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![]() ![]() As Pagels then shows, the church later turned this satanic indictment against its Roman enemies, declaring that pagans and infidels were also creatures of Satan, and against its own dissenters, calling them heretics and ascribing their heterodox views to satanic influences. Stock No: WW31180 In the Old Testament, Satan is merely the Adversary, a forbidding member of God's retinue. Writing during and just after the Jewish war against Rome, the evangelists invoked Satan to portray their Jewish enemies as God's enemies too. The Origin of Satan By: Elaine Pagels Random House / 1995 / Paperback Write a Review Expected to ship on or about 05/18/23. ![]() The second tells of the bitter conflict between the followers of Jesus and their fellow Jews, a conflict in which the writers of the four gospels condemned as creatures of Satan those Jews who refused to worship Jesus as the Messiah. The first is the story of Jesus' moral genius: his lessons of love, forgiveness, and redemption. In the story of Balaam, Satan appears as an angel of the Lord put in Balaam’s path to rebuke him for beating his donkey. In The Origin of Satan, Pagels shows that the four Christian gospels tell two very different stories. According to The Origin of Satan written by Elaine Pagels the story of a traveler named Balaam is told in the book of Numbers. ![]() Who is Satan in the New Testament, and what is the evil that he represents? In this groundbreaking book, Elaine Pagels, Princeton's distinguished historian of religion, traces the evolution of Satan from its origins in the Hebrew Bible, where Satan is at first merely obstructive, to the New Testament, where Satan becomes the Prince of Darkness, the bitter enemy of God and man, evil incarnate. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are novels that show women getting second chances, changing and becoming creative, moving on just as she also changed from one genre to the next. Watson wrote six novels focusing on women’s issues over the years. The work was published by Methuen in 1935. He retorted that maybe she could write something better.Īfter she was done writing the manuscript for “Fell Top,” she put it away and it was not until many years later that she saw a publisher asking for manuscripts that she dug it out. She had been foolhardy enough to tell him that he was reading rubbish. ![]() “Fell Top,” her debut novel was born partly from a dare from her brother in law. As such, she spent most of the time trying to pen manuscripts in the style and genres she loved reading. Upon graduation, she attended commercial college then got a job working as a typist in Newcastle Upon Tyne.Īccording to the author, it was a boring job and she had so little to do. The author went to Berwick on Tweed St Ronan boarding school alongside her sisters. ![]() Catering to the needs of the working class explains the sympathy and interest in class prominent in her works. She was born to a middle class family as her father was the owner of four shops Newcastle and Gateshead. Winifred Watson is a literary fiction author from Jesmond in Newcastle in the UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Reconstruction implemented by Congress, which lasted from 1866 to 1877, was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War, providing the means for readmitting them into the Union, and defining the means by which whites and blacks could live together in a nonslave society. One freedman, Houston Hartsfield Holloway, wrote, “For we colored people did not know how to be free and the white people did not know how to have a free colored person about them.”Įven after the Emancipation Proclamation, two more years of war, service by African American troops, and the defeat of the Confederacy, the nation was still unprepared to deal with the question of full citizenship for its newly freed black population. As a result, the mass of Southern blacks now faced the difficulty Northern blacks had confronted-that of a free people surrounded by many hostile whites. ![]() The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed African Americans in rebel states, and after the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment emancipated all U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All the while, the voice-over reads snippets from Wohlleben’s book, letting us into the secrets of nature that lie beyond human vision and temporality. ![]() Jan Haft’s camera peers deep into tree bark, and the entire universes of organisms therein it captures the blooming of plant life in rapturous time-lapse shots it lovingly traces the outlines of rustling, sun-kissed canopies. While Wohlleben’s anthropomorphic language and seductive blend of science and speculation rankled some professionals, this was precisely the selling point for lay readers: an opportunity to see how trees share some of our own traits, and are worthy of our empathy and care.