Infobox French commune name Ria Sirach native name Ri i Cirac region Languedoc Roussillon department Pyr n es Orientales arrondissement Prades canton Prades INSEE 66161 postal code 66500 mayor Jean Maury term 2008&ndash 2014 intercommunality longitude 2.4006 latitude 42.6094 elevation m 400 elevation min m 339 elevation max m 1081 area km2 12.82 population 1175 population date 2007 Ria Sirach lang ca Ri i Cirac is a Communes of France commune in the Pyr n es Orientales Departments of France department in southern France . See also Communes of the Pyr n es Orientales department References http www.insee.fr en home home page.asp INSEE Reflist Pyr n es Orientales communes DEFAULTSORT Riasirach Category Communes of Pyr n es Orientales Pyr n esOrientales geo stub an Ri i Cirac ca Ri i Cirac ceb Ria Sirach de Ria Sirach es Ria Sirach eu Ria Sirach fr Ria Sirach it Ria Sirach ms Ria Sirach nl Ria Sirach oc Ri i Cirac pl Ria Sirach sk Ria Sirach uk vi Ria Sirach vo Ria Sirach war Ria Sirach ... more details
Rabbinical Literature The Alphabet of Jesus ben Sirach Alphabetum Siracidis , Othijoth ben Sira is an anonymous medieval text attributed to Jesus ben Sirach , the author of the Wisdom of Sirach . It is dated to anywhere between A.D. 700 and 1000. It is a compilation of two lists of proverb s, 22 in Aramaic and 22 in Hebrew language Hebrew , both arranged as alphabetic acrostic s. Each proverb is followed by an Haggadic commentary. The work has been characterized as satire satirical , and it contains references to masturbation , incest and flatulence . The text has been translated into Latin , Yiddish , Judeo Spanish , French language French and German language German . A partial English translation appeared in Stern and Mirsky 1998 . Aramaic proverbs The Aramaic proverbs are the far older part of the book. Five of them can be traced to Talmudic Midrashic literature. The Hebrew commentary, illustrating the proverbs with fables, is much younger. in the reading of Ginzberg Honor the Ethiopian before thou hast need of him Eccles. 38 1 If a son do not conduct himself like a son, let him float on the water. Gnaw the bone that falls to thy lot whether it be good or bad. Gold must be hammered, and the child must be beaten. Be good and refuse not thy portion of good. Woe to the wicked man and woe to his companions. Cast thy bread upon the waters and upon the land, for thou shalt find it after many days Eccles. 11 1 Hast thou seen a black ass? Then it was neither black nor white. Bestow no good upon that which is evil, and no evil will befall thee. Restrain not thy hand from doing good. The bride enters the bridal chamber and, nevertheless, knows not what will befall her. A nod to the wise is sufficient the fool requires a blow. Proverbs 22 15 He who honors them that despise him is like an ass. A fire, when it is kindled, burns many sheaves James 3 5 An old woman in the house is a good ... , 9 28. External links http www.bible history.com isbe S SIRACH, THE ALPHABET OF SIRACH, THE ALPHABET ... more details
A prayer by King Solomon described in Books of Kings 1 Kings 8 22 52. This prayer is said to have occurred at the dedication of the temple of Solomon , which also became known as the First Temple. It is also a book found in some Latin Bible s as a shorter variant of this prayer at the end of the Book of Sirach . Where it occurs, it is often framed as the last chapter of Sirach or sometimes as a separate book immediately following it. Tanakh stub Category Solomon Category Jewish prayer and ritual texts Category Books of Kings ... more details
Jesus ben Sirach , Ye wa ven Sira , commonly known simply as ben Sirach or Sirach and also rendered Jesus son of Sirach or Jesus Siracides , was the author of the deuterocanonical Wisdom of Sirach and possibly the rabbinical Alphabet of Sirach . Ben Sirach, a Jews Jew who had been living in Jerusalem , may have authored the work in Alexandria , Egypt circa 180 BC 180 &ndash 175 BCE , where he is thought to have established a school. ref See Guillaume, Phillipe. New Light on the Nebiim from Alexandria A Chronography to Replace the Deuteronomistic History sections 3 &ndash 5 full notes and bibliography ref His name The author s name may have been Shimon Simon , son of Yeshua Jesus Joshua , son of Eleazar, son of Sira. http www.newadvent.org cathen 05263a.htm In the Greek text, the author is called Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem. 50.27 Jesus is the Anglicized form of the Greek name , the equivalent of the Aramaic Yeshua, derived from the older Masoretic Hebrew language Hebrew Yehoshua . The copy owned by Saadia Gaon , the prominent rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the 10th Century CE, had the reading Shim on, son of Yeshua , son of El azar ben Sira and a similar reading occurs in the Hebrew manuscript B. M.Z. Segal, in his commentary on Ben Sira, concluded that long form with Shim on should be accepted as original and suggested that the common naming of the book Ben Sira is because so many people were named Shim on at the end of the Second Temple , people often used the family name without Shim on. The surname Sira may mean thorn Hebrew Ecclesiastes ... Book of Ezra Ezra 2 51 . The Greek form, Sirach, adds the letter chi similar to Hakel dama ch in Acts ... Jesus, son of Sirach Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Sira, Ben ALTERNATIVE NAMES ben SirachSirach Jesus son of Sirach Jesus Siracides SHORT DESCRIPTION author of the deuterocanonical Wisdom of Sirach DATE OF BIRTH fl. c. 180 BCE PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT ... more details
Sapiential Books or Books of Wisdom is a term used in biblical studies to refer to a subset of the books of the Jewish Bible in the Septuagint version. There are seven of these books, namely the books of Book of Job Job , Book of Psalms Psalms , Book of Proverbs Proverbs , Ecclesiastes , the Book of Wisdom , the Song of Songs Song of Solomon , and Wisdom of Sirach Sirach . Not all the Psalms are usually regarded as belonging to the Wisdom tradition. In Judaism , the Books of Wisdom are regarded as part of the Ketuvim or Writings . In Christianity , Job, Psalms, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes are included in the Old Testament by all traditions, while Wisdom, Song of Songs and Sirach are regarded in some traditions as deuterocanonical books deuterocanonical . Sapiential books are in the broad tradition of wisdom literature that was found widely in the Ancient Near East , and includes writings from many religions other than Judaism. References reflist No footnotes date February 2012 Anderson, B. W. 1988 . The living world of the Old Testament , 4th Edition. Harlow Longman. Pp. 570ff. Category Biblical studies Category Biblical books Hebrew Bible stub fr Livres po tiques ... more details
Ecclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible. It may also refer to Ecclesiastes of Erasmus Ecclesiastes of Erasmus , or Ecclesiastes On the Art of Preaching , by Desiderius Erasmus, published 1535 Ecclesiastes Rabbah , an aggadic commentary on Ecclesiastes, included in the collection of the Midrash Rabbah. Similar spellings Eccles disambiguation Ecclesia disambiguation Ecclesiast , member of the Clergy Wisdom of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus , apocryphal book of the Septuagint disambig ... more details
Yeshua may refer to Yeshua name , the Hebrew name , an ancient common variant of Yehoshua equivalent to English Joshua or Jeshua . Yehoshua , the Hebrew name equivalent to English Joshua . Yahshua , modern variant of Yeshua. Yahshuah , modern variant of Yeshua. Yeshua may also refer to Ben Sira Yeshua Ben Sira equivalent to English Jesus Son of Sirach , the 2nd century BCE author of the Book of Sirach , also called Ecclesiasticus, translated from Hebrew into Greek becoming one of the deuterocanonical books of the Septuagint Bible. Yeshua, late 5th century BCE Timeline of Israeli leaders The High Priesthood high priest of Israel . Ilan Yeshua floruit fl. 2000s , business manager. See also Yeshu , a Hebrew scribal abbreviation for enemies, sometimes interpreted as a reference to Jesus. Disambig Category Human name disambiguation pages zh ... more details
are buried in peace but their name liveth evermore Wisdom of SirachSirach 44 13 . Chorus The people will tell of their wisdom and the congregation will shew forth their praise Wisdom of SirachSirach 44 14 their reward also is with the Lord and the care of them is with the Most high Wisdom of Solomon ... more details
Onias I Hebrew language Hebrew Honiyya or Honio ben Jaddua was the son of the Jaddua mentioned in Nehemiah . ref Nehemiah xii. 11 ref According to Josephus , this Jaddua is said to have been a contemporary of Alexander the Great . ref Jewish Antiquities xi. 8, 7 ref I Maccabees regards Onias as a contemporary of the Sparta n king Areus I 309 265 BCE . ref I Macc. xii. 7, 8, 20 ref The Simon the Just extolled in the Wisdom of Sirach ref Wisdom of Sirach Sirach 1.1 ref and in legend according to the Hebrew text the son of Jonathan, but according to the Greek text the son of Onias was probably the son of Onias I or, according to some, of the latter s grandson Onias II . References Reflist Resources http www.jewishencyclopedia.com view.jsp?artid 73&letter O&search Onias Gottheil, Richard and Samuel Krauss. Onias. Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, 1901 1906, which cites to the following bibliography H. P. Chajes, Beitr ge zur Nordsemitischen Onomatologie , p. 23, Vienna, 1900 on the name Herzfeld, Gesch. des Volkes Jisrael, i. 185 189, 201 206 Heinrich Gr tz , Gesch . 2d ed., ii. 236 Emil Sch rer , Gesch . 3d ed., i. 182, 194 196 iii. 97 100 Niese, in Hermes , xxxv. 509 Wellhausen, I. J. G. 4th ed., p. 248, Berlin, 1901 Willrich, Juden und Griechen vor der Makkab ischen Erhebung, pp. 77, 109, G ttingen, 1895 Adolf B chler , Die Tobiaden und die Oniaden, pp. 166, 240, 275, 353, Vienna, 1899 J. P. Mahaffy , The Empire of the Ptolemies, pp. 217, 353, London, 1895 Gelzer, Sextus Julius Africanus, ii. 170 176, Leipsic, 1885 Isaac Hirsch Weiss , Dor, i. 130 on the halakic view of the temple of Onias . Jewish Encyclopedia DEFAULTSORT Onias 01 Category Ancient Jewish Greek history Category High Priests of Israel Category 3rd century BC clergy es On as I he nl Onias I no Onias I ... more details
Wisdom Tradition is a term that is sometimes given to the inner core or mysticism mystic aspects of a Religion religious or Spirituality spiritual tradition , without the trappings, doctrinal literalism, sectarianism , and power structures that are associated with institutionalised religion. The Wisdom Tradition provides a conceptual framework for the development of the inner self, living a spiritual life, and the realisation of Enlightenment or of Union with God. Ken Wilber frequently uses the term in the plural in his own books, shadowing the theologian Huston Smith who popularized the usage. In this context it can be considered synonymous with Esotericism , but does not have the faintly Western Middle Eastern Theosophical nuances that are sometimes associated with the latter term. In Christianity and in the Hebrew Bible , the term is used to describe female images of the divine ref http www.ca.renewedpriesthood.org page.cfm?Web ID 765 Goddesses and the Divine Feminine A Western Religious History By Rosemary Radford Ruether ref in the Book of Wisdom . It is one of the seven Sapiential Books Sapiential or wisdom books of the Septuagint Old Testament , which includes Book of Job Job , Psalms , Book of Proverbs Proverbs , Ecclesiastes , Song of Solomon Song of Songs , and Wisdom of Sirach Sirach . External links and references http www.thenewliberator.com article33.html Let s use the Wisdom Tradition Gerard McCool http www.bc.edu offices mission exploring cathuniv mccool wisdom tradition The Christian Wisdom Tradition and Enlightenment Reason Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything , Shamballah Huston Smith, The World s Religions References reflist DEFAULTSORT Wisdom Tradition Category Mysticism ... more details
saved book title Deuterocanonical books of the Bible subtitle cover image Bible.malmesbury.arp.jpg cover color sort as Deuterocanonical books of the Bible Deuterocanonical books of the Bible Overview Deuterocanonical books Deuterocanonical texts Book of Tobit Tobit Book of Judith Judith Book of Esther Additions to Esther Book of Wisdom Wisdom Sirach Book of Baruch Baruch Letter of Jeremiah Book of Jeremiah Additions to Jeremiah in the Septuagint Additions to Daniel The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children Susanna Book of Daniel Susanna Bel and the Dragon 1 Maccabees 2 Maccabees ... more details
saved book title Biblical apocrypha subtitle cover image Bible.malmesbury.arp.jpg cover color black Biblical apocrypha Overview Biblical apocrypha Apocrypha texts 1 Esdras 2 Esdras Book of Tobit Tobit Book of Judith Judith Book of Esther Rest of Esther Book of Wisdom Wisdom Sirach Ecclesiasticus Book of Baruch Baruch Letter of Jeremiah Epistle of Jeremy The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children Song of the Three Children Susanna Book of Daniel Story of Susanna Bel and the Dragon The Idol Bel and the Dragon Prayer of Manasseh Prayer of Manasses 1 Maccabees 2 Maccabees ... more details
Image Voit 185 Rudolf Smend.jpg thumb Rudolf Smend Rudolf Smend November 5, 1851 December 27, 1913 was a German theologian who was born in Lengerich Westfalen Lengerich , Westphalia . He was an older brother to theologian Julius Smend 1857 1930 , and the father of Carl Friedrich Rudolf Smend 1882 1975 , an authority on constitutional and ecclesiastical law . He studied theology at the Universities of University of G ttingen G ttingen , University of Berlin Berlin and University of Bonn Bonn , earning his doctorate in 1874 with a dissertation on Arabic poetry . In 1880 he became an associate professor of the Old Testament at the University of Basel , where shortly afterwards he attained the title of full professor. In 1889 he returned to the University of G ttingen as a professor of Biblical science and Semitic languages . At G ttingen he was reunited with his former teacher Julius Wellhausen 1844 1918 , who was a major influence in his professional career. Smend is largely remembered for critical examination of the Old Testament, particularly in his research involving stories of the Hexateuch . In 1907 with Alfred