Author: Anathea Portier-Young Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 080287083X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 487
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The year 167 B.C.E. marked the beginning of a period of intense persecution for the people of Judea, as Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes attempted -- forcibly and brutally -- to eradicate traditional Jewish religious practices. In Apocalypse against Empire Anathea Portier-Young reconstructs the historical events and key players in this traumatic episode in Jewish history and provides a sophisticated treatment of resistance in early Judaism. Building on a solid contextual foundation, Portier-Young argues that the first Jewish apocalypses emerged as a literature of resistance to Hellenistic imperial rule. In particular, Portier-Young contends, the book of Daniel, the Apocalypse of Weeks, and the Book of Dreams were written to supply an oppressed people with a potent antidote to the destructive propaganda of the empire -- renewing their faith in the God of the covenant and answering state terror with radical visions of hope.
Author: Jeffrey D. Meyers Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1978708351 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 201
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Revelation is resistance literature, written to instruct early Christians on how to live as followers of Jesus in the Roman Empire. The Nonviolent Apocalypse uses modern examples and scholarship on nonviolence to help illuminate Revelation’s resistance, arguing that Revelation’s famously violent visions are actually acts of nonviolent resistance to the Empire. The visions form part of Revelation’s proclamation of God’s way as a just and life-giving alternative to the system constructed by Rome. Revelation urges its readers to pursue this radical form of living, engaging in nonviolent resistance to all that stands in the way of God’s vision for the world.
Author: Lee West Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781546348177 Category : Electromagnetic pulse Languages : en Pages : 0
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This second book of the series follows Sam and Jane Archer, as they continue their nightmarish journey through an increasingly hostile and unrecognizable landscape.
Author: Jeffrey D. Meyers Publisher: Fortress Academic ISBN: 9781978708341 Category : Bible Languages : en Pages : 200
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In The Nonviolent Apocalypse, Jeffrey D. Meyers argues that Revelation's famously violent visions are actually acts of nonviolent resistance to the Roman Empire. Using insights from biblical studies and scholarship on nonviolence, Meyers shows how Revelation both engages in and calls for acts of nonviolent resistance.
Author: Willie Wilson, Jr Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Louise Cipher has come into power as the female Antichrist, coming from a political background she became president of the United States with plans to incorporate the New World Order. There is resistance against the Ideas, and they become the enemies of Louise Cipher. God has called Charlie to stop the NWO and travel to the New Eden. At the same time, Jeremiah was chosen by God to meet Charlie and escort him to New Eden. Together they embark on a journey that is very dangerous and if caught cold mean their execution. could they make to New Eden to mobilize and active an army to defeat Louise Cipher and the NWO
Author: Lisa Frieden Publisher: Lisa Frieden ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 128
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Telling Time is a scholarly book that explores how novelists wrote about AIDS during the first decade of the epidemic, when HIV and AIDS were considered death sentences and most often associated with homosexuality and the gay community. The book explores the different narrative strategies used by novelists to represent the temporality of AIDS, looking at Paul Reed’s Facing It: a Novel of AIDS, David Feinberg’s Eighty-Sixed and Spontaneous Combustion, and Paul Monette’s Afterlife and Halfway Home, and how a few novels did manage to resist the apocalyptic dominant rhetoric of AIDS. The book also discusses the difficulties of publishing AIDS novels by people of color and such writers as E. Lynn Harris and Steve Corbin. Telling Time includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography of all American AIDS novels published from 1982-1992 as a reference guide for further reading.
Author: Anathea Portier-Young
Author: Jeffrey D. Meyers
Author: ALAN. THORNETT
Author: Lee West
Author: Jeffrey D. Meyers
Author: Willie Wilson, Jr
Author: Chul Heum Han
Author: Marlene Goldman
Author: Lisa Garmire
Author: Lisa Frieden