The Book of Seventy
The Book of Seventy

Author: Alicia Ostriker

Publisher: Pitt Poetry

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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Poems that explore the territory of advancing age—its tragicomedies, its passions, its engagement with the world.

Seventy
Seventy

Author: Eugene T. Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 2014-11-01

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 9780757746222

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Doing Sixty & Seventy
Doing Sixty & Seventy

Author: Gloria Steinem

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-03-04

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1480472131

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Reflections on women’s aging from the New York Times–bestselling author who inspired the film The Glorias. One day I woke up and there was a seventy-year-old woman in my bed . . . Gloria Steinem has been an eloquent and outspoken voice for women’s rights and equality for more than four decades. In Doing Sixty & Seventy she addresses an essential concern of people everywhere—and especially of women: the issue of aging. Whereas turning fifty, in her experience, is “leaving a much-loved and familiar country,” turning sixty means “arriving at the border of a new one.” With insight, intelligence, wit, and heartfelt honesty, she explores the landscapes of this new country and celebrates what she has called “the greatest adventure of our lives.” While appreciating everybody’s experiences as different, Steinem sees these years as charged with possibilities. Dealing with stereotypes and the “invisibility” that often accompany a woman’s senior years can be as liberating as it is frustrating. It frees women as well as men to embrace that “full, glorious, alive-in-the-moment, don’t-give-a-damn yet caring-for-everything sense of the right now.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gloria Steinem including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Seventy
Seventy

Author: Liana Brooks

Publisher: Inkprint Press

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13: 1386785814

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Alien ships ravaged the solar system. The newly-terraformed Dauphin represents humanity’s only hope for continued survival. But the terraforming? Not finished yet. Dr. Jeff Koenig and his team of scientist have that under control, though. Seventy days? More than enough time to add the finishing touches to humanity’s newest home. Until disaster strikes, that is, igniting a race against the clock that sends them scrambling for backup—and their lives. A space exploration story about the true spirit of humanity, and what it takes to survive against the odds.

"Seventy-Sevens Are Decreed"

Author: Ron Haydon

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2016-10-28

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1575064367

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Few passages in the Old Testament are as enigmatic as Daniel 9:24-27. It makes sense, therefore, that a myriad of interpretations surround these four verses. Expanding on Brevard Childs’s brief work on Daniel, Haydon responds to this question with a canonical approach to Dan 9:24-27: reading a text that is shaped to include future generations of faithful interpreters. The first part lays the groundwork for a canonical approach. Whereas most biblical scholars read Daniel 9 through the lens of historical- and composition-critical tools, Childs and his readers frame the chapter within the larger theological message of the book. The second section is an interpretation of 9:24-27 in its canonical context, doing exegetical and theological work in tandem. Daniel 9:24-27 is, of course, an apocalyptic text leading the reader through the Antiochene crisis and beyond. The theology of the chapter, however, asks us to look back to the Law and the Prophets: Leviticus 25-26 and Jeremiah 25-29 are integral to Daniel 9. Traditions begun in the preceding corpora—rest, sin-debt, and kingdom (Lev 26:34-35; Jer 25:10-12, 29:10-14)—find their culmination in Dan 9:24-27. Haydon’s study brings these texts to bear on the “seventy sevens” in Daniel 9:24. After a careful study of the phrase’s background, we discover that the construction refers to more than a number or even a single event. This time-image points to a larger pattern of rulership wherein leaders rise and fall (vv. 25-26), while the Ancient of Days remains the true King. Ambiguity also plays a part: Daniel 9:24-27 lacks historical detail for a reason—namely, to create an interpretive space that a faith community can occupy. The final form of Dan 9:24-27 is a theological construct allowing multiple generations to live in expectation of God’s rule. A biblical theology of Daniel 9:24-27, moving into the New Testament and contemporary Christian reception, concludes Haydon’s study.

Ugarit at Seventy-Five
Ugarit at Seventy-Five

Author: K. Lawson Younger Jr.

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2007-06-23

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1575065886

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In the spring of 1928, a Syrian farmer was plowing on the Mediterranean coast near a bay called Minet el-Beida. His plow ran into a stone just beneath the surface. When he examined the obstruction, he found a large man-made flagstone that led into a tomb, in which he found some valuable objects that he sold to a dealer. Little did he know what he had discovered. In April of 1929, C. F. A. Schaeffer began excavation of the tombs, but a month later he moved to the nearby tell of Ras Shamra. On the afternoon of May 14, the first inscribed clay tablet came to light—thus the beginnings of the study of Ugarit and the Ugaritic language. Seventy-five years have passed, and the impact of this extraordinary discovery is still being felt. Its impact on biblical studies perhaps has no equal. In February 2005, some of the preeminent Ugaritologists of the present generation gathered at the Midwest Regional meetings of the American Oriental Society to commemorate these 75 years by reading the papers that are now published in this volume. The first five essays deal with the Ugaritic texts, while the last three deal with archaeological or historical issues.