The Moses Expedition

Author : J.G. Jurado
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439100691

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The Moses Expedition by J.G. Jurado Pdf

“Juan Gómez-Jurado has created a true masterpiece. The Moses Expedition is a brilliant thriller—sharp, suspenseful, and engrossing” (Brad Thor, author of Code of Conduct). After fifty years in hiding, the Nazi war criminal known as the Butcher of Spiegelgrund has finally been tracked down by Father Anthony Fowler, a CIA operative and a member of the Vatican’s secret service. He wants something from the Butcher—a candle covered in filigree gold that was stolen from a Jewish family many years before. But it isn’t the gold Fowler is after. As Fowler holds a flame to the wax, the missing fragment of an ancient map that uncovers the location of the Ten Commandments given to Moses is revealed. Soon Fowler is involved in an expedition to Jordan set up by a reclusive billionaire. But there is a traitor in the group who has ties to terrorist organizations back in the United States, and who is patiently awaiting the moment to strike. From wartime Vienna to terrorist cells in New York and a lost valley in Jordan, The Moses Expedition is a thrilling read about a quest for power and the secrets of an ancient world.

Author : Juan Gómez-Jurado
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0452289122

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God's Spy by Juan Gómez-Jurado Pdf

The #1 Spanish bestseller, sold in over 40 countries, a spectacular contemporary thriller set in the heart of the Vatican A ruthless serial killer, a chilling conspiracy, and a deadly race around the Vatican converge in this internationally bestselling thriller. In the days following the death of Pope John Paul II, the horribly disfigured body of a cardinal is discovered in a chapel in Rome. With a serial killer now on the loose in the Vatican, Police Inspector Paola Dicanti is assigned to the grisly case. Desperate to find the killer before another victim dies, she enlists the help of Father Anthony Fowler, a charismatic American priest who knows more about the killer than Paola could have imagined. As Paola and Father Anthony struggle through the web of tantalizing clues, the evidence leads them to powerful figures within the Church hierarchy. But their pursuit of the truth may make them the next pawns to be sacrificed in this terrifying and deadly game.

Author : J.G. Jurado
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439198797

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The Traitor's Emblem by J.G. Jurado Pdf

Many years after a sea captain rescues a group of German castaways from a storm and receives a gold-and-diamond emblem from a grateful survivor, the captain's son learns of the object's link to a World War II tale about a man's effort to solve his soldier father's murder.

Author : Sarah Hopkins Bradford
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89098875628

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Harriet, the Moses of Her People by Sarah Hopkins Bradford Pdf

The way was so toilsome over the rugged mountain passes, that often the men who followed her would give out, and foot-sore, and bleeding, they would drop on the ground, groaning that they could not take another step. They would lie there and die, or if strength came back, they would return on their steps, and seek their old homes again. Then the revolver carried by this bold and daring pioneer, would come out, while pointing it at their heads she would say, "Dead niggers tell no tales; you go on or die!" And by this heroic treatment she compelled them to drag their weary limbs along on their northward journey.

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Leonardo Paolo Lovari
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9788898301799

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Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud Pdf

The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. Freud hypothesizes that Moses was not Hebrew, but actually born into Ancient Egyptian nobility and was probably a follower of Akhenaten, an ancient Egyptian monotheist. Freud contradicts the biblical story of Moses with his own retelling of events, claiming that Moses only led his close followers into freedom during an unstable period in Egyptian history after Akhenaten (ca. 1350 BCE) and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion and later combined with another monotheistic tribe in Midian based on a volcanic God, Jahweh. Freud explains that years after the murder of Moses, the rebels regretted their action, thus forming the concept of the Messiah as a hope for the return of Moses as the Saviour of the Israelites. Freud said that the guilt from the murder of Moses is inherited through the generations; this guilt then drives the Jews to religion to make them feel better.

Author : Josiah Howard Temple
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Whately (Mass.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044035015007

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History of the Town of Whately, Mass by Josiah Howard Temple Pdf

Author : Nelson Wayne Durham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Columbia River Valley
ISBN : NYPL:33433081784906

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History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington by Nelson Wayne Durham Pdf

Author : Chanan Tigay
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062206435

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The Lost Book of Moses by Chanan Tigay Pdf

