Amsterdam Apocalypse

Author : Matt Grimm
Publisher : Icarus Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783958359833

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AMSTERDAM APOCALYPSE by Matt Grimm Pdf

Amsterdam, Virginia — a small farming community in the midst of a suburban transformation — is decimated by the H16N1 flu pandemic. With resources scarce and law enforcement nonexistent, the normally decent citizens of the once well-to-do area turn on each other. Then the militias arrive — men once looked on as "kooks" and outsiders, but who now have the military resources to claim the area farming infrastructure as their own. And with their ranks swollen by the desperate, they don't stop there. United against the tyranny by Reverend Jacob Craft — a local minister and veteran of the war in Afghanistan — the people of Amsterdam fight back. But with the federal, state, and local governments eerily silent, a new form of leadership is needed and The Amsterdam Directorate is born. Today - Reverend Jacob Craft awakens to a brilliant flash in the Eastern sky, the sight of a fiery mushroom cloud on the horizon, and a world ensnared in darkness by the failure of a susceptible power grid. With everything he has worked to build threatened, Jacob rushes to find answers. But an old enemy waits in the darkness for a second chance. Can Jacob keep the peace and defend his friends from a madman's attack or will the fragile community be torn apart from within and consumed by forces from without? ★★★★★ "Slick, well-executed!" - Steven Konkoly (author of The Jakarta Pandemic and The Perseid Collapse series)

Author : Benjamin E. Fisher
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780878201891

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Amsterdam's People of the Book by Benjamin E. Fisher Pdf

The Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cultivated a remarkable culture centered on the Bible. School children studied the Bible systematically, while rabbinic literature was pushed to levels reached by few students; adults met in confraternities to study Scripture; and families listened to Scripture-based sermons in synagogue, and to help pass the long, cold winter nights of northwest Europe. The community's rabbis produced creative, and often unprecedented scholarship on the Jewish Bible as well as the New Testament. Amsterdam's People of the Book shows that this unique, Bible-centered culture resulted from the confluence of the Jewish community's Catholic and converso past with the Protestant world in which they came to live. Studying Amsterdam's Jews offers an early window into the prioritization of the Bible over rabbinic literature -- a trend that continues through modernity in western Europe. It allows us to see how Amsterdam's rabbis experimented with new historical methods for understanding the Bible, and how they grappled with doubts about the authority and truth of the Bible that were growing in the world around them. Amsterdam's People of the Book allows us to appreciate how Benedict Spinoza's ideas were in fact shaped by the approaches to reading the Bible in the community where he was born, raised, and educated. After all, as Spinoza himself remarked, before becoming Amsterdam's most famous heretic and one of Europe's leading philosophers and biblical critics, he was "steeped in the common beliefs about the Bible from childhood on."

Author : Frances Carey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802083250

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The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come by Frances Carey Pdf

The Book of Revelation's legacy of visual imagery is evaluated here, from the 11th century to the end of World War 2 illuminated manuscripts, books, prints and drawings of apocalyptic phases are examined.

Author : Andrew Malcolm Thomas Dibb
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 076182975X

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Servetus, Swedenborg and the Nature of God by Andrew Malcolm Thomas Dibb Pdf

The Trinity was defined at the Council of Nicaea and the relationship of the human and divine natures of Christ was defined at Chalcedon. Very few questioned the Church's depictions of the nature of God. Two such mavericks, Michael Servetus (1509-1553) and Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), in spite of their Christian educations, rejected the Church's creedal understanding of God and the Trinity. Although they lived in two different ages- the Reformation and Enlightenment, and there is no evidence that Swedenborg ever read or even knew of Servetus- the two men came to remarkably similar conclusions about the nature of God. Each scholar stated that the Trinity does not rest in three Persons, but rather takes form in the single person of Jesus Christ, the visible God. Servetus was a superb scholar in his day. He mastered the Church Fathers and possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of the Bible. Servetus tragically perished in the flames at Geneva because of his beliefs. Swedenborg, likewise, was a well-known and respected scholar, philosopher, and anatomist. He dedicated the last thirty years of his life to biblical research, producing a series of some thirty volumes (in English) of theological writings. His work influenced many of the great thinkers and artists of the nineteenth century and continues to be read and studied in many parts of the world today.

Author : Colin McAllister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108422703

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The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature by Colin McAllister Pdf

Apocalytic literature has addressed human concerns for over two millennia. This volume surveys the source texts, their reception, and relevance.

Author : Alastair Hamilton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191541780

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The Apocryphal Apocalypse by Alastair Hamilton Pdf

This is the first study of the reception of the apocryphal Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Professor Hamilton discusses the concepts of biblical apocrypha and canonicity in connection with the increasingly critical attitude to religious authority which developed with the humanists and intensified with the Reformation. The Book owed its initial success to Hebraists such as Pico della Mirandola and Bibliander. It was used to account for the origins of Jewish Kabbalah and to prophesy political and religious events: the fall of the Ottoman empire, or the destruction of the papacy. Anabaptists, dissident Protestants of various persuasions, Rosicrucians and Paracelsians consulted it not only as a work of prophecy but, it is argued, as an emblem of dissent, rejected by the official Churches. At the same time more sober scholars, both Protestants and Catholics, scrutinized 2 Esdras with greater objectivity, endeavouring to date it correctly and establish its authorship. This study also investigates the interaction between their views and those of the Book's enthusiastic supporters.

