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"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!" |
Posted on 10/14/2020 5:53:36 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
The Bible encourages us to meditate on it (Ps. 1:1-3, 119:11-16, etc.); these artists have done so, and their works can assist us and enrich our own thoughts about biblical characters, incidents and concepts, and increase our faith in He who is behind it all. As you encounter and consider these images and the related Scriptures and the Spirit enlightens your understanding, please share it with us!
But it is not only oil-on-canvas that can so help us; I refer to the astonishing video series The Chosen, which strolls through the four Gospels at the most leisurely pace. The eight episodes of Season 1 are finished, and the second of a planned seven seasons is coming soon. I say "leisurely" because after an entire year’s viewing Jesus still has only seven of the apostles (although He's preparing to call up Thomas from the minor leagues--but Thomas is skeptical, of course). Anticipating a canvas of fifty-plus hours instead of a movie's paltry two hours, The Chosen turns the characters (especially including Jesus!) into three-dimensional humans and brings the Gospels alive--you have never seen anything even remotely like it! Here is the Official Trailer.
Here is a link for free viewing of The Chosen: “Works with your phone, tablet, and you can cast to your Roku or Chromecast.” Last fall I paid $34.98 for DVDs and ongoing internet access—best 35 bucks I’ve ever spent (I don’t recall how much our marriage license cost, but then it was 43 years ago).
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Early betting odds are heavily favoring the big man over the young lad, although as always there is a minority with a sentimental attachment to the underdog: “The bigger they are, the harder they fall!” and all that. I promise I will reveal the final resolution tomorrow, whichever way it turns out—although I should mention that there will be yet one more post after that, for some reason or other. Oh, and anyone claiming some equivalence to our current electoral contest has been spending too much time on certain political discussion boards and not enough time thumbing their Bible.
My quick favorites are 19 and 22, since they portray the geography of the Elah Valley very well.
The river/wadi at the bottom was probably the border and as David crossed it to get to Goliath, he picked up the stones.
Likely, in David’s time, it was a stream that flowed steadily. It’s dry in the summer nowadays.
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I see little similarity between them and therefore no reason for such an assumption.
Please do not forward any images of Christ. His last three hours were darkly shrouded from man's eye.
This is now the second time, David, that you have attempted to exert editorial control over what gets included here (by the way, no one else ever has). As previously, I refer you to my "NOTES ON MY SELECTION CRITERIA" at the bottom of each post in green. The portion pertinent to your request:
The Bible and its Author are my focus, not the art: this is The Bible in Paintings, not “Great Paintings” nor even “Good Paintings.” So, works need not be masterpieces to qualify for inclusion here—they don’t need to be housed at the Louvre nor auctioned by Sotheby’s. They only need to illustrate successfully some aspect of the Biblical text or, frankly, just tickle my fancy, which I'm asking the Holy Spirit to guide. Often, artists misrepresent the Scripture, but unless the error is material, licentious or heretical I usually include the artwork, trusting that the Spirit is perfectly capable of defending Himself. So, with such forgiving filters, it means that you're seeing practically everything I'm finding.
That includes artwork depicting Jesus and, barring the Holy Spirit's direct intervention, that is very unlikely to change. Indeed, I have already depicted him several times, and while the New Testament is a long, long way from 1 Samuel, I fully expect that images including Him--actually, focusing centrally upon Him--will be ubiquitous during my coverage of the Gospels, especially on the cross, and of Revelation. You should know that now so you can decide whether this series meets your own viewing standards.
Dan
Somewhere on YouTube there is a video showing the artist speed-painting #19. If you're interested, I can spend several minutes looking for it for you.
The river/wadi at the bottom was probably the border and as David crossed it to get to Goliath, he picked up the stones.
Margetson's, #12, shows David standing in the stream, confronting the big dude.
Likely, in David’s time, it was a stream that flowed steadily. It’s dry in the summer nowadays.
3,000 years ago the Himalayan and more local glaciers north of Israel, which feed the great rivers which eventually trickle through Israel, had more unmelted ice than at present.
Stick around for tomorrow’s Grand Finale!
He was the guy in charge of the impasse. What to do what to do? He sure wasn't making any progress. Forty days on, yet..
Therefore, perhaps Jesse thought to send him some cheese to go along with his whine. ;)
David, aka "that son of Jesse"... hmmm.
The maverick solution to business!
