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Luke 1:26-38
 | Reading the Text:
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| Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
 | The
Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto. |
| "Call
and Awakening," Comparative World Scriptures from United
Communities of Spirit. |
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"Jesus Virginally Conceived," The Jesus Database, an online annotated inventory of
the traditions concerning the life and teachings of Jesus. Dr. Gregory C.
Jenks, FaithFutures Foundation. |
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Chapter XXXIII,
The First Apology of
Justin
Martyr. (c 150) |
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Chapter C,
Dialogue
With Trypho, Justin Martyr.
(c 160) |
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III.IX.2,
III.X.2,
III.XVI.3,
III.XXI.4,
III.XXII.4,
V.I.3,
Adversus
Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons.
(c. 180) |
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Chapter IX,
Adversus Judaeos,
Tertullian (c.
198) |
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Chapter VI,
On
The Veiling of Virgins,
Tertullian (c.
205) |
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II.6,
To His Wife, Tertullian (c. 206) |
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IV.7,
Against
Marcion, Tertullian
(c. 210) |
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Chapter XII,
On
Idolatry, Tertullian
(c. 211) |
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Chapter II,
Chapter XIV,
Chapter XXI,
On the Flesh of Christ,
Tertullian (c.
211) |
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Chapter
XXVI,
Chapter
XXVII, Against Praxeas,
Tertullian
(c. 213) |
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I.III.2,
II.VI.7,
First
Principles (De Principiis),
Origen.
(c.225) |
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VI.XXX,
VI.XLVI,
VII.XIV,
The
Refutation of all Heresies (Philosophumena),
Hippolytus of Rome.
(c. 225) |
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"The Angel's
Greeting," Luke 1:28,
Meister Eckhart. |
| Commentary on a Harmony of the
Evangelists,
John
Calvin:
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| From the
Geneva Notes.
 | "Though Elisabeth was
of the tribe of Levi, yet it was possible for her to be Mary's cousin:
for whereas it was forbidden by the Law for maidens to be married to men
of other tribes, there was an exception among the Levites, who could
take for themselves wives out of any tribe: for the Levites had no
portion allotted to them when the land was divided among the people." |
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| From
Matthew
Henry's Commentary (c. 1700).
| "And we must, as Mary
here, guide our desires by the word of God. In all conflicts, let us
remember that with God nothing is impossible; and as we read and hear
his promises, let us turn them into prayers, Behold the willing servant
of the Lord; let it be unto me according to thy word." |
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| From
Wesley's
Notes. John Wesley
(1703-1791).
| "Though Elisabeth was
of the house of Aaron, and Mary of the house of David, by the fathers
side, they might be related by their mothers. For the law only forbad
heiresses marrying into another tribe. And so other persons continually
intermarried; particularly the families of David and of Levi." |
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| From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
| "That Christ is the Son
of God in His divine and eternal nature is clear from all the New
Testament; yet here we see that Sonship efflorescing into human and
palpable manifestation by His being born, through "the power of the
Highest," an Infant of days." |
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| From
The
People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
| "In the angel's message
we have, (1) An assurance, Fear not. (2) A promise, Thou shalt
bring forth a son. (3) A command, Thou shalt call his name Jesus.
(4) A prophecy, He shall be great, the Son of the Highest, sit on
David's throne, reign forever." |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
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"Mary,
the Lord's Servant: Availability,"
The Journey with Jesus: Notes to Myself, Daniel B. Clendenin, Journey with
Jesus Foundation. |
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"First
Thoughts on Passages from Mark in the Lectionary: Advent
4," William Loader, Murdoch University,
Uniting Church in Australia.
| "Divine grace cuts through prejudice to
uphold the dignity of the least and expendable. It meets us in our
vulnerability and our humanity, when we know we cannot be the world’s
Messiah but can simply be what we are." |
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Luke 1:26-38, Advent 4B,
Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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"The Possible
Impossible," Dr. Dwight Gunter, Preacher's Magazine, 2007.
