... pinpointing the beginnings of Greek idolatry in King David’s time, with Ceres allegedly the first to be worshipped as a deity. In so doing, Bedford charged, Newton ignored the extensive evidence furnished by Scripture regarding the pervasiveness of idolatry ever since Nimrod’s day. Here Bedford resorted...

... and earth/Rose out of chaos.” The chief devils described in the catalog that occupies the center of book 1 and organizes its poetic figures and symbolic geography—Carthage, Sodom, Egypt, Babel-Babylon, Rome—are precisely those who will come to inhabit the pagan shrines that human idolatry will build next...

... directed against “idolatry,” with the queen as its implied target. Responding to Knox's sense of crisis, this assembly endorsed a “reformation of manners” and “public fast” as the means of “avoiding of the plagues and scourges of God, which appeared to come upon the people for their sins and ingratitude...

...” underpinning the enlightenment project of “modernity.” That Proust suspected it was folly is clear from his indictment of John Ruskin with the charge of idolatry. Baudelaire Charles Benjamin Walter Bonaventure Caranfa Angelo Giotto Descombes Vincent Mauriac François Balzac Honoré de Bunyan John Ruskin...

... of ancient Jewish law. Second, the chapter demonstrates how the very topics raised by modern scholars—the keeping of the Sabbath, the sabbatical year, and ritual purity, as well as issues of nudity and idolatry—actually show how well Jews integrated the public bathhouse into their communities and way of life...

...This chapter assesses how reformation unfolded in Scotland. From the moment John Knox gave up on Catholicism and joined the beleaguered Protestant community in his native Scotland, he framed his preaching around the difference between the truth as he understood it and the idolatry he imputed...