Download or read book The Ordeals of Isaac and Jacob written by Martin Sicker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biblical author had to demonstrate that the founding fathers of the model civilization-envisioned in Mosaic legislation intended as a model for emulation by other peoples and nations-were recognizably human-flawed as all humans are. One can empathize with Isaac or Jacob who are seen to be human with their faults and frailties-which one cannot do with a superhuman being. These stories illustrate dramatically there are no characters of mythic proportions, no superheroes, only normal people living in dysfunctional families, erring, doing acts that are occasionally senseless, and often embarrassing. Yet, these same people passed on an intellectual and spiritual heritage that will ultimately find full expression in the teachings found in the remaining books of the Pentateuch. The Ordeals of Isaac and Jacob focuses on what the biblical texts are telling us-explicitly and implicitly-about these men, the world in which they lived, and how they managed to preserve the covenantal heritage left to them by Abraham. Since biblical texts are not as clear as one might imagine, scholars have struggled for two millennia to comprehend what the texts are actually stating and attempting to convey to the reader. In re-examining these Texts, the author has consulted a wide range of commentaries and studies which approach the biblical narratives from a variety of perspectives, and offers some novel insights of his own.

Download or read book Isaac Jacob and Joseph written by Marcus Dods and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Isaac and Jacob written by George Rawlinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Isaac and Jacob: Their Lives and Times Isaac's later years uneventful - Esau's third marriage - Isaac's bereavements - Death of his brother Ishmael - Death of Rebekah - Death of Rachel - Re-union with Jacob Death - Burial Character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Life and Times of the Patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob written by William Hanna Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Isaac and Jacob Their Lives and Times written by George Rawlinson and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ordeal written by Joseph Tinker Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short-lived magazine was concerned with politics and literature; it devoted several sections to politics, and also gave attention to reviews of recent publications, poetry, and the theater. Cf. American perioidicals, 1741-1900.

Download or read book The Ordeal written by Henry Charles Lea and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Charles Lea was one of the first American historians to use what would later be termed comparative and anthropological approaches to history. Under his pen, the study of the medieval ordeal becomes a study in cultural history. Reprinted here from the fourth revised edition of 1892, the book begins by tracing the role of the ordeal in non-Western and ancient societies, showing the mental world to which it belongs: a limited trust in the public order and purely human methods of inquiry, and a larger faith in divine intervention and immanent justice. The work then describes the uses of the institution through the European Middle Ages to its final abolition, and in the process offers a rich typology of ordeals. Additional documents included in this edition present formulas and descriptions of some of the ordeals most frequently used: the ordeal by boiling water, by hot water, by cold water, by hot iron and water, by glowing plowshares, by fire, and the ordeal of the cross.

Download or read book The Ordeal written by and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short-lived magazine was concerned with politics and literature; it devoted several sections to politics, and also gave attention to reviews of recent publications, poetry, and the theater. Cf. American perioidicals, 1741-1900.

Download or read book The Story of Isaac and Jacob written by Jude Winkler and published by Catholic Book Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bible Violence and the Sacred written by James G. Williams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first comprehensive application to the whole Bible of RenŽ Girard's theories on violence, civilization, and religion.

Download or read book Ordeal and Deliverance written by Abraham Werner and published by Abraham Werner. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Life and Times of the Patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob written by William Hanna Thomson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...Ephron answers: ' The piece of land is worth four hundred shekels of silver," at least four times its value, "what is that betwixt me and thee?"--words exactly repeated to me many times when the price asked was a conscious swindle. Abraham, however, was in no mood then to haggle over the price, and the bargain was concluded. Abraham then weighed to Ephron the silver, four hundred shekels, current money, with the merchant. The text could not have read counted out the silver, for this must have been at least fifteen hundred years before money was counted and not weighed in mercantile transactions. Money values, indeed, were settled at distinct and different periods in history, so that the approximate age of the Book of Job may be inferred by the pieces of gold which made Job rich again after his great disasters, as we will show in a future article on that very ancient book. One item in this real-estate transaction may strike us as singular, and that is that it included the trees that were in the field. With us the trees of course go with the land, but in Palestine an olive grove which takes a century to become remunerative in its yield, and is then worth much more than the ground it covers, would have to be included in the terms of the purchase. When Abraham was first called, God said to him, "I will make thy name great." To the actual fulfilment of these words we can ourselves testify. There is no final resting-place which is held sacred by so many millions of men as the cave of Machpelah at Hebron. There are the graves of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with Translation of the Inscription: "This is the Grave of the Prophet Jacob. On him be peace." those of their wives, except Eachel, decorated with ornate hangings. The Israelite, of course, ...

