Can love overcome millennia of hate? Life hasn’t been kind to LUNA, and after spending the last year in a psychiatric hospital, she doesn’t believe she has much of a future. Until she meets the new doctor with the strange golden glow who tells her she’s special and doesn’t belong there. When he transfers her out of the facility to a school in Egypt for children with angelic blood, Luna begins to realize there might be more to her troubled past than she has always believed…and that a future might be possible for her after all. But Luna is an outcast everywhere she goes, and in the one place where she’s meant to belong, she finds solace in the one person she shouldn’t. Caleb is a Dark. Lights and Darks aren’t supposed to be friends. And yet, she finds herself drawn to him despite the forces around them trying to keep them apart. As a Dark Nephilim, CALEB has spent his whole life hating Lights, so when his teacher volunteers him for a transfer opportunity to the Light school in Alexandria, he is opposed to the idea. Until she reveals that his grandfather is imprisoned at the academy, and Caleb decides that being the one Dark in a school full of Lights will be worth the prejudice he’ll face for the chance to set him free. But then Caleb meets Luna, and suddenly, releasing his grandfather is no longer his priority. Luna is a Light. Caleb shouldn’t like her. And yet, he finds himself feeling things for her despite duty, logic, and sense warning him not to. Luna and Caleb are prepared to fight for each other, but with a prophecy and the threat of a second Fall to contend with, they’ll face greater hurdles than just their differing bloodlines. Can they overcome the ancient rift between their kind, proving love can prevail over hate? Or will their budding relationship become another casualty to war?

"The controversial premise of History and Prophecy is that the Bible was created from the very outset as a work of literature; and not simply handed down in the form of oral stories from one generation to another." "In this explosive survey of the whole Hebrew Bible, author Brian Peckham cuts against the grain of scholarly opinion by taking seriously; the fact that the Bible is a work of literature - modeled on such ancient authors as Homer and Hesiod - and was undoubtedly the product of a literate society: the creation of people who knew how to read and write for an audience that read, listened, and understood. Peckham provides the evidence that the biblical text at first was written; that from the beginning it was read and provoked written response; that it was quoted and alluded to in later writings; that what seemed right or evident to one writer was disputed, corrected, and reinterpreted by another, that nothing of significance in the process was erased or omitted but was preserved and inscribed with the rest for all time." "In this provocative book, the biblical text is read as literature - from start to finish, as continuous, meaningful, and complete, with distinctive literary forms and genres. It was written to be read and performed. Its authors were poets, singers, orators, lawyers, priests, and scholars whose audiences were those gathered in the squares and gates of Jerusalem, or who met at wells and springs scattered throughout Israel. It comprised occasional drama, tragedy and comedy, ballads and speeches, debates and disputations traditional stories: in short, the stuff of books and libraries and literary appreciation." "Finally, History and Prophecy reconstructs the history of ancient Israel as it was understood and interpreted by the writers of the Bible. It traces the development of images and ideas about Israel's origin, makeup, and role in world affairs from their earliest literary expression through the most exciting and difficult centuries in the nation's history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

In this book, DeJong explores Deuteronomy’s redefinition of prophecy in Mosaic terms. He traces the history of Deuteronomy’s concept of the prophet like Moses from the seventh century BCE to the first century CE, and demonstrates the ways in which Jewish and Christian texts were influenced by and responded to Deuteronomy’s creation of a Mosaic norm for prophetic claims. This wide-ranging discussion illuminates the development of normative discourses in Judaism and Christianity, and illustrates the far-reaching impact of Deuteronomy’s thought.

For more than five decades, John Hayes's scholarship has had a decisive influence on scholars and students in the field of Hebrew Bible study. This collection of ten essays, written between 1968 and 1995, displays his remarkable and thought-provoking elucidation of Israelite history, prophecy, and law. These essays make significant contributions that challenge the mainstream scholarship establishment with their daring interpretations and explanations, along with their bold, innovative theories. The way in which Hayes approaches the study of seminal figures, biblical texts, and historical reconstructions, combined with his analysis of specific methods, will have lasting implications for contemporary scholarship. He argues that biblical texts must be understood as being embedded within the particular historical, social, cultural, and political matrices from which they emerged. Whether exploring the social formation of early Israel, the final years of Samaria, or the social concept ofcovenant, he demonstrates a textually focussed and exegetically based approach. Hayes's essays provide valuable insights that help contextualise developments within mid- to late-twentieth-century interpretation, thereby granting scholars glimpsesof key moments in the evolution of particular methods, trends, and models that have given shape to current research approaches. Familiarity with Hayes's writings thus allows contemporary interpreters to envisage new avenues and perspectives in critical discussion of the Hebrew Bible.

Explores the growth of Christianity in inland Roman Asia, as cities and rural communities moved away from polytheistic Greco-Roman religion.