The Arabs and Arabia on the Eve of Islam
The Arabs and Arabia on the Eve of Islam

Author: F.E. Peters

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 135189479X

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This volume examines the background to the rise of Islam. The opening essays consider the broad context of nomad-sedentary relations in the Near East; thereafter the focus is on the Arabian peninsula and the history of the Arab peoples. The following papers set out the political and economic structures of the pre-Islamic period, and are concerned to trace the evolution of religious beliefs in the area, looking in particular at the role of local traditions and the impact of Jewish and Christian influences.

Journey's End
Journey's End

Author: Kathryn J. Riss Thm

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2003-03-11

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0595267939

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More than a narrow focus on a few verses, Journey's End applies the entire sweep of Scripture to illuminate passages that have puzzled Christians for generations, and have too often been misused to hurt women. God never intended this; let this book answer your questions and settle your heart! Reclaims Scripture as woman's Magna Charta Brings out St. Paul's true meaning and intent Sheds light on Genesis, Ephesians 5 and I Corinthians 11 and 14 Provides a fresh translation of I Timothy 2:12-15 based on Greek grammar Spotlights the cultural concerns Paul addressed Corrects "traditionalist" errors of translation, interpretation, and Bible doctrine Liberates Christian marriage Takes the sting out of the "problem passages" Sets women free to be all God wants! The "serpent's seed" has attacked God's daughters long enough. It's time for the truth to set them free! You will be refreshed, challenged and inspired by this thought-provoking book.

The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams
The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams

Author: Jonathan Ned Katz

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1641605197

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"On these pages, Eve Adams rises up, loves, rebels—her times, eerily resembling our own." —Joan Nestle, cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and author of A Restricted Country • 2022 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Historian Jonathan Ned Katz uncovers the forgotten story of radical lesbian Eve Adams and her long-lost book Lesbian Love Born Chawa Zloczewer into a Jewish family in Poland, Eve Adams emigrated to the United States in 1912,took a new name, befriended anarchists, sold radical publications, and ran lesbian-and-gay-friendly speakeasies in Chicago and New York. Then, in 1925, Adams risked all to write and publish a book titled Lesbian Love. Adams's bold activism caught the attention of the young J. Edgar Hoover and the US Bureau of Investigation, leading to her surveillance and arrest. Adams was convicted of publishing an obscene book and of attempted sex with a policewoman sent to entrap her. Adams was jailed and then deported back to Europe, and ultimately murdered by Nazis in Auschwitz. In The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams, acclaimed historian Jonathan Ned Katz has recovered the extraordinary story of an early, daring activist. Carefully distinguishing fact from fiction, Katz presents the first biography of Adams, and the publisher reprints the long-lost text of Adams's rare, unique book Lesbian Love

Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov

Author: Edythe C. Haber

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780674574182

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A foremost Russian writer of the Soviet period, Bulgakov (1891-1940) has attracted much critical attention, yet Haber is the first to explore in depth his formative years. Blending biography and literary analysis of motifs, story, and characterization, Haber tracks one writer's answer to the dislocations of revolution, civil war, and Bolshevism.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Vol 1
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Vol 1

Author: R. Reginald

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 802

ISBN-13: 0941028755

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.

Soviet Jewry on the Eve of the Holocaust
Soviet Jewry on the Eve of the Holocaust

Author: Mordechai Altshuler

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9789652229168

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The sounds of music and the German language have played a significant role in the developing symbolism of the German nation. In light of the historical division of Germany into many disparate political entities and regional groups, German artists and intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th centuries conceived of musical and linguistic dispositions as the nation's most palpable common ground. According to this view, the peculiar sounds of German music and of the German language provided a direct conduit to national identity, to the deepest recesses of the German soul. So strong is this legacy of sound is still prevalent in modern German culture that philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, in a recent essay, did not even hesitate to describe post-wall Germany as an "acoustical body." This volume gathers the work of scholars from the US, Germany, and the United Kingdom to explore the role of sound in modern and postmodern German cultural production. Working across established disciplines and methodological divides, the essays ofSound Mattersinvestigate the ways in which texts, artists, and performers in all kinds of media have utilized sonic materials in order to enforce or complicate dominant notions of German cultural and national identity.--