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Ketubbah: Jewish Marriage Contracts of the Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum and Klau Library Review

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(More customer reviews)Charming. Informative. And beautifully laid-out, this is a must for lovers of Judaica, and art in general. Highly recommended.

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Romeo and Leila & The Enigma of Time Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is not my cup of tea, but I don't often drink tea. It turns out to be surprisingly tasty.
I prefer reading hard science fiction with its technology and characters solidly based in the real world. This book is solidly based in fantasy.
To me it seems more in the genre of magical realism than sf. There is almost no technology involved, and what there is is more like a parody of our actual technology. The science, like almost every other aspect of the book, is explained in a way that gleefully creates more questions than answers.
The writing has a lilting, kind of eccentric, poetic quality. It's hypnotic, filled with compellingly absurd phrases, characters, situations, and occurrences. Readers who allow it to carry them away will find themselves wrapped in a sometimes spooky, often funny, enjoyably strange dream.

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Seven seductive Middle Eastern women join a party on a Western Federation cruiser which floats on the Persian Gulf. The women turn out to be narrators of a science fiction story. They mesmerize the crew and draw a dark picture of the future which handles a fictive nuclear war between Iran and USA : "After the explosion of the first atomic bomb, the question is raised if it is possible to turn back time itself?"

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Shifting Landmarks: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia Around the Year 1000 (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past) Review

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(More customer reviews)I've read sections of it, that were distributed as part of a syllabus, and I've heard Jeff Bowman lecture. It was amazing, really a fascinating inquiry, inspired scholarship, and a very talented professor. I look forward to sitting down with the rest of the book.

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In a major contribution to the debate among medievalists about the nature of social and political change in Europe around the turn of the millennium, Jeffrey A. Bowman explores how people contended over property during the tenth and eleventh centuries in the province of Narbonne. He examines the system of courts and judges that weighed property disputes and shows how disputants and judges gradually adapted, modified, and reshaped legal traditions.The region (which comprised Catalonia and parts of Mediterranean France) possessed a distinctive legal culture, characterized by the prominent role of professional judges, a high level of procedural sophistication, and an intense attachment to written law, particularly the Visigothic Code. At the same time, disputants relied on a range of strategies (including custom, curses, and judicial ordeals) to resolve conflicts. Chronic tensions stemmed from conflicting understandings of property rights rather than from pervasive violence; the changes Bowman tracks are less signs of a world convulsed in struggle than of a world coursing with vitality. In Shifting Landmarks, property disputes serve as a bridge between the author's inquiry into learned ideas about justice, land, and the law and his close examination of the rough-and-tumble practice of daily life. Throughout, Bowman finds intimate connections among ink and parchment, sweat and earth.

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Septimus Heap: The Magykal Papers Review

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(More customer reviews)The Magykal Papers is a charming compendium of "published" (Pamplets, restaurant reviews, etc) and private papers (journal entries, etc) which, together, help to increase our understanding of delightful world created by Angie Sage. The "papers" are loosely collected into chapters corresponding to different regions of the Castle, such as the Palace and the Wizard Tower.
Some Pros Include:
1. Ms. Sage's trademark gentle humor is present thoughout most of the book. I particulary enjoyed the tour pamplets by Silas Heap.
2. The book begins with a bit of the history of the Castle. Just how did the Castle come to have a Queen? You learn that here
3. Fabulous illustrations. I enjoyed seeing how mark Zug envisions the Heaps and the Wizards, especially Alther Metha.
4. While there is limited new material, the sections tend to add tremendously to the overall depth of the world being created by Ms Sage. For example, you gain empathy for Sarah Heap and difficult it must be for her to have been separated from her sons.
Cons:
1. A note of caution - this is NOT a stand-alone book. Appreciation of it requires that you read the other books in the series first.
2. Some of the material was rather redundant, others simply didn't add much backstory. For example, for this book to make any sense you will have to read Magyk. Well, in that book you cover the rules for the Message Rat Service, so it is redundant to repeat it here. The journal entries don't seem to add much backstory.
Overall, this was a pleasant, quick read. I am looking forward to the next installation of the series, Syren.

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Enter the world of Septimus Heap with this collection of previously unpublished papers. This rich compendium includes: The private journals of Septimus, Jenna, and Marcia Overstrand. The best-and worst-places to eat as described in The Egg-on-Toast Restaurant Guide. Sirius Weazal's Speedy Guides to the Palace, the Wizard Tower, and Wizard Way. Excerpts from the Pigeon Post Biography series and the Heaps of History series. Alther Mella's Guide to Being Dead: Ten Handy Rules for New Ghosts. Beautiful maps, quirky flyers, funny letters, and much more!

