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Author
Publisher
Verso Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"According to tradition, Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. Depicted there in suprising and contradicting ways, and both for and against his people, bringer of the tablets of law which he then breaks. By way of a series of possible portraits-including one of a female Moses-Jean-Christophe Attias follows the metamorphoses of the Hebrew liberator through ages and cultures. Drawing on rabbinical sources as well as the Bible itself, he examines...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Draws on the life, teachings, and example of Moses to present a series of principles designed to help cope with the problems of everyday life, offering guidelines for dealing with disillusionment of an unfulfilled life, the loss of a job, and other trials.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On repentance applies an ancient framework of repentance and repair to our personal lives today, to the contemporary public square, to institutions, and to national policy in ways that could transform our society and our culture--
"American culture focuses on letting go of grudges and redemption narratives instead of the perpetrator's obligations or recompense for harmed parties. As survivor communities have pointed out, these emphases have too often...
11) Grandma Moses
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of Anna Mary Robertson, the artist who was known as Grandma Moses, describing the inspiration behind and development of her paintings.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, Charles Lenox travels to the New York and Newport of the dawning Gilded Age to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite. London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle, two children, and an intriguing new murder case....
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Documents the urban planner's voyages to cities in a dozen countries around the world, where he explored each city's hidden facets and culture in its abandoned structures, underground ruins, and disused subway stations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Only Avivah Zornberg could tell the story of Moses in such a way as to situate him on the very cusp of the sacred and the human while showing how completely he participates in both. Only Zornberg has the prodigious scholarship to draw out from her sources the uniquely anguished and creative energy of Moses' life. In doing so she makes a plea for a Jewish ethics grounded in the outsider, the one who stutters and falls, while at the same time returning...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"It is one of the more startling facts of military history that the founders of three of the four "great religions" -- Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam-- were also accomplished field generals with extensive experience in commanding men in battle. One of these, Muhammed, fought eight battles and was wounded twice, once almost fatally. Another, Siddhartha Gautama (later to become the Buddah), witnessed so much battlefield carnage that he suffered a psychological...
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