Two Can Play That Game
Two Can Play That Game

Author: D. Eric Lowdermilk

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2016-12-22

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1498208460

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John 21 portrays seven disciples fishing all night yet catching nothing. In the morning, a shoreline stranger instructs them to recast their net. Surprisingly, the disciples fail to recognize him. After a miraculous catch and subsequent breakfast, however, there is no doubt as to who this stranger is. Jesus then questions Peter about his love and commissions him to feed Jesus' sheep. Using narrative criticism, Lowdermilk examines this recognition scene, asking, "How would a reader, well acquainted with recognition and deception as portrayed in Genesis, understand John 21?" He discards "trickster" terminology and argues that biblical recognition occurs within a context of "manipulation." After proposing a detailed taxonomy of manipulation, he ventures further and argues for patterns in Genesis where manipulators are "counter-manipulated" in a reciprocal manner, ironically similar to their own behavior, providing a transforming effect on the manipulator. These findings, plus a careful examination of Greek diminutives, inform Lowdermilk's new reading of John 21:1-19. Peter withholds his identity as a disciple in John 18 and later Jesus actively withholds his identity in ironic counter-manipulation, mirroring Peter's denials. Jesus' threefold questioning of Peter continues the haunting echoes of Peter's earlier denials. Will it result in a disciple transformed?

Jet
Jet

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Published: 2001-09-10

Total Pages: 64

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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases, Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases, Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Author: George B. Bryan

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 890

ISBN-13: 9780820479477

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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser-known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.

Jet
Jet

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Published: 2001-09-10

Total Pages: 64

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Don't Turn Around
Don't Turn Around

Author: Hunter Morgan

Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.

Published: 2008-07-01

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 1420106066

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Don't Trust Anyone. . . Casey McDaniels knows the unbearable consequences of domestic violence--and the darkness that can swallow a life. An advocate for victim's rights, Casey is giving key testimony in the arraignment of the man who savagely murdered her best friend. But to her horror, he's set free. . . Don't Let Your Guard Down. . . He's hiding in plain sight, following a plan that has worked before, performing each move with exact precision, waiting for the perfect moment to strike again--and this time, the victim will be Casey McDaniels. . . And Whatever You Do, Don't Turn Around. . . At first, Casey suspects her friend's killer is following her. She's receiving threats over the phone and bizarre messages in the mail--strange, childlike drawings of human eyes. But then Casey starts to have doubts. Could someone else be stalking her? As Casey enters a deadly cat-and-mouse game, she soon comes face-to-face with her stalker--and her worst nightmare. . .

The Crisis
The Crisis

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Published: 2001-11

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13:

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The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.

Me & Mr. T
Me & Mr. T

Author: Ruth Webb

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2021-01-13

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 1664151532

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This is a fictional love story of a hardworking, young woman, Janie Williams, who meet’s a no good lazy young man, Terrell Peterson, known as Mr. T. The young 25-year-old woman wants so much out of life, she had graduated High School. She had just finished her 4 years of college, at Morehouse University, with her master’s degree in Business. Janie worked so hard to achieve her heart’s desires and dreams. Terrell was raised by his single dad, Terrell, Sr., who taught him how to take from the women, he would tell his son, “let the women take care of you”, he told his son, women would do anything for you, you just have to know how to work them.