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간밤에 불던 바람도 어디론가 사라지고 어김없이 떠오르는 태양아래 반짝이는 풀잎들이 태양의 온기에 조금이라도 더 가까이 다가가려 아우성이네 그대의 사랑은 이미 시들어 버리고 말라버려 아무런 반응이 없지만 내 곁에는 아직도 포근하고 달콤한 향기가 남아 있어 그 향기에 취하..

So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold. From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of th..

안젤리카 카우프만, [바쿠스와 아리아드네], 캔버스에 유채, 개인소장. <출처: Web Gallery of Art> 그리스 신화 속에는 명예와 성취를 위해 목숨을 거는 남자들이 수없이 등장한다. 그들의 조력자 가운데는 사랑에 빠진 여자가 등장하기도 한다. 여자는 남자의 의지력과 도전정신에 매료되..

The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you. "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." So Abram lef..

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a n..

This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, who themselves had sons after the flood. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras. The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah. The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim and the Rodanim. (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans withi..

Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Jus..

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water ha..

The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven ..

‘신데렐라 콤플렉스’라는 말이 있다. 자신의 능력이나 배경으로 상류사회에 진입할 가능성이 전혀 없는 여성이 동화 속 주인공 신데렐라처럼 능력 있는 남자를 만나 단번에 인생 역전을 이루고자 하는 심리를 말한다. 이 말처럼 요즘은 ‘신데렐라’라는 말이 부정적인 의미로 쓰이는 ..