Download or read book Princes Tamar s Tears written by Norma Evans Barber and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Faces series is an attempt to paint as honestly as possible the faces of characters we read about in the Bible so that readers can identify and relate to the naked, common-life truths that these characters present and hold to the promises that each story or event offers to us as we seek to know and walk with God. Walking through the Bible, an adult Sunday School class enters 11 Samuel 13, a dark room where a princess is found weeping. She has been sexually abused by her half brother while her family members conspire a cover-up. Her own brother, her mother's son, secretly vows revenge on the aggressor as well as on his father, King David. The succeeding chaos multiplies, and Tamar, the victim, sticks her face out of the closet to tell the pain of it all, only to find that her story holds relevant connections to a number of class members and, in fact, to many readers in the contemporary world.
Download or read book God of Our Silent Tears written by David Augustin Hodge, Sr. and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Demetria Hadad Percy s masque written by James Abraham Hillhouse and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cyclopaedia of American Literature written by Evert Augustus Duyckinck and published by New York : C. Scribner. This book was released on 1856 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dramas Discourses and Other Pieces written by James Abraham Hillhouse and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible written by Amy Kalmanofsky and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fathers, sons, and mothers take center stage in the Bibles grand narratives, Amy Kalmanofsky observes. Sisters and sisterhood receive less attention in scholarship but, she argues, play an important role in narratives, revealing anxieties related to desire, agency, and solidarity among women playing out (and playing against) their roles in a patrilineal society. Most often, she shows, sisters are destabilizing figures in narratives about family crisis, where property, patrimony, and the resilience of community boundaries are at risk. Kalmanofsky demonstrates that the particular role of sisters had important narrative effects, revealing previously underappreciated dynamics in Israelite society.
Download or read book King David s Daughters written by Bridgett Nesbit and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful beauty, Tamar's flowing hair, her vivacious figure and the exhaust of her smile rendered men speechless. As a princess, the daughter of King David, she would eventually marry a prince from a neighboring kingdom but fate would not be so kind. Tamar's vibrant beauty would not serve as an attribute when a twisted affection would threaten to strip her of her integrity. Incest crept into the palace, the gorgeous princess would not have to worry about anyone outside the castle, and instead she would have to contend with the manipulation of her half brother Amnon's stern hand gripping her thigh, stealing her virtue, her dignity and her proper place in the future. Tamar's need to hide owns kinship with others and opens the door for dialogue, many have wore her tear soaked rob, whether in a public housing unit or in a beautiful house on the hill. Wounded women sometimes weep without making a sound. Expensive suits and fancy cars cannot compete with personal peace; a husband will not hide the inner hurt form a life of despair and little girls without strong father figures look for love in all the wrong places regardless of their income. In a torn and tear soaked robe Tamar would beg Amnon to redeem her because in her time, when Biblical principals restricted women's expression and their lives, she was considered unclean. In her eyes she was now damaged goods and Tamar's seemingly leprous condition rendered her into a helpless self seclusion. Should would hide away, negating her own dreams to transpire into weakness. Her voice would become muffled with pain and in her brother Absalom's home is where she undertook a lifetime of silence and refuge. All through time God's beautiful princesses have been wounded, touched in secret, internally violated and they too have laid down their power and their tiaras. In our society there are many socially outward rush home to sink into a bleak depression which fogs their beauty from themselves, and they view their disguise of hurt as the mirror image of ugly. Unclean, damaged goods or hid away I'm sure are the type of gossip that floated through the castle about Tamar. And like others Tamar's faith fell in her situation, no one could tell her that their was a man like no other who could heal all her broken places, restore the vibrancy of her previous laughter so that she would remember the pain only as a testimony. This scripture based journal allows you to be ministered to through the word of God and find your worth. To discover the princess and not a plight of pain.
Download or read book Dramas Discourses and Other Pieces written by James Abraham Hillhouse and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
Download or read book The Prince Who Fell in Love with His Sister written by Yvonne Reid-Rose and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story, which Mrs. Rose adapted from the Bible. It tells the story of Prince Amnon the heir to the Throne of Israel. He fell madly in love with his beautiful, virgin sister Princess Tamar. He pretends to be sick to get Tamar to come to his palace to bake him cakes. While she is there, he rapes her, and then have her thrown out, and bolts the door behind her. Her other brother Prince Absalom becomes very angry and waits for two years, and have Amnon murdered. This is a true family drama, which you will not be able to put down.
Download or read book The Curse of the Romany Wolves written by S. Jones Rogan and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penhaligon takes on pirates and sea serpents on the high seas. The creatures of Porthleven are suffering from a mysterious illness that looks like Febra lupi, the curse of the Romany wolves, which has no known cure. The dashing apothecary fox Penhaligon must find a cure or risk losing everyone he holds dear! Penhaligon uncovers a fragment of parchment that just might be a recipe for a cure—and it includes ingredients found only on the haunted Howling Island. But the obstacles Penhaligon must face on his quest for the cure make ghosts seem friendly: Pirates! Sea serpents! Double-crossing ferrets! Can Penhaligon make it back in time to save his village?