One man’s quest to find the oldest Bible scrolls in the world and uncover the story of the brilliant, doomed antiquarian accused of forging them. In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira—archaeological treasure hunter and inveterate social climber—showed up unannounced in London claiming to have discovered the oldest copy of the Bible in the world. But before the museum could pony up his £1 million asking price for the scrolls—which discovery called into question the divine authorship of the scriptures—Shapira’s nemesis, the French archaeologist Charles Clermont-Ganneau, denounced the manuscripts, turning the public against him. Distraught over this humiliating public rebuke, Shapira fled to the Netherlands and committed suicide. Then, in 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Noting the similarities between these and Shapira’s scrolls, scholars made efforts to re-examine Shapira’s case, but it was too late: the primary piece of evidence, the parchment scrolls themselves had mysteriously vanished. Tigay, journalist and son of a renowned Biblical scholar, was galvanized by this peculiar story and this indecipherable man, and became determined to find the scrolls. He sets out on a quest that takes him to Australia, England, Holland, Germany where he meets Shapira’s still aggrieved descendants and Jerusalem where Shapira is still referred to in the present tense as a “Naughty boy”. He wades into museum storerooms, musty English attics, and even the Jordanian gorge where the scrolls were said to have been found all in a tireless effort to uncover the truth about the scrolls and about Shapira, himself. At once historical drama and modern-day mystery, The Lost Book of Moses explores the nineteenth-century disappearance of Shapira’s scrolls and Tigay's globetrotting hunt for the ancient manuscript. As it follows Tigay’s trail to the truth, the book brings to light a flamboyant, romantic, devious, and ultimately tragic personality in a story that vibrates with the suspense of a classic detective tale.

Author : Tessa Rajak
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0391041339

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The Jewish Dialogue With Greece and Rome by Tessa Rajak Pdf

This work includes essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world.They derive from the author's long-standing interests in the analysis of texts as documents of cultural and religious interaction.

Author : Austen Henry Layard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Armenia
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50314352

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Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard Pdf

Author : Juan Gómez-Jurado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124115408

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Contract with God by Juan Gómez-Jurado Pdf

A lost treasure, a Nazi war criminal, and a lifelong quest to find a missing heirloom are the starting points for this new novel from the author of God's Spy. Father Anthony Fowler, CIA operative and member of the Vatican's secret service, the Holy Alliance, pays a visit to a war criminal living under a pseudonym because of the terrible experiments he performed on Jewish children. Fowler offers him a deal - he will not reveal the man's true identity in exchange for a huge candle covered in fine filigree gold. But it isn't the gold Fowler is after - it is the metallic object preserved within the wax, a missing fragment of an ancient map. Soon Fowler is involved in an expedition to Jordan set up by the enigmatic head of Kayn industries, a reclusive billionaire who has links to the highest levels of the Catholic Church. But there is a traitor in the group who has links to terrorist organisations back in the US, and who is patiently awaiting the moment to strike. From wartime Vienna to terrorist cells in New York and a lost valley in Jordan, Contract with God is a thrilling read about a quest for power and the secrets of an ancient world.

Author : Jacob Neusner,Baruch A. Levine,Ernest S. Frerichs
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592447602

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Judaic Perspectives on Ancient Israel by Jacob Neusner,Baruch A. Levine,Ernest S. Frerichs Pdf

This volume assembles for the first time a representative statement of Judaic learning on the Old Testament as it is studied today by many of the most important Jewish Bible scholars of the age. A host of internationally known scholars - American, European, and Israeli - here present a variety of rich perspectives on the study and interpretation of the Scriptures revered by both Judaism and Christianity. These studies make clear that no single Jewish school of biblical scholarship exists. Rather there is a Jewish approach, involving appreciation for Hebrew as a living language; the reality of Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel; the continuity of Scripture in the life of Israel, the Jewish people, and the state of Israel; and a complete and healthy adaptation of the critical perspectives of contemporary scholarship. This unique and stimulating volume vividly demonstrates the importance and value of critical scholarly discourse on the Hebrew Scripture (Old Testament) by Jewish scholars for both Christian and Jewish communities.

Author : Maria Duenas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451616897

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The Time In Between by Maria Duenas Pdf

Poor seamstress Sira Quiroga forges a new identity during the Spanish Civil War and becomes the most sought-after couture designer in North Africa, where she is enlisted to pass coded information to the British Secret Service.

Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520349254

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The Opening of the California Trail by George R. Stewart Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.

Author : Jan Assmann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674261501

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Moses the Egyptian by Jan Assmann Pdf

Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography Jan Assmann both defines and practices in this work, the study of historical memory--a study, in this case, of the ways in which factual and fictional events and characters are stored in religious beliefs and transformed in their philosophical justification, literary reinterpretation, philological restitution (or falsification), and psychoanalytic demystification. To account for the complexities of the foundational event through which monotheism was established, Moses the Egyptian goes back to the short-lived monotheistic revolution of the Egyptian king Akhenaten (1360-1340 B.C.E.). Assmann traces the monotheism of Moses to this source, then shows how his followers denied the Egyptians any part in the origin of their beliefs and condemned them as polytheistic idolaters. Thus began the cycle in which every "counter-religion," by establishing itself as truth, denounced all others as false. Assmann reconstructs this cycle as a pattern of historical abuse, and tracks its permutations from ancient sources, including the Bible, through Renaissance debates over the basis of religion to Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism. One of the great Egyptologists of our time, and an exceptional scholar of history and literature, Assmann is uniquely equipped for this undertaking--an exemplary case study of the vicissitudes of historical memory that is also a compelling lesson in the fluidity of cultural identity and beliefs.