The Exile S Curse

Author : M.J. Scott
Publisher : emscott enterprises
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780648481478

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The Exile's Curse: A Romantic Fantasy Novel by M.J. Scott Pdf

Enjoy this new romantic historical fantasy series from RITA® Award nominated author M.J. Scott. To save her new life, she needs the man who destroyed her old one... Chloe de Montesse never thought she’d return from exile. Now she has a chance to reclaim the life she fled after her husband was executed for treason. But coming home again isn’t as simple as it sounds. Her magic is rusty, her family want her to wrap her in cotton wool, and Illvyan society views her as a scandal waiting to happen. Worse, fate keeps throwing her into the path of the man who ruined her life. Lucien de Roche’s magic bares the truth for all to see. He’s used it to serve the empire, but there’s one secret he’s always kept hidden. The fact that he fell in love with his best friend’s wife. And that he’s never quite fallen out again. Now Chloe is back and it’s no secret at all that she loathes him for his part in her husband’s death. A sensible man would forget her…but he’s tired of being sensible. And determined to keep her safe. When a mission from the emperor takes them both into the wildest heart of the empire, to a country where power and loyalties collide, and old plots simmer back to life, Chloe finds herself dragged back into the past she wants to leave behind. And her only way out might be Lucien. The man she thinks she can never trust. The man she wants to hate. Or hates to want… The Exile’s Curse is the first book in the Daughter of Ravens series, a new romantic gaslamp fantasy series from RITA® Award nominated author M.J. Scott, set in the same world as the Four Arts series. This series has old friends turned enemies (and then enemies to lovers), a heroine looking for a second chance, a smitten hero, political intrigue, royal witches, inconvenient marriages, sexy times and more. Enjoy! Author's note: For tropes and CW, please check the author's website.

Author : M. J. Scott
Publisher : Daughter of Ravens
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : 0645294810

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The Exile's Curse by M. J. Scott Pdf

To save her new life, she needs the man who destroyed her old one... Chloe de Montesse never thought she'd return from exile. Now she has a chance to reclaim the life she fled after her husband was executed for treason. But coming home again isn't as simple as it sounds. Her magic is rusty, her family want her to wrap her in cotton wool, and Illvyan society views her as a scandal waiting to happen. Worse, her new life keeps throwing her into the path of the man who destroyed her old one. Lucien de Roche's magic bares the truth for all to see. He's used it to serve the empire, but there's one secret he's always kept hidden. The fact that he fell in love with his best friend's wife. And that he's never quite fallen out again. Now Chloe is back and it's no secret at all that she loathes him for his part in her husband's death. A sensible man would forget her...but he's tired of being sensible. And determined to keep her safe. When a mission from the emperor takes them both into the wildest heart of the empire, to a country where power and loyalties collide, and old plots simmer back to life, Chloe finds herself dragged back into the past she wants to leave behind. And her only way out might be Lucien. The man she thinks she can never trust. The man she wants to hate. Or hates to want... The Exile's Curse. First in a brand new historical fantasy romance series set in the world of the Four Arts novels coming soon from M.J. Scott, RITA(R) Award nominated author of the Half-Light City series, the TechWitch series and the Wild Side Series. You don't need to read the Four Arts books first but maybe you'd like to catch up? Book 1 - The Shattered Court Book 2 - The Forbidden Heir Book 3 - The Unbound Queen Plus Courting The Witch, a prequel novella (previously published in the Warlords, Witches and Wolves Anthology, now including an all new bonus second epilogue).

Author : Jeff S. Anderson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620328217

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The Blessing and the Curse by Jeff S. Anderson Pdf

The "magical power of the spoken word" is a topic that often comes up in a discussion of biblical blessings and curses. What is the source of social and linguistic power behind these blessings and curses? Many theologians would agree that God can and does bless, but does God also curse? If so, what does that mean to the biblical theology of the Old Testament and the Christian church? Anderson's The Blessing and the Curse applies speech act theory as one way to understand the performative function of blessings and curses. The concept of speech acts provides a method of recognizing the potent social power of language to accomplish certain ends, without drawing a hard line of distinction between word-magic and religion. Even though the chief concepts and practices of blessings and curses are deeply rooted in the broad cultural environment of the ancient Near East, tracing specific trajectories of Old Testament blessings and curses as theological themes conveys broad, inescapable implications for the biblical narrative and the Christian church.

Author : Frederic Spotts
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300220971

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Cursed Legacy by Frederic Spotts Pdf

Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann’s comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known today as the author of Mephisto, the literary enfant terrible of the Weimar era produced seven novels, a dozen plays, four biographies, and three autobiographies—among them the first works in Germany to tackle gay issues—amidst a prodigious artistic output. He was among the first to take up his pen against the Nazis, as a reward for which he was blacklisted and denounced as a dangerous half-Jew, his books burnt in public squares around Germany, and his citizenship revoked. Having served with the U.S. military in Italy, he was nevertheless undone by anti-Communist fanatics in Cold War-era America and Germany, dying in France (though not, as all other books contend, by his own hand) at age forty-two. Powerful, revealing, and compulsively readable, this first English-language biography of Klaus Mann charts the effects of reactionary politics on art and literature and tells the moving story of a supreme talent destroyed by personal circumstance and the seismic events of the twentieth century.

