Shakespeare Apocrypha, The

A Dictionary of Shakespeare;    STANLEY WELLS;   7 words ...Shakespeare Apocrypha, The See APOCRYPHAL WORKS .

Locrine

A Dictionary of Shakespeare;    STANLEY WELLS;   38 words ...Locrine An anonymous tragedy, entered in the Stationers' Register in 1594, published in 1595 as ‘newly set forth, overseen and corrected by W.S.’, and attributed to Shakespeare in the seventeenth century ( see APOCRYPHAL WORKS ).

Dulwich MS. XX, The Telltale: clues to provenance.(Articles)(Critical...

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England;  January 1, 2005 ;   Long, William B.;   787 words ......look at one document in the Alleyn papers, the anonymous manuscript play, The Telltale, to which no certain links can be made to...that has provided such interest as has been shown in this manuscript play. In the introduction to their 1960 Malone Society edition...

Puritan, The, or The Puritan Widow

A Dictionary of Shakespeare;    STANLEY WELLS;   58 words ......thought to be by Thomas Middleton . It includes a probable allusion to Macbeth : ‘Instead of a jester, we'll ha' the ghost i’ the white sheet sit at upper end o' the table’ ( IV . iii. 89–91). See APOCRYPHAL WORKS .

Thomas

The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible;    BRUCE M. METZGER and MICHAEL D. COOGAN;   101 words ......his insistence on physical proofs for Jesus's resurrection has led to the phrase “doubting Thomas.” Several apocryphal works are ascribed to or are about Thomas, including the gnostic gospel of Thomas and the Acts of Thomas. In the latter, his...

WORDS ON . . .; TRADITIONS: HANUKAH

The Washington Post;  November 26, 1994 ;     139 words ......widely observed Jewish holiday in the United States after Passover and Yom Kippur, has no basis in the Hebrew Bible. The apocryphal works First and Second Maccabees tell of the victory of Jewish revolutionaries over the Syrian emperor Antiochus 2,200 years...

Shakespeare, William

A Dictionary of Shakespeare;    STANLEY WELLS;   113 words ...Shakespeare, William (1564–1616) The principal entries relating directly to his life and career are: APOCRYPHAL WORKS ; ARMS, SHAKESPEARE'S ; AUTHORSHIP ; BAPTISM, SHAKESPEARE'S ; BIRTHDAY, SHAKESPEARE'S ; BIRTHPLACE, SHAKESPEARE'S...

Introducing the Apocrypha: Message, Context, and Significance

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society;  September 1, 2004 ;   Bateman, Herbert W IV;   787 words ......apocrypha presented in The New Oxford Annotated Apocrypha: The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), deSilva discusses sixteen apocryphal works. Naturally, discussions involve the ten deuterocanonical books received by the Roman Catholic Church (with the Additions...

Let those without bias cast the first stone: a reply to Fischgrund....

Exceptional Children;  November 1, 1989 ;   Esposito, Beverly G. Koorland, Mark A.;   787 words ...Let Those Without Bias Cast the First Stone: A Reply to Fischgrund * In his response to our manuscript Play behavior of hearing-impaired children: Integrated and segregated settings, Fischgrund makes repeated reference to the prointegration...

'Tis pity she's a whore: the revision of Mary Magdalene in contemporary...

Papers on Language & Literature;  June 22, 2006 ;   Brown, Kevin;   787 words ......found in all of the canonical gospels, but nowhere else in the New Testament. However, she is a character in 11 gnostic/apocryphal works, where sometimes she is a major character. (193) Galen Knutson adds, However, if a count is made more narrowly of the passion...

Actes de l'apotre Philippe

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  July 1, 1998 ;   Mangan, Celine;   638 words ......Litterature Apocryphe Chretienne. The book opens with a useful account of the series. It is important that these Acts and other apocryphal works be considered in their own right and not in antithesis to NT material. In the introduction Frederic Amsler gives the historical...

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Theological Studies;  March 1, 2000 ;   MCDONALD, PATRICIA M.;   373 words ......the Gentiles and his letter-writing activities, Paul as the theologizer and the model ascetic, Paul as portrayed in later apocryphal works. Although historical considerations are paramount, the book is essentially pastoral: it presumes that a fuller knowledge...

Ethiopian sacred artifacts donated to Howard divinity school

Philadelphia Tribune, The;  March 8, 1994 ;   Stacey Wright;   687 words ......homiletic, hagiographic and religion-magical works." The collection included a 15th-century manuscript containing such apocryphal works as the Acts of Peter and other apostles, a 17th-century manuscript of the New Testament without the Gospels, and an Old...

The Ways of Our God: An Approach to Biblical Theology

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  April 1, 2004 ;   Cook, Joan E;   787 words ......refers frequently to biblical passages, often quoting them to illustrate his points; and he refers to deuterocanonical and apocryphal works as well. In addition, S.'s system of cross-referencing relies on paragraph numbers rather than pages for ease of interrelating...

The Book of Revelation and the Johannine Apocalyptic Tradition

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  July 1, 2001 ;   Thompson, Leonard L;   787 words ......without the Coptic exemplar). Court has served church and academy well by bringing together for the first time those four apocryphal works in which John is a conversant. They are not, however, apocalypses in the Johannine tradition. Their shared "interrogative...