epub |eng | 2000-06-24 | Author:Robert Payne

Three Letters EXCERPTS FROM A LETTER FROM TERENCE, MASTER OF THE TEMPLE, TO ALL COMMANDERS AND BRETHREN OF THE ORDER, FROM TYRE, NOVEMBER 1187 BROTHER TERENCE, known as Grand Master ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-19 | Author:Eric Kaufmann

Conclusion Fundamentalist Islam has enjoyed an extraordinary resurgence since the late 1960s, caused by the demise of socialism and secular nationalism. The movement has been carried by competing Islamisms –some ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Stephen O'Shea [O'Shea, Stephen]

fires of hell. A discouraged Fulk, who had not been allowed to return to his city since he had taken part in the siege of Lavaur in 1211, tried unsuccessfully ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-04 | Author:Starr, S. Frederick

TURKIC VICTORY TOWERS Specialists have long known that such tall, cylindrical towers or minarets originated in Central Asia and Afghanistan, and that they spread from there to India in the ...

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 ...

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” ...

epub |rus | 2007-06-30 | Author:Farris, Michael [Farris, Michael]

Cobbet scoured the writings of various church fathers and more recent authors for passages buttressing his opinion. One source he cited was Beza's De Haereticis, published in defense of the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1953-01-02 | Author:Joseph Smith Jr.

CHAPTER 25 Lamanite aggressions spread—The seed of the priests of Noah perish as Abinadi prophesied—Many Lamanites are converted and join the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi—They believe in Christ and keep the ...

mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Wendy Doniger

The ambivalent moral status of the sages in this version of the myth is evident from Vishnu’s statement: The sages are evil and doomed to hell, but the gods must ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:Lester Sumrall

Document Outline Jerusalem: Where Empires Die Contents Introduction 1 Jerusalem: The Mystic City The Beloved City The Chosen City God’s Dwelling Place The Blessed City The Exalted City 2 Jerusalem: ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2003-09-15 | Author:Andrew Wheatcroft

THIS MULTIPLICITY UNDERMINED ONE OF THE STRONGEST “PRESUPPOSITIONS” among Westerners about the Balkans.24 They assumed that for all purposes Muslims formed one community and non-Muslims another. It was a logical ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-05-04 | Author:Susan Jacoby

If many agnostics attempted to conceal the extent of their participation in the women’s movement, they were entirely open about their role in the battle against late-nineteenth-century censorship. There was ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-07 | Author:Strobel, Lee [Strobel, Lee]

Craig’s explanation, however, left yet another question lingering: Why were the women going to anoint the body of Jesus if they already knew that his tomb was securely sealed? “Do ...

mobi |eng | 2000-04-01 | Author:Henry Morris

The Conflict of the Ages Before we carry our history of evolutionary thought back into the so-called Dark Ages before the Renaissance, it will be good to pause for a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:James Carroll

36. The Roman Ghetto STAMP FOR INFAMOUS POPE" was the headline in a Catholic newspaper not long ago.1 The story reported that the Vatican had just unveiled a new postage ...