ĭirected by Jörg Adolph, the documentary “The Hidden Life of Trees” uses the sensorial capacities of cinema to thrillingly visualize Wohlleben’s observations. In his best-selling book, “The Hidden Life of Trees,” the German forester Peter Wohlleben drew in millions of readers with a tantalizing hypothesis: that trees are social, sentient beings, who talk to each other, feed and nurse their young, sense pain and have personalities. In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was also ridiculously, and I feel unnecessarily, sexist. which Podkayne doesn't pick up on until she has everything explained to her). It had intergalactic racism (Podkayne overhears two characters disparaging her for her being a Marsmen) and political intrigue (a plotpoint that spurs the entire story on. It touched on a kind of "what if" sort of future (each couple allocated a set number of children only? And people FILL them? They're only allocations, not quotas) and different sorts of political systems that might possibly exist. or those who never grow out of adolescence) and an unarticulated lacking which made it clear he thought it wasn't very good overall.Īnd well, it was all right, from a storytelling point of view - it had danger, intrigue, plot, and whatnot. ![]() Podkayne's narrative voice is filled with bombastic overweening self-importance that only adolescents could ever have. most of Heinlein's aren't though, but he accused it of adolescence (an overrunning theme that was clear from the first few pages. FantasyechoMy brother Roy had warned me that Heinlein's Podkayne of Mars wasn't the best Heinlein book out there. ![]() ![]() A priest tells a cryptic tale of murder, a policeman hints at untold intrigue. Mother has a secret but so do Father, Grandfather, Aunt Katie,Ĭrazy Joe the local oddball and almost everyone else in the squalid, rubble-strewn town of Derry. ![]() In language strikingly lucid and scenes fired by a spare, aching passion, ''Reading in the Dark'' combines the intimacy of a memoir with the suspense of a detective story. The child was left excited and shaken, alert to every tick and glimmer in the house -Īnd to the mystery of his mother. She reassured him there had been no ghost, ''just your old mother with her nerves,'' he found her crying near the kitchen stove. Go back down the stairs, son.'' And although later See nothing between them except the window, where the Derry cathedral seemed to hang against the sky. His mother had just started down, and they were about to meet on the landing when suddenly she said, ''Don't move.'' He could The narrator, an unnamed young man lookingīack on his childhood in Northern Ireland, remembers climbing the stairs when he was 5. ![]() Wo memories rise, ominous as thunder on a clear day, in the opening pages of this first novel by the poet Seamus Deane. ![]() The narrator of Seamus Deane's first novel looks back on his boyhood in Northern Ireland ![]() ![]() Peter and Autumn Phillips, the bride's first cousin and his wife.The Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, the bride's paternal aunt and uncle.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, the bride's first cousin and his wife.Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, the bride's first cousin, once removed.Prince George of Cambridge, the bride's first cousin, once removed.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the bride's first cousin and his wife.The Prince of Wales, the bride's paternal uncle. ![]() Princess Beatrice of York, the bride's sister.The Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York, the bride's parents.The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, the bride's paternal grandparents.The following is the guest list for the wedding of Princess Eugenie of York and Jack Brooksbank, which took place on 12 October 2018, at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eiseley eventually trained as an anthropologist, then as an paleontologist, and spent most of his academic career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and the History of Science, Curator of Early Man at the University Art Museum, and Provost. ![]() ![]() He spent his childhood on the Midwestern plains where his sense of place and interest in the land was surely formed. Born in 1907 in Lincoln, Nebraska, as far as possible from our American coasts, Eiseley was the son of an itinerant Shakespearean actor and an amateur artist. One name, sadly not so well remembered, is Loren Eiseley. Read more about the story of Loren Eiseley at Īs I reflect on the now surprising longevity of the World Ocean Blog and our weekly audio program, the World Ocean Radio, my thoughts have turned to various individuals along the way who have shaped my personal interest and thinking about Nature and the ocean. ![]() ![]() And they are poems that illuminate what we can ask from and offer one another.Drawing on Dykewomon's impressive body of poetry, What Can I Ask: New and Selected Poems 1975-2015 assembles into a single volume poems from Dykewomon's three published collections, They Will Know Me By My Teeth (Megaera Press, 1976), Fragments from Lesbos (Diaspora Distribution, 1981), and Nothing Will Be As Sweet as the Taste (Onlywomen Press, 1995), as well as a selection of newer, uncollected poems. These are poems that help us understand the contours of sexism, homophobia, racism, and anti-Semitism. She asks and demands that we be responsible and responsive to one another that we bring care, compassion, accountability, and love in the proper proportions. ![]() ![]() I so value this work and always keep it close to my heart."-Irena Klepfisz, Author of A Few Words in the Mother TongueElana Dykewomon's poetry bears witness to the lives of lesbians. Presenting the poetry written over the past four decades, What Can I Ask is wise, passionate, and inspirational. ![]() Elana Dykewomon's poems are reminders not to take anything for granted: to listen to the messages embedded in others' silences, to look beneath the rubble of violence, and to value the pleasures of intimate loving. ![]() |