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The Murderous History of Bible Translations

Power, Conflict, and the Quest for Meaning

By: Harry Freedman

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The Murderous History of Bible Translations

Power, Conflict, and the Quest for Meaning

By: Harry Freedman

Harry Freedman, author of The Talmud: A Biography, recounts the fascinating and bloody history of the Bible. In 1535, William Tyndale, the first man to produce an English version of the Bible in print, was captured and imprisoned in Belgium. A year later he was strangled and then burned at the stake. His co-translator was also burned. In that same year the translator of the first Dutch Bible was arrested and beheaded. These were not the first, nor were they the last instances of extreme violence against Bible translators. The Murderous History of Bible Translations tells the remarkable, and bloody, story of those who dared translate the word of God. The Bible has been translated far more than any other book. To our minds it is self-evident that believers can read their sacred literature in a language they understand. But the history of Bible translations is far more contentious than reason would suggest. Bible translations underlie an astonishing number of religious conflicts that have plagued the world. Harry Freedman describes brilliantly the passions and strong emotions that arise when deeply held religious convictions are threatened or undermined. He tells of the struggle for authority and orthodoxy in a world where temporal power was always subjugated to the divine, a world in which the idea of a Bible for all was so important that many were willing to give up their time, security, and even their lives.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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163286603X

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9781632866035

The Labor of Hope

Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt

By: Harry Pettit

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The Labor of Hope

Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt

By: Harry Pettit

Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as declines in employment and widening inequality are pushing more and more people into insecurity and hardship. In Egypt, a generation of young men desire fulfilling employment, meaningful relationships, and secure family life, yet find few paths to achieve this. The Labor of Hope follows these educated but underemployed men as they struggle to establish careers and build satisfying lives. In so doing, this book reveals the lived contradiction at the heart of capitalist systems—the expansive dreams they encourage and the precarious lives they produce. Harry Pettit follows young men as they engage a booming training, recruitment, and entrepreneurship industry that sells the cruel meritocratic promise that a good life is realizable for all. He considers the various ways individuals cultivate distraction and hope for future mobility: education, migration, consumption, and prayer. These hope-filled practices are a form of emotional labor for young men, placing responsibility on the individual rather than structural issues in Egypt's economy. Illuminating this emotional labor, Pettit shows how the capitalist economy continues to capture the attention of the very people harmed by it.

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Stanford University Press

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150363745X

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9781503637450

Tehiyyat Ha-Metim

By: Harry Sysling

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Tehiyyat Ha-Metim

By: Harry Sysling

The study deals with all those passages in the Palestinian Targums, the Aramaic translations of the Pentateuch, that refer to the Resurrection of the Dead. Of central interest in it is the question to what extent the targumic traditions on a future resurrection of the body or on the fate of the soul after death agree with or differ from corresponding traditions in rabbinic sources." "With a few exceptions, the relation between targumic traditions and rabbinic sources has been neglected in targumic studies of the last decades." "This may have been caused by the questionable assumptions that (a) the Aramaic of the Palestinian Targums represents the spoken Aramaic of Palestine in the New Testament period, (b) the Palestinian Targums contain an important number of early pre-Christian traditions, and (c) the Palestinian Targums are popular in origin, being written in the vernacular, in contrast with the scholastic, authoritative expositions in the learned rabbinic sources." "Harry Sysling first offers a survey of these and other important issues in targumic research of the past and of recent opinions on character, origin and interrelationship of the Palestinian Targums. In the following chapters, the author makes a careful analysis of those passages in the Palestinian Targums that directly by the use of specific terminology, or indirectly by the use of metaphors, refer to the resurrection of the body and to the fate of the body and/or soul after death."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161465830

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9783161465833

Picturing Paul in Empire

Imperial Image, Text and Persuasion in Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles

By: Harry O. Maier

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Picturing Paul in Empire

Imperial Image, Text and Persuasion in Colossians, Ephesians and the Pastoral Epistles

By: Harry O. Maier

Pauline Christianity sprang to life in a world of imperial imagery. In the streets and at the thoroughfares, in the market places and on its public buildings and monuments, and especially on its coins the Roman Empire's imperial iconographers displayed imagery that aimed to persuade the Empire's diverse and mostly illiterate inhabitants that Rome had a divinely appointed right to rule the world and to be honoured and celebrated for its dominion. Harry O. Maier places the later, often contested, letters and theology associated with Paul in the social and political context of the Roman Empire's visual culture of politics and persuasion to show how followers of the apostle visualized the reign of Christ in ways consistent with central themes of imperial iconography. They drew on the Empire's picture language to celebrate the dominion and victory of the divine Son, Jesus, to persuade their audiences to honour his dominion with praise and thanksgiving. Key to this imperial embrace were Colossians, Ephesians, and the Pastoral Epistles. Yet these letters remain neglected territory in consideration of engagement with and reflection of imperial political ideals and goals amongst Paul and his followers. This book fills a gap in scholarly work on Paul and Empire by taking up each contested letter in turn to investigate how several of its main themes reflect motifs found in imperial images.

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A&C Black

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0567192709

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9780567192707

Insect Pathology

By: Fernando E. Vega,Harry K. Kaya

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Insect Pathology

By: Fernando E. Vega,Harry K. Kaya

Insect Pathology, 2nd ed. Fernando E. Vega and Harry K. Kaya, Editors Foreword May Berenbaum Chapter 1. Scope and Basic Principles of Insect Pathology Harry K. Kaya and Fernando E. Vega Chapter 2 - History of Insect Pathology Elizabeth W. Davidson Chapter 3 - Principles of Epizootiology and Microbial Control David I. Shapiro-Ilan, Denny Bruck, and Lawrence A. Lacey Chapter 4 - Baculoviruses and Other Occluded Insect Viruses Robert Harrison and Kelli Hoover Chapter 5 - RNA Viruses Infecting Pest Insects Yan Ping Chen, James J. Becnel, and Steven M. Valles Chapter 6 - Fungal Entomopathogens Fernando E. Vega, Nicolai V. Meyling, Janet Jennifer Luangsa-ard, and Meredith Blackwell Chapter 7 - Microsporidian Entomopathogens Leellen F. Solter, James J. Becnel, and David H. Oi Chapter 8 - Bacterial Entomopathogens Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes and Trevor Jackson Chapter 9 - Wolbachia Infections in Arthropod Hosts Grant Hughes and Jason L. Rasgon Chapter 10 - Protistan Entomopathogens Carlos E. Lange ...

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Academic Press

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0123849845

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Selected Legal Issues of E-Commerce

By: Toshiyuki Kono

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Selected Legal Issues of E-Commerce

By: Toshiyuki Kono

So rapid have been the developments of e-commerce, that it is now frequently said that this is the future of any commerce and that it carries the potential for enormous growth - at least for the business to business ("B2B") sector. This text covers some important legal issues arising in e-commerce.

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Springer

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9041118985

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9789041118981

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The Murderous History of Bible Translations

The Murderous History of Bible Translations

The Labor of Hope

The Labor of Hope

Tehiyyat Ha-Metim

Tehiyyat Ha-Metim

Picturing Paul in Empire

Picturing Paul in Empire

Insect Pathology

Insect Pathology

Selected Legal Issues of E-Commerce

Selected Legal Issues of E-Commerce

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