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Clean Up My Church
Two years ago, if I had told you there would be a world pandemic, you would have called me insane. I knew it was coming long before it arrived. I could feel it in my bones in November 2019 before
New Testament References in the Zohar
To download a list of New Testament references in the academic Pritzker Edition of the Zohar, please click below. I have restricted this to the Pritzker Edition because it is the only academic edition of the Zohar available. Download The
Understanding ‘The Mixed Multitude’ in the Shakespearean Works
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11765.09449 (Citation of this paper). To download a PDF copy of this paper, please click the download button below. Most, if not all, scholars around the world, do not understand the different races and their imageries within the Shakespearean
Understanding the Gender Complexities of Shakespeare
To download a copy of this academic paper in pdf format, please click here: PAPER – Understanding the Gender Complexities of Shakespeare Introduction The dramatists of Shakespeare are often characterized as being feminists because of the frankness of Cordelia in King
Were the Bassanos Blackamoors, Black Hebrews, or tanned Italian-Spaniards?
To download a pdf copy of this paper, please see below. Introduction The reason for writing this paper was to prove or repudiate claims that Emilia Bassano and other Bassano descendants were “blackamoors”. The above portrait has been shared around
PUBLISHED: A Comprehensive Commentary of SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (TOME 1 OF 3)
510 pages of full colour in hardcover only, ISBN: 9780992285791. Available in all good bookstores. No ebooks will be issued for this title. Publication date 21 December 2020, release date 27 January 2021 USA time. REAR COVER BLURB: We are proud
Dr Peter D Matthews
With many years of hard work, study and dedication, he climbed the corporate ladder to senior positions of General Manager and CEO of large building, development and manufacturing companies, while continuing to fund his studies in history, literature, theology, strategic management and philosophy. Peter was ordained as a Minister in February 1999, and awarded a Doctorate Degree of Philosophy in 2001. As a keen historian and dedicated academic philosopher, Peter has spent a lifetime in the Shakespearean works, realizing the dramatist had cited the likes of Plutarch, Virgil, Philo, Homer, Quintus Ennius, Livy, Julius Caesar, Cornelius Nepos, Flavius Josephus, just to name a few. Each play was deliberately embellished with Hebrew piyyut (embellished poetry used as poetic song in worship on Sabbaths and festivals), Jewish theology, and Kabbalistic lore from the Sefer Yetzirah, the Babylonian Talmud, and the first Zohar of Mantua, which was printed by members of the Bassano family. SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS are no exception, for each of these Zoharic שיר זהב (Shir Zahav, golden poems) ― a traditional Hebrew “Sonnet” of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter ― was penned by a Hebraic female author on Bat Torah (Women of Torah) ― the redemptions of Israel through women. (Click on his name above to view his full biography)
Peter lives with his family in rural Queensland, Australia. He is currently finishing Tomes 2 and 3 of ‘A Comprehensive Commentary of SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS’, which will be published by Bassano Publishing House in 2022. He will be conducting online teaching sessions on the Sonnets once these volumes are published. Universities desiring to partner with Peter, can contact him on the below academic and social media accounts. This is due to spammers abusing his former email address, hence his contact details are no longer published online.