Tag: Prophecy

Between Prophecy and Apocalypse The Burden of Sacred Time and the Making of History in Early Medieval Europe


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English | ISBN: 0199642559 | 2024 | 160 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The tenth and eleventh centuries in medieval Europe are commonly seen as a time of uncertainty and loss: an age of lawless aristocrats, of weak political authority, of cultural decline and dissolute monks, and of rampant superstition. It is a period often judged from its margins, compared (mostly negatively) to what came before and what would follow. We impose upon it both a sense of nostalgia and a teleology, as they somehow knowingly foreshadow what is to come.

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At the End of Time Prophecy and Revelation A Spiritual Paradigm


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English | ISBN: 0892541652 | 2011 | 272 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
Many cycles predicting the "end of times" fill our modern dialog from the coming of the Millennium to 2012. Robin Robertson helps to clarify these prophesies and offers insight into the central issues of our challenges and their life-changing implications.

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Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East


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English | November 9, 2023 | ISBN: 1009297759 | True PDF | 350 pages | 4.6 MB
In this volume, Jae Han investigates how various Late Antique Near Eastern communities – Jews, Christians, Manichaeans, and philosophers – discussed prophets and revelation, among themselves and against each other. Bringing an interdisciplinary, historical approach to the topic, he interrogates how these communities used discourses of prophethood and revelation to negotiate their place in the world.

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The Complete Guide to Bible Prophecy


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English | 2010 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 1602603006 | EPUB | 31,4 mb
Wondering if the end of the world is near? The Complete Guide to Bible Prophecy for a fair and thoughtful review of various end-time theories. New from Stephen M. Miller bestselling author of Who s Who and Where s Where in the Bible, this guide introduces readers to all aspects of prophecy from Old Testament predictions made and already fulfilled to end-times prophecies of events yet to come. Written in Miller s casual, balanced, journalistic style, this book is a fascinating survey of mysterious biblical passages and their various interpretations. Lavishly illustrated, with gorgeous charts and graphics. The Complete Guide to Bible Prophecy will help you sort out the truth on this vital topic.

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Writing beyond Prophecy Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville after the American Renaissance


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English | 2013 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 0807147605 | EPUB | 2,4 mb
Writing beyond Prophecy offers a new interpretation of the American Renaissance by drawing attention to a cluster of later, rarely studied works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Identifying a line of writing from Emerson’s Conduct of Life to Hawthorne’s posthumously published Elixir of Life manuscript to Melville’s Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, Martin Kevorkian demonstrates how these authors wrestled with their vocational calling.

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