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George Frideric Handel. Jephtha (HWV 70) is an oratorio (1751) by George Frideric Handel with an English language libretto by the Rev. Thomas Morell, based on the story of Jephtha in Judges (Chapter 11) and Jephthes, sive Votum (Jeptha, or the Vow) (1554) by George Buchanan.
A related phrase is found in Epidemics, Book I, of the Hippocratic school: "Practice two things in your dealings with disease: either help or do not harm the patient". [7] Although no such phrase from which "First" or "Primum" can be translated appears in any well recognized version of the oath, a similar intention is vowed by, "I will abstain ...
The marzēaḥ was related to wine-drinking, and at least sometimes had a presiding leader or master of ceremonies. [1] Some evidence relates the marzēaḥ to mourning and veneration of the dead , and the nature of this relationship is discussed by scholars; [ 2 ] the institution of the marzēaḥ was not necessarily static, and may have ...
Lagerlöf had a personal interest in the disease; her older sister Anna and their young child had it. Before the invention of antibiotics, tuberculosis was widespread and feared, public education was important. Since Lagerlöf could better express herself in a narrative way, rather than a treatise, she proposed to write the novel Körkarlen.
In one recent session, a soldier rose hesitantly and told of a firefight in Iraq. Insurgents had suddenly rushed toward him using women and children as shields. “He had about three-quarters of a second to decide, and of course he killed,” Michael Castellana, a staff psychotherapist and co-facilitator of the group, recounted.
After her death from swallowing poison, Iwene's father married again. He and his second wife had four boys and one girl. [1] When Iwene was a young child, he became permanently blinded in one eye as a result of a mud-fight with other children. [3] His father sent Iwene to Holy Trinity School in Onitsha, which was run by the Holy Ghost Fathers ...
Three decades ago, when he was a parish priest in Argentina, the man named by Pope Francis to be the Catholic Church’s new guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy wrote a short book about kissing and ...
Another says that he died of joy after hearing that his last play had been successful. [ 13 ] [ 21 ] A third account reports that he died of suffocation, after reading aloud a lengthy monologue from the end of his play Antigone , without pausing to take a breath for punctuation.