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Cosmos, Chaos and the Kosher Mentality

By: David Bryan

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Cosmos, Chaos and the Kosher Mentality

By: David Bryan

This is an innovative investigation of the puzzling animal imagery found in three 2nd-century BCE texts: the Animal Apocalypse (1 Enoch 85-90), the Testament of Naphtali and Daniel 7. It urges that a sense of cultural change is required to understand this well-known imagery, and argues in particular that the mentality underlying the kosher legislation played a significant, even if unconscious, role in the imagination of the various authors. A reading of the Animal Apocalypse is offered which argues that the author utilized the unclean precisely because they represent for him the forces of chaos set in opposition to God. Bryan acknowledges that the bizarre creatures of T. Naph. 5 and Daniel 7 belong to a different kind of imagery (Mischwesen), but argues that awareness of the influence of the kosher mentality opens up new explanations. As mixed creatures, they represent a radical break with order. They are an intense form of unclean creature, and those whom they represent are perceived to be living embodiments of the powers of chaos.

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1474230377

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Claude Levi-Strauss

The Bearer of Ashes

By: David Pace

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Claude Levi-Strauss

The Bearer of Ashes

By: David Pace

Lévi-Strauss is one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century yet he is a very private and isolated figure, who has been reticent about himself. This book, first published in 1983,provides a fascinating insight into his character through a careful reading of the more speculative passages of his books and interviews. His personal existential and psychological orientation is explored through a structural analysis of Tristes Tropiques, his most personal book, and his writings on art, nature and civilization and through a consideration of his debt to Rousseau. Dr Pace examines in depth Lévi-Strauss’s critique of cultural evolutionism and his attack on the notion of world history. He assesses the political implications of Lévi-Strauss’s own interpretation of human progress through an examination of his debates with Sartre and other Marxists in the 1950s and 1960s and his subsequent movement to the right. The author’s concern throughout is to place the world-view of this great French anthropologist in the context of twentieth-century intellectuals’ struggle to come to grips with cultural relativism and the ‘problem’ of the primitive.

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Routledge

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1317400720

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The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude

What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

By: David A. deSilva

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The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude

What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

By: David A. deSilva

Jews have sometimes been reluctant to claim Jesus as one of their own; Christians have often been reluctant to acknowledge the degree to which Jesus' message and mission were at home amidst, and shaped by, the Judaism(s) of the Second Temple Period. In The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude David deSilva introduces readers to the ancient Jewish writings known as the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha and examines their formative impact on the teachings and mission of Jesus and his half-brothers, James and Jude. Knowledge of this literature, deSilva argues, helps to bridge the perceived gap between Jesus and Judaism when Judaism is understood only in terms of the Hebrew Bible (or ''Old Testament''), and not as a living, growing body of faith and practice. Where our understanding of early Judaism is limited to the religion reflected in the Hebrew Bible, Jesus will appear more as an outsider speaking ''against'' Judaism and introducing more that is novel. Where our understanding of early Judaism is also informed by the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, we will see Jesus and his half-brothers speaking and interacting more fully within Judaism. By engaging critical issues in this comparative study, deSilva produces a portrait of Jesus that is fully at home in Roman Judea and Galilee, and perhaps an explanation for why these extra-biblical Jewish texts continued to be preserved in Christian circles.

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Oxford University Press

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0199976988

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Enochic Judaism

Three Defining Paradigm Exemplars

By: David R. Jackson

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Enochic Judaism

Three Defining Paradigm Exemplars

By: David R. Jackson

From the Books of Enoch, Jackson identifies a paradigm of order as opposed to deviation, which defined orthodoxy and elect identity in a manner which was absolutely exclusive. Over 300 years "Enochic Judaism" developed three working models within this paradigm to explain their worldview and its implications. These three models concerned 1) the fall of the angels under Shemikhazah (ethnic purity); 2) the revealing of secrets under the leadership of 'Aza'el (cultural purity); and 3) the going astray of the cosmos through the sin of the angels who govern its phenomena (liturgical purity). Jackson examines the way in which this tradition was developed within the Dead Sea Scrolls literature and notes its acceptance as authentic and authoritative within the so-called sectarian literature in particular.

