Sacred Plunder

Sacred Plunder

Author: David M. Perry

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0271066830

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In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety, sacrilege, violence, and theft. In their own defense, they produced hagiographical narratives about the movement of relics—a medieval genre called translatio—that restated their own versions of events and shaped the memory of the crusade. The recipients of relics commissioned these unique texts in order to exempt both the objects and the people involved with their theft from broader scrutiny or criticism. Perry further demonstrates how these narratives became a focal point for cultural transformation and an argument for the creation of the new Venetian empire as the city moved from an era of mercantile expansion to one of imperial conquest in the thirteenth century.


Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations

Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations

Author: Angelika Berlejung

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 695

ISBN-13: 3161600347

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The articles in this volume of collected essays, written over the last two decades and all revised, updated, and supplemented with unpublished material, are grouped around two themes: Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations. The first essays deal with the production, initiation, use and function, the abduction, repatriation, and the replacement of divine images, their outer appearance, and the many facets of the divine presence theology in Ancient Mesopotamia. The essays on the second topic deal with human imaginations, human constructs, and constructed memories, which assign meaning to the past or to things or experiences that are beyond human control. Thematically, several aspects of the human condition are examined, such as the ideas associated in the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East with death, corporeality, enemies, disasters, utopias, and passionate love.


Heavenly God Sovereign

Heavenly God Sovereign

Author: Lang ShuDaDa

Publisher: Funstory

Published: 2020-06-27

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 1649752172

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His father was killed, his family was annihilated, endless humiliation struck his soul, heaven and earth were unable to accept this hatred. The iron-blooded youth went against the will of the heavens, his status was poor, and he descended to the underworld, where he roamed the world of the undead, where he turned into the god of slaughter and massacred the heavens.


Provocation and Punishment

Provocation and Punishment

Author: Samantha Joo

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-02-16

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 3110909936

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This book examines the problem of theodicy arising from the fall of Jerusalem (587 B.C.E.) in the book of Jeremiah. It explores the ways in which the authors of the book of Jeremiah tried to explain away their God's responsibility while clinging to the idea of divine mastery over human affairs. In order to trace the development of a particular book's understanding of God's role in meting out punishments, this book analyzes all the passages containing the word pivotal, הכעיס (“to provoke to anger”) in Deuteronomistic History and the book of Jeremiah.


HarperCollins Study Bible - Student Edition

HarperCollins Study Bible - Student Edition

Author: Harold W. Attridge

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2006-08-22

Total Pages: 2232

ISBN-13: 9780060786847

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The landmark general reference Bible that offers the full text of the New Revised Standard Version. Completely revised and updated, this new edition includes revised introductions and notes, and new diagrams, charts and maps––25% revised or new material. More Praise for the HarperCollins Study Bible: •"I ... can speak with unbounded praise for this work. The auspices are impeccable, the sponsorship is by one of the most prestigious and effective publishing firms in the field of religious publishing, and the scholarship under the aegis of the Society of Biblical Literature, which is the only game in town, the NBA of Bible study in this country (and abroad)."–David Noel Freedman, Endowed Chair in Hebrew Biblical Studies, University of California, San Diego; Editor–in–Chief, Anchor Bible Project •"The HarperCollins Study Bible engages some of the best of biblical scholarship for removing unnecessary obstacles in reading the Scriptures. I welcome its publication and recommend it highly."–Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, The Krister Stendahl Professor Scripture and Interpretation, Harvard University •"The HarperCollins Study Bible is the most authoritative ecumenical Bible available, the work of scholars who are at the cutting edge of their subjects. I recommend it highly."–John J. Collins, The University of Chicago •"This is the Bible I have been looking for to use in undergraduate courses. The text itself is clear and readable. The introductions are sound and precise. The footnotes are balanced, accurate and hit a good balance between the dangers of being too terse and too extended."–Harvey Cox, The Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, the Divinity School, Harvard University •"An invaluable resource for teachers and students, and indeef for every thoughtful reader of the Bible."–Richard P. McBrien, Crowley–O'Brien–Walter Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame •"I am extremely glad for the HarperCollins Study Bible....Every effort has been made to make these study notes understandable and accessible to ordinary readers. They can be trusted to provide reliable information without trying to control what should be believed."–Richard Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline