Category: Sacred Writings

By Eknath Easwaran

ISBN-10: 1586380362

ISBN-13: 9781586380366

Via his interpretation of 1 vital Upanishad, an historic knowledge textual content, Eknath Easwaran exhibits how the undying Indian culture deals suggestions on how you can reside this day. Lyrical, dramatic, and encouraging, the Katha Upanishad offers the center rules of Indian mysticism in a mythic tale all can relate to — the journey of a tender hero, Nachiketa, who passes into the dominion of dying looking for immortality. The King of dying checks his unravel, however the youngster stands enterprise, hard solutions to the age-old questions, "What is the aim of existence? What occurs to me whilst I die?" dying emerges because the ideal non secular advisor — direct, uncompromising, and difficult. Easwaran’s method of the Katha is either functional and common. He explains key Sanskrit phrases like karma and prana, illustrating them via daily anecdotes and enjoyable analogies whereas putting Indian spirituality into the wider context of worldwide mysticism.

By Levi Ben Gershom, Seymour Feldman

ISBN-10: 0827602200

ISBN-13: 9780827602205

The Wars of the Lord is the most important treatise of Levi ben Gershom of Provence (1288-1344), the most artistic and bold minds of the medieval international. The paintings, an unprecedented fulfillment of Jewish notion, is dedicated to an indication that the Torah, safely understood, is the same to real philosophy.

By Terry Mortenson, Thane H. Ury

ISBN-10: 0890515484

ISBN-13: 9780890515488

ISBN-10: 1614580367

ISBN-13: 9781614580362

Fourteen theological students tackle key subject matters with regards to the age of the earth, that is the an important factor of discussion within the church this present day relating to origins. Bringing to undergo rigorous biblical, theological, and old arguments in prefer of a six-day production, the worldwide Flood, and a tender earth, additionally they offer much-needed evaluations of a couple of modern old-earth interpretations of the ebook of Genesis.

This clean security of the literal heritage of Genesis 1-11 well enhances different experiences which concentration extra at the medical facts of young-earth creationism. As such, this e-book can function a flexible complement to different works, yet can be designed for use as a standalone textual content for seminary and Bible university professors and scholars, pastors, missionaries, and others who wish in-depth apologetic resources.

Coming to Grips with Genesis: Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth includes:

• Forewords via Dr. John MacArthur, President of the Master's Seminary and Senior Pastor of Grace group Church, sunlight Valley, CA; and the past due Dr. Henry Morris, Founder and President Emeritus, Institute for production Research
• Detailed research of the verbs of Genesis 1
• A safety of the Genesis five & eleven genealogies as strict chronologies
• Reasons for rejecting hundreds of thousands of years of dying and average evil prior to Adam's sin
• Careful mirrored image on Jesus' teachings concerning a tender earth

By William Paul Griffin

ISBN-10: 1850756775

ISBN-13: 9781850756774

'Content analysis'-which is a computer-assisted kind of textual analysis-is used to ascertain divine job in six prophetic texts, evaluating God's task to that of people. during this methodologically cutting edge research, the writer concludes, within the mild of quantitative info, that God is harsher to non-Israelites than to Israelites in all of the texts, and lots more and plenty kinder to Israelites in Joel than within the usual prophet. God and people are excited about a lot a similar different types of actual and psychological tactics, yet to significantly varied levels. Griffin argues persuasively that the God of the prophets isn't the 'wholly different' of a few theologies, yet neither do his activities persist with precisely the human pattern.

By Adele Reinhartz

ISBN-10: 0195099702

ISBN-13: 9780195099706

Unnamed characters--such as Lot's spouse, Jephthah's daughter, Pharaoh's baker, and the witch of Endor--are ubiquitous within the Hebrew Bible and seem in a large choice of roles. Adele Reinhartz the following seeks to reply to significant questions: first, is there a "poetics of anonymity," and if this is the case, what are its contours? moment, how does anonymity impact the readers' reaction to and development of unnamed biblical characters? the writer is mainly drawn to concerns relating to gender and sophistication, looking to be sure no matter if anonymity is extra well-liked between moms, better halves, daughters, and servants than between fathers, husbands, sons and kings and no matter if the anonymity of lady characters features another way from that of male characters.

By Dr Shruti Kapila, Dr Faisal Devji

ISBN-10: 1107033950

ISBN-13: 9781107033955

The Bhagavad Gita's philosophical and political value is still without end modern. during this quantity a bunch of best historians think about the importance of the Bhagavad Gita for political and moral pondering in glossy India and past. those essays give a contribution new views to old, modern and international political principles. Violence and nonviolence, battle, sacrifice, justice, fraternity and political neighborhood have been constitutive of India's political modernity, and it used to be to those questions that Indian public figures grew to become their recognition within the 19th and 20th centuries. orientated in the direction of the longer term, those commentaries and interpretations of a textual content that locates struggle because the significant challenge of human lifestyles have indifferent the Gita from antiquity and made it foundational for India's modernity. The publication will be of curiosity to educational researchers in addition to normal readers drawn to South Asian background, Indian philosophy and faith.

By Heinrich Robert Zimmer

ISBN-10: 0691017786

ISBN-13: 9780691017785

This ebook translates for the Western brain the major motifs of India's legend, delusion, and folklore, taken at once from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian artwork. it really is basically an advent to image-thinking and picture-reading in Indian artwork and concept, and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of existence and dying recognizable now not in basic terms as Oriental yet as common elements.

By Yehuda Ashlag, Michael Laitman

ISBN-10: 0973231564

ISBN-13: 9780973231564

The technological know-how of Kabbalah (Pticha) is the 1st in a sequence of texts that Rav Michael Laitman, Kabbalist and scientist, designed to introduce readers to the exact language and terminology of the Kabbalah. right here, Rav Laitman finds real Kabbalah in a way that's either rational and mature. Readers are steadily resulted in an figuring out of the logical layout of the Universe and the existence whose domestic it's. The technological know-how of Kabbalah, a innovative paintings that's unrivaled in its readability, intensity, and attract the mind, will let readers to procedure the extra technical works of Baal HaSulam (Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag), corresponding to 'Talmud Eser Sefirot' and Zohar. even though scientists and philosophers will have fun with its illumination, laymen also will benefit from the fulfilling solutions to the riddles of lifestyles that basically real Kabbalah offers. Now, shuttle throughout the pages and get ready for an excellent trip into the 'Upper Worlds'.

By Adriane Leveen

ISBN-10: 0521878691

ISBN-13: 9780521878692

The ebook examines the ways that the editors of Numbers created a story of the forty-year trip throughout the barren region to regulate knowing of the earlier and impact attitudes sooner or later. The publication explores politics, collective reminiscence, and the ideas utilized by its priestly editors to persuade the youngsters of Israel to simply accept priestly rule. The ebook additionally makes a speciality of the tragic size of the lengthy trip and the transmission of culture, reminiscence, and values that happens in such an environment of obstacle.

By Yehuda Liebes

ISBN-10: 0791411931

ISBN-13: 9780791411933

This publication bargains with the character and improvement of Jewish fable from the Talmudic interval via Kabbalah to Hasidism. It describes the alterations during this fable in its numerous levels and the exterior affects on it. the writer exhibits that delusion is within the essence of the Jewish faith and that, instead of being created out of exterior affects, Kabbalah is certainly one of its manifestions. The booklet additionally bargains with the comparable topic of Messianism, and delves into the specified non secular personalities of a few messianic figures in Jewish heritage to teach how fantasy used to be incarnate in them.