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Wicked Sacrifice

Author : Jessica L. Jaster
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1500781231

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Wicked Sacrifice by Jessica L. Jaster Pdf

“Sometimes we are called upon to make great sacrifices. Sometimes those sacrifices hurt us. Cut us deep. Sometimes. Sometimes those sacrifices are worth it.” Those words were the last that Ava remembers passing through her mother's lips the last time she saw her, when she was just 5 years old. She had made a promise to her mother that day. Now, 11 years later and in a completely different country, living with abusive adoptive parents and ridiculed at school as a freak – Ava finds it more and more difficult to keep that promise. The voices she has heard in her head all her life are getting louder and harder to ignore. How long can she keep living like this? Then he moves to town. Gavin O'Connor and his family are Curators – guardians of the human race. They've been given the ability to sense the supernatural – or, the Wicked, as they call them. All things supernatural are wicked and to be hunted down and killed – that is what Gavin has been taught since he was in diapers. But, what happens when he finds himself doubting that very thing when he meets Ava?

Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares

Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813945767

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Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares by Wendy Doniger Pdf

Horses are not indigenous to India. They had to be imported, making them expensive and elite animals. How then did Indian villagers—who could not afford horses and often had never even seen a horse—create such wonderful horse stories and brilliant visual images of horses? In Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares, Wendy Doniger, called "the greatest living mythologist," examines the horse’s significance throughout Indian history from the arrival of the Indo-Europeans, followed by the people who became the Mughals (who imported Arabian horses) and the British (who imported thoroughbreds and Walers). Along the way, we encounter the tensions between Hindu stallion and Arab mare traditions, the imposition of European standards on Indian breeds, the reasons why men ride mares to weddings, the motivations for murdering Dalits who ride horses, and the enduring myth of foreign horses who emerge from the ocean to fertilize native mares.

The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice

Author : Daniel C. Ullucci
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199791729

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The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice by Daniel C. Ullucci Pdf

Sacrifice dominated the religious landscape of the ancient Mediterranean world for millennia, but its role and meaning changed dramatically in the fourth and fifth centuries with the rise of Christianity. Daniel Ullucci offers a new explanation of this remarkable transformation, in the process demonstrating the complexity of the concept of sacrifice in Roman, Greek, and Jewish religion. The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice challenges the predominant scholarly model, which posits a connection between so-called critiques of sacrifice in non-Christian Greek, Latin, and Hebrew texts and the Christian rejection of animal sacrifice. According to this model, pre-Christian authors attacked the propriety of animal sacrifice as a religious practice, and Christians responded by replacing animal sacrifice with a pure, ''spiritual'' 'worship. This historical construction influences prevailing views of animal sacrifice even today, casting it as barbaric, backward, and primitive despite the fact that it is still practiced in such contemporary religions as Islam and Santeria. Rather than interpret the entire history of animal sacrifice through the lens of the Christian master narrative, Ullucci shows that the ancient texts must be seen not simply as critiques but as part of an ongoing competition between elite cultural producers to define the meaning and purpose of sacrifice. He reveals that Christian authors were not merely purveyors of pure spiritual religion, but a cultural elite vying for legitimacy and influence in societies that long predated them. The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice is a crucial reinterpretation of the history of one of humanity's oldest and most fascinating rituals.

Queen's Sacrifice

Author : Vivian Wood
Publisher : Vivian Wood
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Queen's Sacrifice by Vivian Wood Pdf

Hades is as handsome as the devil and just as deceptive. A dark-haired, light eyed arms dealer who steals my breath away. When he finds me after months of captivity, he sweeps me off my feet. With his rough Scottish burr, he tells me that I'm his. Hades swears that he never thought he would lay eyes on me again. I haltingly tell him that I'm carrying his child. Hades has claimed me as his queen. Together, we will face terrible challenges. And if we are to survive, we may have to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph

Author : Frances Harper
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0807062332

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Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph by Frances Harper Pdf

Winner of the College Language Association Book Award Frances Smith Foster has rediscovered three novels by Frances E. W. Harper, the best-known African-American writer of the nineteenth century and author of the classic Iola Leroy. Originally serialized in issues of The Christian Recorder between 1868 and 1888, these works address issues of passing, social responsibility, courtship, sexuality, and temperance, and are the first to have been written specifically for an African-American audience.