I like #18. A colorless sea of mockers "bravely" hanging behind their big bad cult leader, shouting invectives, versus one Can-Do spirited David on his mission to Get-R done and move on.
There's no competition.
David could have aimed for one of Goliath's temples, or just thwacked him smack dab in the middle of his forehead. Either way, the simple message to any of those paying attention was, "Let that sink in [to your thick skull]."
There's a word play between the name Goliath and gugoleth (skull, poll, head count) and revelation (galui, galah), and those various other words rooted in rolling.
Reminds me of my favorite song in the Blues Brothers repertoire. What key? A - good country key..
Rawhide in A!
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Keep Rollin', Rollin', Rollin',
Though the streams are swollen,
Keep them dawwgies rollin', Rawhide!
Through rain and wind and weather,
Hell bent for leather,
Wishing my girl was by my side,
All the things I'm missin'
Good fiddles, love and kissin',
Are waiting at the end of my ride.
Move 'em on, hit 'em up, hit 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, hit 'em up, Rawhide
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, ride 'em in,
let 'em out, cut 'em out, Ride on in, Rawhide!
H'yah! H'yah!
Keep movin', movin', movin',
though they're disapproving,
Keep them dawwgies rollin', Rawhide!
Don't try to understand 'em,
Just rope and throw and brand 'em,
Soon we'll be living high and wide!
My heart's calculating,
My true love will be waiting,
Be waiting at the end of my ride.
Move 'em on, hit 'em up, hit 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, hit 'em up, Rawhide
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, ride 'em in,
let 'em out, cut 'em out, Ride on in, Rawhide!
H'yah! H'yah!
Rawhide!
H'yah! H'yah!
Rawhide!
"God save all here!"? Victor McLaglen proclaiming that in Cohen's pub in The Quiet Man fairly rings in my ears.
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Ah, that ties in with your threads from the past couple of days, no pun intended, can you believe it.
David's harp was the kinnor, which is often paired in verses with another stringed instrument called the nevel.
In modern language, though, the meanings swapped. While David's harp is still his kinnor (as per the Scripture), "nevel" is the modern word for a harp, while the kinnor came to mean a violin/fiddle.
Which is all very funny because the lyrics typically appear as
All the things I'm missin'
Good vittles, love an' kissin'
Are waitin' at the end of my ride
So maybe you were punning to see if I'd notice ha, but I do see that a lot with lyrics searches so maybe that's just was came up for you. Victuals, vittles, fiddles, visuals
Might as well be
All the things I'm missin'
Good riddles, love an' kissin'
Are waitin' at the end of my ride
All ends up meaning the same. 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. Thanks!
Hilarious! Can’t sneak anything past you, can I? “Fiddles” is what I encountered, although now that you mention it “vittles” makes much more sense. Thanks for the correction. Now, on to the riddles, and the heavy lifting, of how to make a coherent post about the first half-dozen chapters of 2nd Sammy....
“Fiddles” is what I encountered, although now that you mention it “vittles” makes much more sense.
Not surprised! That's because it is all orchestrated by the Master Conductor who moonlights as the Master Comedian. Or maybe it's the other way around, because..
No riddles or heavy lifting required, as the Levities were in charge of the music, the levity...
Did you know that the Messiah really IS a kinnor?
Even is located at the place built to house Elias' cabinet of curiosities, at the place of the ox crossing (ford), which "plays" off of the instrument's "sala bue" name from another direction entirely.
Was the saintly R’ Yehuda Halevi merely employing poetic imagery? Or is there a more literal dimension to his language?
(Phinneous: this Messiah "kinnor" is one aspect of the crossing Corpus Christi highways 358 and 286, but it doesn't stop there.)
Here's Ofra Haza singing Jerusalem of Gold, the video with Hebrew and English subtitles.
Time for a mighty rescue, in the eyes of all Israel.
I haven't gone off the derek for the simple reason that where we're going, we don't need roads.
King Cyrus the "Gentile Messiah" got the last word in the Tanakh:
23. Thus said Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has the Lord God of heaven given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah; Whoever is among you of all his people, the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up:
Now over to Ezra to complete the instructions, whose words follow after Daniel:
13. But you go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and shall stand up for your allotted place at the end of the days:
Dan,
I want to thank you for all of the posts. But I see your point about trying to exert editorial control over the images. I wasn’t, but it’s probably best to remove my name from the names on your recipient list. I’ll return to the role of occasional browser. Thanks again.
Dan
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