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Author: Esther Eidinow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-10-04
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 0199277788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the question tablets from the oracle at Dodona and binding-curse tablets from across the ancient Greek world, These tablets reveal the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, and help us to understand some of the ways in which they managed risk and uncertainty in their daily lives.
Author: Tabor Evans
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780515125191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a man tries to shoot him in the back for no apparent reason, Longarm must find out why. What he finds is a dirty bail-bond outfit in Texas with an unhealthy interest in Voodoo that's brought in many a bail-jumper more dead than alive.
Author: Di YuShuSheng
Publisher: Funstory
Published: 2020-09-24
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 1636549950
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Author: Laura Salah Nasrallah
Publisher:
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1009405756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAncient Christians and their non-Christian contemporaries lived in a world of 'magic.' Sometimes, they used curses as ritual objects to seek justice from gods and other beings; sometimes, they argued against them. Curses, and the writings of those who polemicized against curses, reveal the complexity of ancient Mediterranean religions, in which materiality, poetics, song, incantation, and glossolalia were used as technologies of power. Laura Nasrallah's study reframes the field of religion, the study of the Roman imperial period, and the investigation of the New Testament and ancient Christianity. Her approach eschews disciplinary aesthetics that privilege the literature and archaeological remains of elites, and that defines curses as magical materials, separable from religious ritual. Moreover, Nasrallah's imaginative use of art and 'research creations' of contemporary Black painters, sculptors, and poets offer insights for understanding how ancient ritual materials embedded into art work intervene into the present moment and critique injustice.
Author: Jacqueline Elam
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-06-13
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1498543944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book sustains a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for disposal: veneered mortuary internment, green burial and its attendant rot, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis, donation and display, and ecological burial. Through tracing the possible futures of the dead that haunt the living, through both the stories that we tell and physical manifestations following the end of life, we expose the workings of aesthetics that shape corpses, as well as the ways in which corpses spill over, resisting aestheticization. This book creates a space for ritualized practices surrounding death: corpse disposal; corpse aesthetics that shape both practices attendant upon and representations of the corpse; and literary, figural, and cultural representations that deploy these practices to tell a story about dead bodies—about their separation from the living, about their disposability, and ultimately about the living who survive the dead, if only for a while. There is an aesthetics of erasure persistently at work on the dead body. It must be quickly hidden from sight to shield us from the certain trauma of our own demise, or so the unspoken argument goes. Experts—scientists, forensic specialists, death-care professionals, and law enforcement—are the only ones qualified to view the dead for any extended period of time. The rest of us, with only brief doses, inoculate ourselves from the materiality of death in complex and highly ritualized ceremonies. Beyond participating in the project of restoring our sense of finitude, we try to make sense of the untouchable, unviewable, haunting, and taboo presence of the corpse itself.
Author: Tirupur S. GopalaKrishnan (GK)
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: 2023-01-21
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecognizing the contributions of others, I got the fortunate chance to translate the beautiful novel, Manthi, into English, which was a lovely experience. I was awestruck the whole time I was reading them. If there were nine planets in the astrological chart, we would have heard a lot more. This is all owing to one of Manthi's sub-planets, which I discovered thanks to an alternate approach taught by my astrological instructor. Salutations to my astrological father, who instilled in me the ability to think in this manner. Several real concepts are revealed in each of his works, not just in terms of astrology but also in terms of science, and this Manthi book is no exception. My mind was blown by how you employed science as if it were the greatest method to approach every situation. So far, more than 72 volumes have been authored by our revered Tirupur GK, who is creating history by achieving a milestone in the history of astrology. So far, he has more than 42,000 pupils studied astrology under his guidance. He has devoted more than three-quarters of his life to the study of astrology and other related subjects. Not just students from Tamil Nadu, but also students from other states. It's not only about Indian pupils. Our Tamil Nadu is proud of the fact that foreigners came to him to study astrology with him as well. I have no doubt that any book he produces will serve as a model for others in the area of astrology for many years to come. His writing style is quite exquisite, and he provides a straightforward practical explanation of the principles for using the sub-planets of Manthi, the horoscope, and Prasanam. I was astounded by his astrological knowledge, which I found to be extraordinary in the wide realm of astrology. He did an excellent job writing about the sub-planet Manthi. As a student at Tiruppur GK, I am also really happy with my accomplishments.
