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The Adventures of Odysseus & The Tale of Troy: Homer's Great Epics, Rewritten for Children (Illustrated Hardcover)
"Unequaled" Rewriting of Homer for Children Padraic Colum's retelling of Homer's classic epics for children is still considered by many to be the finest introduction younger readers will have to Homer. Combining the broad stories of both the Iliad and the Odyssey, Colum creates an intricately woven, fast paced tale that will enthrall children and adults alike. Publishers Weekly considered his rendition of Homer 'unequalled' and thousands of readers have agreed with that assessment. This edition includes Willy Pogany's classic illustrations created for the original 1918 edition..
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All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten
Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly,Emptying her blood-red mouth—set in her ice-white face—Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:“Kill! Kill for me!Better to die than live without killing!”Who says prayer does no good?Christopher Logue’s work in progress, his Iliad, has been called “the best translation of Homer since Pope’s” ( The New York Review of Books). Here in All Day Permanent Red is doomed Hector, the lion, “slam-scattering the herd” at the height of his powers. Here is the Greek army rising with a sound like a “sky-wide Venetian blind.” Here is an arrow’s tunnel, “the width of a lipstick,” through a neck. Like Homer himself, Logue is quick to mix the ancient and the new, because his Troy exists outside time, and no translator has a more Homeric interest in the truth of battle, or in the absurdity and sublimity of war. .
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Picture Perfect (The Seven Sisters Series, Book 2) (Re-Written as The Awakening)
A spine–tingling tale, Picture Perfect highlights the power of love and God’s provision Supermodel Kim Lan has beauty, wealth, an engagement to heartthrob Ted Curry, and a budding faith that seldom interferes with her plans. When a secret admirer sends flowers and notes, Kim is flattered. But as the letters become possessive, warning signals flash. To escape the mysterious gift–giver, Kim joins a mission outreach to Asia. But coordinator Mick O–Donnel’s vision for a quiet, sincere offer of aid is threatened by Kim’s celebrity. Sparks fly as their lifestyles clash and they battle an undercurrent of passion. When Kim’s “secret admirer” reveals he’s close by, Kim desperately searches for someone she can trust. Book 2 in The Sisters Suspense series. Formerly titled The Awakening .
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Puss in Boots: Treasured Tales CD Book (Read & Listen Along)
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The Bible that Rhymes: (Bible Stories Rewritten in Poetry)
This book was written by my Great Aunt Ella, during her 20's and 30's. It was a labor of love over 20 years. She had no children of her own, but intended the book to be read by very young children to tell the stories of the Bible in a simple, understandable, even memorable way. Aunt Ella took some license to add a moral or a message to each story. It is reminiscent of a time gone by; a more quiet time, uninterrupted by phones, TV, or even movies. In a way, however, it is timeless, like the bible itself. It is oh so much better to leave a child's mind at bedtime with a poetic bible story, than to have them go to sleep in front of the TV, watching the common fare that the major networks feed us between 8 and 10..
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The Book of Jubilees: Rewritten Bible, Redaction, Ideology and Theology (Hebrew) (Hebrew Edition)
SEFER HAYOVLIM. Jubilees is a pseudepigraphical composition from the second century BCE, which was preserved among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The book rewrites the Pentateuch until the Sinaitic revelation, by means of additions, omissions and other changes. Scholars tend to the view it as a unified work, composed by one author. In light of numerous contradictions, both in narrative details and in issues of biblical interpretation, Michael Segal suggests a new approach towards understanding the literary development of the work: a redactor relied upon extant sources, generally rewritten biblical narratives, and incorporated them into a new literary framework. The redactors unique contribution can be identified in the chronological framework and the legal passages. The internal contradictions between the different literary genres are the result of the literary development of the book. This source-critical analysis reveals a unified, complete worldview in the redactional layer of the book, which can be summarized by one fundamental principle: God established the entire world order at the time of creation. This is exemplified through the analysis of the question of the origin of evil in the world, perhaps the most pressing theological issue for any monotheistic religion. Throughout the book, one finds different approaches to this critical question, but when the redactional layer is examined by itself, a clear view emerges God created both good and evil at the dawn of time as part of a cosmic, dualistic system. This book is intended for all those interested in Bible, Jewish literature of the Second Temple period, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and Early Biblical Exegesis..
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