Download or read book The Tablet and the Scroll written by William W. Hallo and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the World written by Susan Wise Bauer and published by Peace Hill Press. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of the ancient world, from 6000 B.C. to 400 A.D.
Download or read book The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt written by Ken Krimstein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir Best Graphic Novels of the Year-Forbes Jewish Book Award Finalist Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize For Persepolis and Logicomix fans, a New Yorker cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the fascinating Hannah Arendt, the most prominent philosopher of the twentieth century. One of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is best known for her landmark 1951 book on openness in political life, The Origins of Totalitarianism, which, with its powerful and timely lessons for today, has become newly relevant. She led an extraordinary life. This was a woman who endured Nazi persecution firsthand, survived harrowing "escapes" from country to country in Europe, and befriended such luminaries as Walter Benjamin and Mary McCarthy, in a world inhabited by everyone from Marc Chagall and Marlene Dietrich to Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. A woman who finally had to give up her unique genius for philosophy, and her love of a very compromised man - the philosopher and Nazi-sympathizer Martin Heidegger - for what she called "love of the world." Compassionate and enlightening, playful and page-turning, New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt is a strikingly illustrated portrait of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed, and irrefutably courageous woman whose intelligence and "virulent truth telling" led her to breathtaking insights into the human condition, and whose experience continues to shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times.
Download or read book A Letter in the Scroll written by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-04-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces series of philosophical and theological ideas that Judaism has created and shows how they are still relevant in our time.
Download or read book Writing on the Tablet of the Heart written by David M. Carr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a new model for the production, revision, and reception of Biblical texts as Scripture. Building on recent studies of the oral/written interface in medieval, Greco-Roman and ancinet Near Eastern contexts, David Carr argues that in ancient Israel Biblical texts and other texts emerged as a support for an educational process in which written and oral dimensions were integrally intertwined. The point was not incising and reading texts on parchment or papyrus. The point was to enculturate ancient Israelites - particularly Israelite elites - by training them to memorize and recite a wide range of traditional literature that was seen as the cultural bedorck of the people: narrative, prophecy, prayer, and wisdom.
Download or read book The Book of Giants written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey with the artist and writer Petar Meseldzija, who tells how he was allowed unparalleled access through the Invisible Curtain and into the land of giants. A year in the making, this book's sixteen paintings and nearly ninety drawings bring to life Petar's experiences on this journey and secrets uncovered, going back to ancient times. He shares stories of new discoveries that free giants from the murky abyss of myth and a forgotten past. Told in three stages, The Book of Giants includes the illustrated stories The Giants Are Coming, recounting a dynamic clash that lasted one hundred years; The Little Kingdom, where a giant befriends a nation of humans and becomes their adamant protector against ferocious invaders; The Northern Giants, who embrace the warrior spirit through countless battles; Giant Velles, the story of ignorance and how the strength of goodness perseveres; and The Great Forest, wherein the author discovers little creatures called the keppetz and relates his experiences spent with ogres while on his quest to meet the Golden One and to determine the purpose of his journey. Through the strength of his own power, he discovers his blessings, his limitations and finally his personal myth. Furthermore, you will discover why giants made a push into the underground, followed by their exodus and deliverance to a new land. You'll also learn why the myth of giants is still alive, why their time spent with humans remains elusive and why giants prefer to remain hidden in their world. Join Petar Meseldzija on his journey of discovery.
Download or read book Works written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sacred Scroll written by Anton Gill and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constantinople 1204: the holy city is razed to the ground by Crusaders - the streets awash with blood. Modern day Istanbul: an elite group of archaeologists uncover the grave of Enrico Dandolo, once Doge of Venice, and leader of the bloodthirsty Fourth Crusade. They seek a legendary set of documents that reveal the truth behind Dandolo's rumoured secret links to the Templar knights. Days later the team vanishes without a trace. All that remains in the ransacked grave is a strange key inscribed with an ancient code. Special Interpol Operatives Jack and Laura are called in. They soon find themselves battling against an ancient enemy in a life or death race against time. The dark secret of the Templar knights is about to be revealed.