| "Our response is to go beyond
simply bringing our impossibilities to God. We are to bring
ourselves to Him first and then our impossibilities." |
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Exegesis,
Advent 4B, by
Richard Donovan at lectionary.org.
| "...we must also acknowledge that favor
with God is a two-edged sword. God offers mercy but no life of ease." |
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"The Annunciation,"
Gospel Analysis, Sermons from
Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle,
Washington. Detailed background and exegesis. |
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"Exegetical Considerations,"
4th Sunday in Advent,
Richard Carlson, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Using Greek
for Sunday Text Preparations.
| "What is the unimpossible rhema
that God’s is working in the lives of your hearers at the close of
Advent?" |
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Exegetical Notes
by Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks Christian Resources.
| "Sometimes we need to be reminded that
Jesus was a son of Mary, growing up poor and misunderstood." |
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Sermon
Preparation Thoughts and Questions by Wesley White, 2005. |
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"The Gift of Me,"
David Busic and Jeren
Rowell, Preacher's Magazine: Listening to the Text, Engaging the
Text, Preaching the Text.
| "When God startles us with the new
possibilities of His saving activity, the example we are called to
imitate is Mary’s humble submission to the will of God." |
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Marginally Mark, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western
Australia.
| "We might summarise the [Year B]
Advent Gospels as (1) Social Disruption - earthly & apocalyptic; (2)
Baptismal Disruption - for a change of heart; (3) Messianic disruption -
"He's arrived!" ; & (4) The Disruption of Slavery (or, 'The Cost of
Discipleship', as Bonhoeffer put it)." |
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"Enough
for the Journey," Jerry Goebel,
One
Family Outreach. "Focus on scripture from a justice perspective." Exegesis, study, and teen study
and activities.
| "One might even recognize in this simple story the
closing of the Old Testament and the opening of the New. It is a
contrast between the failures of ritualism with a tired, old,
priesthood—that cannot even recognize the fruit of their long-desired
hopes—in comparison to the overwhelming gratitude of one of the least of
these who welcomes the Messiah in the most unexpected circumstance.
Which follower sounds more like me?" |
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"The Honor of God,"
Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com: A
Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel. Adult Study, Children's
Story, Family Activity, Support Materials.
| "Have you ever been criticized
something you valued?" |
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"A Question of Faith," Jennette F. Scholer.
The Christian Century,
1987. At Religion Online.
| "Faith is not simply expressed in obedience -- faith
is obedience" |
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"The
Mary in Us All," Ronald Goetz, The
Christian Century, 1987. At Religion Online.
| "Without acknowledging that we
are, in our virgin beginnings, the humble, barefooted recipients of
a grace and a call that are the foundation of all we can ever hope
to accomplish, our civilization loses all perspective and our power
inevitably corrupts us. We could do worse than to claim Mary as our
patron saint, she who was the simple and pure recipient of the grace
of the Holy Spirit." |
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"God's
Call to Mary," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible
Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed
textual notes. |
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"Mary
as Role Model," Byron L. Rohrig, The Christian Century,
1986. At Religion Online.
| "Neither Catholic nor
Protestant tradition and practice have done Mary justice. Her story
reminds us that the oddest, most inglorious moments are packed with
the annunciation of God’s presence and God’s call to
serve." |
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"Mary Says Yes," John Stendahl, The Christian Century, 2002. At Religion
Online.
| "The banter and hard questioning we
hear from women in the other Gospels is hardly prominent, if even present,
in Luke’s imagining. His Mary can seem a paragon of compliance." |
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"Wrestling
with Advent," Janet Karsten Lawson, The
Christian Century, 1989. At Religion Online.
| "In the between-times of
Advent, the unresolved fugal dialogues will go on. More precisely,
their felt irresolution may be the active sign of a God who
continues to encounter us. The Magnificat’s Lord of love and
justice is in personal terms the One who "fights with us"
in both senses of the phrase, our best friend and most faithful
antagonist at once." |
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Luke
1:26-38, in Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary's
An
Exegetical Study of the Common Lectionary, coordinated by Prof.
