Author: Jesse L. Hurlbut
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
ISBN: 9781557484130
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Finally, here is an easily understandable text featuring all the major stories and themes of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation--in vivid, true-to-the-Word detail. Settle in for the greatest stories ever told as the Bible and its heroes are brought to life for readers of all ages. Illustrations.
Author: Caroline Blyth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567677990
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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The Bible has always enjoyed notoriety within the genres of crime fiction and drama; numerous authors have explicitly drawn on biblical traditions as thematic foci to explore social anxieties about violence, religion, and the search for justice and truth. The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama brings together a multi-disciplinary scholarship from the fields of biblical interpretation, literary criticism, criminology, and studies in film and television to discuss international texts and media spanning the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The volume concludes with an afterword by crime writer and academic, Liam McIvanney. These essays explore both explicit and implicit engagements between biblical texts and crime narratives, analysing the multiple layers of meaning that such engagements can produce – cross-referencing Sherlock Holmes with the murder mystery in the Book of Tobit, observing biblical violence through the eyes of Christian fundamentalists in Henning Mankell's Before the Frost, catching the thread of homily in the serial murders of Se7en, or analysing biblical sexual violence in light of television crime procedurals. The contributors also raise intriguing questions about the significance of the Bible as a religious and cultural text – its association with the culturally pervasive themes of violence, (im)morality, and redemption, and its relevance as a symbol of the (often fraught) location that religion occupies within contemporary secular culture.
Author: Veronica T. Watson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496828534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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Frank Yerby’s first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, established him as a writer and launched a forty-nine-year career in which he published thirty-three novels. He also became the first African American writer to sell more than a million copies of his work and to have a book adapted into a movie by a Hollywood studio. He garnered legions of loyal fans of his writing. Yet, few know that Yerby began his writing career with the publication of a short story in his school newspaper in 1936, the first of nine stories he would publish in the 1930s and ’40s. Most stories appeared in small journals and magazines and were largely forgotten once he started writing novels. This groundbreaking collection gives readers access to an intriguingly diverse selection of Yerby’s short fiction. The stories collected here, eleven of which have never previously been published, paint a picture of Yerby as an intellectual who thought deeply about several philosophical questions at the center of understanding what it means to be human. The stories also reveal him as an artist committed to exploring a range of human drives, longings, conflicts, and passions, from the quirky to the serious, and in a variety of writing styles. With an attention to historical detail, voice, and character that he became known for, these stories give us new insights into this important African American writer who dared to believe he could earn a living as a writer.
Author: Reed Reference Publishing
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ISBN: 9780835236300
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1542
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Author: Treadwell WALDEN
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Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2542
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1564
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