The Matriarch S Devise

Author : Sharon Skinner
Publisher : Brick Cave Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938190292

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The Matriarch's Devise by Sharon Skinner Pdf

“If we turn our backs on who we are, who knows what danger we ourselves may become?” Orpahned by war, haunted by unknown origins, KIRA is a young woman with a secret. She can psychically communicate with certain animals. Determined to discover the truth of her heritage, Kira resumes her journey following the events of The Healer's Legacy. Together with Milos, and accompanied by her loyal companions, Kelmir and Vaith, she sets sail for the strange land across the Faersent Sea. But when she arrives in her mother’s homeland, what awaits her is not the welcoming arms of loving relatives, but a land filled with political strife, dark intrigue, and a family secret that could shatter everything.

Author : David J. Zucker,Moshe Reiss
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625643964

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The Matriarchs of Genesis by David J. Zucker,Moshe Reiss Pdf

Sarah. Hagar. Rebekah. Leah. Rachel. Bilhah. Zilpah. These are the Matriarchs of Genesis. A people's self-understanding is fashioned on their heroes and heroines. Sarah, Rebekah, Leah, and Rachel--the traditional four Matriarchs--are important and powerful people in the book of Genesis. Each woman plays her part in her generation. She interacts with and advises her husband, seeking to achieve both present and future successes for her family. These women act decisively at crucial points; through their actions and words, their family dynamics change irrevocably. Unlike their husbands, we know little of their unspoken thoughts or actions. What the text in Genesis does share shows that these women are perceptive and judicious, often seeing the grand scheme with clarity. While their stories are told in Genesis, in the post-biblical world of the Pseudepigrapha, their stories are retold in new ways. The rabbis also speak of these women, and contemporary scholars and feminists continue to explore the Matriarchs in Genesis and later literature. Using extensive quotations, we present these women through five lenses: the Bible, Early Extra-Biblical Literature, Rabbinic Literature, Contemporary Scholarship, and Feminist Thought. In addition, we consider Hagar, Abraham's second wife and the mother of Ishmael, as well as Bilhah and Zilpah, Jacob's third and fourth wives.

Author : Shera Aranoff Tuchman,Sandra E. Rapoport
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0881258474

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The Passions of the Matriarchs by Shera Aranoff Tuchman,Sandra E. Rapoport Pdf

The Bible is spare in its use of dialogue when it comes to the biblical matriarchs--Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah. The written biblical text records at length, and in minute detail, the religious and national history of the Jewish people. Yet it only affords us a mere glimpse of the private and intimate lives of these strong and prophetic women. On the surface, these women--the biblical matriarchs--lived difficult and flawed lives. They endured childlessness, abduction, wearisome marriages, envy of the other woman, and difficult children. We are left wondering what they thought and how they felt, as they lived their personal lives and built a nation. This book, for the first time ever, answers these questions by drawing extensively upon classical biblical commentaries and Talmudic and Rabbinic writings which reveal the underlying emotions of the matriarchs. The reader enters the world of the matriarchs, experiencing the agony of infertility, the ecstasy of passionate love, and the pain of being unloved. Their thoughts, feelings, words and actions are fleshed out, and the women emerge not as one-dimensional figures, but as complex women possessing an array of universal passions. At the same time, these women remain grounded in Godliness, building the House of Israel as partners with the patriarchs. The Passions of the Matriarchs is a riveting and readable book that tells the story behind the passions that ruled the lives of these laudable women.

Author : V.E. Mitchell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743420167

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Windows on a Lost World by V.E. Mitchell Pdf

Windows On A Lost World While Captain Kirk and a landing party from the Starship Enterprise™ explore the ruins of an ancient civilization on the uninhabited planet Careta IV, they discover strange devices that appear to be windows.But the mysterious windows prove to be more than they seem when Kirk, Chekov, and two security guards enter them and disappear. Suddenly, Kirk and his team find themselves find themselves trapped in a strange alien enviorment and must fight with all their strength to survive and keep their sanity. Now Spock must locate his missing comrades and solve the window's ancient mysteries before his captain and crewmates are lost forever....

