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Serpent in the Garden

Author : James A. Cates
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421438739
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Serpent in the Garden written by James A. Cates and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to examine the complexity of sexual identity, philosophy, and behavior in Amish culture. The Amish offer a startling contrast to the postmodern view of sexuality and gender roles. After the sexual revolution of the 1960s, mainstream American culture never looked back. Meanwhile, the Amish never looked forward. In twenty-first-century Amish communities, heteronormative sexuality is still based on a unifying principle: an understanding of sexuality as emerging from a divine plan. In the eyes of the Amish, sex is squandered by those who embrace it as hedonistic or who carve out a sexual identity that moves them away from that singular, God-given purpose. But this communal emphasis on sex for procreation does not mean that the Amish do not possess a complex range of sexual identities and opinions. In Serpent in the Garden, clinical psychologist James A. Cates breaks new ground in the study of Amish sexuality by examining this shrouded, rarely discussed subject. The first book to bring Amish sexuality into primary focus, this volume argues that, because the Amish are a sexual minority, queer theory is the ideal framework from which to observe their views on sex, sexuality, and gender. The book offers a broad view of sexuality in Amish culture that includes the challenges that gays and lesbians face in the community, as well as an exploration of Amish gender roles, their views toward intimacy, their responses to cases of child sexual abuse, and the role of fetishes among the Amish. Cates draws from multiple perspectives and years of research on the Amish themselves. He also looks at pushback against alternative behaviors or identities, as well as Amish success in keeping mainstream values at bay. With this book, Cates establishes Amish sexuality as a topic worthy of professional attention. Offering readers a more sophisticated understanding of the Amish and of sexual expression among cultures, Serpent in the Garden will appeal to scholars working on gender and sexuality, the Amish, and social service professionals who serve the Amish community.

The Serpent Garden

Author : Judith Merkle Riley
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307395367
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Serpent Garden written by Judith Merkle Riley and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the court of Henry VIII, there are many secrets—and some people will kill to keep them hidden.Susanna Dallet is the daughter of a Flemish painter and wife to a philandering husband, living in the court of Henry VIII. When her husband is murdered, Susanna is suddenly left with a household to provide for and nothing to her name. Her days of anonymity are over when Susanna finds that guild rules preventing women from working do not apply at the king’s court, and she manages to secure a position as a miniature-portrait painter. Before long, she has not only made a name for herself, she is close to those who surround Princess Mary. But even in this lofty company, Susanna is not safe. An old manuscript that she has inherited turns out to hold the keys to an age-old mystery, and the forces that claimed her husband are closing in. As danger looms, Susanna joins with Robert Ashton, secretary to Henry’s cunning and ruthless adviser Archbishop Wolsey, and together they must fight a fearsome society in league with a demon.Combining heartpounding action, sly humor, romance, and supernatural twists, The Serpent Garden is the story of a creative and resourceful woman who unwittingly finds herself in a dangerous—and deadly—game of hide-and-seek.

