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Louise Marley's first collection includes ten science fiction and fantasy stories, most with a feminist take. Due to Marley's background as a concert opera singer, many stories have music at their heart.
Self-educated and brown-skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother's laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for colored music and dreams of life as a big city radio star. These teenaged girls are half-sisters. And when they catch wind of their wayward father's inheritance coming down in Virginia, they hitch their hopes to a road trip together to claim what's rightly theirs.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
THE STORY: On a warm June afternoon in the Berkshires, siblings Adam, Teddy and Sophia prepare their family's summer house for a party and anxiously await the arrival of their father, celebrated author and publisher Solomon Weber. Not only is today
"By turns witty, erudite, probingly serious and sparklingly irreverent, these essays refresh our readings of the Bible, and deepen our vision of foundational feminist figures. A wonderfully thought-provoking and readable collection." EVA HOFFMAN Author of EXIT INTO HISTORY This is the first collection of essays in which women read and respond to the Bible out of pleasure and curiosity--reclaiming the Bible for women and showing readers that the Bible is a source we can return to again and again. Drawing on their own epxeriences and interests, Louise Erdrich, Cynthia Ozick, Fay Weldon, Phyllis Trible, Rebecca Goldstein, June Jordan, Ursula Le Guin, and twenty-one other writers boldly imaginatively--and sometimes reproachfully--address the Old Testament stories, characters, and poetry that mean the most to them. As with all great works of literature, it is a book that changes as we change, a garden in its own right whose pleasures are there for the taking, as are its surprises and thorny byways.
Assesses the multivocal quality of 2 Samuel 14 as a result of the many historical and social processes that formed the Hebrew Bible as a whole.
This classic is organized as follows: Introduction: The Purpose and Plan of This Book Part First: Stories From the First Five Books in the Bible 1. The Story of a Beautiful Garden (Genesis i: 1, to iii: 24) 2. The First Baby in the World and His Brother (Genesis iv: 1 to 18) 3. The Great Ship That Saved Eight People (Genesis v: 1, to ix: 17) 4. The Tower That Was Never Finished (Genesis x: 1, to xi: 9) 5. The Story of a Long Journey (Genesis xi: 27, to xiii: 18) 6. How Lot’s Choice Brought Trouble and Abram’s Choice Brought Blessing (Genesis xiv: 1, to xv: 21) 7. The Angel by the Well (Genesis xvi: 1, to xvii: 27) 8. The Rain of Fire That Fell on a City (Genesis xviii: 1, to xix: 30) 9. The Boy Who Became an Archer (Genesis xxi: 1, to 21) 10. How an Angel’s Voice Saved a Boy’s Life (Genesis xxii: 1, to xxiii: 20) 11. The Story of a Journey After a Wife (Genesis xxiv: 1, to xxv: 18) 12. How Jacob Stole His Brother’s Blessing (Genesis xxv: 27, to xxvii: 46) 13. Jacob’s Wonderful Dream (Genesis xxvii: 46, to xxx: 24) 14. A Midnight Wrestling Match (Genesis xxx: 25, to xxxiii: 20) 15. The Rich Man’s Son Who Was Sold as a Slave (Genesis xxxvii: 1 to 36) 16. From the Prison to the Palace (Genesis xl: 1, to xli: 44) 17. How Joseph’s Dream Came True (Genesis xli: 46, to xlii: 38) 18. A Lost Brother Found (Genesis xliii: 1, to xlv: 24) 19. From the Land of Famine to the Land of Plenty (Genesis xlv: 25, to l: 