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Lyrics The song’s title itself is an invocation of the Hebrew name for God, “the Great I Am” (U2 by U2, 329), and it establishes the spiritual context; “Yahweh” is our best guess at the pronunciation of these most sacred four letters in Jewish scriptures. The lyrics draw from the story of Moses and the …

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Lyrics While Bono himself described “Elevation” as “about sexuality and transcendence, a playful piece about wanting to get off, or, in this case, to literally get off the ground,” the song’s religious undertones emerge through its vertical imagery and salvation metaphors. The recurring theme of elevation echoes the Psalms’ descriptions of divine transcendence (“above all …

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Lyrics “The Unforgettable Fire” uses biblical motifs to depict the trauma of nuclear destruction, drawing from both scripture and the haunting legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The opening line, “These city lights, they shine as silver and gold,” evokes Deuteronomy 8:13–15, where material abundance risks spiritual complacency (“your silver and gold increase… then your heart will become proud”), contrasting …

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Lyrics: U2 > Discography > Lyrics > All Because Of You “All Because of You” isn’t just another rock anthem from U2—it’s a full-on theological exploration wrapped in the rebellious energy of a rock ‘n’ roll track. It’s part of U2’s ongoing series of “mother songs,” starting all the way back with “I Will Follow” …

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Lyrics: https://www.u2.com/music/lyrics/161 U2’s “Vertigo” brings biblical allusions and themes into a contemporary narrative of disorientation and spiritual seeking. The song’s portrayal of a chaotic nightclub setting serves as a metaphor for the overwhelming nature of modern life, echoing the existential questioning found in biblical books like Ecclesiastes.The line “All of this, all of this can …

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Edited byAaron C. Fenlason,Ken M. Penner,andWilliam A. Ross Introduction In A Comprehensive Classified Bibliography of Septuagint Scholarship, we update and consolidate the bibliographic work begun primarily by Brock, Fritsch, & Jellicoe in 1973, and Dogniez in 1995, in the bibliographies published by Brill.[1] Every few decades a bibliography of the Septuagint is produced. After almost …

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I just ran across this plugin that looks amazing for generating bibliographies. It’s ZotPress. Here should be the Brainwashing collection from my Cults group library in Zotero, presented in ASA format: And my own publications from the Dead Sea Scrolls group library, in SBL format:

My grand vision is for a set of interoperable standardized tools for digitizing ancient texts in a variety of languages, enabling an efficient workflow for activities from posting photographs of manuscripts, to transcriptions, to grammatical tagging, to critical editions, translations, commentaries, and bibliographies.