protestant liberal defends clerical celibacy 2013-03-10T12:00:00Z “Those rabbinical interpretations of modesty were retrojected into the biblical texts over time.” In ‘My Unorthodox Life,’ Fashion Is a Flash Point 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z This required a long process of paring down, we learned, from a cast augmented with townspeople and music spliced with biblical text to the more distilled production we know, which was an instant hit. Martha Graham Studio Celebrates ‘Appalachian Spring’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z It would take a man of biblical proportions for me to marry again. Chaka Khan: 'A man needs to bring something big to the table' 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z So ambitious that the author lards it with fake biblical texts, this novel makes a riotous comedy of errors out of one cynic’s search for solace. Beth Macy’s 'Factory Man,' Michael Lewis’s 'Flash Boys' and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z At its best, biblical religion is about reversal and transformation — the most resonant of messages for Black people in a white-supremacist America. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The arid setting seems ancient, maybe biblical: The ground is strewn with what look like jawbones, possibly of donkeys, like the one Samson used to slay a thousand Philistines. Dana Schutz’s New Paintings Just Might Be Her Best 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Stravinsky’s austerely beautiful “Symphony of Psalms,” which sets three biblical psalms in Latin, is heard more often. Music Review: Mariinsky Choristers in ?Russian Stravinsky? 2010-04-25T22:11:00Z So do I. But our remonstrance seems futile against a people whose false gods include the biblical golden calf of capitalism itself. Why did it take 10 years for America to leave Michael Jackson's Neverland? 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z ABC is billing it as a biblical epic about the exploits of a king in the time before the birth of Christ. TV upfronts: The Muppets are coming, but not much else changes at ABC 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z There are obvious biblical allusions at work here — to Isaac, the son the prophet Abraham was willing to sacrifice, and in the chapellike structure of the cabin. ‘A Great Wilderness’: a crisis of faith, identity 2014-01-24T17:52:35Z The formal setting is an appropriate backdrop; Renoir may have been influenced by the classical myth of the judgment of Paris and biblical imagery of Eve. Home & Design: Yard art, Washington-style, including a Calder and a fiberglass cow What a pleasant surprise: a biblical film that doesn’t turn into a gory freak show or a speculation about the marital status of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. ‘Son of God’: Not the greatest story ever told, but it has spirit 2014-02-26T22:57:00Z Exagoge Theatre Dybbuk presents this ancient Jewish play that retells the biblical tale of Exodus in the style of Greek tragedy. L.A. theater openings, July 31-Aug. 7: 'The Tempest' and more 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Since then, the Shapira affair has haunted the edges of respectable biblical scholarship, as a rollicking caper wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a cautionary tale. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z There's isn't much that's secret in this story of the apostles; it boosts biblical sources with speculation about what they were thinking and doing. TV highlights 23/12/12 2012-12-21T10:04:15Z The festival Purim, which celebrates how the Jewish people were saved by the brave actions of the biblical Queen Esther, involves much joyful masquerading. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The 17th-century Italian Baroque painter is not simply a rare example of a female artist from the period; she also highlighted women, mostly biblical heroines, in her pictures. Review | In the galleries: Building on an artwork expressed via different media 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Noah is just one of several biblical tale movies that will premiere in 2014. Russell Crowe Glowers in Noah Poster 2014-01-29T16:40:04Z We see how the early sketches and etchings of street beggars, half-naked women and hurdy-gurdy musicians transform later in his career into figures that populate his biblical scenes. Rembrandt Died 350 Years Ago. Why He Matters Today. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z A book of biblical proportions, "The Good Book of Southern Baking" is a modern encyclopedia that proves once and for all that southern baking is American baking. Cookies can be chewy and crispy at the same time. James Beard winner Kelly Fields shares the secret 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z The "truer form" in which the countries and individuals will then see each other "with new-won eyes" has faintly biblical overtones. Poem of the week: To Germany by Charles Hamilton Sorley 2012-11-14T10:20:03Z In the 21st century, the biblical prophecy about the permanence of the poor is not belied by the proliferation of $500-a-night hotels in the Bowery and $5 million apartments. Jacob Riis Photographs Still Revealing New York’s Other Half 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Fuelled by an explosive cocktail of an almost biblical fervour and fast-twitch strop fibres in his soul, he has presented both opportunities and challenges for satire. 'Satire has had a busy year': how to laugh at the year that was 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z “I doubt anyone except biblical thieves are digging holes in a field to hide their goods.” How Black Foragers Find Freedom in the Natural World 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Instead of building a church, Answers in Genesis is sharing its teachings through a controversial biblical theme park designed to attract believers and nonbelievers alike. A giant ark is just the start. These creationists have a bigger plan for recruiting new believers. 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z “Greenberg shows how the biblical concepts influenced the subsequent history of Jewish prayer, that Jews don’t need an intermediary.” Moshe Greenberg, Jewish Biblical Scholar, Dies at 81 2010-05-20T04:04:00Z But for most scholars, discovering an actual biblical source text, dating from before the creation of the Hebrew Bible we know, seemed extremely unlikely. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z At the ceremony, he teased us gently about my control freak management of the biblical readings. My priest was an accused abuser: The Catholic sexual abuse story gets personal 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z The Russian novelist was a third literary paragon to attempt his own synthesis of the biblical canon. He Puts Bill Maher on TV, and Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy on Stage 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The American studio put him to work on “Noah’s Ark,” a biblical extravaganza produced and mostly written by an ambitious young executive named Darryl F. Zanuck. DVD: Desert Tales, Centuries Apart 2011-08-06T20:23:02Z There are also biblical allusions and an evocation of the supposed origins of Aids. Rise of the Planet of the Apes; Project Nim ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:34Z “Drawn to the Blood,” which conjures biblical images and wonders, “What did I do to deserve this?,” begins with a lone strummed guitar, later joined by one persistently repeating keyboard note. Review: Sufjan Stevens’s Quietly Moving ‘Carrie & Lowell’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z "Neither biblical nor post-biblical Judaism," Vermes notes, "make of the young an object of admiration." Christian Beginnings by Geza Vermes - review 2012-07-11T07:00:02Z Those figures include your basic biblical characters, dragons, gargoyles, waltzing skeletons, bagpipe-playing angels, the seven deadly sins, an elephant, a two-humped camel and more. Edinburgh in a day: A quick family visit to Scotland (with beer and skittles) 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Soloists sing some of the lines of biblical dialogue, with the narration given a hypnotic setting for groups of voices. Les Arts Florissants Returns to New York, Endangered 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Since evolution is what most compelled his fascination, he began exploring the various ways Christians try to reconcile biblical teachings and biology. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z It was Mr. Lau-Lavie dressed in drag as an incarnation of Esther, the biblical Queen of Persia. You?re Young and Jewish: Discuss 2011-01-15T00:41:21Z It tells the biblical story of Simeon, who, having held the Christ child, says he can finally die in peace, for the world has nothing left to offer him. Review: Bach Collegium Japan Returns With Chamber Music 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Some biblical experts believe Zippori is the village where Mary grew up. Explorer: Hiking Through Biblical Backcountry 2012-06-22T15:21:54Z The work is essentially an operatic depiction of a biblical scene. This week's new live music 2011-08-19T23:08:14Z So we created the rectangular-shaped ark for the film, biblically accurate down to the last cubit. | The Thing About Noah and the Ark 2014-03-19T22:15:45Z Handel had written “Esther” early in his career, but when he tried to produce it later at the theater where his operas were performed, clerics objected to the staging of a biblical narrative. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z The resulting lumpy, undulating structure, saturated with biblical verses and sayings, is a testament, as its name implies, to Knight’s religious salvation. Exploring Modern Ruins in Southern California 2014-03-19T21:24:02Z They are sometimes aged in clay containers called amphorae or qvevri, the way wines were made in biblical times. If you want to give a wine club membership, go straight to the source 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z You can play that game of biblical roulette. My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z “To have us come through it,” he added, “with our loved ones, and what that all entails, is not only important, it’s biblical.” ‘Black Love’ Keeps It Simple: Honesty, Not Antics 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Hence the title "Lucifer," the wise and beautiful biblical angel who fell from grace, victim of his own exalted aspirations. Pollock's stellar 'Lucifer' and impressive Anderson Collection 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Indeed, even in biblical times, we see a constant evolution in the practice of marriage. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z This is why so many biblical epics wind up looking so silly. Lifetime's 'The Red Tent' kept standing by leading ladies 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Stoudemire also hosts an internet course on the popular legends of the biblical Lost Tribes of Israel. Amar’e Stoudemire Is on a Religious Quest 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z "He's very biblical in his proselytations about the firmament, and so somehow this firework display is going to be a Blakeian firework display," she explains. Art and science collide to reopen Whitworth gallery 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z "I love to play people who are way more confident than they are intelligent," says Theroux, who played similarly hirsute buffoons in the stoner comedy "Your Highness" and the biblical spoof "The Ten." Justin Theroux is the main course in 'The Leftovers' 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z One story reimagines the biblical tale of Noah’s ark from Noah’s brother’s perspective. Experiments Succeed — and Fail — Spectacularly in Robert Coover’s Lab 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z The new special "Surviving Exodus" seeks natural phenomena that echo signs and wonders seen in biblical accounts. TV This Week, Nov. 30-Dec. 6: 'Peter Pan Live!' and more 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z The result is an embellished land of Christian saints, biblical episodes, Portuguese kings, historical glories, pastoral idylls, aristocrats at leisure, landscapes, seascapes, floral designs and, above all, geometric motifs. 12 Treasures of Europe 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Doyle’s production scrubs the musical to its spiritual essence, turning the company into a congregation for the retelling of a biblical journey of suffering and redemption. And the winner is ... the ensemble cast: How Broadway's best acting was a group effort 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The biblical theme park, ultimately featuring 80 structures, will be built gradually. A giant ark is just the start. These creationists have a bigger plan for recruiting new believers. 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The same tone prevails in “Top 10: Bible Weather,” an awkward mix of biblical natural disasters and recent meteorological calamity on Saturday on the Weather Channel, served in “listicle” form. More Networks Jumping on the Biblical Bandwagon 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Programs with biblical or other religious themes are sprouting up, some in places where you might not expect them. More Networks Jumping on the Biblical Bandwagon 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z |
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