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The Messiah

Psalms, 2022
CASUALLY, but in thoughtful respect, John Connor leaned against the starboard railing of an American trooper; it was no pleasure trip this, and the cool pungent salt spray, the darkness of an equinoctial stormy night, the leaping porpoises, the turbulent
Der Messias, Sacred Oratorio, G. F. Handel, Vlado Ursić   +3 more
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The Jewish Messiah–​Christian Messiah Distinction

2017
Gershom Scholem is perhaps its best-known modern proponent, but the essentializing distinction between the Jewish messiah (earthly, political, delivers from oppression) and the Christian messiah (heavenly, spiritual, delivers from sin) goes back as far as Justin Martyr.
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Messiah

The Poems of Alexander Pope, 2019
Julian Ferraro, Paul Baines
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

The Messiah and the Jurisconsult: Agamben on the Problem of Law in Sunni Islam*

The Journal of Religion, 2021
Although Giorgio Agamben engages Islam at various points in his work, it occupies an ambivalent role in his hypothesis that messianism constitutes the limit concept of the law. This article amplifies that ambivalence in order to explore how centering the
B. Iqbal
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Victim, litigant, activist, messiah: the child in a time of climate change

Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 2020
In this article, I identify and examine four framings of the child in regard to climate change issues, including activism and policy reform. My focus is on the extent to which children are moving beyond the category of victim and assuming a disparate ...
N. Rogers
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The Black Messiah: Writing Equiano

Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2020
In this essay, Nigerian author Chika Unigwe discusses the challenges involved in writing the biographical novel The Black Messiah (currently published only in Dutch translation as De zwarte messias), which imaginatively retraces the life of Olaudah ...
Chika Unigwe
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Identity, Politics, and the Postmodern Hero in Frank Herbert’s Dune and Dune Messiah

ACROSS Journal of Interdisciplinary Cross-border Studies
This article examines how Dune can be interpreted through a postmodern lens by focusing on identity fragmentation, systemic forces, and the critique of heroic archetypes and grand narratives.
Andrei Zamfir
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Mocking the “Messiah”: Editorial Cartoons and Critiques of Journalists' “Obamamania”

Visual Communication Quarterly, 2019
During the 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama, elite political cartoonists on both the left and right expressed dismay and disgust at both Obama's “messianic” rhetoric and journalists' obsequious coverage through editorial cartoons.
Lori A. Henson
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Tourism as a Neoliberal Economic Messiah

Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry, 2019
Tourism has grown since the democratic transition in 1994. The growth of tourism has been so spectacular that today, tourism is regarded as the new gold, as it is South Africa's number one export.
U. Henama
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