The world's most famous hymn book has undergone a complete revision and now offers the broadest ever range of traditional hymns and the best from today's composers and hymn/song writers. 150 years since its first publication and after sales of 170 million copies, this brand new edition ...
THE Church of Scotland today has signed an agreement with Hymns Ancient and Modern for the outsourcing of the Church’s book publishing imprint – Saint Andrew Press. Begins a spokesperson: “Under this agreement, Saint Andrew Press will continue to publish a broad range of high-quality...
Ephesus, the most important Greek city in Ionian Asia Minor, the ruins of which lie near the modern village of Selƈuk in western Turkey. In Roman times it was situated on the northern slopes of the hills Coressus and Pion and south of the Cayster (Kü
Characteristic of ancient Greek philosophy and distinguishing it from medieval and modern European philosophy, was its cosmologic approach. The Greek philosophical schools were free associations in which like-minded persons, or students, gathered around the head of the school. The first of such schools...
Characteristic of ancient Greek philosophy and distinguishing it from medieval and modern European philosophy, was its cosmologic approach. The Greek philosophical schools were free associations in which like-minded persons, or students, gathered around the head of the school. The first of such schools...
That division of the ancient city now known as Warka in modern-day Iraq, once considered the most important in ancient Mesopotamia, represented a marker between two districts: the Anu and the Eanna. The Anu District was the older section of the two, and dedicated to the sky-god An (Anu...
and harmonies and bass lines were added to traditional songs. One example isThe East Is Red,a folksong from northern Shaanxi which was adapted into a nationalist hymn. Of particular note is the composer, Xian Xinghai, who was active during this period, and composed theYellow River Cantatawhich...
There is also a fundamental methodological problem in trying to map essentially modern cate-gories and concepts onto the ancient evidence in the way suggested by Zinn 2007. Archives in Ancient Egypt, 2500–1000 BCE | 73As the papers at the conference from which this book stems made clear, ...
Both became settings in the book and the story is the richer for it. When I make my way around Athens today, I don’t follow the names of streets, but rather use the city’s ancient sites as my markers to guide me to where I want to go. Now, in addition to the stadium, I ...
Well, the earliest reference to this canon of spiritual beings comes from theHymn of Fiacc, recorded in medieval manuscripts whose form of Old Irish is said to date them to between the 7th and 8thC CE.Fiaccwas supposed to have been one of Patrick’s original 5thC CE apostles and the ...