Author : Preston M. Sprinkle
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830785797

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Exiles by Preston M. Sprinkle Pdf

A thoughtful exploration of the intersection of faith and politics, Exiles asks: What if we considered ourselves “exiles in Babylon” and turned to Scripture, not political parties, to shape our most passionate values? Politics are dividing our churches like never before. New York Times–bestselling author Dr. Preston M. Sprinkle reminds us that the first-century church was not an apolitical gathering, where Christians left their Roman politics at the door. It also wasn’t a place where Christians mounted a Roman flag next to—or above—a Christian one. Church was a place where God’s plan for governing the world was revealed, where one could witness what it means to follow the Creator’s design for human flourishing. In this timely book, Preston explores why: Israel’s exile to Babylon profoundly shaped the political identity of God’s people—and still does today. Christians should see themselves as foreigners in the country where they live. The gospel of Jesus’ kingdom was politically subversive. The church today should view its political identity as fundamentally separate from the empire. Total allegiance to a political party dilutes the church’s witness. Discover a more biblical, powerful way to live in a secular world. Discover what it means to live in exile.

Author : Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451405790

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A Biblical Theology of Exile by Daniel L. Smith-Christopher Pdf

The Christian church continues to seek ethical and spiritual models from the period of Israel's monarchy and has avoided the gravity of the Babylonian exile. Against this tradition, the author argues that the period of focus for the canonical construction of biblical thought is precisely the exile. Here the voices of dissent arose and articulated words of truth in the context of failed power.

Author : Jason A. Staples
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108842860

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The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism by Jason A. Staples Pdf

A new paradigm for how the biblical concept of Israel impacted early Jewish apocalyptic hopes for restoration.

Author : Rosalind Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521350255

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Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens by Rosalind Thomas Pdf

Despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many ways an oral society. The first significant attempt to study the implications of this view stresses the coexistence of literacy and oral tradition and examines their character and interaction.

Author : Robert Alter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 2966 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780393292503

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The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary (Vol. Three-Volume Set) by Robert Alter Pdf

A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning translation that delivers the stunning literary power of the original. A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reanimates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing its brilliantly compact poetry and finely wrought, purposeful prose, Alter renews the Old Testament as a source of literary power and spiritual inspiration. From the family frictions of Genesis and King David’s flawed humanity to the serene wisdom of Psalms and Job’s incendiary questioning of God’s ways, these magnificent works of world literature resonate with a startling immediacy. Featuring Alter’s generous commentary, which quietly alerts readers to the literary and historical dimensions of the text, this is the definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible.

Author : Gareth D. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge Philological Society
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106012914971

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The Curse of Exile by Gareth D. Williams Pdf

Williams shows how an understanding of Ovid's exile poetry is incomplete without recognition of the contribution of Ibis , particularly for its persona and mood.

Author : Martien Halvorson-Taylor
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004160972

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Enduring Exile by Martien Halvorson-Taylor Pdf

Focusing on the composition and redaction of Jeremiah 30–31, Isaiah 40–66, and Zechariah 1–8, this book examines how the Babylonian exile became a Second Temple metaphor for political disenfranchisement, social inequality, and alienation from YHWH.

Author : James Seung-Hyun Lee
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161623370

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Reimagining Exile in Daniel by James Seung-Hyun Lee Pdf

Author : Bruce D. Chilton,Porton,Louis H. Feldman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004497719

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Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions by Bruce D. Chilton,Porton,Louis H. Feldman Pdf

The exiles of Israel and Judah cast a long shadow over the biblical text and the whole subsequent history of Judaism. Scholars have long recognized the importance of the theme of exile for the Hebrew Bible. Indeed, critical study of the Old Testament has, at least since Wellhausen, been dominated by the Babylonian exile of Judah. In 586 BC, several factors, including the destruction of Jerusalem, the cessation of the sacrificial cult and of the monarchy, and the experience of the exile, began to cause a transformation of Israelite religion which supplied the contours of the larger Judaic framework within which the various forms of Judaism, including the early Christian movement, developed. Given the importance of the exile to the development of Judaism and Christianity even to the present day, this volume delves into the conceptions of exile which contributed to that development during the formative period.

Author : Phillip J. Long
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620329573

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Jesus the Bridegroom by Phillip J. Long Pdf

Did Jesus claim to be the "bridegroom"? If so, what did he mean by this claim? When Jesus says that the wedding guests should not fast "while the bridegroom is with them" (Mark 2:19), he is claiming to be a bridegroom by intentionally alluding to a rich tradition from the Hebrew Bible. By eating and drinking with "tax collectors and other sinners," Jesus was inviting people to join him in celebrating the eschatological banquet. While there is no single text in the Hebrew Bible or the literature of the Second Temple Period which states the "messiah is like a bridegroom," the elements for such a claim are present in several texts in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Hosea. By claiming that his ministry was an ongoing wedding celebration he signaled the end of the Exile and the restoration of Israel to her position as the Lord's beloved wife. This book argues that Jesus combined the tradition of an eschatological banquet with a marriage metaphor in order to describe the end of the Exile as a wedding banquet.

Author : Philip Church
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666753660

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Never Give Up! by Philip Church Pdf

The book is a commentary on Hebrews designed for use as textbook for undergraduate and graduate level studies. It works through the text of Hebrews paragraph by paragraph, with additional notes on a variety of theological topics along the way. In Hebrews and the Temple Church argued for an eschatological reading of Hebrews, and this book applies that reading to the discipline of a commentary. It grows out of postgraduate level lectures on Hebrews delivered at Laidlaw College in Auckland, New Zealand, Myanmar Evangelical Graduate School of Theology in Yangon, Myanmar; Asia Graduate School of Theology in Kathmandu, Nepal; and Christian Leaders' Training College at Banz, Papua New Guinea.