This article will explore the rhetorical and theological significance of metaphor divine adoption in Hebrew Bible. In Ps 22:10–11 71:6–9 God is not only said to pull psalmist out his/her mother’s womb, but a context which many mothers all too often died childbirth, newborn cast upon who steps as adoptive mother. idea further found Psalm 68:5 when described “Father orphans… [who] gives desolate ...

It was in this city, then, that two crucial factors in my life took shape, as ordained by God or Chance: here is where my father, Eduard Kiš (orig. Kohn – JKC), senior inspector of the state railways and author of the Yugoslav Timetable for Railroad, Bus, Ship and Air Traffic, met my mother, Milica Dragihevih, a Montenegrin beauty, away from her native Cetinje for the first time, on a visit to ...

The paper comparatively analyzes the modification of laudatory prayer “Rejoice, Mary!” in poems by V. Vovk and P. Tychyna. comparison helps to reveal peculiarities authors’ styles modifications makes it possible see deep unity emigrational continental literature. Vira has its sources akathist Mother God. In poem “Rejoice!”, poetess retains general structure akathist, modifying some details: she...

The second half of the last century is characterized by an increased interest in literature Ancient and Medieval Russia. Since 40s, a large number fundamental studies dedicated to various works before time Peter Great have appeared. This attention was accompanied more thorough study Church Slavonic language itself: its spelling, morphology and, course, vocabulary, as evidenced work begun 70s on...

As an extension of a concept known as tawheed,* nothing lies outside of The Jurisdiction of Divine Intervention; nor is God the deist’s watchmaker, winding up reality and watching various Newtonian-like mechanized processes play themselves out. Once this latter deist notion is embraced, and given a particular subtle type of human propensity for self-exaltation (a type which is by definition not...

The picture representing St. Catarine surrounded by virgins and martyrs (front page) was painted by friar Serafin Schön, in 1631, for the altar of St. Catherine in the Sanctuary of the Mother of God at Trsat near Rijeka. The church and the Franciscan monastery were built in the 15th century. The church is the oldest and best-known Croatian shrine of the Virgin Mary (1,2). In the center of this ...

[Wiherever you go I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Ruth 1:162 [H]uman beings ... look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then, we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother...