Burning Books

Burning Books
Author: M. Fishburn
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2008-05-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230583660

This provocative new work examines the years between the Nazi book fires and the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), a period when book burning captured the popular imagination. It explores how embedded the myths of book burning have become in our cultural history, and illustrates the enduring appeal of a great cleansing bonfire.

Pomegranates and Golden Bells

Pomegranates and Golden Bells
Author: Jacob Milgrom
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Total Pages: 904
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780931464874

Colleagues, students, and friends honor Professor Milgrom by celebrating his contributions to biblical and Near Eastern scholarship with special emphasis on his primary areas of expertise. The first section of the book, Ritual, Law, and Their Sources, contains thirty-five essays on cultic and legal issues found in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and texts from Qumran. The second section, Other Literary, Historical, and Linguistic Studies, includes twenty-four essays, primarily dealing with interpretive issues in the Hebrew Bible.

The Fear of Books

The Fear of Books
Author: Holbrook Jackson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780252070402

Examines the violence, destruction, and suppression that have hounded books throughout their history and the fears that lead to such treachery. This book identifies three deeply seated fears: fear of insurrection, fear of blasphemy, and fear of pornography.

Our Jerusalem

Our Jerusalem
Author: Bertha Spafford Vester
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2011-11-29
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 144749539X

OUR Jerusalem- an American Family in the Holy City, 1881-1949 by Bertha Spafford Vester. Introduction by LOWELL THOMAS. Many of the earliest books, dated from the 1900s and before, are extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, modern editions using the original text and artwork.