The very fabric of Psalm vii 15 is made up of the tension between the constructive image of birth and the destructive aspects of the wicked. The verse does not correspond to the expectations of the reader: e.g. the sequence of stages in the birth process is unusual: labour—pregnancy—...
The events of Holy Week, the last week of Jesus' life, are central to the Christian message. The makers of the Irish High Crosses included some of these Holy Week events on some of the scripture crosses, while completely ignoring others. Featured here are images from eight events that took...
In the same Chludov Psalter, on another folio illustrating Psalm 51:9, an analogy is drawn between the clash of Saint Peter vs. Simon Magus and the conflict between a patriarch and his enemy, an iconoclast (Corrigan 1992, pp. 27–28). The patriarch is represented in the image with gestu...
sensors Article An Effective Palmprint Recognition Approach for Visible and Multispectral Sensor Images Abdu Gumaei 1,* ID , Rachid Sammouda 1, Abdul Malik Al-Salman 1 and Ahmed Alsanad 2 1 Department of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh...