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"Éamonn an Chnoic" ("Ned of the Hill") is a popular Sean nos song in traditional Irish music.It is a slow, mournful ballad with a somber theme and no chorus.. The song is attributed to Éamonn Ó Riain (Edmund O'Ryan [1]) (d. c. 1724), an early 18th-century County Tipperary folk hero, composer of Irish bardic poetry, and rapparee; an outlawed Jacobite from the Gaelic nobility of Ireland who ...
Enoch (above right) in the ethiopic Enoch manuscript Gunda Gunde 151, depicted as scribe (Geʽez: ጸሓፊ ṣaḥāfi). On the left Elijah (above) and Elisha (bottom) are depicted, the other scribe (right bottom) is Ezra. The Book of Enoch was excluded from both the Hebrew Tanakh and the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint.
("A hymn is the praise of God with song; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.") [13] The earliest Christian hymns are mentioned round about the year 64 by Saint Paul in his letters. The Greek hymn, Hail Gladdening Light was mentioned by Saint Basil around 370.
This song's five verses refer to different biblical stories. The first verse refers to Enoch from Genesis 5:21-24. Verse 2 is based on Acts 16:25-26. The third verse refers to Moses and the burning bush from Exodus 3:2. The fourth verse (and the title) is based on the story from Ezekiel 37:1-10.
Judging by the number of copies found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Enoch was widely read during the Second Temple period.Today, the Ethiopic Beta Israel community of Haymanot Jews is the only Jewish group that accepts the Book of Enoch as canonical and still preserves it in its liturgical language of Geʽez, where it plays a central role in worship. [6]
"Faith of our Fathers" is a Catholic hymn, written in 1849 [1] by Frederick William Faber in memory of the Catholic Martyrs from the time of the establishment of the Church of England by Henry VIII and Elizabeth. [2] Faber wrote two versions of the hymn: one with seven stanzas for Ireland, and another with four for England. [3]
Enoch Cain, antagonist of novel From the Corner of His Eye; Enoch (Marvel Cinematic Universe) from the TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Enoch Drebber, antagonist in the novel A Study in Scarlet; Enoch Emery, character in Flannery O'Connor's novel Wise Blood; Enoch Leng, character in the novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
In 3rd century Roman Egypt, the Coptic Rite Desert Fathers in Scetes carried pebbles in pouches to count their praying of the Psalms. [3] The Pater Noster Cord, however, originated in the 8th century Celtic Church in Gaelic Ireland as a means to count the recitation of the one hundred and fifty Psalms in the Christian Bible, which are incorporated into the fixed prayer times of Christianity. [5]