If we didn’t have religion, we may not have weddings at all. They’ve been directly linked for centuries and many of the traditions we’ve come to love have roots predominantly in Christianity. There are many bible verses about love worthy enough to make it to yourwedding vow. Here are...
Someone might quote scripture out of context or cherry-pick verses that support their agenda while ignoring the broader message of love, compassion, and equality. They might say things like,“The Bible says wives should submit to their husbands,”or“Children should obey their parents without ques...
Parallelism is found throughout both the Old and New Testaments of the Christian Bible. In this pair of verses from Psalm 24, there are two examples of what biblical scholars call synonymous parallelism, meaning that the idea of the first clause is repeated and rephrased with a parallel grammat...
Sting, the band's frontman and songwriter, has written that he intended the lyrics to capture the jealous, overbearing attitude of an obsessed ex-lover, or even the surveillance power of a Big Brother state like the one in George Orwell's 1984. In this context, the anaphora serves to ...
To carry out an investigation of this nature, the paratexts of these man-uscripts will play a central role in this enquiry. In fact, as borderlands of the text, paratexts are possibly the main sources from which one can retrieve information about the temporal and spatial context in which ...