The Last Days
Author : Abraham Gileadi
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780910511032
Author : Abraham Gileadi
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780910511032
Author : Olga Tokarczuk
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593087496
A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ” “Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post “Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolaño’s 2666.” –AV Club “Sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit. . . The comedy in this novel blends, as it does in life, with genuine tragedy.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, AND NPR The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect’s secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. The story of Frank—a real historical figure around whom mystery and controversy swirl to this day—is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga Tokarczuk. Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries—those who revere him, those who revile him, the friend who betrays him, the lone woman who sees him for what he is—The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence. In a nod to books written in Hebrew, The Books of Jacob is paginated in reverse, beginning on p. 955 and ending on p. 1 – but read traditionally, front cover to back.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9004302727
The Història de Jacob Xalabín, an anonymous novel written in Catalan c.1400, focuses on the figure of the Ottoman prince Yakub Çelebi, son of Murad I and half-brother of Bayezid I. It ends with the first detailed account of the battle of Kosovo of 1389, which left a lasting mark on the history of the Balkans. This text, mixing historical and fictional elements, is one of the earliest depictions in Western Literature of the rising Ottoman empire. Because of this, it is most relevant for Mediterranean studies and debates about orientalism. Juan Carlos Bayo has prepared a new critical edition of this novel, with an introduction and notes, and Barry Taylor offers its first translation ever into the English language. The volume is completed with an appendix of texts and documents on the Turkish connections of the Crown of Aragon.
Author : Madras (India : Presidency)
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 1917
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Paul Pablo Lennon
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1469122758
Author :
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780802136107
Hailed as "the most radical repackaging of the Bible since Gutenberg", these Pocket Canons give an up-close look at each book of the Bible.
Author : J. Cazeaux
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004331980
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 1928
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Christian David Ginsburg
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752521961
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Author : Anónimo
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2014-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1291854614
El Libro de los Jubileos es una obra hebrea perteneciente a los siglos 1 y 2 antes de nuestra era. Forma parte de la literatura canónica para la Iglesia Ortodoxa Etíope, aunque para el resto de las comunidades cristianas forma parte de los libros pseudoepígrafos. Aunque este libro quiere presentarse con un origen divino, siendo revelado desde los cielos, su objetivo aparente es la defensa del establecimiento del calendario antiguo, a diferencia del calendario judío impuesto por sectas como los fariseos. Dentro de los escritos que guardaban y ocultaron las comunidades esenias en Qumram, se encontraron diferentes fragmentos de este libro, dejándonos descubrir que no tiene un único autor, sino varios.