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The Ladder of Jacob

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Author : James L. Kugel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400827019
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Ladder of Jacob written by James L. Kugel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rife with incest, adultery, rape, and murder, the biblical story of Jacob and his children must have troubled ancient readers. By any standard, this was a family with problems. Jacob's oldest son Reuben is said to have slept with his father's concubine Bilhah. The next two sons, Simeon and Levi, tricked the men of a nearby city into undergoing circumcision, and then murdered all of them as revenge for the rape of their sister. Judah, the fourth son, had sexual relations with his own daughter-in-law. Meanwhile, jealous of their younger sibling Joseph, the brothers conspired to kill him; they later relented and merely sold him into slavery. These stories presented a particular challenge for ancient biblical interpreters. After all, Jacob's sons were the founders of the nation of Israel and ought to have been models of virtue. In The Ladder of Jacob, renowned biblical scholar James Kugel retraces the steps of ancient biblical interpreters as they struggled with such problems. Kugel reveals how they often fixed on a little detail in the Bible's wording to "deduce" something not openly stated in the narrative. They concluded that Simeon and Levi were justified in killing all the men in a town to avenge the rape of their sister, and that Judah, who slept with his daughter-in-law, was the unfortunate victim of alcoholism. These are among the earliest examples of ancient biblical interpretation (midrash). They are found in retellings of biblical stories that appeared in the closing centuries BCE--in the Book of Jubilees, the Aramaic Levi Document, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and other noncanonical works. Through careful analysis of these retellings, Kugel is able to reconstruct how ancient interpreters worked. The Ladder of Jacob is an artful, compelling account of the very beginnings of biblical interpretation.

The Jacob Ladder

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Author : Gerald Hausman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780439471633
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book The Jacob Ladder written by Gerald Hausman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack the B. April/03.

The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament

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Author : Montague Rhodes James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament written by Montague Rhodes James and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jacob's Ladder

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Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681492733
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Ladder written by Peter Kreeft and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are ten important questions everyone should ask; ; and the answers to these questions, which lead to ultimate ; truth, are a matter of reason, not of faith. Well-known Catholic philosopher and writer Peter ; Kreeft tackles each of these questions in a logical ; step-by-step way, like climbing the rungs of a ladder. ; Because questions are best answered by dialogue, Kreeft ; answers these fundamental questions in an imaginary ; conversation between two very different people who meet at ; the beach. Kreeft's characters begin at the ; beginning, at the bottom of the ladder, which is the ; passion for truth. When it comes to the most important ; questions a person can ask, no mere interest in ; philosophical dabbling will do. The passion for truth does ; not stop there, however, but carries the reader from one ; page to the next in this thought-provoking adventure of the ; mind. Among the topics, or "steps", that ; Kreeft's characters delve into include: Do you ; have the passion to know? Does truth ; exist? What is the meaning of life? What ; is love, and why is it so important for our ; lives? If there is a God, what proof is there for ; his existence? Has God revealed himself to us in a ; personal way? And many other important ; questions and topics to help climb the ladder to the truth ; about life.

Jacob's Ladder

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Author : Bruce Joel Rubin
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557830869
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Ladder written by Bruce Joel Rubin and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). From the hit movie directed by Adrian Lyne, this is the original script with over 100 photos. From Rubin's introduction: The script presented here is not my initial screenplay but the final draft completed just before shooting. While close to the original, some significant scenes have been changed or cut. You will find them in the final chapter.

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Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374715904
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Ladder written by Ludmila Ulitskaya and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Russia’s most renowned literary figures and a Man Booker International Prize nominee, Ludmila Ulitskaya presents what may be her final novel. Jacob’s Ladder is a family saga spanning a century of recent Russian history—and represents the summation of the author’s career, devoted to sharing the absurd and tragic tales of twentieth-century life in her nation. Jumping between the diaries and letters of Jacob Ossetsky in Kiev in the early 1900s and the experiences of his granddaughter Nora in the theatrical world of Moscow in the 1970s and beyond, Jacob’s Ladder guides the reader through some of the most turbulent times in the history of Russia and Ukraine, and draws suggestive parallels between historical events of the early twentieth century and those of more recent memory. Spanning the seeming promise of the prerevolutionary years, to the dark Stalinist era, to the corruption and confusion of the present day, Jacob’s Ladder is a pageant of romance, betrayal, and memory. With a scale worthy of Tolstoy, it asks how much control any of us have over our lives—and how much is in fact determined by history, by chance, or indeed by the genes passed down by the generations that have preceded us into the world.

Climbing Jacob's Ladder

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Author : Alan Morinis
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834826054
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Climbing Jacob's Ladder written by Alan Morinis and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish by birth, though from a secular family, Alan Morinis explored Hinduism and Buddhism as a young man. But in 1997, in the face of personal crisis, he turned to his Jewish heritage for guidance. In his reading he happened upon a Jewish spiritual tradition called Mussar. Gradually he realized that he had stumbled upon an insightful discipline for self-development, complete with meditative, contemplative, and other well-developed transformative practices designed to penetrate the deepest roots of the inner life. Eventually reaching the limits of what he could learn on his own, he decided to seek out a Mussar teacher. This was not an easy task, since almost the entire world of the Mussar tradition had been wiped out in the Holocaust. In time, he found an accomplished master who stood in an unbroken line of transmission of the Mussar tradition, and who lived in the center of a community of Orthodox Jews on Long Island. This book tells the story of Morinis’s journey to meet his teacher and what he learned from him, revealing the central teachings and practices that are the spiritual treasury and legacy of Mussar. To learn more about the author, Alan Morinis, go to www.mussarinstitute.org.

Jacob's Ladder

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Author : Brian Keaney
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1408315335
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Ladder written by Brian Keaney and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy wakes up in the middle of a field. He cannot remember how he came to be there or even who he truly is. All he knows for certain is his name, Jacob. This is the story of a journey through fear towards hope, a choice between a past you cannot remember and a future you cannot predict.

Jacob's Ladder

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Author : Michael Ashcroft
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785905317
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Ladder written by Michael Ashcroft and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Rees-Mogg is one of the most prominent and controversial figures in contemporary British politics. He is a man who divides opinion in his own party, in Parliament and across the country. An arch-Brexiteer with significant business interests and a large personal fortune, he has long been a vocal critic of the European Union and of Prime Minister Theresa May's attempts to negotiate a Brexit deal. As chairman of the powerful anti-EU organisation the European Research Group, he has also been a thorn in the side of those seeking to dilute Brexit. While many people mock him for his impeccable manners and traditional attitudes – he has been dubbed 'the Honourable Member for the eighteenth century' – an equally great number applaud him for his apparent conviction politics. Undoubtedly, Rees-Mogg stands out among the current crop of MPs and his growing influence cannot be ignored. In this wide-ranging unauthorised biography of the Conservative Member of Parliament for North East Somerset, Michael Ashcroft, bestselling author of Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron, turns his attention to one of the most intriguing politicians of our time.

Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War

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Author : Donald McCaig
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393347575
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War written by Donald McCaig and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction A civil war saga that resonates with the bitter glory and human shame of the Confederacy. Jacob’s Ladder is a Civil War epic, a love story that pits the indomitable longing of the human heart against circumstances of racism, slavery, and war. Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to the Gatewood plantation, falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who conceives a son, Jacob. Maggie and Jacob are sold south, and Duncan is packed off to the Virginia Military Institute. As Duncan fights for Robert E. Lee, Jesse—a Gatewood slave whose love for Maggie is unrequited—escapes north and enlists in Lincoln’s army, determined to confront his former masters, while Maggie finds herself living a life she never could have imagined as the wife of a blockade runner. From the interlocked lives of masters and slaves, Donald McCaig conjures a passionate and richly textured story in the heart of America’s greatest war. The destiny of these three compelling characters connect a Vicksburg brothel to a Richmond salon, the nightmare of a Confederate hospital to the lurid hell of battlefields at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Winner of the John Eston Cook Award Winner of the Boyd Military Novel Award

The Yearling

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Author : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442441003
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Yearling written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American classic—and Pulitzer Prize–winning story—that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet. No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend. There has been a film and even a musical based on this moving story, a fine work of great American literature.

The Jacob's Ladder

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (926 download)

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Climbing Jacob's Ladder

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Author : John Langstaff
Publisher : Heroes of the Bible in African
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Climbing Jacob's Ladder written by John Langstaff and published by Heroes of the Bible in African. This book was released on 1991-09-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of black spirituals about Old Testament heroes.

Jacob's Ladder : a novel

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Author : John Alfred Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)

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Author : Noah BenShea
Publisher : Villard Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Ladder written by Noah BenShea and published by Villard Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heartwarming and inspirational tale is the third in the bestselling "Jacob the Baker" series. Jacob, the world's most popular and beloved baker, takes in a young orphan named Jonah as a favor to an old friend. Through this sometimes difficult and always enlightening process of surrogate parenthood, Jacob learns a valuable lesson in love.

Ascending Jacob's Ladder

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Author : Ronald H. Isaacs
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780765759658
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Ascending Jacob's Ladder written by Ronald H. Isaacs and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish view of Satan - which greatly differs from the "devil" image that pervades Western culture, fallen angels, demons, the Angel of Death, spirits, and evil forces, are also explained. A handy "Who's Who" directory provides a quick reference to the most well-known and often quoted angels and demons in Jewish tradition.

The Mysterious Ladder; Or, Jacob's Dream, Interpreted and Explained, Etc. [By John Clowes.]

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Author : John CLOWES
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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