24-Point Gospel The Big News for Today Review

24-Point Gospel The Big News for Today
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Only Bible in the house my mother can now read. Including the "Large Print" ones. It is only the four gospel's so it would be great if the company came out with other books from the Bible in 24-point.

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The Gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke & John (KJV) in 24-point type is about 1/3 inch high. Now, people with visual disabilities like macular degeneration can still use this important reference. Giant print books are usually 18 pt. or less. 7.5X9.25 776 pp

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How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel Review

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How the Bible Became a Book by William Schniedewind discusses not only when the bible may have come about, but also the importance of how and why it was written. Schniedewind cites a broad range of evidence to support his theses. He also utilizes a realistic look at the different time periods of ancient Israel to help explain his view. Although Schniedewind postulates that the Bible was written down between 8th to 6th century BCE, his endeavors in writing the book are not based around this concept. He gives insight to the history of writing and the alphabet to demonstrate the evolution of the primarily oral ancient culture, to one that relies on a singular book to relate to God. It is a well written, informative piece of work. Schniedewind's ideas and theories come across clearly and articulately. He does an excellent job of citing relevant evidence that not only proves his own postulates, but also disproves those that he is refuting.
This book is definitely worth a read. Whether you are interested in the history of ancient Israel, writing or different viewpoints of how, when and why the Bible came about, it's all covered.


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Lee's Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent Review

Lee's Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent
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Like most Americans, I knew a few odd things about Singapore and nothing much about its history, politics, or the manner of life of its citizens. This terrific reporting done by Chris Lydgate reveals a lot to me that the strange episode of the kid getting caned for vandalism did not.
I did not know of the one party rule in that city-state and the ruthless and extreme measures taken to keep that power in the hands of the PAP. Small states in hostile areas often justify their need for police state measures because of their size and context in the nations around them. However, in nearly all those cases the threat never ends and the police powers are the normal way of life. In Singapore dissent was crushed by torture and long imprisonments (decades) without ever being charged with anything. This kind of brutality is beyond the comprehension of Americans. Why? Why the need to keep power by any means? This kind of government corrupts the fabric of the society it claims to protect.
Mr. Lydgate brings us the story of one Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam. He is a person who has given everything to the fight for social justice and political plurality in Singapore. Mr. Jeyaretnam is a man of talents and strength who led the opposition party (the Workers Party) to the PAP. The PAP used EVERY means to drive Jeyaretnam out of government including the courts. Singapore apparently has very strange laws about defamation and the PAP influence on the courts makes these strange laws subject to even stranger interpretations. For example, the suit that finally broke Mr. Jeyaretnam happened because he mentioned that an associate had placed a report on the podium in front of him. Somehow that constituted an endorsement of what was in the report! This subjected him to hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and court costs.
This kind of abuse of the legal system to break anyone who would speak out is obscene to Americans. As are the threats of the prime minister to not refurbish the government-subsidized buildings in districts that voted for the opposition. These naked power plays seem something out of America's Tammany Hall days.
Singapore suffers from being a country that is really a huge city. The Prime Minister is a mayor with too much power over the other aspects of government. It isn't big enough to have sufficient other structures to dilute his power. While Singaporeans justly resent outside influence and recommendations for improvement, I think the advanced democracies need to work to make Singapore a more open and free society in terms of the rights of speech and freedom from government harassment for raising questions.
Mr. Jeyaretnam is the hero of this book and yet in his old age he is reduced to selling books from a stand on the street and is still harassed by hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and court costs. Lovers of freedom and pluralism in the west should reach out and help the aged warrior. There must be some agency that could put together a fund to help him live the dignified life he deserves.
Thanks to Mr. Lydgate for bringing our attention to this important story and this hero of Singapore.

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The perils of dissent in Singapore are at the heart of this poignant story of the country's most prominent opposition politician, J. B. Jeyaretnam. Following the career of this ambitious lawyer, prosecutor, and judge, the book traces his subsequent disenchantment with the system, his stunning political breakthrough at Anson in l981, and the devastating consequences of his direct opposition to Lee Kuan Yew and the ruling government. A chilling insight into Singapore's politics, the book also raises questions about Singapore's brand of "Asian democracy."

