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Author: Bette M. Ross
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 1981-04
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780800752170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe beautiful Deborah, caught between the love of Lapidoth, the Philistine caravan master, and Sisera, King of Canaan, follows the call of Yahweh to become God's oracle and Israel's first woman judge.
Author: Charles L. Echols
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: 2008-06
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA ground breaking analysis of the Song of Deborah through a comparative study of heroic poetry that elucidates the otherwise enigmatic role of Yahweh.
Author: Jacob L. Wright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-23
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1108574300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Hebrew Bible is permeated with depictions of military conflicts that have profoundly shaped the way many think about war. Why does war occupy so much space in the Bible? In this book, Jacob Wright offers a fresh and fascinating response to this question: War pervades the Bible not because ancient Israel was governed by religious factors (such as 'holy war') or because this people, along with its neighbors in the ancient Near East, was especially bellicose. The reason is rather that the Bible is fundamentally a project of constructing a new national identity for Israel, one that can both transcend deep divisions within the population and withstand military conquest by imperial armies. Drawing on the intriguing interdisciplinary research on war commemoration, Wright shows how biblical authors, like the architects of national identities from more recent times, constructed a new and influential notion of peoplehood in direct relation to memories of war, both real and imagined. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author: Deborah Freedman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 1481442856
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Tender, comforting, and complex.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Drawn with exquisite precision and quiet dashes of humor.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A lovely, ruminative selection.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “A blueprint for mindfulness and gratitude for the homes in which we…live.” —The New York Times Book Review Deborah Freedman’s masterful new picture book is at once an introduction to the pieces of a house, a cozy story to share and explore, and a dreamy meditation on the magic of our homes and our world. Before there was this house, there were stones, and mud, and a colossal oak tree— three hugs around and as high as the blue. What was your home, once? This poetically simple, thought-provoking, and gorgeously illustrated book invites readers to think about where things come from and what nature provides.
Author: Michael S. Tobin
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Published: 2021-07-20
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1632993910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo soulmates embark on an around-the-world journey, leaving the security of their well-ordered lives in search of larger truths. Forty-seven years ago, Michael discovered his soulmate Deborah on a dance floor in Keene, New Hampshire. It took her soul a few years and an around-the-world bike trek to fully reciprocate. Riding the Edge is the astonishing tale of the six-month odyssey that profoundly shaped the next 564 months of their lives together. Taking place in 1980, Michael and Deborah—an American Jew and American Arab, respectively—leave the security of their well-ordered lives as psychologists sleepwalking toward marriage and family to explore and take risks in search of life’s larger truths. What they find is a story of magnificent vistas and memorable moments that enliven their senses to the beauty of the world even as it also reveals the vilest of human cruelty. Simple meals become transcendent experiences and chance encounters are serendipitous markers along a road directing them toward personal and spiritual transformation. Each place leaves its mark—Paris and the French countryside, Italy, Greece, war-torn Beirut, Israel—and each person an imprint even as Deborah and Michael struggle to find the truth of their love. Will they find a life partner or merely a stepping-stone to another, deeper connection? It’s a journey that has a mind and heart of its own. In the end, each story, kindness, and cruelty uncover the humanness that connects all living things and shows that love is a powerful, healing life force.
Author: Mieke Bal
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1988-02-22
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780253115737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"... an important contribution to current literary concerns with the ideologies of texts... " -- Society of Old Testament Study Book List "... she points the way into as yet little-explored territory, broadly engaging literary theory as well as ideological criticism... she moves beyond both narrowly historical and exclusively text-centered criticism... " -- Theology Today "... Bal has given us both a coruscating feminist critique of biblical scholarship and a fund of provocative exegetical insights... required reading for anyone who wants to know where serious biblical scholarship is heading." -- Shofar
Author: David Instone-Brewer
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2002-06-07
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780802849434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough a careful exploration of the background literature of the Old Testament, the ancient Near East and ancient Judaism, Instone-Brewer constructs a biblical picture of divorce and remarriage that is directly relevant to modern relationships.
Author: Michelle McClain-Walters
Publisher: Charisma Media
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1629986070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBe Inspired by Deborah, A woman of great power and influence.
Author: Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
Publisher: CCAR Press
Published: 2017-12-04
Total Pages: 2363
ISBN-13: 0881232831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe groundbreaking volume The Torah: A Women's Commentary, originally published by URJ Press and Women of Reform Judaism, has been awarded the top prize in the oldest Jewish literary award program, the 2008 National Jewish Book Awards. A work of great import, the volume is the result of 14 years of planning, research, and fundraising. THE HISTORY: At the 39th Women of Reform Judaism Assembly in San Francisco, Cantor Sarah Sager challenged Women of Reform Judaism delegates to "imagine women feeling permitted, for the first time, feeling able, feeling legitimate in their study of Torah." WRJ accepted that challenge. The Torah: A Women's Commentary was introduced at the Union for Reform Judaism 69th Biennial Convention in San Diego in December 2007. WRJ has commissioned the work of the world's leading Jewish female Bible scholars, rabbis, historians, philosophers and archaeologists. Their collective efforts resulted in the first comprehensive commentary, authored only by women, on the Five Books of Moses, including individual Torah portions as well as the Hebrew and English translation. The Torah: A Women's Commentary gives dimension to the women's voices in our tradition. Under the skillful leadership of editors Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Rabbi Andrea Weiss, PhD, this commentary provides insight and inspiration for all who study Torah: men and women, Jew and non-Jew. As Dr. Eskenazi has eloquently stated, "we want to bring the women of the Torah from the shadow into the limelight, from their silences into speech, from the margins to which they have often been relegated to the center of the page - for their sake, for our sake and for our children's sake." Published by CCAR Press, a division of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Author: Barbara M. Bowen
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1943-04-30
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780802815118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith fascinating insights into biblical customs and conditions--many of which exist today in the Middle East--Bowen clarifies over 100 scriptural texts and phrases that often puzzle Western readers unfamiliar with the culture of Bible times.
