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The Gifts Of The Jews
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Author : Thomas Cahill
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2010-04-28
The Gifts Of The Jews written by Thomas Cahill and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-28 with History categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on another "captivating...persuasive as well as entertaining" journey into history (The New York Times), recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people had repercussions that are still felt today. The Gifts of the Jews reveals the critical change that made western civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was seen as part of an endless cycle of birth and death; time was like a wheel, spinning ceaselessly. Yet somehow, the ancient Jews began to see time differently. For them, time had a beginning and an end; it was a narrative, whose triumphant conclusion would come in the future. From this insight came a new conception of men and women as individuals with unique destinies--a conception that would inform the Declaration of Independence--and our hopeful belief in progress and the sense that tomorrow can be better than today. As Thomas Cahill narrates this momentous shift, he also explains the real significance of such Biblical figures as Abraham and Sarah, Moses and the Pharaoh, Joshua, Isaiah, and Jeremiah. Full of compelling stories, insights and humor, The Gifts of the Jews is an irresistible exploration of history as fascinating and fun as How the Irish Saved Civilization.
Summary Of Thomas Cahill S The Gifts Of The Jews
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-04-29T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Thomas Cahill S The Gifts Of The Jews written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-29T22:59:00Z with Religion categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The written word was an invention born of necessity: how else were the Sumerians to keep their accounts straight. The novel agglomeration of human beings and their possessions into a city such as Uruk cried out for a new way of counting shipments and recalling transactions. #2 The first written language was invented in Sumer, and it was used to record business transactions. Sumer had risen to dominate all of Mesopotamia by the time the first word was incised on a small clay tablet. The city-states seemed to be uniform, but the nomads outside the city-states saw them as a collection of shining things they did not possess. #3 The first civilization, Sumer, was led by a society of nomads who did not possess any of the things that the Sumerians had. The Sumerians were a practical people who were more interested in calculating the extent of their fields and the capacity of their warehouses than anything else. #4 The worldview of a people can be found in their stories, myths, and rituals. The stories of Sumer, as resurrected from their clay tablets, possess a burnished splendor that cannot be missed.
How The Irish Saved Civilization
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Author : Thomas Cahill
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2010-04-28
How The Irish Saved Civilization written by Thomas Cahill and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-28 with History categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift! Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars"—and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost—they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.
Desire Of The Everlasting Hills
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Author : Thomas Cahill
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2010-04-28
Desire Of The Everlasting Hills written by Thomas Cahill and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-28 with Religion categories.
From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews, his most compelling historical narrative yet. How did an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire come to be the central figure in Western Civilization? Did his influence in fact change the world? These are the questions Thomas Cahill addresses in his subtle and engaging investigation into the life and times of Jesus. Cahill shows us Jesus from his birth to his execution through the eyes of those who knew him and in the context of his time—a time when the Jews were struggling to maintain their beliefs under overlords who imposed their worldview on their subjects. Here is Jesus the loving friend, itinerate preacher, and quiet revolutionary, whose words and actions inspired his followers to journey throughout the Roman world and speak the truth he instilled—in the face of the greatest defeat: Jesus' crucifixion as a common criminal. Daring, provocative, and stunningly original, Cahill's interpretation will both delight and surprise. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Thomas Cahill's Heretics and Heroes.
The Gifts Of The Jews
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Author : Thomas Cahill
language : en
Publisher: New York : Nan A. Talese
Release Date : 1998
The Gifts Of The Jews written by Thomas Cahill and has been published by New York : Nan A. Talese this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Explores the history and civilization of the ancient Jews showing how their ideas and culture have influenced society through the years.
Heretics And Heroes
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Author : Thomas Cahill
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2013-10-29
Heretics And Heroes written by Thomas Cahill and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-29 with History categories.
From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history—this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. A truly revolutionary book. In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), so full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century. Beginning with the continent-wide disaster of the Black Death, Cahill traces the many developments in European thought and experience that served both the new humanism of the Renaissance and the seemingly abrupt religious alterations of the increasingly radical Reformation. This is an age of the most sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies and of newly found courage, as many thousands refuse to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past. It is an era of just-discovered continents and previously unknown peoples. More than anything, it is a time of individuality in which a whole culture must achieve a new balance if the West is to continue.
A Saint On Death Row
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Author : Thomas Cahill
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2009-03-10
A Saint On Death Row written by Thomas Cahill and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-10 with Social Science categories.
From the New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes the absorbing, heartbreaking tale of the hard life and tragic death of Dominique Green—wrongly accused, then executed in Huntsville, Texas—and shines a light on our racist and deeply flawed criminal justice system. Green, an extraordinary young man from the urban ghettos of Houston, was utterly failed by every echelon of society—the Catholic Church, numerous U.S. courts of law, and even his own mother. But from the depths of despair on Death Row, he transcended his earthly sufferings and achieved enlightenment and peace, inciting an international movement against the death penalty and inspiring his personal hero, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to plead publicly for mercy. A Saint on Death Row is an unforgettable, sobering, and deeply spiritual account that illuminates the moral imperatives too often ignored in the headlong quest for judgment.
Pope John Xxiii
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Author : Thomas Cahill
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-01-29
Pope John Xxiii written by Thomas Cahill and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization. Elected to the papacy at the age of 76, Pope John XXIII was to have a brief but important reign. Although he had a doctorate in theology, his gifts were pastoral—reaching out to the people of the Church. After his doctorate, he spent nine years working for the socially-minded bishop of Bergamo, acquiring a broad understanding of the problems of the working class. This sympathy for ordinary people was brought out in his papacy. Vatican II, which he convened, brought forth the idea of a church as a community, in which all God's people are a sign of redemption for the human race. Thomas Cahill, in his short biography, gives us the sense of enduring importance of John XXIII's idea.
Jesus Little Instruction Book
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Author : Thomas Cahill
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2011-11-02
Jesus Little Instruction Book written by Thomas Cahill and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-02 with Religion categories.
Jesus' teachings have reached across two millenia, inspiring, informing, and uplifting people from all walks of life. In this elegant little volume, a noted religious publisher and biblical student has collected Jesus' key messenges, culled from the Gospels. Organized thematically, Jesus' words speak directly to contemporary lives and convey a man unlike any other man whose life contains a message for all. Engaging and nondoctrinal commentary throughout places the sayings in their historical context and drawn to this simple and beautiful rendering of Jesus' unique--an, even today, unconventional--message for the heart.
Sailing The Wine Dark Sea
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Author : Thomas Cahill
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2010-04-21
Sailing The Wine Dark Sea written by Thomas Cahill and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-21 with History categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. “A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide ranging, smartly paced.” —The New York Times Book Review In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience, and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation—yet they kept slaves. The glorious verses of the Iliad recount a conflict in which rage and outrage spur men to action and suggest that their “bellicose society of gleaming metals and rattling weapons” is not so very distant from more recent campaigns of “shock and awe.” And, centuries before Zorba, Greece was a land where music, dance, and freely flowing wine were essential to the high life. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview.