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""A twentieth-century classic, uncannily smart, incredibly
learned.""--from the foreword by Bart Ehrman
This book challenges traditional Christian teaching about Jesus.
While his followers may have seen him as a man from heaven,
preaching the good news and working miracles, Smith asserts that
the truth about Jesus is more interesting and rather
unsettling.
The real Jesus, only barely glimpsed because of a campaign of
disinformation, obfuscation, and censorship by religious
authorities, was not Jesus the Son of God. In actuality he was
Jesus the Magician. Smith marshals all the available evidence
including, but not limited to, the Gospels. He succeeds in
describing just what was said of Jesus by "outsiders," those who
did not believe him.
He deals in fascinating detail with the inevitable questions.
What was the nature of magic? What did people at that time mean by
the term "magician"? Who were the other magicians, and how did
their magic compare with Jesus' works? What facts led to the
general assumption that Jesus practiced magic? And, most important,
was that assumption correct?
The ramifications of "Jesus the Magician" give new meaning to
the word controversial. This book recovers a vision of Jesus that
two thousand years of suppression and polemic could not erase.
And--what may be the central point of the debate--"Jesus the
Magician" strips away the myths and legends that have obscured
Jesus, the man who lived.
In this series of provocative essays, nine specialists in early
American history examine some of the more important aspects of the
seventeenth-century colonial experience, presenting an impressive
sampling of modern historical research on such topics as colonists
and Indians, people and society, church and state, and history and
historians.
Originally published 1959.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the
latest in digital technology to make available again books from our
distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These
editions are published unaltered from the original, and are
presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both
historical and cultural value.
1939: fascism spreads across Europe, Franco marches on Barcelona
and two German chemists discover the processes of atomic fission.
In Berkeley, California, theoretical physicists recognise the
horrendous potential of this new science: a weapon that draws its
power from the very building blocks of the universe. Struggling to
cast off his radical past and thrust into a position of power and
authority, the charismatic J Robert Oppenheimer races to win the
'battle of the laboratories' and create a weapon so devastating
that it would bring about an end not just to the Second World War
but to all war. Tom Morton-Smith's new play takes us into the heart
of the Manhattan Project, revealing the personal cost of making
history.
Title: Amendments to The Revised Statutes of the Territory of
Minnesota, Passed at the Third Session of the Legislative Assembly,
Commencing January 6, 1852.Author: Morton Smith WilkinsonPublisher:
Gale, Making of Modern Law Description: The Making of Modern Law:
Primary Sources, 1620-1926 contains a virtual goldmine of
information for researchers of American legal history --- an
archive of the published records of the American colonies,
documents published by state constitutional conventions, state
codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more.++++The
below data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++SourceLibrary: Yale Law LibraryDocumentID:
LPSY0109602SecondaryDocType: State CodesSourceBibCitation: The
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926PublicationPlace:
United StatesImprintFull: St. Paul: Owens & Moore, Printers,
1852ImprintYear: 1852Collation: xvi, 734 p.; 26 cm
"You know when a song gets stuck in your head? Round and round ...
over and over. I've got that right now ... only it's not a piece of
music ... it's not a tune ... it's a phrase: home is where the
heart is ... home is where the heart is." A coastline erodes, a
house falls into the sea. A mysterious brother and sister arrive
looking for answers. Marnie clings to her camera, taking
photographs of strangers and places. She has come to say goodbye to
a life she never knew whilst her brother Linus is keen to make a
fresh start. But when they find Simon and daughter Kelly, reeling
in the wake of tragedy, all four lives are to become inextricably
linked under the weight of the past.
Title: The Revised Statutes of the Territory of Minnesota, Passed
at the Second Session of the Legislative Assembly, Commencing
January 1, 1851: Printed and Published Pursuant to Law.Author:
Morton Smith WilkinsonPublisher: Gale, Making of Modern Law
Description: The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926
contains a virtual goldmine of information for researchers of
American legal history --- an archive of the published records of
the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional
conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests
and more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Yale Law
LibraryDocumentID: LPSY0109601SecondaryDocType: State
CodesSourceBibCitation: The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources,
1620-1926PublicationPlace: United StatesImprintFull: St. Paul:
James M. Goodhue, Territorial Printer, 1851ImprintYear:
1851Collation: xvi, 734 p.; 26 cm
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
Considerations more political than practical left Idaho strange in
shape-like a pregnant capital L, as one observer said. With the
state's southeastern residents oriented toward Salt Lake City,
Utah, and residents of the Idaho panhandle oriented toward Spokane,
Washington, often it has seemed that only the capital at Boise and
the Snake River system have held the state together. More than half
of Idaho is owned by an outsider-the federal government-and the
rest has never been densely populated. From Lewis and Clark on,
early travelers to the region found its deserts and mountains
forbiddingly inhospitable. But the mountains have yielded timber
and rich mineral mines. The deserts have become productive farms
through reclamation and irrigation projects of enormous magnitude.
A kind of "irrigation democracy" also has won attention for the
state beyond its borders, as has the awe-inspiring beauty that
makes Idaho an attractive place to live.
The authors were asked not for comprehensive chronicles, nor for
research monographs or new data for scholars. Bibliographies and
footnotes are minimal. Each author was asked for a summing
up-interpretive, sensitive, thoughtful, individual, even
personal-of what seems significant about his or her state's
history. What distinguishes it? What has mattered about it, to its
own people and to the rest of the nation? What has it come to now?
-James Morton Smith, General Editor
For the first fifty years of the new nation's existence, they
formed a personal and political partnership, jointly working out
the ideology of democracy and the practice of representative
government. The collaboration began in 1776, when Jefferson and
Madison met as members of the Virginia House of Delegates, and
ended fifty years later, when Jefferson died. They exchanged nearly
1,250 letters, running the gamut from short notes ("Will you come
and sit an hour before dinner to-day?" Jefferson scribbled to
Madison in 1791) to Madison's remarkable seventeen-page letter on
the results of the Constitutional Convention. Whether every letter
was a faultless work of art may be debated. But their
correspondence reveals, in precision and complex detail, what
Jefferson called "freshness of fact." Since neither Jefferson nor
Madison kept a diary, their innermost thoughts went directly into
their letters, deeply revealing the loyalties and genius of both
men. These volumes present for the first time all of the letters,
annotated and in chronological order, organized into chapters by
year. In addition to the general introduction to the
correspondence, introductory essays to each chapter establish
context and identify persons and events for the general reader.
James Morton Smith is Director Emeritus of The Henry Francis du
Pont Winterthur Museum and a past director of the Wisconsin State
Historical Society. In addition to his many books, he was the
general editor of the Bicentennial Series, The States and the
Nation, published by Norton.
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