Den Of Antiquity

Author : R. van den Broek,Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 079143611X

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Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times by R. van den Broek,Wouter J. Hanegraaff Pdf

This volume introduces what has sometimes been called "the third component of western culture". It traces the historical development of those religious traditions which have rejected a world view based on the primacy of pure rationality or doctrinal faith, emphasizing instead the importance of inner enlightenment or gnosis: a revelatory experience which was typically believed to entail an encounter with one's true self as well as with the ground of being, God. The contributors to this book demonstrate this perspective as fundamental to a variety of interconnected traditions. In Antiquity, one finds the gnostics and hermetics; in the Middle Ages several Christian sects. The medieval Cathars can, to a certain extent, be considered part of the same tradition. Starting with the Italian humanist Renaissance, hermetic philosophy became of central importance to a new religious synthesis that can be referred to as Western Esotericism. The development of this tradition is described from Renaissance hermeticists and practitioners of spiritual alchemy to the emergence of Rosicrucianism and Christian theosophy in the seventeenth century, and from post-enlightenment aspects of Romanticism and occultism to the present-day New Age movement.

Author : R. van den Broek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107031371

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Gnostic Religion in Antiquity by R. van den Broek Pdf

An examination of Gnostic religion in Late Antiquity within its historical and religious context, using Greek, Latin and Coptic sources.

Author : Bryce Raffle,Jack Tyler,Kate Philbrick
Publisher : Bryce Raffle
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995276722

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Den of Antiquity by Bryce Raffle,Jack Tyler,Kate Philbrick Pdf

When one thinks of a den, one tends to think of comfort. A cozy room in the house-a quiet, comfortable place, a room for conversation, reading, or writing. One doesn't tend to think of high adventure, dragons, vampires, airships, or paranormal creatures. And yet, that's just what you'll find in these pages. Stories of adventure and mystery! Paranormal, dark, and atmospheric tales! The fantastical and the imaginative, the dystopian and post-apocalyptic, and everything in between! So settle in to the coziest room in your house, plop down into your favourite armchair, and dive in to the Den of Antiquity. Featuring stories by Jack Tyler, E.C. Jarvis, Kate Philbrick, Neale Green, Bryce Raffle, N.O.A. Rawle, David Lee Summers, William J. Jackson, Steve Moore, Karen J. Carlisle, B.A. Sinclair and Alice E. Keyes.

Author : Tamar Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061870019

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Splendor in the Glass by Tamar Myers Pdf

Antiques dealer Abby Timberlake Washburn is thrilled when the Mrs. Amelia Shadbark—doyenne of Charleston society—invites her to broker a pricey collection of Lalique glass sculpture. These treasures will certainly boost business at the Den of Antiquity, and maybe hoist Abby into the upper crust—which would please her class-conscious mom, Mozella, no end. Alas, Abby's fragile dream is soon shattered when Mrs. Shadbark meets a foul, untimely end. And as the last known visitor to the victim's palatial abode, Abby's being pegged by the local law as suspect Numero Uno. Of course there are other possible killers—including several dysfunctional offspring and a handyman who may have been doing more for the late Mrs. S than fixing her leaky faucets. But Abby's the one who'll have to piece the shards of this deadly puzzle together—or else face a fate far worse than a mere seven years of bad luck!

Author : Dick Weissman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781438490878

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Bob Dylan's New York by Dick Weissman Pdf

Bob Dylan’s New York is a guidebook and a history of New York's key role through Dylan's lengthy career. It places Dylan’s early career in the storied history of Greenwich Village, a hotbed of new developments in the arts. A contemporary of Dylan’s, author Dick Weissman walked the same streets, played music in the same venues, and witnessed the growth of the folk music revival from before Dylan became popular to after the height of his impact on the music scene. The book features ten easy-to-follow walking maps and historic photographs, allowing the reader to retrace Dylan’s footsteps and simultaneously experience Dylan’s New York and contemporary New York. It also goes beyond the Village to include the many areas of the city where Dylan lived and worked, as well as the storied time he spent in Woodstock. Combining cultural history with personal history and anecdotes, Bob Dylan’s New York illuminates the life and times of this seminal artist.

Author : Annewies van den Hoek,John Joseph Herrmann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004256934

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Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise by Annewies van den Hoek,John Joseph Herrmann Pdf

These essays on late antiquity traverse a territory in which Christian and pagan imagery and practices compete, coexist, and intermingle. The iconography of the most significant late antique ceramic, African Red Slip Ware, is an important and relatively unexploited vehicle for documenting the diversity and interpenetration of late antique cultures. Literary texts and art in other media, particularly mosaics, provide imagery that complement and enhance the messages of the ceramics. Popular entertainments, pagan cults, mythic heroes, beasts, monsters, and biblical visions are themes dealt with on the patrician and popular levels. With interpretive supplements from these diverse realms, it is possible to achieve greater insight into the life, attitudes, and thought of Late Antiquity.

Author : Tamar Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061861789

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Monet Talks by Tamar Myers Pdf

Charleston antiques dealer Abigail Timberlake Washburn is thrilled by her recent estate auction purchase of a spectacular bejeweled birdcage from India, but not so much by its occupant, a mouthy mynah named Monet. Still, her customers at the Den of Antiquity seem charmed by the insufferable birdbrain, so Abby figures she's stuck with him. That is, until she finds a stuffed starling resting on his usual perch with a ransom note demanding a real Monet (the painted variety) in exchange for her purloined pet. Since she doesn't happen to have a priceless masterpiece on hand -- and since a mynahless existence isn't all that distasteful a prospect -- Abby figures she'll let the thief keep the annoying avian. But when her mama Mozella is abducted by the craven birdnapper, Abby must leap into the fray to rescue mater and mynah alike ... before the feathers really start to fly!

Author : Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Talking books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132171807

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Cassette Books by Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Pdf

Author : Tamar Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062041647

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The Glass Is Always Greener by Tamar Myers Pdf

“A very funny series.” —Green Bay Press-Gazette After sixteen delightfully madcap books, Tamar Myers’s hilarious Den of Antiquity cozy mystery series comes to a close with The Glass is Always Greener. A real death at a fake wake gets Charleston, South Carolina antiques dealer Abigail Timberlake Washburn into serious hot water in this masterful cozy farewell from the author of The Witchdoctor’s Wife, The Headhunter’s Daughter, and the Magdelena Yoder mysteries. Collectables connoisseurs and Antiques Roadshow nuts won’t want to miss a single minute of Abby’s amateur sleuthing.

Author : Tamar Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061859908

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Tiles and Tribulations by Tamar Myers Pdf

Abigail Timberlake Washburn would rather be anywhere else on a muggy Charleston summer evening -- even putting in extra hours at her antiques shop -- than at a séance. But her best friend, "Calamity Jane," thinks a spirit -- or "Apparition American," as ectoplasmically-correct Abby puts it -- lurks in the eighteenth-century Georgian mansion, complete with priceless, seventeenth-century Portuguese kitchen tiles, that C.J. just bought as a fixer-upper. Luckily, Abby's mama located a psychic in the yellow pages -- a certain Madame Woo-Woo -- and, together with a motley group of feisty retirees known as the "Heavenly Hustlers," they all get down to give an unwanted spook the heave-ho. But, for all her extrasensory abilities, the Madame didn't foresee that she, herself, would be forced over to the other side prematurely. Suddenly Abby fears there's more than a specter haunting C.J. And they’d better exorcise a flesh-and-blood killer fast before the recently departed Woo-Woo gets company.

Author : Tamar Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061843457

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A Penny Urned by Tamar Myers Pdf

Pickled...Then Potted All that remains of Lula Mae Wiggins-who drowned in a bathtub of cheap champagne on New Year's Eve-now sits in an alleged Etruscan urn in Savannah, Georgia. Further north, at the Den of Antiquity antique shop in Charlotte, North Carolina, plucky proprietor Abigail Timberlake is astonished to learn that she is the sole inheitor of the Wiggins estate. Late Aunt Lula Mae was, after all, as distant a relative as kin can get. Arriving in picturesque Savannah, Abby makes a couple of startling discoveries. First, that Lula Mae's final resting pot is more American cheap than Italian antique. And second, that there was a very valuable 1793 one-cent piece taped to the inside lid. Perhaps a coin collection worth millions is hidden among the deceased's worldly possessions-making Lula's passoing more suspicious than orginally surmised. With the strange appearance of a voodoo preistess coupled with the disturbing disappearance of a loved one-and with nasty family skeletons tumbling from the trees like acorns-Abby needs to find her penny auntie's killer p.d.q...or she'll be up to her ashes in serious trouble!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : K.G. Saur Verlag
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110273799

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International Directory of Arts 2013 by Anonim Pdf

The 37th edition of International Directory of Arts (IDA) contains more about 150,000 addresses (including telephone and fax numbers, eMail and URL) from all over the world: Museums and Public Galleries Universities, Academies, Schools Associations Art and Antique Trade, Numismatics Art and Antiques Fairs Galleries Auctioneers Restorers Art Publishers Art Journals Antiquarians and Art Booksellers Within each chapter, addresses are arranged by country and within country, sections are set our alphabetically by city. Details of the specializations of museums, as well as the names of curators and senior academic museum staff are also included. The address contents were revised and updated for this edition following a questionnaire mailing. The revision also took into account numerous national and international reference works. The eBookPLUS format comprises the content and search criteria of the printed edition and its indices, facilitating complex searches.

Author : Tamar Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061861864

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Baroque and Desperate by Tamar Myers Pdf

In a Treasure-Laden Mansion Unflappable and resourceful, Abigail Timberlake, antique dealer and owner of Charlotte, North Carolina's Den of Antiquity, relies on her knowledge and savvy to authenitcate the facts from the fakes when it comes to either curios or people. Her expertise makes Abby invaluable to exceptionally handsome Tradd Maxwell Burton, wealthy scion of the renowned Latham family. He needs her to determine the most priceless item in the Latham mansion and then split the proceeds of it with her. A treasure hunt in an antique-filled manor? All Abby can say is "let the games begin." It's Tough to Keep Help Accompanied by her best girlfriend, C.J., Abby arrives at the estate and is met with cool reserve, if no downright rudeness, from the members of the Latham clan. Trying to carry out Tradd's request, Abby finds that she could cut the household tension with a knife. But someone has beaten her to it by stabbing a maid to death with an ancient kris. Suddenly all eyes are on C.J., whose fingerprints happen to be all over the murder weapon. it's up to Abby to use her knack for detecting forgeries to expose the fake alibi of the genuine killer.

Author : Sophia Xenophontos,Anna Marmodoro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108833691

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The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium by Sophia Xenophontos,Anna Marmodoro Pdf

This volume provides the first authoritative study of the creative appropriation of Greek ethics by late antique and Byzantine authors.

Author : Eduard Iricinschi,Holger M. Zellentin
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 316149122X

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Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity by Eduard Iricinschi,Holger M. Zellentin Pdf

"The papers collected in this volume shift the focus away from "heretics" and "heresy" to heresiological discourse, by contextualizing the late antique Jewish and Christian groups that produced our extant literature. The contributors to the volume draw from multiple literary corpora and genres, bringing a variety of late antique perspective to explore the discursive construction of the Other. They unravel ethnic identities, and re-create the multiple voices textured in the dialogue between the "orthodox" and "heretical" writers."--BOOK JACKET.