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The Religion of Israel: A Short History Review

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The information in this book is remarkable. It has given me a much deeper and more thorough understanding of the "old testament". I knew before reading that it wasn't history in the sense we have it today, that it was handed down orally, and not accepted into the Hebrew canon until around the middle of the 1st century BC. I failed to appreciate that it was "religious history", composed for the purpose of justifying not only a certain viewpoint but certain regimes.
An excellent, easy read!

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Using the Hebrew Bible as a primary source, this work assists readers in distinguishing between the historical Israel that produced the Bible and the idealized Israel presented in the Bible.

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A Man Named Zacchaeus: Jesus Miracle Stops and Parables Review

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Amazon sent me a message telling me that since I bought or rated other Mary Stewart books, I would probably like this one. This book is self published through an assisted publisher. The famous Mary Stewart, who wrote the Merline Trilogy, plus about a dozen other remarkable works, would not need assistance. This book has nothing "about the author." I have not read it, but if someone has the same name as someone who is a phenomenal, established author, she should clarify who she is.

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Jesus miracle stops They are over 100s of God promises that you can always count on in the Holy Bible that will chance your life.One of them maybe your... Understanding God... Knowing of God word is a be gather... The Bible helps you to facing life ... The Lord is looking for someone to believe in him and truth in his word, the Lord is your friend,,,It was a time when,The Lord had to go out looking for someone who had faith in him...Nicodemus came my night so no one would see him, to find out about the goodness of the Lord...The Lord told Abraham to get out the country and lever your Father house Abraham did... This man name Zacchaeus sought to see who Jesus was... " Jesus when out to meet Zacchaeus..."

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City of the Dead: Thebes in Egypt (British Museum Publications) Review

City of the Dead: Thebes in Egypt (British Museum Publications)
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Yet again Prof. Manniche manages to poduce an excellent work. This book makes an excellent addition to Musicians and Musical Instruments in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egyptian Herbal, and Sacred Luxuries. I am anxious to get a copy of Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt. City of the Dead is oriented toward the student or professional archaeologist. There are plenty of interesting facts that would intrigue the armchair historian as well. I recommend this book and all of the other works this author has created.

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The Theban necropolis lies in strange contrast to the bustle of Luxor on the opposite bank of the Nile. Over 450 tombs spanning more than a thousand years, some fully excavated and recorded, others tantalisingly described by travellers but now lost, form a maze-like network of passages and caves. The decoration of many of the tombs, particularly those of the Eighteenth dynasty, provides some outstanding examples of ancient Egyptian painting and relief work and reveals fascinating details about the lives and beliefs of their owners. Some of the tombs were re-used and display contrasting styles of workmanship, while many were colonised in more recent centuries by peoples with scant respect for the tombs of their ancestors: many well-paintings are blackened and burnt beyond redemption.The author traces the history of the site discussing the more important tombs in some detail, and sheds new light on the symbolism used in painting to help the deceased in the Afterlife. She also surveys the role of the treasure hunters and travellers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuries and the pioneer epigraphers who followed them and paved the way for the archeological investigation and research that continues today.

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Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism Review

Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism
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The doyen of New Testament scholars of the past five decades, the late W.D. Davies of Duke University, said of Sabin's book that, "in a complicated field, the author writes in an admirably lucid, uncluttered style and draws upon the vast pertinent sources. The Gospel of Mark is one of the most scrutinized of all the Gospels. Dr. Sabin recognizes that it has been treated theologically, literarily, liturgically, and cathechetically; but she is innovative in suggesting a fresh approach to that Gospel.... After a very illuminating chapter in which she sets forth the meaning of the term Midrash, she examines Mark as a midrashic document. To show how such a midrashic approach leads to new insights, she juxtaposes her midrashic exegesis of Mark with one of the early Church Fathers and that of a contemporary exegete.... The result is a presentation of Mark which is often provocative and enriching: it may prove to be seminal."
I align myself with Davies' judgment and would add that her aim when countering longstanding standard approaches to the interpretation of Mark proves most successful. Time and again she produces novel insights and her criticism of major scholars in the field is both sophisticated and persuasive.

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Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age Review

Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age
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Bryce is a writer who brings history excitingly to life. This book covers the last 500 years of the bronze age, which separates the era of the city states on one hand and - after an interim "dark age" - the great empires of the first millenium on the other.
Bryce explores this world through the medium of the written archives of the 5 great states that dominated this world over the bulk of this period. It is an exciting and readable story, which I completed over the course of a single weekend. Bryce does not pretend that this tells the complete picture of these societies - it is the picture of an elite at work, rest and play - but it is a wonderful overview that is well worthy of the tradition of Herodotus.
I docked one star because there were occasional signs of hasty writing / proofediting that marred my reading enjoyment. I made some notes from one single page near the end of the book, page 228.
para 4, first sentence "But it may not have failed entirely." It's not immediately obvious what the subject "it" refers to, and might be better phrased "But the viceroy's rebuke may not have been entirely without effect."
On the next line, "cap-ability" the hyphen is missing (I was left wondering for a few seconds what a "defence cap ability" was!)
And finally the penultimate paragraph, first sentence "The letter was found in the house of Rapanu." Who or what is Rapanu - i had to refer to the index to be reminded he had cropped up in a previous chapter. The sentence would be better formulated for the reader, "This letter, found in the house of a senior citizen of Ugarit named Rapanu, shows that it was clearly..."
Having written this much, one final comment - in the historical overview at the beginning, a bit more scaffolding for the reader might be helpful. I can find immediately one example of what I mean: on page 16, when hammurabi comes to power, it could be mentioned that this was towards the end of the reign of Shamshi-Adad - this both provides a useful reference point and brackets nicely the text to the point where the Assyrian kingdom finally falls under his sway.
But to sum up: I can promise that no-one with any interest in ancient history will fail to be enthralled by this book.


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Offering fascinating insights into the people and politics of the ancient near Eastern kingdoms, Trevor Bryce uses the letters of the five Great Kings of Egypt, Babylon, Hatti, Mitanni and Assyria as the focus of a fresh look at this turbulent and volatile region in the late Bronze Age. Numerous extracts from the letters are constantly interwoven into the fabric of narrative and discussion, and this lively approach allows us to witness history through the eyes of the people who lived it, revealing the personalities and reactions of kings, queens, princes, princesses and royal officials more than 3500 years ago to the current events of the day.

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Oral World and Written Word: Ancient Israelite Literature (Library of Ancient Israel) Review

Oral World and Written Word: Ancient Israelite Literature (Library of Ancient Israel)
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I started Ms. Niditch's "Oral World and Written Word" with something of an attitude after other books on the composition of the Bible had left a jargonesque, overcomplicated, underexplained taste in my brain. I was expecting more of the same. However, I was soon won over by the clarity of Nidich's thinking, the order of the presentation and the strengths of her arguments.The overall thrust of the book is to examine the nature of literacy in the very ancient world, to distinguish it from modern notions of literacy, and to consider how the interplay of oral culture and writing exhibits itself in the Bible. Perhaps the best thing I can say here is that this tiny volume is causing a major shift in my thinking. While she does not pretend to comprehensive knowledge of the process of compiling the Bible, she does raise a number of practical considerations against the Documantary Hypothesis variatons that I daresay the authors of purely literary theories have never even remotely thought of. Wherever you stand, this book is worth reading. I only wish there were more of it!

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The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament Review

The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
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This book is about one group of Christians in the 2nd and 3rd centuries who, writing before the canon had been set, fought heatedly against sects of Christians it considered heretical. This group - the 'proto-orthodox' - modified its scriptures to avoid alternative interpretations of Jesus, and in so doing, ironically corrupted its own sacred texts.
'Corruption' sounds negative, but it's a technical term. It just means that the original text has been modified. Ehrman is not trying to make swiss cheese out of the New Testament. He states that "by far the vast majority of [textual variants] are 'accidental'." But some of them have too much relevance to the intense theological disputes of the pre-canonical period to be random error.
The 4 heretical positions discussed are 1) adoptionism, 2) separationism, 3) doceticism, and 4) Patripassianism.
Adoptionism is the belief that Jesus was a man who was 'adopted' by God to carry out one of his plans. When God adopted a man, the man became a 'Son' only at that moment to the Father. When an adult David was crowned king, he was adopted by God. When Jesus is declared 'Son of God' at his baptism - it did NOT mean he was himself divine, although he certainly had a special relationship to God. Jesus was not divine- just a great man in God's eyes, chosen for a task.
Separationism is a Gnostic view that Jesus was a man, and the Christ was a divine spirit - and that at Jesus' baptism (again!) the Christ entered him, empowered him to accomplish miracles, and then left him on the cross (helps make sense of Mark 15:34). Jesus the man was thus separable from the Christ, a divine spirit.
Docetism is the view that Jesus only appeared to have a real, fleshly human body, but being God, really did not. Jesus' body is more like a phantom or temporary body, a rental. This sounds strange - but surely Jesus couldn't have an erection, or defecate? The discomfort we might feel here shows the docetic in all of us. Gnostics were VERY big on docetism - since they thought that the material realm was tainted and evil.
Patripassianism is the belief that the trinity is false, that there is only ONE god. So this entails that Yahweh HIMSELF was crucified, arrested, beaten, etc.
Most of the corruptions are surprisingly subtle and minor in appearance - most of them are a change in one or two words in a single passage. For example, changing a reference from reading 'Jesus' to 'Jesus Christ' was born in a manger affirms that Jesus was divine from BIRTH, that he was UNIFIED in his being as well. This one corruption could be used by orthodoxy to maintain an interpretation that resists adoptionist or separationist attack. .
But the four heresies are, after all, pretty simple to grasp. For a book that can be meticulous and involved in its argument, the basic ideas are straightorward. In fact, there are only 6 chapters - an intro, a chapter for each heresy, and a conclusion. Very simple organization. Each chapter has substantial footnotes that can be very interesting to read themselves, as well as sources for further information.
Ehrman's book is not dry, but it is detailed and involved in parts. I don't know New Testament Greek, but he frequently quotes Greek phrases with a translation. However, there are numerous cases where he does NOT translate, and that gets a bit rough. I had to reread perhaps 5 of his passages several times to get the flow of his argument. Once he sets it up, most of the corruptions are easy to see coming. In fact, sometimes it gets a little tedious. He presents an argument for each corruption, some of them truly fascinating, though. Many of them are speculative in nature, and he acknowledges that.
The most crucial class of corruptions are the ones that Ehrman thinks have made it into the canon. These he argues very carefully, and the context he provides is terrific. Some examples are 1) the adoptionist hints in Luke 3:22 (baptism again!), Jesus' bloody sweat (Luke 22:43-44), Luke's version of the Last Supper (22:19-20), Peter's visit to the tomb in Luke 24:12, and the title 'Son of God' in Mark 1:1.
The vast majority, however, of the corruptions he lists have NOT made their way into the modern bible, at least not the NSRV Oxford bible that I own. He gives his reasons for each of these in full.
Importantly, none of the corruptions themselves were carried out in a systematic way - the orthodox church never seemed to have a policy of corruption. Ehrman is careful not to attribute any malicious intention to the orthodox scribes, as well. Rather, it comes off that a scribe here and there would see the potential misreading, and then insert his own modification to 'clarify' what (he) thought was obviously already there in the text.
Interestingly, some of the corruptions themselves cause further problems! A corruption that helps emphasize Jesus' humanity, and thereby removes a docetic threat - can also open the text up to adoptionist readings. One can't help see the tighrope walk involved for the orthodox - and Ehrman hints that this refusal to yield to either side's heresy forced the orthodox sect to embrace that paradoxical understanding of Jesus' nature - all God AND all human, one god BUT three 'aspects.' (This helped explain to me, at least, the bizarre Trinity. It's always seemed like a construct - trying to have one's theological cake and eat it too.)Learning to spot those ancient heresies helped me read the bible more carefully. Far from being a unified, flawless block of dead doctrine, the New Testament now brims with the tensions and questions of its overlapping and also competing Christological perspectives. The bible is a complex collection of writings - Ehrman's book helped the New Testament become much more of a living book to me.