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A&C Black

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0567081656

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Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction

By: Jean-Pierre Boulé,David Platten

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Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction

By: Jean-Pierre Boulé,David Platten

Michel Tournier is a writer who explores complex philosophical questions in the guise of concrete, imagistic narratives. This comprehensive study privileges the notion of literary reference, by which the world of text is understood or experienced in metaphorical relation to the world outside of it. Metaphor, in the context of Tournier’s fiction, shows how the fantastic merges with the real to provide new perspectives on many diverse aspects of the modern world: the Crusoe myth, Nazism, the value to society of art and religion, and the nature of education. This book elucidates an aesthetic of Tournier’s fiction that encompasses the writer’s stated ambition to ‘go beyond literature’.

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Liverpool University Press

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085323843X

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9780853238430

Contemporary Business

By: Louis E. Boone,David L. Kurtz,Michael H. Khan,Brahm Canzer,Rosalie Harms,Peter M. Moreira

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Contemporary Business

By: Louis E. Boone,David L. Kurtz,Michael H. Khan,Brahm Canzer,Rosalie Harms,Peter M. Moreira

Enable students to evaluate and provide solutions to today's global business challenges and thrive in today's fast-paced business environment. Rooted in the basics of business, Contemporary Business, 4th Canadian Edition provides students a foundation upon which to build a greater understanding of current business practices and issues that affect their lives. Written with attention toward global technology trends, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), Contemporary Business, 4th Canadian Edition encourages learners to grow and leverage intercultural aptitude, real-world problem-solving, and data analytics skills.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119905818

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Suicide and the Holocaust

David Lester

By: David Lester

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Suicide and the Holocaust

David Lester

By: David Lester

The purpose of this important book is to explore the phenomena of the low suicide rate in the concentration camps during the Holocaust, and why its survivors seem to become increasingly susceptible to suicide, as they grow older. This unique book explores this heretofore unexplored area of history by the case study method utilising the detailed biographies of famous survivors. People kill themselves usually because they are in deep despair, with no hope for the future. Surely the people in the concentration camps, especially those that were clearly extermination camps, would have been in deep despair with no hope for the future. But since they supposedly did not commit suicide at a high rate, they must not have been in such state. This puzzle of human behaviour is examined under the microscope of a well-known world expert on suicide.

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Nova Publishers

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1594544271

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Longing

Jewish Meditations on a Hidden God

By: Justin David

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Longing

Jewish Meditations on a Hidden God

By: Justin David

Longing is a universal human experience, born of the inevitable gulf between dream and reality, what we need and what we have. While the experience of longing may arise from loss or the awareness of a void in one’s life, it may also become a powerful engine of spiritual growth, prompting one to draw closer to the hidden yet present “Other.” Across the range of Jewish teachings, longing takes center stage in one’s spiritual life. From the Bible through current frontiers in Jewish belief and practice, God is both known and unknown, immediate and remote, present and in constant eclipse. This book captures the sense of longing in Jewish tradition by creating a dialogue between the author’s own struggles with an estranged father and a wide range of traditional and contemporary sources. Focusing on the story of the Hebrew prophet Elisha, the book takes the reader through a journey of abandonment, creative destruction, and ultimately repair and healing, engaging with currents in biblical theology, rabbinic thought, Kabbalah, and contemporary Jewish philosophy. Written in a familiar yet probing style, this book is an accessible introduction to Jewish thought and spirituality as well as a thoughtful companion for more experienced students.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532631359

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Chronicles and the Politics of Davidic Restoration

A Quiet Revolution

By: David Janzen

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Chronicles and the Politics of Davidic Restoration

