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The Jerusalem Parchment

Author : Tuvia Fogel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620556960
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Jerusalem Parchment written by Tuvia Fogel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Novel of forbidden love and religious war in the quest to find the mysterious Parchment of Circles • Centers on the search for the Parchment of Circles, an ancient map said to lead to mystical wisdom that challenges the story of Christ’s resurrection, validates the Cathar faith, and serves as the Templars’ blackmail against the Church • Includes a complex cast of characters including a rabbi and nun who fall in love, St. Francis of Assisi, Knights Templar, the Pope, and the Sultan of Egypt Set in the 13th century, this sweeping historical novel opens on the island of Torcello, outside Venice, in 1219, after the Crusaders have lost possession of Jerusalem. Yehezkel, a young yet revered kabbalist and student of Maimonides, is on the island for a secret meeting of rabbis. He is chosen to travel to Jerusalem to seek definitive proof of the Talmud’s antiquity, a search that grows to include the hunt for the mysterious Parchment of Circles. This ancient map could not only help Yehezkel’s quest, but also lead to explosive evidence about Christ’s resurrection that would destroy the Roman Church. Before leaving the island, Yehezkel rescues a young Cistercian abbess from drowning in the Venetian Lagoon. Galatea, the beautiful nun, has been plagued by mystic visions and prophetic dreams throughout her life, leading her to become a devotee of Hildegard von Bingen. Driven by premonitions of an “enigma in Jerusalem,” she abandons her monastic life and the orthodoxy of the Church and joins Yehezkel on his pilgrimage. On the way to Jerusalem, after being shipwrecked on Crete, the two meet St. Francis of Assisi in Cyprus and join him across the lines of the Fifth Crusade in his attempt to convert the Sultan of Egypt. Over the year-long trip, they also fall in love. But the rabbi and the nun are not the only ones seeking the Parchment of Circles: The Pope sends his agents in search of it, and the Knights Templar are also in pursuit of the Parchment, for the ancient map serves as the Templars’ blackmail against the Church. What none of these deadly adversaries know is that the Parchment leads to an even more startling secret with profound religious significance for the future of humanity. It’s not a question of who finds it first, but who survives to unlock the Parchment’s secrets.

The Parchment

Author : Gerald McLaughlin
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 1621511022
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Parchment written by Gerald McLaughlin and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2005 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is A.D. 70, and Evardus, a wine merchant from Gaul, has encountered a dying rabbi on a road outside of Jerusalem. With his final breaths, the old man urgently tells Evardus that Jewish priests have spirited sacred objects and records away from Herod's Temple in the hope of keeping them out of the hands of Roman soldiers--who are, at that very moment, attacking Jerusalem and destroying the Jews' most holy site. The merchant learns of a copper scroll hidden beneath the Holy of Holies and a map that leads to the holy objects. A thousand years later, while on a Crusade to Palestine, a descendant of the merchant finally uncovers those secrets below the temple. They include an astonishing parchment that threatens the very foundations of the Church and Christianity. The grand master of the Templars develops a scheme to advance the interests of his order, but the plan has devastating consequences. The parchment survives, however, and for nearly a millennium remains hidden in plain sight. With the dawning of the twenty-first century and pivotal world events, two American professors discover the document while researching a book. Like those before, they are tempted to use it for their own purposes. The course they pursue leads to unforeseen consequences that affect events in the Middle East and a crucial turning point for the Vatican. Gerald McLaughlin shows us a rich, haunting tableau that spans two thousand years. We are given a timely glimpse into the often-disastrous ways that we tend to deal with faith when confronted by fear and ambition, and how moral choices are made in the face of the continuing battle between good and evil--both in ourselves and in the world. Ultimately, the author shines a light of profound hope and faith into the darkest recesses of the human soul, our modern life, and world events.

Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink

Author : Marc Michael Epstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165246
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink written by Marc Michael Epstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: for the love of books / Marc Michael Epstein -- The people of the book/books of the people: illuminating the canon / Hartley Lachter and Marc Michael Epstein -- Parchments and palimpsests: scribe, illuminator, patron, audience / Marc Michael Epstein -- The illuminated page: materials, methods, and techniques / Barbara Wolff -- Mapping the territory: ʼArbʻah kanfot maʼareẓ, the four corners of the medieval Jewish world. Ereẓ Yisrael/The land of Israel: homeland and center / Marc Michael Epstein ; Italia/Italy: the first western diaspora / Marc Michael Epstein ; Ashkenaz: Franco-Germany, England, Central, and East Europe / Eva Frojmovic with Marc Michael Epstein ; Sepharad and ʻArav: Spain and the Middle East / Raymond P. Scheindlin with Marc Michael Epstein ; The problem of national style / Eva Frojmovic with Marc Michael Epstein -- Iconography: telling the story / Marc Michael Epstein -- Dialogue and disputation: cultural negotiation / Marc Michael Epstein -- This world centered on the home: women, marriage, and the family / Shalom Sahar -- Glimpses of Jewish life: reality or illusion? / Marc Michael Epstein -- Incidental details: margins and meaning / Marc Michael Epstein -- Sacred and profane: naked ladies in the Haggadah? / Ágnes Vető -- Other worlds: fantastic horizons and unseen universes / Hartley Lachter wtih Marc Michael Epstein -- Zion and Jerusalem: the sum of all beauty, the joy of all the earth / Shalom Sahar -- In the royal court: Jewish illumination in an age of printing / Marc Michael Epstein -- A Yiddish Minhagim manuscript / Diane Wolfthal -- Illuminating the present: contemporary Jewish illumination / Susan Vick with Marc Michael Epstein -- Continuing the journey: annotated bibliography and manuscript descriptions / Jenna Siman Jacobs with Marc Michael Epstein.

Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink

Author : Marc Michael Epstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140086562X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink written by Marc Michael Epstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superbly illustrated history of five centuries of Jewish manuscripts The love of books in the Jewish tradition extends back over many centuries, and the ways of interpreting those books are as myriad as the traditions themselves. Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink offers the first full survey of Jewish illuminated manuscripts, ranging from their origins in the Middle Ages to the present day. Featuring some of the most beautiful examples of Jewish art of all time—including hand-illustrated versions of the Bible, the Haggadah, the prayer book, marriage documents, and other beloved Jewish texts—the book introduces readers to the history of these manuscripts and their interpretation. Edited by Marc Michael Epstein with contributions from leading experts, this sumptuous volume features a lively and informative text, showing how Jewish aesthetic tastes and iconography overlapped with and diverged from those of Christianity, Islam, and other traditions. Featured manuscripts were commissioned by Jews and produced by Jews and non-Jews over many centuries, and represent Eastern and Western perspectives and the views of both pietistic and liberal communities across the Diaspora, including Europe, Israel, the Middle East, and Africa. Magnificently illustrated with pages from hundreds of manuscripts, many previously unpublished or rarely seen, Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink offers surprising new perspectives on Jewish life, presenting the books of the People of the Book as never before.

Jerusalem

Author : Merav Mack
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245211
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem written by Merav Mack and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem’s libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct school; their stories as Jerusalemites have never before been woven into a single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who safeguard Jerusalem’s literary legacies. By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by its librarians, Mack and Balint tell the untold history of how the peoples of the book have populated the city with texts. In their hands, Jerusalem itself—perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and piety—comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library.

Parchment

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Parchment written by and published by . This book was released on 1592 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eliezer-Zusman of Brody

Author : Zvi Orgad
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004502548
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Eliezer-Zusman of Brody written by Zvi Orgad and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Eliezer-Zusman of Brody: The Early Modern Synagogue Painter and His World focuses on the work methods of the synagogue painter Eliezer-Zusman of Brody, as a case study of Jewish cultural and artistic migration from Eastern Europe to German lands.