26) 20. The Beautiful Baby Who Was Found in a River (Exodus i: 1, to ii: 22) 21. The Voice From the Burning Bush (Exodus iii: 1, to iv: 31) 22. The River That Ran Blood (Exodus vi: 28, to x: 29) 23. The Night When a Nation Was Born (Exodus xi: 1, to xiii: 22) 24. How the Sea Became Dry Land and the Sky Rained Bread (Exodus xiv: 1 to xvi: 36) 25. The Mountain That Smoked and Words That Were Spoken From It (Exodus xvii: 1, to xxxi: 18) 26. How Aaron Made a Golden Calf and What Became of It (Exodus xxxii: 1, to xxiv: 35) 27. The Tent Where God Lived Among His People (Exodus xxxv: 1, to xl: 38) 28. How They Worshipped God in the Tabernacle (Leviticus i: 1 to 13; viii: 1 to 13; Exodus xxvii: 20, 21) 29. What Strong Drink Brought to Aaron’s Sons (Leviticus x: 1, to 11) 30. The Scapegoat in the Wilderness (Leviticus xvi: 1 to 34) 31. The Cluster of Grapes From the Land of Canaan (Numbers xiii: 1, to xiv: 45) 32. How the Long Journey of the Israelites Came to an End (Numbers xx: 1, to xxii: 1) 33. What a Wise Man Learned From an Ass (Numbers xxii: 2, to xxv: 18; xxxi: 1 to 9) 34. How Moses Looked Upon the Promised Land (Numbers xxvi: 1 to 4, 63 to 65; xxxii: 1 to 42; Deuteronomy xxxi: 1, to xxxiv: 12) 35. The Story of Job (Job i: 1, to ii: 13; xlii: 1 to 17) Part Second: Stories of Joshua and the Judges 1. The Story of a Scarlet Cord (Joshua i: 1, to ii: 24) 2. How the River Jordan Became Dry, and the Wall of Jericho Fell Down (Joshua iii: 1, to vi: 27) 3. The Story of a Wedge of Gold (Joshua vii: 1, to viii: 35) 4. How Joshua Conquered the Land of Canaan (Joshua ix: 1, to xi: 23) 5. The Old Man Who Fought Against the Giants (Joshua xiv: 1, to xix: 51) 6. The Avenger of Blood, and the Cities of Refuge (Joshua xx: 1, to xxi: 45) 7. The Story of an Altar Beside the River (Joshua xxii: 1, to xxiv: 33) 8. The Present That Ehud Brought to King Eglon (Judges i: 1, to iii: 31) 9. How a Woman Won a Great Victory (Judges iv: 1, to v: 31) 10. Gideon and His Brave Three Hundred (Judges vi: 1, to viii: 28) 11. Jephthah’s Rash Promise and What Came From It (Judges viii: 33, to xi: 40) 12. The Strong Man: How He Lived and How He Died (Judges xiii: 1, to xvi: 31) 13. The Idol Temple at Dan and Its Priest (Judges xvii: 1, to xviii: 31) 14. How Ruth Gleaned in the Field of Boaz (Ruth i: 1, to iv: 22) 15. The Little Boy With a Linen Coat (I Samuel i: 1, to iii: 21) 16. How the Idol Fell Down Before the Ark (1 Samuel iv: 1, to vii: 1) 17. The Last of the Judges (I Samuel vii: 2 to 17) 18. The Tall Man Who Was Chosen King (I Samuel viii: 1, to x: 27) Part Third: Stories of the Three Great Kings of Israel 1. How Saul Saved the Eyes of the Men of Jabesh (I Samuel xi: 1, to xii: 25) 2. The Brave Young Prince (I Samuel xiii: 1, to xiv: 46) 3. Saul’s Great Sin and His Great Loss (I Samuel xv: 1 to 35) 4. The Shepherd Boy of Bethlehem (I Samuel xvi: 1 to 23) 5. The Shepherd Boy’s Fight With the Giant (I Samuel xvii: 1 to 54) 6. The Little Boy Looking for the Arrows (I Samuel xvii: 55, to xx: 42) 7. Where David Found the Giant’s Sword (I Samuel xxi: 1, to xxii: 23) 8. How David Spared Saul’s Life (I Samuel xxiii: 1, to xxvii: 12) 9. The Last Days of King Saul (I Samuel xxviii: 1, to xxxi: 13) 10. The Shepherd Boy Becomes a King (Ii Samuel i: 1, to iv: 12) 11. The Sound in the Treetops (Ii Samuel v: 1, to vii: 29) 12. The Cripple at the King’s Table (Ii Samuel viii: 1, to ix: 13) 13. The Prophet’s Story of the Little Lamb (Ii Samuel xi: 1 to 25; Psalm 51) 14. David’s Handsome Son, and How He Stole the Kingdom (Ii Samuel