Word: noah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Noah's pretty little white dove...
...tongues of men have proliferated considerably since the Tower of Babel helped explain how the sons of Noah came to converse in so many different languages. Today there are 3,000 languages in the world, most of them oral only, which makes life difficult for Christian missionaries sworn to spread the word of God as widely as possible. Most Bible societies, in fact, concentrate mainly on getting adequate translations into the major written languages. But the Summer Institute of Linguistics has a longer reach. For the past 42 years, following the teachings of its founder W. Cameron Townsend, S.I.L. teams...
...Plato or Seneca, among his students was pressed into service as Christ teaching.The gestures of Ciceronian rhetoric lent authority to the poses of carved apostles; Orpheus with a ram on his shoulders was transformed into Christ the good shep herd. Winged victories became angels. Bacchus turned into the drunken Noah; a late 3rd century carving of Jonah resting under the gourd tree was based on the older Greek image of Endymion asleep. The more refined an early Christian work was, the more subtly it might display its classical affiliations...
...pages; $40). Known in the Muslim world as the Mirâj Nâmeh, this legend describes the mystical visions of Muhammad as he ascended one night to the Seventh Heaven and the Throne of God. With the Angel Gabriel as his guide, the Prophet meets with Adam, Noah, Abraham and Moses. He visits paradise, with its eternally blooming gardens, and hell, where sinners suffer endless agony at the hands of demons. The 15th century illuminations that accompany the text of this holy adventure are masterworks of Middle Eastern art. Produced in Herât, capital of ancient Khurasan...
...Gondoliers--2:30 Emma--8:00 Jubalay--3:00 My Mother...My Son--3 and 8:08 Rosmersholm--8:00 Camelot--Belmont Dramatic Club at 7 p.m. Noah--Laurie Theater, Brandies...