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Joel Rothman considers the significance of cosmology in biblical
and extra-biblical texts, and the role of the cosmic journey in
many apocalyptic narratives. He posits that Revelation's narrative
likewise takes the hearer on a virtual journey, through a cosmic
story-space of great theological significance. While scholarship
commonly assumes a three-tiered cosmos in Revelation, Rothman
argues that Revelation's narrative operates in a four-tiered
cosmos, with the hyper-heaven sitting above the sky-heaven, earth,
and abyssal depths; a cosmic story-space that is recreated in the
imagination of the hearers. Beginning with a methodology of visual
narrative reading, Rothman then discusses the assumptions and
existing conceptions regarding heaven and earth. He stresses that
Revelation does not exhibit tension in its portrayal of heaven,
between heaven as a site of conflict and heaven as the realm in
which God truly reigns, but rather shows readers a sky-heaven
characterised by archetypal conflict between powerful sky-beings
and a hyper-heaven defined by full recognition of the Throne. In
journeying through the sky-structure and God-space, and by
analysing the four cosmic layers in operation, the distinct nature
of the two sky-spaces, cosmic change and the ideological import of
the cosmic structure, Rothman proves that the existence of the
hyper-heaven - in contradistinction with the limited lived-cosmos
of earth and sky-heaven - is a present guarantee of the final
cosmic transformation that creates a new space for human life
exclusive of imperial draconian elements.
For more than 150 years, until well into the twentieth century,
tuberculosis was the dreaded scourge that AIDS is for us today.
Based on the diaries and letters of hundreds of individuals over
five generations, Living in the Shadow of Death is the first book
to present an intimate and evocative portrait of what it was like
for patients as well as families and communities to struggle
against this dreaded disease. "Consumption", as it used to be
called, is one of the oldest known diseases. But it wasn't until
the beginning of the nineteenth century that it became pervasive
and feared in the United States, the cause of one out of every five
deaths. Consumption crossed all boundaries of geography and social
class. How did people afflicted with the disease deal with their
fate? How did their families? What did it mean for the community
when consumption affected almost every family and every town?
Sheila M. Rothman documents a fascinating story. Each generation
had its own special view of the origins, transmission, and therapy
for the disease, definitions that reflected not only medical
knowledge but views on gender obligations, religious beliefs, and
community responsibilities. In general, Rothman points out,
tenacity and resolve, not passivity or resignation, marked people's
response to illness and to their physicians. Convinced that the
outdoor life was better for their health, young men with
tuberculosis in the nineteenth century interrupted their college
studies and careers to go to sea or to settle in the West, in the
process shaping communities in Colorado, Arizona, and California.
Women, anticipating the worst, raised their children to be welcomed
as orphans in other people's homes.In the twentieth century, both
men and women entered sanatoriums, sacrificing autonomy for the
prospect of a cure. Poignant as biography, illuminating as social
history, this book reminds us that ours is not the first generation
to cope with the death of the young or with the stigma of disease
and the proper limits of medical authority. In an era when a deadly
contagious disease once again casts its shadow over individual
lives and communities, Living in the Shadow of Death gives us a new
sense of our own past as it equips us to comprehend the present.
Opportunities are free, abundant, and available to all-including
you. Better yet, golden opportunities are like powerful magnets
that attract all the resources you need to succeed. People who
started with nothing-like Dhirubhai Ambani, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos,
Sunil Mittal and Bill Gates-all leveraged the power of golden
opportunities to make it big. But there's a catch. Because golden
opportunities are golden on the inside, not on the outside, people
usually miss them. For the first time, Richard M. Rothman provides
you with a simple and proven process to see and choose golden
opportunities. Based on over three decades of research, The Power
of Opportunity is your roadmap to achieve the kind of success that
you've never dreamed possible.
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