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Author : Camilla Grebe,Åsa Träff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451654608
Siri Bergman organizes a support group for victims of domestic abuse against a backdrop of a brutal beating murder for which the only witness is a traumatized five-year-old girl.
Author : Camilla Grebe,Åsa Träff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451654646
In the chilling follow-up to Some Kind of Peace, Siri Bergman returns to investigate a brutal murder case centered in the dark world of domestic abuse. It’s a rainy evening in a Stockholm suburb and five-year-old Tilda is hiding under the kitchen table playing with her crayons when a man enters and beats her mother to death in cold blood. The only witness, Tilda can’t quite see the murderer or figure out who he is. But she’s still a witness. Across town, Siri Bergman and her best friend, Aina, are assisting their old friend Vijay with a research project on domestic abuse. They host a weekly self-help group for survivors, and over the course of several dark, rainy evenings, these women share their stories of impossible love, violence, and humiliation. When the boyfriend of one of the women turns out to be a prime suspect in a high-profile murder case, it isn’t long before Siri finds herself embroiled in the investigation. But as she draws closer to finding the murderer, unexpected developments in her own life force her to wonder: Can she learn to trust a man again in spite of being surrounded by women who have been so deeply betrayed by love?
Author : Lisa M. Wolfe
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814681480
2021 Catholic Media Association Award third place award in academic studies Qoheleth, also called Ecclesiastes, has been bad news for women throughout history. In this commentary Lisa Wolfe offers intriguing new possibilities for feminist interpretation of the book's parts, including Qoheleth's most offensive passages, and as a whole. Throughout her interpretation, Wolfe explores multiple connections between this book and women of all times, from investigating how the verbs in the time poem in 3:1-8 may relate to biblical and contemporary women alike, to noting that if 11:1 indicates ancient beer making it thus reveals the women who made the beer itself. In the end, Wolfe argues that, by struggling with the perplexing text of Qoheleth, we may discover fruitful, against-the-grain reading strategies for our own time.
Author : Heinrich Kramer,James Sprenger
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781602063846
"A handbook for hunting and punishing witches to assist the Inquisition and Church in exterminating undesirables. Mostly a compilation of superstition and folklore, the book was taken very seriously at the time it was written in the 15th century and became a kind of spiritual law book used by judges to determine the guilt of the accused"--From publisher description.
Author : Yvonne Owens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350190504
Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Dürer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he gave powerful visual expression to late medieval tropes and stereotypes, such as the poison maiden, venomous virgin, the Fall of Man, 'death and the maiden' and other motifs and eschatological themes, which mingled abject and erotic qualities in the female body. Yvonne Owens reads these images against the humanist intellectual milieu of Renaissance Germany, showing how classical and medieval medicine and natural philosophy interpreted female anatomy as toxic, defective and dangerously beguiling. She reveals how Hans Baldung exploited this radical polarity to create moralising and titillating portrayals of how monstrous female sexuality victimised men and brought them low. Furthermore, these images issued from-and contributed to-the contemporary understanding of witchcraft as a heresy that stemmed from natural 'feminine defect,' a concept derived from Aristotle. Offering new and provocative interpretations of Hans Baldung's iconic witchcraft imagery, this book is essential reading for historians of art, culture and gender relations in the late medieval and early modern periods.
Author : J. Robert Wright,Thomas C. Oden
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830897346
Among the Wisdom literature of the Old Testament, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon were all thought by the early church fathers to have derived from the hand of Solomon. To their minds the finest wisdom about the deeper issues of life prior to the time of God's taking human form in Jesus Christ was to be found in these books. As in all the Old Testament, they were quick to find types and intimations of Christ and his church that would make the ancient Word relevant to the Christians of their day. Of extant commentaries on Ecclesiastes none are so profound as the eight homilies of Gregory of Nyssa, even though they cover only the first three chapters of the book. Joining Gregory among those most frequently excerpted in this volume are Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory the Great, Origen, John Cassian, John Chrysostom, Athanasius, Bede the Venerable, and Jerome. Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil the Great, and Cyril of Jerusalem lead a cast of other less frequently cited fathers, and then there remains a large cast of supporting players, some of whose work is translated here into English for the first time. This Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volume offers a rich trove of wisdom on Wisdom for the enrichment of the church today.
Author : Heinrich Institoris,Jakob Sprenger,James Sprenger
Publisher : Book Tree
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1585090980
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Author : Kristen E. Kvam,Linda S. Schearing,Valarie H. Ziegler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0253212715
This anthology surveys more than 2,000 years of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim commentary and debate on the biblical story that continues to raise questions about what it means to be a man or to be a woman.
Author : Dana Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fielding, Emma (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0739454846
Braving a winter blizzard to attend a conference honoring the contributions of archaeologist Julius Garrison, Emma Fielding finds herself a suspect, along with other guests at the hotel, when the cantankerous honoree is found murdered outside the snow-bound inn. Original.
Author : Christopher S. Mackay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107393714
The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486–7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early modern period. Its descriptions of the evil acts of witches and the ways to exterminate them continue to contribute to our knowledge of early modern law, religion and society. Mackay's highly acclaimed translation, based on his extensive research and detailed analysis of the Latin text, is the only complete English version available, and the most reliable. Now available in a single volume, this key text is at last accessible to students and scholars of medieval history and literature. With detailed explanatory notes and a guide to further reading, this volume offers a unique insight into the fifteenth-century mind and its sense of sin, punishment and retribution.
Author : Thomas GOODWIN (D.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026975307
Author : Thomas Goodwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Puritans
ISBN : HARVARD:32044038505392
Author : Kenneth R. Bartlett,Margaret McGlynn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442607149
This updated version of Humanism and the Northern Renaissance now includes over 60 documents exploring humanist and Renaissance ideals, the zeal of religion, and the wealth of the new world. Together, the sources illuminate the chaos and brilliance of the historical period--as well as its failures and inconsistencies. The reader has been thoroughly revised to meet the needs of the undergraduate classroom. Over 30 historical documents have been added, including material by Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, William Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Galileo Galilei. In the introduction, Bartlett and McGlynn identify humanism as the central expression of the European Renaissance and explain how this idea migrated from Italy to northern Europe. The editors also emphasize the role of the church and Christianity in northern Europe and detail the events leading up to the Reformation. A short essay on how to read historical documents is included. Each reading is preceded by a short introduction and ancillary materials can be found on UTP's History Matters website (www.utphistorymatters.com).
Author : Montague Summers
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780486122694
Full text of most important witchhunter's "bible," used by both Catholics and Protestants. First published in 1486, the book includes everything known at the time about cults, illicit sex, dealings with the devil, and more.
Author : Dov Noy,Dan Ben-Amos,Ellen Frankel
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780827608290
Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion begins the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the first volume in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews. The 71 tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives, Named in Honor of Dov Noy, The University of Haifa (IFA), a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the Sephardic culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This volume and the others to come will be monuments to a rich but vanishing oral tradition.