Strangers and Beggars
Strangers and Beggars

Author: James Van Pelt

Publisher: Fairwood Press, Inc

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780966818451

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Contains seventeen science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories by James van Pelt.

The Book of Strangers
The Book of Strangers

Author: Ian Neil Dallas

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9780887069901

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Sometime in the future the head librarian at a great center of learning suddenly disappears, leaving behind a journal that describes his weariness with a world "where people teach but know nothing, where the sentences flow on endlessly but lead nowhere." His successor in the post becomes more and more intrigued by the vanished man's fate, until a series of mysterious clues lead him on a journey both inward and outward, to a world that begins where language ends. Within a matter of weeks he finds himself in the company of powerful dervishes, God-intoxicated nomads whose eyes blaze with love, and ragged beggars with the smile of the Pure One. These men, the followers of an enlightened Shaykh, speak little, but simply to be in their company fills him with ecstasy and knowledge.

This Flowing Toward Me
This Flowing Toward Me

Author: Marilyn Lacey

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781594711978

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"What began as a response to a random bulletin board posting would ultimately challenge Sister Marilyn Lacey's life - and the life of countless refugees. Nhia Bee, along with his wife and five children, had been placed for a few weeks at [her] convent upon arriving in California from a refugee camp in Thailand. When the family was moved to permanent housing, Sr. Lacey realized, to her own surprise, just how much the family had lodged itself in her heart. Not long after, she had a dream that changed the course of her life. ..."--Back cover.

Theories of Poverty in the World of the New Testament
Theories of Poverty in the World of the New Testament

Author: David J. Armitage

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2016-09-05

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9783161543999

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How was poverty interpreted in the New Testament? David J. Armitage explores key ways in which poverty was understood in the Greco-Roman and Jewish milieux of the New Testament, and considers how approaches to poverty found in the texts of the New Testament itself relate to these wider contexts. - back of the book.

The Stranger's Welcome
The Stranger's Welcome

Author: Steve Reece

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1992-12-31

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780472103867

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For more than two millennia, Homer's poetry has stirred the imagination of its readers. Originally recited by traveling bards, these poems are exceptionally rich in conventional elements that helped the poets remember works thousands of lines long. As dynamic ingredients of oral poetry, these elements have accrued deep meaning, and for a well-informed audience they call significant associations to mind. In The Stranger's Welcome, Steve Reece treats eighteen "hospitality" scenes in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns and reveals key aspects and standard elements of such scenes. Further, he demonstrates how Homeric listeners might comprehend the new and innovative by relying on their knowledge of the conventional and familiar. This tension between conventional and innovative, between the traditional background and the individual performance, distinguishes the aesthetics of Homeric poetry. Of interest to students and scholars of oral poetry, folklore, Homeric literature, and Greek literature in general, The Stranger's Welcome offers a practical approach whereby a reading audience may understand a hearing one.