Download or read book Strange Acts written by Rick Strelan and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines many of the strange events and actions in Acts in the context of the Hellenistic world and from that perspective. These events and actions include the ascension of Jesus, direction by the Spirit, visions, angelophanies, prison escapes and resuscitations of the dead. Many of these events are either avoided in scholarship or are investigated with an agenda other than to understand them for themselves. The book constructs an ancient audience to be one that has a close familiarity with the Septuagint and with other Greek and Latin writings. The culturally-strange events are then interpreted through the lens of these texts.
Download or read book Strange Acts written by Rick Strelan and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines many of the strange events and actions in Acts in the context of the Hellenistic world and from that perspective. These events and actions include the ascension of Jesus, direction by the Spirit, visions, angelophanies, prison escapes and resuscitations of the dead. Many of these events are either avoided in scholarship or are investigated with an agenda other than to understand them for themselves. The book constructs an ancient audience to be one that has a close familiarity with the Septuagint and with other Greek and Latin writings. The culturally-strange events are then interpreted through the lens of these texts.
Download or read book The Book of Strange New Things written by Michel Faber and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental, genre-defying novel that David Mitchell calls "Michel Faber’s second masterpiece," The Book of Strange New Things is a masterwork from a writer in full command of his many talents. It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corporation known only as USIC. His work introduces him to a seemingly friendly native population struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter’s teachings—his Bible is their “book of strange new things.” But Peter is rattled when Bea’s letters from home become increasingly desperate: typhoons and earthquakes are devastating whole countries, and governments are crumbling. Bea’s faith, once the guiding light of their lives, begins to falter. Suddenly, a separation measured by an otherworldly distance, and defined both by one newly discovered world and another in a state of collapse, is threatened by an ever-widening gulf that is much less quantifiable. While Peter is reconciling the needs of his congregation with the desires of his strange employer, Bea is struggling for survival. Their trials lay bare a profound meditation on faith, love tested beyond endurance, and our responsibility to those closest to us. Marked by the same bravura storytelling and precise language that made The Crimson Petal and the White such an international success, The Book of Strange New Things is extraordinary, mesmerizing, and replete with emotional complexity and genuine pathos.
Download or read book Strange Snow written by Steve Metcalfe and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Strange snow falls on two young Vietnam veterans as they reunite for a fishing trip to make good on a long lost promise to an old friend. Megs shows up at his buddy David's house only to encounter David's shy, plain sister Martha. Megs's larger-than-life nature coaxes Martha out of her shell and into his heart. His mere presence, however, brings up painful memories of Vietnam for David, whose method of coping so far has been to drink too much and talk as little as possible." --www.doollee.com. This play was made into a 1989 movie entitled "Jacknife."
Download or read book Strange Acts written by Wayne R. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Anti Group written by Morris Nitsun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'anti-group' is a major conceptual addition to the theory and practice of group psychotherapy. It comprises the negative, disruptive elements, which threaten to undermine and even destroy the group, but when contained, have the potential to mobilise the group's creative processes. Understanding the 'anti-group' gives therapists new perspectives on the nature of relationships and alternative strategies for managing destructive behaviour.
Download or read book Three Act Tragedy written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead—choked by a cocktail that contained no trace of poison. Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is that he can find absolutely no motive for murder.…
Download or read book The Totally True Book of Strange and Surprising Bible Lists written by Marc Olson and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This big book of lists highlights the weird and wacky stuff found in the Bible and invites kids to get curious and engage with the Bible in a whole new way"--
Download or read book David Bergelson s Strange New World written by Harriet Murav and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Bergelson (1884–1952) emerged as a major literary figure who wrote in Yiddish before WWI. He was one of the founders of the Kiev Kultur-Lige and his work was at the center of the Yiddish-speaking world of the time. He was well known for creating characters who often felt the painful after-effects of the past and the clumsiness of bodies stumbling through the actions of daily life as their familiar worlds crumbled around them. In this contemporary assessment of Bergelson and his fiction, Harriet Murav focuses on untimeliness, anachronism, and warped temporality as an emotional, sensory, existential, and historical background to Bergleson's work and world. Murav grapples with the great modern theorists of time and memory, especially Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin, to present Bergelson as an integral part of the philosophical and artistic experiments, political and technological changes, and cultural context of Russian and Yiddish modernism that marked his age. As a comparative and interdisciplinary study of Yiddish literature and Jewish culture, this work adds a new, ethnic dimension to understandings of the turbulent birth of modernism.
Download or read book Devils Lusts and Strange Desires written by Richard Bradford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOMINATED FOR THE H.R.F. KEATING AWARD, 2022. 'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle – may they never give me peace' – Patricia Highsmith (New Year's Eve, 1947). Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith is renowned as one of the most influential and celebrated modern writers. However, there has never been a clear picture of the woman behind the books. The relationship between Highsmith's lesbianism, her fraught personality – by parts self-destructive and malicious – and her fiction, has been largely ignored by biographers in the past. As an openly homosexual writer, she wrote the seminal lesbian love story Carol for which she would be venerated, in modern times, as a radical exponent of the LGBTQ+ community. Alas, her status as an LGBTQ+ icon is undermined by her excessive cruelty towards and exploitation of her friends and many lovers. In this biography, Richard Bradford brings his sharp and incisive style to one of the greatest and most controversial writers of the twentieth century. He considers Highsmith's bestsellers in the context of her troubled personal life; her alcoholism, licentious sex life, racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny and abundant self-loathing.
Download or read book Systems of Education a History and Criticism of the Principles Methods Organization written by John Gill and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints written by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Relax Jesus Is Bigger Than Your Problems written by Rev. Dr. Jonathan Aboya and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. Dr. Jonathan Aboya holds a doctorate of divinity from the International Miracle Institute (imi), Pensacola, Florida. He is an international speaker and teacher of the Word of God filled with the Holy Spirit. He is an apostle to nations of the world, and he addresses critical issues affecting the nations political and spiritual development. He is from Ghana, West Africa, and he was born in 1969. He is called and chosen by God from childhood to rescue nations from satanic manipulations and destruction of life and property. He is a divine agent of peace. Rev. Dr. Aboya is the founder of the International Center for Pure Worship. He is called to the prophetic ministry. He is married to Blessing Aboya and blessed with four children, Michael, Daniel, King David, and Prince Jephthah. To God alone be the glory. Jesus is Lord.
Download or read book The Grand Babylon Hotel written by Arnold Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Rumor of Strange Adventures written by M-A Berthier and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young rogue resolves to reinvent himself. Through hard work and perseverance, he attains the ability to pass for a respectable member of the bourgeoisie, to ape their mannerisms, and simulate their enthusiasms. Thus equipped, he enters a respected university. His enjoyment of his new academic milieu - the material comforts, the feminine company - is immense, but as he becomes integrated into their social structures, he begins to discern the deviousness and dishonesty of the mandarins who compose this privileged group. The discovery leads him through a maze of deception, right wing philosophy, seduction, and violence. Internally at war with the malevolence that surrounds him, his choices are few: he can rely on the tools of his life of respectability - or he can fall back on the skills that he attained and perfected in his previous existence.
Download or read book The Strange Fiction of Devon Pitlor written by Devon Pitlor and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance, Historical, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Mystery, and the Supernatural. A new voice in strange, otherworldly fiction. A compelling and original read.