Rahlfs 1865 1935 he created the Septuaginta Unternehmen Septuagint Venture in the G ttingen Society of Sciences. Selected publications Der Prophet Ezechiel The Prophet Ezekiel , 1880 Lehrbuch der alttestamentlichen Religionsgeschichte Textbook of Old Testament Religious History , 1899 Die Weisheit des Jesus Sirach the Wisdom of Jesus Sirach with Hebrew glossary, 1906 Die Erz hlung des Hexateuch auf ihre Quellen untersucht Sources of the Hexateuch Investigated , 1912 References This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Smend, Julius ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1851 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1913 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Smend, Julius Category 1851 births Category 1913 deaths Category People from Steinfurt district Cat ... more details
Infobox musical artist name Angel birth name Sirach Charles birth date origin London , England genre Rhythm and blues R&B , Pop music Pop Reggae years active 2011 present label Island Records associated acts Wretch 32 Giggs Wiley Pixie Lott background solo singer website url thisisangel.com Sirach Charles , better known by his stage name Angel , is an Singer songwriter, multi instrumentalist and record producer from West London England . His debut single Go In, Go Hard was released on March 18, 2012. The song features vocals from English rapper and former Grime music Grime MC Wretch 32 . It peaked to number 41 on the UK Singles Chart . Music career 2012 present Debut single On March 18, 2012 Angel released his debut single Go In, Go Hard , which features vocals from Wretch 32 . ref http itunes.apple.com gb album go in go hard feat. wretch 32 ep id504645169 iTunes Music Go In, Go Hard feat. Wretch 32 EP by Angel ref On March 25, 2012 the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 41, despite being at number 35 on The Official Chart Update. It also reached number 14 on the UK R&B Chart . Discography Singles class wikitable plainrowheaders style text align center scope col rowspan 2 Year scope col rowspan 2 Title scope col colspan 2 Peak chart positions scope col rowspan 2 Album scope col style width 3em font size 85 UK Singles Chart UK scope col style width 3em font size 85 UK R&B Chart UK R&B br ref Peak positions for R&B singles in the United Kingdom For Go In, Go Hard cite web url http www.theofficialcharts.com archive chart 12 2012 03 31 title Chart Archive UK R&B Singles 31 March 2012 publisher The Official Charts Company accessdate 2012 03 31 ref 2012 scope row Go In, Go Hard small feat. Wretch 32 41 14 7 Minutes Before Time EP References reflist External links Official website http thisisangel.com Persondata NAME Angel ALTERNATIVE NAMES Charles, Sirach SHORT DESCRIPTION Singer songwriter DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Angel ... more details
Amenemope ca. 1100 BCE the son of Kanakht Kanacht is the ostensible author of the Instruction of Amenemope , an Egyptian wisdom text written in the Ramesside Period . He is portrayed as a scribe and sage who lived in Egypt during the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt 20th Dynasty of the New Kingdom and resided in Akhmim ancient Egyptian Ipu, Greek Panopolis , the capital of the ninth nome of Upper Egypt . His discourses are presented in the traditional form of instructions from father to son on how to live a good and moral life, but unlike most such texts they are explicitly organized into 30 numbered chapters. ref http touregypt.net instructionofamenemope.htm The Instruction of Amenemope ref Although once thought to be unique, they are now seen to share common themes with the wisdom literature of other ancient Near Eastern cultures including Babylonia and Israel , most notably the biblical books of Book of Proverbs Proverbs , Ecclesiastes , and Sirach . References reflist External links http www.humanistictexts.org amenope.htm Amenemope Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Amenemope ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Amenemope Category Ancient Egyptian writers Category 12th century BC people AncientEgypt bio stub es Amenemope escriba fr Am n mop scribe ... more details