A Quiet Revolution

By: David Janzen

David Janzen argues that the Book of Chronicles is a document with a political message as well as a theological one and moreover, that the book's politics explain its theology. The author of Chronicles was part of a 4th century B.C.E. group within the post-exilic Judean community that hoped to see the Davidides restored to power, and he or she composed this work to promote a restoration of this house to the position of a client monarchy within the Persian Empire. Once this is understood as the political motivation for the work's composition, the reasons behind the Chronicler's particular alterations to source material and emphasis of certain issues becomes clear. The doctrine of immediate retribution, the role of 'all Israel' at important junctures in Judah's past, the promotion of Levitical status and authority, the virtual joint reign of David and Solomon, and the decision to begin the narrative with Saul's death can all be explained as ways in which the Chronicler tries to assure the 4th century assembly that a change in local government to Davidic client rule would benefit them. It is not necessary to argue that Chronicles is either pro-Davidic or pro-Levitical; it is both, and the attention Chronicles pays to the Levites is done in the service of winning over a group within the temple personnel to the pro-Davidic cause, just as many of its other features were designed to appeal to other interest groups within the assembly.

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0567675491

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Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key

Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought

By: David B. Ruderman

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Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key

Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought

By: David B. Ruderman

Historians of the European Jewish experience have long marginalized the intellectual achievement of Jews in England, where it was assumed no seminal figures contributed to the development of modern Jewish thought. In this first comprehensive account of the emergence of Anglo-Jewish thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, David Ruderman impels a reconsideration of the formative beginnings of modern European Jewish culture. He uncovers a vibrant Jewish intellectual life in England during the Enlightenment era by examining a small but fascinating group of hitherto neglected Jewish thinkers in the process of transforming their traditional Hebraic culture into a modern English one. This lively portrait of English Jews reformulating their tradition in light of Enlightenment categories illuminates an overlooked corner in the history of Jewish culture in England and Jewish thought during the Enlightenment. Ruderman overturns the conventional view that the origins of modern Jewish consciousness are located exclusively within the German-Jewish experience, particularly Moses Mendelssohn's circle. Independent of the better-known German experience, the encounter between Jewish and English thought was incubated amid the unprecedented freedom enjoyed by Jews in England. This resulted in a less inhibited defense of Jews and Judaism. In addition to the original and prolific thinkers David Levi and Abraham Tang, Ruderman introduces Abraham and Joshua Van Oven, Mordechai Shnaber Levison, Samuel Falk, Isaac Delgado, Solomon Bennett, Hyman Hurwitz, Emanuel Mendes da Costa, Ralph Shomberg, and others. Of obvious appeal and import to students of Jewish and English history, this study depicts the challenge of defining a religious identity in the modern age.

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Princeton University Press

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0691155518

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Contemporary Business

By: Louis E. Boone,David L. Kurtz,Michael H. Khan,Brahm Canzer

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Contemporary Business

By: Louis E. Boone,David L. Kurtz,Michael H. Khan,Brahm Canzer

Contemporary Business, Third Canadian Edition, is a comprehensive introductory course. Rooted in the basics of business, this course provides students a foundation upon which to build a greater understanding of current business practices and issues that affect their lives. A wide variety of global issues, ideas, industries, technologies, and career insights are presented in a straightforward, application-based format. Written in a conversational style and edited for plain language, Contemporary Business ensure readability for all students, including students for whom English is their second language. The goal of this course is to improve a student’s ability to evaluate and provide solutions to today’s global business challenges and ultimately to thrive in today’s fast-paced business environment.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119501334

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NIVAC Bundle 6: Gospels, Acts

By: Michael J. Wilkins,David E. Garland,Darrell L. Bock,Gary M. Burge,Ajith Fernando

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NIVAC Bundle 6: Gospels, Acts

By: Michael J. Wilkins,David E. Garland,Darrell L. Bock,Gary M. Burge,Ajith Fernando

