Cain's Field

Cain's Field

Author: Matt Rees

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2004-11-15

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0743276469

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In this gripping, in-the-trenches account of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, award-winning journalist Matt Rees takes us deep within Israeli and Palestinian societies to reveal the fractures at the core of both. While the world focuses almost exclusively on the violent clash between the two camps, Rees steers our gaze toward their centers, exposing the internal rifts that drain each society of its ability to act cohesively. The Palestinians focus on the occupation of the West Bank, the Jewish settlers, and other Israeli actions, while the Israelis see only the intifada and the suicide bombings -- and both overlook their bitter infighting. This dazzling, groundbreaking narrative goes behind the familiar moves of the big players to reveal the individuals who are at war not only with the enemy, but also with their own people. Beginning with the astonishing story of a Hamas member who is targeted both by Israel for his hand in attacks against Jews, and by the Palestinian Authority for the revenge killing of a police officer who murdered his brother, each chapter concentrates on one or two individuals with whom Rees has personal contact, and whose stories uncover the chaos at the hearts of these two warring groups. From Palestinian car thieves and filmmakers to Israeli settlers and Holocaust survivors, Rees traces the minute and numerous ways that Yasser Arafat betrays his people and the Israeli leadership veers between placating and abusing its clashing factions. Rees has unparalleled access to groups and people on both sides of the conflict, as well as an extraordinary talent for looking beyond the usual stories. In Cain's Field, he suggests that the world has been looking in the wrong place to explain the unending battles and in the wrong place for a solution. With heartbreaking detail, incisive revelations, and terrible and often moving stories of the human beings behind the intractable attitudes and violence, Rees offers a bold new perspective on this tragic and seemingly insoluble situation. In so doing, he also offers hope -- the hope that by turning the spotlight inward, these societies might heal their internal wounds and move toward a peaceful future.


Cain's Field

Cain's Field

Author: Matt Rees

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2004-11-02

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780743250474

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A groundbreaking work from "Time" magazine's Jerusalem bureau chief combines a dazzling narrative with a bold insight--that the deep divisions within both Israeli and Palestinian societies must be resolved before true peace can be achieved.


Cain versus Abel: Not an Open and Shut Case

Cain versus Abel: Not an Open and Shut Case

Author: Gordon Kainer

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-02-04

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1387560581

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While this story reads like a short police report, Cain and Abel's tragic narrative plays a definitive role in the biblical saga called the great controversy. As we review their story, we might assume that if we had a chance to meet Cain and Abel, just by looking, we could easily determine who was the kind Abel and who was the mean-spirited Cain. Are you sure? Would you be surprised to learn Abel was guilty of viewing Cain from a superficial perspective that gave him a misleading impression of his brother? As we study their lives, it's easy for us to have preconceived ideas because we don't know what was going through Cain's mind until Cain's behavior plainly displays it for all of us to see. It's human to be biased. But that's not God's way of judging! This book dives deeper into the story to reveal God's perspective. I invite you to dive in with me as objectively as possible. Don't prejudge. Be persuaded by biblical evidence-wherever it leads you!


Jehovah the First Godfather

Jehovah the First Godfather

Author: Carlton Marion Morris Jr.

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2001-02-21

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 1462826148

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Through ignorance, misunderstanding, custom and tradition the Jewish and Christian religions have combined three distinct and individual entities into one being they call God. This is contrary to their holy scriptures. There are in fact three and individual entities in scripture who are know by this title. There is GOD, the universal creator, the Lord God the creator of man and then there is Jehovah, the God of the Jews. He is the one we are most concerned about. For he was the First Godfather. In the book entitled Jehovah the First Godfather, an agnostics view of God, the Bible and Religion, the appropriate scriptures are use to separate and explain the differences between these three entities and to explain the part they play in the creation of the universe, the creation of man and the religion of one group of nomads called the Israelites. For the lack of an understanding of the where, when, how, why and by whom the universe was created, we say that it is the handiwork of GOD. He, She or It designed, created and controls this creation through laws and forces we are just now beginning to understand. According to biblical scripture organic life, both animal and vegetable, were a part of that original design. Primitive organic life began before the stars and moon were put into motion. ( Gen. 1:11-13.) After the formation of the stars, moons and planets, more advance forms of organic life came into existence. The Bible identifies a few of those the more advanced forms of life. One of the species of life created as a part of that original design and may well have originated in the seas of another world was a race of beings, identified by Jehovah during his instruction of Moses, as the living creature. It was a form of life which evolved into an intelligent, creative thinking race of beings who became so advanced in their culture, civilization, science and technology that they began to travel the stars. In their travels they stepped down upon many planets. Some they tried to colonized. The earth was one of those planets. That colonization attempt failed. In their one of their later visits a few thousand years ago they came to this planet to mine for minerals. It was during this time that mankind was created. We were naked slaves created to mine for the minerals they desired, to wait on and serve them at their leisure. Our creation was not by some heavenly or divine power out of love and benevolence but out of commercial necessity. We were created by the medical and scientific process of cloning. The biblical description of the creation of Eve supports such an hypothesis. The description of her creation is much the same as the procedures being used by our doctors and scientists today to create duplicates and modified alternation of many different species of life, among them man himself. The leader and the authority by which man came into being was the individual identified by Jehovah as the Lord God, and by Mellchizedek, king and high priest of Salem, as the Most High God. To be the most high god indicates that there must have been lessor beings also identified as gods. One of those lessor beings was Jehovah one of the subordinates of the Lord God. He is identified in scripture as YHWH, Yahweh, Ishi, Baali and Jehovah. Jehovah assumed the title of a god when he convinced Abraham to follow him. He did not become a god until he lead the Hebrews into the Sinai wilderness. Gods need worshipers, temples, priests sacrificial offerings, gifts and a land to call ones own. Jehovah had none of these things until he was able to have Moses lead the Hebrews into the Sinai wilderness. This was his first step in establishing his dynasty. Once he had the congregation under his control he had taken the first step towards his ambition, he had worshipers. Next he ordained the tribe of Levi as the priests who would wait on and serve him.


