Watchers at the Shrine

Watchers at the Shrine
Author: Jean Ure
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2014-07-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1444919911

50 years on from Come Lucky April... April and David have confronted the orthodoxy - they believe girls and boys should be able to grow up together. They determine to send their son away, to spare him the humilation of castration. ' Hal spends several years there, waiting for the ban to be lifted. He befriends the daughters of the family he lives with - but when he challenges his 'father' he is sent from the house, and discovers a new life in the lawless part of the settlement. He realises he needs to help the girls he can to escape and return to Croydon. How can he save them? Life back in Croydon things are changing, too. People are dying. Beliefs are being challenged. Are things any better than they were 150 years ago? Is there hope for the future?

Watchers at the Shrine

Watchers at the Shrine
Author: Jean Ure
Publisher:
Total Pages: 154
Release: 1995
Genre: Historical fiction, English
ISBN: 9780749723941

Sequel to PLAGUE 99 and COME LUCKY APRIL

The Watchers in Jewish and Christian Traditions

The Watchers in Jewish and Christian Traditions
Author: Angela Kim Harkins
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2014-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451465130

Leading scholars explore the tradition, rooted in Genesis 6, of “the Watchers,” mysterious heavenly beings who became the focus of rich cosmological and theological speculation in early Judaism. Chapters trace the development of the Watchers through the Enoch literature, Jubilees, and other early Jewish and Christian writings.

The Mediaeval Stage: book III. Religious drama. book IV. The interlude. Appendices

The Mediaeval Stage: book III. Religious drama. book IV. The interlude. Appendices
Author: Edmund Kerchever Chambers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 498
Release: 1903
Genre: Drama, Medieval
ISBN:

From the demise of ancient Roman spectacles (c. 400 AD) to a new class of professional players by the 16th-century. Excellent accounts of wandering minstrels, mimes, mummers, miracle and morality plays, puppet shows, dramatic pageants, liturgical plays and much more.

Come Lucky April

Come Lucky April
Author: Jean Ure
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 144491992X

Come Lucky April is set a hundred years on from Plague 99. Harry's great-granddaughter is a girl called April, who lives in an all-female run vegan society, which is carefully governed to eliminate risk of plague-like situations. Men have shamed themselves and are no longer in power. There's a primitive aspect to life as though the 21st century as we know it never happened. At 12, boys are exiled for 5 years ...'they went away as barbarians and came back civilised', which means castrated. 'Homecoming' is when they are welcomed back - but how welcome are they? We meet Daniel, a survivor of a patrician clan, whose quest it is to find unclaimed parts of the 'outside world'. His great grandmother was Fran and his great grand-father was Shahid from the first part of the trilogy. He wants to find the diary that Fran left behind in her family home in Croydon. In the abandoned house, girls and boy meet ... Daniel and April don't, at first, realise they are connected by their distant ancestors' friendship. A potential romantic attachment forms between them. His presence creates conflict, but they take him into their community, where the conflicts worsen. Daniel questions everything April has been brought up to believe. He challenges the women's views and their rejection of the orthodoxy he knows. He makes David, a long-term friend of April, question what he has lost as a man. An exciting novel, rich in texture and passionate in its ideas.

The Fledgling

The Fledgling
Author: C. K. Osborne
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2013
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1481793012

Imperial China in 5BC was a divided country where belief in religions; mysticism and politics were interwoven together. 10 year old Su Ling, growing up in poor surroundings was soon to discover that 'the honour' bestowed on her by her parents meant abandonment to the work-rooms of the local Grand Administrator in his vast complex of buildings. In the workhouse, the disciplined lifestyle required stamina and sacrifice. She was later transferred to The Temple of the Heavenly Bird where she was to become a 'chosen one' for a secret esoteric group and educated in the ancient mysteries. Through two traumatic episodes in her life, where the sense of loss overwhelmed her; there gradually came a transformation. The quiet obedient child became a fierce creature who felt betrayed by the group she had sworn an allegiance to. Her rage knew no bounds as she risked her own life by expressing her contempt for her Masters' and colleagues alike. After a supernatural disclosure about the torment she had suffered; there gradually came a sense of peace which enabled her to continue to carry out her duties helping to fight evil within the temple, and throughout the country beyond.

Priesthood, Cult, and Temple in the Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran

Priesthood, Cult, and Temple in the Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran
Author: Robert E. Jones
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2023-06-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004546162

The Hellenistic period was a pivotal moment in the history of the Jewish priesthood. The waning days of the Persian empire coincided with the continued ascendance of the high priest and Jerusalem temple as powerful political, cultural, and religious institutions in Judea. The Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran, only recently published in full, testify to the existence of a flourishing but previously unknown Jewish literary tradition dating from the end of Persian rule to the rise of the Hasmoneans. Throughout this book, Robert Jones analyzes how Israel’s priestly institutions are represented in these writings, and he demonstrates that they are essential for understanding the Jewish priesthood at this crucial stage in its history.