Before and After
Jesus, Muhammed, Abraham
What is Abraham, Jesus, Muhammed?
This Italian word, an interpretive key for the Divine Comedy, basically means that the punishments of sinners in Hell or the corrections of the penitent in Purgatory fit the crime
What is contrapasso?
Monks in the Middle Ages used these spaces to reproduce, among other things, classical texts
What is a scriptorium?
During the days of Lent, they should be free in the morning to read until the third hour, after which they will work at their assigned tasks until the end of the tenth hour. During this time of Lent each one is to receive a book from the library, and is to read the whole of it straight through. These books are to be distributed at the beginning of Lent.
Who is St. Benedict?
The genre which deals with recounting the lives and miracles of the saints
What is hagiography?
The Fall of Rome, the Martyrdom of St. Peter, the Great Fire of Rome
What is the Great Fire of Rome, the Martyrdom of St. Peter, and the Fall of Rome?
This Arabic word for "report" refers to a saying or biographical story from the life of the prophet Muhammed
What is a hadith?
This name of this branch of Abrahamic monotheism literally means "submission to God's will"
What is Islam?
The full name of the writer of this passage: Now Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” They said in reply, “John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter said to him in reply, “You are the Messiah.” Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him.
Who is John Mark?
Scriptural texts like Exodus and Mark and texts inspired by Scripture like the Divine Comedy take this kind of mirrored structure, with the most important part in the very center
What is a chiastic structure?
"Hadith of the Night Journey," Dante's Inferno, St. Benedict's Regola
This Greek word for "good news," which translates into English as "gospel," was before Christianity used by Romans in official declarations of military victory
What is evangelion?
The prophet Jacob gets this name, which means literally "to wrestle with God," after fighting an angel
What is Israel?
The technical term for the action of YHWH described in this passage: In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth -- and the earth was without form or shape, with darkness over the abyss and a mighty wind sweeping over the waters -- then God said: Let there be light, and there was light.
What is creation ex nihilo?
This type of visual art aims to depict God as totally transcendent from material reality and chooses to pass over any sort of description of his qualities in silence
What is apophatic art?
The exodus of the Israelites, the funeral oration of Pericles, the death of Christ, the foundation of the empire of Gana
What is the exodus, the foundation of Gana, the funeral oration, and the death of Christ?
This Latin phrase succinctly describes the charism of the Benedictine order, with its particular focus on prayer and work
What is ora et labora?
According to Muslim beliefs about God, Allah does not necessarily have to act rationally, self-consistently, or even follow basic axioms of human understanding like the principle of non-contradiction because to do so would limit this quality of his being
What is his omnipotence?
Fill in the blank: I will establish my ______ with you, that never again shall all creatures be destroyed by the waters of a flood; there shall not be another flood to devastate the earth.
What is covenant?
If YHWH is the protagonist of the Exodus, then this is the role that Moses plays, according to the Hero's Journey
What is the shapeshifter ally?
Antigone, The Aeneid, Oedipus the King, Gassire's Lute, the Gospel of Mark, the Pentateuch
What is the Pentateuch, Antigone, Oedipus the King, The Aeneid, the Gospel of Mark, and Gassire's Lute?
The Greek word for "anointed one" or "Messiah"
What is Christos?
Drawing on St. Thomas Aquinas, Virgil in the Purgatorio argues that human beings are first drawn out of themselves into action by this transcendental aspect of God
What is beauty?
The pillar of Islam established in this passage: I then returned to Moses and he said to me, 'Your community will not be able to stand that. So return and ask Him to make things lighter.' I kept going between my Lord and Moses until Allah said, 'O Muhammad, there are five prayers every night and day.'
What is salah?
This way of reading Scripture (or Scripture-inspired texts like the Divine Comedy) refers to what the text reveals about the eschaton
What is the anagogical reading?