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Moon of Israel Review

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(More customer reviews)Moon of Israel is an amazing retelling of the Biblical story of the Exodus from the view point of Ana, the Egyptian scribe. Ana provides a down to earth naration of the ancient egyptian times during the reign of Pharoah's Meneptah, Amenmeses, and Seti. It is the story told from a different viewpoint that includes historical information, action, adventure romance, and internal struggles that are still seen in today's times. The main story follows the direction with Prince Seti who is heir to the thrown and who is forced to marry his half sister Userti. The comical events leading to that can be admired by everyone. However, Prince Seti is disinherited because he doesn't follow his fathers', Pharoah Meneptah, idea of slaughtering the Jews. Thus, Amenmeses takes his place as heir. But when the plagues of Egypt occur and the eventual release of the Jews, Amenmeses decides on revenge and finds his life at stake. Throughout it all Prince Seti discovers more of who he is and what it means to rule a nation that is in the turmultuous state it is left to him in. The love story of two cultures colliding together and the struggles the couple faces in the quest to be together is very moving.
I really like reading this story. The fluidity of the plot and how it was written and described was amazing.

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An outstanding book, it chronicles the story of the Exodus. Haggard introduces the biblical tale through the character of Ana, an unlikely narrator. First published as a book in 1918, it is remarkable for its religious and historical content. Truly hypnotic!

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Gospel Fragments (Oxford Early Christian Gospel Texts) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book, which is aimed at scholars, should also be of interest to anyone intrigued by early Christianity.
P. Egerton 2, for example, caused a sensation when it was published in 1935 as the earliest Christian gospel fragment. Only a few months later it lost its place as the earliest fragment when P. Ryl.457 fragments of John's gospel, were "dated...to the reign of Hadrian" (p 12).
Nicklas argues that "The text is...interested in the relationship between Jesus and Moses" (p 37). It shows correspondences between John's gospel, but how? "Today the existence of possible sources (besides the synoptic gospels) of the Gospel of John is regarded as more and more unlikely" ( p 39). In the end, Nicklas decides the evidence shows that, while the author of P. Egerton 2 may have heard John's gospel, clearly, he did not have the gospel on hand.
Kruger investigates P.Oxy.840. This has been a frequently overlooked fragment. "Much of the neglect of P.Oxy. 840 can be attributed to the doubts raised by some scholars about the historical accuracy of some of its descriptions of the temple and its associated rituals" (p 125). Clearly, it was written by someone who was not a professional scribe.
Although some of the historical questions about this fragment seem unresolvable now, there are many fascinating questions about it. One is the use "of the term 'Savior' for Jesus" (p 159) as opposed to the canonical gospels.
Also, it clearly "lacks any obvious heterodox of 'heretical' agenda" (p 161). Could this be because it stems from early Jewish Christianity?
Each fragment discussed has a photograph of the fragment. There is also a complete Greek version of the fragment, as well as an English translation. The work of other scholars is discussed, as well as current theories about the date, origin, and meaning of the fragment.
Among the dozens of intriguing questions in this book that that beg to be answered: why are "98 percent of the non-Christian manuscripts....before 200 AD scrolls, (while) almost all extant Christian fragments of this time come from codices" (p 150). There are many theories as to why Christians used the codex. But so far, no firm answers.

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The Existential Jesus Review

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(More customer reviews)This book really caught me off guard. I am not a fan of existentialism, and at first picked up the book expecting to be annoyed. I am glad I still am able to be pleasantly surprised.
This book takes a deep look at who Jesus is in the Gospel of Mark, a Gospel that, in many ways, is bare bones. This bare bones, however, as the author shows, betrays a masterful portrait of the mysterious humanity of Jesus. This he highlights with comparisons to John's Gospel, which he sees as being in many ways the antithesis and perfect, masterful compliment to Mark. I really enjoyed the different perspective this author takes, and one can tell he has really striven and wrestled with the text, whether he is a "believer" or not. I am a Christian, and yet find his, perhaps unconventional, insights most welcome and engaging. I think you will too, even if you do not agree with all he says.

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Upending Christianity's popular notion of Jesus the comforter, the good shepherd, the Lord and Savior, this forceful document reexamines the Christ image of the New Testament gospels—the mysterious stranger, the singular, abandoned, and solitary figure—and rethinks the current role of Western culture throughthis altered view of Christianity. The existential Jesus has no interest in sin, and his focus is not onan afterlife. He gestures enigmatically from within his own torturous experience, inviting the reader to walk in his shoes and ask the question, Who am I?—establishing Jesus as the West's great teacher on the nature of being. Incorporating a new and original translation of the Gospel of Mark from its original Greek, this radical reinterpretation identifiesthe philosophical and cultural significance of the gospels in the modern world, based on the life and actions—rather than the word—of Jesus Christ.

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