The Oracle And The Curse

Author : Caleb Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674075863

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The Oracle and the Curse by Caleb Smith Pdf

Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown’s shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War. In nineteenth-century criminal trials, judges played the role of law’s living oracles, but offenders were also given an opportunity to address the public. When the accused began to turn the tables on their judges, they did so not through rational arguments but by calling down a divine retribution. Widely circulated in newspapers and pamphlets, these curses appeared to channel an otherworldly power, condemning an unjust legal system and summoning readers to the side of righteousness. Exploring the modes of address that communicated the authority of law and the dictates of conscience in antebellum America’s court of public opinion, Caleb Smith offers a new poetics of justice which assesses the nonrational influence that these printed confessions, trial reports, and martyr narratives exerted on their first audiences. Smith shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature.

Author : Caleb Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674075849

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The Oracle and the Curse by Caleb Smith Pdf

Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America’s court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature.

Author : Esther Eidinow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199277780

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Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks by Esther Eidinow Pdf

A study of the question tablets from the oracle at Dodona and binding-curse tablets from across the ancient Greek world, These tablets reveal the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, and help us to understand some of the ways in which they managed risk and uncertainty in their daily lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dust Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780979348921

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The Blessed Curse by Anonim Pdf

Author : Melissa Macfie
Publisher : Can't Put It Down Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0999462318

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Oracle's Curse by Melissa Macfie Pdf

Brenawyn has made impossible promises. She has agreed to become the Druid high priestess, she has agreed to restore the balance between worlds, she has promised to save Alexander from a century¿s old curse, and to top it all off, the god Finvarra has just dropped her 600 years in past so that she can fulfill an ancient prophecy. Now she must make impossible choices: between saving her lover or rescuing her best friend, between staying in the past or returning to the present. But most of all, she must choose who she will become.Oracle¿s Curse, the third book in The Celtic Prophecy series, takes the reader on a journey to a world of dark magic, a world where dangers abound and Brenawyn has no one to trust.

Author : Godwin O. Adeboye
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781839738272

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Can a Christian Be Cursed? by Godwin O. Adeboye Pdf

The belief in curses is widespread in Africa, impacting the lived reality of both Christians and non-Christians alike. In this book, Godwin Adeboye provides practical, biblical, and contextual guidelines for addressing the African conception of cursing, and for ministering to the fear and confusion such cursing elicits. He argues that African evangelical theology must begin by understanding, and valuing, the unique experiences of African Christians if it is to offer relevant answers to the real dilemmas they face. To this end, Adeboye draws on African traditional beliefs, empirical research, and the teachings of popular African pastors to provide insight into the religious and cultural contexts of the contemporary African church. Against this backdrop, he explores biblical passages on cursing and utilizes the evangelical positions on biblical authority, the atonement, personal conversion, and active mission to evaluate cultural beliefs and bring them into alignment with the gospel. While this text is an excellent resource for students of theology, missiology, and biblical or cultural studies, it is also immensely practical and deeply pastoral. Ultimately, it is a book to empower believers to confront their fear of curses equipped with the truth of Scripture.

Author : Jeff S. Anderson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725248274

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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 : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Gallopade International
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780635070401

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The Curse of the Ancient Acropolis (Athens, Greece) by Carole Marsh Pdf

The Mystery Girl-Mimi, Papa, Christina and Grant aboard-travels to the historic country of Greece. The wonders of the ancient world soon turn to a wickedly awful mystery Trek along to the Acropolis in the moonlight A museum where Grant loses his marbles. Wake up in a volcano's caldera Get lost in the caverns of the Meteora Decipher clues in Greek Spend the night in Socrate's Prison And much more as you help solve the mystery and the curse and learn why Grant says, It's all Greek to me More about the Around the World in 80 Mysteries series: Travel around the world with Christina and Grant as they visit famous places in 80 countries. Each mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more Each mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities. Each Carole Marsh Mystery also has an Accelerated Reader quiz, a Lexile Level, and a Fountas & Pinnell guided reading level. A fun way to learn about fascinating places around the world Each book includes a map, inline glossary definitions, and lots more Kids can visit the www.carolemarshmysteries.com website to: Join the Carole Marsh Mysteries Fan Club Write a letter to Christina, Grant, Mimi, or Papa Cast their vote for where the next mystery should take place Find fascinating facts about the countries where the mysteries take place Track their reading on an international map Take the Fact or Fiction online quiz Play the Around-the-World Scavenger Hunt computer game Find out where The Mystery Girl is flying next And more Read all the books in any order Each mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more Each mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities. Each Carole Marsh Mystery also has an Accelerated Reader quiz, a Lexile Level, and a Fountas & Pinnell guided reading level.