Download or read book The Agglomerate written by Bob Avis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four months after the sudden death of his wife Karen, Rick Hunter still harbors resentment toward God in particular and Christianity in general. All the questions that bothered him about the life of Christ and how the Christian churches accumulated, selected, and dispersed that information resurfaced. He has always felt that the church forced their version on the people, but Karen’s faith and his love for her suppressed those thoughts. He leaves his successful family-owned financial business to link up with virtually unknown archeologists Ron Conner and LB, seeking proof that God exists. An old British sea captain completes the core team. Ron has exceptional wealth and amazing competitors. Rick joins the team, moving to a South American dig site near the boundaries of Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil, where they discover two important artifacts. Then Ron obtains an ancient scroll from Magdala, Israel, that leads them to a dangerous underwater excavation off Santorini Island, Greece. The artifact found off Santorini splits the team. LB and Rick are sent to Ephesus, Turkey, while Ron and the captain travel to Liangzhu, China. LB and Rick find the Ephesus Stone and encounter a most unusual girl in the House of the Virgin Mary. The girl directs them to Abydos, Egypt, where she disappears, and then the Ephesus Stone is stolen. Four people are murdered as they pursue the stone in Cairo, Luxor, and Saqqâra. Next, they have to run for their lives through the streets of Cairo before recovering the stone and rejoining the rest of the team in China, where a meeting of competitors and other interested people gather to view the artifacts and their undecipherable writings. Subsequently, the artifacts are transformed into The Agglomerate with a clear message to all. Universal demand to scrutinize The Agglomerate is immense. Rick’s only trip accompanying the icon is to Erio, the most feared planet in this part of the Milky Way galaxy. This is done at the personal request of Lanth, who is the only known person from Erio. An attempt to detain LB, Rick, and The Agglomerate is averted at the last second. However, unintentionally they leave the impression that Rick must have a very special relationship with God. As The Agglomerate makes its way through the galaxy to various civilizations that are pondering the question of God’s existence, it’s apparent that some things may never change. Many are convinced The Agglomerate proves God’s presence while others believe it is a fraud. Other books by the author are the following: The Coalition, Gone, and Stringer 969.
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Ancient Sculptures Preserved in the Municipal Collections of Rome written by British School at Rome and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scroll written by Anne Perry and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient scroll draws a bookseller into a chilling mystery. Monty Danforth finds the tin buried beneath a shipment of leather-bound classics. Inside is a millennia-old vellum manuscript written in an unfamiliar but unmistakably ancient language. Danforth tries to photocopy and photograph it, but he ends up with blank images, as though the ink were made of something impervious to modern technology. As the scroll’s mystery enchants him, this hapless bookseller falls into a cutthroat conspiracy that he may never escape. Soon a dead-eyed old man and his granddaughter come calling for the scroll. Danforth refuses to sell them the manuscript, but they will not be the last to demand it. Powerful forces crave the secrets locked within this ancient document, and Danforth will survive only if he can master its power. The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.
Download or read book Understanding the Pentateuch as a Scripture written by James W. Watts and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutting-edge scholarly review of how the Pentateuch functions as a scripture, and how it came to be ritualized in this way. Understanding the Pentateuch as a Scripture is a unique account of the first five books of the Bible, describing how Jews and Christians ritualize the Pentateuch as a scripture by interpreting it, by performing its text and contents, and by venerating the physical scroll and book. Pentateuchal studies are known for intense focus on questions of how and when the first five books of the Bible were composed, edited, and canonized as scripture. Rather than such purely historical, literary, or theological approaches, Hebrew Bible scholar James W. Watts organizes this description of the Pentateuch from the perspectives of comparative scriptures and religious studies. He describes how the Pentateuch has been used in the centuries since it began to function as a scripture in the time of Ezra, and the origins of its ritualization before that time. The book: Analyzes the semantic contents of the Pentateuch as oral rhetoric that takes the form of stories followed by lists of laws and sanctions Gives equal space to its ritualization in the iconic and performative dimensions as to its semantic interpretation Fully integrates the cultural history of the Pentateuch and Bible with its influence on Jewish and Christian ritual, and in art, music, theatre, and film Understanding the Pentateuch as a Scripture is a groundbreaking work that highlights new research data and organizes the material to focus attention on the Pentateuch’s—and Bible’s— function as a scripture.
Download or read book The seven lamps of architecture written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Companion to Ancient Epic written by John Miles Foley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-09-16 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Ancient Epic presents for the first time a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of ancient Near Eastern, Greek and Roman epic. It offers a multi-disciplinary discussion of both longstanding ideas and newer perspectives. A Companion to the Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman epic traditions Considers the interrelation between these different traditions Provides a balanced overview of longstanding ideas and newer perspectives in the study of epic Shows how scholarship over the last forty years has transformed the ways that we conceive of and understand the genre Covers recently introduced topics, such as the role of women, the history of reception, and comparison with living analogues from oral tradition The editor and contributors are leading scholars in the field Includes a detailed index of poems, poets, technical terms, and important figures and events
Download or read book Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus written by Allan Millard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus never wrote a book. Most scholars assume that information about Jesus was preserved only orally up until the writing of the Gospels, allowing ample time for the stories of Jesus to grow and diversify. Alan Millard here argues that written reports about Jesus could have been made during his lifetime and that some among his audiences and followers may very well have kept notes, first-hand documents that the Evangelists could weave into their narratives.
Download or read book From Sources to Scrolls and Beyond written by David M. Carr and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gods and Kings Chronicles of the Kings Book 1 written by Lynn Austin and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gods and Kings is the story of King Hezekiah, heir to the throne of King David. When his evil father plots to sacrifice him, Hezekiah's mother, Abijah, searches frantically for a way to save him. But only two men can help her, and neither of them seems trustworthy. In a time and place engulfed by violence, treachery, and infidelity to Yahweh, Abijah and her son must discover the one true Source of strength if they are to save themselves and their country. Book 1 of Chronicles of the Kings.
