Author: Gerhard Gehrke
Publisher: Lucas Ross Publishing
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Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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“A different approach to the dystopian genre…a great read” - DSJM Reviews “I loved it.” – Science Fantasy Hub They told me the world above was dead. They lied. It was their world that was dying. I escaped. Outside, I found a family, and I was loved. My new home had its struggles but it was very much alive. Six years later, Nineveh came for me. And nothing would stop them from trying to take me back... For fans of post-apocalyptic adventure, Nineveh’s Child will keep you guessing Dinah’s fate through the final page!

Author: Benjamin Clarke
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Edward Roberts
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Jason Scully
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192525468
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Isaac of Nineveh's Ascetical Eschatology demonstrates that Isaac's eschatology is an original synthesis based on ideas garnered from a distinctively Syriac cultural milieu. Jason Scully investigates six sources relevant to the study of Isaac's Syriac source material and cultural heritage. These include ideas adapted from Syriac authors like Ephrem, John the Solitary, and Narsai, but also adapted from the Syriac versions of texts originally written in Greek, like Evagrius's Gnostic Chapters, Pseudo-Dionysius's Mystical Theology, and the Pseudo-Macarian homilies. Isaac's eschatological synthesis of this material is a sophisticated discourse on the psychological transformation that occurs when the mind has an experience of God. It begins with the premise that asceticism was part of God's original plan for creation. Isaac says that God created human beings with infantile knowledge and that God intended from the beginning for Adam and Eve to leave the Garden of Eden. Once outside the garden, human beings would have to pursue mature knowledge through bodily asceticism. Although perfect knowledge is promised in the future world, Isaac also believes that human beings can experience a proleptic taste of this future perfection. Isaac employs the concepts of wonder and astonishment in order to explain how an ecstatic experience of the future world is possible within the material structures of this world. According to Isaac, astonishment describes the moment when a person arrives at the threshold of eschatological perfection but is still unable to comprehend the heavenly mysteries, while wonder describes spiritual comprehension of heavenly knowledge through the intervention of divine grace.

Author: C.N. Bean
Publisher: C.N. Bean
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Pandemics have become the new norm in the global world. Amie Sinclair, 25, is a nurse who gets conscripted to work in a remote hospital camp after she abandoned a former post and an assignment to the worst of all medical camps, Nineveh. Instead, she ends up at a military medical tent city that treats only diseased children, most of whom will not survive. Right away she clashes with the Chief Nursing Officer of the camp, Colonel Catherine Shoal, and the Director of Camp Security, Major Mark Altizer. As she slips into a state of deep depression, hallucinations, and suicidal thoughts, she bonds with a young black child the staff has named Jonah because he has no name or known history. He is one of countless children who arrive by helicopters the same way, day after day. No one can get him to talk as he gets trapped in a deadly medical state known as failure-to-thrive, though Amie is able to produce just enough of a final spark of life in him to save her from her own demise. In the end, she is able to do something that has eluded her from childhood on, forgive, beginning with herself, and to come to terms with the true meaning of mercy.

Author: Charles Von Onselen
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN: 1868425657
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Available again in a single volume, New Babylon, New Nineveh explores the past struggles of everyday people on the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 1886-1914. This was a period of extraordinary social, political and economic change. Charles van Onselen examines a host of practices, processes and problems which, in many ways, make for startling comparisons with modern-day South Africa. Van Onselen investigates the pervasive, but highly problematic use of alcohol and prostitution, which were used to control both black and white mine workers, by the state and the mine owners. This exploitation of the lifestyle of the single miners later gave way to the official encouragement of working-class family life. This gave rise to the advent of domestic servants and the introduction of a systematic programme of suburbanisation and cheap public transportation. We see how not even these developments were able to protect the poorest and weakest South Africans of the time. Van Onselen explains how Afrikaner unemployment and an affinity for trade unionism were paralleled by further marginalisation, black unemployment and the resultant formation of prison gangs, which flourish even to the present day.

Author: Joseph SEWALL
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Author: Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Babylon (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 728

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Author: George Vance Smith
Publisher:
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Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Author: Austen Henry Layard
Publisher:
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Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 728

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