Monatsarchive: Januar 2018

The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca

Publiziert am 7. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca – Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.

Alvar Nuñez joined the expedition of Pámfilo de Narvaez to Florida in 1526 as treasurer. With two other Spaniards and an Arab Moor, he was the only survivor who remained on the mainland. For eight years they roamed along the coasts of Louisiana and Texas under the greatest of hardships, their position among the Indians being wellnigh intolerable. In utter despair, Cabeza de Vaca at last tried his scanty knowledge of medicine and, his cures proving successful, he became a renowned medicine man among the natives, his companions following the example. The treatment to which they resorted partook of the nature of a faith-cure. He declares … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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A pictorial history of Texas

Publiziert am 7. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

A pictorial history of Texas – Homer S. Thrall.

The history of Texas possesses a peculiar interest. The contests for the possession of the country; the grand old mission structures erected for the conversion of the natives; the numerous changes of government, give to our history an air of romance. In the summary of events in this volume, all these interesting topics are not only briefly noticed;, but part of a thorough investigation into the heroic period of the history of Texas. In ten chapters Thrall tells the reader everything about the country, Spanish and Mexican domination, the Revolution, the Indians, noted personalities and many details more.

A pictorial history of Texas

A pictorial history of Texas

Format: Paperback.

A pictorial history of Texas.

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The Book Of Werewolves

Publiziert am 4. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Book Of Werewolves – Sabine Baring-Gould

Sabine Baring-Gould’s work on lycanthropy and the legends of the werewolves is probably the most detailed on the market. She goes back deep into the history, tries to share knowledge on the evolution of the legends and expresses her views on modern-day werewolves’ talks.

The Book Of Werewolves

The Book Of Werewolves

Format: Paperback.

The Book Of Werewolves.

ISBN: 9783849674212.

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What is a werewolf? (from wikipedia.com)

A werewolf is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolflike creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or scratch from another … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Legends of Genesis

Publiziert am 4. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Legends of Genesis – Hermann Gunkel

Are the narratives of Genesis history or legend? For the modern historian this is no longer an open question; nevertheless it is important to get a clear notion of the bases of this modern position. This work offers insights regarding the significance, the scope, the varieties and the development of these legends.

The Legends of Genesis

The Legends of Genesis

Format: Paperback.

The Legends of Genesis.

ISBN: 9783849674205.

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Biography of Hermann Gunkel (from wikipedia.com)

Gunkel was born in Springe, Kingdom of Hanover, where his father and grandfather were Lutheran pastors. He studied at the University of Göttingen and the University of Giessen. He eventually taught at both universities in addition … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Homilies On First And Second Corinthians

Publiziert am 4. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Homilies On First And Second Corinthians – St. John Chrysostrom

The Homilies on the Epistles to the Corinthians have ever been considered by learned and devout men as among the most perfect specimens of his mind and teaching. They are of that mixed form, between exposition and exhortation, which serves perhaps better than any other, first, to secure attention, and then to convey to an attentive hearer the full purport of the holy words as they stand in the Bible, and to communicate to him the very impression which the preacher himself had received from the text. The date of these Homilies is not exactly known: but it is certain that they were delivered at Antioch, were it only … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Book of the Bee

Publiziert am 3. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Book of the Bee – E. A. Wallis Budge

The Book of the Bee is a collection of theological and historical texts compiled by Solomon of Akhlat in the thirteenth century. The book consists of 55 chapters discussing various topics including the creation, heaven and earth, the angels, darkness, paradise, Old Testament patriarchs, New Testament events, lists of kings and patriarchs, and the final day of resurrection.

The Book of the Bee

The Book of the Bee

Format: Paperback.

The Book of the Bee.

ISBN: 9783849674182.

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From the preface of The Book of the Bee (from Wikipedia):

Of the author of ‘the Book of the Bee,’ the bishop Shelêmôn or Solomon, but very little is known. He … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Hermetic Museum (Volumes 1 & 2)

Publiziert am 3. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Hermetic Museum (Volumes 1 & 2) – Arthur Edward Waite

The Hermetic Museum was published in Latin at Frankfort, in the year 1678, and, as its title implies, it was an enlarged form of an anterior work which, appearing in 1625, is more scarce, but, intrinsically, of less value. Its design was apparently to supply in a compact form a representative collection of the more brief and less ancient alchemical writers; in this respect, it may be regarded as a supplement to those large storehouses of Hermetic learning such as the Theatrum Chemicum, and that scarcely less colossal of Mangetus, the Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa, which are largely concerned with the cream of the archaic literature, with the works of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Wonders of the Human Body

Publiziert am 3. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

Wonders of the Human Body – George W. Carey

The Bible, the Kaballah, the Vedas, and ancient cuneiform tablets, torn from their hiding places in the heart of Mother Nature, all hold the key to the wisdom of the ages ; and some there are who have turned the key and the door to understanding has opened. The author of this work has found the key and he has turned it. Erect and unafraid for he has nothing to lose or gain he reverently offers you that which you are seeking. He does not claim to be the only one who has discovered the key, but, working along the lines hinted at by some modern and many ancient seekers, he … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Virgin of the World

Publiziert am 2. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Virgin of the World – Hermes Trismegistus

The Virgin of the World is one of the most prominent Hermetic books, one of the last monuments of Paganism. The Fragments comprised in this reprint have been the subject of much learned research. In the early centuries of Christianity they enjoyed a high repute as of undoubted genuineness, the Fathers invoking their testimony on behalf of the Christian mysteries, while Lactantius–the “Christian Cicero”–said of them, “Hermes, I know not how, has discovered well-nigh the whole truth.” He was regarded as an inspired revealer, and the writings which bore his name passed for genuine monuments of that ancient Egyptian theology in which Moses had been instructed. And this opinion was accepted by … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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A Child’s History Of England

Publiziert am 2. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

A Child’s History Of England – Charles Dickens

A collection of Dickens’ books would not be complete without this historical work for children which sometimes reads more like a fairytale. In his own very special writing the author runs the child through centuries and centuries of English history. A book that has been in the curricula of English schools until the end of World War II.

A Child’s History Of England

A Child’s History Of England

A Child’s History Of England.

ISBN: 9783849674144.

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Excerpt from the first chapter of A Child’s History of England (from Wikipedia):

If you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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