The Descent Of The Idol
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The Descent
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Author : S.E. Adam
language : en
Publisher: Partridge Africa
Release Date : 2015-10-16
The Descent written by S.E. Adam and has been published by Partridge Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-16 with Fiction categories.
Human DNA has a secret key for genetic reengineering, which was passed down by the second Kingship on Earth for the return of the original bloodline of Adam. A young precocious girl grows up in an orphanage. She is plagued by dreams and nightmares which confuse her sense of reality. In the pursuit for normalcy, she uncovers her uniqueness and mankinds deepest, darkest conspiracy with the help of a mysterious person. The Ten Commandments do not apply to me? he said. The Ten Commandments was the covenant made between God and man on earth. She thought that he was trying to weasel his way out of the responsibility of committing murder. You killed a man,she reminded him. And what did he mean that the Ten Commandments did not apply to him? Was he not a Christian? Or more ludicrous, was he not human?
The Idol In The Age Of Art
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Author : Rebecca Zorach
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Idol In The Age Of Art written by Rebecca Zorach and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
After 1500, as Catholic Europe fragmented into warring sects, evidence of a pagan past came newly into view, and travelers to distant places encountered deeply unfamiliar visual cultures, it became ever more pressing to distinguish between the sacred image and its opposite, the 'idol'. Historians and philosophers have long attended to Reformation charges of idolatry - the premise for image-breaking - but only very recently have scholars begun to consider the ways that the idol occasioned the making no less than the destruction. The present book focuses on how idols and ideas about them matter for the history of early modern objects produced around the globe, especially those created in the context of an exchange or confrontation between an 'us' and a 'them'. Ranging widely within the early modern period, the volume contributes to the project of globalizing the study of European art, bringing the continent's commercial, colonial, antiquarian, and religious histories into dialogue. Its studies of crosses, statues on columns, wax ex-votos, ivories, prints, maps, manuscripts, fountains, banners, and New World gold all frame Western 'art' simultaneously as an idea and as a collection of real things, arguing that it was through the idol that object-makers and writers came to terms with what it was that art should be, and do.
The Idol S Eye Being Adventures In Search Of A Big Diamond
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Author : William Stephens Hayward
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-01-27
The Idol S Eye Being Adventures In Search Of A Big Diamond written by William Stephens Hayward and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-27 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Paradox And The Prophets
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Author : Daniel H. Weiss
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Paradox And The Prophets written by Daniel H. Weiss and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Religion categories.
Weiss examines the style and method of Hermann Cohen's magnum opus, Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism. Through philosophical and scriptural analyses, Weiss argues for a new reading of this long-misunderstood book, demonstrating Cohen's continuing significance for Jewish thought and for philosophy of religion more broadly.
Moses Among The Idols
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Author : Amy L. Balogh
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-09-15
Moses Among The Idols written by Amy L. Balogh and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-15 with Religion categories.
In Moses among the Idols: Mediators of the Divine in the Ancient Near East, Balogh simultaneously redefines one of the greatest figures in the history of religion and challenges the historically popular understanding of ancient Mesopotamian idols as the idle objects of antiquated faiths. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and methods of comparison, Balogh not only offers new insight into the lives of idols as active mediators between humanity and divinity, she also makes the case that when it comes to understanding the figure of Moses, Mesopotamian idols are the best analogy that the ancient Near East provides. This new understanding of Moses, idols, and the interplay between the two on the stage of history and within the biblical text has been made possible only with the recent publication of pertinent texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Drawing from the fields of Assyriology, biblical studies, comparative religion, and archaeology, Balogh identifies a problem with Moses’s status, and offers an unexpected solution to that problem. Moses among the Idols centers on the question: What is it that transforms Moses from an inadequate representative of Yahweh who is “uncircumcised of lips” to “god to Pharaoh” (Exodus 6:28-7:1)? In this moment, Moses undergoes a status change best understood through comparison with the induction ritual for ancient Mesopotamian idols as described in the texts of the Mīs Pȋ, “Washing” or “Purification of the Mouth.” This solution to the problem of Moses’s status explains not only his status change, but also why Moses radiates light after speaking with YHWH (Exod 34:29-35), and his peculiar relationship with YHWH and people of Israel. The comparative, interdisciplinary perspective provided by Balogh allows one to read these and other millennia-old interpretive issues anew, and to do so in a way that underscores the contribution of in-depth comparison to our understanding of ancient civilizations, texts, and intellectual frameworks.
