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The Roman Empire
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Thomas
Dekker - Canaan's
Calamitie, Jerusalem's Misery ; The dolefull destruction of faire Ierusalem
by Tytus, the Sonne of Vaspasian Emperour of Rome, in the yeare of Christ's
Incarnation 74 (1598) Wherein is shewed the woonderfull
miseries which God brought upon that Citty for sinne, being utterly over-throwne
and destroyed, by Sword, pestilence and famine.
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Time
Magazine, Mar. 10, 1923 "The most valuable modern painting offered for
sale for a long time will be on view in New York next week. It is a
big picture (12 by 18 feet) and is expected to bring about $100,000. It is
called Judaea Capta, or the Triumph of Titus. The painter, Iszo Koves,
Hungarian, worked on it for 20 years, and spent 35 years gathering
historical data. Then he died during the war, penni- less, leaving a
destitute widow and children. The Judaea Capta is a picture of Titus
coming back to Rome with the spoils of conquered Jerusalem—including the
captive daughters of Israel. Some nude Bacchantes are included for purposes
of contrast. One of Koves' earlier pictures, Spinoza Before His
Judges, was twice rejected for exhibition in Buda Pesth. So the angry artist
hid it. in his studio, until his wife and a pupil smuggled it out and
submitted it again. It was accepted and delighted the Emperor."
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Handel's
Messiah & The Destruction of Jerusalem
“Messiah” lovers may be surprised to learn that
the work was meant not for Christmas but for Lent, and that the “Hallelujah”
chorus was designed not to honor the birth or resurrection of Jesus but to
celebrate the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in A.D. 70. For
most Christians in Handel’s day, this horrible event was construed as divine
retribution on Judaism for its failure to accept Jesus as God’s promised
Messiah. // The resurrected Jesus, sitting at the
right hand of God, unleashed his anger on the Jews by having the Roman
armies lay waste to Jerusalem and its temple in A.D. 70. // Central to Kidder and his like-minded readers is a
mode of interpretation called “typology,” which means
that events in the Old Testament point to events in
Christian history not only through explicit prophecy and
fulfillment but also through the more mysterious implied
spiritual anticipation of Christian “antitypes” in Old
Testament “types.”" -- At Scene 6 in Part 2 the
oratorio features passages from Psalm 2 of the Old Testament set as a series
of antagonistic movements that precede excerpts from the New Testament’s
Book of Revelation set as the triumphant “Hallelujah” chorus: type and
antitype, prophecy and fulfillment."
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