If you need to nourish your soul this book may just give you food for thought. Reflections of Faith is meant to touch the hearts of its readers with a recipe for enjoyment, flavored with different seasonings including short inspirational works, peppered with poetry and sweetened with an array of Christmas stories. A perfect blend of humor and a good measure of reality. The pages within will make you laugh or cry. The true mission of this author is to bring platters of encouragement, inspiration, and joy to the table and serve a huge portion of hope to all who have faith.
Exile, Incorporated: The Body in the Book of Ezekiel demonstrates how the book of Ezekiel makes rhetorical use of the human body to construct an exile-centred Judean identity. This focus on the body is inextricable from the book's setting in the Judean exile to Babylonia during the sixth-century BCE. In such a context of upheaval, all that the displaced group reliably retains are their bodies. Even so, the material surroundings of those bodies change completely, calling into question previously accepted ways of being. Author Rosanne Liebermann reveals how the book of Ezekiel holds acute awareness of this situation, evoking bodily practices and embodied experiences that serve to construct a Judean identity based on existence outside of the land of Judah. This identity excludes both non-Judeans as well as the Judeans who remained in Judah. The book of Ezekiel achieves this exclusion via descriptions of bodily practices--including circumcision, dress, and the observance of a cultic calendar--that distinguish its constructed in-group of exiled Judeans from outsiders. Ezekiel also evokes the embodied emotion of disgust regarding the bodies of those with "outsider" practices, which in turn encourages the practice of segregation and endogamy within the in-group. Focusing on the bodies depicted in the book of Ezekiel also highlights how the text presents hierarchies within the exilic Judean group, which itself contains bodies differentiated by gender and priestly or non-priestly descent. Reading the text in this way reveals how the book of Ezekiel constructs a model of a variegated community able to embody a Judean identity that not only survived but was based on life outside of the land of Judah.
This book explores the reception of foreign news during the Dutch Revolt and the French Wars of Religion, shedding new light on the connections between these conflicts and demonstrating the emergence of critical news audiences.
If you need to nourish your soul this book may just give you food for thought. Reflections of Faith is meant to touch the hearts of its readers with a recipe for enjoyment, flavored with different seasonings including short inspirational works, peppered with poetry and sweetened with an array of Christmas stories. A perfect blend of humor and a good measure of reality. The pages within will make you laugh or cry. The true mission of this author is to bring platters of encouragement, inspiration, and joy to the table and serve a huge portion of hope to all who have faith.
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