Bible Study Videos – Episode 9

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Christ-Calming the Sea-Otto III-11thC-Alt1-PCAEpisode Nine in the revised edition of our Bible Study series, New Testament: Gospels is now online in both video and podcast versions.  In Episode Nine I continue discussion of the Gospel of St. Mark with the next six of eighteen miracles he describes.  The first three demonstate Divine Power over Nature and the second three demonstrate Divine Power over Speech and Sight.  The illustration, Calming the Seas, is the top half of a miniature illumination in colored inks and gilt on vellum from the Gospels of Otto III, produced at Reichenau Monastery, Reichenau, Germany, in the late 10th or early 11th C.  The original is at the Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany.  I applied perspective correction to the original image.   Otto III was a Saxon/German king who ruled the Holy Roman Empire in Europe, which was revived in 800 A.D. by Charlemagne.  The monastery is the same facility where the Bamberg Apocalypse was prepared in the early 11th C.  Viewers who have read the AIC Bookstore Publication, Revelation: An Idealist Interpretation, which includes 51 illustrations from the Bamberg Apocalypse, will recognize the style and, possibly, some of the faces.

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The next episode in the series will be available during the week of July 8th.  I am currently working on the text and slides for Episode Twenty-seven, the second focused on the Gospel of St. John.   That episode will include many images of St. John which have only recently become available to the general public.

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Bible Study Videos – Episode 8

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Episode Eight in the revised version of New Testament: Gospels is now available in Video and Podcast versions.  The episode is focused on the first nine of eighteen miracles described by St. Mark as demonstrating Divine Power over Evil Spirits/Demons and Sickness.   There are twice as many illustrations as in previous versions, many from sources only made available to the public in recent years.

Christ-Healing Man with Withered Hand-HitdaCodex-Alt1.jpgThe example is Christ Healing the Man with a Withered Hand from the Hitda Codex, a Gospel book commissioned by and named in honor of the Abbess of the convent at Meschede, Germany, after 1020 A.D., Hessische Landesbibliotek, Darmstadt, Germany.  Photoshop effects applied.  The document is in the artistic tradition of the Ottonian dynasty of Saxon kings, successors to Charlemagne in the revived Holy Roman Empire in Western Europe.  A better image is now available in The Gospel of Luke: In Scripture, Art & Christian Tradition, image number 52 (See the AIC Bookstore page)

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Episode Nine, focused on six more miracles, three demonstrating Divine Power over Nature and threee demonstrating Divine Power over Speech and Sight, will be released next week.

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Bible Study Videos – Episode Seven

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St. Mark Writing His Gospel, Reichenau Gospels, 11th C, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD. Creative Commons (CC-o license).

Episode Seven in the revised AIC Bible Study Video series, New Testament: Gospels, was uploaded to our YouTube channel this morning.  It is the first of five episodes focused on the Gospel of St. Mark.  The remaining four will be uploaded later this month and in early July, with a target of one episode per week

The illustration is superb example of Church art of the late Ottonian period of the revived Holy Roman Empire in western Europe.  It was made at Reichenau Monastery, Reichenau Island, Lake Constance, Germany.  The winged lion at the top is a traditional symbol of St. Mark.

Episode Seven includes a brief historical introduction, with discussion of intended audience, language and major themes, beginning with Jesus as Servant.

These new versions include many new illustrations and more direct Scripture quotations, presented in the same style as the most recent AIC video series.  I have completed the script and slides up to Episode Twenty-four and am closing in on finishing Episode Twenty-five, the last focused on the Gospel of St. Luke.  With the revised Podcast Homilies series for the 2018-2019 A.D. Church Year I can focus on wrapping up the rest of the revisions for Episode Twenty-six through Episode Forty-five.

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Revised Podcast Homilies for Trinity Season Now Complete

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All the Podcast Homilies for Trinity Season, including Sunday next before Advent. are now available in their revised versions.  Each includes cross-reference to Other AIC Resources, including videos, podcastsand books, on the same words, topics and phrases.  All links to previous versions of the Podcast Homilies have been deleted.