unsourced date February 2010 Violet Brunton 1878 &ndash 1951 was an English artist who honed her talent at the Liverpool School of Art, where she studied woodcarving, miniature painting and book illustration. Her work won the County Palatine Scholarship and she was subsequently offered a place at the Royal College of Art in London . Brunton contributed to two illustrated books published in 1927, The Jeweller of Bagdad and Ecclesiasticus, or the Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach . The following year, her illustrations for Green Magic were published and in 1929, a further illustrated title carrying her contributions, Silver Magic , was published. Some of her monotone illustrations appearing in Green Magic 1928 and Silver Magic 1929 subsequently appeared with the illustrations of Kay Nielsen with his suite of illustrations published in Red Magic 1930 . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Brunton, Violet ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1878 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1951 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Brunton, Violet Category English artists Category English illustrators Category British women artists Category Artists from London Category 1878 births Category 1951 deaths England artist stub ... more details
Richard J. Coggins is a British biblical commentator, notable for his contributions to The Cambridge Bible Commentaries Life File Mass in Brixton sept 07.jpg thumb right 170px St Matthew s Brixton Coggins was a Lecturer in Old Testament studies at Kings College London. Coggins was public preacher in the Anglican Diocese of Southwark and belonged to St Matthew, Brixton . ref name Coggins Cite book title Who s Who in the Bible author Richard Coggins publisher Batsford location London page Dust jacket date 1981 ISBN 0 7134 0144 3 ref Works Cambridge Bible Commentaries The First and Second Books of Esdras With Jin H Han , Six Minor Prophets Through the Centuries Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi With Anthony Phillips scholar Anthony Phillips and Michael Knibb Israel s Prophetic Tradition Essays in Honour of Peter R. Ackroyd Introducing the Old Testament Who s Who in the Bible With W.R.F. Browning and Graham N. Stanton A Dictionary of the Bible by Sirach Nahum, Obadiah, Esther Israel among the Nations References Reflist Persondata NAME Coggins, Richard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Coggins, Richard Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people Category Bible commentators UK theologian stub ... more details
Bible translation infobox translation title New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition image Image NRSV Catholic.jpg 200px full name New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition Anglicized Texts other names abbreviation NRSV CE NT published OT published complete bible published author info textual basis 18 deviation from Nestle Aland 27th edition NT translation type 13 paraphrase rate version revised publisher copyright 1989, 1993, br 1995 Anglicized copies printed religious affiliation online address genesis 1 1 3 john 3 16 BibleHistory The New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition NRSV CE is a translation of the Bible adapted for the use of Catholics with the approval of the Catholic Church . It contains all the Books of the Bible canonical books of Scripture accepted by the Catholic Church arranged in the traditional Catholic order. Thus, all the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament are returned to their traditional Catholic order thus the books of Book of Tobit Tobit and Book of Judith Judith are placed between Book of Nehemiah Nehemiah and Book of Esther Esther , the books of 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees are placed immediately after Book of Esther Esther , the books of Book of Wisdom Wisdom and Sirach Ecclesiasticus Sirach are placed after the Song of Songs , and the book of Book of Baruch Baruch including the Letter of Jeremiah as Baruch chapter 6 is placed after Book of Lamentations Lamentations . The deuterocanonical books deuterocanonical additions to the Hebrew books of Book of Esther Esther and Book of Daniel Daniel are included at their proper places in these protocanonical books the Greek additions to Esther are interspersed in the Hebrew form of Esther according to the Septuagint , while the additions to Daniel are placed within chapter 3 and as chapters 13 and 14 of Daniel. The biblical apocrypha apocryphal books that is, 1 Esdras , 2 Esdras , the Prayer of Manasseh , 3 Maccabees , 4 Maccabees , and Psalm 151 are not included in the N ... more details
Hebr ische St ck des Sirach , 1897. ref that it was from Aristobulus that the philosophy of the Wisdom of Sirach was derived is not generally accepted. Aristobulus was among many philosophers of his ... more details