The Chinese Repository
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1833
The Chinese Repository written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1833 with China categories.
David Wallace Goes To India
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Author : Jayesh Shah
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-02-29
David Wallace Goes To India written by Jayesh Shah and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with Travel categories.
This book shows how Hinduism, Indian culture and present-day India may appear to an outsider. It also shows Indian diaspora in different countries. A young boy from another country attempts to learn about India and finds many contradictions. He gets frustrated when he visits India and is determined to change it.
The Southern Literary Messenger
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
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American Idol
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Author : Richard Rushfield
language : en
Publisher: Hachette Books
Release Date : 2011-01-18
American Idol written by Richard Rushfield and has been published by Hachette Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-18 with Performing Arts categories.
The currency is fame, and it's bigger than money, more desired than power. Each season American Idol delivers on a promise whose epic scope is unparalleled in the annals of competition: to take an unknown dreamer from the middle of America and turn him or her into a genuine star. It has become not only the biggest show on television, but the biggest force in all of entertainment; its alumni dominate the recording charts and Broadway, win Academy Awards, and sweep up Grammys. In fact, American Idol has reshaped the very idea of celebrity. But it didn't start out that way. When the little singing contest debuted as a summer replacement on the U.S. airwaves, it was packed between reruns and low-cost filler. The promise that it would find America's next pop star produced a hearty round of guffaws from the country's media critics. Now, some ten years and millions of records later, no one is laughing. American Idol: The Untold Story chronicles the triumphs and travails, the harrowing backstage drama and the nail-biting onstage battles that built this revolutionary show. In this revealing book, veteran journalist Richard Rushfield goes deeper inside the circus than any reporter ever has. Candid interviews with Idol alumni, including Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell, shed new light on the show that changed the entertainment industry. And because Rushfield had full access to the people who created the show, starred in it, and kept it atop the pop culture pyramid, this book is the first to take Americans behind the curtain and tell what has really been happening on the world's most watched and speculated-about stage.
Caciques And Cemi Idols
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Author : José R. Oliver
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2009-05-10
Caciques And Cemi Idols written by José R. Oliver and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-10 with History categories.
Takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human) beings that are imbued with cemí power, specifically within the Taíno inter-island cultural sphere encompassing Puerto Rico and Hispaniola Cemís are both portable artifacts and embodiments of persons or spirit, which the Taínos and other natives of the Greater Antilles (ca. AD 1000-1550) regarded as numinous beings with supernatural or magic powers. This volume takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human) beings that are imbued with cemí power, specifically within the Taíno inter-island cultural sphere encompassing Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. The relationships address the important questions of identity and personhood of the cemí icons and their human “owners” and the implications of cemí gift-giving and gift-taking that sustains a complex web of relationships between caciques (chiefs) of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. Oliver provides a careful analysis of the four major forms of cemís—three-pointed stones, large stone heads, stone collars, and elbow stones—as well as face masks, which provide an interesting contrast to the stone heads. He finds evidence for his interpretation of human and cemí interactions from a critical review of 16th-century Spanish ethnohistoric documents, especially the Relación Acerca de las Antigüedades de los Indios written by Friar Ramón Pané in 1497–1498 under orders from Christopher Columbus. Buttressed by examples of native resistance and syncretism, the volume discusses the iconoclastic conflicts and the relationship between the icons and the human beings. Focusing on this and on the various contexts in which the relationships were enacted, Oliver reveals how the cemís were central to the exercise of native political power. Such cemís were considered a direct threat to the hegemony of the Spanish conquerors, as these potent objects were seen as allies in the native resistance to the onslaught of Christendom with its icons of saints and virgins.
