It has since lost its sheen, now partially covered
with poetic verses and graffiti scribbled in various modern and ancient languages, some dating from as early as the 8th century.
Not exact matches
The
verses, (
with the snake junk), which appear only in the Gospel of Mark, (16: 9 - 20) were a later addition, -LRB-(most scholars agree the original gospel ended
with the (far more
poetic), empty tomb)-RRB-.
Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby (Gen 18:2 NIV)»... Furthermore, there is a good reason to study the old Orient, the rituals and cultures of the Middel East, especially at that time,,, i myself being Half Egyptian and having been raised there, am blessed
with this foreknowledge for certain things that are still the same way now as they were at th etime of Jesus and earlier,,, where Men kiss to greet one another for example,,, so when King David talks about the love of Jonathan being greater than that of a woman,,, and at the same time knowing that the Hebrew litreature (as the Arabian culture to quite an extent still is) was very
poetic and used éndless symbols and parabels to express an idea,,, one might do himself a favor not jumping to conclusions which satisfy only his very own ideas and thoughts,,, the biggest problem
with Bible interpretations lately is
Verses ripped out of the context and interpreted in such a way that has nothing to do
with its original context... «To the law and to the testimony!
This causes use to lose sight of the historic divisions of the text (that have nothing to do
with chapters and
verse), i.e., historical,
poetic / wisdom, prophetic.
In the Classroom: Talk
with students about how a novel in
verse is different from a prose novel (e.g., the use of white space, line breaks,
poetic forms) and why an author might choose this
verse format.
Working
with videographer Patrick Kelley, her characters — all roles usually played by the artist — move through her black - and - white scenery and speak in
poetic verse written by the artist.
A recurring principle of formal repetition speaks to her works» time based genesis,
with the result that the perusal of their surfaces seems an act of reconstitution, or recovery of their
poetic content from a state of preservation or repose not unlike how the reading of
verses from the Qu «ran recalls their origins in a long tradition of oral recitation.
Bits of text — be it a specific location or riddled
poetic verse — provide some context, yet when we meet the artist at her downtown Manhattan studio and ask for any sort of explanation, she earnestly responds
with a laugh: «I have as much of a guess about these drawings as you.»
Played by the artists acting multiple roles, their characters speak in
poetic verse filled
with wordplay and puns to tell stories that imagine unrecorded histories.