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15 produkter
Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan
A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris
Häftad, 2014
180 kr
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On the morning of November 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a desperate seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, walked into the German embassy in Paris and shot Ernst vom Rath, a Nazi diplomat. Two days later vom Rath lay dead, and the Third Reich exploited the murder to unleash Kristallnacht in a bizarre …
History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in th e Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization
How the Most Controversial Book in th e Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization
Häftad, 2007
147 kr
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"[The Book of] Revelation has served as a "language arsenal" in a great many of the social, cultural, and political conflicts in Western history. Again and again, Revelation has stirred some dangerous men and women to act out their own private apocalypses. Above all, the moral calculus of …
Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
A History of Terror in the Name of God
Häftad, 2009
147 kr
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History of the End of the World
How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization
E-bok, 2009
90 kr
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"[The Book of] Revelation has served as a "language arsenal" in a great many of the social, cultural, and political conflicts in Western history. Again and again, Revelation has stirred some dangerous men and women to act out their own private apocalypses. Above all, the moral calculus of …
Grand Inquisitor's Manual
A History of Terror in the Name of God
E-bok, 2009
90 kr
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The Surprising History and Legacy of the InquisitionThe renowned historian and critic Jonathan Kirsch presents a sweeping history of the Inquisition and the ways in which it has served as the chief model for torture in the West to this day. Ranging from the Knights Templar to the first Protestants; …
God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism
Häftad, 2005
345 kr
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King David
The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel
E-bok, 2009
136 kr
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David, King of the Jews, possessed every flaw and failing a mortal is capable of, yet men and women adored him and God showered him with many more blessings than he did Abraham or Moses. His sexual appetite and prowess were matched only by his violence, both on the battlefield and in the bedroom. A …
Moses
A Life
E-bok, 2009
181 kr
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Lawgiver and liberator. Seer and prophet. The only human permitted to converse with God "face-to-face." Moses is the most commanding presence in the Old Testament. Yet as Jonathan Kirsch shows in this brilliant, stunningly original volume, Moses was also an enigmatic and mysterious figure--at once …
Woman Who Laughed at God
The Untold History of the Jewish People
E-bok, 2002
161 kr
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Who is a Jew? In this colorful, eye-opening work, bestselling author and lecturer Jonathan Kirsch takes us on a three-thousand-year tour of Jewish identity and diversity and offers answers to this complex and difficult question. Kirsch reveals that Judaism has never been a religion of strict and …
Harlot By The Side Of The Road
Forbidden Tales of the Bible
E-bok, 2010
125 kr
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The Harlot by the Side of the Road is the first book to shed light on strange biblical passages which have largely been ignored by ministers, priests and rabbies because they semed too awkward to examine. Johnathan Kirsch retells these `forbidden' stories in con-temporary English, alongside thr …
God Against the Gods
The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism
E-bok, 2005
82 kr
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"Lively… points out that the conflict between the worship of many gods and the worship of one true god never disappeared." — Publishers Weekly "Jonathan Kirsch has written another blockbuster about the Bible and its world." — David Noel Freedman , Editor-in-Chief of the Anchor Bible Project "Kirsch …
Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan
A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris
Inbunden, 2013
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240 kr
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On the morning of November 7, 1938, a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan, walked into the German embassy in Paris and in an act of desperation assassinated Ernst vom Rath, a low-level Nazi diplomat. He did it, he said, out “of love for my parents and for my people.” Two days …
