Upon a Stone Altar
Upon a Stone Altar

Author: David L. Hanlon

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2019-09-30

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0824883918

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Upon a Stone Altar tells the history of a remarkable people who inhabit the island of Pohnpei in the Eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia. Since the beginnings of intensive foreign contact, Pohnpei has endured numerous disruptive conflicts as well as attempts at colonial domination. Pohnpeians creatively adapted to change and today live successfully in a modern world not totally of their own making. Hanlon uses the vast body of oral tradition to relate the early history of Pohnpei, including the story of the building of a huge complex of artificial stone islets, Nan Madol.

Upon a Stone Altar
Upon a Stone Altar

Author: David L. Hanlon

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780824811242

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The author lived on the island for seven years and in this monograph combines his direct experience with his scholarly training (in history) to present an insightful mixture of cultural anthropology, archaeology, oral traditions, and archival history. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Jesus: His Story in Stone
Jesus: His Story in Stone

Author: Mike Mason

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2017-09-25

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1525512218

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Jesus: His Story in Stone is a reflection on still-existing stone objects that Jesus would have known, seen, or even touched. Each of the seventy short chapters is accompanied by a photograph taken on location in Israel. Arranged chronologically, the one-page meditations compose a portrait of Christ as seen through the significant stones in His life, from the cave where He was born to the rock of Calvary. While packed with historical and archaeological detail, the book’s main thrust is devotional, leading the reader both spiritually and physically closer to Jesus.

A Dictionary of the Bible
A Dictionary of the Bible

Author: James Hastings

Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.

Published: 2004-10

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9781410217295

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For over a century the ten-volume Dictionary of the Bible has been the definitive reference. "It is a Dictionary of the Old and New Testaments, together with the Old Testament Apocrypha, according to the Authorized and Revised English Versions, and with constant reference to the original tongues. ... Articles have been written on the names of all Persons and Places, on the Antiquities and Archaeology of the Bible, on its Ethnology, Geology, and Natural History, on Biblical Theology and Ethic, and even on the obsolete or archaic words occurring in the English Versions." James Hastings (1852-1922) was a distinguished scholar and pastor. He was founder and editor of the Expository Times and is also well known for editing the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, the Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels, and the Dictionary of the Apostolic Church.