[PDF] A Journey To The End Of The Millennium eBook

Author : A.B. Yehoshua
Publisher : Halban Publishers
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 38,30 MB
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 190555950X

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The year is 999 A.D. Christians in Europe are preparing themselves for the arrival of the Messiah at the millennium and religious fervour is in the air. Sailing from the North African port of Tangier to a small, distant town called Paris are a Jewish merchant, Ben Attar, his two beloved wives and his Arab partner, Abu Lutfi. They have come for a meeting with their third partner the widower, Raphael Abulafia who has been forced to turn his back on their previous trading partnership because of his new wife's distrust of the dual marriage of Ben Attar. The latter turns this annual trading voyage into a personal quest to legitimise his second wife, restore his honour and, equally important, to show others the richness and humanity in his way of life. A confrontation ensues between people of different cultures whose ways of living and loving are so different, and yet who are of the same religion, believe in the same God and in the same morality. Thus we enter a profound human drama whose moral conflicts of fidelity and desire resonate deeply with our times. A. B. Yehoshua has imaginatively recreated a medieval world with its merchant trade in great depth and sensuous detail. His evocation of one man's love is lyrical, erotic even, and A Journey to the End of the Millennium will rank with the best of Yehoshua's work.

Author : A. B. Yehoshua
Publisher : HMH
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547541058

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“A masterpiece” about faith, race, and morality at a medieval turning point, from the National Jewish Book Award winner and “Israeli Faulkner” (The New York Times). It’s edging toward the end of the year 999 when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant from Tangiers, takes two wives—an act of bigamy that results in the moral objections of his nephew and business partner, Raphael Abulafia, and the dissolution of their once profitable enterprise of importing treasures from the Atlas Mountains. Abulafia’s repudiation triggers a potentially perilous move by Attar to set things right—by setting sail for medieval Paris to challenge his nephew, and his nephew’s own pious wife, face to face. Accompanied by a Spanish rabbi, a Muslim trader, a timid young slave, a crew of Arab sailors, and his two veiled wives, Attar will soon find himself in an even more dangerous battle—with the Christian zealots who fear that Jews and others they see as immoral infidels will impede the coming of Jesus at the dawn of a new millennium. From the author of A Woman in Jerusalem, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, this is an insightful portrait of a unique moment in history as well as the timeless issues that still trouble us today. “The end of the first millennium comes to represent only one of many breaches—between north and south, Christians and Jews, Jews and Muslims, Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews, men and women—across which A. B. Yehoshua's extraordinary novel delivers us.” —The New York Times

Author : Assaf Shelleg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 0197504663

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Theological Stains offers the first in-depth study of the development of art music in Israel from the mid-twentieth century to the turn of the twenty-first. In a bold and deeply researched account, author Assaf Shelleg explores the theological grammar of Zionism and its impact on the art music written by emigrant and native composers. He argues that Israeli art music, caught in the tension between a bibliocentric territorial nationalism on the one hand and the histories of deterritorialized Jewish diasporic cultures on the other, often features elements of both of these competing narratives. Even as composers critically engaged with the Zionist paradigm, they often reproduced its tropes and symbols, thereby creating aesthetic hybrids with 'theological stains.' Drawing on newly uncovered archives of composers' autobiographical writings and musical sketches, Shelleg closely examines the aesthetic strategies that different artists used to grapple with established nationalist representations. As he puts the history of Israeli art music in conversation with modern Hebrew literature, he weaves a rich tapestry of Israeli culture and the ways in which it engaged with key social and political developments throughout the second half of the twentieth century. In analyzing Israeli music and literature against the backdrop of conflicts over territory, nation, and ethnicity, Theological Stains provides a revelatory look at the complex relationship between art and politics in Israel.

Author : Abraham B. Yehoshua
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Hebrew fiction
ISBN :

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It is 999; Ben Attar, a North African Jewish merchant, has for many years been in partnership with his nephew Abulafia. When Abulafia marries a German Jew who disapproves of his uncle's two wives, the partnership is suddenly dissolved.

Author : Association for Israel Studies
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791455852

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Introduces the cutting edge issues and current scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Israel Studies.

Author : Kim Riddlebarger
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 144124266X

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Amillennialism, dispensational premillennialism, historic premillennialism, postmillennialism, preterism. These are difficult words to pronounce and even harder concepts to understand. A Case for Amillennialism is an accessible look at the crucial theological question of the millennium in the context of contemporary evangelicalism. Recognizing that eschatology--the study of future things--is a complicated and controversial subject, Kim Riddlebarger provides definitions of key terms and a helpful overview of various viewpoints. He examines related biblical topics as a backdrop to understanding the subject and discusses important passages of Scripture that bear upon the millennial question. Regardless of their stance, readers will find helpful insight as Riddlebarger evaluates the main problems facing each of the major millennial positions and cautions readers to be aware of the spiraling consequences of each view.

Author : Texe W. Marrs
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780962008658

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The sparkling 1990s! Gateway to an incredible seventh millennium of man on planet Earth. Economies are booming, money flowing, communist regimes in disarray, democracy on the rise. Peace is breaking out all over. What could possibly go wrong? Millennium provides remarkable insight into Bible prophecy concerning the most stunning decade of human history.

Author : Paul Meier
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2008-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1418558613

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In this riveting tale, Paul Meier and Robert L. Wise provide a glimpse behind the veil of time, into the eye of the storm to witness how angels and demons battle for people's hearts and souls. The Third Millennium has remained a bestseller since it came out in early 1993. The partnership that began with Paul Meier and Robert L. Wise in that book extended to The Fourth Millennium, which has been a steady best-seller as well. Using the backdrop of their travels together in Israel, they have attempted to put the secrets of the Scripture in an exciting form to help people prepare spiritually for their struggles as the world becomes an increasingly difficult place to live.