Month: February 2021

The first four episodes focused on the Gospel of John in the Fourth Edition of the AIC Bible Study Video series, New Testament: Gospels, are now linked from the New Testament page. Episode 26 introduces the Gospel of John with a discussion of John, his intended audiences, language and major and secondary themes. Episodes 27 and 28 are focused on John’s unique Prelude in Chapter 1, plus the calling of the first four disciples. The events takes place over a series of four days. Episode 29 is the first of seven episodes focused on the “I Am” declarations which are unique to the Gospel of John, beginning with the first, heard in Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan Woman at the Well of Jacob. Illustrations are from the 6th through the 20th C.

The upgrading of the New Testament: Gospels series is proceeding faster than I originally anticipated. I am hopeful of completion of all remaining updates before Good Friday.

Episodes Twelve through Twenty-five in the AIC Bible Study Video series, New Testament: Gospels, all focused on the Gospel of St. Luke, are now uploaded and linked from the New Testament page. Even better, the printed proof of The Gospel of Luke: Annotated & Illustrated is now in the hands of our proofreader for final review. I hope to have the volume in print and in the facsimile version in the Kindle format before Easter A.D. 2021.

I have already started on the Vimeo version of Episode Twenty-six in the video series, the first of twenty episodes on the Gospel of John. Being snowed in/frozen in has some advantages! I am hopeful of having Episode Twenty-six uploaded to our Vimeo site before the end of the week of Feb. 15th, A.D. 2021.

I have further updated the AIC web site to make it consisten with the Learn Your Way: Watch/Listen/Read initiative announced earlier this year.

Freezing rain and snow have advantages: I’ve used the occasion of being housebound to produce four more episodes on the Gospel of St. Luke and upload them to our host site, Vimeo.com. These episodes include discussion, in order, of the Parables of the Good Samaritan, the Rich Fool, the Chief Seats, the Lost Coin, the Lost Son (or Prodigal Son), the Unjust Steward, the Rich Man and Lazarus, the Tenacious Widow, and the.Pharisee and the Tax Collector (or Publican). Illustrations in these episodes are from the 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th C. These are displayed in high resolution format. The AIC is especially grateful to the Universitats- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, Darmstadt,Germany, for the images from the Hitda Codex, a magnificent illuminated Bible in the Carolingian style generally seen only in low resolution versions with distorted color rendition. As I have done throughout the series, each illustration is accompanied by a source citation, usually including manuscript, or shelf, numbers, folio numbers and location of the original documents. We have permissions from other sources for high resolution images in each of the new series of illuminated Gospels. The Gospel of John: Annotated & Illustrated is currently available using the Virtual Bookstore link on our Home page. The Gospel of Luke: Annotated & Illustrated is in printed proof stage. The volume on Mark is currently near the end of the initial proof-reading stage. The volume on Matthew’s Gospel is complete but has not yet entered in proofreading phase.

These four episodes are focused on the unique parables in the Gospel of Luke. Episode 20 is also the first of six episodes focused on Unique Details, Events and Quotations in the Gospel of Luke. Of the remaining five episodes (numbers 21 to 25), I am working today on # 21) and hope that I can finish it and the remaining episodes by the end of the week of February 15th.

As always, I thank viewers, listeners and readers of AIC materials for their interest and support. Glory be to God for all things! Amen.

Four additional episodes in the Fourth Edition of our Bible Study Video series, The New Testament: Gospels, have not been uploaded and are now linked from the New Testament page (a sub-pages under the Bible Study tab). The new material is Episode Thirteen to Episode Sixteen, which cover the three angelic annunciations, four unique songs, Luke’s unique genealogy, the Nativity and boyhood of Jesus and the start of His ministry in Galilee beginning with His baptism in the River Jordan. These episodes feature more cross-referencing to Other AIC Resources and many new illustrations.

The episode includes some spectacular examples of historic Christian art from the 8th to the 19th C. Concurrent with this set of uploads is the receipt of the printed proof of The Gospel of Luke: Annotated & Illustrated, the second of our four illuminated Gospel books. The proof is being looked over this week for any glitches. I hope we can get in into print during the season of Lent. The cover image is a tempera and gold on parchment illumination of Luke Writing His Gospel from the Pericope Book of Henry II, made between 1007 and 1012 A.D. for the last Ottonian Holy Roman Emperor. Clm 4452, Bayerische Landesbibliothek, Munich, Germany. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. It was made in the Scriptorium at Reichenau, Germany. The publication of these volumes will allow the average person to own an illuminated Gospel at reasonable cost.

As always, thank you for your interest and support. Glory be to God for all things! Amen!

All five episodes in the Fourth Edition of the AIC Bible Study Video series, New Testament: Gospels, focused on the Gospel of Mark are now complete and available for viewing and downloading. These episodes are linked on the New Testament page (a sub-page of Bible Study). For this edition the series has a new musical introduction and closing theme, many new illustrations and a wide range of design changes and cross-references to Other AIC Resources, especially our newest book, The Gospel of Mark: Annotated & Illustrated, due for publication later this year.

All five revised episodes of The New Testament: Gospels which are focused on the Gospel of St. Matthew and the first of five focused on the Gospel of St. Mark are now linked through the Bible Study tabs at the top and bottom of any page. These revised editions feature many new or revised slides, a new musical theme, All Glory, Laud & Honor, performed in England on his church organ by Richard M. S. Irwin, plus many new illustrations. Each episode is now also cross-referenced to Other AIC Resources with similar or related material, including The Gospel of Matthew: Annotated & Illustrated and The Gospel of Mark: Annotated & Illustrated, which is currently in the proof-reading stage. Publication is anticipated in the 2nd Qtr or 3rd Qtr of A.D. 2021. The Podcast versions of these six episodes should be available during the week of Feb. 8th.

The revisions to the Seasonal Videos for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, “Gesima”/Pre-Lent, Good Friday, Easter and Trinitytide are now linked from the Digital Library page. Improvements will be made to all three Christian Education Video series: The Lord’s Prayer; The Nicene Creed: and The War on Christianity later this year.

The sub-level mastheard on the Welcome page has now been adjusted to make it consistent with the WATCH-LISTEN-READ initiative announced earlier. Other improvement intended to make the site more user-friendly are being considered. Suggestions for improvements would be welcomed. Please send them to me at frron.aic@earthlink.net.

As always, thank you for your interest and support. Glory be to God for all things! Amen!