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Victors not only write history: they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, examining how early struggles between Christian "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affected the transmission of the documents over which many of the debates were waged. He makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the social and intellectual history of early Christianity and raises intriguing questions about the relationship of readers to their texts, especially in an age when scribes could transform the documents they reproduced. This edition includes a new afterword surveying research in biblical interpretation over the past twenty years.

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Fun with Hieroglyphs: 24 Rubber Stamps, Hieroglyph Guidebook, Ink Pad (Box Set) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Review

Fun with Hieroglyphs: 24 Rubber Stamps, Hieroglyph Guidebook, Ink Pad (Box Set) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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As a homeschooler we really enjoyed the "hands on" approach that this book with ink and stamps gave us. It was great fun and it helped us to understand the first written language a whole lot more.

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Hieroglyphs are the key to the most fascinating secrets of antiquity. Children can discover how Egyptian scribes used the symbols to record the events of their time with this kit. Includes 24 rubber stamps, an ink pad, a guidebook, and an Egyptian hieroglyph chart.

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Blinded By the Right; the Conscience of an Ex-Conservative Review

Blinded By the Right; the Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
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Though nowhere near the importance or writing quality of a Koestler book, nevertheless Brock's book blows the lid off the moral emptiness of movement "conservatives."
I'm "anonymous" for a reason: I witnessed a lot of the events that Brock portrays accurately in his book, and I am a conservative who was also a first-hand witness to the Gingrich revolution. I bought the book with the mindset that Brock was a scam artist and opportunist; I finished the book with the mindset that he has done this country, and true conservatives, a great service. Take it from me: though Brock may have lied in the past, in the service of his paymasters, he is NOT lying now.
Brock describes so accurately how hypocritical a lot of conservatives are. No one is flawless, but it's sickening to read Brock's chronicle, and to remember my own recollections, of how movement conservatives would attack others for the same behavior they themselves engage in.
Hypocrisy is just the tip of the iceberg. Brock accurately cites the bigotry that pervades the movement, especially sexual bigotry like homophobia. Movement conservatives' obsession with sex, which culminated in the constitutional bonfire of the Clinton impeachment, did not just cause the undoing of some conservative politicians' careers (Livingston, Gingrich), but is a particular epidemic of the movement. Washington is Sodom and Gomorrah rolled up into one, at least on the conservative side.
Sex, as well as disregard for the rule of law and common sense, is why conservatives went after Clinton. I was no fan of Clinton when he was in office, and my only beefs with him were legal (lying before a grand jury) and political, not personal. Still, I became sickened as the impeachment process wore on, but I laughed at the same time, because many Clinton critics' own personal lives would put Monica Lewinsky's to shame. And I remember being in Washington, and watching Hillary Clinton attacking a "vast right-wing conspiracy." Though I knew of many coordinated efforts to "get the Clintons," I was not aware of how vast this extra-constitutional effort really was. Brock is so incredibly precise in explaining the machinations, fueled by far right-wing money, of movement conservatives trying to undermine a sitting president.
I can't say enough about Brock's book. As a conservative, I am appalled at how the party of Reagan and Lincoln has been taken over by hucksters, charlatans and confidence men, posing as principled members of the right. With both political extremes showing themselves capable of pursuing their aims at all costs, I fear for our nation, because one day our system may break from the stress of yet another hypocritical witchhunt. Or, maybe Brock's book will touch enough people and change enough minds, like it did mine, and we will become less destructive in our politics.

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Creative Learning: Activities and Games That REALLY Engage People (Essential Tools Resource) Review

Creative Learning: Activities and Games That REALLY Engage People (Essential Tools Resource)
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Bob Lucas is a forward thinking, brain-based learning practitioner who's prolific writings (having written or contributed to 29+ books) have enriched the training literature for years. I wrote the forward for this book because of my enthusiasm for the techniques Bob advocates. A generous smorgasbord of those techniques are showcased in Creative Learning. This work is a ready source of training activities, techniques, tools, and tips for virtually any training situation. It deserves a place on every trainer's shelf. It's on mine.

