The Representative Men of the Bible: Adam the child. Abel the undeveloped. Enoch the immortal. Noah the renewer. Abraham the cosmopolitan. Isaac the domesticated. Jacob the aspiring. Joseph the optimist. Moses the practical. Joshua the prosaic. Samuel the seer. David the many-sided. Solomon the wise. Elijah the impulsive. Elisha the imitative. Job the patient


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Men of the Bible


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Now available in softcover, Men of the Bible focuses on the lives of fifty-two men in Scripture to help you approach the story of salvation with fresh eyes. This book offers a unique devotional program, combining five elements: each man's story, a closer look at the man and how his life applies to you, a Bible study, promises, and prayer.







Representative Men


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"Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850. The first essay discusses the role played by "great men" in society, and the remaining six each extol the virtues of one of six men deemed by Emerson to be great. Emerson was inspired by the Romantic belief that there exists a "general mind" that expresses itself with special intensity through certain individual lives. It reflects an appreciation of genius as a quality distributed to the few for the benefit of the many.




The Representative Women of the Bible


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This classic work examines the lives of some of the most important women in the Bible, including Eve, Sarah, Rebekah, Miriam, Ruth, Esther, Mary, and Martha. Matheson provides insightful commentary on their stories and explores the significance of their roles in biblical history. -- Google books




Representative Men


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As Judith Shklar has pointed out, Emerson built Representative Men around the principle of 'rotation, ' which had become a political axiom in Jacksonian America--the idea that no man, no matter how imposing, should be accorded permanent authority. Representative Men honors the language of democracy in its very title.