Mosaic

the mosque to a museum, hundreds of Christian mosaic art pieces were revealed from underneath plaster. Religious mosaics can be seen from wall to wall throughout its decorated interior. The Sunu, Deesis, and Theotokos mosaics imbedded on the walls of the Hagia Sophia not only beautifies the interior, but are an essential part of the religious beliefs taught and practiced in the Church. In the year 1849, one of the most important and prominent mosaics was discovered during the repairs and…

The history of mosaic goes back some 4,000 years, with the use of terracotta cones pushed point-first into a background to show decoration. By the eighth century BC, there were pebble pavements, using different coloured stones to create patterns, although these tended to be unstructured decoration. It was the Greeks, in the four centuries BC, who raised the pebble technique to an art form, with precise geometric patterns and detailed scenes of people and animals.By 200 BC, specially manufactured…

The Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun I think that the Alexander Mosaic is a painting capturing the war that was going on during this time period. It seems as if the right side is doing better than the left. Also, the left side seems terrified since a lot of soldiers have been lost in the battle, which is shown by the lack of people on the left side of the painting. It also seems as if one of the men on the right side doesn’t want to be fighting in this battle and is reaching out to the…

Roman mosaics were fairly common throughout the Roman Empire they could be found in public places and in the villas of the wealthy Romans. Roman mosaics are made of geometrical blocks called tesseare they are mostly blue, black, red, white, and yellow, assemble together to form a picture. They could be found at the entrances to homes, on the floors, or fountains as well in public places. People had them to show a sign of wealth and status, they were pleasing to the eye, and some depicted a scene…

In the Mosaic Law, judges and religious leaders taught people the moral codes that were divided into three parts: the commandments, the ordinances, and the judgments. The commandments established the religious institution, which included the moral laws, similar to the Magna Carta or the Bill of Rights (Osler 2007; Ex. 20:1-17). The ordinances were the ceremonial laws such as the festivals, and the daily Levitical priesthood activities were a “shadow of things to come, but the substance is of…

Judaism is a monotheistic religion, where Jewish adherents places great significance on the belief of the covenant, which is an agreement made between God and His people, found within the prescribed text the Torah. Both the Abrahamic and the Mosaic Covenant are unconditional that has been spread on from generation by Jewish adherents. There were two covenants established between God and Abraham which was the promise of land and the promise of the descendants. “Leave your country… go to the land…

Marriage (Then-Mosaic Days) In biblical days, betrothal took place before the actual marriage, and it was considered as binding as the marriage itself. The promise may have been broken, but a betrothal was considered final. Among the Hebrews it was a verbal covenant. Marriages in those days were not built on “romance and love”, rather more practical in those days. Most of the were arranged by the mother and father, and sometime as early as before they were actually born. The arrangement…

The video I watched is called “Deaf Mosaic #402” which is a television program and the number represents the episode for the show. Deaf Mosaic is produced and distributed by the members of Gallaudet University, however it stopped running in, I think, around 1995. The TV show used to give the viewers an insight into Deaf culture and history. Anyways, the episode #402 is very important because of how it changed the deaf community in such a big way; it was the protest called “Deaf President Now.”…

What role of the OT Law should be in the life of the Church? There are six hundred and thirteen laws Mosaic Laws and many Christians today find themselves wondering which of the Mosaic Laws are to be followed and which ones are to be considered obsolete. According to Matthew 5:17, more importantly according to Jesus, the Laws have been fulfilled; "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." 1 I found it stated in the…

This is because Africans had been taken unwillingly and sold into slavery. Therefore, in Keith’s mind the purchase of Africans to serve as slaves was a crime against God made clear in Mosaic Law. Keith’s arguments had a profound effect on the evolution of Quaker views concerning slavery. For example, in 1693 the yearly meeting of Quakers in Philadelphia discouraged the importation of Africans into the colony. Furthermore, they advised…