xiii: 1, to xvii: 23) 15. Absalom in the Wood; David on the Throne (Ii Samuel xvii: 24, to xx: 26) 16. The Angel With the Drawn Sword on Mount Moriah (Ii Samuel xxiv: 1 to 25; I Chronicles xxi: 1 to 27) 17. Solomon on David’s Throne (I Kings i: 1 to 53) 18. The Wise Young King (I Kings iii: 1, to iv: 34; Ii Chronicles i: 1 to 13) 19. The House of God on Mount Moriah (I Kings v: 1, to ix: 9; Ii Chronicles iii: 1, to vii: 22) 20. The Last Days of Solomon’s Reign (I Kings x: 1, to xi: 43) Part Fourth: Stories of the Kingdom of Israel 1. The Breaking Up of a Great Kingdom (I Kings xii: 1 to 24; Ii Chronicles x: 1 to 19) 2. The King Who Led Israel to Sin, and the Prophet Who Was Slain by a Lion (I Kings xii: 25 , to xiv: 20; xv: 25 to 32) 3. The Prophet Who Raised a Boy to Life (I Kings xv: 33, to xvii: 24) 4. The Prayer That Was Answered in Fire (I Kings xviii: 1 to 46) 5. The Voice That Spoke to Elijah in the Mount (I Kings xix: 1 to 21) 6. The Wounded Prophet and His Story (I Kings xx: 1 to 43) 7. What Ahab Paid for His Vineyard (I Kings xxi: 1, to 29) 8. The Arrow That Killed a King (I Kings xxii: 1 to 40) 9. Elijah’s Chariot of Fire (Kings i: 1, to ii: 15) 10. A Spring Sweetened by Salt, and Water That Looked Like Blood (Ii Kings ii: 19, to iii: 27) 11. The Pot of Oil and the Pot of Poison (Ii Kings iv: 1 to 7; iv: 38 to 44; vi: 1 to 7) 12. The Little Boy at Shunem (Ii Kings iv: 8 to 37) 13. How a Little Girl Helped to Cure a Leper (Ii Kings v: 1 to 27) 14. The Chariots of Fire Around Elisha (Ii Kings vi: 8 to 23) 15. What the Lepers Found in the Camp (Ii Kings vi: 24, to vii: 20) 16. Jehu, the Furious Driver of His Chariot (Ii Kings viii: 7 to 15; ix: 1, to x: 36) 17. Elisha and the Bow; Jonah and Nineveh (Ii Kings xiii: 1 to 25; Jonah i: 1, to iv: 11) 18. How the Ten Tribes Were Lost (Ii Kings xv: 8, to xvii: 41) Part Fifth: Stories of the People and Kingdom of Judah 1. The First Four Kings of Judah (Ii Chronicles xii: 1, to xx: 37) 2. The Little Boy Who Was Crowned King (Ii Chronicles xxi: 1, to xxiv: 27) 3. Three Kings and a Great Prophet (Ii Chronicles xxv: 1, to xxviii: 27; Isaiah vi) 4. The Good King Hezekiah (Ii Kings xviii: 1, to xx: 21; Ii Chronicles xxix: 1, to xxxii: 33; Isaiah xxxvi: 1, to xxxviii: 22) 5. The Lost Book Found in the Temple (Ii Kings xxi: 1, to xxiii: 25; Ii Chronicles xxxiii: 1, to xxxv: 27) 6. The Last Four Kings of Judah and the Weeping Prophet (Ii Kings xxiii: 31, to xxv: 22; Ii Chronicles xxxvi: 1 to 21; Jeremiah xxii: 10 to 12; xxiv: 1 to 10; xxix: 1 to 29; xxxvi: 1, to xliii: 13) 7. What Ezekiel Saw in the Valley (Ezekiel xxxvii) 8. The Jewish Captives in the Court of the King (Daniel i: 1, to ii: 49) 9. The Golden Image and the Fiery Furnace (Daniel iii: 1 to 30) 10. The Tree That Was Cut Down and Grew Again (Daniel iv: 1 to 37) 11. The Writing Upon the Wall (Daniel v: 1 to 31) 12. Daniel in the Den of Lions (Daniel vi: 1 to 28) 13. The Story of a Joyous Journey (Ezra i: 1, to iii: 7) 14. The New Temple on Mount Moriah (Ezra iii: 8, to vi: 22; Haggai i: 1, to ii: 23; Zechariah iv: 6 to 10) 15. The Beautiful Queen of Persia (Esther i: 1, to x: 3) 16. The Scribe Who Wrote the Old Testament (Ezra vii: 1, to x: 44) 17. The Nobleman Who Built the Wall of Jerusalem (Nehemiah i: 1, to vii: 73) 18. Ezra’s Great Bible Class in Jerusalem (Nehemiah viii: 1, to xiii: 31; Malachi i: 1, to iv: 6) Part Sixth: The Story of Jesus 1. The Angel by the Altar (Luke i: 1 to 80) 2. The Manger of Bethlehem (Matthew i: 18 to 25; Luke ii: 1 to 39) 3. The Star and the