The Ladder Of Jacob

Author : James L. Kugel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400827015

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The Ladder of Jacob by James L. Kugel Pdf

Rife with incest, adultery, rape, and murder, the biblical story of Jacob and his children must have troubled ancient readers. By any standard, this was a family with problems. Jacob's oldest son Reuben is said to have slept with his father's concubine Bilhah. The next two sons, Simeon and Levi, tricked the men of a nearby city into undergoing circumcision, and then murdered all of them as revenge for the rape of their sister. Judah, the fourth son, had sexual relations with his own daughter-in-law. Meanwhile, jealous of their younger sibling Joseph, the brothers conspired to kill him; they later relented and merely sold him into slavery. These stories presented a particular challenge for ancient biblical interpreters. After all, Jacob's sons were the founders of the nation of Israel and ought to have been models of virtue. In The Ladder of Jacob, renowned biblical scholar James Kugel retraces the steps of ancient biblical interpreters as they struggled with such problems. Kugel reveals how they often fixed on a little detail in the Bible's wording to "deduce" something not openly stated in the narrative. They concluded that Simeon and Levi were justified in killing all the men in a town to avenge the rape of their sister, and that Judah, who slept with his daughter-in-law, was the unfortunate victim of alcoholism. These are among the earliest examples of ancient biblical interpretation (midrash). They are found in retellings of biblical stories that appeared in the closing centuries BCE--in the Book of Jubilees, the Aramaic Levi Document, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and other noncanonical works. Through careful analysis of these retellings, Kugel is able to reconstruct how ancient interpreters worked. The Ladder of Jacob is an artful, compelling account of the very beginnings of biblical interpretation.

Author : Montague Rhodes James
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556352898

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The Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament by Montague Rhodes James Pdf

Collected and Translated by Montague Rhodes James. There are many ancient, lost books relating to the Bible and this work covers the ones that are most hard to find, dating between 100 BCE and 100 CE. In many cases we do not have the full works, but have various sections and fragments. The author, Montague James, used quotations found mostly in the works of the Greek Ante-Nicene Fathers like Origen, Hippolytus and Clement of Alexandria to piece together what we are missing. He also uses important lists compiled from Greek, Latin and other languages in order to reveal what we know of other missing books that would, in some cases, otherwise be unheard of. This important piece of scholarship should be part of anyone's library who is seriously researching lost and ancient texts.

Author : Gerald Hausman,Uton Hinds
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 043947163X

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The Jacob Ladder by Gerald Hausman,Uton Hinds Pdf

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Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781681492735

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Jacob's Ladder by Peter Kreeft Pdf

There are ten important questions everyone should ask; ; and the answers to these questions, which lead to ultimate ; truth, are a matter of reason, not of faith. Well-known Catholic philosopher and writer Peter ; Kreeft tackles each of these questions in a logical ; step-by-step way, like climbing the rungs of a ladder. ; Because questions are best answered by dialogue, Kreeft ; answers these fundamental questions in an imaginary ; conversation between two very different people who meet at ; the beach. Kreeft's characters begin at the ; beginning, at the bottom of the ladder, which is the ; passion for truth. When it comes to the most important ; questions a person can ask, no mere interest in ; philosophical dabbling will do. The passion for truth does ; not stop there, however, but carries the reader from one ; page to the next in this thought-provoking adventure of the ; mind. Among the topics, or "steps", that ; Kreeft's characters delve into include: Do you ; have the passion to know? Does truth ; exist? What is the meaning of life? What ; is love, and why is it so important for our ; lives? If there is a God, what proof is there for ; his existence? Has God revealed himself to us in a ; personal way? And many other important ; questions and topics to help climb the ladder to the truth ; about life.

Author : Joel Yanofsky
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0889841918

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Jacob's Ladder by Joel Yanofsky Pdf

A romantic comedy written with the authenticity of a memoir, Jacob's Ladder is entertaining and intelligent. Full of wit, slapstick and heart, it conjures up the great screwball comedies of the 1940s. Joel Yanofsky writes about a community he knows intimately -- anglophone Montréal -- a community which has, over the years, both changed dramatically and dramatically resisted change. The same is true of Yanofsky's narrator, Jacob Glassman, a thirtysomething Oliver Twist stuck in the suburban home he grew up in and clinging to the status quo for dear life. Not easy to do for a man who is pursuing two women at the same time and who is caught up in a shifting series of love triangles. When it comes to craziness, Jacob points out, there's an awfully wide margin for error. In Jacob's Ladder, that margin is stretched to the limit by a cast of hilarious, haywire characters: rogue real estate agents, sentimental adulterers, an obese shrink, an agoraphobic travel agent, a transsexual newspaper editor, and a proselytzing rabbinical student with his sights set on Jacob's bewildered soul.

