Download or read book Vines Intertwined written by Leo Duprée Sandgren and published by Hendrickson Pub. This book was released on 2010 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Jewish/Christian history in antiquity is experiencing a renaissance. Textual witnesses and archaeological sites are being reevaluated and revisited. As a result, author Sandgren asserts, the relationship between Jews and Christians has shifted from a "mother-daughter" paradigm to one better described as "siblings." Recognizing that Judaism and Christianity are what they are because of each other and were not formed in isolation, Sandgren provides readers and researchers with a comprehensive generation-by-generation political history of the Jews - from the fall of the First Temple and the Babylonian Exile through the rise of Christianity out of Judaism - to the conquest of Jerusalem by Muslim Arabs and the rise of Christianity out of Judaism, to the point where both are fully defined against each other at the start of the Middle Ages. With a good subject index and a strong chronological framework, this book is a convenient reference work to this extended period of antiquity, with sufficient "bookends" of history to show where it began and how it ends. Making use of numerous contemporary studies as well as often neglected classics, Sandgren thoroughly develops the concept of "the people of God" and the core ideology behind Jewish and Christian self definition. A ready resource for both students and scholars, pastors and laypeople, this accessible reference also includes a bibliography and an ancient sources index as well as a CD. The attached CD will have the entire book as a searchable PDF as well as a list of names of emperors, rabbis, and church fathers.
Download or read book Foraged Flora written by Louesa Roebuck and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously photographed new take on flower arranging using local and foraged plants and flowers to create beautiful arrangements, with ideas and inspiration for the whole year. Roadside fennel, flowering fruit trees, garden roses, tiny violets; ingredients both common and unusual, humble and showy, Foraged Flora is a new vision for flowers and arranging. It encourages you to train your eye to the beauty that surrounds you, attune your senses to the seasonality and locality of flowers and plants, and to embrace the beauty in each stage of life, from first bud to withering seedpod. Organized by month, each chapter in this visually arresting and inspiring book focuses on large and small arrangements created from the flowers and plants available during that time period and in that place, all foraged or gleaned nearby. The authors reflect on surprising and beautiful pairings, the importance of scale, the scarcity or abundance of raw materials, and the environmental factors that contribute to that availability. Whether picking a small tendril of fragrant jasmine, collecting oversized branches of flowering quince, or making a garland of bay laurel, Foraged Flora is an invitation to seek out the beauty of the natural world.
Download or read book Martial Supreme with Devouring Arts written by Jian Shijiu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lin Feng, who had a blood feud, obtained the Devouring God Technique and opened up a path of invincibility. He barged into the Demon Region and the War Temple, fighting off the Hundred Races and Heaven's Pride. He massacred countless mighty sects, swallowing up all existences and traversing the entire universe!
Download or read book Migration and the Making of Global Christianity written by Jehu J. Hanciles and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial sweep through 1500 years of Christian history with a groundbreaking focus on the missionary role of migrants in its spread. Human migration has long been identified as a driving force of historical change. Building on this understanding, Jehu Hanciles surveys the history of Christianity’s global expansion from its origins through 1500 CE to show how migration—more than official missionary activity or imperial designs—played a vital role in making Christianity the world’s largest religion. Church history has tended to place a premium on political power and institutional forms, thus portraying Christianity as a religion disseminated through official representatives of church and state. But, as Hanciles illustrates, this “top-down perspective overlooks the multifarious array of social movements, cultural processes, ordinary experiences, and non-elite activities and decisions that contribute immensely to religious encounter and exchange.” Hanciles’s socio-historical approach to understanding the growth of Christianity as a world religion disrupts the narrative of Western preeminence, while honoring and making sense of the diversity of religious expression that has characterized the world Christian movement for two millennia. In turning the focus of the story away from powerful empires and heroic missionaries, Migration and the Making of Global Christianity instead tells the more truthful story of how every Christian migrant is a vessel for the spread of the Christian faith in our deeply interconnected world.
Download or read book Cover Crops in West Africa written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1998 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover Crops in West Africa Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture
Download or read book Go and Serve written by James Williamson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words for reflection from Jimbo’s Stories 1. Life is an adventure. Some good adventures and some bad ones. We learn from them all. 2. The reason I want to write about mission trips is so others will see the need, and the joy in serving. 3. God is in control and he has a job for all of us. 4. Let’s all be servants and meet new people and learn new things. 5. Come down, have a life changing experience, go back, and tell others, help people where you are, come back and bring others. “I guess I need to write a book (or two or three). I would have to get more concise and say they are fiction, because no one would believe I do all the goofy things I do.” James “Jimbo” Williamson
Download or read book Bruno Sees the Light written by Poe Iannie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divorced by his wife after 15 years of marriage, Paul Bruno decides to leave his lucrative career as a corporate executive and become a university teacher of political science, a subject which he feels he has experienced and been fascinated by as a corporate manager.
Download or read book The Cherished Life written by Luo YeWuHen26 and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-03 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were always too many grievances in the world that could not be explained or explained.It would be better to ignore all sorts of matters and face life and death.The road beneath his feet, the fog in front of him, his life, and his enlightenment.Sword in hand in the chaotic world, free and easy, everything, but the heart.
