The Bible In Art
Research Questions: Biblical Idioms
The Bible in Music
The Bible in Culture
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The Bible scene depicted in the art linked below and its significance: http://tinyurl.com/lsyxsgu
What is Abraham sacrificing Isaac and the test of faith?
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Research the context and significance of the following biblical idiom: "The apple of my eye."
What is the idea that one cherishes or loves something above all else? "Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as apple of thine eye” (Proverb 7:2)
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The biblical allusion referenced in the verse below: "Who can forgive forgiveness where forgiveness is not / Only the lamb as white as snow"
What is Christ as the lamb of God? (Source: White as Snow by U2)
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The biblical reference depicted in the following movie clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdOrqGSsYok
What is the parting of the Red Sea?
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The Bible story depicted in the art linked below, and it's significance: http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/228686/article_b86e3a665663947a_1372954342_9j-4aaqsk.jpeg
What is the death of Sampson?
200
Research the context and significance of the following biblical idiom: "Lamb to the slaughter."
What is the unaware and helpless sacrifice or victim? (Isaiah 53:7)
200
The biblical allusion in the verse below: "I'm gonna buy me a poor man's trouble / Yes Lord to help me home / And when I get my trouble and woe / Then homeward I will go"
What is the promised land? (Source: "Rich Man Spiritual" by Gordon Lightfoot)
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The biblical scene described in the verse below and its significance: “Outside the cow-house my mother / Made the music of milking; / The light of her stable-lamp was a star / And the frost of Bethlehem made it twinkle”.
What is the birth of Jesus Christ in the town of Bethlehem? (Source: A Christmas Childhood by Patrick Kavanagh)
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The Bible story depicted in the art linked below and its significance: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/T/T04/T04894_10.jpg
What is Moses parting the Red Sea and the Destruction of the Pharaoh's Army?
300
Research the context and significance of the following biblical idiom: "By the skin of your teeth."
What is finding safety by the thinnest of margins from disaster? (What is Job 19:20)
300
The two bible stories referenced in this verse: "Your faith was strong but you needed proof / You saw her bathing on the roof / Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you / She tied you to a kitchen chair / She broke your throne, and she cut your hair / And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah"
What is David and Bathsheba? What is Sampson and Delilah? (Source: Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen)
300
The biblical reference made in the following quotation from Hamlet: ‘O my offence is rank; it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't – a brother's murder!'
What is the murder of Abel by Cain?
400
The Bible Story depicted in the art linked below and its significance: http://tinyurl.com/k6zfl2a
What is Noah's ark and the salvation of the faithful?
400
Research the context and significance of the following biblical idiom: "I wash my hands of it."
What is the story of Pontius Pilate washing away responsibility for Jesus' execution? What is Matthew 27:24?
400
The idiom and bible story referenced in the following verse: "A poet reads his crooked rhyme / Holy, holy is his sacrament / Thirty dollars pays your rent / On Bleeker Street"
What is 30 pieces of silver, and the wages of Judas Iscariot for betraying Jesus? (Source: Bleeker Street, 3 A.M by Simon and Garfunkel)
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The biblical reference made in the following book cover and its significance: http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Twilight-cover.jpg
What is the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden and the peril of temptation?
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