Now that this year-long task is completed, I plan to return to work on the Bible Study video series, New Testament: Gospels.  Episodes on the Gospel of St. Matthew were uploaded earlier this year.  With luck, next week I will begin uploading the episodes on the Gospel of St. Mark.  Some are already available for uploading.  Others need editing of the voice track.  I am currently working on the script and slides for the final episode focused on the Gospel of St. Luke.  All links to previous versions are no longer available.  As of Episode Twenty-four, the number of slides in the series is more than double that of the previous version.  The additional slides include more actual Scriptural quotations and many more illustrations from the artistic tradition of the Church.  These revised versions will give viewers a glimpse of the latest historic art now available in the public domain.  Many of these from the 10th through the 16th C. have never been available to the non-scholar general public.  Many libraries are now very busy digitizing their collections.  I will be watching for additional material as it becomes available.  These great works of religious art have been added to our Internet presence as an aid to greater spiritual understanding of the content of Scripture.

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Next Four Revised Podcast Homilies for Trinity Season

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After a one-week delay the next four revised Podcast Homilies for Fourteenth through Eighteenth Sundays after Trinity are now linked from the Podcast Homilies page.  The remaining revisions should be completed before 21 June.  Apologies to our regular viewers for the delay.

Meanwhile, I’ve been working on revisions to the New Testament: Gospels video series and expect to begin uploading the episodes on the Gospel of St. Mark before the end of June 2019 A.D.

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Another Four Podcast Homilies

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As promised last week, the next four revised Podcast Homilies for Trinity Season, for Eleventh through Fourteenth Sunday, have now been uploaded.  My plan is to complete the series before 15 June, with T-15 to T-18 during the week of Memorial Day.

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Four More Podcast Homilies for Trinity

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I’ve uploaded four more revised Podcast Homilies, these for the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Sundays after Trinity.  Next week (week of 5/13) I plan to record and upload the next four and, later in May and early June, complete the plan for issuing revised Podcast Homilies for the remaining Sundays in Trinity Season, through Sunday next before Advent.   As noted earlier, each of these revised versions includes cross-references to Other AIC Resources on the topics discussed, including Bible Study, Seasonal, and Christian Education videos and AIC Bookstore Publications.

Currently in progress is revisions to the Bible Study series, New Testament: Gospels.  All the episodes on the Gospel of St. Mark are now complete and ready to record and publish.

As always, thank you for your interest and support.  May God bless you in all that you do in His Name!  Glory be to God for all thing! Amen.

More Revised Podcast Homilies

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I’ve now uploaded the first four Podcast Homilies in the revised series for Church Year 2018-2019 for Whitsunday and Trinity season.   These four, including Whitsunday, Trinity Sunday, First Sunday after Trinity and Second Sunday after Trinity, are linked from the Podcast Homilies page, with episodes listed in order according to the Church Calendar.  I anticipate recording the next four, Third Sunday after Trinity through Sixth Sunday after Trinity early next week.  The simple reason for the stretched-out schedule is that four episodes are all I can do without stress on either or both my voice and my back!   After four I begin to sound like a croaking frog – and we don’t want that!

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God the Father and God the Son, illumination in colored inks and gold on parchment, perspective correction applied, Ms. Royal 1 D X, Folio 98, British Library, London, England.

In my search for images for the video series for Trinity Season I used a few Western Church images which violate the ancient early Church prohibition (still followed in the Eastern Church) against images of the God the Father.  Andrei Rublev avoided the problem by using the three figures who visited Abraham.  In later research I found something appealing from the English Church tradition, from an early 13th C. Psalter made near Oxford before 1220 A.D.   The image of God the Father and God the Son are mirror likenesses inside a capital letter “O.”

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Good Friday A.D. 2019

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Christ-Crucifixion-Rabula_Gospels-Detail1.jpgThe illustration is the central detail of an illumination on parchment from the Rabbula Gospels, 586 A.D., the oldest surviving depictions of the Crucifixion.  The original is at the Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy.  Public Domain.  Source:  10000 Masterworks:  the Yorck Project.

For this Good Friday, readers may wish to re-visit In the Cross of Christ I Glory, a two-part video series revised in A.D. 2018 and accessible on the Digital Library page.  Use the links at the top or bottom of the pages, then scroll down (Programs are shown in chronological order on the Anglican Church Calendar)..