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| Author | : Wojciech Zukrowski |
| Publisher | : Paul Dry Books |
| Total Pages | : 744 |
| Release | : 2016-04-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1589881079 |
“A novel of epic scope and ambition.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) An influential Polish classic celebrates 50 years—and its first English edition As Stone Tablets opens, Istvan Terey, a poet and World War II veteran, is serving as cultural attaché with the Hungarian embassy in Delhi just a few months before his country is torn apart by the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. He is personable and popular with Indians and Europeans, communists and capitalists, but his outspoken criticisms of corruption in the Hungarian government and the embassy threaten to undermine his career. Meanwhile, he has fallen in love with Margit, an Australian ophthalmologist working in India, who is still living through a tragedy of her own: her fiancé died under torture during World War II. Draining heat, brilliant color, intense smells, and intrusive animals enliven this sweeping Cold War romance. Based on the author’s own experience as a Polish diplomat in India in the late 1950s, Stone Tablets was one of the first literary works in Poland to offer scathing criticisms of Stalinism, and was censored when it was first submitted for publication. Stephanie Kraft’s translation opens this book for the first time to English-speaking readers. “A high-paced, passionate narrative in which every detail is vital.”—Leslaw Bartelski Zukrowski is “a brilliantly talented observer of life, a visionary skilled at combining the concrete with the magical, lyricism with realism…a distinguished stylist.”—Leszek Zulinski “A romance fraught with personal and political risk is at the core of this historically important yet previously untranslated novel by a Polish diplomat stationed in India during the Cold War…inspired by the author’s own experiences, Zukrowski’s precise descriptions of India are memorable, and there is a certain throwback appeal to the depictions of diplomacy conducted through telegrams and glasses of whiskey. But it is Zukrowski’s trenchant critique of Stalinism and political message, bold for its time, that make this novel truly noteworthy.”—Booklist
| Author | : Jack E. Churchward |
| Publisher | : Ozark Mountain Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2014-06-12 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 1940265010 |
Recovered information from the lost continent of Mu.
| Author | : Peter Dubovský |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 592 |
| Release | : 2020-07 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 9783161582998 |
A constant re-evaluation of the new archaeological and textual material unearthed and edited in recent decades is a recurrent duty of ancient and modern scholars. Since the overwhelming amount of available data and the complexity of new methodologies can be competently handled only by specialized scholars, such a re-evaluation is no longer possible for a single scholar. For this reason, archaeologists, cuneiform and biblical scholars as well as classicists joined forces at an international conference in Rome in May 2017 to share their accumulated knowledge. The results of the proceedings are presented here in the oral stage along with the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and Greco-Roman periods.
| Author | : British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 1912 |
| Genre | : Boundary stones |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Dean A. Anderson |
| Publisher | : Legacy Press (CA) |
| Total Pages | : 109 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Christian fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781584110736 |
Introducing Guarding the Tablets of Stone, the second book in the Bill the Warthog Mysteries series. Join in on the action as Bill solves such cases as the vanishing "Big Green Slime Time" video game, and even uses "Slugtop", the cosmic comic superhero, to put the Ten Commandments under the magnifying glass for Nick and his friends. Bill the Warthog Mysteries: Guarding the Tablets of Stone will bring laughter and learning to preteens, and kids of all ages!
| Author | : Susan C. Power |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780820325019 |
Early Art of the Southeastern Indians is a visual journey through time, highlighting some of the most skillfully created art in native North America. The remarkable objects described and pictured here, many in full color, reveal the hands of master artists who developed lapidary and weaving traditions, established centers for production of shell and copper objects, and created the first ceramics in North America. Presenting artifacts originating in the Archaic through the Mississippian periods--from thousands of years ago through A.D. 1600--Susan C. Power introduces us to an extraordinary assortment of ceremonial and functional objects, including pipes, vessels, figurines, and much more. Drawn from every corner of the Southeast--from Louisiana to the Ohio River valley, from Florida to Oklahoma--the pieces chronicle the emergence of new media and the mastery of new techniques as they offer clues to their creators’ widening awareness of their physical and spiritual worlds. The most complex works, writes Power, were linked to male (and sometimes female) leaders. Wearing bold ensembles consisting of symbolic colors, sacred media, and richly complex designs, the leaders controlled large ceremonial centers that were noteworthy in regional art history, such as Etowah, Georgia; Spiro, Oklahoma; Cahokia, Illinois; and Moundville, Alabama. Many objects were used locally; others circulated to distant locales. Power comments on the widening of artists’ subjects, starting with animals and insects, moving to humans, then culminating in supernatural combinations of both, and she discusses how a piece’s artistic “language” could function as a visual shorthand in local style and expression, yet embody an iconography of regional proportions. The remarkable achievements of these southeastern artists delight the senses and engage the mind while giving a brief glimpse into the rich, symbolic world of feathered serpents and winged beings.
