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Emilia S Morrow
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R380
Discovery Miles 3 800
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The Boy Who Walked to Jerusalem recreates the world of the First
Crusade for Young Adult readers. Phillip, a humble shepherd youth,
is unexpectedly thrust into the Crusade. Join Phillip as he battles
his way to Jerusalem with the real knights who led the Crusade.
Learn about their actual training, tactics and weapons. Relive
their stunning triumphs and gut-wrenching defeats. As Phillip
fights his way from Britain to the Holy Lands he discovers both
friendship and betrayal in the most unexpected places. Travel with
Phillip on his journey from boyhood to manhood as he questions the
meaning of religion, the wisdom of following leaders and the value
of war. WARNING: Detailed, historically accurate battle scenes are
included. Prepare to be transported to the authentic world of
knighthood and the bloodstained Crusades.
The Hebrew Bible contains many examples of protest or complaint
against God. There are classic cases in the psalms of individual
lament, but we find the same attitude in community complaint
psalms, in the prophetic challenges to God, and in the Book of Job.
And yet, after the exile, the complaint tradition was largely
suppressed or marginalized. In this imaginative book, Morrow asks
the unheard of question, Why? A shift in the religious imagination
of early Judaism had taken place, he argues, spearheaded by the
psychology of trauma and by international politics. A magnification
of divine transcendence downgraded the intercessory role of the
prophet, controlled the raw pain of exile (Lamentations, Second
Isaiah), and led to intransigent refusal of the logic of lament
(the friends and Yahweh in Job). The theology of complaint was
eventually overshadowed by the piety of penitence and praise (the
Dead Sea Scrolls). Modern readers of the Hebrew Bible are not
obliged to assent to the loss of lament, nevertheless. Ours is an
age when the potency of the biblical complaints against God is
being newly appropriated. Although the transcendental imagination
of Western culture itself is moving into eclipse, a heightened
individual consciousness has emerged. There may still be life,
therefore, in the ancient prayer pattern of arguing with God, which
assumes that worshippers have rights with God as well as duties,
that the Creator has obligations to the creation as well as
prerogatives. This stylish intellectual history will be welcomed
for its scope, its panache and its theological engagement. Awarded
the 2006 R.B.Y. Scott Book Award for an outstanding book in the
areas of Hebrew Bible and/or the Ancient Near East written by a
member of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies.
The Hebrew Bible contains many examples of protest or complaint
against God. There are classic cases in the psalms of individual
lament, but we find the same attitude in community complaint
psalms, in the prophetic challenges to God, and in the Book of Job.
And yet, after the exile, the complaint tradition was largely
suppressed or marginalized. In this imaginative book, Morrow asks
the unheard of question, Why? A shift in the religious imagination
of early Judaism had taken place, he argues, spearheaded by the
psychology of trauma and by international politics. A magnification
of divine transcendence downgraded the intercessory role of the
prophet, controlled the raw pain of exile (Lamentations, Second
Isaiah), and led to intransigent refusal of the logic of lament
(the friends and Yahweh in Job). The theology of complaint was
eventually overshadowed by the piety of penitence and praise (the
Dead Sea Scrolls). Modern readers of the Hebrew Bible are not
obliged to assent to the loss of lament, nevertheless. Ours is an
age when the potency of the biblical complaints against God is
being newly appropriated. Although the transcendental imagination
of Western culture itself is moving into eclipse, a heightened
individual consciousness has emerged. There may still be life,
therefore, in the ancient prayer pattern of arguing with God, which
assumes that worshippers have rights with God as well as duties,
that the Creator has obligations to the creation as well as
prerogatives. This stylish intellectual history will be welcomed
for its scope, its panache and its theological engagement.
An informed, accessible textbook on law collections in the
Pentateuch. In this book William Morrow surveys four major law
collections in Exodus-Deuteronomy and shows how they each enabled
the people of Israel to create and sustain a community of faith.
Treating biblical law as dynamic systems of thought facilitating
ancient Israel's efforts at self-definition, Morrow describes four
different social contexts that gave rise to biblical law: (1)
Israel at the holy mountain (the Ten Commandments); (2) Israel in
the village assembly (Exodus 20:22-23:19); (3) Israel in the courts
of the Lord (priestly and holiness rules in Exodus, Leviticus, and
Numbers); and (4) Israel in the city (Deuteronomy). Including
forthright discussion of such controversial subjects as slavery,
revenge, gender inequality, religious intolerance, and
contradictions between bodies of biblical law, Morrow's study will
help students and other serious readers make sense out of texts in
the Pentateuch that are often seen as obscure.
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