Книги. Художественная литература. Учебники и пособия.

Mass.), First Baptist Church (Cambridge

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General Association of New-Hampshir, Edwin David Sanborn

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Edited by Joanna Cannon and Beth Williamson

Introduced by Joanna Cannon, this volume of essays by postgraduate students at the Courtauld Institute, University of London, explores some of the ways in which art was used to express, to celebrate, and to promote the political and religious aims and aspirations of those in power in the city-states of central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The contributions focus on four centres: Siena, Arezzo, Pisa, and Orvieto, and range over a number of media: fresco, panel painting, sculpture, metalwork, and translucent enamel. Employing a variety of methods and approaches, these stimulating essays offer a fresh look at some of the key artistic projects of the period. The dates cited in the title, 1261 and 1352, refer to two well-known works, Coppo di Marcovaldo's Madonna del Bordone and the Guidoriccio fresco in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena, here newly assigned to this date. By concentrating on individual cases such as these, the essays provide rewardingly sustained...

Cyrus H. Gordon, Gary A. Rendsburg

This up-to-date revision of a classic work draws on the latest archaeological and linguistic research to fill in the historical realities behind the great stories of the Bible. This account of the historical context for the Hebrew Bible explores the diverse origins of such stories as the creation and the flood in the cultures of the ancient Near East. The authors show the striking parallels in the foundational stories told in the Egyptian, Persian, Greek, and Hebrew cultures of the time.

John Bowker

What does it mean to be religious? It means almost everything because religions deal with the whole of human life and death. For thousands of years people have searched for the meaning and truth of their own nature and of the universe, and religions, which deal with the whole of human life and death, are the result. Even the natural sciences were originally religious; only in the last 300 years have religion and science come apart as ways of exploration. We look at religions now as communities of people who share practices and beliefs (often in God or gods), who gather in special buildings for worship or meditation, and who live in special ways in the world. We know that more than three quarters of the world's population consider that they belong to a religion, however little or much they do about it. The great faiths explored and explained through interpretation of sacred texts, religious artefacts, paintings, and architecture. Learn about the central figures and...

John H. Hayes

2Rev Ed edition

Greg Graffin, Steve Olson

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Thomas L. Thompson

Archaeology seems to have become an active partner in the attempt to prove the historical truth of the Bible. Biblical archaeologists have gone to the field in search of Noah's ark or the walls of Jericho, as if the finding of these artifacts would make the events of scripture somehow more true or real. Thomas Thompson is one of the most vocal contemporary critics of biblical archaeology. His simple but powerful thesis is that archaeology cannot be used in the service of the Bible. Focusing on the patriarchal narratives—the stories of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—he demonstrates that archaeological research simply cannot historically substantiate these stories. Going further, Thompson says that archaeological materials should never be dated or evaluated on the basis of written texts. Looking to the patriarchal narratives in Genesis, he concludes that these stories are neither historical nor were they intended to be historical. Instead, these narratives are written as...

John Bright

4 edition

Morwyn

The author explains what the Brazilian mystery traditions are about, and she also links this magick to wicca in its similarities. A great read to spice up your spiritual life.