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Book Synopsis Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel by : Heath D. Dewrell
Download or read book Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel written by Heath D. Dewrell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many religious acts condemned in the Hebrew Bible, child sacrifice stands out as particularly horrifying. The idea that any group of people would willingly sacrifice their own children to their god(s) is so contrary to modern moral sensibilities that it is difficult to imagine that such a practice could have ever existed. Nonetheless, the existence of biblical condemnation of these rites attests to the fact that some ancient Israelites in fact did sacrifice their children. Indeed, a close reading of the evidence—biblical, archaeological, epigraphic, etc.—indicates that there are at least three different types of Israelite child sacrifice, each with its own history, purpose, and function. In addition to examining the historical reality of Israelite child sacrifice, Dewrell’s study also explores the biblical rhetoric condemning the practice. While nearly every tradition preserved in the Hebrew Bible rejects child sacrifice as abominable to Yahweh, the rhetorical strategies employed by the biblical writers vary to a surprising degree. Thus, even in arguing against the practice of child sacrifice, the biblical writers themselves often disagreed concerning why Yahweh condemned the rites and why they came to exist in the first place.
Book Synopsis Sacrifices of Mo's Supporters by : Wen Li
Download or read book Sacrifices of Mo's Supporters written by Wen Li and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 1403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the Warring States Period, the Qin Kingdom began to become more and more powerful after the Shang Martingale Change Method was adopted. After the internal strife of Lao Ai and Lu Buwei, the First Emperor, Ying Zheng, appointed Li Si as the prime minister, and Wang Jian and Huan Gonggong as the grand generals. This action infuriated all the people in the world. Some of them raised their hands to fight back, and the most powerful force was the Mo family. Since the Mo family had always followed the strategy of "loving each other but attacking each other", the world's righteous scholars all responded, and those who responded threw life and death away, and the people of the martial world all revered them as "ink people". Faced with the pressure of the Blizzard Qin, could the Mo family turn the tide? This was how a life-and-death duel would begin? [Previous Chapter] [Table of Contents] [Next Chapter]
Book Synopsis Senior Sacrifices by : Cassie Hargrove
Download or read book Senior Sacrifices written by Cassie Hargrove and published by Cassie Hargrove. This book was released on 2022-04-02 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love. Family. Forever. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. A surprise attack has left us weakened when we’re supposed to be at our strongest. I’m not even sure our family can survive, let alone win the battle. Not like this. I wasn’t aware a pain like this existed. The pain of losing someone I love is worse than I could have imagined, and it wasn’t supposed to happen. I feel like I can’t breathe without him. But the angels need to pay for their sins, for the wrongs they’ve done. They won’t get away with this. We will do whatever it takes to end this once and for all. ** Connerton Academy is a college aged reverse harem romance where the FMC end up with 3 or more men. It contains dark elements and mature subject matter. Readers should be 18+. ** *** Previously published as a high school aged romance, and has since been reworked and edited, but the storyline remains largely the same. ***
Download or read book Blood Sacrifice written by Dong FangBuBai and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I can cover the sun and the moon with my heart! The color of the mountains and rivers changed! The Heavens had no eyes, but they were able to defy the heavens and turn into a demon! The heaven and earth were moved! Blood flowed like a river, washing away the muddy water! The universe was turned upside down! Close]
Download or read book The Yale Literary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dark Longing written by Cassie Hargrove and published by Cassie Hargrove. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is meant to be lived, and I’ll be damned if I live it with regret. I prefer to thrive on the chaotic energy that thrums through my veins. The pure adrenaline rush I get when things excite me. And what excites me now is my new boss, Devlin. His obsession with me is clear from the moment we meet, and I can feel his eyes on me all the time. I hope he’s ready for me, because I’m about to give him one hell of a ride. Buckle up, Dev. You’ve met your match. ** Dark Longing is the second book in the standalone Dark Series. It follows Shelby and Devlin as they “watch” one another obsessively. It contains BDSM, stalking, and high heat. **
Book Synopsis New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society by : Vera Tiesler
Download or read book New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society written by Vera Tiesler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. The editors bring together an international group of contributors from the area studied: archaeologists as well as anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, art historians and bioarchaeologists. This interdisciplinary approach provides a comprehensive perspective on these sites as well as the material culture and biological evidence found there
Book Synopsis A Tract on Sacrifice (Yajnasudhānidhi) by : Ferdinand Kittel
Download or read book A Tract on Sacrifice (Yajnasudhānidhi) written by Ferdinand Kittel and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shared Sacrifice written by Gary Barkley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's core principles are being destroyed in the name of the Global War on Terror. Fear is our government's weapon of choice in this war-and it is being used against the American people. We have an out of control and cowardly government determined to undermine everything that generations of Americans have fought and died for. It is time for all Americans to band together to retake our country. Politicians need to be taught the lesson that We the People are really in charge here. Liberty requires sacrifice, and every American needs to stand up and be heard to force our government to recognize our commitment to liberty and the rule of law. Anyone interested in prying the American homeland from the stranglehold of corporate greed and political corruption will find this book informative and entertaining. If we can come together as a country, we can solve every problem that arises, natural or man-made; and defeat any enemy, foreign or domestic. We can do this, but it will take all of us working together. We're supposed to be the good guys. We are the good guys. It's time we start acting like it again.
