From The Stone Age To Abraham

Author : Alan Dickin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book From the Stone Age to Abraham written by Alan Dickin and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most histories of the ancient world include the subject of religion. It may even play an important part in the story. But most authors also assume that these religious beliefs were human inventions. In contrast, the Bible describes a long history of True Religion before Abraham, and claims that the descendants of Adam worshipped the same God as the God of Abraham. This book examines scientific, archaeological and written evidence from ancient Mesopotamia to understand the origins of Biblical Religion, and traces the development of this religion from the Stone Age to Abraham. The result is a new understanding of the role of religion in the origins of civilization and the history of the ancient world.

Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184001754
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Cutting for Stone written by Abraham Verghese and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

Author : William F. Albright
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592443397
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book From the Stone Age to Christianity written by William F. Albright and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-09-12 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental work of theological-historical synthesis, From the Stone Age to Christianity sets forth Albright's view of the light thrown by archaeology on the Bible as well as his basic philosophy of interpretation of the Bible and religion. Here he traces the development of humankind's idea of god from prehistoric times to the time of Christ.

Author : Erich A. Von Fange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Noah to Abram written by Erich A. Von Fange and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sean A. Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056767553X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Abraham in Jewish and Early Christian Literature written by Sean A. Adams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Jewish and early Christian authors discussed Abraham in numerous and diverse ways, adapting his Old Testament narratives and using Abrahamic imagery in their works. However, while some areas of study in Abrahamic texts have received much scholarly attention, other areas remain nearly untouched. Beginning with a perspective on how Abraham was used within Jewish literature, this collection of essays follows the impact of Abraham across biblical texts–including Pseudigraphic and Apocryphal texts – into early Greek, Latin and Gnostic literature. These essays build upon existing Abraham scholarship, by discussing Abraham in less explored areas such as rewritten scripture, Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, the Apostolic Fathers and contemporary Greek and Latin authors. Through the presentation of a more thorough outline of the impact of the figure and stories of Abraham, the contributors to this volume create a concise and complete idea of how his narrative was employed throughout the centuries, and how ancient authors adopted and adapted received traditions.

Author : William Foxwell Albright
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Biblical Period from Abraham to Ezra written by William Foxwell Albright and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1963 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A revision and expansion of the first chapter in Louis Finkelstein's The Jews: their history, culture and religion." Includes bibliographical references.

Author : Marek Halter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592640393
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Book of Abraham written by Marek Halter and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling nearly two thousand years of history, this panoramic saga follows the destiny of Abraham, a Jewish scribe, and his descendants from the burning of Jerusalem under the Romans to the 1943 battle of the Warsaw ghetto.

Author : George Herbert Box
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8K/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Apocalypse of Abraham written by George Herbert Box and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Van Seters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781626549104
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Abraham in History and Tradition written by John Van Seters and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important work which cannot be ignored." -Journal of Biblical Literature "The author has undertaken an objective evaluation of the more serious scholarly attempts at reconstructing the early Patriarchal Period during the past half century of archaeologically oriented research. . . . He presents a wealth of extra biblical material, in conjunction with the biblical, to determine how much of the data dealing with Abraham (and in part with Isaac) are historical and how the data in general are to be handled. . . . The study provides a badly needed whiff of fresh air in a period whose scholarly atmosphere has become stale. Three useful indexes . . . bring this volume to a close." -Harry Orlinsky, JWB Circle "Old Testament Scholars have learned to expect critical precision and provocative insight from the pen of John Van Seters. His book on the Abraham traditions meets those expectations in detail not previously available in print and this must be welcomed by all involved in Pentateuchal research." -George W. Coats, Interpretation Abraham in History and Tradition evaluates previous scholarly insight on the early patriarchal period while challenging many dominant views in Biblical Studies and providing criticism on tradition history and documentary hypothesis. Upon its initial publication in 1975, this landmark work provided fresh insight in the fields of Near Eastern Studies and Biblical Archaeology. Well-researched and cogent, Van Seter's groundbreaking analysis remains relevant and continues to inspire new research in the present. John Van Seters is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Author : Carol Delaney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217947
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Abraham on Trial written by Carol Delaney and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham on Trial questions the foundations of faith that have made a virtue out of the willingness to sacrifice a child. Through his desire to obey God at all costs, even if it meant sacrificing his son, Abraham became the definitive model of faith for the major world religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In this bold look at the legacy of this biblical and qur'anic story, Carol Delaney explores how the sacrifice rather than the protection of children became the focus of faith, to the point where the abuse and betrayal of children has today become widespread and sometimes institutionalized. Her strikingly original analysis also offers a new perspective on what unites and divides the peoples of the sibling religions derived from Abraham and, implicitly, a way to overcome the increasing violence among them. Delaney critically examines evidence from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpretations, from archaeology and Freudian theory, as well as a recent trial in which a father sacrificed his child in obedience to God's voice, and shows how the meaning of Abraham's story is bound up with a specific notion of fatherhood. The preeminence of the father (which is part of the meaning of the name Abraham) comes from the still operative theory of procreation in which men transmit life by means of their "seed," an image that encapsulates the generative, creative power that symbolically allies men with God. The communities of faith argue interminably about who is the true seed of Abraham, who can claim the patrimony, but until now, no one has asked what is this seed. Kinship and origin myths, the cultural construction of fatherhood and motherhood, suspicions of actual child sacrifices in ancient times, and a revisiting of Freud's Oedipus complex all contribute to Delaney's remarkably rich discussion. She shows how the story of Abraham legitimates a hierarchical structure of authority, a specific form of family, definitions of gender, and the value of obedience that have become the bedrock of society. The question she leaves us with is whether we should perpetuate this story and the lessons it teaches.