Download or read book Wom b an A Cultural Narrative Reading of the Hebrew Bible Barrenness Narratives written by Janice P. De-Whyte and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wom(b)an: A Cultural-Narrative Reading of the Hebrew Bible Barrenness Narratives Janice Pearl Ewurama De-Whyte offers a reading of the Hebrew Bible barrenness narratives. The original word “wom(b)an” visually underscores the centrality of a productive womb to female identity in the ANE and Hebrew contexts. Conversely, barrenness was the ultimate tragedy and shame of a woman. Utilizing Akan cultural custom as a lens through which to read the Hebrew barrenness tradition, De-Whyte uncovers another kind of barrenness within these narratives. Her term “social barrenness” depicts the various situations of childlessness that are generally unrecognized in western cultures due to the western biomedical definitions of infertility. Whether biological or social, barrenness was perceived to be the greatest threat to a woman’s identity and security as well as the continuity of the lineage. Wom(b)an examines these narratives in light of the cultural meanings of barrenness within traditional cultures, ancient and present.
Download or read book La Venganza de Tamar written by Tirso (de Molina) and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story comes from the Second Book of Samuel and tells of the incestuous passion of Amnon, David's eldest son, for his half-sister, Tamar and the subsequent murder of Amnon by his brother Absolom. Amnon's lust is set in the context of complementary passions of ambition and revenge, reflected in Absolom and Tamar respectively. The play explores King David's conflict between justice and mercy when confronted with these tragic events. It is a work of constantly changing perspectives in which tragedy and comedy, instead of being simply juxtaposed, are blended in a highly original way. Tirso's play is one of the earliest treatments of a theme that has continued to be an inspiration for such modern writers as the novelist Dan Jacobson in The Rape of Tamar and the dramatist Peter Shaffer in Jonadab . Spanish text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes.
Download or read book Their Stories Our Stories written by Rose Kam and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Eve, "Woman of the Dawn", and Sarah, "Princess of the Promise", to Mary Magdalene, "Apostle to the Apostles", the women of the Bible struggled with the inequalities of a patriarchal world. Their Stories/Our Stories offers insight and inspiration to women "who refuse to be driven from our spiritual homes".
Download or read book Rape Culture in the House of David written by Barbara Thiede and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-04-24 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rape Culture in the House of David: A Company of Men describes a biblical rape culture sustained and maintained by Yhwh and a host of men—from royal kings and princes to their relatives, counselors, generals, and servants. This volume reveals that sexual violence in the house of David is not simply perpetrated by its most powerful men. Rather, in the pursuit of power, status, authority, and honor, men form alliances and networks that support the use and abuse of women’s bodies and valorize sexualized violence against other men. The man who is most capable of sexual violence is Israel’s ideal king. Barbara Thiede deftly addresses the power and contemporary relevance of these narratives and argues that exposing and naming rape culture in biblical literature is essential—in social, economic, and political realms. This is a meaningful feminist intervention in the field of biblical studies and is of great benefit to graduate students and scholars of religion, gender studies, and masculinity studies.
Download or read book The Adventures of the Three Amigos Club and Grandma s Mystical Bible written by Denny Carnell and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about three young people who are friends and have established a club called the Three Amigos. These young people are neighbors who have an intimate relationship with each other as their parents are good friends who also grew up together. Terry is the main character. Terry's grandmother now lives with them since his grandfather passed away. Terry's grandmother is on vacation at one of his aunt's house. One day as Terry passes his grandmother's room, he notices a light shining under his grandmother’s bed. He gets his friends who were downstairs playing video games to come upstairs with him to investigate the light in his grandmother’s room. As they nudge each other to go in her room they finally went in the forbidden room (because his grandmother did not give them permission.) They discovered that it was his grandmother’s bible which gave off the light. Being afraid that his mother would come and discover that they were in his grandmother’s room Terry pulled the blanket off of the bed over them, pulled the bible out from under the bed as it was shaking and opened the bible. They were then sucked into the bible and off to a bible adventure. They experience a bible adventure every time they open the bible.
Download or read book Rape Culture Purity Culture and Coercive Control in Teen Girl Bibles written by Caroline Blyth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating book, Caroline Blyth takes a close look at Bibles marketed to teen girls and asks how these might perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes that lie at the heart of rape culture. The author considers the devotionals, commentaries, and advice sections placed throughout these Bibles, which offer teen girl readers life advice on topics such as friendships, body image, and how to navigate romantic relationships. Within these discussions, there is a strong emphasis on modesty, purity, and sexual passivity as markers of young women’s ‘godliness’. Yet, as the author argues, these gendered ideals are prescribed to readers using rape-supportive discourses and the tactics of coercive control. Moreover, the placement of these various editorial inserts within the pages of sacred scripture gives them considerable power to reinforce deeply harmful ideologies about gender, sexuality, and sexual violence. Given the seeming popularity of these Bibles among Christian teen girls, the need to dismantle their damaging rhetoric is especially urgent. This book will be of particular interest to those studying the Bible, religion, gender, and theology, as well as the general reader.
Download or read book The Silver Circle written by MaryAlice Kelly and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crown of Lamara was legendary, the creation of one mystical people and the gift to Lamara of another. It has the power to choose the king, and when it chooses the younger son over the elder, trouble begins. When it is lost and the king dies, it leaves Gunther, an adolescent boy, as heir, and the rejected uncle becomes regent. This is also a tale of friendship, the kind of friendship that encourages one man to always tell a king the truth, whether he wants to hear it or not, and his sons to follow his example. There is a price for this kind of loyalty, and each man pays it in his own way: the first one with death, the second with captivity, and the third with change. Is the price too high? What kind of king will Gunther be?
