Glossary
Review the lesson glossary terms below. Glossary terms may be included in quiz questions.
Canticles
(Hebrew, sir hassirim-“the song of songs”; Greek aisma asmaton; Latin canticum canticorum) – The book follows Ecclesiastes in the Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles. The name Canticles comes from the Latin.
Ecclesiastes
(Hebrew, qohelet; Greek, Ekklesiastes) – A book of the Old Testament, part of the wisdom literature.
Existentialism
The philosophical viewpoint that exalts the individual as the creator of his or her own values and meaning for life. A pure existentialist would believe that human existence is not explainable by any scientific theory, nor is it describable in rational terms. Central to existentialism is the concept that death makes life absurd.
Lyric
Suitable for singing to the lyre or for being set to music and sung.
Lyrical Poem
A musical poem.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
(1844-1900) – A German philosopher. He constructed a philosophy of life by which he claimed to inaugurate a “transvaluation of all values.” According to this doctrine, life is the will to power; but power not as exercised collectively by the masses, but the power of the great individual whom he called “Ubermensch” (“superman”).