Week 15 Bible:The Old Testament (western literature)

1.Charles Dicken(7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. such as Oliver Twist and  A Tale of Two Cities


2.David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850. Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of his novels.In the preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens wrote, "like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield."



3. In Jesus's Childhood, When the family caravan was a day’s journey from Jerusalem on their way toward home, they discovered that Jesus was missing,but when they found him in the temple area. He was not playing with other boys, lost or even scared to be on his own. He was instead involved in serious discussions with some of the learned teachers of the law in Jerusalem, “both listening to them and asking them questions”


4. In the bible about Jesus's birth-the angel appeared to Joseph in a dream and explained to him that all this was bringing about the fulfillment of prophecy that a virgin would bear a child who was to be the Savior , and he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.”


5. Original sin- is the Christian doctrine of humanity's state of sin resulting from the fall of man,when Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit( sin of consuming from the tree of knowledge of good and evil) in Garden of Eden,which they had been commanded not to do by God.


6.Michelangelo-was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.Considered as the greatest living artist in his lifetime, he has since been held as one of the greatest artists of all time.Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.


7.A gospel is an account describing the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. The most widely known examples are the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John which are included in the New Testament.

Christianity places a high value on the four canonical gospels, which it considers to be a revelation from God and central to its belief system.Christianity traditionally teaches that the four canonical gospels are an accurate and authoritative representation of the life of Jesus,but more liberal churches and many scholars believe that not everything contained in the gospels is historically reliable.


8.The Hebrew Bible-is the term used by biblical scholars to refer to the Tanakh, the canonical collection of Jewish texts, which is the common textual source of the several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament. These texts are composed mainly in Biblical Hebrew, with some passages in Biblical Aramaic.


9.Abraham and Isaac
Three visitors come to Abraham and said that he would have a son. Sarah believed she was too old to have a child and laughed. Yet she did conceive (Genesis 21:1-7) and had a baby named Isaac, whose name means laughter.


10.Noah-God revealed Himself to Noah and told him of the impending Flood.
So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth" (Genesis 6:13).


11.Jacob-Jacob had personal visits from God on a number of occasions.There beside him stood the LORD and said: "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying" (Genesis 28:13).


12.The sacrifice of Issac- To test the faith of Abraham, God want Abraham to sacrifice his own son- Isaac in the region of  Moriah, so he lie to his wife Sarah and binding his son and burn him on fire by wood,but it's avoided by the angel, he tells Abraham not to kill his son ,because he really have the faith for God, so God  give him a white lamb.


13.Yahweh- is the national god of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah.His origins are mysterious, although they reach back to the early Iron Age and even the Late Bronze: his name may have begun as an epithet of El, head of the Bronze Age Canaanite pantheon,but the earliest plausible mentions are in Egyptian texts that place him among the nomads of the southern Transjordan.


Vocabulary

1. gen-prefix means "race" or "kind of"

Example-genesis(Development into being)
                generic(Belonging to race or kind)
                genital(The reproductive organs)

2.scrooge/skrudʒ/noun-A mean-spirited miserly person.
Example- I hate those people who are the scrooge, they are rich enough, but still don't help the poor's situation.

3.secular/ˈsɛkjəlɚ/adjective-Worldly rather than spiritual.
Example-The choir sings both sacred and secular music.

4.vulgar/ˈvʌlgɚ/adjective-Deficient in taste, delicacy, or refinement.
Example-They are many people, who spitting in public is considered vulgar,but they don't even care about it.

5.fresco/ˈfrɛsko/noun-The art of painting on fresh, moist plaster with pigments dissolved in water.
Example-The actor have paint a masterpiece in fresco, which sell for ten million dollars.

The movie

1.The Christmas Carol- is the novel of Charles Dickens,which change to the movie, the story is about an old man named Ebenezer Scrooge who change his personality when he meet the ghost- Jacob Marley,who come to save him form the same fate.


2.Meet me in St. Louis- is a 1944 musical film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which tells the story of an American family living in St. Louis at the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair in 1904.



The song
Sam Smith - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on your troubles will be out of sight

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
From now on your troubles will be miles away

Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
To gather near to us once more

Through the years we all will be together
If the fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest place
So have yourself a merry little Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnEqv8WcVq8