Word: hebraic
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Such speculation goes even further. Experts have pondered the fact that Superman's original Kryptonian name, Kal-El, resembles Hebraic syllables | meaning "all that God is." Greek and Norse mythology have been invoked to show that Superman resembles a god who comes to earth and walks among men in mortal guise. Screenwriter Newman sees yet more exalted implications in the legend. "It begins with a father who lives up in heaven, who says, 'I will send my only son to save earth.' The son takes on the guise of a man but is not a man. The religious overtones...
...Testament injunction against graven images did not apply to the work of Jewish artisans of the Middle Ages. Fortunately so, as illustrated in The Hebrew Bible in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna (Rizzoli; 173 pages; $85). Sed-Rajna, director of the Hebraic department of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes in Paris, has included , painted manuscripts from the 13th through the 15th centuries. Biblical characters depicted in medieval dress recall the stories of Genesis, Abraham and Jacob, David and Goliath, Daniel in the lions' den and The Song of Solomon. The undeniable vigor...
Jubilee Games was written for the 50th anniversary of the Israel Philharmonic (the orchestra predates the founding of its country). A two- movement piece, it is a kind of numerological Hebraic rhapsody. In the first movement, "Free-Style Events," the orchestral players improvise lustily on a seven-note scale while shouting out seven times sheva, the Hebrew word for the mystical number seven, then proclaiming "Hamishim!," which means 50. Brass instruments evoke the blowing of the shofar, the ram's horn used in sacred services; strings scuttle along skittishly; even a synthesizer chimes...
...focus shifts from Davita's dogmatic, unhappy parents to her own quiet revolution: yearning for a sense of identity and excluded from the adult world of politics, she becomes a fervent Jew and eventually challenges the patriarchal presumptions of her religion. During the conflict between Davita's reverence for Hebraic tradition and her determination to make a place for herself, the narrative becomes far livelier and suggests possibilities for a worthier sequel...
Most wait quietly, unsure of what to expect. Ginsberg is reading his epic poem of outrage and lament to commemorate the 25th anniversary of its publication. Media announcements have recalled the public theatrics of the poet, an ostentatious non-comformist, a self-described "Hebraic Melvillean bardic breath." He drew together the strident Beat Generation of the 1950s, led the flower children of the 1960s into Eastern religions, hymned the antinuclear movement of the 1970s. Throughout, he sustained his vernacular yet visionary voice-marked, said one admiring fellow poet, by a "note of hysteria that hit the taste of the young...