The tragedy at Waco, Texas in 1993 underscores some of the dangers of reading the book of Revelation monologically. Assuming that the goal of the interpretive task is to discover a single, propositional meaning, monologic approaches ignore the dialogic nature of language and lit…
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Ancient civilizations had great respect for Fire-worshipping. Indus civilization was highly popular for its Fire-worshiping. This Fire-worship is known as Yajn͂ a. The word Yajn͂ a itself is a vast term. It covers many factors of human life starting from birth to death. Not only F…
The American composer Charles Ives is well known for musical quotation/borrowing: composing music with or from pre-existing musical sources, such as folk tunes, hymns, chants, or other composers’ works. His Third Violin Sonata is one of few works that used his unique technique o…
History is often a manufactured commodity; its specifications change at the behest of larger political narratives. There is a constant need for recognition that at any point in time, history exists on two different planes of understanding – one, as the historian’s version of eve…
The aim of this study was to discuss of some poetic aspects in isiZulu hymns of two churches, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa titled: Incwadi Yezinkonzo Nezingoma (n. d.) and the Seventh-day Adventist hymn book titled: UKrestu Esihlabelelweni (n. d.). The poetic aspects …
This dissertation aimed to examine the hymn texts composed by the originator of the black gospel hymn, Charles Albert Tindley, and establish a greater understanding of the theological and social themes embedded in them. The researcher analyzed Tindley’s published hymns to discov…
This dissertation examines the Fourth Gospel to determine if any liturgical material is present within the texts. The first chapter reviews previous scholarly interaction relevant to this topic. The second assesses various proposed criteria and creates an inventory for evaluatio…
This dissertation is a cultural history and musical ethnography of the first Brazilian Baptist hymnal Cantor Cristão. Published in 1891, it was revised and expanded, and went through thirty-seven editions but remained the only official Baptist hymnal for one hundred years. Thoug…
The feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary was one of the last medieval Marian feasts to be introduced into the Roman Calendar, and is unusual in the wealth of contemporary, and near contemporary, documentation available for study in relation to its introduction.
“Eutrapelia: Humorous texts in Hellenistic poetry” provides a study of the literary humor in Hellenistic iambic poetry in the context of rapid political and cultural change in the Ancient Mediterranean of the third century BCE. This project clarifies several questions connected …