Author : Annie Sullivan
Publisher : Blink
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780310768258

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A Curse of Gold by Annie Sullivan Pdf

Curses and queens. Pirates and kings. Gods and magic. The final saga of a princess cursed by Midas’s touch, a vengeful Greek god, and a dazzling kingdom in the balance. After barely surviving thieving, bloodthirsty pirates and a harrowing quest at sea to retrieve her stolen treasure, Kora finds readjusting to palace life just as deadly. Her people openly turn against her, threatening to overthrow her as heir to the throne due to fear of her magical powers. When Dionysus puts out a challenge to kill the girl with the golden touch and burn down her kingdom, it’s not just her future on the throne in danger. Kora’s life and entire kingdom are now on contract. With no other choice, Kora sets out to find Dionysus, journeying to the mysterious disappearing island of Jipper. If she wants to save her kingdom and have any chance at reversing her father’s curse, she will have to enter into a deadly game with Dionysus, the greatest trickster the world, or the underworld, has ever seen. A Curse of Gold: Is the highly-anticipated sequel to A Touch of Gold by author Annie Sullivan Is an enchanting and captivating fantasy adventure/fairy tale retelling, perfect for fans of The Wrath and the Dawn and Cinder Is told from the perspective of Kora, King Midas’s daughter and a strong female protagonist Features a beautifully decorated cover Will have strong appeal to readers ages 13 & up

Author : Rick Riordan
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781423131977

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Three: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan Pdf

When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it's up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess?

Author : Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525539629

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The Oracle by Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell Pdf

The husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team of Sam and Remi Fargo return in a new adventure as they search for an ancient scroll--which carries a deadly curse--in this thrilling addition to Clive Cussler's bestselling series. In 533 A.D., the last Vandal ruler in North Africa consults an oracle on how to defeat the invading Byzantine army. The oracle tells the king that a high priestess cast a curse upon the Vandal Kingdom after a sacred scroll was stolen. In order to lift the curse, the scroll must be returned to its rightful home. But the kingdom falls before the scroll is found, leaving its location a great mystery. . . until a current day archeological dig, funded by Sam and Remi Fargo, uncovers some vital clues. The search for the ancient scroll is put on hold when the Fargos learn that a shipment of supplies intended for their charitable foundation's school has been stolen, and they travel to Nigeria to deliver new supplies themselves. But their mission becomes infinitely more complicated when they run afoul of a band of robbers. The group takes Remi and several students hostage, and there are signs that the kidnapping is related to the missing scroll. The Fargos need all their skills to save the lives of the young girls at the school before they uncover the hidden treasure. . . and lift the deadly curse.

Author : Philip M. Peek
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0253343097

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African Divination Systems by Philip M. Peek Pdf

"This volume of finely crafted case studies is also the vehicle for an important general theory of divination.... this is a book overflowing with ideas that will powerfully stimulate further research." -- Journal of Ritual Studies "The essays in this collection provide a very useful overview of both the diversity of African divination systems and of recent approaches to their study." -- Choice This unique collection of essays by an exceptional international group of Africanists demonstrates the central role that divination continues to play throughout Africa in maintaining cultural systems and in guiding human action. African Divination Systems offers insights for current discussions in comparative epistemology, cross-cultural psychology, cognition studies, semiotics, ethnoscience, religious studies, and anthropology.

Author : Dolores G. Kamrada
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567662385

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Heroines, Heroes and Deity by Dolores G. Kamrada Pdf

Kamrada's study analyses three narratives concerning the greatest heroic figures of the biblical tradition: Jephthah's daughter, Samson and Saul, and includes a consideration of texts about King David. All three characters are portrayed as the greatest and most typical and exemplary heroes of the heroic era. All three heroes have an exceptionally close relationship with the deity all die a traditionally heroic, tragic death. Kamrada argues that within the Book of Judges and the biblical heroic tradition, Jephthah's daughter and Samson represent the pinnacle of female and male heroism respectively, and that they achieve super-human status by offering their lives to the deity, thus entering the sphere of holiness. Saul's trajectory, by contrast, exemplifies downfall of a great hero in his final, irreversible separation from God, and it also signals the decline of the heroic era. David, however, is shown as an astute hero who founds a lasting dynasty, thus conclusively bringing the heroic era in the Deuteronomistic history to a close.

Author : Stephen R. Haynes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198032601

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Noah's Curse by Stephen R. Haynes Pdf

"A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." So reads Noah's curse on his son Ham, and all his descendants, in Genesis 9:25. Over centuries of interpretation, Ham came to be identified as the ancestor of black Africans, and Noah's curse to be seen as biblical justification for American slavery and segregation. Examining the history of the American interpretation of Noah's curse, this book begins with an overview of the prior history of the reception of this scripture and then turns to the distinctive and creative ways in which the curse was appropriated by American pro-slavery and pro-segregation interpreters.

Author : Björn Quiring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134491001

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Shakespeare's Curse by Björn Quiring Pdf

Conceptualizing the curse as the representation of a foundational, mythical violence that is embedded within juridical discourse, Shakespeare’s Curse:The Aporias of Ritual Exclusion in Early Modern Royal Drama pursues a reading of Richard III, King John, and King Lear in order to analyse the persistence of imprecations in the discourses of modernity. Shakespeare wrote during a period that was transformative in the development of juridical thinking. However, taking up the relationship between theater, theology and law, Björn Quiring argues that the curse was not eliminated from legal discourses during this modernization of jurisprudence; rather, it persisted and to this day continues to haunt numerous speech acts. Drawing on the work of Derrida, Lacan, Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben, among others, Quiring analyses the performativity of the curse, and tracks its power through the juristic themes that are pursued within Shakespeare’s plays – such as sovereignty, legitimacy, succession, obligation, exception, and natural law. Thus, this book provides an original and important insight into early modern legal developments, as well as a fresh perspective on some of Shakespeare’s best known works. A fascinating interdisciplinary study, this book will interest students and scholars of Law, Literature, and History.