The Pharaoh's Destiny

The Pharaoh's Destiny
Author: Markie Madden
Publisher: Metamorph Publishing
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1535281103

The year is 1477 B.C.E. and history is about to change… Hatshepsut, the Great King’s Wife, is thrust into a world of intrigue and politics when her husband, Pharaoh Thutmose, dies suddenly, leaving Egypt with an heir who is barely two years old. The Queen must step into the role of leader, and there are few she can trust. When Hatshepsut is crowned as Pharaoh, she grooms her daughter, Neferure, to take the place of heir, rather than Thutmose’s infant son from another woman. Neferure, though young, is still older than the boy who should by all rights be king. The future of Egypt rests in the hands of a single woman, the most powerful woman in the ancient world. Can Pharaoh Hatshepsut’s people accept her unorthodox reign, and her plans to usurp the men’s place as rulers of a Kingdom, decreeing that only women are suitable leaders?

Patterns of Destiny

Patterns of Destiny
Author: Diane M. Sharon
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2002-06-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1575065258

Diane Sharon uses the tools of structuralist literary criticism to uncover social and theological patterns in biblical literature. She provides a brief framework for understanding the approach used in her study, then demonstrates that the notion of destiny, specifically the ideas of establishment / foundation and condemnation / doom, are embedded in narrative that includes an eating and drinking event.

Sex, War, and "Sin"

Sex, War, and
Author: James H. Gailey
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2012-07-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 161097834X

An examination of the Hebrew Scriptures reveals the ethical situations in ancient Israel as a structural analysis, and exposes a covenantal triangle that features a dynamic of giving and receiving, taking and paying penalties, as a meme for human relationships. This can be applied to groups as well as individuals and is surprisingly applicable to life in the twenty-first century. Two senses of "Law"--natural scientific discoveries and the rules laid down by a divine creator--lead to frames for considering these covenantal relationships, and even the existence of "Sin." Are we bound to obey the rules laid down by God, or may we decide what is best for us?

Alone of All Her Sex

Alone of All Her Sex
Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1983-03-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0394711556

Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances and why for all their beauty and power,the legends of Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority.

Genesis

Genesis
Author: Wayne Sibley Towner
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664252564

Considers the themes of cosmology, anthropology, evolution, interactions between men and women, sibling friction, and the origins of the bible in Genesis, suggesting channels for further reflection and ways in which Genesis can enrich faith in the modern world. Original.

Hatchepsut

Hatchepsut
Author: Joyce Tyldesley
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1998-01-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0141929340

Queen - or, as she would prefer to be remembered King - Hatchepsut was an astonishing woman. Brilliantly defying tradition she became the female embodiment of a male role, dressing in men's clothes and even wearing a false beard. Forgotten until Egptologists deciphered hieroglyphics in the 1820's, she has since been subject to intense speculation about her actions and motivations. Combining archaeological and historical evidence from a wide range of sources, Joyce Tyldesley's dazzling piece of detection strips away the myths and misconceptions and finally restores the female pharaoh to her rightful place.

Night Life

Night Life
Author: Elizabeth Guest
Publisher: Berkley
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780425214824

Once a revered pharaoh betrayed by his people, Adrian King, a vampire and owner of a Las Vegas casino, is drawn to Egyptologist Christine Day, but a great evil from his past has awakened, determined to take her away from him forever.