Book Synopsis Offerings, Sacrifices and Worship in the Old Testament by : Johann Heinrich Kurtz
Download or read book Offerings, Sacrifices and Worship in the Old Testament written by Johann Heinrich Kurtz and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offerings, Sacrifices and Worship in the Old Testament is a comprehensive study of the sacrificial offerings and worship prescribed by God in the Old Testament. The author, from an evangelical perspective, analyzes the exacting details of the various Old Testament sacrifices.
Book Synopsis Kingship and Sacrifice by : Valerio Valeri
Download or read book Kingship and Sacrifice written by Valerio Valeri and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-06-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawaiian society—and a central focus for Valeri—is the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society. By interpreting and understanding this ritual cycle, Valeri contends, we can interpret all of Hawaiian religious culture.
Book Synopsis The Development of Economics by : William Amasa Scott
Download or read book The Development of Economics written by William Amasa Scott and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Science of Sacrifice by : Susan L. Mizruchi
Download or read book The Science of Sacrifice written by Susan L. Mizruchi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-04 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. In a compelling interdisciplinary investigation, Susan Mizruchi portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality. This is a book about the fascination that sacrifice held for writers--principally Herman Melville, Henry James, and W.E.B. Du Bois--and also for those who articulated the main tenets of modern social theory, an inquiry that eventually spans historical events such as public lynchings and the political scapegoating of immigrants a century ago. The execution in Billy Budd Sailor, the death of Du Bois's first-born son in The Souls of Black Folk, Henry James's preoccupation with renunciation and scapegoating, and the self-denying working classes of Norris and Stein all illustrate repeated stagings of sacrificial rituals from a Biblical past. For Mizruchi, the peculiar persistence of this aesthetic construct becomes a guide to a rich theological and social-scientific tradition distinctive to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and including such influential works as Smith's Lectures on the Religion of the Semites, Frazer's Golden Bough, and Ross's Sin and Society. The major features of sacrifice--its original association with spiritual doubt, its function as a form of spiritual economics that sustained divisions between the fortunate and the bereft, and its role in fixing boundaries between aliens and kin--held strong symbolic value for writers struggling to reconcile faith with rationalism, and communal coherence with capitalist expansion. Mizruchi eloquently demonstrates how the conceptual power of sacrifice made it a key mediator of cultural change, from the decline of sympathy and the significance of "race" in an emerging multicultural society to the revival of maternal self-sacrifice.
Book Synopsis The Sacrifice and Other Stories by : R. A. Campbell
Download or read book The Sacrifice and Other Stories written by R. A. Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology that includes eight stories. Each story contains elements of science fiction, fantasy, and/or the supernatural.
Book Synopsis Ponniyin Selvan - The Supreme Sacrifice Part 5 by : Varalotti Rengasamy
Download or read book Ponniyin Selvan - The Supreme Sacrifice Part 5 written by Varalotti Rengasamy and published by Pustaka Digital Media. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I started translating Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan in 2010, blissfully unaware of the depth and the magnitude of the work, several people tried to dissuade me. One potential publisher even lured me with an offer to translate another work of Kalki. Reason: there were already many translations around. Yes, there were. But most of them, though done with utmost sincerity, failed to create the emotional bond with the readers which the original author had effortlessly done in the Fifties when Ponniyin Selvan was serialised in a popular magazine. I did not rush up. I did not have a target or deadline. I let the translation work progress in its own pace. That explains the six long years I spent for this project. I read and re-read the first draft a dozen times before handing it over to my editors. There were many points of contention. There were issues where we could not reach a consensus easily. Finally the hard copy was ready for publication in 2016. The publisher had jitters and so did I. We got ready rough copies of two volumes. I gave it to two of my friends, who had read the original more than sixty times, with a mandate to read them in one go. They did and said “This is the best you can do in English.” The work culminated not when the book was released by a former Central Minister in 2016, not even when it went for three editions but when an ardent fan of Kalki sent a mail to me in 2019. “It was as if Kalki himself rendered his great work in English.”
Book Synopsis The Bond of Sacrifice by : Lewis Augustus Clutterbuck
Download or read book The Bond of Sacrifice written by Lewis Augustus Clutterbuck and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mimesis and Sacrifice by : Marcia Pally
Download or read book Mimesis and Sacrifice written by Marcia Pally and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to identity, personal responsibility, economic systems, theology, and the political and military imaginaries, the practice of sacrifice has inspired, disturbed, and abused. Mimesis and Sacrifice brings together scholars from the humanities, military, business, and social sciences to examine the role that sacrifice plays in different present-day settings, from economics to gender relations. Inspired by Rene Girard's work, chapters explore (i) the extent to which the social character of human living makes us mimetic, (ii) whether mimesis necessarily leads to competitive aggression, (iii) whether aggression must be defused by aggressive sacrificial rituals-and whether all sacrifice has this aim, and (iv) the role of the “second lesson of the cross” (as Girard called it), the lesson of self-giving for others, in addressing present societal problems. By investigating sacrifice across this span of arenas and questions yet within one volume, Mimesis and Sacrifice presents a new appreciation of its influence and consequences in the world today, contributing not only to mimetic theory but to greater understanding of which societal arrangement enable us to live well together and what hobbles that goal.
