The Apocalypse--Letter by Letter
Title | The Apocalypse--Letter by Letter PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Paul |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 2006-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 059538028X |
When a dying man spends his last years writing a book, people often take notice. When the book claims to reveal the secrets of the Book of Revelation, even more interest is generated. The Apocalypse-Letter by Letter, by Steven Paul, has been described as "a masterpiece." In it, the author pens a series of letters to his brother-in-law to show how the Bible contains all the information a reader would need to decode the symbols, forms and sequence of events in the Apocalypse. Paul's literary genius is as fascinating as the subject is compelling. His unique knowledge of history, the Church, military strategy, literary forms, and wit and humor combine to take the reader on a tour of the Bible's most enigmatic book. After being diagnosed with cancer, the author sent a series of typewritten letters to his brother-in-law. Many of the letters included example passages handwritten in ancient Greek, to show how translators had often distorted the original meaning of the scripture. As Paul lay dying in a hospital bed, he gave instructions to his brother-in-law about how to assemble the information he had written into a book. Alas, he had only transmitted half of it when he passed away. Then handwritten notes were found near his manual typewriter and the brother-in-law spent the next many months entering the entire project into a computer along with the previously received letters.
Apocalypse as Holy War
Title | Apocalypse as Holy War PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Wasserman |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0300204027 |
A reassessment of early Christian apocalypticism arguing that the texts are not so much myths about good versus evil as about divine politics and heroic submission Prevailing theories of apocalypticism assert that in a world that rebels against God, a cataclysmic battle between good and evil is needed to reassert God's dominion. Emma Wasserman, a rising scholar of early Christian history, challenges this interpretation and reframes these apocalyptic texts as myths about divine politics and heroic submission. A major scholarly contribution that ranges across Mediterranean and West Asian religious thought, this volume rethinks Paul's Christ-myth as well as his most distinctive ethical teachings.
Letter to Survivors
Title | Letter to Survivors PDF eBook |
Author | Gebe |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2019-02-19 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1681372401 |
A haunting and darkly funny post-apocalyptic graphic novel that follows an unusual postal worker on his very bizarre mail route. Amid the blasted rubble of a once-perfect suburb, a hazmat-suited postman delivers the mail, aloud. He shouts his letters down a vent to the bunker-bound family below. They describe the family's prosperous past life, and then get stranger and stranger... Drawn by the famed cartoonish and Charlie Hebdo contributor Gébé, and never before available in English, Letter to Survivors is a blackhearted delight, a scathing, impassioned send-up of consumerist excess and nuclear peril: funnier—and scarier—than ever.
The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia
Title | The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Sir William Mitchell Ramsay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 508 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN |
The Apocalyptic Letter to the Galatians
Title | The Apocalyptic Letter to the Galatians PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Scott |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2021-05-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1978705476 |
One “apocalyptic” reading of Paul’s letter to the Galatians has been attempted before and is now widely accepted, but that reading is not based on a thorough engagement with Jewish apocalyptic traditions of the Second Temple period. In this book, James M. Scott argues that there is an essential continuity between Galatians and Paul’s Jewish past, and that Paul uses the apocalyptic Epistle of Enoch (1 Enoch 92–105) as a literary model for his own letter. Scott first contextualizes the Epistle of Enoch using the entire Enochic corpus and explores the extensive similarities (and some significant differences) between the Enochic tradition and early Stoicism. Then he turns to deal specifically with Paul’s letter to the Galatians, showing that, despite their obvious differences, the two apocalyptic letters have some remarkable features in common as well. This approach to the interpretation of Galatians fundamentally stands to change the way biblical scholars understand Paul’s letter and the gospel that he preached. Paul is “within Judaism,” if the net for what is included in “Judaism” is wide enough to encompass the Enochic tradition.
Revelation
Title | Revelation PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Canongate Books |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Bibles |
ISBN | 0857861018 |
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Letters from Home
Title | Letters from Home PDF eBook |
Author | Kryon (Spirit) |
Publisher | Kryon |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Spirit writings |
ISBN | 9781888053128 |
The last book before the new millennium, and the entire subject is change. Letters From Home talks about who we are, explaining the big picture and the meaning of life.