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Book Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond  14th to 18th Centuries

Download or read book Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond 14th to 18th Centuries written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to show through various case studies how the interrelations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Iberia were negotiated in the field of images, objects and architecture during the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity. . By looking at the ways pre-modern Iberians envisioned diversity, we can reconstruct several stories, frequently interwoven with devotional literature, poetry or Inquisitorial trials, and usually quite different from a binary story of simple opposition. The book’s point of departure narrates the relationship between images and conversions, analysing the mechanisms of hybridity, and proposing a new explanation for the representation of otherness as the complex outcome of a negotiation involving integration. Contributors are: Cristelle Baskins, Giuseppe Capriotti, Ivana Čapeta Rakić, Borja Franco Llopis, Francisco de Asís García García, Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, Nicola Jennings, Fernando Marías, Elena Paulino Montero, Maria Portmann, Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, Amadeo Serra Desfilis, Maria Vittoria Spissu, Laura Stagno, Antonio Urquízar-Herrera.

Book Faith s Checkbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles H. Spurgeon
  • Publisher : Whitaker House
  • Release : 2017-01-03
  • ISBN : 1629110795
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Faith s Checkbook written by Charles H. Spurgeon and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ask anything in my name, I will do it." (John 14:14) Charles H. Spurgeon supplies daily deposits of God's promises into the reader's personal bank of faith. He urges the reader to view each Bible promise as a check written by God, which can be cashed by personally endorsing it and receiving the gift it represents!

Book Minor Detail

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  • Author : Adania Shibli
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 2020-05-26
  • ISBN : 0811229084
  • Pages : 103 pages

Download or read book Minor Detail written by Adania Shibli and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people—and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past.

Book The MacArthur Study Bible

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  • Author : Thomas Nelson
  • Publisher : Thomas Nelson
  • Release : 2013-11-05
  • ISBN : 9781418550370
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The MacArthur Study Bible written by Thomas Nelson and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MacArthur Study Bible is perfect for serious study. No other study Bible does such a thorough job of explaining the historical context, unfolding the meaning of the text, and making it practical for your life.

Book Family Worship

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  • Author : Donald S. Whitney
  • Publisher : Crossway
  • Release : 2020-05-01
  • ISBN : 1433567253
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Family Worship written by Donald S. Whitney and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering together for worship is an indispensable part of your family's spiritual life. It is a means for God to reveal himself to you and your loved ones in a powerful way. This practical guide by Donald S. Whitney will prove invaluable to families—with or without children in the home—as they practice God-glorifying, Christ-exalting worship through Bible reading, prayer, and singing. Includes a discussion guide in the back for small groups.

Book Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque

Download or read book Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque written by Emily Kuffner and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the interdependence of gender, sexuality and space in the early modern period, which saw the inception of architecture as a discipline and gave rise to the first custodial institutions for women, including convents for reformed prostitutes. Meanwhile, conduct manuals established prescriptive mandates for female use of space, concentrating especially on the liminal spaces of the home. This work traces literary prostitution in the Spanish Mediterranean through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the rise of courtesan culture in several key areas through the shift from tolerance of prostitution toward repression. Kuffner's analysis pairs canonical and noncanonical works of fiction with didactic writing, architectural treatises, and legal mandates, tying the literary practice of prostitution to increasing control over female sexuality during the Counter Reformation. By tracing erotic negotiations in the female picaresque novel from its origins through later manifestations, she demonstrates that even as societal attitudes towards prostitution shifted dramatically, a countervailing tendency to view prostitution as an essential part of the social fabric undergirds many representations of literary prostitutes. Kuffner's analysis reveals that the semblance of domestic enclosure figures as a primary erotic strategy in female picaresque fiction, allowing readers to assess the variety of strategies used by authors to comment on the relationship between unruly female sexuality and social order.

Book Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities

Download or read book Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities written by Yosef Kaplan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the sixteenth century on, hundreds of Portuguese New Christians began to flow to Venice and Livorno in Italy, and to Amsterdam and Hamburg in northwest Europe. In those cities and later in London, Bordeaux, and Bayonne as well, Iberian conversos established their own Jewish communities, openly adhering to Judaism. Despite the features these communities shared with other confessional groups in exile, what set them apart was very significant. In contrast to other European confessional communities, whose religious affiliation was uninterrupted, the Western Sephardic Jews came to Judaism after a separation of generations from the religion of their ancestors. In this edited volume, several experts in the field detail the religious and cultural changes that occurred in the Early Modern Western Sephardic communities. "Highly recommended for all academic and Jewish libraries." - David B Levy, Touro College, NYC, in: Association of Jewish Libraries News and Reviews 1.2 (2019)

Book FEM

    FEM

    Book Details:
  • Author : Magda Carneci
  • Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
  • Release : 2021-06-08
  • ISBN : 1646050428
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book FEM written by Magda Carneci and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This modern classic of global feminist literature, the only novel by one of Romania's most heralded poets, styled as a long letter addressed to the man who is about to leave her, a woman meanders through a cosmic retelling of her life from childhood to adulthood with visionary language and visceral, detail. Like a contemporary Scheherazade, she spins tales to hold him captivated, from the small incidents of their lives together to the intimate narrative of her relationship to womanhood. Through a dreamlike thread of strange images and passing characters, her stories invite the reader into a fantastical vision of love, loss, and femininity.

Book Like A New Sun

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  • Author : Víctor Terán
  • Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
  • Release : 2015-08-11
  • ISBN : 1939419387
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Like A New Sun written by Víctor Terán and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like A New Sun: An Anthology of Indigenous Mexican Poetry features poetry from Huastecan Nahuatl, Isthmus Zapotec, Mazatec, Tzotzil, Yucatec Maya, and Zoque languages. Co-edited by Isthmus Zapotec poet Víctor Terán and translator David Shook, this groundbreaking anthology introduces six indigenous Mexican poets—three women and three men—each writing in a different language. Well-established names like Juan Gregorio Regino (Mazatec) appear alongside exciting new voices like Mikeas Sánchez (Zoque). Each poet's work is contextualized and introduced by its translator. Forward by Eliot Weinberger. Poets include Víctor Terán (Isthmus Zapotec), Mikeas Sánchez (Zoque), Juan Gregorio Regino (Mazatec), Briceida Cuevas Cob (Yucatec Maya), Juan Hernández (Huastecan Nahuatl), and Ruperta Bautista (Tzotzil).

Book The CSB Study Bible For Women

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dorothy Kelley Patterson
  • Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
  • Release : 2018-04-15
  • ISBN : 1433651335
  • Pages : 1788 pages

Download or read book The CSB Study Bible For Women written by Dorothy Kelley Patterson and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 1788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CSB Study Bible for Women is the most comprehensive study Bible ever prepared for women and by women. Featuring extensive study notes and helpful articles by women academically trained in the original biblical languages. Each of the features is crafted to equip you to dig deeper into Scripture and mentor others in your life to do the same. Now available in the Christian Standard Bible (CSB) translation with revised and updated content as well as a beautiful new interior design throughout. Features Include: 6,490 extensive study notes Over 500 word studies 25 full-color maps and reconstructions, and 95 chart Introductions to each book of the Bible, A comprehensive concordance including every woman and reference to women in the Bible Threads of specialized women’s Bible study material woven throughout pointing to God’s larger story including: Biblical Womanhood articles, Answers to “Hard Questions”, Character profiles, Doctrinal notes, and “Written on My Heart” applications Smyth-sewn binding Two-column text in 9.25-point type A woman’s Bible that is great for preparing to teach future bible studies or for daily readings The CSB Study Bible for Women features the highly readable, highly reliable text of the Christian Standard Bible (CSB). The CSB stays as literal as possible to the Bible’s original meaning without sacrificing clarity, making it easier to engage with Scripture’s life-transforming message and to share it with others.

Book Daniel in the Lions  Den

Download or read book Daniel in the Lions Den written by Ronne Randall and published by Flying Frog Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Statistics and Recommendations  Annual Report

Download or read book Statistics and Recommendations Annual Report written by Michigan. Industrial Accident Board and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature

Download or read book Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature written by Encarnación Juárez Almendros and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories. This study explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory and moral discourses, illustrating how such texts inherit, reproduce and propagate an amalgam of Western traditional concepts of female embodiment. It goes on to examine concrete representations of deviant female characters, focusing on the figures of syphilitic prostitutes and physically decayed aged women in literary texts such as Celestina, Lozana andaluza and selected works by Cervantes and Quevedo. Finally, an analysis of the personal testimony of Teresa de Avila, a nun suffering neurological disorders, complements the discussion of early modern women's disability. By expanding the meanings of contemporary theories of materiality and the social construction of disability, the book concludes that paradoxically, femininity, bodily afflictions, and mental instability characterized the new literary heroes at the very time Spain was at the apex of its imperial power. Ultimately, as this study shows, the broken female bodies of pre-industrial Spanish literature reveal the cracks in the foundational principles of power and established truths.

Book Time Commences in Xibalb

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  • Author : Luis de Lión
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2012-11-01
  • ISBN : 0816599467
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Time Commences in Xibalb written by Luis de Lión and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time Commences in Xibalbá tells the story of a violent village crisis in Guatemala sparked by the return of a prodigal son, Pascual. He had been raised tough by a poor, single mother in the village before going off with the military. When Pascual comes back, he is changed—both scarred and “enlightened” by his experiences. To his eyes, the village has remained frozen in time. After experiencing alternative cultures in the wider world, he finds that he is both comforted and disgusted by the village’s lingering “indigenous” characteristics.

Book Your Story  My Story

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  • Author : Connie Palmen
  • Publisher : AmazonCrossing
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9781542004633
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Your Story My Story written by Connie Palmen and published by AmazonCrossing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of The Friendship comes a shattering, brilliantly inventive novel based on the volatile true love story of literary icons Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In 1963 Sylvia Plath took her own life in her London flat. Her death was the culmination of a brief, brilliant life lived in the shadow of clinical depression--a condition exacerbated by her tempestuous relationship with mercurial poet Ted Hughes. The ensuing years saw Plath rise to martyr status while Hughes was cast as the cause of her suicide, his infidelity at the heart of her demise. For decades, Hughes never bore witness to the truth of their marriage--one buried beneath a mudslide of apocryphal stories, gossip, sensationalism, and myth. Until now. In this mesmerizing fictional work, Connie Palmen tells his side of the story, previously untold, delivered in Ted Hughes's own uncompromising voice. A brutal and lyrical confessional, Your Story, My Story paints an indelible picture of their seven-year relationship--the soaring highs and profound lows of star-crossed soul mates bedeviled by their personal demons. It will forever change the way we think about these two literary icons.

Book The Madwoman of the House

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  • Author : Rosa Montero
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-07-10
  • ISBN : 9788494496530
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Madwoman of the House written by Rosa Montero and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary essay on the power of imagination, creative writing and life written by a very popular Spanish women-writer.