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Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia: The Gilgamesh Epic and Other Ancient Literature Review

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This is an interesting way of viewing myths. It is a scholarly book, even if one does not read the footnotes. For scholars, this is a useful book, and I refer to the author's viewpoints when I write about mythology.
The author has clearly done a great deal of useful research. Her style of writing is accessible, not convoluted like many scholarly works which are meant for a limited group of people willing to read the book and every single footnote.
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Fixing God's Torah: The Accuracy of the Hebrew Bible Text in Jewish Law Review

Fixing God's Torah: The Accuracy of the Hebrew Bible Text in Jewish Law
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Since the nineteeenth century, the absolute integrity of the text of the Pentateuch as the letter-for -letter accurate revelatory message of the Divine to Moses on Mount Sinai has been an article of faith for Orthodox Judaism. Prof. Levy shows with meticulous scholarship that from early Rabbinic times onwards, through the Middle Ages and even into more modern times many rabbinic scholars acknowledged and discussed the variations in the Masoretic and other texts of the 5 Books ( particularly in the context of the accuracy of the Scrolls used in synagogue). What was commonplace discussion in early times turned into sensation in our own times; what was never at issue turned into heresy, and, conversely, a view that was never espoused turned into an article of faith. The book is a superbly documented window onto the history of Judaism, and on to the history of the transmission of texts, with restrained but pointed relevance to some contemporary causes celebre - eg Bible Codes, whose basic premise this books elegantly demolishes. Should be in every theological and Jewish library!

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The Hebrew text of the Torah has never been finalized down to the last letter. This is important not least because Jewish law requires that Torah scrolls read publicly in the synagogue be error-free. Jewish scribes, scholars, and legal authorities have sought to overcome or narrow these differences, but to this day have not completely succeeded in doing so. This book offers an in-depth study of how rabbinic leaders of the past two millennia have dealt with questions about the text's accuracy, presenting numerous authoritative rabbinic sources, many translated here for the first time.

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The Tomb-Builders of the Pharaohs Review

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The valley of the Kings in Egypt has enticed numerous archeologists in search of the burial sites of the Pharoahs. These remarkable tombs were built by skilled workers who had a special city built for them and their families. Mr. Bierbrier has researched and done a scholarly work about these workers and their day to day lives. We learn that the more things change, the more they stay the same, as the same day to day and family problems that we have today are very much the same as those who lived 3,000 years ago. It is certainly a distant mirror and one that students of Egypt will enjoy. It is well written and I am particularly proud of this book as Mr. Bierbrier is a cousin of mine. This however did not affect my opinion of this fine work.

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Chasing Pharaohs I: The Rise of the Maahes Review

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Thoroughly researched, artfully and sometimes even poetically told, breathtakingly exciting - this is novel writing as it was always supposed to be. If you like your stories rich and deep, full of ancient history and spiritual resonance, th...en this is for you. It is a must read book for anyone who is looking for a more substantial kind of storytelling. Here at last is a more lasting voice for this ephemeral generation of throwaway, airport novels. I can't wait for the next two books in what I strongly suspect will be a widely appreciated trilogy that will defy the sands of time - even the sands of ancient Egypt.
Dr Mark Stibbe, best selling and award winning author

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"Ancient Egypt during the eighteenth dynasty is ruled by the house of Thutmose. It is a time of uncertainty as the death of the first King stirs a group of Noubadian and Uronarti tribesmen in the south. Their leader, the Dark Rebel, assembles a faction to exploit the shift in power, but the uncompromising protection of the Pharaoh fills the advancing rebels with an overpowering rage that rouses the demons of the god Ienpw. Thutmose II, a fragile and suspicious individual, endeavors to keep his throne by exchanging the guards of his inner sanctum. A Semnan bowman from the black kingdoms, a scribe and interpreter of dreams from Yisra el, and the stealthy commander Shoshenq, the King s permanent shadow, comprise an enigmatic threesome. They scrutinize all breaches to the palace and its surrounding precincts and unleash a force of inestimable strength to the peaceful land of Kemet.Can the sly commander rid himself of such a powerful adversary whose claim to the throne would shake an entire dynasty? The Rise of the Maahes begins the first book in the Chasing Pharaohs series. It is a vivid story of faithfulness, forgiveness, humility, and love. "

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