Author: McCahill, Bob
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608337626
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Over the last forty years Maryknoll Father Bob McCahill has sent letters home from Bangladesh each Christmas. This moving collection of his letters recounts stories of his unique brand of mission, serving as a loving brother to his Muslim neighbors.
I Am Indeed Your Brother
Author: McCahill, Bob
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608337626
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Over the last forty years Maryknoll Father Bob McCahill has sent letters home from Bangladesh each Christmas. This moving collection of his letters recounts stories of his unique brand of mission, serving as a loving brother to his Muslim neighbors.
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608337626
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Over the last forty years Maryknoll Father Bob McCahill has sent letters home from Bangladesh each Christmas. This moving collection of his letters recounts stories of his unique brand of mission, serving as a loving brother to his Muslim neighbors.
Martial Arts Collection: Blood Flower, Blood Flower
Author: Zhixin Lin
Publisher: Zhixin Lin
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 773
Book Description
Publisher: Zhixin Lin
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 773
Book Description
The Classic Tales
Author: Ellen Frankel
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN: 1461662419
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Three hundred Jewish tales in this extraordinary volume span three continents and four millennia. Culled from traditional sources—the Bible, Talmud, Midrash, hasidic texts, and oral folklore—and retold in modern English by Ellen Frankel, these stories represent the brightest jewels in the vast treasure chest of Jewish lore. Beautifully clothed in contemporary language, these classic tales sparkle with the gentle and insightful humor of the Jewish folk imagination. And like so much of Jewish literature, these stories abound in allusions to classic Jewish texts. Biblical cadences, phrases from the prayer book, and ideas from Jewish proverbs and heroic legends resonate in the air when these tales are read or told aloud. In The Classic Tales, history sheds its dust to become as intimate as family memory. While the breadth and depth of this book make it completely unique, three special features also help distinguish it: God appears without gender (though certainly not without personality); women characters, so often nameless in the original biblical text, wear their midrashic names (e.g., Noah's wife Naamah, Abraham's mother Amitlai, Lot's wife Edith); and many tales of Sephardic origin have been included to correct the common American bias toward Eastern European sources. What's more, this volume has been uniquely designed to be of use to educators, rabbis, parents, and students. It features a chronological table of contents as well as six separate indexes?arranged by Jewish holidays, Torah and Haftorah readings, character types, symbols, topics, and proper names and places—to make the tales easily referenced in a wide variety of ways. Anyone who needs a story to inspire a child, to illustrate a point, to develop a sermon, or just to uplift his or her own thirsting soul will find just the right one in The Classic Tales.
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN: 1461662419
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Three hundred Jewish tales in this extraordinary volume span three continents and four millennia. Culled from traditional sources—the Bible, Talmud, Midrash, hasidic texts, and oral folklore—and retold in modern English by Ellen Frankel, these stories represent the brightest jewels in the vast treasure chest of Jewish lore. Beautifully clothed in contemporary language, these classic tales sparkle with the gentle and insightful humor of the Jewish folk imagination. And like so much of Jewish literature, these stories abound in allusions to classic Jewish texts. Biblical cadences, phrases from the prayer book, and ideas from Jewish proverbs and heroic legends resonate in the air when these tales are read or told aloud. In The Classic Tales, history sheds its dust to become as intimate as family memory. While the breadth and depth of this book make it completely unique, three special features also help distinguish it: God appears without gender (though certainly not without personality); women characters, so often nameless in the original biblical text, wear their midrashic names (e.g., Noah's wife Naamah, Abraham's mother Amitlai, Lot's wife Edith); and many tales of Sephardic origin have been included to correct the common American bias toward Eastern European sources. What's more, this volume has been uniquely designed to be of use to educators, rabbis, parents, and students. It features a chronological table of contents as well as six separate indexes?arranged by Jewish holidays, Torah and Haftorah readings, character types, symbols, topics, and proper names and places—to make the tales easily referenced in a wide variety of ways. Anyone who needs a story to inspire a child, to illustrate a point, to develop a sermon, or just to uplift his or her own thirsting soul will find just the right one in The Classic Tales.
The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow
Author: Robert Montgomery Bird
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Author: James Hogg
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 067941732X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Robert is a difficult and disturbed young man. He turns to his Calvinist faith for solace but finds it hard to get along with other people. After he falls in with the mysterious and charming Gil-Martin, his actions become more and more extreme. He convinces himself that he is one of the chosen few and that, therefore, all his actions are right and good . . . even murder. James Hogg ('the Ettrick Shepherd') was a poet, novelist, and farmer whose work was discovered by Sir Walter Scott and admired by writers as different as Wordsworth and Byron. His most famous book, The Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), is striking in its use of Calvinist doctrine, demonology, and a highly modern psychological perception to tell the story of the criminal Colwan, deluded by occult forces into thinking he represents an instrument of divine justice and vengeance. Introduction by Roger Lewis (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 067941732X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Robert is a difficult and disturbed young man. He turns to his Calvinist faith for solace but finds it hard to get along with other people. After he falls in with the mysterious and charming Gil-Martin, his actions become more and more extreme. He convinces himself that he is one of the chosen few and that, therefore, all his actions are right and good . . . even murder. James Hogg ('the Ettrick Shepherd') was a poet, novelist, and farmer whose work was discovered by Sir Walter Scott and admired by writers as different as Wordsworth and Byron. His most famous book, The Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), is striking in its use of Calvinist doctrine, demonology, and a highly modern psychological perception to tell the story of the criminal Colwan, deluded by occult forces into thinking he represents an instrument of divine justice and vengeance. Introduction by Roger Lewis (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd
Author: James Hogg
Publisher: London : Blackie
ISBN:
Category : Hogg, James
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Publisher: London : Blackie
ISBN:
Category : Hogg, James
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd. A New Edition, Revised ... by T. Thomson ... With Illustrative Engravings
The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd [pseud.]: Tales and sketches
Scottish Gothic
Author: James Hogg
Publisher: Palimpsest Book Production Limited
ISBN: 1910486124
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A Scottish lost treasures collection of three classic Scottish tales, each offering a dark and shocking narrative. Bundled by subject matter rather than author, the books complement each other to create a compelling trilogy. "Palimpsest's eClassics series, Scottish Lost Treasures, shows us how much poorer Britain's cultural heritage would be without Scottish writers ... The best example I've seen of how curation and presentation can bring old books to new audiences" - The Observer "This strikes me as a fantastic venture, and one I hope will expand further" - Professor Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday
Publisher: Palimpsest Book Production Limited
ISBN: 1910486124
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A Scottish lost treasures collection of three classic Scottish tales, each offering a dark and shocking narrative. Bundled by subject matter rather than author, the books complement each other to create a compelling trilogy. "Palimpsest's eClassics series, Scottish Lost Treasures, shows us how much poorer Britain's cultural heritage would be without Scottish writers ... The best example I've seen of how curation and presentation can bring old books to new audiences" - The Observer "This strikes me as a fantastic venture, and one I hope will expand further" - Professor Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday
The mysteries of the court of London
Author: George William M. Reynolds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description