A Dangerous Parting

Author : NATHAN L. SHEDD
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ISBN 13 : 9781481315227
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dangerous Parting written by NATHAN L. SHEDD and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Execution by beheading is a highly symbolic act. The grisly image of the severed head evokes a particular social and cultural location, functioning as a channel of figurative discourse specific to a place and time--dissuading nonideal behavior as well as expressing and reinforcing group boundary demarcations and ideological assumptions. In short, a bodiless head serves as a discursive vehicle of communication: though silenced, it speaks. Employing social memory theory and insights from a thorough analysis of ancient ideology concerning beheading, A Dangerous Parting explores the communicative impact of the tradition of John the Baptist's decapitation in the first three centuries of the Common Era. Nathan Shedd argues that the early memory of the Immerser's death is characterized by a dangerous synchroneity. On the one hand, John's beheading, associated as it was with Jesus' crucifixion, served as the locus of destabilizing and redistributing the degradation of a victim who undergoes bodily violence; both John and Jesus were mutually vindicated as victims of somatic violence. On the other hand, as John's head was remembered in the second and third century, localized expressions of the Parting of the Ways were inscribed onto that parted head with dangerous anti-Jewish implications. Justin Martyr and Origen represent an attempt to align John's beheading and Jesus' crucifixion along a cultural schematic that asserted the destitution of non-Christ-following Jews and, simultaneously, alleged Christians' ethical, ideological, and spiritual supremacy. A Dangerous Parting uncovers interpretive possibilities of John's beheading, especially regarding the deep-rooted patterns of thinking that have animated indifference to acts of physical violence against Jews throughout history. With this work, Shedd not only pushes John the Baptist research forward to consider the impact of this figure in early expressions of Jewish and Christian distinction, but also urges scholars and students alike to contemplate the ethics of reading ancient texts.

Author : Jonathan Stone
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429909277
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parting Shot written by Jonathan Stone and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local television reporter Sam Stevens is consumed by his failing marriage and, more than that, by the psychological harm his wife is doing to their ten-year-old son. As Sam covers a once-in-a-lifetime story---one that has turned Webster County into bedlam but is at last providing Sam with an opportunity for media stardom---he suddenly sees an even better chance: to solve his personal problems forever. But there’s another player thrust into the national spotlight along with Sam: It’s Sheriff Billy Wyatt, who’s in way over his head. The FBI is breathing down his neck, and the national press highlights his every bungle. He’s confronting a madman---and his own limits. Can he outsmart either? Out of elements that thriller readers have come to expect, Jonathan Stone has woven a story they assuredly will not expect. In whirlwind action and hurricane prose that echo the best of James Patterson and Harlan Coben, Stone is in top form here, delivering a tale about the unchecked power of the media and the unreasonable passions of fatherhood---with a payoff that will stun and startle, yet make perfect sense. Parting Shot is a shot of adrenaline. It’s a bullet that rotates wildly till it finds its target---deep in the reader’s imagination. It’s the latest work from a writer whose fiction Ian Rankin has hailed as “prime entertainment” and T. Jefferson Parker has called “clever, bold, and a little nasty.”

Author : Fliss Chester
Publisher : Bookouture
ISBN 13 : 9781838886448
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dangerous Goodbye written by Fliss Chester and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your lost love never came home after the war. Would you risk everything to find out what happened to him? 1944. While war rages in Europe, Fenella Churche is doing her bit in the green fields of England. But when she finds a letter addressed to her on the scrubbed farmhouse table, she knows the news won't be good. She hasn't heard from her fiancé Arthur since he was posted to France on a dangerous undercover mission, and from his very first words she knows he may not be coming back. I fear this may be my last letter to you, my darling, Arthur writes. Fen won't give up hope and calls the war office, wanting to know if Arthur is still alive; they refuse to tell her anything. Searching for answers, she returns to his letter, but parts of it just don't make sense. Through her tears Fen realises that her darling Arthur is giving her all the clues she needs to find out what happened to him. 1945. With the war behind them and nothing left for her in England, Fen travels to the deceptively pretty French village where she thinks Arthur might be, but there's no sign of him. She's close to giving up when she finds his silver cigarette case and another letter full of clues. But when the local priest is killed, it's clear someone wants to keep wartime secrets buried. If Arthur, a brilliant spy, was outwitted and betrayed, can Fen stay alive long enough to find out what happened to the man she loves? A gripping story of war, mystery, espionage and murder. Fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd and Rhys Bowen will absolutely adore this unputdownable World War Two murder mystery.

Author : Lorraine Heath
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062046578
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parting Gifts written by Lorraine Heath and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USA Today–bestselling author delivers a poignant historical romance of a desperate woman, a lonely cowboy, and the never-ending search for hope. RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Americana RITA Finalist for Best Short Historical Booklovers’ Award for Bestselling Americana Marrying Maddie Sherwood, a woman who works in a brothel in order to survive, widower Charles Lawson hopes to provide his three children with a loving mother—until his terminal illness causes him to arrange a match between Maddie and his brother. Praise for Lorraine Heath “Lorraine Heath’s books are always magic.” —Cathy Maxwell, New York Times–bestselling author “Heath is known for her beautiful, deeply emotional romances.” —The Washington Post “A powerful writer.” —Atlanta Journal & Constitution

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Parting Gift. [A verse anthology.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Thornton
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307419681
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous to Hold written by Elizabeth Thornton and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Once again, Elizabeth Thornton has taken the perfect ingredients—tight plotting, strong conflict, and smooth characters, and sewn them into a seamless romp!”—Literary Times Searching for his missing wife but finding instead her look-alike, fiery-tempered Catherine Courtnay, Marcus Lytton, the Earl of Wrotham, asks Catherine Courtnay to pose as his wife in order to help his investigation. “A major, major talent . . . a genre superstar.”—Rave Reviews

Author : Lily Spender
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parted Lives written by Lily Spender and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Washington Public Service Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.0J/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Public Service Commission of Washington to the Governor written by Washington Public Service Commission and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Washington (State).
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1310 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Washington Public Documents written by Washington (State). and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Public Service Commission of Washington
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report written by Public Service Commission of Washington and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: