This semi-autobiographical book describes the way the Bettor family sailed on a ship from the Sierk through the Frisian waters. It follows the life of Menzo, the grandson who lived in Brazil in his youth and whose life was dedicated to the woman he met on a coffee plantation. The cruelty of the heterosexual male towards his fellow man at that time was undeniable. Male chauvinism was manifested in how women were assigned to hard labor on the Brazilian farms. Jan Lukas van der Woude lived for a short time on a coffee plantation in Brazil. After returning to the Netherlands, he attended high school and spent several years in Groningen. In 2001, he decided to return to the places where he lived in the past. He met the descendants of the poor peasants that he used to live with in the plantation. He now works in the slums of Sao Paulo for several months each year.
This ground-breaking historical study examines the many conjectures on the Greek text made by Erasmus and Beza in their multiple editions of the New Testament. In the process, the author critically assesses their views and methods of New Testament textual criticism.
Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and Israel - the cultures that gave us Christianity - had only the vaguest ideas of an afterlife. So where did these concepts come from and why did they develop? In this fascinating, learned, but highly readable book, Jan N. Bremmer - one of the foremost authorities on ancient religion - takes a fresh look at the major developments in the Western imagination of the afterlife, from the ancient Greeks to the modern near-death experience.
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