There are many questions in the Bible. Some of them are answered and some are not. This study stems from some of those questions. This book is intended to whet the appetite of the reader especially if one is new to Bible study. It is intended to cause the natural thought process to develop beyond this study. In this book the stories of two very different men are examined. The first was not even yet a man when the author began his story. He was a boy of 17 years. He went through many trials, but all along he knew that God was with him. Through trials and temptations he was faithful to God. After years of trials God exalted this faithful servant. The other man was very different. We know very little about him. He was a prophet of God. God wanted to offer mercy to a city of murderous people but this preacher despised them and didn't want God to show them mercy. At the end this runaway preacher was a reluctant evangelist. Sarah Jane Conaway has been a Christian for over 53 years. In that time she has taught Sunday school and ladies classes. She has also taught classes on how to teach Sunday school. She has counseled ladies on how they should be a wife and mother. She and her husband were missionaries in the South Pacific for 16 years. Their ministry moved to Mexico where she is ministering with 2 of her 3 sons. Her husband Ron went to be with the Lord in 2005 but she and her oldest son, Eric, have continued the ministry.
The author examines the stories of two very different men from the Bible. The first was a boy of 17 years when his story began. He went through many trials, but he always knew that God was with him. He was faithful to God. After years of trials God exalted this faithful servant.We know very little about the second man. He was God's prophet. God wanted to offer mercy to a city of murderous people but this preacher despised them and did not want God to show them mercy. At the end this runaway preacher was a reluctant evangelist.This study stems from questions in their stories. This book is intended to whet the appetite of the reader. It gives growth to the new reader; new thought is given to a seasoned student of the Bible. It is intended to cause the natural thought process to develop beyond this study.
Sexual combat is not a monopoly of the human species. As Sarah Blaffer Hrdy argues in this spellbinding book, war between male and female animals has deep roots in evolutionary history. Her account of family life among hanuman langurs--the black-faced, gray monkeys inhabiting much of the Indian subcontinent--is written with force, wit, and at times, sorrow. Male hanumans, in pursuit of genetic success, routinely kill babies sired by their competitors. The mothers of endangered infants counter with various strategems to deceive the males and prevent destruction of their own offspring. Competition and selfishness are dominant themes of langur society. Competition among males for access to females, competition among females for access to food resources, and disregard by one female for the well-being of another's infant--these are some very common examples. Yet there are also moments of heroic self-sacrifice, as when an elderly female rushes to defend her troop and its babies from an invading, infancticidal male. The Langurs of Abu is the first book to analyze behavior of wild primates from the standpoint of both sexes. It is also a poignant and sophisticated exploration of primate behavior patterns from a feminist point of view. This book may inspire controversy; it will certainly be read with pleasure by anyone interested in animal behavior. Richly illustrated with photographs, seven in full color.
What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly believe that natural selection operates only on males. In The Woman That Never Evolved we are introduced to our nearest female relatives competitive, independent, sexually assertive primates who have every bit as much at stake in the evolutionary game as their male counterparts do. These females compete among themselves for rank and resources, but will bond together for mutual defense. They risk their lives to protect their young, yet consort with the very male who murdered their offspring when successful reproduction depends upon it. They tolerate other breeding females if food is plentiful, but chase them away when monogamy is the optimal strategy. When "promiscuity" is an advantage, female primates--like their human cousins--exhibit a sexual appetite that ensures a range of breeding partners. From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order. Yet males are almost universally dominant over females in primate species, and Homo sapiens is no exception. As we see from this book, women are in some ways the most oppressed of all female primates. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is convinced that to redress sexual inequality in human societies, we must first understand its evolutionary origins. We cannot travel back in time to meet our own remote ancestors, but we can study those surrogates we have--the other living primates. If women --and not biology--are to control their own destiny, they must understand the past and, as this book shows us, the biological legacy they have inherited.
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