Wise Men (Matthew ii: 1 to 23) 4. The Boy in His Father’s House (Luke ii: 40 to 52) 5. The Prophet in the Wilderness (Matthew iii: 1 to 17; Mark i: 1 to 11, Luke iii: 1 to 22) 6. Jesus in the Desert, and Beside the River (Matthew iv: 1 to 11; Mark i: 12, 13; Luke iv: 1 to 13; John i: 29 to 51) 7. The Water Jars at the Wedding Feast (John ii: 1, to iii: 21) 8. The Stranger at the Well (Matthew xiv: 3 to 5; Mark vi: 17 to 20; Luke iii: 19, 20; John iii: 22, to iv: 42) 9. The Story of a Boy in Capernaum, and of a Riot in Nazareth (John iv: 46 to 54; Luke iv: 16 to 31) 10. A Net Full of Fishes (Matthew iv: 18 to 22; Mark i: 16 to 34; Luke iv: 33, to v: 11) 11. The Leper, and the Man Let Down Through the Roof (Matthew viii: 2 to 4; ix: 2 to 8; Mark i: 40 to 45; ii: 1 to 12; Luke v: 12 to 26) 12. The Cripple at the Pool, and the Withered Hand in the Synagogue (Matthew xii: 1 to 14; Mark ii: 23, to iii: 6; Luke vi: 1, to 11; John v: 1 to 18) 13. The Twelve Disciples and the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew ix: 9 to 13; v to viii; Mark ii: 13 to 17; Luke v: 27 to 32; vi: 12 to 49) 14. The Captain’s Servant, the Widow’s Son, and the Woman Who Was a Sinner (Matthew viii: 5 to 13; Luke vii: 1 to 17; 36 to 50) 15. Some Stories Jesus Told by the Sea (Matthew xiii: 1 to 53; Mark iv: 1 to 34; Luke viii: 4 to 18) 16. “Peace, Be Still” (Matthew viii: 18 to 34; Mark iv: 35, to v: 21; Luke viii: 22 to 40) 17. The Little Girl Who Was Raised to Life (Matthew ix: 18 to 38; x: 1 to 42; Mark v: 22 to 43; Luke viii: 41 to 56; ix: 1 to 5) 18. A Dancing Girl, and What Was Given Her (Matthew xi: 2 to 19; xiv: 1 to 12; Mark vi: 14 to 29; Luke vii: 18 to 35) 19. The Feast Beside the Sea and What Followed It (Matthew xiv: 13 to 36; Mark vi: 30 to 56; Luke ix: 10 to 17; John vi: 1 to 71) 20. The Answer to a Mother’s Prayer (Matthew xv: 21 to 39; Mark vii: 24, to viii: 26) 21. The Glory of Jesus on the Mountain (Matthew xvi: 13, to xvii: 23; Mark viii: 27, to ix: 32; Luke ix: 18 to 45) 22. The Little Child in the Arms of Jesus (Matthew xvii: 24, to xviii: 35; Mark ix: 33 to 48; Luke ix: 46 to 50) 23. At the Feast of Tabernacles (Matthew viii: 19 to 22; Luke ix: 57 to 62; x: 38 to 42; xvii: 11 to 19; John vii: 2 to 52) 24. The Man With Clay on His Face (John ix: 1 to 41) 25. The Good Shepherd and the Good Samaritan (John x: 1 to 41; Luke x: 1 to 37) 26. Lazarus Raised to Life (John xi: 1 to 55) 27. Some Parables in Perea (Luke xii: 1, to xv: 32) 28. The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor Man (Luke xvi: 1 to 31, to xviii: 1 to 34; Matthew xix: 13 to 30; xx: 17 to 19; Mark x: 13 to 34) 29. Jesus at Jericho (Matthew xx: 20 to 34; Mark x: 35 to 52; Luke xviii: 35, to xix: 28) 30. Palm Sunday (Matthew xxi: 1 to 11; xxvi: 6 to 16; Mark ii: 1 to 11; xiv: 3 to 11; Luke xix: 29 to 41; xxii: 3 to 6; John xii: 1 to 19) 31. The Last Visits of Jesus to the Temple (Matthew xxi: 18, to xxiii: 39; Mark xi: 12, to xii: 44; Luke xix: 45, to xxi: 4) 32. The Parables on the Mount of Olives (Matthew xxiv: 1, to xxv: 46; Mark xiii: 1 to 37, Luke xxi: 5 to 38) 33. The Last Supper (Matthew xxvi: 17 to 35; Mark xiv: 12 to 31; Luke xxii: 7 to 38; John xiii: 1, to xvii: 26) 34. The Olive Orchard and the High Priests Hall (Matthew xxvi: 36 to 75; Mark xiv: 32 to 72; Luke xxii: 40 to 62; John xviii: 1 to 27) 35. The Crown of Thorns (Matthew xxvi: 57, to xxvii: 26; Mark xv: 1 to 15; Luke xxii: 66, to xxiii: 25; John xviii: 19, to xix: 16) 36. The Darkest Day of All the World (Matthew xxvii: 31 to 66; Mark