The Land of Truth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Land of Truth write by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein. This book was released on 2018-01-01. The Land of Truth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Making the rich narrative world of Talmud tales fully accessible to modern readers, renowned Talmud scholar Jeffrey L. Rubenstein turns his spotlight on both famous and little-known stories, analyzing the tales in their original contexts, exploring their cultural meanings and literary artistry, and illuminating their relevance. Delving into both rabbinic life (the academy, master-disciple relationships) and Jewish life under Roman and Persian rule (persecution, taxation, marketplaces), Rubenstein explains how storytellers used irony, wordplay, figurative language, and other art forms to communicate their intended messages. Each close reading demonstrates the story's continuing relevance through the generations into modernity. For example, the story "Showdown in Court," a confrontation between King Yannai and the Rabbinic judges, provides insights into controversial struggles in U.S. history to balance governmental power; the story of Honi's seventy-year sleep becomes a window into the indignities of aging. Through the prism of Talmud tales, Rubenstein also offers timeless insights into suffering, beauty, disgust, heroism, humor, love, sex, truth, and falsehood. By connecting twenty-first-century readers to past generations, The Land of Truth helps to bridge the divide between modern Jews and the traditional narrative worlds of their ancestors.
A Bride for One Night
A Bride for One Night - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Bride for One Night write by Ruth Calderon. This book was released on 2014-03-01. A Bride for One Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."
Temple of the Winds
Temple of the Winds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Temple of the Winds write by Terry Goodkind. This book was released on 2015-03-24. Temple of the Winds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spells and prophecies sew havoc in the fight for humankind in the 4th novel of the #1 New York Times bestselling author’s epic fantasy series. Having taken his rightful place as Lord Rahl, ruler of D’Hara, Richard must once again postpone his wedding to Kahlan Amnell in order to face the fearsome Imperial Order in a fight for the New World and the freedom of humankind. But while Richard has the brave people of D’Hara at his command, Emperor Jagang of the Imperial Order has a significant advantage: he doesn’t fight fair. Jagang invokes a prophecy that binds Richard and Kahlan to a fate of pain, betrayal, and a path to the Underworld. At Jagang’s behest, a Sister of the Dark gains access into the fabled Temple of the Winds and unleashes a plague that sweeps across the lands like a firestorm. To stop the plague, Richard and Kahlan must risk everything they have—and everything they’ve hoped for.
The Truth about Stories
The Truth about Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Truth about Stories write by Thomas King. This book was released on 2003. The Truth about Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.
Talmudic Stories
Talmudic Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talmudic Stories write by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein. This book was released on 1999-10-15. Talmudic Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book features an appendix including the original Hebrew/Aramaic texts for the reader's reference.