Crown of Aleppo

Author : Hayim Tawil
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827609574
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Crown of Aleppo written by Hayim Tawil and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Crown of Aleppo, Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider tell the incredible story of the survival, against all odds, of the Aleppo Codex—one of the most authoritative and accurate traditional Masoretic texts of the Bible. Completed circa 939 in Tiberias, the Crown was created by exacting Tiberian scribes who copied the entire Bible into book form, adding annotations, vowel and cantillation marks, and precise commentary. Praised by Torah scholars for centuries after its writing, the Crown passed through history until the 15th century when it was housed in the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, Syria. When the synagogue was burned in the 1947 pogrom, the codex was thought to be destroyed, lost forever. That is where its great mystery begins. Miraculously, a significant portion of the Crown of Aleppo survived the fire and was smuggled from the synagogue ruins to an unknown location— presumably within the Aleppan Jewish community. Ten years later, the surviving pages of the codex were secretly brought to Israel and finally moved to their current location in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. "

The Crescent on the Temple

Author : Pamela Berger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004230343
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Crescent on the Temple written by Pamela Berger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Crescent on the Temple" by Pamela Berger elucidates an obscured tradition—how the Dome of the Rock came to stand for the Temple of Solomon in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish art. The crusaders called the Dome of the Rock the “Temple of the Lord,” while Muslim imagery depicted Solomon enthroned within the domed structure. Jews knew that the ancient Temple had been destroyed. Nevertheless, in their imagery, they commonly labeled the Muslim shrine “The Temple.” That domed “Temple” was often represented with a crescent on top. This iconography, long hidden in plain sight, reflects one aspect of an historical affinity between Jews and Muslims.

On Parchment

Author : Bruce Holsinger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300260210
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book On Parchment written by Bruce Holsinger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia "Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history."--Kirkus Reviews For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other creatures. These remains make up a significant portion of the era's surviving historical record. In a study spanning three millennia and twenty languages, Bruce Holsinger explores this animal archive as it shaped the inheritance of the Euro-Mediterranean world, from the leather rolls of ancient Egypt to the Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Holsinger discusses the making of parchment past and present, the nature of the medium as a biomolecular record of faunal life and environmental history, the knotty question of "uterine vellum," and the imaginative role of parchment in the works of St. Augustine, William Shakespeare, and a range of Jewish rabbinic writers of the medieval era. Closely informed by the handicraft of contemporary makers, painters, and sculptors, the book draws on a vast array of sources--codices and scrolls, documents and ephemera, works of craft and art--that speak to the vitality of parchment across epochs and continents. At the center of On Parchment is the vexed relationship of human beings to the myriad slaughtered beasts whose remains make up this vast record: a relationship of dominion and compassion, of brutality and empathy.

Reading, Writing, and Bookish Circles in the Ancient Mediterranean

Author : Jonathan D.H. Norton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350265039
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Reading, Writing, and Bookish Circles in the Ancient Mediterranean written by Jonathan D.H. Norton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By integrating conversations across disciplines, especially focusing on classical studies and Jewish and Christian studies, this volume addresses several imbalances in scholarship on reading and textual activity in the ancient Mediterranean. Contributors intentionally place Jewish, Christian, Roman, Greek and other reading circles back into their encompassing historical context, avoiding subdivisions along modern subject lines, divisions still bearing marks of cultural and ideological interests. In their examination, contributors avoid dwelling upon traditional methodological debates over orality vs. literacy and social classifications of literacy, instead turning their attention to the social-historical: groups of people, circles and networks, strata and class, scribal culture, material culture, epigraphic and papyrological evidence, functions and types of literacy and the social relationships that all of these entail. Overall, the volume contributes to an emerging and important interdisciplinary collaboration between specialists in ancient literacy, encouraging future discussion between two currently divided fields.

Footprints in Parchment

Author : SANDRA SWEENY SILVER
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1481733745
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Footprints in Parchment written by SANDRA SWEENY SILVER and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Footprints in Parchment Rome Versus Christianity 30-313 AD masterfully tackles the question: How did a group of Christians with no homeland and no standing army defeat the juggernaut of ancient Rome? Using hundreds of first-hand accounts of events, Silver guides the reader through the rise and the reach of Imperial Rome to its eventual ruin and rescue by the infant Christian Church. Over a three hundred year period Rome killed tens of thousands of Christians in an attempt to eradicate this new religion that it correctly intuited would bring Rome to its knees. Tertullian had said in the early 200s, The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Why did Rome kill all those people just because they believed in a Jewish carpenter from an obscure part of her Empire and why did so many Christians willingly die? The martyrs died for the religious freedom to publicly say the words Christianus sum. I am a Christian. They won that right. Rome Versus Christianity leads the reader down the road of Romes decline and Christianitys rise. There are many fascinating sights along the way.

God's Hidden Treasure

Author : Batya Shemesh
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524530891
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book God's Hidden Treasure written by Batya Shemesh and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE period of history between Moses and the Second Temple period is a big question mark in the minds of historians. When was the Torah written? How is it possible that we still have the same Bible that was written over 3000 years ago? What happened to the Ten Lost tribes? Why is there no mention of the story of Esther in world history? Why is Judaism passed on only through the mother? Batya Shemesh was bothered by these questions and more. With Gods help she discovered that many of the answers were secretly hidden in the Bible and waiting to be discovered.

The Jerusalem Palimpsest of Euripides

Author : Stephen G. Daitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110831945
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Jerusalem Palimpsest of Euripides written by Stephen G. Daitz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hidden Scroll

Author : Avraham Anouchi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 145000203X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Scroll written by Avraham Anouchi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit the authorss website at WWW.ANOUCHI.ORG The Hidden Scroll is an historical novel spanning from 1930 to 2015 on an archaeology professor whose passion is the search for ancient parchments and artifacts from the time of the second Temple of Jerusalem and the Maccabeean revolt. He encounters obstacles by a radical Islamist organization dedicated to undermine the Jewish claim to the land of Israel obstacles that include murders, kidnappings, spies, suicide bombers and forged parchments in Rome, Paris, Oran, Buenos Aires, Dusseldorf, Istanbul and archaeological excavations in Israel. The search yields ancient parchments in Israel, Brazil, Tibet and Mount Sinai. It ends with two most unexpected and dramatic discoveries in a new excavation site in Israel. REVIEWS: This spell binding mystery is rooted in biblical archeology, an expertise of the author. He makes the subject come to life, this reader found to be inspiring. Take The Hidden Scroll on your next airplane trip. It is a guarantee against boredom, even if the plane fails to arrive on time. Professor Joseph W. Eaton, GSPIA, University of Pittsburgh. Avraham Anouchi offers us a mystery that joins together history and archaeology against the background of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The story is vivid in its descriptions and characterizations. Professor Alex Orbach, Director of Jewish Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Visit the authorss website at WWW.ANOUCHI.ORG

On the Margins of Crusading

Author : Professor Helen J Nicholson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409482723
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book On the Margins of Crusading written by Professor Helen J Nicholson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded to support Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land and most famous for their support for crusading, the Military Religious Orders' activities and interests stretched far beyond the frontiers of Christendom. Representing some of the most recent advances in research, in this volume eleven scholars from Europe and North America explore important and hitherto under-researched aspects of the Orders' history, scrutinising their relations with the papacy, their organisational structure, their devotional practices, their fortresses and their presence in the localities of Western Europe. Particular attention is given to the Templars' trial of 1307-12 and the question of how the surviving Orders reorganised themselves after the loss of the kingdom of Jerusalem in 1291. The majority of the papers consider the leading Military Orders, the Hospitallers and Templars, but there are also studies of the Orders of Mountjoy and of St Lazarus, showing how they adapted their activities to local requirements. These studies reflect the vitality of current scholarship on the Military Religious Orders.

On the Margins of Crusading

Author : Helen Nicholson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317085752
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book On the Margins of Crusading written by Helen Nicholson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded to support Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land and most famous for their support for crusading, the Military Religious Orders' activities and interests stretched far beyond the frontiers of Christendom. Representing some of the most recent advances in research, in this volume eleven scholars from Europe and North America explore important and hitherto under-researched aspects of the Orders' history, scrutinising their relations with the papacy, their organisational structure, their devotional practices, their fortresses and their presence in the localities of Western Europe. Particular attention is given to the Templars' trial of 1307-12 and the question of how the surviving Orders reorganised themselves after the loss of the kingdom of Jerusalem in 1291. The majority of the papers consider the leading Military Orders, the Hospitallers and Templars, but there are also studies of the Orders of Mountjoy and of St Lazarus, showing how they adapted their activities to local requirements. These studies reflect the vitality of current scholarship on the Military Religious Orders.