[PDF] Dark Mirrors eBook

Author : Andrei A. Orlov
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438439539

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Dark Mirrors is a wide-ranging study of two central figures in early Jewish demonology—the fallen angels Azazel and Satanael. Andrei A. Orlov explores the mediating role of these paradigmatic celestial rebels in the development of Jewish demonological traditions from Second Temple apocalypticism to later Jewish mysticism, such as that of the Hekhalot and Shi'ur Qomah materials. Throughout, Orlov makes use of Jewish pseudepigraphical materials in Slavonic that are not widely known. Orlov traces the origins of Azazel and Satanael to different and competing mythologies of evil, one to the Fall in the Garden of Eden, the other to the revolt of angels in the antediluvian period. Although Azazel and Satanael are initially representatives of rival etiologies of corruption, in later Jewish and Christian demonological lore each is able to enter the other's stories in new conceptual capacities. Dark Mirrors also examines the symmetrical patterns of early Jewish demonology that are often manifested in these fallen angels' imitation of the attributes of various heavenly beings, including principal angels and even God himself.

Author : Marjorie M. Liu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 141651063X

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An original novel based on Marvel Comics' popular superhero team. Jean Grey discovers she's been stripped of her telekinetic powers and is trapped in someone else's body. So are Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, and Nightcrawler--their minds held hostage within the bodies of strangers. Who is behind this, and for what purpose? Original.

Author : Philippe Thirault
Publisher : Humanoids Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1594657351

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A sweeping saga of two brothers locked in combat in colonial 1940s Burma, where an ancient magic will decide their fate, and that of the whole country.

Author : Rupert T. Pickens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786494387

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An innovative author of verse romance, Chretien de Troyes wrote in northern France between 1170 and 1190. Credited with the first Arthurian romance, he composed five works set in King Arthur's court, culminating with an unfinished masterpiece, the Conte del Graal (Story of the Grail). This text is the first to mention the banquet serving dish that became the Holy Grail in early efforts to rewrite or complete the text. This book focuses on the Conte's narrative depiction of mirrors real and metaphorical: shining armor, a polished golden eagle, the Grail itself, St. Paul's enigmatic looking glass, the blood drops in snow in which Perceval sees the face of his beloved. The last chapter joins the controversy over Chretien's intended conclusion, and proposes a climactic ending in which Perceval, heir to the Grail kingdom, confronts his double, Gawain, heir to Arthur's Logres.

Author : Nancy Werlin
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780142500286

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After her brother Daniel's death, sixteen-year-old Frances uncovers surprising truths about their boarding school's charitable group, of which Daniel was a member.

Author : Sara Lipton
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0805079106

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In Dark Mirror, Sara Lipton offers a fascinating examination of the emergence of anti-Semitic iconography in the Middle Ages The straggly beard, the hooked nose, the bag of coins, and gaudy apparel—the religious artists of medieval Christendom had no shortage of virulent symbols for identifying Jews. Yet, hateful as these depictions were, the story they tell is not as simple as it first appears. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Lipton argues that these visual stereotypes were neither an inevitable outgrowth of Christian theology nor a simple reflection of medieval prejudices. Instead, she maps out the complex relationship between medieval Christians' religious ideas, social experience, and developing artistic practices that drove their depiction of Jews from benign, if exoticized, figures connoting ancient wisdom to increasingly vicious portrayals inspired by (and designed to provoke) fear and hostility. At the heart of this lushly illustrated and meticulously researched work are questions that have occupied scholars for ages—why did Jews becomes such powerful and poisonous symbols in medieval art? Why were Jews associated with certain objects, symbols, actions, and deficiencies? And what were the effects of such portrayals—not only in medieval society, but throughout Western history? What we find is that the image of the Jew in medieval art was not a portrait of actual neighbors or even imagined others, but a cloudy glass into which Christendom gazed to find a distorted, phantasmagoric rendering of itself.

Author : Dice
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 161655911X

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Each glossy page is jam-packed with never before seen art, commentary and insight from the creators of the game. See the concepts behind Faith and her world take shape!

Author : E. O. Chirovici
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501141546

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Famous professor Joseph Wieder was brutally murdered, and the crime was never solved. Years later when literary agent Peter Katz receives an incomplete memoir written by a student of the murdered professor, he becomes obsessed with solving the crime.

Author : Christofer Emgård
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1630085103

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Leading up to the events of the highly anticipated new Mirror’s Edge™ game comes an exhilarating comic prequel that delves into the story of Faith, one of the most celebrated heroines in video games! Collects issues #1–#6 of the miniseries—the complete story in one volume! * Leads directly into the events of the new Mirror’s Edge™ game!

Author : Ed Wicke
Publisher : BlacknBlue Press UK
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 2004-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780967765259

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Akayzia Adams, a feisty 12 year old girl from the East End of London, is at Old Winsome's Academy in the magical world called the Inner Lands. She and her friends are looking forward to a relaxed and happy summer term after their recent battle with the Masterdragon Thargrond. But the school mirrors keep doing odd things. And before long Akayzia is caught up in a tangled web of mystery being spun by the Shadowmaker, the Witch Haggritta and their helpers. The search for an answer takes her into three worlds of magic.