Envy Poison And Death

Author : Esther Eidinow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199562601
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Envy, Poison, and Death written by Esther Eidinow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores three trials conducted in Athens in the fourth century BCE; the defendants were all women charged with undertaking ritual activities, but much of the evidence remains a mystery. The author reveals how these trials provide a vivid glimpse of the socio-political environment of Athens during the early-mid fourth century BCE.

Author : Sever Voicu
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830897402
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apocrypha written by Sever Voicu and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the canonical status of the Greek and Latin Old Testament texts commented on within this volume has been understood differently within Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox traditions, their longstanding use within the Christian churches makes them worthy of careful study and reflection. As noted in the Anglican Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, Jerome says that the church reads the Apocrypha "for example of life and instruction of manners." As a result their influence extends well beyond ecclesiastical use to literature, hymnody, music, and art. Their questioned authority has nevertheless affected the choice of books included here, not by a priori judgment but by the paucity of comment from which to choose. None of the early fathers dedicated commentaries to these texts as a whole. Despite the length of 1 and 2 Maccabees and the model they presented for Christian martyrdom, they were rarely cited or commented on. The Wisdom books received the most comment and are those best represented here. In particular, readers will find ample comment on Tobit, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, Baruch, the Letter of Jeremiah, the Prayer of Azariah, and the Song of the Three Young Men, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon (the latter three all found as additions to the Hebrew and Aramaic book of Daniel). Among commentators readers will find Origen, John Chrysostom, Theodoret of Cyr, Hippolytus, Jerome, Augustine, Julius Africanus, Athanasius, Palladius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Clement of Alexandria, Bede, Rabanus Maurus, Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Cassiodorus, Ambrose, and others. This Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volume presents a worthy feast of patristic comment on these ancient and important texts, some of which is presented here in English translation for the first time.

Author : Sylvia A. Pamboukian
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031160002
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison written by Sylvia A. Pamboukian and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christie’s female poisoners in the context of Christie’s own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver well-deserved comeuppance for gendered and classed wrongdoing ordinarily accepted in everyday life. While critics have long recognized male outlaws, like Robin Hood, who use crime to oppose a corrupt system, this book contends that female outlaws – witches and poisoners – offer a similar heritage of empowered femininity. Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christie’s outlaw poisoners offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens, which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty pleasure of poison.

Author : Jitse H. F. Dijkstra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108494900
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Violence in the Ancient World written by Jitse H. F. Dijkstra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.

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Publisher : CCEL
ISBN 13 : 1610250729
Total Pages : 1581 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NPNF-211. Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian written by and published by CCEL. This book was released on with total page 1581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Cassian
Publisher : Aeterna Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conferences of John Cassian written by John Cassian and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE obligation, which was promised to the blessed Pope Castor in the preface to those volumes which with God's help I composed in twelve books on the Institutes of the Coenobia, and the remedies for the eight principal faults, has now been, as far as my feeble ability permitted, satisfied. I should certainly like to see what was the opinion fairly arrived at on this work both by his judgment and yours, whether, on a matter so profound and so lofty, and one which has never yet been made the subject of a treatise, we have produced anything worthy of your notice, and of the eager desire of all the holy brethren. But now as the aforesaid Bishop has left us and departed to Christ, meanwhile these ten Conferences of the grandest of the Fathers, viz., the Anchorites who dwelt in the desert of Scete, which he, fired with an incomparable desire for saintliness, had bidden me write for him in the same style (not considering in the greatness of his affection, what a burden he placed on shoulders too weak to bear it)--these Conferences I have thought good to dedicate to you in particular, O blessed Pope, Leontius, and holy brother Helladius. Aeterna Press

Author : John Cassian
Publisher : Aeterna Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conferences of Desert Fathers written by John Cassian and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE obligation, which was promised to the blessed Pope Castor in the preface to those volumes which with God’s help I composed in twelve books on the Institutes of the Coenobia, and the remedies for the eight principal faults, has now been, as far as my feeble ability permitted, satisfied. I should certainly like to see what was the opinion fairly arrived at on this work both by his judgment and yours, whether, on a matter so profound and so lofty, and one which has never yet been made the subject of a treatise, we have produced anything worthy of your notice, and of the eager desire of all the holy brethren. But now as the aforesaid Bishop has left us and departed to Christ, meanwhile these ten Conferences of the grandest of the fathers, viz., the Anchorites who dwelt in the desert of Scete, which he, fired with an incomparable desire for saintliness, had bidden me write for him in the same style (not considering the greatness of his affection, what a burden he placed on shoulders too weak to bear it)— these Conferences I have thought good to dedicate to you in particular, O blessed Pope, Leontius, and the holy brother Helladius. Aeterna Press

Author : Philip Schaff
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 166674994X
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series, Volume 11 written by Philip Schaff and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Schaff’s classic work colloquially known as Early Church Fathers, is an invaluable resource filled with the primary documents, and early theological building blocks for the Christian Church. Comprised of 38 volumes it is broken into three parts, the Ante-Nicene Fathers, and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First and Second Series.

Author : Peter Shenouda
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 149087691X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genesis written by Peter Shenouda and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even for those whose knowledge of the Bible is limited, they are familiar with the book of Genesis. It is, after all, the story of the beginning, of what has happened. It prepares us for what is and what will be. Despite what you know, however, there are areas that may remain a mystery. Author Peter Shenouda’s Genesis: The Story, the Allegory, the Prophecy, and What Matters is the culmination of his fifteen-year study of Genesis. It is a concise treatise of this book of beginnings. Shenouda has put together information that really matters to those reading the entire Scripture, including the Apocrypha. You’ll learn whether Genesis is only a book of stories or if it offers any prophecies about the future. Discover what is behind the letters in the story of Joseph. You’ll also develop an understanding of what Jacob said about the future of Israel. Genesis: The Story, the Allegory, the Prophecy, and What Matters helps you develop a better understanding of the book and, as a result, of the Bible as a whole. It’s an opportunity to increase and deepen your biblical knowledge and faith.

Author : John Cassian
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849676587
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Writings of John Cassian written by John Cassian and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassian was one of the first and most prominent of the Semi-Pelagians, maintaining that while man is by nature sinful, he yet has some good remaining in him, and that, while the immediate gift of God’s grace is necessary to salvation, conversion may also be begun by the exercise of man’s will. He further asserted that God is always willing to bestow his grace on all who seek it, though, at the same time, it is true that he sometimes bestows it without its being sought. These views have been held by a very large part of the church from his time, and embrace much of the essence of Arminianism. The style of Cassianus is slovenly, and shows no literary polish, but its direct simplicity is far superior to the rhetorical affectations which disfigure most of the writings of that age. At the request of Castor, bishop of Apt, he wrote two monumental and influential treatises on the monastic life. The De Institutione Coenobiorum (twelve books) describes the dress, the food, the devotional exercises, the discipline and the special spiritual dangers of monastic life in the East (gluttony, unchastity, avarice, anger, gloom, apathy, vanity and pride). The Collationes Patrum, a series of dialogues with the pious fathers of Egypt, deal with the way in which these dangers (and others, e.g. demons) may be avoided or overcome. At the desire of Leo (then archdeacon of Rome) he wrote against Nestorius his De Incarnatione Domini in seven books.