[PDF] By The Waters Of Babylon eBook

Author : Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2015-08-24
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ISBN : 9781517031244

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The north and the west and the south are good hunting ground, but it is forbidden to go east. It is forbidden to go to any of the Dead Places except to search for metal and then he who touches the metal must be a priest or the son of a priest. Afterwards, both the man and the metal must be purified. These are the rules and the laws; they are well made. It is forbidden to cross the great river and look upon the place that was the Place of the Gods-this is most strictly forbidden. We do not even say its name though we know its name. It is there that spirits live, and demons-it is there that there are the ashes of the Great Burning. These things are forbidden- they have been forbidden since the beginning of time.

Author : Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher : Tale Blazers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 1986-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780895986900

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Presents Benét's short story of a young tribesman's ritual journey across forbidden land in search of knowledge, accompanied by questions and exercises about the text.

Author : Christopher Farrar
Publisher : Lingua Franca Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2022-03-11
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ISBN : 9781633376076

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When twelve-year-old Ya'el is taken prisoner by the -Babylonians, her ability to write saves her life. A girl scribe, unique in the Empire, she's destined for slavery in the palace of King Nebuchadnezzar. Days later, her ruined city of Jerusalem is far behind. She struggles to survive on the long brutal trek, while strange dreams disturb her sleep. Her impulsiveness and passion for learning earn her hostility from fellow prisoners and murderous hatred from Babylonian guards. Desperate to avoid her looming fate, she's forced to confront her own complicity in the vitriol directed at her. And the dreams are getting stranger.

Author : Stephen Vincent Benét
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 1971
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ISBN : 9781583422892

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After the Great Burning, when fire fell out of the sky, a young priest explores the forbidden Place of the Gods and discovers what kind of beings lived there before their cities were destroyed.

Author : Stephen Vincent Benét
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1479470821

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Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds is a collection of Benét's finest and most famous short stories, including “The Devil and Daniel Webster” (1936), “By the Waters of Babylon” (1937), and “The King of the Cats” (1929). The complete contents consists of: By the Waters of Babylon The Blood of the Martyrs The King of the Cats A Story by Angela Poe The Treasure of Vasco Gomez The Curfew Tolls The Sobbin' Women The Devil and Daniel Webster Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent Glamour Everybody was Very Nice A Death in the Country Blossom and Frui Introduction by Karl Wurf

Author : Andrews Mesu
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2018-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781732443617

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A young Israelite woman is captured by a mercenary Scythian prince. Driven toward Babylon by both hatred and hope, she endures captivity to reunite with her husband. But will he be there when she reaches Babylon? Can they find what they seek when they meet the prophet Ezekial. . . by the waters of Babylon?

Author : Stephen Benet
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 2014-11-09
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ISBN : 9780692330197

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Pulitzer Prizing author Stephen Vincent Benét's By the Waters of Babylon, is the first, most influential work of American post-apocalyptic fiction of the twentieth century. Its haunting story of a tribal priest who investigates the ruins of an ancient city is an unforgettable and challenging reminder of both the fragility of civilization and the hope for human development. This volume also contains six other stories of "Fantasy and Prophecy," including The King of the Cats, a comic fable of human and animal transmutation, selected by the Library of America as one of the outstanding works of fantastic fiction in the past two centuries. The collection includes: By the Waters of Babylon The Curfew Tolls The King of the Cats Doc Mellhorn and the Pearly Gates The Last of the Legions The Blood of the Martyrs Into Egypt

Author : Nelson DeMille
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759528322

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Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind. Suddenly they're forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos -- while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission. In a land of blood and tears, in a windswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets and courage, and a war to the last death.

Author : Scott Aniol
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0825443776

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A guide to biblically shaped worship, which has the greatest missional impact in a post-Christian culture By the Waters of Babylon examines a relationship between worship, culture, and evangelism that is centered in a desire for biblical fidelity rather than cultural relevance. Imagine how the Hebrews felt during their years of captivity in Babylon. How could they sing the songs they once sang in the spender of Jerusalem now that they sat in exile? Christian worship in the West faces many of the same challenges as this tragic account of Israel's captivity. By all accounts Christendom is dead, and unbiblical beliefs have progressively permeated Western thought, expectations, and culture. So how should churches respond to this seismic shift in their relationship with an increasingly post-Christian culture while still following the biblical mandate to reach that culture with the gospel of Jesus Christ? By the Waters of Babylon will help Christians wrestle through this critical issue of the relationship between Christian worship and evangelistic witness, especially in the context of an increasingly hostile culture. The author demonstrates that biblically regulated, gospel-shaped corporate worship that communicates God's truth through appropriate cultural forms will have the most missional impact in a post-Christian context.

Author : Alejandro Varela
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1662601042

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A FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 – Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, LitHub, Electric Literature, LGBTQ Reads, Latinx in Publishing *Recommended by The New York Times* In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband’s infidelity. There he finds himself with no excuse not to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, and hesitantly begins to reconnect with people he used to call friends. Over the next few weeks, while caring for his aging parents and navigating the neighborhood where he grew up, Andrés falls into old habits with friends he thought he’d left behind. Before long, he unexpectedly becomes entangled with his first love and is forced to tend to past wounds. Captivating and poignant; a modern coming-of-age story about the essential nature of community, The Town of Babylon is a page-turning novel about young love and a close examination of our social systems and the toll they take when they fail us.