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This volume explores multiple dimensions of prophetic texts and
their violent rhetoric, providing a rich and engaging discussion of
violent images not only in prophetic texts and in ancient Near
Eastern art but also in modern film and receptions of prophetic
texts. The volume addresses questions that are at once ancient and
distressingly-modern: What do violent images do to us? Do they
encourage violent behavior and/or provide an alternative to actual
violence? How do depictions of violence define boundaries between
and within communities? What readers can and should readers make of
the disturbing rhetoric of violent prophets? Contributors include
Corrine Carvahlo, Cynthia Chapman, Chris Franke, Bob Haak, Mary
Mills, Julia O'Brien, Kathleen O'Connor, Carolyn Sharp, Yvonne
Sherwood, and Daniel Smith-Christopher.
From tales of woe, to tales of triumph, the short stories in this
collection are my very best written over the years. The stories in
this collection will make you laugh, make you cry, make you think,
and best of all, make you read. From the first page to the last
page you will encounter stories that beg you to keep reading until
the very end. The thing I love most about these stories is their
surprise endings. In most of the stories you will not see the
ending coming. From the first story, a laughable tale which
describes what happens when the drunk man doesn't drive, until the
last story, which is a heart wrenching tale of one mans loss and
his refusal to deal with it, and what he does in the end to finally
confront that which he for so long avoided, you will be thrown
through strange tales which you will want to read again and again.
There are a total of eleven tales in this book. Throughout you will
discover many things. From the bird who eats people whole, to the
warehouse where nothing is normal, from the insane man who
discovers a real psycho, to the man who discovers who the real
psycho is, you will not be disappointed by what you read. I have
included only my very best short stories, some I wrote over 14
years ago, and every one I have polished and refined to make them
my very best. Now I turn them over to you, to enjoy and laugh at,
to wonder and marvel at, but most of all, to read and enjoy.
White knuckled follow up to 12 DAYS - Malibu, the playground of the
rich and the famous. This tranquil, upscale beach community is
rocked by the death of not one but two of its famous residents who
reside behind the storied gates of the Malibu Movie Colony.
Detective Jim Jovian must fight his demons, both external and
internal, to unearth the deadly secrets of the sand.
Detective Jim Jovian has just completed the overnight shift for the
West Covina Police Department on Christmas Eve when he receives an
ominous call. A jogger has informed him that a man in a Santa Claus
outfit is hanging from a tree on Pear Street. Upon investigation,
Jovian notices that the number '1' is carved into the tree from
which Santa is hanging. A series of gruesome murders occur over the
next week and a half, each one bearing an ascending number. Los
Angeles has a serial murderer and the police are at a loss as to
his pattern or how to stop him.
My soul is filled with passion, my heart is filled with desire, my
mind is filled with words. This book is my soul, my heart, and my
mind all rolled into one. Are you ready to take the journey with
me?
At the 2006 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature,
the Prophetic Texts in their Ancient Contexts section devoted a
session to the theme "The Aesthetics of Violence." Participants
were invited to explore multiple dimensions of prophetic texts and
their violent rhetoric. The results were rich-- engaging discussion
of violent images in ancient Near Eastern art and in modern film,
as well as advancing our understanding of the poetic skill required
for invoking terror through words. This volume collects those
essays as well as others especially commissioned for its creation.
As a collection, they address questions that are at once ancient
and distressingly-modern: What do violent images do to us? Do they
encourage violent behavior and/or provide an alternative to actual
violence? How do depictions of violence define boundaries between
and within communities? What readers can and should readers make of
the disturbing rhetoric of violent prophets? Contributors include
Corrine Carvahlo, Cynthia Chapman, Chris Franke, Bob Haak, Mary
Mills, Julia O'Brien, Kathleen O'Connor, Carolyn Sharp, Yvonne
Sherwood, and Daniel Smith-Christopher.
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