Author: Colette Thomas RenePublisher:
ISBN: 9780992835514
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
The Testament of the Dead Daughter
Author: Colette Thomas RenePublisher:
ISBN: 9780992835514
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son
Author: Maria E. DoerflerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520972961
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Late antiquity was a perilous time for children, who were often the first victims of economic crisis, war, and disease. They had a one in three chance of dying before their first birthday, with as many as half dying before age ten. Christian writers accordingly sought to speak to the experience of bereavement and to provide cultural scripts for parents who had lost a child. These late ancient writers turned to characters like Eve and Sarah, Job and Jephthah as models for grieving and for confronting or submitting to the divine. Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah’s Son traces the stories these writers crafted and the ways in which they shaped the lived experience of familial bereavement in ancient Christianity. A compelling social history that conveys the emotional lives of people in the late ancient world, Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah's Son is a powerful portrait of mourning that extends beyond antiquity to the present day.
Dead Daughter
Author: Expository Notes, with Practical Observations on the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
Author: William BurkittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Living Dead Girl
Author: Elizabeth ScottPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416960600
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"This is Alice. She was taken by Ray five years ago. She thought she knew how her story would end. She was wrong."-- [P.4] Cover.
Testament of Youth
Author: Vera BrittainPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140188448
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
An autobiographical account of a young nurse's involvement in World War I
Expository notes, with practical observations, on the New Testament
Author: William BurkittExpository Notes, with Practical Observations, on the New Testament ... By the Rev. William Burkitt ... To this Edition Will be Added, the Life of the Author, Etc. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.]
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Author: Expository Notes, with Practical Observations, on the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
Author: Veronica's Grave
Author: Barbara Bracht DonskyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 163152075X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award: Silver for Memoir 2017 National Indie Excellence Awards: Finalist 2017 Independent Press Award: Distinguished Favorite for Memoir 2016 Beverly Hills Book Awards: Memoir Finalist 2016 Readers' Favorite:Silver Medal for Non-fiction Memoir New York Public Library Top Pick Summer 2017 When Barbara Bracht's mother disappears, she is left a confused child whose blue-collar father is intent upon erasing any memory of her mother. Forced to keep the secret of her mother's existence from her younger brother, Barbara struggles to keep from being crushed under the weight of family secrets as she comes of age and tries to educate herself, despite her father's stance against women's education. The story is not only of loss and resilience, but one showing the power of literature—from Little Orphan Annie to Prince Valiant to the incomparable Nancy Drew—to offer hope where there is little. Told with true literary sensibility, this captivating memoir asks us to consider what it is that parents owe their children, and how far a child need go to make things right for her family.