Download or read book Expectations of a King written by Robert Davis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the kingdom of Ra, eighteen-year-old Dan is an accomplished warrior, co-leader of his sibling group, the Hammer-Axe Six, and in line to become the king of Ra. In order to succeed, the three-time Hammer-Axe champion and warlord needs a great conquest to provide him with credibility. Led by his inherited warrior heart, Dan begins to plan an attack on the Southern Jungle. Unexpectedly, the Hammer-Axe Six are confronted and then mentally controlled by a group of telepaths called the Tat. The Tat are determined to eliminate the Hammer-Axe Six, at all cost, in order to prevent war. In addition, a Lightning Jinn is trying to intervene for purposes unknown to Dan. Consequently, an avalanche of unforeseen events takes place. As Dans blind ambition leads him to take on risky challenges, turmoil builds and leads to cavalier behavior as he wonders whether he can live up to everyones expectations. However, one thing is certain: he cannot fulfill his destiny without help from the Hammer-Axe Six. In this exciting fantasy, only time will tell if a young warrior destined to become a king will succumb to his inner urges and change his fate forever.
Download or read book A Hologram for the King written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Award Finalist, a New York Times bestseller and one of the most highly-acclaimed books of the year, A Hologram for the King is a sprawling novel about the decline of American industry from one of the most important, socially-aware novelists of our time. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment--and a moving story of how we got here.
Download or read book Expectations written by Eric Ronald Jackson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book, Expectations: They Can Make You or Break You, Eric Jackson presents some thought provoking information about expectations. Because our expectations are so routine, like breathing, thinking, or walking, he gives many examples to show the importance of expectations. This is an excellent book for families. It discusses different levels of expectations and different levels of faith, including discussions of our expectations of God and prayer. It discusses expectations of family members including expectations for teenagers who want to leave home. Also included are discussions on how decisions and prosperity affect expectations. Rev. Theodore Brown, DD, says The book is profound and consistent with different life experiences. The authors point of view adheres to Christian values in understanding scripture and applying it to everyday life. He gives his audiences insight with the support of his Christian beliefs.
Download or read book God s Messiah in the Old Testament written by Andrew T. Abernethy and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two respected Old Testament scholars offer a fresh, comprehensive treatment of the messiah theme throughout the entire Old Testament and examine its relevance for New Testament interpretation. Addressing a topic of perennial interest and foundational significance, this book explores what the Old Testament actually says about the Messiah, divine kingship, and the kingdom of God. It also offers a nuanced understanding of how New Testament authors make use of Old Testament messianic texts in explaining who Jesus is and what he came to do.
Download or read book Imaginary Kings written by Olivier Hekster and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at various ways in which royal images functioned within different ideological frameworks in the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome. It argues that visibility lies at the heart of power, especially under monarchic rule. The contributions highlight how, throughout the ancient Mediterranean, patterns can be detected in the use of royal images. There seem to have been continuous (re)negotiations between innovation and tradition, East and West, and between aerealAe and aeimaginaryAe kings. Contents Richard Fowler / Olivier Hekster: Imagining kings: From Persia to Rome Lindsay Allen: Le roi imaginaire: An audience with the Achaemenid king Peter Thonemann: The tragic king: Demetrios Poliorketes and the city of Athens Margherita Facella: Roman perception of Commagenian royalty Matthew Gisborne: A curia of kings: Sulla and royal imagery Richard Fowler: aeMost fortunate rootsAe: Tradition and legitimacy in Parthian royal ideology Olivier Hekster: Captured in the gaze of power: Visibility, games and Roman imperial representation Ted Kaizer: Kingly priests in the Roman Near East? Bibliography Index
Download or read book Jesus the Messiah written by Herbert W. Bateman and published by Kregel Academic & Professional. This book was released on 2012 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few books have sought to exhaustively trace the theme of Messiah through all of Scripture, but this book does so with the expert analysis of three leading evangelical scholars. For the Bible student and pastor, Jesus the Messiahpresents a comprehensive picture of both scriptural and cultural expectations surrounding the Messiah, from an examination of the Old Testament promises to their unique and perfect fulfillment in Jesus' life. Students of the life of Christ will benefit from the authors' rich understanding of ancient biblical culture and pastors will find an indispensable help for understanding the unity and importance of the ancient promise of Messiah. This handsome volume will be a ready reference on Messiah for years to come.
Download or read book The Worst Medieval Monarchs written by Phil Bradford and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen. John. Edward II. Richard II. Richard III. These five are widely viewed as the worst of England’s medieval kings. Certainly, their reigns were not success stories. Two of these kings lost their thrones, one only avoided doing so by dying, another was killed in battle, and the remaining one had to leave his crown to his opponent. All have been seen as incompetent, their reigns blighted by civil war and conflict. They tore the realm apart, failing in the basic duty of a king to ensure peace and justice. For that, all of them paid a heavy price. As well as incompetence, some also have reputations for cruelty and villainy, More than one has been portrayed as a tyrant. The murder of family members and arbitrary executions stain their reputations. All five reigns ended in failure. As a result, the kings have been seen as failures themselves, the worst examples of medieval English kingship. They lost their reputations as well as their crowns. Yet were these five really the worst men to wear the crown of England in the Middle Ages? Or has history treated them unfairly? This book looks at the stories of their lives and reigns, all of which were dramatic and often unpredictable. It then examines how they have been seen since their deaths, the ways their reputations have been shaped across the centuries. The standards of their own age were different to our own. How these kings have been judged has changed over time, sometimes dramatically. Fiction, from Shakespeare’s plays to modern films, has also played its part in creating the modern picture. Many things have created, over a long period, the negative reputations of these five. Today, they have come to number among the worst kings of English history. Is this fair, or should they be redeemed? That is the question this book sets out to answer.
