Hymns and Their Associations
Author: Frances Gaisford
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 116
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Author: Frances Gaisford
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leland Ryken
Publisher: P & R Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781629956176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding literary analysis and historical background, Leland Ryken invites us to experience great hymns as powerful works of devotional poetrysavoring elements that we easily miss when singing them.
Author: William G. HABERSHON (and GLADSTONE (Thomas H.))
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Published: 1863
Total Pages: 456
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 444
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 396
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Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2013-07-31
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1421408813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe best-selling English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns. At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful life. Elements of the worship of Dionysus, such as shape-shifting and ritualistic ecstasy, were fused with Orphic beliefs to produce a powerful and illuminating new religion that found expression in the mystery cults. Practitioners of this new religion composed a great body of poetry, much of which is translated in The Orphic Hymns. The hymns presented in this book were anonymously composed somewhere in Asia Minor, most likely in the middle of the third century AD. At this turbulent time, the Hellenic past was fighting for its survival, while the new Christian faith was spreading everywhere. The Orphic Hymns thus reflect a pious spirituality in the form of traditional literary conventions. The hymns themselves are devoted to specific divinities as well as to cosmic elements. Prefaced with offerings, strings of epithets invoke the various attributes of the divinity and prayers ask for peace and health to the initiate. Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow have produced an accurate and elegant translation accompanied by rich commentary.
Author: Leland Ryken
Publisher: P & R Publishing
Published: 2020
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"We sometimes overlook the artistry of Christmas carols and other seasonal hymns. Leland Ryken's historical background and literary analysis shows these songs to be powerful works of devotional poetry"--
Author: Evangelical Association of North America
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Published: 1846
Total Pages: 496
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 518
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 652
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