The Snake in the Garden

Author : Deborah Hand-Cutler
Publisher : Black Horse Press
ISBN 13 : 9781736516515
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Snake in the Garden written by Deborah Hand-Cutler and published by Black Horse Press. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Snake in the Garden is an explosive depiction of racism in twentieth-century Arkansas, seen through the lens of interracial relationships over four generations. Starting in 1926, and paying homage to Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby," the story moves to the turbulent night of the Kennedy assassination in 1963, the Hollywood music scene of the 1970s and '80s, and the still-troubled racial attitudes of 1993. Written by two women, one Black, one white, the novel depicts racism from the point of view of both Blacks and whites - racists, non-racists and victims, alike. The setting is the fictional town of Jefferson Springs, Arkansas, during the Jim Crow era. Lucille Day, a Black woman, worked as a domestic for the family of judge Reuben Whittier in the 1950s and early '60s. Her children, Regina and Clarence, were forbidden to be friends with the judge's daughter, Karen. In 1963, when Regina, Clarence and Karen were teenagers, bigotry prevailed, and it was illegal for Blacks and whites to have relationships or marry. The night President Kennedy was assassinated, three days after a stopover in town, all hell broke loose in Jefferson Springs, with tragic results, including a lynching. Clarence was jailed, and Regina was exiled to California to live with her Aunt Violet. There, she won a singing contest and became a pop star. Karen, meanwhile, was forced to stay home under the cruel thumb of her father. She longed for a true father-daughter bond, but in his eyes, she could do no right. She consoled herself in her boring and barren life with chocolate and English romance novels. Regina had vowed never to return to Arkansas. But when her mother died, she knew she had to attend the funeral. She dreaded going back where she had felt nothing but humiliation, anger and fear. Can the two women now unite to uncover the truth about their families, and finally make things right for Clarence? The Snake in the Garden is a powerful story of transcendence over scars of the past, and the healing that can come when the truth is finally faced.

The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden

Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691175004
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden written by Harriet I. Flower and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. These shrines were maintained primarily by ordinary Romans, and often by slaves and freedmen, for whom the lares cult provided a unique public leadership role. In this comprehensive and richly illustrated book, the first to focus on the lares, Harriet Flower offers a strikingly original account of these gods and a new way of understanding the lived experience of everyday Roman religion. Weaving together a wide range of evidence, Flower sets forth a new interpretation of the much-disputed nature of the lares. She makes the case that they are not spirits of the dead, as many have argued, but rather benevolent protectors—gods of place, especially the household and the neighborhood, and of travel. She examines the rituals honoring the lares, their cult sites, and their iconography, as well as the meaning of the snakes often depicted alongside lares in paintings of gardens. She also looks at Compitalia, a popular midwinter neighborhood festival in honor of the lares, and describes how its politics played a key role in Rome’s increasing violence in the 60s and 50s BC, as well as in the efforts of Augustus to reach out to ordinary people living in the city’s local neighborhoods. A reconsideration of seemingly humble gods that were central to the religious world of the Romans, this is also the first major account of the full range of lares worship in the homes, neighborhoods, and temples of ancient Rome.

The Garden and the Serpent

Author : Ted Dekker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996812481
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Garden and the Serpent written by Ted Dekker and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continued adventure of Theo as he completes the quest fo find the Five Seals of Truth. The third book in a series of four.

The Serpent in Today's Garden

Author : Kevin Powell
Publisher : Victory Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780881443790
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book The Serpent in Today's Garden written by Kevin Powell and published by Victory Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a very real account of how God speaks to his people in a variety of ways through the Holy Spirit in dreams, visions, visitations, prophetic word, and through the Holy Bible, these methods are meant for an impartation to those he has graphed in through his only begotten Son, Jesus revealing to us what is happening (in the spiritual realm, pre-existent knowledge through his all-knowing supreme power) in the world we live in, and other events that will soon come to past. The Lord Jesus Christ is not to be taken in any light sense of his being, for he ever intercedes for our most precious souls. Jesus desires for us to be attentive and aware of that old serpent (the Devil), that still rages in our society, he is on the prowl, searching, and seeking, out for the blood of God's innocent children (innocent blood), throughout this whole world, the devourer lurks about, that's what he does, an opportunist ready to move in to kill, steal, and destroy, wherever the circumstances might arise. By advantage, caused by the rejection of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God that was slain from the foundation of the world, he will continue to destroy many. The battle rages on, take up the sword of truth, victory is ours. The anti-venom is the blood of Jesus, he is life, and he dissolves the works of the serpent. Don't get bit!

Holy Bible (NIV)

Author : Various Authors,
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310294142
Total Pages : 6637 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Holy Bible (NIV) written by Various Authors, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 6637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.

Ask Gramps

Author : H. Clay Gorton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970800862
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Ask Gramps written by H. Clay Gorton and published by . This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions run the breadth of the Mormon experience, including doctrinal questions as well as questions about the LDS lifestyle.