John E. Alsup, features rough translation, disposition, immediate
context, broader context, hermeneutical bridge, and contemporary
address.
| "Daily life through
Advent is full of all kinds of anxieties. People are inundated by
ressures of commercialism, socializing and temptations to overindulge.
Visions of God’s activities might bring some peace of mind, some
confidence in the deity and hope in the Messiah." |
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"Hearing
the Favor in Greetings," reflections and analysis by Michael
Hoy in Sabbatheology by The Crossings Community of Saint Louis.
| "Not only does Mary
affirm that God's new oneness with us is something promising, but that
she is going places with this God, this Lord who is with us. That gets
us off and running -- and with God." |
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Reflection
on Luke 1:26-38, Rev Helen Hanten. Environmental &
earth-centered reflections from the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota Environmental
Stewardship Commission. |
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Luke 1:26-38, Annunciation,
Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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| Articles & Background:
| "Annunciation," wikipedia. |
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"Narrative Logic
in the Annunciation to Mary (Luke 1:26-38)," David T. Landry, University
of St. Thomas, Journal of Biblical Literature, 1995. |
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"The Old Testament in the New: A Jewish Perspective," David Daube, in
Appeasement or Resistance and Other Essays on New Testament Judaism.
University of California Press, 1987. (Scroll down to "IX
- The Handmaid of the Lord.") |
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"Socio-Rhetorical Criticism: Mary, Elizabeth, and the Magnificat as a Test
Case," Vernon K. Robbins, The New Literary Criticism and the New
Testament, E S Malbon and E V McKnight, eds, 1994. |
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"Jesus as Messiah in the Gospel of Luke: Discerning a Pattern of
Correction," Brendan Byrne, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly,
2003.
| "My thesis is that in the infancy story-specifically in
the scene describing the annunciation to Mary (1:26-38)-Luke creates a
pattern of 'correction' that runs through the gospel." |
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| Companion Pieces at
Religion
OnLine, adapted from The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions, 1998.
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"God's
Way of Acting," N.T. Wright.
| "If
the first two chapters of Matthew and the first two of Luke had
never existed, I do not suppose that my own Christian faith, or that
of the church to which I belong, would have been very different. But
since they do, and since for quite other reasons I have come to
believe that the God of Israel, the world's creator, was personally
and fully revealed in and as Jesus of Nazareth, I hold open my
historical judgment and say: If that's what God deemed appropriate,
who am I to object?" |
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"Light
in the Darkness," Marcus
Borg.
| "Thus
I do not see the basis of the birth stories as history remembered.
Yet I think these stories are true. To use familiar terminology, I
see these stories as history metaphorized, that is, as metaphorical
narratives. And the history that is being metaphorized is not the
birth itself but the Jesus story as a whole. With beauty and power,
these symbolic narratives express central early Christian
convictions about the significance of Jesus." |
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"The Virgin Annunciate in Italian Art of the Late Middle Ages and
Renaissance," Susan vonRohr Scaff, College Literature, 2002. |
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Virgin Birth: Child of the
Holy Ghost, from And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of
Sex in the Bible, by Ronald L. Ecker. |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Brown, Raymond E.,
"The Annunciation to Mary, the Visitation, and the Magnificat,"
Worship, 1988. |
| Conrad, Edgar W.,
"The Annunciation of Birth and the Birth of the Messiah,"
The
Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1985. |
| Daniel, Lillian,
"Borne in Perplexity,"
Journal for Preachers, 2005. Sermon. |
| Jarrell, R.H.,
"The Birth Narrative as Female Counterpart to Covenant,"
Journal
for the Study of the Old Testament, 2002. |
| Jegen, Carol Frances,
"Rejoicing in God,"
The Living Pulpit, 1996. (see
Joy issue focus of
The Living Pulpit 5.4, 1996.) |
| Jones, Verity A.,
"Back to Bethlehem, Luke 1:26-38,"
Journal for Preachers, 2004. |
| Norris, Kathleen,
"Open Paths,"
The Christian Century, 2005. |
| Smith, D. Moody,
"An Exposition of Luke 1:26-38,"
Interpretation, 1975. |
