How did the bible influence Michelangelo's work?
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Michelangelo was commissioned by royalty and by churches to paint and sculpt religious (or Biblical) works.  Take a look at the reference (source) below.\n\nAs I see it, he was not influenced by any connection to churches (or the Bible) other than being commissioned (hired) to do such works.  That is, his father was not a priest and he had no (like that) growing up.  BUT, PLEASE READ THE REFERENCE FOR YOURSELF.  (I only skimmed it.)  \n\nIt starts out like this:  \n\n"Michelangelo is famous for creating the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, as well as the Last Judgment over the altar, and The Martyrdom of St. Peter and The Conversion of St. Paul in the Vatican's Cappella Paolina; among his many sculptures are those of David and the Pietà, as well as the big man Doni Virgin, Bacchus, Moses, Rachel, Leah, and members of the Medici family; he also designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica."
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Most of the books of the current bible were choosen and edited by King James to suit his political aspirations.  There are many other letters written during the history of the bible, just recently we are hearing about the letters of Judas.  While all the writtings are inspired by God, man has choosen what he wants to read of them.
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A manuscript that the pope thought was so inflamatory that he was willing to bend over backwards to keep it coming to light. He found it in the decayed hands of the skeleton of Mary Magdalen who was also wearing a wedding ring inscribed "Luv from JC".\n\n\n*snort* Nah, just kidding.\n\nThe answer is that at the moment no-one can give you a definite answer-only speculation until the Vatican sheds more light on the subject(if it ever does).
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I tracked this down in Rome. It is very impressive.\nI have put a link in for you in the sources.\n\nWhat of the interesting facial features on this Moses? Some think that, in the beard, a silhouette of Michelangelo is visible. \n\nThe horns have elicited various interpretations. The likeliest explanation is that Michelangelo relied on Jerome's vulgate translation of the Old Testament. In this commonly available version, the "rays of light" that were seen around Moses' face after his meeting with God on Mt Sinai were expressed as horns. Some people believe that Jerome's intention was to express a metaphor for the glory of God reflected from Moses's face.\n.
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I'm a bit rusty on langauge arts, but here goes nothing:\n\nMany of C.S. Lewis' writings allude to the Bible, and have gained popularity among church groups because of this.
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The Bible is a mythological tale. Do you actually believe that the red seas parted or that stone became bread? Perhaps there was a saint and he had many followers, Also perhaps some of the incidents described did happen, but the truth has been exxagerated to become a description of a super-human. And therefore, take the Bible, or for that matter most of the Holy Books with a pinch of salt. It is meant to evoke faith and thankfulness that there is a superpower above us who can do things that we can't(simply translated to hope!) Again, many versions of The Bible exist. Popular ones do not refer to Mary or his descendents.
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The Bible was intended to get people into a relationship with G-d.\nThe author of a book is greater than the book he wrote. In the same way, G-d is greater than the Bible.\nThe Bible is a tool to help us get in touch with G-d, & to help us know Him & His ways.\nAs you enter into a personal relationship with Him, He begins directing you...guiding you...relating to & with you.\nYour life begins to become a 'living book' that He's in the process of writing, on a daily basis. Folks begin to look at you...and see Him in you!\nThe book of Acts has not ended. We are living it.\nThe Bible was written as a way for G-d to show us His love. It starts & ends with Him in control. And if we choose; we can join Him.\nWe need boundaries to exist. We use the Bible as a guide to help us measure things like truth & deception; good from bad; life from death. G-d had to reveal His will to mankind, & He did that through the Jewish prophets. He is still speaking to people all over the world today. Learning to listen to Him is an art. \nAlthough the Bible, as a book, has a beginning & an end, we can become people of that Book. In accepting It & living by Its' standards, our lives become the pages on which G-d continues to write.
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*If* there was a Yeshua ben Nazareb (jeebus), he would have spoken Aramaic.  \n\nThe first translations of the alleged events were translated into a Greek bile - oops, bible - and that includes the pentateuch and the gnostic texts. \n\nThe fables were then translated into Latin by the early catholic crutch - oops, church - to form the Vulgate bible, but for political reasons many gnostic texts were excluded and many verses were made up and added that did not exist in the Greek version.\n\nThe German translation was motivated by politics in Germany, the King James version was motivated by politics in England, etc. etc. etc.  \n\nThe babble - oops, bible - and religion have always been the tools of political ambition.  When one controls the "truth", it's easy to control the people.
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Despite a prior poster's assertion, Neo-Platonism is in fact the dominant influence on Christianity outside of the biblical texts themselves. Neo-platonism was the key the great theologians used to understand the meaning of the Johannine logos.\n\nNeo-Platonism's huge influence is largely due to Athanasius and Augustine. See "Confessions" meditations in Book Ten and Book Eleven.\n\nThe Peripatetics on the other hand are probably the kind who were gently criticized by the writer of the Deuterocanonical Wisdom of Solomon (Chapter 13.)
