Bible
The
Bible is a collection of texts sacred in Judaism and Christianity. It is a
collection of scriptures written at different times by different authors in
different locations. Jews and Christians consider the books of the Bible to be
a product of divine inspiration or an authoritative record of the relationship
between God and humans.
The Old
Testament
The
Old Testament consists of many distinct books written, compiled, and edited by
various authors over a period of centuries. It is not entirely clear at what
point the parameters of the Hebrew Bible, the basis for the Christian Old
Testament, were fixed.
The
books of the Old Testament can be broadly divided into several sections:
- The first five books or Pentateuch (Torah)
- The history books telling the history of the Israelites, from their conquest of Canaan to their defeat and exile in Babylon
- The poetic and "Wisdom" books dealing, in various forms, with questions of good and evil in the world
- And the books of the biblical prophets, warning of the consequences of turning away from God.
The New
Testament
The
New Testament is the second major part of the Christian biblical canon, the
first part being the Old Testament, based on the Hebrew Bible.
The
New Testament is a collection of 27 books of 4 different genres of Christian
literature (Gospels, one account of the Acts of the Apostles, Epistles and an
Apocalypse). Jesus is its central figure. The
mainstream consensus is that the New Testament was written in a form of Koine
Greek.
- Gospel of Luke
It
tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection and ascension of
Jesus Christ.
- Gospel of Matthew
It
is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and
the first book of the New Testament. The narrative tells how the Messiah,
Jesus, rejected by Israel, finally sends the disciples to preach his Gospel to
the whole world.
Genesis
1:4
Genesis
1:4 is the fourth verse of the first chapter in the Genesis. It is the response
to God's command in verse 3, "Let there be light." It is part of the
Genesis creation narrative within the Torah portion Bereshit. (Genesis 1:1–6:8)
The verse states that the light was good, and that God divided or separated the
light from the darkness.
Abraham
and Isaac
Abraham
was commanded by God to offer his son up as a sacrifice in the land of Moriah.
The patriarch traveled three days until he came to the mount that God told him
of. He commanded the servants to remain while he and Isaac proceeded alone into
the mount. Isaac carried the wood upon which he would be sacrificed. Along the
way, Isaac asked his father where the animal for the burnt offering was, to
which Abraham replied "God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt
offering". Just as Abraham was about to sacrifice his son, he was
interrupted by "the angel of the LORD", and he saw behind him a
"ram caught in a thicket by his horns", which he sacrificed instead
of his son. For his obedience he received another promise of numerous
descendants and abundant prosperity.
Jane
Eyre
“I
sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are
near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs,
tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the
corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and
two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of
communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to
bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.”
―
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
No
Strings Attached
Charles
Dickens
Charles
John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of
the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest
novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity
during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had
recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting
popularity.
- A Christmas Carol
A
Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge
and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the
ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas
Past, Present and Yet to Come.
Scrooge
The
name "Scrooge" is used in English as a word for a person who is
misanthropic and tight-fisted despite the fact Ebenezer Scrooge reformed later.
- David Copperfield
Many elements of the
novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most
autobiographical of his novels. He wrote "Like many fond parents, I have
in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David
Copperfield."
Vocabulary and word
Gay:
About 50 years ago means “Extremely happy”.
Fresco:
a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so
that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries.
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