Author: Nico Nassenstein
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-04-20
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1501511203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile most of the more recent influential work on swearing has concentrated on English and other languages from the Global North, looking at forms and functions of swear words, this contribution redirects the necessary focus onto a sociolinguistics of swearing that puts transgressive practices in non-Western languages into the focus. The transdisciplinary volume contains innovative case studies that address swearing and cursing in parts of the world characterized by consequences of colonialism and increasingly debated inequalities. Turning away from more conventional and established methodologies and theoretical approaches, the book envisages to address transgressive linguistic practices, performances and contexts in Africa, Asia, America and Europe –including individuals' creativity, subversive power and agency. Due to its interdisciplinary and non-mainstream focus, this volume is an essential addition to the field of studies.
Author: Anne Marie Kitz
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2014-01-13
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 1575068745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a book about curses. It is not about curses as insults or offensive language but curses as petitions to the divine world to render judgment and execute harm on identified, hostile forces. In the ancient world, curses functioned in a way markedly different from our own, and it is into the world of the ancient Near East that we must go in order to appreciate the scope of their influence. For the ancient Near Easterners, curses had authentic meaning. Curses were part of their life and religion. They were not inherently magic or features of superstitions, nor were they mere curiosities or trifling antidotes. They were real and effective. They were employed proactively and reactively to manage life’s many vicissitudes and maintain social harmony. They were principally protective, but they were also the cause of misfortune, illness, depression, and anything else that undermined a comfortable, well-balanced life. Every member of society used them, from slave to king, from young to old, from men and women to the deities themselves. They crossed cultural lines and required little or no explanation, for curses were the source of great evil. In other words, curses were universal. Because curses were woven into the very fabric of every known ancient Near Eastern society, they emerge frequently and in a wide variety of venues. They appear on public and private display objects, on tomb stelae, tomb lintels, and sarcophagi, on ancient kudurrus and narûs. They are used in political, administrative, social, religious, and familial contexts. They are the subject of incantations. They are tools that exorcise demons and dispel disease; they ban, protect, and heal. This is the phenomenology of cursing in the ancient Near East, and this is what the present work explores.
Author: Elkanah K. Cheboi
Publisher: Langham Publishing
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1839739452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe practice of cursing remains a significant aspect of life in many African countries. This book addresses this practice with the seriousness it deserves, arguing that Christ is the ultimate curse remover. Dr. Elkanah K. Cheboi examines the meaning and implications of the Pauline statement in Galatians that “Christ became a curse for us.” Drawing from biblical passages referencing judicial curses, and the widespread practice of cursing and blessing within the Ancient Near East and Greco-Roman world, he investigates how the crucified and cursed Christ provides the ultimate solution to the power and dominion of curses. Demonstrating the insufficiencies of curse remedies, both in the ancient world and the modern African context, this study offers christological insight into the implications of Christ’s death not simply for human sin but also human curses. Dr. Cheboi specifically examines parallels between the New Testament context and Kenya’s Marakwet culture, where curses are still deeply feared as life-threatening and generational. Offering powerful insight into aspects of contemporary African culture not always fully understood, this book integrates biblical scholarship with practical application and is an excellent resource for pastors, missionaries, and theologians alike.
Author: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-01-28
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0567699331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies explores some of the social, material, and ideological dynamics shaping life and death in both the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel and Judah. Analysing topics ranging from the bodily realities of gestation, subsistence, and death, and embodied performances of gender, power, and status, to the imagined realities of post-mortem and divine existence, the essays in this volume offer exciting new trajectories in our understanding of the ways in which embodiment played out in the societies in which the texts of the Hebrew Bible emerged.
