Ishmael S Apocalypse

Author : Lloyd Little
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781612154138

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Ishmael's Apocalypse by Lloyd Little Pdf

Summary Ishmael's Apocalypse Ishmael's Apocalypse is a mystery thriller with intriguing true-to-life terrorism that can happen at any moment in any nation on earth. The story unfolds within an odyssey of world events, during a timeline the author calls 'his last seven days of grace'. This period begins seven days prior to the Jewish New Year in the Hebrew Calendar year of 5777. The mystery 'who is Ishmael' is archetypal, connecting the main characters with secret twists and uncertain turns, pulsing through the storyline. Its action packed scenes engage modern military weapons in authentic places. Unlike typical action novels, this plot incorporates the spiritual nature of people and the significant influence that world religions play on the governing of sovereign nations. The themes of national pride and moral values are succinctly questioned. Each apocalyptical scene moves your mind, body and soul into a future realm of terror on a grand scale. Even so, the magnitude of events will not overshadow the value of one human life. Author's Biography Lloyd R. Little Lloyd Little is the third of nine Irish Catholic children. He was born to Laura and Joseph Little in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Catholic grade school in suburban Pennsylvania. At the age of ten, his parents moved to the New Jersey countryside. Lloyd has three college degrees. They include a Master of Arts Degree in education from Glassboro State College, recently renamed Rowan University. He taught in the public schools for eight years and coached numerous sports. During this time, he relocated to the Jersey Shore, opening a small business with his wife Joyce. Ishmael's Apocalypse is a reflection of the faith he received during his Catholic school years and pursued during his adult life. The End Time interpretations in this story incorporate teachings found throughout many world religions.

Author : John C. Reeves
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Apocalyptic literature
ISBN : 9781589831025

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Trajectories in Near Eastern Apocalyptic by John C. Reeves Pdf

Author : Andrei A. Orlov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107039070

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Heavenly Priesthood in the Apocalypse of Abraham by Andrei A. Orlov Pdf

Sheds light on the complex Jewish debates about the nature of priesthood in the early centuries of the Common Era.

Author : Maurice S. Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199985814

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Uncertain Chances by Maurice S. Lee Pdf

Maurice Lee's study illustrates how writers such as Poe, Melville, Douglass, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others participated in a broad intellectual and cultural shift in which Americans increasingly learned to live with the threatening and wonderful possibilities of chance.

Author : J. Rendel Harris
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725224254

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The Gospel of the Twelve Apostles by J. Rendel Harris Pdf

Author : Edmondo F. Lupieri
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467433167

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A Commentary on the Apocalypse of John by Edmondo F. Lupieri Pdf

Edmondo Lupieri's main goal in A Commentary on the Apocalypse of John is to introduce readers to the mental and spiritual world of John as both a first-century Jew and a follower of Jesus. The fruit of over ten years of research, a constructive response to postmodern criticism, and an academic best-seller in its Italian edition, Lupieri's commentary offers both new proposals and traditional interpretations to shed light on this complex coda to the biblical message. In an illuminating preface Lupieri discusses the strange world of the Apocalypse and promises an open commentary, full of original treatments of knotty interpretive problems. Maintaining a strong historical perspective throughout, he examines the text of the Apocalypse line by line, paying careful attention to the Greek text, offering a new translation, making wide use of apocryphal, pseudepigraphal, and Qumran literature, and often analyzing John's Apocalypse as compared to other Jewish apocalypses. Thoughtful, thorough, and nonsectarian, Lupieri's Commentary on the Apocalypse of John will appeal to anyone with a serious interest in the meaning of the biblical text.

Author : Raʻanan S. Boustan
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3161487532

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From Martyr to Mystic by Raʻanan S. Boustan Pdf

"This study provides a critical analysis of Nurcholish Madjid's attempt to interpret Islam within the framework of modern Indonesia. Special attention is paid to his ideas and activities during the years leading to the 1998 downfall of President Soeharto, and the development towards democracy that followed. Although many of these ideas have been embraced by significant sectors of official Indonesia, they have also received harsh criticism from the representatives of more conservative interpretations of Islam and, more recently, from secular Muslims as well."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Bennie H. Reynolds III
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647550350

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Between Symbolism and Realism by Bennie H. Reynolds III Pdf