Author : Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374715908

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Jacob's Ladder by Ludmila Ulitskaya Pdf

One of Russia’s most renowned literary figures and a Man Booker International Prize nominee, Ludmila Ulitskaya presents what may be her final novel. Jacob’s Ladder is a family saga spanning a century of recent Russian history—and represents the summation of the author’s career, devoted to sharing the absurd and tragic tales of twentieth-century life in her nation. Jumping between the diaries and letters of Jacob Ossetsky in Kiev in the early 1900s and the experiences of his granddaughter Nora in the theatrical world of Moscow in the 1970s and beyond, Jacob’s Ladder guides the reader through some of the most turbulent times in the history of Russia and Ukraine, and draws suggestive parallels between historical events of the early twentieth century and those of more recent memory. Spanning the seeming promise of the prerevolutionary years, to the dark Stalinist era, to the corruption and confusion of the present day, Jacob’s Ladder is a pageant of romance, betrayal, and memory. With a scale worthy of Tolstoy, it asks how much control any of us have over our lives—and how much is in fact determined by history, by chance, or indeed by the genes passed down by the generations that have preceded us into the world.

Author : Bruce Joel Rubin
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015019394637

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Jacob's Ladder by Bruce Joel Rubin Pdf

Press kit includes: 1 booklet containing cast and credits listing and production information; biographies for: Adrian Lyne, Alan Marshall, Tim Robbins, Bruce Foel Rubin.

Author : Alan Morinis
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834826052

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Climbing Jacob's Ladder by Alan Morinis Pdf

Jewish by birth, though from a secular family, Alan Morinis explored Hinduism and Buddhism as a young man. But in 1997, in the face of personal crisis, he turned to his Jewish heritage for guidance. In his reading he happened upon a Jewish spiritual tradition called Mussar. Gradually he realized that he had stumbled upon an insightful discipline for self-development, complete with meditative, contemplative, and other well-developed transformative practices designed to penetrate the deepest roots of the inner life. Eventually reaching the limits of what he could learn on his own, he decided to seek out a Mussar teacher. This was not an easy task, since almost the entire world of the Mussar tradition had been wiped out in the Holocaust. In time, he found an accomplished master who stood in an unbroken line of transmission of the Mussar tradition, and who lived in the center of a community of Orthodox Jews on Long Island. This book tells the story of Morinis’s journey to meet his teacher and what he learned from him, revealing the central teachings and practices that are the spiritual treasury and legacy of Mussar. To learn more about the author, Alan Morinis, go to www.mussarinstitute.org.

Author : Brian Keaney
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781408315330

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Jacob's Ladder by Brian Keaney Pdf

A boy wakes up in the middle of a field. He cannot remember how he came to be there or even who he truly is. All he knows for certain is his name, Jacob. This is the story of a journey through fear towards hope, a choice between a past you cannot remember and a future you cannot predict.

Author : Michael Ashcroft
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785905315

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Jacob's Ladder by Michael Ashcroft Pdf

Jacob Rees-Mogg is one of the most prominent and controversial figures in contemporary British politics. He is a man who divides opinion in his own party, in Parliament and across the country. An arch-Brexiteer with significant business interests and a large personal fortune, he has long been a vocal critic of the European Union and of Prime Minister Theresa May's attempts to negotiate a Brexit deal. As chairman of the powerful anti-EU organisation the European Research Group, he has also been a thorn in the side of those seeking to dilute Brexit. While many people mock him for his impeccable manners and traditional attitudes – he has been dubbed 'the Honourable Member for the eighteenth century' – an equally great number applaud him for his apparent conviction politics. Undoubtedly, Rees-Mogg stands out among the current crop of MPs and his growing influence cannot be ignored. In this wide-ranging unauthorised biography of the Conservative Member of Parliament for North East Somerset, Michael Ashcroft, bestselling author of Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron, turns his attention to one of the most intriguing politicians of our time.

Author : Sergius Bulgakov
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080286516X

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Jacob's Ladder by Sergius Bulgakov Pdf

Few of Sergius Bulgakov s professional writings achieve the lyrical heights of Jacob s Ladder. In it he discusses the doctrine of angels and their importance for contemporary humanity. He includes reflections on the meaning of love, the sexes, death, and the Christian hope of resurrection, meditating on the Wisdom of God in the creation. This work completes the word picture of divinized and Sophianic creation begun in The Burning Bush and The Friend of the Bridegroom, which together constitute what scholars call Bulgakov s major, or first, trilogy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:926440524

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The Jacob's Ladder by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Alfred Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:20738775

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Jacob's Ladder : a novel by John Alfred Williams Pdf

Author : Edward Oppenheim
Publisher : Litres
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040564668

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Jacob's Ladder by Edward Oppenheim Pdf

"Jacob's Ladder" by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : John CLOWES
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024800044

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The Mysterious Ladder; Or, Jacob's Dream, Interpreted and Explained, Etc. [By John Clowes.] by John CLOWES Pdf