Religious
epub |eng | 2008-06-30 | Author:Laqueur, Walter [Laqueur, Walter]

HITLER HAD BECOME an antisemite during his early years in Vienna, where antisemitism was rampant at the time both in the mainstream of Austrian politics and as the ideology of ...
( Category: Judaism March 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:David C. Bailey

8. The Ways of Frustration HOPE THAT AMERICAN HELP might come died hard in the breasts of the Catholic insurgents, and disputes over what should or should not be done ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:David I. Kertzer [Kertzer, David I.]

13. The Pope's Body A FEW DAYS BEFORE he was elected pope, Gioacchino Pecci, in his role as chamberlain, called in the dead pontiff's relatives for a reading of his ...
( Category: Christianity March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Roger Crowley

11 Terrible Engines APRIL 25–MAY 28, 1453 There is a need for machines for conducting a siege: different types and forms of tortoises … portable wooden towers … different forms ...
( Category: Islam March 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-07-16 | Author:William G. Dever

(2) The only known full-fledged Israelite temple of the monarchic period is the one excavated at Arad, east of Beersheba, by Yohanan Aharoni in the 196os. This building was controversial ...
( Category: General February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-03 | Author:Davies, Jon [Davies, Jon]

It is the case, however, that the wars and massacres inflicted by the Romans on the Jews effected a substantial change in emphasis, if not a major reformulation of Jewish ...
( Category: New Age, Mythology & Occult February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-25 | Author:Kirsch, Jonathan [Kirsch, Jonathan]

“Constantine is not fighting against us but against the gods,” Licinius announced in advance of the decisive battle, according to Constantine’s chronicler, Eusebius of Caesarea. “Now we shall see who ...
( Category: General February 15,2015 )
epub, 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: Christianity February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-28 | Author:Charles Freeman [Freeman, Charles]

HERE COULD HAVE BEEN FEW BACKDROPS MORE CONDUCIVE TO intellectual creativity than the great city of Alexandria. Founded by Alexander in 332 BC, Alexandria flourished as the major port of ...
( Category: Christianity February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-29 | Author:Van Voorst, Robert E.

Table 3 The Contents of the Signs Source in John Fortna gives a brief discussion of the character of SQ.304 It was a written book, as its conclusion, now in ...
( Category: New Testament February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Pagels, Elaine [Pagels, Elaine]

Gregory also understood how people suffer through their natural desire for children: There is pain always, whether children are born, or can never be expected; whether they live or die. ...
( Category: Christianity February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Cumont, Franz [Cumont, Franz]

It is also probable that the toilet of the statue was made every day, that its body and head were dressed, as in the Egyptian ritual. We have seen that ...
( Category: General February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Satlow, Michael L [Satlow, Michael L]

And you know that we have separated from the mass of the people . . . and from mingling with them in these matters and from being in contact with ...
( Category: Christianity February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-16 | Author:Komarnitsky, Kris D. [Komarnitsky, Kris D.]

If the ascension tradition arose in order to explain why the appearances stopped after a short time in the early Christian community, the reason an extra-mental Jesus does not appear ...
( Category: Christianity February 15,2015 )