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Alcatraz: Federal Prison of a Lifetime

By: J.D. Valens

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Alcatraz: Federal Prison of a Lifetime

By: J.D. Valens

This book goes into deep detail of how Alcatraz was created, who was sent there, who were the top criminals locked up at Alcatraz, the number of men that were killed there and much more History behind the walls of Alcatraz.

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Lulu.com

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130480660X

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9781304806604

The Beginnings of Jewishness

Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties

By: Shaye J. D. Cohen

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The Beginnings of Jewishness

Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties

By: Shaye J. D. Cohen

This book describes and explains the fluidity of the definition of Jewishness from c. 200 BCE to c. 200 CE.

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452

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Univ of California Press

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0520211413

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9780520211414

The Super Summary of World History Revised

With A Strong Emphasis On Western European And American History

By: Alan Dale Daniel BA MBA JD

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The Super Summary of World History Revised

With A Strong Emphasis On Western European And American History

By: Alan Dale Daniel BA MBA JD

The Super Summary of World History is a very compact history of the world emphasizing western culture and political processes. The Super Summary is for the thinking person. This new history raises exciting questions and puts events into new perspectives to stimulate real thinking about history rather than accepting that the past is set in stone. History isn’t just names and dates, but a range of decisions and actions that often turn on the smallest circumstance. The Super Summary analyzes a few events in depth but most are put into their historical framework so the reader can discern where and how all of this action escorts us to the present day. If history seems dull, pick up The Super Summary to discover that Western History is alive with controversy and consequence.

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612

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Xlibris Corporation

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1450062512

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9781450062510

Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?

Gender and Covenant in Judaism

By: Shaye J. D. Cohen

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Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?

Gender and Covenant in Judaism

By: Shaye J. D. Cohen

Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? This improbable question, first advanced by anti-Jewish Christian polemicists, is the point of departure for this wide-ranging exploration of gender and Jewishness in Jewish thought. With a lively command of a wide range of Jewish sources—from the Bible and the Talmud to the legal and philosophical writings of the Middle Ages to Enlightenment thinkers and modern scholars—Shaye J. D. Cohen considers the varied responses to this provocative question and in the process provides the fullest cultural history of Jewish circumcision available.

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336

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Univ of California Press

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052092049X

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9780520920491

New Testament, Early Christianity, and Magic

By: Morton Smith,Shaye J. D. Cohen

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New Testament, Early Christianity, and Magic

By: Morton Smith,Shaye J. D. Cohen

These two volumes collect some of the most influential and important scholarly essays by the late Morton Smith (1915-1991), for many years Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University in New York City. Smith was admired and feared for his extraordinary ability to look at familiar texts in unfamiliar ways, to re-open old questions, to pose new questions, and to demolish received truths. He practiced the "hermeneutics of suspicion" to devastating effect. His answers are not always convincing but his questions cannot be ignored. The essays of Volume I center on the Hebrew Bible ("Old Testament"), Ancient Israel and Ancient Judaism, of Volume II on the Christian Bible ("New Testament"), Early Christianity and Ancient Magic. Volume II also contains an assessment of Smith's scholarly achievement and a complete list of his publications.

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314

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BRILL

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9004104798

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9789004104792

Stars, Mind & Fate

Essays in Ancient and Mediaeval Cosmology

By: J. D. North

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Stars, Mind & Fate

Essays in Ancient and Mediaeval Cosmology

By: J. D. North

Published over a period of 20 years the essays collected together in this volume all relate to the lasting human preoccupation with cosmological matters and modern responses to them. The eclecticism of the typical medieval scholar might now seem astonishing, regrettable, amusing, or derisory, according to one's view of how rigid intellectual barriers should be. In Stars, Fate & Mind North argues that we will seriously misunderstand ancient and medieval thought if we are not prepared to share a willingness to look across such frontiers as those dividing astrology from ecclesiastical history, biblical chronology from astronomy, and angelic hierarchies from the planetary spheres, theology from the theory of the continuum, celestial laws from terrestrial, or the work of the clockmaker from the work of God himself, namely the universe. Surveying the work of such controversial scholars as Alexander Thom and Immanuel Velikovsky this varied volume brings together current scholarship on cosmology, and as the title suggest considers the confluence of matters of the stars, fate and the mind. The collection is accompanied by further commentary from the author and new illustrations.

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458

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0826424945

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9780826424945

Unconquered

The Saga of Cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart, and Mickey Gilley

By: J.D. Davis

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Unconquered

The Saga of Cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart, and Mickey Gilley

By: J.D. Davis

“Engaging . . . [a] biography of three men bound by blood, music, and a lifelong struggle to strike a balance between the sacred and secular.”—Publishers Weekly Three cousins, inseparably bonded through music. Each became a star; their story would become a legend. J. D. Davis’s enthralling new biography of famous cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart, and Mickey Gilley, born within a twelve-month span in small-town Louisiana during the Great Depression, draws from exhaustive research and personal connections with friends and family. Davis recreates the irresistible and life-changing power of music that surrounded the cousins as boys and shaped their engagingly distinct paths to fame. With three personal journeys set alongside important landmarks in pop-culture history, Davis presents a unique tale of American music centered on the trials, tribulations, and achievements of three men who remain truly Unconquered. A ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention for Biography “This is a good read, and not just for the hard-core fan. It will appeal to anyone interested in the dynamics of rock ’n’ roll, country music, and evangelical Christianity and what happens when the aesthetics and lifestyles of those three worlds collide. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal “God, the devil, and everything in between. This book is a great representation of the duality plane on which we exist.'”—Leon Russell, legendary musician, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member “Unconquered clearly depicts the fascinating story of three great musical artists who were cousins in real life but icons in the world of music. Each man conquered life’s roadblocks to achieve his ultimate goals.”—Tom Schedler, former Louisiana Secretary of State

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BrownBooks.ORM

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1612540759

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Alcatraz: Federal Prison of a Lifetime

Alcatraz: Federal Prison of a Lifetime

The Beginnings of Jewishness

The Beginnings of Jewishness

The Super Summary of World History Revised

The Super Summary of World History Revised

Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?

Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?

New Testament, Early Christianity, and Magic

New Testament, Early Christianity, and Magic

Stars, Mind & Fate

Stars, Mind & Fate

Unconquered

Unconquered

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