xv: 20 to 47; Luke xxiii: 26 to 56; John xix: 16 to 42) 37. The Brightest Day of All the World (Matthew xxviii: 1 to 10; Mark xvi: 1 to 13; Luke xxiv: 1 to 49; John xx: 1 to 23) 38. The Stranger on the Shore (Matthew xxviii: 16 to 20; Mark xvi: 14 to 20; Luke xxiv: 50 to 53; John xx: 26, to xxi: 25; Acts i: 1 to 11; I Corinthians xv: 3 to 8) Part Seventh: Stories of the Early Church 1. The Church of the First Days (Acts i: 12, to ii: 47) 2. The Man at the Beautiful Gate (Acts iii: 1 to 31) 3. The Right Way to Give, and the Wrong Way (Acts iv: 32, to v: 42) 4. Stephen With the Shining Face (Acts vi: 1, to viii: 3) 5. The Man Reading in the Chariot (Acts viii: 4 to 40) 6. The Voice That Spoke to Saul (Acts ix: 1 to 31; xxii: 1 to 21; Galatians i: 11 to 24) 7. What Peter Saw by the Sea (Acts ix: 32, to xi: 18) 8. How the Iron Gate Was Opened (Acts xii: 1 to 24) 9. The Earliest Missionaries (Acts xi: 19 to 30; xiii: 1, to xiv: 28) 10. The Song in the Prison (Acts xv: 1, to xvi: 40) 11. Paul’s Speech on the Hill (Acts xvii: 1 to 34) 12. Paul at Corinth (Acts xviii: 1 to 22) 13. Paul at Ephesus (Acts xviii: 23, to xx: 1) 14. Paul’s Last Journey to Jerusalem (Acts xx: 2, to xxi: 16) 15. The Speech on the Stairs (Acts xxi: 17 to xxii: 29) 16. Two Years in Prison (Acts xxii: 30, to xxiv: 27) 17. The Story That Paul Told to the King (Acts xxv: 1, to xxvi: 32) 18. Paul in the Storm (Acts xxvii: 1, to xxviii: 1) 19. How Paul Came to Rome and How He Lived There (Acts xxviii: 2 to 31) 20. The Throne of God (Revelation i: 9 to 20; iv: 1, to v: 14) 21. The City of God (Revelations vii: 9 to 17; xxi: 1 to 27; xxii: 1 to 17)
A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father’s household Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Chapman draws on twenty years of research to uncover an underappreciated yet socially significant kinship unit in the Bible: “the house of the mother.” In households where a man had two or more wives, siblings born to the same mother worked to promote and protect one another’s interests. Revealing the hierarchies of the maternal houses and political divisions within the national house of Israel, this book provides us with a nuanced understanding of domestic and political life in ancient Israel.
"The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible offers 36 essays on the so-called "Historical Books": Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, and 1-2 Chronicles. The essays are organized around four nodes: contexts, content, approaches, and reception. Each essay takes up two questions: (1) what does the topic/area/issue have to do with the Historical Books?" and (2) how does this topic/area/issue help readers better interpret the Historical Books?" The essays engage traditional theories and newer updates to the same, and also engage the textual traditions themselves which are what give rise to compositional analyses. Many essays model approaches that move in entirely different ways altogether, however, whether those are by attending to synchronic, literary, theoretical, or reception aspects of the texts at hand. The contributions range from text-critical issues to ancient historiography, state formation and development, ancient Near Eastern contexts, society and economy, political theory, violence studies, orality, feminism, postcolonialism, and trauma theory-among others. Taken together, these essays well represent the variety of options available when it comes to gathering, assessing, and interpreting these particular biblical books"--