Architecture and Utopia in the Temple Era

Architecture and Utopia in the Temple Era
Author: Michael Chyutin
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780567030542

Proposes a reconstruction of the Temple, which differs from conventional descriptions in Jewish literary sources during the First and Second Temple eras. This book examines the individual descriptions of the Temple and considers the influence of the descriptions on subsequent ones.

The Message of Kings

The Message of Kings
Author: John W. Olley
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2011-12-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830824359

In this Bible speaks Today volume, John Olley shows how the two books of Kings retell the past as preached history, addressing the exilic situation of the original readers. Within this account of short-term success but ultimate failure, there are pointers of hope, of God's continuing purposes and promises. In rich and often surprising ways, the narrative in Kings is part of the history that has shaped, and will continue to shape, the faith and life of Christian believers.

Al-Hind: The Slavic Kings and the Islamic conquest, 11th-13th centuries

Al-Hind: The Slavic Kings and the Islamic conquest, 11th-13th centuries
Author: André Wink
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780391041745

During the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, Islamic conquest and trade laid the foundation for a new type of Indo-Islamic society in which the organizational forms of the frontier and of sedentary agriculture merged in a way that was uniquely successful in the late medieval world at large, setting the Indo-Islamic world apart from the Middle East and China in the same centuries.