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If you want to read a really good rendition of the Old Testament Book of Jonah, you can read Tolkien’s translation of it in the original 1966 Jerusalem Bible. Alexander Jones, the director of the project to translate La Bible de Jérusalem from French to English, approached Tolkien in 1957, and Tolkien agreed.
4 days ago · Here are four surprising facts about this carol favourite: 1. The author was not a Christian. According to the book Stories of Best Loved Christmas Songs the original text of O Holy Night was written in 1847 by a French poet named Placide Cappeau. After being approached by the local priest Cappeau was commissioned to write a poem in celebration ...
Nov 18, 2020 · The Ninth is the most German of Beethoven’s symphonies. The text of the finale, carefully assembled from lines in Schiller’s famous ode, indicates as much. The symphony’s dedicatee was German; and, had Beethoven had his way, its premiere would have been in Berlin, not in Rossini-obsessed Vienna. And herein lies a problem.
5 days ago · The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square present the "Hallelujah Chorus" from "Messiah" composed by George Frideric Handel.Episode 4435. Aired Sep...
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2 days ago · DJ Afro not only foregrounds the (female) event organiser; his description of the event organiser is poetic and its rendition highly performative, introducing an out-of-context term kipii, a word which in the Kikuyu language makes reference to an uncircumcised boy, the same as kihii, and that does not fit here but is part of the formulas that ...
1 day ago · — Chant of Mahatma Gandhi containing thirteen syllables. It is known as Śrī Rāma Tāraka mantra (lit. ' The Rama mantra for Salvation '). Rama is portrayed in Hindu arts and texts as a compassionate person who cares for all living beings. Rama had three brothers, according to the Balakanda section of the Ramayana. These were Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna. The extant manuscripts of the ...