Translating Cain

Translating Cain

Author: Samantha Joo

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1978709854

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Unless we recognize the cultural context embedded in the Genesis story of Cain and Abel, the significance of Cain’s rejection and consequent violence is often lost in translation. While many interpreters highlight the theme of sibling rivalry to explain Cain’s murderous violence, Samantha Joo relates Cain’s anger and shame to the social marginalization of Kenites in ancient Israel, for whom Cain functions narratively as an ancestor. To better understand and experience Cain’s emotions in the narrative, Joo provides a method for re-contextualizing an ancient story in modern contexts. Drawing from post-colonial theories of Latin America translators, Joo focuses on analogies which simulate the “moveable event” of a story. She shows that novels like Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Richard Wright’s Native Son, in which protagonists kill to escape their invisibility, capture the “event” of Cain and Abel. Consequently, readers can empathize with the anger and shame resulting from the social marginalization of Cain through the alienation of a poor, ex-university student, Raskolnikov, and the oppression of a young black man, Bigger Thomas.


Royal Birthright Lost

Royal Birthright Lost

Author: Sephar Chamuel

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2018-10-02

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 164191761X

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These are Bible stories the way my grandmother told them. This is a fun and enjoyable read! You will laugh sometimes; you may cry sometimes. You will most certainly be captivated! She loved to share the Word of God in engaging, chronological stories, giving the Bible characters much more substance and personality than we get from just reading about them in the Bible. She believed in telling it all, with all the human failings, including immoral sex and extreme violence, because there is much of it in humanity. It was not her intent to titillate or include these in the stories for gratuitous embellishment. Rather it was her stand that no one has an excuse not to serve God, no matter what awful things they may have done; nor has a right to censor God's truths, no matter how uncomfortable they may be. The storylines validate that there are always opportunities to make better choices with God; and until time runs out""repentance, forgiveness and salvation remain on the table for all who will not out-rightly reject it. She lived a long and flawed life, but she remained throughout a shining example of faith, repentance and service to God. She loved her family dearly, and we miss her profoundly. We know she is absent from the body and present with the Lord, and we take great comfort in that. She would have loved the books! She was a great warrior for the cause of reuniting the royal family of God, and she left a courageous legacy to carry her standard. We strive to be as worthy. -Sephar Chamuel


Cain and Abel in Text and Tradition

Cain and Abel in Text and Tradition

Author: John Byron

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-02-14

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9004205829

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The story of Cain and Abel narrates the primeval events associated with the beginnings of the world and humanity. But the presence of linguistic and grammatical ambiguities coupled with narrative gaps provided translators and interpreters with a number of points of departure for expanding the story. The result is a number of well established and interpretive traditions shared between Jewish and Christian literature. This book focuses on how the interpretive traditions derived from Genesis 4 exerted significant influence on Jewish and Christian authors who knew rewritten versions of the story. The goal is to help readers appreciate these traditions within the broader interpretive context rather than within the narrow confines of the canon.


The Stone Kingdom

The Stone Kingdom

Author: Paul D Bailey

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001-11

Total Pages: 690

ISBN-13: 0595205747

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The content of this book is the Truth inspired by the Almighty God, and will be the most troubling and disturbing, but also rewarding work you have ever read. The Great Tribulation has begun; the great shaking that will break apart the very foundation of the things man believes to be true. Scripture tells us that in the end all things will be revealed. This report is a witness to that fact. So be it. If you are able to finish this work, you will never view the world in the same way, but you will acquire knowledge that will surpass all understanding. I have not published this material for personal gain, but as a witness of the Truth and to reveal to you the knowledge that was hidden since the time of Calvary. The Antichrist Identified The Abomination of Desolation Revealed Satan and the Devil Revealed Mystery Babylon Revealed The Mark of the Beast Revealed The Two Thieves on the Cross Identified The Parables Revealed The Prophesies of Scripture Revealed The Hidden Truths of Scripture Revealed The Armor of God Revealed The Transfiguration Revealed The Book of Genesis Revealed The Book of Jonah Revealed The Book of Daniel Revealed The Book of Revelation Revealed


The Good Book

The Good Book

Author: M. W. Collier

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-06-22

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1462888461

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A commentary offering a new look into the first book of the King James Version of the Holy Bible, Genesis chapters one through fifty. This book is meant to offer a deeper and hopefully more commonsense view of the possibilities contained within the words of this ancient book. Though opinionated many new and exciting revelations never before found in print or offered in verbal lecture exist within the pages of this book.


The Ontology of Space in Biblical Hebrew Narrative

The Ontology of Space in Biblical Hebrew Narrative

Author: Luke Gartner-Brereton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-18

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1317490754

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The central premise of this book is that biblical Hebrew narrative, in terms of its structure, tends to operate under similar mechanical constraints to those of a stage-play; wherein 'space' is central, characters are fluid, and 'objects' within the narrative tend to take on a deep internal significance. The smaller episodic narrative units within the Hebrew aesthetic tend to grant primacy to space, both ideologically and at the mechanical level of the text itself. However 'space', as a determinate structural category, has been all but overlooked in the field of biblical studies to date; reflecting perhaps our own inability, as modern readers, to see beyond the dominant 'cinematic' aesthetic of our times. The book is divided into two major sections, each beginning with a more theoretical approach to the function of narrative space, and ending with a practical application of the previous discussion; using "Genesis 28.10-22" (the Bethel narrative) and the book of "Ruth" respectively, as test cases.