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
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”).