The Plants of the Bible /

Mode of access: Internet.

The morality of the Bible : extracted from all the canonical books, both of the Old and of the New Testament ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The Birds of the Bible.

Mode of access: Internet.

Scriptural healing : arranged from the Bible /

Mode of access: Internet.

Reading the Bible,

"This book is composed of three lectures, on the L. P. Stone foundation, delivered at Princeton theological seminary, on the third, fourth, and fifth of February, 1919."

Little folks of the Bible,

I. Boys in patriarchal homes.--II. Boys in the days of the prophets.--III. Girls of the Bible.--IV. Boys of the New Testament.

Sexology of the Bible; the fall and redemption of man, a matter of sex.

Mode of access: Internet.

Uuden testamentin estetiikka

Kirjoitus perustuu klassillis-filologisen yhdistyksen kokouksessa 5.10.2004 pidettyyn esitelmään

« The Aesthetics of Song in Calvinist Piety in the Early Reformation (1536-1545) »

Contrary to common belief, aesthetics had an important function in ritual forms implemented by Reformed Calvinist Churches. The impact of aesthetics on Reformed piety rested less on images, considered to be a source of distraction, than on music. By reconsidering the evolution of Calvin's thoughts on the relationship between music and religious services between 1536 and 1543, this study reveals how Calvin came to consider that, by singing psalms, Christians in their devotion could conciliate both a cognitive process guided by the meaning of the words and an affective response triggered by the tune. For Calvin, the spiritual elevation to which religious services should lead was to emerge from the conjunction of these two impetuses.

EVOLUTIONARY AESTHETICS AND SEXUAL SELECTION IN THE EVOLUTION OF ROCK ART AESTHETICS

This theoretical proposal applies evolutionary aesthetic, animal signalling and sexual selection to understand our artistic cognition, especially rock art aesthetics. Iconographic motifs, universally found in rock art, indicate which set of pre-artistic aesthetic psychological bias has been co-opted to catch the viewer`s attention. The co-evolutionary process of sexual selection could have shaped the design features of both rock art images and their aesthetic cognition by conferring mutual benefits on both producers, via manipulation, and receivers, via information extraction. We show some strategic techniques identified in rock art and art that indicate the occurrence of this co-evolution between producers and receivers.

The Bible in Medieval Love Lyrics: A Fundamental Element of European Poetry Books

The focus of this study is the relationship among three different manuscripts (Modena, Bibl. Estense, MS α.R.4.4; Firenze, Bibl. Laurenziana MS Rediano 9; and London, BL, MS Harley, 2253) and the poetry they transmit. The aim of this research is to show the ways that the Bible was used in the transmission of the lyric poetry in the three literatures that they represent: Occitan (primarily through Marcabru’s songs), Italian (through the love poetry of Guittone d’Arezzo), and Middle English (through the Harley love lyrics and the MS.’s primary scribe), in a medieval European context.