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  1. Akomfrahs works can be seen to articulate the contemporary condition in sensuous ways, making contemporaneity — or contemporaneities — something that can be directly experienced. In the conversation we begin by talking about the methodology of his video works and how montage deals with temporality.

  2. www.pamm.org › 04 › akomfrah_english_bifold_v2John Akomfrah - pamm.org

    Akomfrah thus sets his own work up as a play of sorts, drawing on the notion of “epic theater”—a mode of avant-garde theater developed in the early 20th century by Bertolt Brecht, among others, that eschewed narrative and illusory efects, and sought to address social realities.

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    Hagar was an Egyptian woman who was the handmaid of Sarah. Because she could not have children Sarah gave her to Abraham. Soon after this occurred Hagar gave birth to Ishmael. Keturah, the second wife of Abraham, likely married him after the death of Sarah. Keturah bore him six boys.

    Isaac, Sarah's only child, was miraculously born after God healed Sarah of being unable to produce children. Isaac's wife Rebekah bore him two sons. He lived longer, at 180 years, than either his father (175 years) or his son Jacob (147 years). Rebekah, wife of Isaac, was healed of being barren after the couple prayed to God for a miracle. She gave...

    Jacob was the twin-brother of Esau and grandson of Abraham. He stole Esau's blessing from their father by pretending to be him when Isaac was old and unable to see very well. To escape the wrath of his brother, Jacob flees to a relative named Laban. Jacob works fourteen years for Laban and marries his daughters Leah and Rachel. After wrestling with...

    Bilhah was a slave girl Laban gave to his daughter Rachel. Because Rachel could not have children she gave Bilhah to Jacob. Two sons were produced out of this arrangement. Leah was the oldest daughter of Laban and sister to Rachel. Laban, although he agreed to have Jacob marry Rachel after he worked for him for seven years, deceived Jacob into marr...

    David represented the 13th generation from Abraham in the family tree (the 33rd Biblical generation on earth). He was the youngest of Jesse's eight sons. The prophet Samuel anointed David Israel's new king c. 1025 B.C. when he was roughly fifteen years old. He would not end up ruling, however, until he turned thirty years old in 1010. At thirty he ...

  3. During the Old Testament, the Jewish church was ‘com-mitted the oracles of God’ (Romans 3.2). Under the New Testament, this stewardship was transferred to the Christian church which is called the ‘pillar and ground’ of God’s inspired truth (1 Timothy 3.15).

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  4. Jun 13, 2020 · A quick list of the 12 tribes of Israel. 1. Judah. The tribe of kings, and the most preeminent of the 12 tribes in the biblical narrative. Judah “prevailed over his brothers,” (1 Chronicles 5:2), and the tribe’s territory included the city of Jerusalem and the holy temple.

  5. John Akomfrah is a hugely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, post-colonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explores the experiences of migrant diasporas globally. Akomfrah was a founding

  6. John Akomfrah and Edward George picked up on critic John Corbett’s observation of the uncanny similarity between Sun Ra, Lee Scratch Perry, and George Clinton, Black musicians respectively in jazz, reggae, and funk: all of whom, while unaware of each other’s practices, deployed the captivat -