| Sweeney, James P.,
"Modern and Ancient Controversies over the Virgin Birth of Jesus,"
Bibliotheca Sacra, 2003. |
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| Reviews: |
| Sermons:
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"The Possible
Impossible," Dr. Dwight Gunter, Preacher's Magazine, 2007. |
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"Head of
Household," the Rev. Dr. Scott Black Johnston, Day 1, 2006. |
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"Have I
Got News for You!" the Rev. Dr. William L. Self, Day 1, 2005. |
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"The Gift of Me,"
Darrik Acre,
Preacher's Magazine, 2005. |
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"And the
Greatest of These is Hope," Sr. Joan Delaplane, Aquinas Institute of
Theology, St. Louis, Missouri. 30 Good Minutes, Chicago Sunday
Evening Club, 2002. |
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"Mary, Mother of Jesus,"
Sermons from Seattle,
Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle,
Washington. |
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"Lovely Lady," Phyllis Tickle,
Day 1, 2002. |
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"The
Angels and the Incarnation: A Sermon on the Annunciation,"
Stephen F. Noll, Professor of Biblical Studies at Trinity Episcopal
School for Ministry. |
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"The Lord is With You,"
Dean William Willimon,
Duke Chapel, 1999. |
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"Believing,"
John Jewell, 1999. |
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"A Wailing Wall
and An Angel," Elizabeth O'Connor, 30 Good Minutes, Chicago
Sunday Evening Club, 1994. |
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Father
Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist,"
Commentary and Homily
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| With Children:
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"An Angel Visits
Mary," Illustrating the Story
(lessons, children's sermons), coloring pages, activity sheets, crafts,
children's songs. MSSS Crafts. |
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"You Shall Call His Name Jesus,"
Charles Kirkpatrick, Sermons4kids.com. |
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"Mary, Mother of Jesus,"
Jim Kerlin, childrensermons.com. |
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"Sunny's
Dog Awaits the Birth," children's story by Larry Broding, word-sunday.com. |
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"Gabriel Brings
Blessings to Mary," Sunday School
Lessons: Family Bible Study, art projects, music, stories, etc. |
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"Gabriel Visits
Mary,"
children's study, puzzles, coloring sheet, etc. Higher Praise Christian
Center. |
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Luke 1 & 2 Word
Search Don Crownover's Bible Puzzles. |
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"Figures of Faith: A Series of Children's Messages for Advent," Laura
Venhuizen, Reformed Worship. |
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The Christmas Story Crossword Puzzle, downloadable and interactive
online, based on the NRSV Christmas stories from Matthew and Luke. Bruce
Gillette, Limestone Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, DE. |
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| Drama:
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"A
Child Will Be Born," from A Certain Jesus by
Jose Ignacio and Maria Lopez Vigil. Ideal for catechetical and liturgical
dramatization of today's gospel. Claretian Publications. |
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| Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
| Free Public Domain Clipart for Church Bulletins:
John the
Baptist,
Luke 1,
Mary,
Church Bulletin Resources. |
| Clip Art Images:
Luke 1:26-38, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú. |
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Luke 1:26-38,
Luke 1:26-38, Liturgical Drawing,
Maria d.c. Zamora, Claretian
Resources, Philippines. ("Download and use these for
free.") |
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Clip Art, Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld woodcuts, World Mission
Collection, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. |
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Annunciation,
Clip Art, Anglican
Diocese of Dunedin, New Zealand. |
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| Hymns and Music:
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| Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's
Art Index:
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| Movies scenes with the following themes,
listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance: |
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