A WWII Nazi experiment with extinct life reconstitution is duplicated and perfected in the year 2000 with horrific results. In their attempt to play God they create a monster possessing a savage fury and a purpose of its own. The Beast threatens a small mountain community in Switzerland. Chief Detective Paul Soria and The Swiss Federal Police are faced with the urgency containing, eradicating and discovering the culprits behind the threat. Don't read this story alone at night, or if you decide to go hiking in the forest. "Rivetting, scary and a Pleistocene Park in its own right."
We are on a threshold of a new era when we need new energies. How will this shift from the old to the new happen? What has the Bible, and what have the ancient prophecies and wisdom of India have to tell us about all this? Is it possible that we have the solution in our hands from thousands of years ago? Is it possible that in our life we all have started to build our own ark? Noah’s Ark in the XXI. century, new book of Zoltán Gábor Lukács has been released. This book is the first one of a new book series, Akasha conversations and discloses very deep connections. It reveals the results of my contemplation and research from the past years and decades. Let’s push the limits of our knowledge and imagination. Think of the story of Noah’s ark as the steps of rebirth, pregnancy and the opening of a new world. Let’s allow ourselves to loosen up the walls of our existing frame system for a moment. Is it possible that we have the solution in our hands from thousands of years ago? Is it possible that in our life we all have started to build our own ark? This book presents a fully new and unexplored approach and interpretation of the biblical flood. It gives a more complete understanding of the main drivers of our life. It reveals where our ship is sailing on the sea of life, what is waiting for us in the final port and how can we go on from that point. As it is written in the Bible, this is the end of times we live in, and the old world has worn out. A new energy is coming, a new era is waiting for us. Let’s go on this way, our ship is waiting for us to set sail and rely on the cosmic wind. Is it possible to have the opportunity soon to embark on Noah’s new ark that comes for us in the XXI. century? Noah’s Ark in the XXI. century is the first volume of the book series called Akasha Conversations. The upcoming volumes will be about the various topics of the lectures. About the author Zoltán Gábor Lukács, economist, researcher of India, writer, interpreter, leader and founder of Palm Leaf Reading International. He has a special life purpose of visiting ancient Indian sacred places and the libraries of palm leaves as a researcher. He is invited to special places to make movies and record information where widely known mainstream media, newspapers and movie channels are prohibited to enter. As only the chosen ones are allowed to such holy places which are protected by guardians. The keepers of the leaves and gurus are aware from his palm leaf that his mission is connected with those places. He writes his books upon the request of the gurus. He is permitted to reveal some very special details that were hidden from the world so far. Married, father of a son, lives in the Pilis mountain, a sacred place of Hungary, prefers tea clear and curry hot.
The Serpent and the Rose examines the theological and liturgical context for the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception in the Middle Ages, from primary sources in Iberian archives. Its main focus is a study of Marian poetry from Alfonso the Wise and Gonzalo de Berceo through to the poetry collections of the late fifteenth century, showing how poets took themes from the Bible and apocryphal literature, combining them to defend and praise Mary’s conception without sin. Individual chapters assess how they depicted Mary’s prefiguration in the Old Testament by the Woman who defeated the serpent, the young bride of the Song of Songs, or the semi-deity, Wisdom, how they portray her as the mystic rose and as the new Eve.
The experience of birth has functioned through the ages as a vital metaphor foundational to all fields of art, philosophy, religion and literature. This book highlights the significance of birth in Jewish culture, as a challenge to existential philosophy and the centrality of death in Western culture. Similarities between Kabbalistic and midrashic perceptions of birth and its current place in cultural and psychoanalytic discourse are discussed.
Blending personal narrative, historical research, and pop culture, Karen Stollznow's Missed Conceptions gives voice to an experience that has been taboo for too long but is all too common. For the one in six couples who face fertility challenges when they attempt to get pregnant, this book is a welcome and hopeful companion.
The recent translation of a Babylonian tablet launches a groundbreaking investigation into one of the most famous stories in the world, challenging the way we look at ancient history. Since the Victorian period, it has been understood that the story of Noah, iconic in the Book of Genesis, and a central motif in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, derives from a much older story that existed centuries before in ancient Babylon. But the relationship between the Babylonian and biblical traditions was shrouded in mystery. Then, in 2009, Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum and a world authority on ancient Mesopotamia, found himself playing detective when a member of the public arrived at the museum with an intriguing cuneiform tablet from a family collection. Not only did the tablet reveal a new version of the Babylonian Flood Story; the ancient poet described the size and completely unexpected shape of the ark, and gave detailed boat building specifications. Decoding this ancient message wedge by cuneiform wedge, Dr. Finkel discovered where the Babylonians believed the ark came to rest and developed a new explanation of how the old story ultimately found its way into the Bible. In The Ark Before Noah, Dr. Finkel takes us on an adventurous voyage of discovery, opening the door to an enthralling world of ancient voices and new meanings.
Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, with the spiritual and material use of religion shedding new light on the agency of refugees in reconstructing their lives and positioning themselves in hostile environments.
This comprehensive classic textbook represents the most recent approaches to the biblical world by surveying Palestine's social, political, economic, religious and ecological changes from Palaeolithic to Roman eras. Designed for beginners with little knowledge of the ancient world, and with copious illustrations and charts, it explains how and why academic study of the past is undertaken, as well as the differences between historical and theological scholarship and the differences between ancient and modern genres of history writing. Classroom tested chapters emphasize the authenticity of the Bible as a product of an ancient culture, and the many problems with the biblical narrative as a historical source. Neither "maximalist" nor "minimalist'" it is sufficiently general to avoid confusion and to allow the assignment of supplementary readings such as biblical narratives and ancient Near Eastern texts. This new edition has been fully revised, incorporating new graphics and English translations of Near Eastern inscriptions. New material on the religiously diverse environment of Ancient Israel taking into account the latest archaeological discussions brings this book right up to date.
First published in German in 1909, Otto Rank's original The Myth of the Birth of the Hero offered psychoanalytical interpretations of mythological stories as a means of understanding the human psyche. Like his mentor Sigmund Freud, Rank compared the myths of such figures as Oedipus, Moses, and Sargon with common dreams, seeing in both a symbolic fulfillment of repressed desire. In a new edition published thirteen years after the original, Rank doubled the size of his seminal work, incorporating new discoveries in psychoanalysis, mythology, and ethnology. This expanded and updated edition has been eloquently translated by Gregory C. Richter and E. James Lieberman and includes an introductory essay by Robert A. Segal as well as Otto Rank's 1914 essay "The Play in Hamlet."