Download or read book Abraham Isaac and Jacob written by Ben Melech Yehudah and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Isaac and Jacob (The Patriarchs) is Book 3 in The Allmighty Bible Adventures of HisStory Series. This book covers from Genesis 12-36. Written and Illustrated by Ben Melech, as a Witness of the Word of YAH, for these last days, as a teaching aid to those of his beloved people the true biblical seed of Abraham (BELIEVERS!) in their awakening from their long night of darkness (national deep sleep or death), being ignorant to their True Identity. As it was written in Genesis 15, Deuteronomy 28:68, Ezekiel 37, Daniel 12:1-4 and Matthew 24:31-33.

Download or read book Isaac written by Shaul Bar and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life, Isaac remained a passive tent dweller. He did not go to find a wife; his servant brought a wife to him. He did not go to war; and when conflict arose, he withdrew. In the story of his binding, he was passive, and it appears as though he was bound forever on the altar. Isaac was dominated by his father Abraham, his wife Rebecca, Abimelech king of Gerar, and his sons Jacob and Esau. For most of his life, he is led by others, and his actions are reactions to the developing situations. He appears to have little personality and is better known as the son of his father Abraham, or the father of his sons Jacob and Esau.

Download or read book My Ordeal in Canada written by Abraham Bekit and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Ordeal in Canada is a narration of my tragic plight as a black man in Canada. I have been incarcerated five times by the police force and for no valid reasons whatsoever. I was also condemned to a psychiatric facility, admitted forcibly, without my consents and in violation of my rights as a Canadian citizen. Since I came to Canada in 1985 I have been subjected to many denials and deprivations by the prejudiced Canadian justice system which I have enumerated in my book in greater details. Since 2005 I experienced a number of discriminatory impediments imposed on me by the systemic racism that is prevalent in the Canadian justice system. I was prohibited from having access to my children for a total of more than ten years even though I committed no offense against any of them whatsoever. The Toronto police and the justice system treat black men like myself differently and impose their racially biased verdicts without any repercussions. This book highlights the various racist ordeals I was subjected to especially by the police and the Canadian justice system and by my employers. My deplorable and dismal predicaments, however, are not unique to me alone. They are paramount manifestations of the pathetic and pitiful trends and discriminations black men especially have to endure in racially biased Canada. It is my hope that by writing my story and experiences in Toronto I will influence and bring the required changes and to highlight the discrepancies customary and prevailing in the Toronto police and the Canadian justice system. I feel that I have a story to tell that will make Canada a better place to live in for all its citizens when the required changes are instituted.

Download or read book Abraham in the Old Testament and Early Judaism written by John Eifion Morgan-Wynne and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, John Morgan-Wynne carefully examines the pivotal figure of Abraham in the Old Testament and Early Judaism. Our earliest literary evidence concerning Abraham is the stream of tradition known as J, the so-called Yahwist source (ca tenth century BCE), and also the Elohist stream of tradition (ninth to eighth century, or perhaps earlier). The subsequent eclipse of the Abrahamic tradition in the south is probably accounted for by the stress on the Davidic monarchy. However, Abraham's profile begins to rise again during and after the Babylonian exile when Jewish theologians had to come to terms with the traumatic events of the fall of the northern and southern kingdoms. He is frequently discussed in many non-canonical, early Jewish writings as he became a figure of identification, a pre-eminently righteous man, and an example to imitate, as Jews came to terms with being a subject people and with persecution.

Download or read book Isaac Jacob written by Katheryn Maddox Haddad and published by Northern Lights Publishing House. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 98 pages written in easy-to-read large 16-point font for the early reader. Stories can be understood by four-year-olds and up. *At the end of each chapter is "Think & Do" to help the child apply the story to their own life. *Popular among grandparents & parents, and excellent for homeschoolers. . When Isaac, Abraham’s promised son, grew up, he had two sons. The brothers argued all the time. Jacob even stole all his brother’s wealth, then had to leave it behind and run away. But Jacob became sorry and God gave him 12 sons. The brothers finally loved each other and God changed Jacob’s name to Isra-El. . Buy the whole set of ten books: Adam & Eve Noah Abraham Isaac & Jacob Joseph Moses Samson 3 Great Kings Jonah Daniel