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Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 1989-06-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780140442496
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Walter Mattfeld
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 2010-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0557705169
Several pre-biblical protagonists appearing in Mesopotamian myths are identified as being fused together and recast as the Garden of Eden's serpent.
Author : Jane R. McIntosh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2005-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 157607966X
The first general introduction to Mesopotamia that covers all four of the area's major ancient civilizations—Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia. Ancient Mesopotamia: New Perspectives ranges from the region's cultural beginnings to its Persian "liberation," from simple farmers to mighty kings, from the marshy Gulf shores and Arabian desert sands to the foothills of the Taurus and Zagros mountains. It is the first volume to capture the entire sweep of Mesopotamia's four major ancient cultures (Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian) in one concise and captivating volume. Ancient Mesopotamia reveals how archaeologists, geologists, geographers, and other scientists have pieced together an understanding of some of the most complex and accomplished civilizations in history: their economies, social orders, political systems, religions, intellectual accomplishments, and material culture. It offers a wealth of information and insights into the glorious past of a land in turmoil today.
Author : Fr Andrew Younan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0578006154
Two theses are presented in this book. First, that there is an overarching School of Thought in Mesopotamia, consistent in its basic tenets, from ancient times to the late middle ages, and that this Mesopotamian School is fundamentally realistic as opposed to idealistic. Second, that the Christology of Theodore of Mopsuestia, as read as an expression of this School, is orthodox by the Chalcedonian standard. Included in the Appendices are complete translations of Mar Narsai's 16th and 35th Metrical Sermons, on human nature and the Trinity, respectively, as well as of his Dialogue Between the Watcher & Mary.
Author : Gary Arthur Thomson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1462059856
Sumerians were the ?rst people to write. Using a sharp three-cornered stylus, they wrote on claysmall wedge-shapes called cuneiform. With writing, Sumerians turned the corner from prehistory to history! After at least two million years of humans telling stories, the Sumerians introduced literacy. Most civilizations passed down their heritage through orally recited traditionsstories were passed from one generation to another by word of mouth. The Sumerians were the ?rst to write down their oral traditions. To make the historical record easier, the Sumerians invented calendars with exact dates of events and contracts often corroborated by astronomy. Since Sumerian farmers invented irrigation and created a surplus, other Sumerians could choose to specialize in law, education, architecture, engineering, marketing, and politicsall of which were accompanied by written records. Using the writings of the Sumerians and modern archaeology, this book will trace the story of the Sumerians, the worlds ?rst writers.
Author : Arch B. Taylor Jr.
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1630870730
"God our Savior desires everyone to be saved" (1Tim 2:4). Does God get what God wants? "Yes, but--" depending on how we read the Bible. The Bible is universal: One God, Sovereign Creator of everything, especially humanity in God's image, God's partner to manage creation. Science and evolution say humanity evolved, gradually acquiring superior capabilities. We have yet to transcend animal nature and acknowledge oneness of creation under God. Humans exploited our semi-divine status, becoming alienated. God chose Israelites/Jews for blessing and reconciling humanity. They exploited chosenness, so God sent the Jew Jesus to reveal God's gracious concern for all people. Roman political and Jewish religious power killed Jesus, but he appeared resurrected to his disciples, who proclaimed him Savior. God gave another Jew, Paul, a vision of Jesus resurrected and appointed him to proclaim God's reconciliation to Gentiles. Paul taught that through the faithfulness of Jesus, Gentiles too become God's people and share Israel's blessings without becoming Jews. All who experience reconciliation share Jesus's partnership with God. "We toil and struggle, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe" (1 Tim 4:10).
Author : Roger Wagner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2016
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 0198747950
The curiosity that leads to the search for religious understanding and the curiosity that leads to the search for scientific understanding have common origins in aspects of the human mind that go back as far as the earliest records of human intellectual endeavour. Tracing that history all the way from cave painting to quantum physics, this book (a collaboration between a painter and a physical scientist that uses illustrations throughout the narrative) sets out to explain the nature of the long entanglement between religion and science: the ultimate and the penultimate curiosity. --Adapted from publisher description.
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1973-10-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0141907185
Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the 3rd millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat the Bull of Heaven and slay the monster Humbaba. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's grief and fear of death are such that they lead him to undertake a quest for eternal life. A timeless tale of morality, tragedy and pure adventure, The Epic of Gilgamesh is a landmark literary exploration of man's search for immortality.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802039456
his new edition in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series brings The Secular Scripture together with thirty shorter pieces pertaining to literary theory and criticism from the last fifteen years of Frye's life.
Author : Lawren Leo
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1578636981
"Along with the bear, horses are the primary creatures associated with shamanism and traditions influenced by it. The horse has long been exerting its psychic pressure through the astral realm on our subconscious minds, and it is time for the witch, the warlock, the magician, and all magickal practitioners to embrace its equine magick. This book contains spells, rituals, chants, and meditations for many purposes, loosely based around equine imagery. Numerous traditions are represented, as are many deities including Athena, Epona, and Baba Yaga"--
