Necromancies And Netherworlds
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Nether After
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Author : Jodi Cox
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017-03-04
Nether After written by Jodi Cox and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-04 with categories.
Between life and death lies the eternal twilight of the Nether After. A realm ruled by an aristocracy of necromancers who collect the souls of the dead and use the last moments of human life to fuel their magic spells. Fifteen-year-old Faust Thaed is only a necromancer in training, but he bears the burden of harvesting ghosts for his family. When his mother is mysteriously declared insane and is abducted by the secret police, Faust sets out on a dangerous mission to find her in the unforgiving netherworld. World War Six is about to break loose between the ruling families, and there are rumors of necromancers performing hideous experiments on the dead theyÕre sworn to protect. His loyalties and powers are about to be tested, and if heÕs not careful about who he trusts, Faust may find himself sealed in the Asylum of the Damned for all eternity. A Dark Fantasy Steampunk story written by Jodi L. Cox.
Reading The Way To The Netherworld
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Author : Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler
language : en
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Reading The Way To The Netherworld written by Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler and has been published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Religion categories.
The volume focuses on the various representations of the Beyond in later Antiquity, a period of intense interaction and competition between various religious traditions and ideals of education. The concepts and images clustering around the Beyond form a crucial focal point for understanding the dynamics of religion and education in later Antiquity. Although Christianity gradually supersedes the pagan traditions, the literary representations of the Beyond derived from classical literature and transmitted through the texts read at school show a remarkable persistence: they influence Christian late antique writers and are still alive in medieval literature of the East and West. A specifically Christian Beyond develops only gradually, and coexists subsequently with pagan ideas, which in turn vary according to the respective literary and philosophical contexts. Thus, the various conceptualisations of the great existential unknown, serves here as a point of reference for mirroring the changes and continuities in Imperial and Late Antique religion, education, and culture, and opening up further perspectives into the Medieval world.
What Happens After Life
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Author : Matthew O'Neil
language : en
Publisher: Ockham Publishing Group
Release Date : 2022-06-29
What Happens After Life written by Matthew O'Neil and has been published by Ockham Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-29 with Philosophy categories.
What happens to us when we die? It's a question that has been debated for centuries, moulded through time to fit our ever changing views. Many religions teach that how we act in our life will determine where we will end up after life. If you follow religious teachings and adhere to their ethical standards, you will be rewarded and spend an eternity in heaven. If not, you will be punished and forced to spend forever in hell. Modern science, however, will tell you a completely different story: fanciful, hopeful tales of an afterlife are both rationally explainable and lacking in evidence. Theologian Matthew O'Neil demonstrates that the contemporary religious view of the afterlife is far from what our ancestors envisioned. Subjecting both original Scripture and contemporary faith to the rigours of modern science and rational philosophy, he seeks to answer one of humanities most famous puzzles: what happens After Life?
Caring For The Dead In Ancient Israel
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Author : Kerry M. Sonia
language : en
Publisher: SBL Press
Release Date : 2020-11-02
Caring For The Dead In Ancient Israel written by Kerry M. Sonia and has been published by SBL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-02 with Religion categories.
A new reconstruction of cultic practices surrounding death in ancient Israel In Caring for the Dead in Ancient Israel, Kerry M. Sonia examines the commemoration and care for the dead in ancient Israel against the broader cultural backdrop of West Asia. This cult of dead kin, often referred to as ancestor cult, comprised a range of ritual practices in which the living provided food and drink offerings, constructed commemorative monuments, invoked the names of the dead, and protected their remains. This ritual care negotiated the ongoing relationships between the living and the dead and, in so doing, helped construct social, political, and religious landscapes in relationship to the past. Sonia explores the nature of this cult of dead kin in ancient Israel, focusing on its role within the family and household as well as its relationship to Israel’s national deity and the Jerusalem temple. Features: A reevaluation of whether burial and necromantic rituals were part of the cult of dead kin A portrait of the various roles Israelite women played in the cult of dead kin A reassessment of biblical writers’ attitudes toward the cult of dead kin
Israel S Beneficent Dead
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Author : Brian B. Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Release Date : 1996
Israel S Beneficent Dead written by Brian B. Schmidt and has been published by Eisenbrauns this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Did the ancient Israelites perform rituals expressive of the belief in the supernaturalbeneficent power of the dead? Contrary to long held notions of primitive society and the euhemeristic origin of the divine, various factors indicate that the ancestor cult, that is, ancestor veneration or worship, was not observed in the Iron Age Levant. The Israelites did not adopt an ancient Canaanite ancestor cult that became the object of biblical scorn. Yet, a variety of mortuary rituals and cults were performed in Levantine society; mourning and funerary rites and longer-term rituals such as the care for the dead and commemoration. Rituals and monuments in or at burial sites, and especially the recitation of the deceased's name, recounted the dead's lived lives for familial survivors. They served broader social functions as well; e.g., to legitimate primogeniture and to reinforce a community's social collectivity. Another ritual complex from the domain of divination, namely necromancy, might have expressed the Israelite dead's beneficent powers. Yet, was this power to reveal knowledge that of the dead or was it a power conveyed through the dead, but that remained attributable to another supranatural being of non-human origin? Contemporary Assyrian necromancers utilized the ghost as a conduit through which divine knowledge was revealed to ascertain the future and so Judah's king Manasseh, a loyal Assyrian vassal, emulated these new Assyrian imperial forms of prognostication. As a de-legitimating rhetorical strategy, necromancy was then integrated into biblical traditions about the more distant past and attributed fictive Canaanite origins (Deut 18). In its final literary setting, necromancy was depicted as the Achille's heel of the nation's first royal dynasty, that of the Saulides (1 Sam 28), and more tellingly, its second, that of the Davidides (2 Kgs 21:6; 23:24).
New Perspectives On Ritual In The Biblical World
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Author : Laura Quick
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-06-16
New Perspectives On Ritual In The Biblical World written by Laura Quick and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-16 with Religion categories.
This volume presents a range of methodologically innovative treatments on ritual action in the Hebrew Bible. They treat a diverse range of ritual phenomena, including space, blessings and oath-taking, from the world of ancient Israel and Judah. The introduction engages with the dominant scholarly models drawn from ritual theory, and the volume explores their applicability to ancient textual material such as the Hebrew Bible. The chapters reflect high-level specialized engagement with specific ritual phenomena through the lens of appropriate theoretical and methodological approaches.
Necromancy In Naat
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Author : Clark Ashton Smith
language : en
Publisher: eStar Books
Release Date : 2012-10-15
Necromancy In Naat written by Clark Ashton Smith and has been published by eStar Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-15 with Fiction categories.
Yadar, a princely nomad, searches for his love Dalili, only to discover her on the Island of Naat… and the horrors of the island…
The Oxford Handbook Of Ritual And Worship In The Hebrew Bible
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Author : Samuel E. Balentine
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020
The Oxford Handbook Of Ritual And Worship In The Hebrew Bible written by Samuel E. Balentine and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Religion categories.
"The conceit in the title of this volume is that ritual, however expansively it may be defined, is ineluctably tethered to religion and worship. It has a primal connection to the idea that a transcendent order - numinous and mysterious, supranatural and elusive, divine and wholly other - gives meaning and purpose to life. The construction of rites and rituals enables humans to conceive and apprehend this transcendent order, to symbolize it and interact with it, to postulate its truths in the face of contradicting realities and to repair them when they have been breached or diminished. The focus of this Handbook is on ritual and worship from the perspective of biblical studies, particularly on the Hebrew Bible and its ancient Near Eastern antecedents. Within this context, attention will be given to the development of ideas in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim thinking, but only insofar as they connect with or extend the trajectory of biblical precedents. The volume reflects a wide range of analytical approaches to ancient texts, inscriptions, iconography, and ritual artifacts. It examines the social history and cultural knowledge encoded in rituals, and explores the way rituals shape and are shaped by politics, economics, ethical imperatives, and religion itself. Toward this end, the volume is organized into six major sections: Historical Contexts, Interpretive Approaches, Ritual Elements (participants, places, times, objects, practices), Underlying Cultural and Theological Perspectives, History of Interpretation, Social-Cultural Functions, and Theology and Theological Heritage"--
Ancient Near Eastern Thought And The Old Testament
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Author : John H. Walton
language : en
Publisher: Baker Academic
Release Date : 2006-11-01
Ancient Near Eastern Thought And The Old Testament written by John H. Walton and has been published by Baker Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-01 with Religion categories.
Much of the Old Testament seems strange to contemporary readers. However, as we begin to understand how ancient people viewed the world, the Old Testament becomes more clearly a book that stands within its ancient context as it also speaks against it. John Walton provides here a thoughtful introduction to the conceptual world of the ancient Near East. Walton surveys the literature of the ancient Near East and introduces the reader to a variety of beliefs about God, religion, and the world. In helpful sidebars, he provides examples of how such studies can bring insight to the interpretation of specific Old Testament passages. Students and pastors who want to deepen their understanding of the Old Testament will find this a helpful and instructive study.
Necromancies And Netherworlds
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Author : Darrell Schweitzer
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 1999-08-01
Necromancies And Netherworlds written by Darrell Schweitzer and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-01 with Fiction categories.
Darrell Schweitzer, author of The Mask of the Sorcerer and editor of Weird Tales collaborates with macabre artist-writer Jason Van Hollander on a series of remarkable fantasies, variously grotesque, horrific, ethereal, and darkly comic. Several of these form a cycle set in as-yet undiscovered countries where the common men have thrown down the gods and decadent nobles reach new heights of ecstasy and terror with the drug hanquil. You'll also encounter a wrenching yet romantic ghost story set in the American Southwest, an intimately personal tale of the Cthulhu Mythos and the lingering legacy of Dunwich; plus a dance of death; and a house haunted by the terror of eternal life. Here are all the stories Schweitzer and Van Hollander have written together, a unique blending which makes these two the most successful collaborative team since Burke and Hare.