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Author: James Thackara
Publisher: Overlook Books
Published: 2000-03
Total Pages: 788
ISBN-13: 9781585670505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this electrifying grand-scale novel set on the eve of the Nazi invasion of Europe, the idyllic student life of four friends in Paris gives way to the frenzy of war.
Author: Yochi Brandes
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2016-08-23
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 146688889X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“This volume, by Biblical scholar Yochi Brandes, is a riveting novel based on textual sources about the experiences of David and Solomon. Its lessons are also relevant for our turbulent time.” —Elie Wiesel, #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Night In the tradition of The Red Tent from internationally bestselling author Yochi Brandes comes the stories of the struggles of King David and King Saul in the early days of the Kingdom of Israel, seen through the eyes of Michal, Saul’s daughter and David’s abandoned queen Stories are deadlier than swords. Swords kill only those who stand before them, stories decide who will live and die in generations to come. Shelomoam, a young man from the tribe of Ephraim, has grown up in the shadow of dark secrets. He wonders why his father is deathly afraid of the King’s soldiers and why his mother has lied about the identities of those closest to him. Shelomoam is determined to unearth his mysterious past, never imagining where his quest will ultimately lead him. The Secret Book of Kings upends conventions of biblical novels, engaging with the canonized stories of the founding of the Kingdom of Israel and turning them on their heads. Presented for the first time are the heretofore unknown stories of the House of Saul and of the northern Kingdom of Israel, stories that were artfully concealed by the House of David and the scribes of the southern Kingdom of Judah. Yochi Brandes, one of Israel’s all-time bestselling novelists, enlists her unique background in both academic Jewish scholarship and traditional religious commentaries to read the Bible in an utterly new way. In this book, a major publishing phenomenon in Israel and one of the bestselling novels in the history of the country, she uncovers vibrant characters, especially women, buried deep within the scriptures, and asks the loaded question: to what extent can we really know our past when history is written by the victors?
Author: André Lemaire
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 728
ISBN-13: 9004177299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collaborative commentary on, or dictionary of, Kings, explores cross-cutting aspects of Kings ranging from the analysis of its composition, historically regarded, to its transmission and reception. Ample attention is accorded sources, figures and peoples who play a part in the book. The commentary deals with Kings treatment in translation and role in later ancient literature. While our comments do not proceed verse by verse, the volume furnishes guidance, from contributors highly qualified to advance contemporary discussion, on the book's historical background, its literary intentions and characteristics, and on themes and motifs central to its understanding, both of itself and of the world from which it arose. This volume functions as a meta-commentary, offering windows into the secondary literature, but assembling data more fully than is the case in individual commentaries.
Author: Robert Gilliam
Publisher: New Amer Library
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780451454737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of stories about kings and princes are told from the viewpoints of queens, servants, and mythical beings and includes the works of such authors as Stephen R. Donaldson, Jane Yolen, and Alan Dean Foster. Original.
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2009-10-21
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 0393070255
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999 Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel. But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.
Author: John W Rogerson
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Published: 1999-10-26
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780500050958
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Well detailed and illustrated outline of the rulers encompassed by the Old Testament, from Abraham to Herod.
Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0870990284
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter J. Leithart
Publisher: Brazos Press
Published: 2006-11
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1587431254
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This commentary on 1 and 2 Kings demonstrates the continuing intellectual and practical viability of theological interpretation of the Bible for today's church.
Author: Cyril J. Barber
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2004-09-23
Total Pages: 830
ISBN-13: 1725242796
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a recent essay "The Unmarked Way" Harvard scholar Oscar Handlin wrote: "At some point, midway into the 20th century, Europeans and Americans discovered that they had lost all sense of direction. Formerly familiar markers along the way had guided their personal and social lives from birth to maturity to death. Now, disoriented, they no longer trust the guideposts and grope in bewilderment toward an unimagined destination...." Dr. Handlin's observation confirms the fact that history has repeated itself. One of the guideposts that could lead us through the maze of confusing theories is the Book of Kings. Without the light of history shining over our shoulders we lose our sense of direction. The admonition of the prophet Jeremiah points us back to the lighted path: He counseled the people of his day to "Ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." Now, more so than ever before, we need the teaching of 1 and 2 Kings, and that after all is the purpose of these studies. Read them and see.
Author: Edward J. Young
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780802803399
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. A scholarly conservative study of the literary characteristics of the books of the Old Testament. Young argues for the inner harmony and underlying unity of the literary units that make up the Old Testament. Includes special bibliographies for each chapter, a general bibliography, and three indexes.
