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2) Human rights
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1990.
Language
English
Description
Biographical portraits of twenty-nine individuals who fought for human rights.
Author
Publisher
Omnibus
Pub. Date
c1993.
Language
English
Description
This illustrated biography presents a portrait of Richard Strauss and his times - his youth in the heady days of the Bismarck era, his 23-year collaboration with librettist Hugo Von Hoffmannstahl, and his controversial relationship with the Nazi regime.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Late one night in 1823, Joseph Smith, Jr., was reportedly visited in his family's farmhouse in upstate New York by an angel named Moroni. According to Smith, Moroni told him of a buried stack of gold plates that were inscribed with a history of the Americas' ancient peoples, and which would restore the pure Gospel message as Jesus had delivered it to them. Thus began the unlikely career of the Book of Mormon, the founding text of the Mormon religion,...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While many of us are familiar with such famous words as, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here." or "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," we may not know they originated with The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bible and Shakespeare, the language of this prayer book has saturated English culture and letters. Here Alan Jacobs tells its story. Jacobs shows how The Book of Common Prayer--from its...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The Bhagavad Gita, perhaps the most famous of all Indian scriptures, is universally regarded as one of the world's spiritual and literary masterpieces. Richard Davis tells the story of this venerable and enduring book, from its origins in ancient India to its reception today as a spiritual classic that has been translated into more than seventy-five languages. The Gita opens on the eve of a mighty battle, when the warrior Arjuna is overwhelmed by...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis's eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influential and much-beloved book. George Marsden describes how Lewis gradually went from being an atheist to a committed Anglican--famously converting to Christianity in 1931 after conversing into the night...
Author
Series
Lives of great religious books volume 29
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Few biblical books have been as revered and reviled as Revelation. Many hail it as the pinnacle of prophetic vision, the cornerstone of the biblical canon, and, for those with eyes to see, the key to understanding the past, present, and future. Others denounce it as the work of a disturbed individual whose horrific dreams of inhumane violence should never have been allowed into the Bible. Timothy Beal provides a concise cultural history of Revelation...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension, and its subject matter reflects a narrow scholasticism that should hardly have broad appeal. Yet the Talmud has remained in print for centuries and is more popular today than ever. Barry Scott Wimpfheimer tells the ... story of this...
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