There's a Snake in My Garden

Author : Jill Briscoe
Publisher : Monarch Books
ISBN 13 : 1854248391
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book There's a Snake in My Garden written by Jill Briscoe and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill Briscoe has struggled with her faith, battled discouragement, fought temptation, ministered to teenagers and senior citizens, raised three children, moved her family to a foreign land, and searched desperately for God's will. Out of these tough times she has forged her long speaking and writing ministry, with her hallmark candour and insight. She describes the trials of her life with wit and understanding, seeing them as an ongoing battle with the old snake. This new edition of her story brings the narrative right up to date and reflects the tremendous expansion of her international ministry now that she and Stuart have retired from the leadership of Elmbrook church in Wisconsin.

The Serpent Rising

Author : Mary Garden
Publisher : Mary Garden
ISBN 13 : 9781877059506
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book The Serpent Rising written by Mary Garden and published by Mary Garden. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first books to shine a light on the abuse and mind control that occurs in Indian ashrams (and other groups) where there are charismatic 'gurus' who claim to be enlightened and devotees who have a need to believe and to belong.

The Serpent in the Garden

Author : Janet Gleeson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416588515
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Serpent in the Garden written by Janet Gleeson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She opened the shagreen box. Couched in gray silk was an emerald necklace, one he had not seen for twenty years. The stones were just as he recalled them: a dozen or more, baguette cut and set in gold links, with a single ruby at the center. Flashes of verdigris, orpiment, and Prussian blue sparkled in the candlelight. The form of this necklace was as disturbing as ever. It had nearly cost him his life. It is the summer of 1765. The renowned and exquisitely dressed portrait painter Joshua Pope accepts a commission to paint the wedding portrait of Herbert Bentnick and his fiancée, Sabine Mercer, to whom Bentnick has become engaged less than a year after the death of his first wife. Joshua has barely begun the portrait when a man's body is found in the conservatory. A few days later, Sabine's emerald necklace disappears, and Bentnick accuses Joshua of theft. The painter is suddenly fighting not only for his reputation but for his life. With a sure understanding of period detail and character, Janet Gleeson creates a richly nuanced tale of greed and revenge that plays out in the refined landscapes and dark streets of eighteenth-century London.

The Good And Evil Serpent

Author : James H. Charlesworth
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300142730
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Good And Evil Serpent written by James H. Charlesworth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The serpent of ancient times was more often associated with positive attributes like healing and eternal life than it was with negative meanings. This groundbreaking book explores in plentiful detail the symbol of the serpent from 40,000 BCE to the present, and from diverse regions in the world. In doing so it emphasizes the creativity of the biblical authors' use of symbols and argues that we must today reexamine our own archetypal conceptions with comparable creativity.--From publisher description.

The Biggest Story

Author : Kevin DeYoung
Publisher : CROSSWAY BOOKS
ISBN 13 : 9781433542442
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Biggest Story written by Kevin DeYoung and published by CROSSWAY BOOKS. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring chapters that are short enough to be read in one sitting, this illustrated Bible story book imaginatively retells the biblical narrative in one continuous story, helping kids connect the dots from Genesis to Revelation.