Download or read book Silens in Attic Black figure Vase painting written by Guy Michael Hedreen and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A welcome examination of some curious creatures and a more curious god
Download or read book Rewilding Food and the Self written by Tristan Fournier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contributes to the return to nature movement that is very much in vogue in contemporary European societies, by examining the place of food and eating in the "rewilding" process. It is divided into three parts, each of which consists of conversations between social scientists, with fieldwork collected from across Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Norway and Switzerland. The first part focuses on the ways in which the hunter-gatherer livelihood has been transformed into a resilient, simpler and ecological way of life. It is dedicated to hunting and identifies the contexts in which large wild game meat is consumed and the reasons why such a product is still valued today. The second part shows how some practices that aim to reconnect with natural processes are developing within a market economy. Case studies on natural wine and fasting retreats help us to identify the promises that producers and promoters are relying on in order to disseminate them. Finally, the third part considers how this process of rewilding food is expressed in post-modernity. By focusing on two normative frameworks in which the rhetoric of the wild is mobilized although it is not expected to be in these terms – urbanity and the gender order – the goal is to understand the extent to which referring to the wild in food discourses and practices contributes to challenging our identities, and to creating possible forms of emancipation. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars interested in food cultures, human nature relationships, and sustainable diets.
Download or read book Supreme Martial God written by Xuan Dao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transcendent divine might and ten million martial spirits, who could be invincible? The trash of the family, once he awakened, he destroyed the genius! In this life, those who did not run errands had to use their hot blood to exchange for invincible Tao techniques. They had to climb to the top, be proud and proud throughout the ages, and become a Martial God! — — Lin Yue
Download or read book God killing Legend written by Chao ZiXiaoManTou and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wang, do you really want to fight?" "It seems like Dark Night's hands are rubbing against its chest in excitement, and it won't be able to wait any longer." Boss, as long as you give the order, we will kill our way out and kill every single one of those 20,000 warlord knights! " As soon as the topic of war was brought up, Cang Jue could no longer hold himself back.
Download or read book Heavenly Sword Evil Sovereign written by Liu FengHuiXue and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-05 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The path to becoming an immortal, reversing to becoming a devil, that would only take a flick of a finger from time to time. Trampling through the cycle of reincarnation with blood, breaking through life and death on the Vast Expanse Society. Buried love reverses the Road to River Styx, the sword aura shook the nine universe. Wrong me now to create eternal tribulation, who to me read the red candle.
Download or read book Tales From Wizard Koylo written by Judith Anne Hathaway and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wizard Koylo is looking for the Book of Fairy magic. The book has been stolen by none other than his twin brother Dark Wizard Kaylo. Wizard Koylo is aided with the help of a Fairie named princess Orianda who is next in line to become Magi of the Fairies and Prince Jinxie an Elf of mysterious gifts destined to become King of the Elves. Wizard Koylo must pass through various dimensions to find the dimension his brother Dark wizard Kaylo has created. Will they catch the Dark Wizard Kaylo before he can use the book of Fairie Magic and stop him from creating a world of his own.
Download or read book My Hotel in Nether World written by Hong ChenQiuDu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Wang Siyao had been born with the Ghost Eye, she had received a black stone token from her ancestors when she was eighteen. From there, she had opened the door of the inn.
Download or read book The Wines of Spain written by Julian Jeffs and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of the Spanish wine industry over the last 20 years has been astonishing. From a state of very considerable decay it has re-invented itself with great vigour and style. Four decades ago such reputation as the wines of Spain had rested on the declining quality of Sherry and the occasional majestic Rioja towering above the surrounding sea of mediocre, oxidised table wines. "How things have changed!" exclaims Julian Jeffs in the introduction to his valuable The Wines of Spain, the latest addition to Faber and Faber's series of wine books. Over the course of two years Jeffs put in a great deal of intensive research in Spain, travelling the length and breadth of the country, visiting growers and tasting their wines. The effort has paid off in a wealth of engrossing detail. The volume is organised into sections dealing with the main provinces or geographical regions--Aragon, Catalunya, Andalucia and so on--then within those by the individual Denominacion de Origen (DO). Within each DO the leading or most interesting bodegas are profiled, allowing Jeffs to build up a cumulative portrait of the regional characters. Especially evocative are the portions of the book dealing with the ancient and distinguished Sherry houses in Andalucia, many of them of course founded in the 18th or 19th centuries by British or Irish merchants. The account of the great Bodegas Vega Sicilia in Castilla is emblematic of the progress of the entire Spanish wine industry: Producing some of the world's finest wine up to the 1920s, it fell into poor practices and the quality and reliability of the wine suffered badly. Under the modernising current owners the wine has regained its former reputation. According to Julian Jeffs, Vega Sicilia "is on a Wagnerian scale, with all that master's subtlety and complexity." --Robin Davidson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Download or read book A Whimsical Notion written by Jennie Goutet and published by Millefeuille Press. This book was released on 2023-10-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She excels at everything—especially at capturing his heart. Philip Townsend is too busy trying to render his estate profitable to worry about managing its rundown house or finding a woman suited to the role of his wife. His beautiful and competent neighbor Honoria would be the logical choice, were it not for the enmity between their fathers that makes such a thing impossible. Honoria Bassett takes pride in a household well run and cannot understand why her dear neighbor won’t make more of an effort at his. When it comes to the choice of husbands, she is too certain of what she wants to consider Philip for the role. But his tendency toward quiet acts of heroism, and those firm lips quirked upward in a grin, keep doing strange things to her heart. When challenges appear in their individual lives, Philip and Honoria turn to one another for guidance. Now in constant company, the strength of their feelings makes them question whether mere friendship is enough. But even if they decide they might suit, how in the world will they convince Honoria’s father to agree? Chaste, Regency romance, written in the traditional style.
