Encounters In The Dark

Author : Noel Forlini Burt
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884144607
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encounters in the Dark written by Noel Forlini Burt and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary study of a familiar patriarchal narrative Encounters in the Dark: Identity Formation in the Jacob Story traces the many moments of darkness in the life of Jacob. From the darkness of his mother's womb, to the darkness Jacob uses to deceive his father and his brother, to the night he sleeps on the ground with just a stone for a pillow at Bethel, and to the triumphant scene of wrestling God by the Jabbok River, the biblical story frequently situates Jacob in the darkness. Through an exploration of key moments in Jacob's story, Noel Forlini Burt follows Jacob's journey from home to exile and back home again. His story symbolizes the larger story of Israel's own wrestling with God in the darkness of exile and return. Features An exploration of the poetics and rhetoric of the Jacob story An examination of characterization in its ancient and modern contexts An analysis of individual and collective identity

Author : William Croft Dickinson
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0857909509
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Encounters written by William Croft Dickinson and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of suspense for the twilight hour... Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity – often referring to real events, objects and people. From a demonic text that leaves its readers strangled to the murderous spectre of a feudal baron, this is a crucial addition to the long and distinguished cannon of Scottish ghost stories. For those who seek out the unnerving, the unknown and the unexplainable, Dark Encounters is guaranteed to raise the hair on the back of your neck. This edition features a rare story – 'The MacGregor Skull' – which was the last story every written by the author and posthumously serialised in the Scotsman in 1963.

Author : Edgar Wollstone
Publisher : AJS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Encounters in Vietnam written by Edgar Wollstone and published by AJS. This book was released on with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the war years of 1954–1975 between the communist government of North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam, America invaded a pledging ally of South Vietnam, thus ending what was known as the American war in Vietnam. The Second Indochina War left a lasting legacy of extreme American brutality. The armed forces, along with the prison systems, punishments, modes of attack, and physical and psychological tortures, were inconceivable. Aside from that, the Vietnamese perception of ghosts is what gave Vietnam a place in the horror section. The proper interment of bodies and religious rites are the main foundations of Vietnamese folklore. The battle, though, devastated that. According to them, the improperly and unconventionally buried bodies have a large possibility of leaving their souls in the earth, which wanders through the connected places. This idea was also manipulated later by the U.S. army as their war strategy. In addition, many of the soldiers had many eerie encounters during that period, including ghosts, strange creatures, mishaps, and more. Apart from these strange encounters, what people have endured at the hands of humans has been intolerable, such as war strategies involving booby traps, tunnels, torture in prisons, and so on.

Author : Seyla Benhabib
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139491059
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics in Dark Times written by Seyla Benhabib and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding collection of essays explores Hannah Arendt's thought against the background of recent world-political events unfolding since September 11, 2001, and engages in a contentious dialogue with one of the greatest political thinkers of the past century, with the conviction that she remains one of our contemporaries. Themes such as moral and political equality, action, judgment and freedom are re-evaluated with fresh insights by a group of thinkers who are themselves well known for their original contributions to political thought. Other essays focus on novel and little-discussed themes in the literature by highlighting Arendt's views of sovereignty, international law and genocide, nuclear weapons and revolutions, imperialism and Eurocentrism, and her contrasting images of Europe and America. Each essay displays not only superb Arendt scholarship but also stylistic flair and analytical tenacity.

Author : Mark Fox
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708326242
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Encounters with Unusual Light Phenomena written by Mark Fox and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of unusual light phenomena, based on almost 400 unpublished accounts of modern-day encounters with strange lights collected over a period of thirty years, held at the University of Wales, Lampeter. It is an original and perennially topical book that goes beyond existing studies of unusual light phenomena - such as lights encountered during angelic experiences, near-death experiences, 'after death communications' - in a number of ways. It shows, for example, that experiences of unusual, spiritual, religious and paranormal lights are cross-cultural, trans-historical, and are reported widely in the present day: but not necessarily experienced when near to death. It also demonstrates that these experiences share to a remarkable degree a 'common core', showing by drawing on a large number of vivid, unpublished and dramatic testimonies that unusual lights typically manifest at times of crisis, and are overwhelmingly benign and loving, producing 'turning-points' in the lives of experients and typically setting them in new spiritual and creative directions.

Author : Donald W. Mitchell
Publisher : Herder & Herder
ISBN 13 : 9780824503642
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Dark Nights written by Donald W. Mitchell and published by Herder & Herder. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book about a layperson's experience of two Dark Nights presents: his encounters of God's purifying, enlightening, and transforming grace, his realization of his true self, his encounters of the inner presence of the Trinity, and his experience of the presence of God in humankind and nature.

Author : Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0812993586
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brief Encounters with the Enemy written by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2013 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unnamed American city feeling the effects of a war waged far away and suffering from bad weather is the backdrop for this startling work of fiction. The protagonists are aimless young men going from one blue collar job to the next, or in a few cases, aspiring to middle management. Their everyday struggles--with women, with the morning commute, with a series of cruel bosses--are somehow transformed into storytelling that is both universally resonant and wonderfully uncanny. That is the unsettling, funny, and ultimately heartfelt originality of Saïd Sayrafiezadeh's short fiction, to be at home in a world not quite our own but with many, many lessons to offer us"--

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ISBN 13 : 9780739424339
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Author : Mike Mignola
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506711669
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Encounters with Evil: Adventures of Professor J.T. Meinhardt and His Assistant Mr. Knox written by Mike Mignola and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Higgins was just the beginning! Follow Professor J.T. Meinhardt and Mr. Knox as they continue their pursuit of ne'er-do-well creatures of the night! Backed by the dauntless vampire hunter Ms. Mary Van Sloan, the heroes of Mr. Higgins Comes Home pursue vampires, werewolves, and other horrors that even they are hard-put to name or explain. The only thing that's for certain is that the strange truths these adventurers uncover are seldom what they seem. From the horror-genius minds of Mike Mignola and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell comes the next installment of endearingly terrifying tales from Meinhardt, Knox, and Van Sloan. Set against the detailed and stylized background of Johnson-Cadwell's art, these stories are a striking continuation of daring occult adventure! Grab some garlic and silver bullets, and settle in for a thrilling read!

Author : Santanu Das
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351622730
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict, 1914–1918 written by Santanu Das and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers an international cast of scholars to examine the unprecedented range of colonial encounters during the First World War. More than four million men of color, and an even greater number of white Europeans and Americans, crisscrossed the globe. Others, in occupied areas, behind the warzone or in neutral countries, were nonetheless swept into the maelstrom. From local encounters in New Zealand, Britain and East Africa to army camps and hospitals in France and Mesopotamia, from cafes and clubs in Salonika and London, to anticolonial networks in Germany, the USA and the Dutch East Indies, this volume examines the actions and experiences of a varied company of soldiers, medics, writers, photographers, and revolutionaries to reconceptualize this conflict as a turning point in the history of global encounters. How did people interact across uneven intersections of nationality, race, gender, class, religion and language? How did encounters – direct and mediated, forced and unforced – shape issues from cross-racial intimacy and identity formation to anti-colonial networks, civil rights movements and visions of a post-war future? The twelve chapters delve into spaces and processes of encounter to explore how the conjoined realities of war, race and empire were experienced, recorded and instrumentalized.