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The Good Samaritan by Jacob Jordaens, c. 1616. The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. [1] It is about a traveler (implicitly understood to be Jewish) who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road.
The Book of Good Love is a varied and extensive composition of 1728 stanzas, centering on the fictitious autobiography of Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita.Today three manuscripts of the work survive: the Toledo (T) and Gayoso (G) manuscripts originating from the fourteenth century, and the Salamanca (S) manuscript copied at the start of the fifteenth century by Alonso de Paradinas.
The Samaritan's dilemma is a dilemma in the act of charity.It hinges on the idea that when presented with charity, in some locations such as a soup kitchen, a person will act in one of two ways: using the charity to improve their situation, or coming to rely on charity as a means of survival.
The Samaritans (/ s ə ˈ m ær ɪ t ən z /; Samaritan Hebrew: ࠔࠠࠌࠝࠓࠩࠉࠌ Šā̊merīm; Hebrew: שומרונים Šōmrōnīm; Arabic: السامريون as-Sāmiriyyūn), often preferring to be called Israelite Samaritans, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Hebrews and Israelites of the ancient Near East. [2]
Landscape with the Good Samaritan is a 1638 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Rembrandt.It is one of only six oil landscapes by the artist, and it is also one of only three Rembrandt paintings in Polish collections; the other two are The Girl in a Picture Frame and The Scholar at the Lectern.
The Good Samaritan (1880) by Aimé Morot. The Good Samaritan (French: Le Bon Samaritain) is an oil in canvas painting by Aimé Morot, from 1880.Although large (268cm x 198cm) it was originally larger, but the artist reduced it in order to focus more directly on the life-sized figures at the centre of the composition. [1]
San Manuel Bueno, mártir (1931) is a short novel by Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936). It experiments with changes of narrator as well as minimalism of action and of description, and as such has been described as a nivola , a literary genre invented by Unamuno to describe his work.
Blind men and the elephant, 1907 American illustration. Blind Men Appraising an Elephant by Ohara Donshu, Edo Period (early 19th century), Brooklyn Museum. The parable of the blind men and an elephant is a story of a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it.