Download or read book The Expectations Formed by the Assyrians that a Great Deliverer Would Appear about the Time of Our Lord s Advent Demonstrated written by Frederick Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Family of the King written by Jan G. van der Watt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly all metaphors in the Gospel according to John relate to ancient family imagery. Thus, the disciples are born of the Father; the Father provides them with bread and drink (water); He educates them and protects them and a dwelling is prepared for them, and so on. This family imagery, which is interwoven throughout the Gospel in a complex network, provides a key to the understanding of the message of the Fourth Gospel. In this volume, after exploring numerous state-of-the-art theories on metaphor, a customised metaphor theory is developed from the Fourth Gospel itself, which can be applied to the analysis of the Gospel as a whole. The theory is based on two of the best-known metaphors in the Fourth Gospel: I am the Good Shepherd, and I am the True Vine. Subsequently, all other metaphors are analysed according to this theory.
Download or read book The Destiny of the Righteous in the Psalms written by Jerome Frederick Davis Creach and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the righteous in the Psalms? Prayer and the profile of the righteous ; Clean hands and pure hearts ; To be near God -- The destiny of the righteous and the shape of the psalter. The Lord's anointed and the suffering of the righteous ; The suffering servants as the Lord's anointed -- The embodied hope of the righteous. David : defender of the righteous ; David : the enduring hope ; Mount Zion ; Zion and the longing of the righteous ; Torah.
Download or read book Expectations of the Law in the Middle Ages written by Anthony Musson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in the middle ages.
Download or read book The Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia written by Robert Antonín and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia discusses the development of medieval concepts and ideas about just and unjust rulership in medieval Bohemia. This theme is examined in the context of the European political thinking between 6th and 14th centuries. Robert Antonín provides new insights into interpretations of medieval sources of various kinds and asks innovative questions regarding the legitimization of monarchic power, the importance of Saint Wenceslaus, the role of ancient and biblical motifs in the Czech sources, and the influence of chivalric ideals on concepts of power. The theme of the book revolves around medieval perceptions of ideal rulership, which is seen as one of the cultural-anthropological constants shaping the social reality of the contemporary world.
Download or read book Interpersonal Expectations written by Peter David Blanck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1993 volume explores a sub-area of social psychology - called interpersonal expectation - that studies how the expectation of one person affects the behavior of another.
Download or read book Changing Histories for KS3 Connected Worlds c 1000 c 1600 written by Christine Counsell and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change the history that pupils learn at Key Stage 3. Reframe familiar topics, discover forgotten stories and amplify unheard voices. Through an evocative, story-based approach, this ground-breaking course brings together historical scholarship and enquiry, presenting a truly diverse, inclusive and ambitious history curriculum. This is the history we owe to our pupils. This is the past for today and tomorrow. b” Establish a strong foundation of British history. b” Journey far beyond Britain. b” Use the power of story to transform your teaching. /bCaptivated by vivid, intriguing narratives, pupils will remember more than they ever have before. See their literacy improve as they encounter a wide vocabulary in context, become immersed in rich, quality texts, and enjoy hearing the book read aloud or reading it themselves.brbrb” Teach a diverse curriculum with confidence. /bGender, class, race and religion are treated with sensitivity and sophistication, intrinsically woven into the content to create perspective on social, economic, religious and political history.brbrb” Stay up to date with historical scholarship. The course embodies the requirements for scope, coherence, rigour and sequencing. The Changing Histories curriculum is a progression model. Skills and knowledge are built systematically across each lesson sequence and new material makes sense to pupils because of the content covered earlier. b” Trust a meticulously planned approach. b” Benefit from some of the best minds in history education. /bLeaders in history curriculum, practice, research and debate, the authors have poured their expertise into every page, making quality history accessible to all.
Download or read book Expect the Unexpected written by Stefano Cotrozzi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph on biblical linguistics is a highly specialized, pragmatic investigation of the controversial question of "foregrounding"-the deviation from some norm or convention-in Old Testament narratives. The author presents and examines the two main sources of pragmatic foregrounding: events or states deviating from well-established schemata, structures of reader expectation that can be manipulated by the narrator to highlight specific "chunks" of discourse; and evaluative devices, which are used by the narrator to indicate to the reader the point of the story and direct its interpretation. Cotrozzi critiques the particular evaluative device known as the "historic present", a narrative strategy that employs the present tense to describe past event. He tests two main theories that support this device by using a cross-linguistic model of the historical present drawing upon a variety of languages. Cotrozzi ultimately refutes these theories with a thorough examination and detailed refutation. He concludes with a study of a particular Hebraic verb as a particular marker of represented perception, a technique whereby the character's perceptions are expressed directly from its point of view.
Download or read book What the New Testament Authors Really Cared About Second Edition written by Kenneth Berding and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great expectations written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
