Author : Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804737045
Scholars have come to realize that we can and need to speak of a twin birth of Christianity and Judaism, not a genealogy in which one is parent to the other. In this book, the author develops a revised understanding of the interactions between nascent Christianity and nascent Judaism in late antiquity.
Author : J. G. Frazer
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780530430645
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Author : Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Explains "the nature of sacrifice in antiquity" and "different aspects of the subject: the notion of flesh for the gods; rites of fire and blood; the significance of defleshing heads and of skulls; suffocation ... ; the selection of victims and the evidence for the sacrifice of children." Author "puts forward some reasons for ritual murder and shows how" certain practices "illustrate the importance of place in the sacrificial rite" and "highlights the essential role of the priesthood in sacrificial murder."--Jacket.
Author : Ron Currie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101202270
The electrifying, "cutting-edge" (USA Today) debut work of fiction from Ron Currie, author of the forethcoming novel The One-Eyed Man (March 2017) Ron Currie’s gutsy, funny book is instantly gripping: If God takes human form and dies, what would become of life as we know it? Effortlessly combining outlandish humor with big questions about mortality, ethics, and human weakness, Ron Currie, Jr., holds a funhouse mirror to our present-day world. God has inhabited the mortal body of a young Dinka woman in the Sudan. When she is killed in the Darfur desert, he dies along with her, and word of his death soon begins to spread. Faced with the hard proof that there is no supreme being in charge, the world is irrevocably transformed, yet remains oddly recognizable.
Author : Gerard Denza
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 2005-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 146348139X
“The Dying GOD: A Vampire’s Tale should run forever ... a great cast. The playwright has a gift for words.” -Joe Frankin, WOR-AM Radio “If you found yourself jumping on the Internet looking for news after your Da Vinci Code read, you will probably enjoy the new play by writer and director Gerard Denza which brings a modern and original spin to the very popular vampire concept. Pretty dramatic and intellectual stuff here. I thoroughly enjoyed The Dying GOD: A Vampire’s Tale...it was fresh, made me think, at times I even found myself wondering if this was real and the cast was going to induct me into this cult...” -Betyper (Internet Newspaper)
Author : Manly P. Hall
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2021-04-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781631184987
In the Critias, Plato describes in detail the divine foundation of the Atlantean Empire. The golden age preserved in myth and legend, when the gods walked with men, depicts the zenith of Atlantean civilization. The demigods of the ancient world were the Atlanteans, to whom every civilized nation owes an incalculable debt of gratitude.
Author : Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008288720
An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Fantasy Award-winning novel of a remarkable woman in post-apocalyptic Africa. Now optioned as a TV series for HBO, with executive producer George R.R. Martin!
Author : Richard Leonard, Sj
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1616430850
Combines professional insights along with the author's own experience and insights to speculate on how believers can make sense of their Christian faith when confronted with tragedy and suffering.
Author : Steven Erikson
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 1300 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429926996
A thrilling, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic, Toll the Hounds is the new chapter in Erikson's monumental series - epic fantasy at its most imaginative and storytelling at its most exciting. In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways, but the quarry has turned and the hunters become the hunted. Hidden hands pluck the strings of tyranny like a fell chorus. While the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of Hounds...And in the distant city of Black Coral, where rules Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, ancient crimes awaken, intent on revenge. It seems Love and Death are indeed about to arrive...hand in hand, dancing. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Richard Sigmund
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1603743502
Is there life after death? After a tragic accident, doctors pronounced Richard Sigmund legally dead. Eight hours later, God miraculously brought him back to life on the way to the morgue. During those hours, God allowed him to experience the glorious beauty, heavenly sounds, sweet aromas, and boundless joys of heaven that await every believer. God then returned him back to earth with a mission to tell the world what he saw. You will thrill to Sigmund’s eyewitness accounts of strolling down heaven’s streets of gold, seeing angels playing with children, talking with Jesus, meeting with people from the Bible, as well as departed family and friends, seeing the mansions, and much more! Through Sigmund’s testimony, God restored sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and even raised several people from the dead. Also, glimpse into the horrifying reality of “the other place”—a place where no one wants to go.