A prosopopoeia lang el is a rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer communicates to the audience by speaking as another person or object. The term literally derives from the Greek language Greek roots pr sopon face, person, and poi in to make, to do . Prosopopoeiae are used mostly to give another perspective on the action being described. For example, in Cicero s Pro Caelio , Cicero speaks as Appius Claudius Caecus, a stern old man. This serves to give the ancient perspective on the actions of the plaintiff. Prosopopoeiae can also be used to take some of the load off of the communicator by placing an unfavorable point of view on the shoulders of an imaginary stereotype. The audience s reactions are predisposed to go towards this figment rather than the communicator himself. This term also refers to a figure of speech in which an animal or inanimate object is ascribed human characteristics or is spoken of in anthropomorphic language. Quintilian writes of the power of this figure of speech to bring down the gods from heaven, evoke the dead, and give voices to cities and states Institutes of Oratory see ref. . A classic example of this usage can be found in the book of Sirach in the Biblical Apocrypha , where Wisdom is personified and made to speak to the people and to the reader quote text Wisdom sings her own praises, before her own people she proclaims her glory in the assembly of the Most High she opens her mouth, in the presence of his hosts she declares her worth From the mouth of the Most High I came forth, and mistlike covered the earth ... sign Biblical Apocrypha Apocrypha source Sirach 24,1 3 Examples If Miller Huggins was alive today, he d be turning over in his grave . Yogi Berra , speaking of a former New York Yankees Yankees manager. In the second section of his Cooper Union Address , Abraham Lincoln creates a mock debate between Republicans and the South, a debate in which he becomes spokesman for the party. In court a prosecutor may ... more details
The Law of Life is a term coined by author Farley Mowat in his 1952 book People of the Deer , and popularized by Daniel Quinn , to denote a universal system of various natural law natural principles , any of which tend to best foster life &mdash in other words, any of which best guides behavior that tends toward the reproductive success and survival of some particular gene pool . The idea posits that, in general, the most fitness biology fit organism s instinct instinctively behave according to some natural rule often, these rules vary among and are specific to the species . Since every organism has some instinctive law it can follow to be the most reproductively successful, this very notion is a sort of law itself, true of all living beings thus, the Law of Life. In his 1996 novel , The Story of B , Quinn writes, A biologist would probably say what I m calling the Law of Life is just a collection of evolutionary stable strategy evolutionarily stable strategies &mdash the universal set of such strategies, in fact. Quinn points out that this is a physical law , like Newton s law of universal gravitation gravity , not a commandment like thou shalt not kill nor a legislative ruling like pay taxes . As he puts it, the latter two are written where only man can read them in books , and that they can be changed by a vote, while the Law of Life is written in the fabric of the universe and cannot be broken. Those who don t follow the law simply won t live. A law of life is also mentioned in Sirach 17 11 He set knowledge before them, he endowed them with the law of life. small New Jerusalem Bible small Category Daniel Quinn evolution stub ... more details
Lilith is an English language opera created by American composer Deborah Drattell , with a libretto by David Steven Cohen. The opera reimagines Eve returning to Garden of Eden Eden following the funeral of Adam . In the ruined paradise, she confronts Lilith , the notorious other woman who in legends such as the medieval Alphabet of Sirach mated with Adam before Eve was created. Lilith was initially created as an orchestral piece for the Denver Symphony Orchestra Denver Symphony when Drattell was the organization s artist in residence, but instead it was premi red with the New York Philharmonic in 1990. The piece was expanded to a full length opera, with a world premi re planned in 1997 at New York s Dicapo Opera, but the production was cancelled due to a labor dispute. Drattell reworked the piece, presenting it as a workshop offering at the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York in 1998. The full opera had its world premi re on November 11, 2001, at the New York City Opera with Lauren Flanigan as Eve. ref Anne Midgette, http query.nytimes.com gst fullpage.html?res 9B07E3DA1F39F93AA35752C1A9679C8B63 Lilith Is Made Flesh , New York Times November 9, 2001 ref References reflist External links http www.jwmag.org site c.fhLOK0PGLsF b.2446789 Profile of Deborah Drattell http artists in residence.com ljlehrman articles aufbau106.html Aufbau coverage of the opera http www.brooklynpaper.com stories 24 44 24 44drattell.html Brooklyn Paper coverage of the opera Category English language operas Category Operas by Deborah Drattell Category Operas Category Adam and Eve Category 2001 operas Category New York City Opera world premieres english opera stub ... more details
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