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New Book Features Work Of Poet, Theologian, Daniel C. Peterson
New Book Features Work Of Poet, Theologian, Daniel C. Peterson
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The Maxwell Institute’s Middle Eastern Texts Initiative has released the newest book in its Eastern Christian Texts series, a bilingual Syriac/English edition of Select Poems of Ephrem the Syrian. From the second to the eighth century ad, when Arabic supplanted it, Syriac was a major literary language across the Middle East; it is essentially a Christian form of Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus, the original apostles, and the first Jewish Christians.
The World, Rebecca Dawn Billings
The World, Rebecca Dawn Billings
Theses and Dissertations
A poem comes into the world when an obsession takes hold of a person who must write about it. These twenty-eight original poems are products of obsession and pleasure.
"Life Will Be A Brief, Hollow Walk": The Future Of Humanity Through Maternal Eyes In Tracy K. Smith's Life On Mars, Mallory Lynn Bingham
"Life Will Be A Brief, Hollow Walk": The Future Of Humanity Through Maternal Eyes In Tracy K. Smith's Life On Mars, Mallory Lynn Bingham
Theses and Dissertations
Tracy K. Smith's Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poetry, Life on Mars, has been celebrated and analyzed as an elegy to Smith's father by many reviewers and scholars. And while this reading is valid and has been openly endorsed by Smith herself, our understanding of this collection and Smith's father is incomplete without Smith's treatment of motherhood and religion, two previously unexplored fields in relation to Life on Mars that complete our picture of Smith's father. Smith uses her own new role as a mother and her religious questions about the afterlife and her father's fate to address her father's …
Six Afterlives, Scott Hales
Six Afterlives, Scott Hales
BYU Studies Quarterly
These poems belong to a series called “Famous White Men in Mormon Afterlives.” They are thought experiments about eternal life and progression. I wrote them (and several others) in May 2018 after reading Mary V. Dearborn’s Ernest Hemingway: A Biography (New York: Knopf, 2017). Reading about Hemingway’s life reminded me of a presentation I attended several years ago on the many times proxy ordinances had been performed for Hemingway and his four wives in Latter-day Saint temples. Latter-day Saints perform these ordinances because we believe that life continues after death, and that the experience of life after death is virtually …
"Das Schicksal Machte Mich Zu Einem Kock" Memoirs Of A Swiss Cook In America, L. B.
"Das Schicksal Machte Mich Zu Einem Kock" Memoirs Of A Swiss Cook In America, L. B.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This is the beginning of a long poem by Brother _oscar Arnold> S.M. (Marfanist) published in his book ".Erom Dawn to Sunset. A Poet's Autobiographysr, Marianist Publications, Mount St. John, Dayton, Ohio , 1964 (paperback, 172 pages).
Das Buch Ruth, Anna Ovena Hoyers
Das Buch Ruth, Anna Ovena Hoyers
Poetry
This title is part of a compilation, Geistliche und Weltliche Poemata, found at https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sophpm_poetry/9/.
Christi Gülden Cron, Anna Ovena Hoyers
Christi Gülden Cron, Anna Ovena Hoyers
Poetry
This title is part of a compilation, Geistliche und Weltliche Poemata, found at https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sophpm_poetry/9/.
Einfältige Warheit, Anna Ovena Hoyers
Einfältige Warheit, Anna Ovena Hoyers
Poetry
This title is part of a compilation, Geistliche und Weltliche Poemata, found at https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sophpm_poetry/9/.
Gespräch Eines Kindes Mit Seiner Mutter, Anna Ovena Hoyers
Gespräch Eines Kindes Mit Seiner Mutter, Anna Ovena Hoyers
Poetry
This title is part of a compilation, Geistliche und Weltliche Poemata, found at https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sophpm_poetry/9/.
Zwey Geistliche Lieder, Anna Ovena Hoyers
Zwey Geistliche Lieder, Anna Ovena Hoyers
Poetry
This title is part of a compilation, Geistliche und Weltliche Poemata, found at https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sophpm_poetry/9/.