Author : Renae L. Mitchell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793605566

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Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse by Renae L. Mitchell Pdf

Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse: Novelistic Revisions of Dystopian Motherhood deconstructs the ways in which women novelists have reconceived the post-apocalyptic genre in recent decades through narratives centered on heroic maternal characters. These writers have placed midwives, pregnant women, and mothers at the forefront of their novels, transforming them from the hapless victims of male oppressors to protagonists who are instrumental in transforming the post-apocalyptic social landscape from one that attempts to reconstruct a patriarchal past to one that safeguards, validates, and even lauds maternity as a form of empowerment. In a novelistic future devastated landscape in which human civilizations are shattered and waver at the brink of extinction, women who embody facets of maternity are taking the reins of rebuilding human societies by overturning patriarchal assumptions of femininity, reclaiming intersectional autonomy, and (re)visioning the possibilities for a declining anthropocene.

Author : Edward Royall Tyler,William Lathrop Kingsley,George Park Fisher,Timothy Dwight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433081643466

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New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler,William Lathrop Kingsley,George Park Fisher,Timothy Dwight Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Criticism
ISBN : OXFORD:555038611

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The New Englander by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dylan M. Burns
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812209228

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Apocalypse of the Alien God by Dylan M. Burns Pdf

In the second century, Platonist and Judeo-Christian thought were sufficiently friendly that a Greek philosopher could declare, "What is Plato but Moses speaking Greek?" Four hundred years later, a Christian emperor had ended the public teaching of subversive Platonic thought. When and how did this philosophical rupture occur? Dylan M. Burns argues that the fundamental break occurred in Rome, ca. 263, in the circle of the great mystic Plotinus, author of the Enneads. Groups of controversial Christian metaphysicians called Gnostics ("knowers") frequented his seminars, disputed his views, and then disappeared from the history of philosophy—until the 1945 discovery, at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, of codices containing Gnostic literature, including versions of the books circulated by Plotinus's Christian opponents. Blending state-of-the-art Greek metaphysics and ecstatic Jewish mysticism, these texts describe techniques for entering celestial realms, participating in the angelic liturgy, confronting the transcendent God, and even becoming a divine being oneself. They also describe the revelation of an alien God to his elect, a race of "foreigners" under the protection of the patriarch Seth, whose interventions will ultimately culminate in the end of the world. Apocalypse of the Alien God proposes a radical interpretation of these long-lost apocalypses, placing them firmly in the context of Judeo-Christian authorship rather than ascribing them to a pagan offshoot of Gnosticism. According to Burns, this Sethian literature emerged along the fault lines between Judaism and Christianity, drew on traditions known to scholars from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Enochic texts, and ultimately catalyzed the rivalry of Platonism with Christianity. Plunging the reader into the culture wars and classrooms of the high Empire, Apocalypse of the Alien God offers the most concrete social and historical description available of any group of Gnostic Christians as it explores the intersections of ancient Judaism, Christianity, Hellenism, myth, and philosophy.

Author : Henriette W. Havelaar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110884449

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The Coptic Apocalypse of Peter by Henriette W. Havelaar Pdf

As an accompaniment to the corpus of the Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller (GCS), Adolf von Harnack created the monograph series Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur (TU) in 1882, which from that time on served as an "archive for the ... editions of older Christian writers".

Author : Karen A. Ritzenhoff,Angela Krewani
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442260290

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The Apocalypse in Film by Karen A. Ritzenhoff,Angela Krewani Pdf

We live in a world at risk. Dire predictions about our future or the demise of planet earth persist. Even fictional representations depict narratives of decay and the end of a commonly shared social reality. Along with recurring Hollywood blockbusters that imagine the end of the world, there has been a new wave of zombie features as well as independent films that offer various visions of the future. The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions about the End of the World offers an overview of Armageddon in film from the silent era to the present. This collection of essays discusses how such films reflect social anxieties—ones that are linked to economic, ecological, and cultural factors. Featuring a broad spectrum of international scholars specializing in different historical genres and methodologies, these essays look at a number of films, including the silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the Mayan calendar disaster epic, 2012, and in particular, Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, the focus of several essays. As some filmmakers translate the anxiety about a changing global climate and geo-political relations into visions of the apocalypse, others articulate worries about the planet’s future by depicting chemical warfare, environmental disasters, or human made destruction. This book analyzes the emergence of apocalyptic and dystopic narratives and explores the political and social situations on which these films are based. Contributing to the dialogue on dystopic culture in war and peace, The Apocalypse in Film will be of interest to scholars in film and media studies, border studies, gender studies, sociology, and political science.

Author : Wolfram Brandes,Felicitas Schmieder,Rebekka Voß
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110472639

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Peoples of the Apocalypse by Wolfram Brandes,Felicitas Schmieder,Rebekka Voß Pdf

This volume addresses Jewish, Christian and Muslim future visions on the end of the world, focusing on the respective allies and antagonists for each religious society. Spanning late Antiquity to the early modern period, the collected papers examine distinctive aspects represented by each religion’s approach as well as shared concepts.

Author : William Burder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Cults
ISBN : OSU:32435011638434

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The History of All Religions of the World by William Burder Pdf

Author : Lester L. Grabbe,Gabriele Boccaccini,Jason M. Zurawski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567666154

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The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview by Lester L. Grabbe,Gabriele Boccaccini,Jason M. Zurawski Pdf

This tightly focused collection of essays, from an invited seminar of international specialists, centres on the question of the apocalyptic worldview around the time of the Maccabean revolt. What was the nature of apocalyptic at this time? Did the Maccabees themselves have a distinct apocalyptic worldview? These questions lead to other, more specific queries: who of the various groups held such a view? Certain of the essays analyse the characteristics of the apocalypses and related literature in this period, and whether the apocalyptic worldview itself gave rise to historical events or, at least, influenced them. The collection begins with two introductory essays. Both the main and short papers have individual responses, and two considered responses by well-known experts address the entire collection. The volume finishes with a concluding chapter by the lead editor that gives a perspective on the main themes and conclusions arising from the papers and discussion.