Saint Lazarus’ Cypriot Folk Songs: Intertextuality with the Holy Bible and Other Cultural Aspects

Cypriot Intangible Cultural Heritage: Digitizing Folk Dances

Cyprus has a long and rich history of dance tradition which unfortunately, year after year, tends to be forgotten; thus, it is our duty to help documenting and disseminating our dance heritage to the younger generations. In this work, we aim to preserve the Cypriot folk dance heritage, creating a state-of-the-art publicly accessible digital archive of folk dances. Our dance library, apart from ...

Sexual Activity during Menstruation in The Holy Bible and Quran

Typesetting the Holy Bible in Hebrew, with TEX

This paper presents Tiqwah, a typesetting system for Biblical Hebrew, that uses the combined e orts of TEX, METAFONT and gnu Flex. The author describes its use and its features, discusses issues relevant to the design of fonts and placement of oating diacritics, and gives a list of rare cases and typographical curiosa which can be found in the Bible. The paper concludes with an example of Hebre...

Evidence from Rebétika and Folk Songs

In Arvaniti and Joseph (2000) we studied the variability in the pronunciation of the Greek phones spelled mp, nt, gg/gk, which in speech are said to consist of a nasal consonant, e.g., m, and a “voiced” stop consonant, e.g., b. Our data showed that the presence of the nasal depended largely on age, with younger speakers producing many more nasalless instances of these phones than older speakers...

Concepts of biological rhythmicity and chronobiology in the Holy Bible.

The way in which religious texts and sources depict the processes involved in the regulation of life is an interesting and rich topic. For example, the Holy Bible, the religious basis of Western civilization, is a document that includes references to medical, as well as historic cultural practices. Sun has already demonstrated that the Bible contains rich medical materials on different subjects...