Even Better than Eden

Author : Nancy Guthrie
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 143356128X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Even Better than Eden written by Nancy Guthrie and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God’s Story Will End Better than It Began . . . Experienced Bible teacher Nancy Guthrie traces 9 themes throughout the Bible, revealing how God’s plan for the new creation will be far more glorious than the original. But this new creation glory isn’t just reserved for the future. The hope of God’s plan for his people transforms everything about our lives today.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Chapel Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God written by Jonathan Edwards and published by Chapel Library. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preached at Enfield, Connecticut on July 8, 1741, this is perhaps the greatest sermon ever preached in America—and is certainly among the most well known. Owing to its forthright dealing with God’s wrath and His intense hatred of sin and the sinner, it is also one of the most controversial. Indeed, for more than three-quarters of the sermon Edwards lays down a relentless stream of the most vivid and horrifying descriptions of the danger facing unregenerate men. While it is difficult to read such graphic language, there is abundant hope in the sermon’s conclusion. Edwards puts it this way, “And now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherein Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open and stands calling and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners.” While those who would rather ignore God’s justice in favor of His mercy condemn Edwards and his sermon, those who were present and actually heard him preach that day reacted in a decidedly different manner. According to the diary of Reverend Stephen Williams who attended the sermon, “Before the sermon was done there was a great moaning and crying through the whole House, ‘what shall I do to be saved; oh, I am going to hell, etc.’” The diary goes on to indicate that Edwards had to interrupt his sermon and come down to minister to those who were under such awful conviction. And so, in spite of what the scoffers might think or say, “the amazing and astonishing power of God” was manifested among the people that day—with many falling not into the hands of an angry God, but into the arms of a mighty Savior.

What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?

Author : Ziony Zevit
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300195338
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden? written by Ziony Zevit and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative new interpretation of the Adam and Eve story from an expert in Biblical literature. The Garden of Eden story, one of the most famous narratives in Western history, is typically read as an ancient account of original sin and humanity’s fall from divine grace. In this highly innovative study, Ziony Zevit argues that this is not how ancient Israelites understood the early biblical text. Drawing on such diverse disciplines as biblical studies, geography, archaeology, mythology, anthropology, biology, poetics, law, linguistics, and literary theory, he clarifies the worldview of the ancient Israelite readers during the First Temple period and elucidates what the story likely meant in its original context. Most provocatively, he contends that our ideas about original sin are based upon misconceptions originating in the Second Temple period under the influence of Hellenism. He shows how, for ancient Israelites, the story was really about how humans achieved ethical discernment. He argues further that Adam was not made from dust and that Eve was not made from Adam’s rib. His study unsettles much of what has been taken for granted about the story for more than two millennia—and has far-reaching implications for both literary and theological interpreters. “Classical Hebrew in the hands of Ziony Zevit is like a cello in the hands of a master cellist. He knows all the hidden subtleties of the instrument, and he makes you hear them in this rendition of the profoundly simple story of Adam, Eve, the Serpent, and their Creator in the Garden of Eden. Zevit brings a great deal of other biblical learning to bear in a surprisingly light-hearted book.”―Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography

The Garden

Author : Elsie Aidinoff
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 9781909531574
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Garden written by Elsie Aidinoff and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the book opens Eve, who is the narrator ,is just coming into consciousness. She has been given by God to the Serpent to raise. Her sense of wonder as the Serpent introduces her to life in Paradise is a strength of the book; she learns about nature, love and the way that the new and fascinating world works. When she comes into contact with God - who rears Adam - she is wary of his dominance and egotism.One day, becoming impatient to discover whether or not he`s designed the male and female to procreate properly, God rushes Adam and Eve into intercourse.The Serpent alone regcognizes the consequences of God`s act. `Until today Eve has felt...that the world was good...' but ' Adam as good as raped her.' Eve is devastated by the experience.Eve leaves the Garden to gain some distance from God and to discover what exists in the outside world; the Serpent accompanies her. They make several journeys - one to a volcano, one to a desert, one to a mountain range and one to the sea (where Eve swims out to sea against the instructions of the Serpent and nearly drowns.) On their return to the Garden, the roots of the apple tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil begin to grow; the Serpent sensing that time is running out to teach Eve that love making is good, changes into a man and makes love to her with great sensitivity. After this she is prepared to accept her role as the mother of humankind.God is outraged by Eve's - and also Adams's - interest in the tree of knowledge. He is at his capricious worst: everything must bow to his wishes. They realise that if they are to have any freedom of will they must leave God and the garden . The Serpent warns them that this will involve future suffering but Eve feels she must develop and be her own person.They go forth...