Monatsarchive: April 2018

The Treasury of Ancient Egypt

Publiziert am 26. April 2018 von Jazzybee

The Treasury of Ancient Egypt – Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall

This volume contains twelve chapters, written at various times and in various places, each dealing with some subject drawn from the great treasury of Ancient Egypt.

From the contents:

The Value Of Archæology.
The Egyptian Empire.
The Necessity Of Archæology
To The Gaiety Of The World.
The Temperament Of The Ancient Egyptians.
The Misfortunes Of Wenamon.

The Treasury of Ancient Egypt

The Treasury of Ancient Egypt

Format: Paperback.

The Treasury of Ancient Egypt.

ISBN: 9783849672294.

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Basics on Egyptian history (from Wikipedia):

The history of Egypt has been long and rich, due to the flow of the Nile river, with its fertile banks and delta. Its rich history … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Sleeper Awakes

Publiziert am 26. April 2018 von Jazzybee

The Sleeper Awakes – H. G. Wells

It is certainly an easy assumption to make that the readers of H. G. Wells’ novel, “The Sleeper Awakes,” will agree that it is a truly wonderful production. Mr. Wells has devoted himself strictly to the weird and fantastic, and with great success in every case. This book is of the same character, but it is told so vividly, it is wrought out with such life-like detail, that the reader forgets that the book is only the product of a novelist’s fancy, and lives for the time intent on the strange scenes and customs and peoples of London in 2100. “When the Sleeper Wakes” is a story of the future. Its plot is … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The House Of The Seven Gables

Publiziert am 25. April 2018 von Jazzybee

The House Of The Seven Gables – Nathanie Hawthorne

This book, which the author himself preferred to his previous novel, is of quieter tone than “The Scarlet Letter.” It is more minutely elaborated, and its pathos depends more on the peculiar temperaments of its characters. The scene is laid in Salem, and the house, which much effort has been made to identify, corresponds in many points to an old dwelling formerly standing there, known as the Curwen House, and sometimes called “the old witch-house.” Some points in the story corresponding to the history of the Hawthornes were noted in the beginning of this sketch. The character of Clifford and the problem of his strange destiny, the mockery of fate, which, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Did Jesus Live 100 B.C.?

Publiziert am 25. April 2018 von Jazzybee

Did Jesus Live 100 B.C.? – G. R. S. Mead

The answer to the title question of this book, which the author answers as probably affirmative, cannot very well be established, but the natural problems which the author treats in the successive chapters are of great interest and betray a wide reading and a thorough knowledge of the Talmud and kindred sources that have reference to the legends connected with the stories of Jesus and the origin of Christianity. In several sections, especially with regard to the quotations from Livy, Pliny and Suetonius, the author shows good judgment. His reports concerning the prosecution of the Talmud are told in a very popular way and will not so easily be found … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Book Of Kings

Publiziert am 23. April 2018 von Jazzybee

The Book Of Kings – James Hastings

Here is a gold mine for the preacher, the teacher and the father and mother in the home who have it in mind to inculcate sound teaching, based upon the Word of God, so that the boys and girls of the congregations, Sunday-Schools and households may be thoroughly rooted and grounded in the essentials of the Christian faith. There are many volumes in this series of short addresses and they cover the entire range of the Holy Scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation. The material gathered here is fresh and varied and there is just enough of it to furnish the groundwork of the preacher’s sermon, the Sunday school teacher’s talk and the parent’s … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Ideals Of The East

Publiziert am 23. April 2018 von Jazzybee

The Ideals Of The East – Kakuzo Okakura

The results of Mr. Okakura’s visits to China and India, where he made exhaustive studies, are brilliantly set forth in this book, ” The Ideals of the East “, explaining his important and now generally accepted analysis of the movements of thought and art throughout Asia.

The Ideals Of The East

The Ideals Of The East

Format: Paperback.

The Ideals Of The East.

ISBN: 9783849672249.

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Biography of Kakuzo Okakura (from wikipedia.com)

Born in Yokohama to parents originally from Fukui, Okakura learned English while attending a school operated by Christian missionary, Dr. Curtis Hepburn. At 15, he entered Tokyo Imperial University, where he first met and studied under Harvard-educated professor Ernest … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Sibylline Oracles

Publiziert am 18. April 2018 von Jazzybee

The Sibylline Oracles – Milton S. Terry

The Sibyls occupy a conspicuous place in the traditions and history of ancient Greece and Rome. Their fame was spread abroad long before the beginning of the Christian era. Heraclitus of Ephesus, five centuries before Christ, compared himself to the Sibyl “who, speaking with inspired mouth, without a smile, without ornament, and without perfume, penetrates through centuries by the power of the gods.” The ancient traditions vary in reporting the number and the names of these weird prophetesses, and much of what has been handed down to us is legendary. But whatever opinion one may hold respecting the various legends, there can be little doubt that a collection of Sibylline Oracles was at … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Sacred Writings of The Twelve Patriarchs

Publiziert am 18. April 2018 von Jazzybee

The Sacred Writings of The Twelve Patriarchs – Various Authors

The apocryphal work known as the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs professes to be, as its name implies, the utterances of the dying patriarchs, the sons of Jacob. In these they give some account of their lives, embodying particulars not found in the scriptural account, and build thereupon various moral precepts for the guidance of their descendants. The book partakes also of the nature of an Apocalypse: the patriarchs see in the future their children doing wickedly, stained with the sins of every nation; and thus they foretell the troubles impending on their race. Still at last God will put an end to their woe, and comfort is found in … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Sacred Writings of the Early Liturgies

Publiziert am 17. April 2018 von Jazzybee

The Sacred Writings of the Early Liturgies – Various Authors

This book contains the following of the early liturgies:

The Divine Liturgy of James
The Divine Liturgy of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark
The Liturgy of the Blessed Apostles.

The Sacred Writings of the Early Liturgies

The Sacred Writings of the Early Liturgies

Format: Paperback.

The Sacred Writings of the Early Liturgies.

ISBN: 9783849672584.

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The Divine Liturgy of Saint James (from wikipedia)

The Liturgy of Saint James or Jacobite Liturgy is the oldest complete form of the Eastern varieties of the Divine Liturgy still in use among certain Christian Churches.

It is based on the traditions of the ancient rite of the Early Christian Church of Jerusalem, as the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On Jeremiah 48- 52 And The Lamentations

Publiziert am 17. April 2018 von Jazzybee

John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On Jeremiah 48- 52 And The Lamentations – John Calvin

The Commentaries On Jeremiah, like those on The Minor Prophets, were delivered as Lectures In The Theological School At Geneva, taken down by some of the Pupils, and afterwards read to Calvin, and corrected. We find in them the production of the same vigorous and expansive mind: The Divine Oracles are faithfully explained, the meaning is clearly stated, and such brief deductions are made as the subjects legitimately warrant. Though the Lectures were extemporaneously delivered, there is yet so much order preserved, and such brevity, clearness, and suitableness of diction are found in them, that in these respects they nearly equal the most finished compositions of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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