Bennie H. Reynolds analyzes of the language (poetics) of ancient Jewish historical apocalypses. He investigates how the dramatis personae, i.e., deities, angels/demons, and humans are described in the Book of Daniel (chapters 2, 7, 8, and 10–12) the Animal Apocalypse (1 Enoch 85–90), 4QFourKingdoms(a-b) ar, the Book of the Words of Noah (1QapGen 5 29–18?), the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C, and 4QPseudo-Daniel(a-b) ar. The primary methodologies for this study are linguistic- and motif-historical analysis and the theoretical framework is informed by a wide range of ancient and modern thinkers including Artemidorus of Daldis, Ferdinand de Saussure, Charles Peirce, Leo Oppenheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Umberto Eco. The most basic contention of this study is that the data now available from the Dead Sea Scrolls significantly alter how one should conceive of the genre apocalypse in the Hellenistic Period. This basic contention is borne out by five primary conclusions. For example, while some apocalypses employ symbolic language to describe the actors in their historical reviews, others use non-symbolic language. Some texts, especially from the Book of Daniel, are mixed cases. Among the apocalypses that use symbolic language, a limited and stable repertoire of symbols obtain across the genre and bear witness to a series of conventional associations. While several apocalypses do not use symbolic ciphers to encode their historical actors, they often use cryptic language that may have functioned as a group-specific language. The language of apocalypses indicates that these texts were not the domain of only one social group or even one type or size of social group.

Author : Emmanouela Grypeou,Helen Spurling
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004245556

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The Book of Genesis in Late Antiquity by Emmanouela Grypeou,Helen Spurling Pdf

This volume examines the relationship between rabbinic and Christian exegetical writings on the book of Genesis in the Eastern Roman Empire and Mesopotamia, and illuminates the history of relations between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.

Author : Jonathan A. Cook
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501757167

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Inscrutable Malice by Jonathan A. Cook Pdf

In Inscrutable Malice, Jonathan A. Cook expertly illuminates Melville's abiding preoccupation with the problem of evil and the dominant role of the Bible in shaping his best-known novel. Drawing on recent research in the fields of biblical studies, the history of religion, and comparative mythology, Cook provides a new interpretation of Moby-Dick that places Melville's creative adaptation of the Bible at the center of the work. Cook identifies two ongoing concerns in the narrative in relation to their key biblical sources: the attempt to reconcile the goodness of God with the existence of evil, as dramatized in the book of Job; and the discourse of the Christian end-times involving the final destruction of evil, as found in the apocalyptic books and eschatological passages of the Old and New Testaments. With his detailed reading of Moby-Dick in relation to its most important source text, Cook greatly expands the reader's understanding of the moral, religious, and mythical dimensions of the novel. Both accessible and erudite, Inscrutable Malice will appeal to scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Melville's classic whaling narrative.

Author : P. Koslowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1402006470

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Progress, Apocalypse, and Completion of History and Life after Death of the Human Person in the World Religions by P. Koslowski Pdf

The question of the progress, the apocalyptic end, and the completion of history and the question of the life after death and the resurrection of the human person differ and are interconnected in the religions at the same time. The individual's completion and the completion of the world, the historical communities and humankind are conditional on each other. The world religions offer more than an interpretation of present history and the present world and existence of the human race. They also convey to humankind a theory of world history and of history before and above world history. This interpretation of universal history in the religions can be apocalypticism as the theory of the end of the world or apocalypticism and eschatology as the theory of the end, completion, and transfiguration of world and history. The completion of the world is inseparable from the completion of the individual human life in immortality and vice versa. Immortality is described in the Abrahamic religions as personal resurrection; in Hinduism as entering the divine self, the Atman; and in Buddhism as being united with the Buddha. How do the religions interpret universal history and what statements do they make about life after death? Leading scholars of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have created with this volume a first-hand source of information, which enables the reader to gain a better understanding of these five world religions and their teachings about the end of history and the life after death of the human person.

Author : John Ellis Ishmael Bridge Be
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781524625962

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Seventh Apocalypse by John Ellis Ishmael Bridge Be Pdf

Seventh Apocalypse: The Unveiling of the Cornerstone for the Islamic States of the Americas is a compilation of letters to the editor as well as recommendations, warnings, and poems addressing recent and contemporary issues from the point of view of a Muslim in America. The conveyance of the message in Seventh Apocalypse is intended to prepare the reader for the inevitable increase in the influence of Islam in the western hemisphere.

Author : Kevork Bardakjian,Sergio La Porta
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004270268

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The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition by Kevork Bardakjian,Sergio La Porta Pdf

The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective comprises an unprecedented collection of essays on apocalyptic literature in the Armenian tradition.

Author : John Joseph Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Apocalyptic literature
ISBN : NWU:35556018163873

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Apocalypse by John Joseph Collins Pdf

Author : William C. Nicholas, Jr.
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781616433598

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I Saw the World End by William C. Nicholas, Jr. Pdf

A study guide for the average reader on the apocalyptic literature in Scripture, focusing particularly on the books of Daniel and Revelation.