| Author | : Kat Armstrong |
| Publisher | : NavPress |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2023-04-18 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1641585927 |
These studies guide you through the storyline of Scripture-each following a person, place, or thing in the Bible. Maybe you are practiced in dissecting a passage and pulling things out of the text to apply to your life. But now you may feel as though your faith is fragmented. The Storyline Bible studies help you put the pieces back together. You'll discover cohesive, thematic storylines with literary elements and appreciate the Bible as the masterpiece that it is. Each study is five weeks long and can be paired with its thematic partner for a seamless ten-week study to fit in a church semester. Every study features: Gospel presentation at the beginning of each Bible study Full Scripture passages included in the study so that you can mark up the text and keep your notes in one place Insights from female scholars and scholars of color Free resources for preaching and leading small groups The Stones Bible study will guide you through five stone-related stories because stones are physical reminders of God's faithful activity in the lives of his people. We will explore: Genesis 28 and 35: the Bedrock of Jacob, where God met Jacob with faithfulness Exodus 34: the Bedrock of Moses, where God met Moses with steadfast forgiveness Joshua 4: the Bedrock of Joshua, where God helped his people remember Matthew 27-28: the Bedrock of Jesus, where rescue comes through resurrection 1 Peter 2: the Bedrock of the Church, where God's people are given purpose
| Author | : Philip Zhakevich |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2020-12-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1646021037 |
In this book, Philip Zhakevich examines the technology of writing as it existed in the southern Levant during the Iron Age II period, after the alphabetic writing system had fully taken root in the region. Using the Hebrew Bible as its corpus and focusing on a set of Hebrew terms that designated writing surfaces and instruments, this study synthesizes the semantic data of the Bible with the archeological and art-historical evidence for writing in ancient Israel. The bulk of this work comprises an in-depth lexicographical analysis of Biblical Hebrew terms related to Israel’s writing technology. Employing comparative Semitics, lexical semantics, and archaeology, Zhakevich provides a thorough analysis of the origins of the relevant terms; their use in the biblical text, Ben Sira, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient Hebrew inscriptions; and their translation in the Septuagint and other ancient versions. The final chapter evaluates Israel’s writing practices in light of those of the ancient world, concluding that Israel’s most common form of writing (i.e., writing with ink on ostraca and papyrus) is Egyptian in origin and was introduced into Canaan during the New Kingdom. Comprehensive and original in its scope, Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel is a landmark contribution to our knowledge of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel. Students and scholars interested in language and literacy in the first-millennium Levant in particular will profit from this volume.
| Author | : Chaim Miller |
| Publisher | : KOL MENACHEM |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2005-08 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 0972501096 |
| Author | : James W. Watts |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2017-07-27 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1118786386 |
A cutting-edge scholarly review of how the Pentateuch functions as a scripture, and how it came to be ritualized in this way. Understanding the Pentateuch as a Scripture is a unique account of the first five books of the Bible, describing how Jews and Christians ritualize the Pentateuch as a scripture by interpreting it, by performing its text and contents, and by venerating the physical scroll and book. Pentateuchal studies are known for intense focus on questions of how and when the first five books of the Bible were composed, edited, and canonized as scripture. Rather than such purely historical, literary, or theological approaches, Hebrew Bible scholar James W. Watts organizes this description of the Pentateuch from the perspectives of comparative scriptures and religious studies. He describes how the Pentateuch has been used in the centuries since it began to function as a scripture in the time of Ezra, and the origins of its ritualization before that time. The book: Analyzes the semantic contents of the Pentateuch as oral rhetoric that takes the form of stories followed by lists of laws and sanctions Gives equal space to its ritualization in the iconic and performative dimensions as to its semantic interpretation Fully integrates the cultural history of the Pentateuch and Bible with its influence on Jewish and Christian ritual, and in art, music, theatre, and film Understanding the Pentateuch as a Scripture is a groundbreaking work that highlights new research data and organizes the material to focus attention on the Pentateuch’s—and Bible’s— function as a scripture.