Levitical Sacrifice and Heavenly Cult in Hebrews

Author : Benjamin J. Ribbens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110475890

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Levitical Sacrifice and Heavenly Cult in Hebrews by Benjamin J. Ribbens Pdf

This monograph examines Hebrews’ understanding of the relationship between old covenant sacrifices and Christ’s new covenant sacrifice, especially as it relates to the question of efficacy. Most scholars think the author of Hebrews strips the levitical sacrifices of most, if not all, efficacy, but this work affirms a more positive depiction of the levitical sacrifices. A mystical apocalyptic tradition stands behind Hebrews’ description of the heavenly cult , which establishes the framework for relating the levitical sacrifice to Christ’s sacrifice. The earthly, levitical cult was efficacious when it corresponded to or synchronized with the heavenly sacrifice of Christ. Still, the author of Hebrews develops the notion of the heavenly cult in unique ways, as Christ’s sacrifice both validates the earthly practice but also, due to his new covenant theology, calls for its end. Ribbens’ bold proposal joins a growing number of scholars that place Hebrews in the mystical apocalyptic tradition, highlights positive statements in Hebrews related to the efficacy of levitical sacrifices that are often overlooked, and relies on the heavenly cult to reconcile the positive and negative descriptions of the levitical cult.

Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice

Author : Jennifer Wright Knust,Zsuzsanna Varhelyi,Zsuzsanna Várhelyi
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199738960

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Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice by Jennifer Wright Knust,Zsuzsanna Varhelyi,Zsuzsanna Várhelyi Pdf

An investigation of the multiple meanings and functions of sacrifice in diverse religious texts and practices from the late Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods.

Holy Bible

Author : Charisma House
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781621369974

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Holy Bible by Charisma House Pdf

Compact reference Bible in the Modern English Version.

The Unbloody Sacrifice and Altar, Unvailed and Supported

Author : John Johnson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725232402

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The Unbloody Sacrifice and Altar, Unvailed and Supported by John Johnson Pdf

The Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology (published by John Henry Parker) was a series of 19th-century editions of theological works by writers in the Church of England, devoted as the title suggests to significant Anglo-Catholic figures. It brought back into print a number of works from the 17th century, concentrating though not exclusively on the Caroline Divines.[1] The publication of the Library, from 1841, was connected with the Oxford Movement which had begun in 1833; some of the editors, such as William John Copeland[2] and Charles Crawley were clearly identified with the Movement.

The Unbloody Sacrifice, and Altar unvail'd and supported; in which the nature of the Eucharist is explain'd according to the sentiments of the Christian Church in the four first centuries. ... With a prefatory epistle to the ... Bishop of Norwich, Animadversions on ... Dr. Wise's book, ... The Christian Eucharist rightly stated; and some reflections on ...'An Answer to the exceptions made against the ... Bishop of Oxford's Charge.” (Appendix.) pt. 1

Author : John JOHNSON (M.A., Vicar of Cranbrook.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1718
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023288835

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The Unbloody Sacrifice, and Altar unvail'd and supported; in which the nature of the Eucharist is explain'd according to the sentiments of the Christian Church in the four first centuries. ... With a prefatory epistle to the ... Bishop of Norwich, Animadversions on ... Dr. Wise's book, ... The Christian Eucharist rightly stated; and some reflections on ...'An Answer to the exceptions made against the ... Bishop of Oxford's Charge.” (Appendix.) pt. 1 by John JOHNSON (M.A., Vicar of Cranbrook.) Pdf

Sacred Sacrifice

Author : Rick F. Talbott
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597523400

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Sacred Sacrifice by Rick F. Talbott Pdf

'Sacred Sacrifice' examines how analogous mythological ideas and the experience of sacred presence during the ritual act created similar ritual paradigms in two non-contiguous cultures. Vedic fire sacrifice, the Horse sacrifice in ancient India and the sacrificial development of the Christian Eucharist serve as examples. This book takes to task theories on sacrifice and ritual that emphasize the psycho-social and functionalist interpretation to the exclusion of the religious. The relationship between myth and ritual, and conscious and unconscious human behavior emerges from this analysis of universal religious structures.