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that might have been contradicting to the ideas of some other author.  This way you can see how the Bible is tried to be manipulated by some shrewd persons. In that case where remains the authenticity of the Bible, where any body can modify any part of the Bible?
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There are lots of books that weren't included in the bible.\n\nRoman Emperor Constantine had an agenda when he invented his pagan religion and he adopted books that supported his universal pagan religion.\n\nThe "bible" is the invention of a pagan Roman Emperor and has little or nothing to do with Hebrews other than adopting their myths as the foundation for the Jesus myth.
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One of the best books on this is "The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict" by Josh McDowell.  He is a lawyer who spent years trying to prove that the Bible is false and that Jesus never existed and from independent texts and archaeological sources ended up proving the opposite.  He has a section detailing how priests who copied the manuscripts would, after double checking their copy, go back and count letters in every verse just to insure they hadn't accidently left out or added a letter.\n\n     There are so many manuscripts in existence that they can be compared fairly easily to show there has been no change.  As earlier manuscripts are found it only confirms this more.  It was assumed this would not be the case in the mid 60s and 'experts' from that time are still quoted in academia because they don't like the results of new archaeological discoveries.\n\n     Scholar John Lea compares Shakespeare and the Bible:  He says that it seems strange that the text of Shakespeare, which has been in existence for only a few centuries "should be far more uncertain and corrupt than that of the New Testament, now over eighteen centuries old, during nearly fifteen of which it existed only in manuscript..."\n\n     "With perhaps a dozen or twenty exceptions (mostly involving numbers - my own note) the text of every verse in the New Testament may be said to be so far settled by general consent of scholars, that any dispute as to its readings must relate rather to the intrepretation of the words than to any doubts respeting the words themselves.  But in every one of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays there are probably a hundred readings still in dispute, a large portion of which materially  affects the meaning of the passages in which they occur."\n\n     Doctor Bernard Ramm notes that "to be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as the New Testament..."\n\n     "Jews...kept tabs on every letter, syllable, word and paragraph.  They had special classes of men within their culture whose sole duty was to preserve and transmit these documents with practically perfect fidelity-scribes, lawyers, massoretes.  Who ever counted the letters and syllables and words of Plato or Aristotle?  Cicero or Seneca?"\n\n     Very few manuscripts exist of most writings we accept from antiquity without question.  I believe Plato is still in the lead with 27 manuscripts in existence of one of his works.  In contrast, thousands of manuscripts of scripture exist that can be crossreferenced and checked for accuracy.\n\n     The party who wrote above that King James had a political agenda with his translation is correct.  It probably colors less than 1% of his translation.  Nevertheless, the New International Version is probably the most accurate translation currently available as it used a multitude of scholars cross checking each others work and went to original Hebrew manuscripts dating to centuries before the latin translation the King James version used (as the original Hebrew ms. had yet to be discovered at the time).  If you read the King James side by side with the New International Version you will find very little difference.  And no difference where core doctrines (teachings) of Christianity are concerned.
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In an odd way, sweet_shy is right.  Sure, there are translation errors and parts of it may have been added or deleted, but it's still God's work.  It was divinely inspired; the only part that really matters is the message, and do you really think that he would let his message be corrupted?  The rest is just fluff to make it readable.  Now having read the New Testament, I find that what I read is entirely in line with my knowledge of God.  I think the message comes through just fine and there are no errors in it despite whatever stages the actual text has gone through.
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wait for the next DBrown's book "Yet Another DaVinci Code" -- an answer is there!!\n\nalternatively, make your own research into Leonardo's paintings!!
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It's entirely possible. The bible (both OT and NT) borrow liberally from other religions and mythology.
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Remember, men wrote the bible...regardless of the fact that it may have been "influenced" by God...it was still men.\n\nHad God decided to influence a group of women to write the bible (or if a group of women just did it...whatever) it would have been Adam who ate the fruit, men who serve women, etc etc.
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At the age of 15 Leonardo had already mastered skills in the fine arts and the young man was sent to Florence to work as an apprentice in the renowned workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. \n\nLeonardo worked with del Verrocchio until 1477, during which time del Verrocchio had been commissioned for a painting that would be The Baptism of Christ, and the painter had Leonardo aid him with the work by having his pupil paint the kneeling angel in the painting. Leonardo's angel was so outstanding that it shadowed del Verrocchio's portion of the work, and Leonardo is quoted to have later stated that "poor is a pupil that does not surpass his master." It is also said that Andrea del Verrocchio gave up his career as a painter, having suffered such humiliation by being out-painted by his own student.