There are several covenants in the bible, and in each case they exhibit at least some of the elements found in real-life treaties of the ancient Middle East: a preamble, historical prologue, stipulations, deposition and reading, list of witnesses, blessings and curses, and ratification by animal sacrifice.

Warcraft III < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s campaign mode is broken up into five campaigns ( Including an optional prologue ), each featuring a different race which the player controls ( 2 Orc campaigns, 1 Human, 1 Undead, and 1 Night Elf ).

Howerd was central to most of the gags and he started each episode with a prologue — a " to camera " piece that was seldom concluded and rarely had anything to do with the episode's plot.

*, an unnamed female voice that presents a short tale in the prologue before each episode that is often related to the theme of the episode's title.

Other evidence is showcased in the prologue to The Eye of the World: Ishamael comments that he and Lews Therin have battled each other since the dawn of mankind countless times, suggesting that the Dragon is a prominent figure every time the War of Power occurs.

John Gower introduces each act with a prologue.

In a literary game of consequences, each author would write one chapter, leaving G. K. Chesterton to write a typically paradoxical prologue and Anthony Berkeley to tie up all the loose ends.

The lengthy, combat free prologue is represented by a set of progress bars, each accompanied by a line of text describing, among other things, the " foreboding vision " the character has.

The master of nearby Castle Ravenloft, Count Strahd von Zarovich, tyrannically rules the country, and a prologue explains that the residents must barricade their doors each night to avoid attacks by Strahd and his minions.

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The martyrology proper consists of 365 quatrains for each day of the year and is framed between a lengthy prologue and epilogue.

The texts are all generally the same in each case, and all differ from the one surviving copy of Monteverdi's musical score, which has three acts instead of five, a different prologue, a different ending, and many scenes and passages either omitted or rearranged.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated each segment individually, awarding them ( on a scale of four stars ): two for the prologue and first segment, one-and-a-half for the second, three-and-a-half stars for the third, and three-and-a-half for the final.

The prologue to the opera consists of two choruses, the " Chorus of Exiled Palestinians " and the " Chorus of Exiled Jews ", each of which is a general reflection about the respective peoples and their history.

The codex contains the Vulgate version of the four Gospels, the canon tables of Eusebius of Caesarea, the letter of St. Jerome to Pope Damasus ( Novum opus ), the prologue of St. Jerome to the Gospels ( Plures fuisse ), and prologues and chapter lists for each of the Gospels.

In two acts, the opera has a prologue and sixteen scenes, each preceded by a variation on the twelve-note ' Screw ' theme.

The text includes, in addition to the Gospels, the letter of Jerome to Pope Damasus ( known by its first two words Novum opus ), the prologue to Jerome's commentary on the Book of Matthew, the letter of Eusebius of Caesarea to Carpianus ( Ammonius quidam ) in which Eusebius explains the use of his Canon Tables, prologues to each of the Gospels, tables of capitula for each of the Gospels, tables for each of the Gospels indicating the festivals at which portions of that Gospel should be read, and the Eusebian Canon tables.

In the prologue, Thomas Dagget ( Elias Koteas ) is about to be ordained as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, but he is stricken by horrific visions of angels at war with each other.

They are uniformly constructed with an introduction and a dialogue ; the introduction is composed of from five to ten strophes of four heptasyllabic verses ; the dialogue between two persons or two groups of persons contains forty four strophes ( twenty-two for each interlocutor ) similar to those in the prologue and forming an alphabetic acrostic.

A prologue and an epilogue was added to each book — in which Ezylryb instructs the Band to read the Legends hidden in The First Collier before dying in his hollow — so as to tie the books together with the main series.

It contains twenty-three books ; the final book, which deals with the events of 1183 and the beginning of 1184, has only a prologue and one chapter, so it is either unfinished or the rest of the pages were lost before the whole chronicle began to be copied.

In Siku Quanshu (; c. 618-907 AD ), Sima Zhen provides commentary on the prologue chapter to Sima Qian's Shiji, " Supplemental to the Historic Record: History of the Three August Ones ," wherein it is found that the Three August Ones are Nüwa, Fu Xi, and Shennong ; Fu Xi and Nüwa have the same last name, Feng ().

The first chapter, which takes place between July 6 and August 20, 1998, serves as a prologue to the second chapter.

In the remakes, the Hero first appears during a short prologue chapter before Chapter 1.

Among these features were a new chapter in which Psaro is available as a party member ( as well as a prologue chapter ), an intra-party talk command similar to Dragon Quest VII, and the ability to turn off the artificial intelligence for party members to allow for direct control of their attacks ( except UC Party Members ).

The first chapter of the game, set a year before the prologue, explains that Ramza, son of the late war hero Barbaneth Beoulve, discovered the questionable motives behind the actions of his older half-brothers, Dycedarg and Zalbaag.

She serves as a guest character in the prologue and second chapter, during a story arc concerning Duke Goltanna's attempts to assassinate Princess Ovelia ; she eventually joins the party as a full member when Ramza agrees to help in her quest.

Finally, the prologue to Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, played on horn without the use of valves but equally suited to the alphorn, is a beautiful, inspired example of the lyric possibilities of natural harmonics.

Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

The cyclic pattern set out in the prologue is readily apparent at the beginning, but as the stories progress it begins to disintegrate, mirroring the disintegration of the world of the Israelites.

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

" The Satan ", meaning literally " the adversary ", appears in the prose prologue of Job, where he is not the devil, as he becomes in later Christian works, but one of the celestial beings who stand before God in the heavenly court.

Job does speak of an adversary on several occasions within the central poem, but it is doubtful that he is referring to " the Adversary " of the prose prologue.

The speeches of Elihu ( who is not mentioned in the prologue ) are claimed to contradict the fundamental opinions expressed by the " friendly accusers " in the central body of the poem, according to which it is impossible that the righteous should suffer, all pain being a punishment for some sin.

It is set in the land of Edom, which has been retained as the background, and in the prologue and epilogue, the name of God is YHWH, a name that even the Edomites used.

This prologue is intended to identify Jesus as the eternal Word ( Logos ) of God.

In his prologue or proem he describes two views of existence ; initially that nothing comes from nothing, and therefore existence is eternal.

The film's graveyard prologue is a recreation of the opening scene from Ed Wood's then-unreleased 1958 film Night of the Ghouls.

The replacement character that acts as the chorus would in Greek drama is often called the “ prologue .”

The specific type of monologue ( or soliloquy ) in which a Plautine slave engages is the prologue.

To highlight his evil and villainous rise to power, Ui is compared to Shakespeare's Richard III and Macbeth in both the introductory prologue and in scene 14 when he experiences similar visitations from the ghosts of his victims as Richard and Macbeth do ; while Hitler's own learned prowess at public speaking is referenced by Ui receiving lessons from an actor which include him reciting Mark Antony's famous speech from Julius Caesar.

It occurs in countless variations from recipe collections from all over Europe and is mentioned in the prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and in an early 15th century cookbook written by the chefs of Richard II.

In the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, shitten is used as the past participle ; however this form is very rare in modern English.

Prince Igor (, Knyaz ' Igor ' ) is an opera in four acts with a prologue.

In the prologue to the second book of the Commentaries is found one of the best examples of a Mappae Mundi of the high medieval culture.