Vulgate

women and gender was handled during this time period and how present society can still improve. To call Chaucer a feminist can be difficult to explain since he does not express the idea of equality of men and women, and on the opposite side of the same coin, when a scholar tries to judge Chaucer base on feminist ideas, even if this ideas are correct, they are practically trying to take Chaucer out of his time period and judge him base on our standards. The proper way to study Chaucer is to…

Tashianna Introduction 1. My name is Tashianna Bynum; I have always taken pleasure in the latest trends of fashion and variety of styles clothes offer throughout the course of years. Fashion and clothing have enhanced dreams of mines since my childhood. At the age of two years old, I was selected to become a Fabulous Faces model candidate to walk several runways displaying the latest trendy outfits for infants. This opportunity would transmit over into my later years of life. I would continue…

Before deciding to attend CTS my first initial desire was to learn the bible, become a minister and eventually teach the bible. My knowledge of the bible is very limited. I feel as though if I began with the bible first my life will be guided in the right direction as the Lord intended and everything else will all fall in place and be added onto my life. (Matthew 6:33). My family life was not based from a strong religious back ground and is now becoming more religiously and spiritually…

In eight numbered sentences, write a “history of the book” from the late medieval manuscript to about 1800. (You are starting before Gutenberg’s contribution and going up to but not into the industrialization of printing and graphic design.) Use eight numbered sentences, including a comparison of two images of your choice from the slide presentations. 1. Before the ability to print, all documents and books were called manuscripts because they were handwritten. 2. Scriptorium, a room used during…

Introduction In the beginning he mentions that the subject of this book has been in his mind for a long time. This book is meant to explain the ancient manuscripts of the New Testament and the differences as well as the changes it went through. He then discusses his childhood and his experiences with religion. Ehrman discusses how the Bible was not focused on as much as the church was in his childhood. It was seen as an important religious book. As a “born again Christian,” he felt that those…

and his heirs used illustrated books to better develop Christianity’s exposure among their people which helped promote the church’s dogma. Charlemagne enlisted scribes to create the books. They performed other tasks such as translating the Latin Vulgate Bible, and developed a new more legible script Carolingian minuscule. They also created the Ebbo Gospels which…

Saint Jerome: Patron Saint of Translators The Penitence of Saint Jerome by Joachim Patinir, displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York best captures the essence of Saint Jerome. One can see an aged rendition of St. Jerome: knee-bent in front of a crucifix, an ominous look of penitence proving his overwhelming commitment to his faith. El Greco rendered at least five more paintings of the iconic saint showing him in his most recognizable forms: in front of the Bible and sequestered…

The Renaissance brought many inventions to life, but one of the greatest creation is the print and press created by Johannes Gutenberg. Johannes was born in Mainz, Germany in 1395. Before his creation of the the print and press, he printed cards, pictures, designs, and patterns on clothes. Gutenberg never married nor did he have kids, his life was surrounded around his business. His printing experience started in 1438, created the press in 1440, and printed the 42-Line Bible in 1454-1455.…

diminishing and the most common language spoken across Europe was Latin. Vulgate was the name for translating the Bible into Latin. This translation into Latin occurred in 385-405 AD by Jerome, which was the last translation for almost 1000 years. This was considered to be the first full Bible of the Church from the Hebrew and Greek manuscripts. A Benediction Monk and historian of Anglo-Saxon in 730 AD, of England re-wrought the Vulgate into Old English. Another English priest John Wycliffe,…

My prophet project is Habakkuk. Habakkuk “complains” to God about the injustices being committed by the Babylonians. Habakkuk was a prophet in the Old Testament. He is the author of the Book of Habakkuk. Almost nothing is known about Habakkuk, aside from what few facts are stated in the book Habakkuk within the Old Testament, or those inferences that may be drawn from that book.His name appears in the Bible only in Habakkuk 1:1 and 3:1, with no biographical details provided other than his…