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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience
The present volume focuses on Henry Bate of Mechelen (1246-after
1310), the first scholar to bring Ibn Ezra's astrological work to
the knowledge of Latin readers. The volume has two main objectives.
The first is to offer as complete and panoramic an account as
possible of Bate's translational project. Therefore, this volume
offers critical editions of all six of Bate's complete translations
of Ibn Ezra's astrological writings. The second objective is to
accompany Bate's Latin translations with literal English
translations and to offer a thorough collation of the Latin
translation (with their English translations) against the Hebrew
and French source texts. This is volume 2 of a two-volume set.
For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear
together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this
extraordinary woman. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and
genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid
intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were
themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to
Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and
compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to one's
humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine.
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