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azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Ehrman, Bart D., Plese, Zlatko [Ehrman, Bart D., Plese, Zlatko]

Saying 4 (P. Oxy. 654.21–27) Jesus said, “A person old in days will not hesitate to ask a seven-day-old child about the place of life, and he will live. For ...
( Category: Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha April 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-23 | Author:Michael Haag

* * * Lonely Outposts The fall of the Crusader castles to the Mamelukes needs some explanation. How could such magnificent structures, built at such vast cost and effort, incorporating ...
( Category: Europe April 24,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Michael White

And as Bruno concluded the recounting of this part of his story, his words trailed off into a heavy silence. The room had grown dark around him as his tale ...
( Category: Christianity April 20,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-29 | Author:Elaine Pagels [Pagels, Elaine]

[THIS PAGE WAS UNINTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK] The pages 104-105 are missing from the available source jpegs. LUKE AND JOHN CLAIM ISRAEL’S LEGACY / 105 [THIS PAGE WAS UNINTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK] ...
( Category: Christianity April 20,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Pagels, Elaine [Pagels, Elaine]

Tacitus interprets Nero’s action in terms of his need for a scapegoat. As yet, the government may have considered the Christians outside Rome—if it considered them at all—too insignificant to ...
( Category: Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha April 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-26 | Author:Alan Unterman

AMEN Amen and Gehinnom ‘Zohar’ 3:285b-286a, Vayelech The simplest part of the Jewish liturgy is the ‘Amen’ response to blessings. Yet for the Kabbalists it is precisely in the merest ...
( Category: Vedas March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-03-18 | Author:Dan Brown [Brown, Dan]

CHAPTER 55 Seated on the divan beside Langdon, Sophie drank her tea and ate a scone, feeling the welcome effects of caffeine and food. Sir Leigh Teabing was beaming as ...
( Category: Conspiracies March 27,2014 )
epub | | 2009-07-12 | Author:Ken Follett [Follett, Ken]

* * * KAPITEL 44 Gilbert Hereford wurde vor dem geistlichen Gericht angeklagt, für schuldig befunden und von Prior Godwyn zu einer angemessenen Strafe verurteilt: Ihm sollte bei lebendigem Leib ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Bart D. Ehrman [Ehrman, Bart D.]

5 ORIGINALS THAT MATTER In this chapter we will examine the methods that scholars have devised to identify the “original” form of the text (or at least the “oldest attainable” ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Lawrence Wright [Wright, Lawrence]

THE TIME STORY WAS a turning point in the church’s history. The embarrassment for Scientology celebrities undercut the church’s strategy of making the religion appear to be a spiritual refuge ...
( Category: Christianity March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Ehrman, Bart D. [Ehrman, Bart D.]

When meantime Moses, that faithful and wise steward, perceived that the vice of sacrificing to idols had been deeply ingrained into the people from their association with the Egyptians, and ...
( Category: Christianity March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Michael Haag

Castles were never just military outposts, nor did they necessarily serve a primarily military purpose. As in Europe, castles served as core developments for new settlements and as centres of ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]

In Caspar David Friedrich’s 1819 Monastery Graveyard in the Snow (Cloister Cemetery in the Snow), winter scenes recall ancient ones — snow opens the door unto a lost, mystical, medieval ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Simon Jenkins

Painted ceiling in the Royal Hospital in Greenwich: though firm Protestants, William and Mary revelled in Stuart grandeur and understood the potency of monarchical symbols. Anne, last of the Stuart ...
( Category: England March 26,2014 )