Author : Katie J. Woolstenhulme
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567695741

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The Matriarchs in Genesis Rabbah by Katie J. Woolstenhulme Pdf

Katie J. Woolstenhulme considers the pertinent questions: Who were 'the matriarchs', and what did the rabbis think about them? Whilst scholarship on the role of women in the Bible and Rabbinic Judaism has increased, the authoritative group of women known as 'the matriarchs' has been neglected. This volume consequently focuses on the role and status of the biblical matriarchs in Genesis Rabbah, the fifth century CE rabbinic commentary on Genesis. Woolstenhulme begins by discussing the nature of midrash and introducing Genesis Rabbah; before exploring the term 'the matriarchs' and its development through early exegetical literature, culminating in the emergence of two definitions of the term in Genesis Rabbah – 'the matriarchs' as the legitimate wives of Israel's patriarchs, and 'the matriarchs' as a reference to Jacob's four wives, who bore Israel's tribal ancestors. She then moves to discuss 'the matriarchal cycle' in Genesis Rabbah with its three stages of barrenness; motherhood; and succession. Finally, Woolstenhulme considers Genesis Rabbah's portrayal of the matriarchs as representatives of the female sex, exploring positive and negative rabbinic attitudes towards women with a focus on piety, prayer, praise, beauty and sexuality, and the matriarchs' exemplification of stereotypical, negative female traits. This volume concludes that for the ancient rabbis, the matriarchs were the historical mothers of Israel, bearing covenant sons, but also the present mothers of Israel, continuing to influence Jewish identity.

Author : Aimee Armande Wilson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438495613

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Masculine Pregnancies by Aimee Armande Wilson Pdf

Who is taken seriously as an artist? What does gender have to do with it? Is there a relationship between artistic creation and physical procreation? In Masculine Pregnancies, Aimee Armande Wilson argues that modernist writers used depictions of "mannish" pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to answer these questions. The book places "masculine pregnancies" in works by Djuna Barnes, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Ezra Pound in the context of interwar debates about eugenics, immigration, midwifery, and sexology in order to redefine the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism. Attending to recent developments in queer theory, Wilson challenges the critical assumption that figures of masculine pregnancy necessarily reinforce oppressive norms. The book's first half shows how some writers indeed used such figures to delegitimize artists who were not white, male, and heterosexual. The second half then shows how others used masculine pregnancies to extend legitimacy to mannish women, dark-skinned immigrants, and their (pro)creations—and did so a century before the current boom in queer pregnancy narratives.

Author : Jo Ann Skousen
Publisher : Cedar Fort Publishing & Media
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462144273

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Matriarchs of the Messiah: 2nd Edition by Jo Ann Skousen Pdf

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is also the God of Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah. In this fascinating book, renowned scholar Jo Ann Skousen shines light on Christ's maternal ancestors, including the reformed harlot Rahab, the kind and loyal Moabite Ruth, and the beautiful Bathsheba. Filled with insights that still apply today, this is a must-read for followers of the Holy Bible.

Author : Mickey Leland Mattox
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004128941

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Defender of the Most Holy Matriarchs by Mickey Leland Mattox Pdf

A study in the history of exegesis, this text examines Martin Luther's interpretation of the stories of the women of Genesis, evaluating his understanding of male/female relations as well as his appropriation of Christian hagiographical traditions of biblical interpretation.