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today’' context. To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's world, each passage is treated in three sections: Original Meaning. Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context. Bridging Contexts. A bridge between the world of the Bible and the world of today, built by discerning what is timeless in the timely pages of the Bible. Contemporary Significance. This section identifies comparable situations to those faced in the Bible and explores relevant application of the biblical messages. The author alerts the readers of problems they may encounter when seeking to apply the passage and helps them think through the issues involved. This unique, award-winning commentary is the ideal resource for today's preachers, teachers, and serious students of the Bible, giving them the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

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Zondervan Academic

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0310530075

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9780310530077

The Mark Commentary Collection

An All-In-One Commentary Collection for Studying the Book of Mark

By: David E. Garland,Mark L. Strauss,Walter W. Wessel

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The Mark Commentary Collection

An All-In-One Commentary Collection for Studying the Book of Mark

By: David E. Garland,Mark L. Strauss,Walter W. Wessel

This Mark commentary bundle features volumes from the NIV Application Commentary Series, Zondervan Exegetical Commentary Series, and Expositor's Bible Commentary series authored by David E. Garland, Mark L. Strauss, and Walter W. Wessel. The diverse features from each of the volumes gives you all the tools you need to master the book of Mark.

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0310536340

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Italy's Margins

Social Exclusion and Nation Formation since 1861

By: David Forgacs

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Italy's Margins

Social Exclusion and Nation Formation since 1861

By: David Forgacs

Five case studies show how different people and places were marginalized and socially excluded as the Italian nation-state was formed.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107052173

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Resourcing New Testament Studies

Literary, Historical, and Theological Essays in Honor of David L. Dungan

By: David L. Dungan

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Resourcing New Testament Studies

Literary, Historical, and Theological Essays in Honor of David L. Dungan

By: David L. Dungan

Twenty, internationally known scholars honor the distinguished teaching, research and publishing career of Prof David Laird Dungan.

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0567027546

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The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric

By: David Edward Aune

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The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric

By: David Edward Aune

The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric details the variety of literary and rhetorical forms found in the New Testament and in the literature of the early Christian church. This authoritative reference source is a treasury for understanding the methods employed by New Testament and early Christian writers. Aune's extensive study will be of immense value to scholars and all those interested in the ways literary and rhetorical forms were used and how they functioned in the early Christian world. This unique and encyclopedic study will serve generations of scholars and students by illuminating the ways words shaped the consciousness of those who encountered Christian teachings.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664219179

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9780664219178

Seasons in Basilicata

A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village

By: David Yeadon

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Seasons in Basilicata

A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village

By: David Yeadon

Award-winning travel writer and illustrator, David Yeadon embarks with his wife, Anne on an exploration of the "lost word" of Basilicata, in the arch of Italy's boot. What is intended as a brief sojourn turns into an intriguing residency in the ancient hill village of Aliano, where Carlo Levi, author of the world-renowned memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli, was imprisoned by Mussolini for anti-Fascist activities. As the Yeadons become immersed in Aliano's rich tapestry of people, traditions, and festivals, reveling in the rituals and rhythms of the grape and olive harvests, the culinary delights, and other peculiarities of place, they discover that much of the pagan strangeness that Carlo Levi and other notable authors revealed still lurks beneath the beguiling surface of Basilicata.

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Harper Collins

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0061979929

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9780061979927

Marketing Research

By: David A. Aaker,George S. Day

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Marketing Research

By: David A. Aaker,George S. Day

Completely revised and updated, this text is designed to meet the needs of business students and marketing researchers. Focusing on the logic of the research process, it discusses when to use research, how to recognize effective research, what alternatives exist, and how to apply results. New information on scanner technology and data management along with advertising research are contained in the book. Also included are case studies based on actual management problems in a wide variety of situations, giving marketing students hands-on experience in the decision making process.

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0471838756

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