Author : Nadine Amsler
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295743813

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Jesuits and Matriarchs by Nadine Amsler Pdf

In early modern China, Jesuit missionaries associated with the male elite of Confucian literati in order to proselytize more freely, but they had limited contact with women, whose ritual spaces were less accessible. Historians of Catholic evangelism have similarly directed their attention to the devotional practices of men, neglecting the interior spaces in Chinese households where women worshipped and undertook the transmission of Catholicism to family members and friends. Nadine Amsler’s investigation brings the domestic and devotional practices of women into sharp focus, uncovering a rich body of evidence that demonstrates how Chinese households functioned as sites of evangelization, religious conflict, and indigenization of Christianity. The resulting exploration of gendered realms in seventeenth-century China reveals networks of religious sociability and ritual communities among women as well as women’s remarkable acts of private piety. Amsler’s exhaustive archival research and attention to material culture reveals new insights about women’s agency and domestic activities, illuminating areas of Chinese and Catholic history that have remained obscure, if not entirely invisible, for far too long.

Author : Jeffrey Hadler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801468698

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Muslims and Matriarchs by Jeffrey Hadler Pdf

Muslims and Matriarchs is a history of an unusual, probably heretical, and ultimately resilient cultural system. The Minangkabau culture of West Sumatra, Indonesia, is well known as the world's largest matrilineal culture; Minangkabau people are also Muslim and famous for their piety. In this book, Jeffrey Hadler examines the changing ideas of home and family in Minangkabau from the late eighteenth century to the 1930s. Minangkabau has experienced a sustained and sometimes violent debate between Muslim reformists and preservers of indigenous culture. During a protracted and bloody civil war of the early nineteenth century, neo-Wahhabi reformists sought to replace the matriarchate with a society modeled on that of the Prophet Muhammad. In capitulating, the reformists formulated an uneasy truce that sought to find a balance between Islamic law and local custom. With the incorporation of highland West Sumatra into the Dutch empire in the aftermath of this war, the colonial state entered an ongoing conversation. These existing tensions between colonial ideas of progress, Islamic reformism, and local custom ultimately strengthened the matriarchate. The ferment generated by the trinity of oppositions created social conditions that account for the disproportionately large number of Minangkabau leaders in Indonesian politics across the twentieth century. The endurance of the matriarchate is testimony to the fortitude of local tradition, the unexpected flexibility of reformist Islam, and the ultimate weakness of colonialism. Muslims and Matriarchs is particularly timely in that it describes a society that experienced a neo-Wahhabi jihad and an extended period of Western occupation but remained intellectually and theologically flexible and diverse.

Author : Mickey Leland Mattox
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004473560

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"Defender of the Most Holy Matriarchs": Martin Luther’s Interpretation of the Women of Genesis in the Enarrationes in Genesin, 1535-1545 by Mickey Leland Mattox Pdf

A study in the history of exegesis, this text examines Martin Luther's interpretation of the stories of the women of Genesis, evaluating his understanding of male/female relations as well as his appropriation of Christian hagiographical traditions of biblical interpretation.

Author : Susan Frances Edwards
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781291780505

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Draakoa In Danger by Susan Frances Edwards Pdf

Bruathimo is now a Junior Master of The Turning and must go to Draakoa; a world on which the Draakea and Saauusoori live, to be Judged by the Light. Can he, with his Gifts of The Turning and Sensitivity be the One of whom the prophecies have spoken? And will his companions have a part in ensuring the success of the task for which they were brought from Myldora? Danger is approaching Draakoa, but as they try to understand the prophecies, they learn the two races have a history of conflict; and those past wounds must first be healed. And for that to happen a way must be found for the Draakea to understand the Saauusori, who only use thought and wordless song. Will the blessings of the Draake and the gifts of the Great Powers enable them to succeed? And will their own people offer the help the Elders promised, or will they choose to ignore the call for help from Draakoa? The race is on to reconcile the people of Draakoa, and help them prepare to survive the coming devastation.

Author : Edna Zapanta-Manlapaz
Publisher : Ateneo University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Authors, Filipino
ISBN : 9715502296

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Our Literary Matriarchs, 1925-1953 by Edna Zapanta-Manlapaz Pdf

Author : Kalpana Misra
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1584653256

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Jewish Feminism in Israel by Kalpana Misra Pdf

A dynamic and authentic representation of feminism in Israel, by some of its leading exponents and activists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : United States
ISBN : MSU:31293008121372

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The Department of State Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.