300 Years of the French in Old Mines: A Narrative History of the Oldest Village in Missouri by: Mark G Boyer (Author) Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers Publication Date: 2021/7/23 Language: English Print Length: 248 pages ISBN-10: 1666720143 ISBN-13: 9781666720143 Book Description The village of Old Mines is the oldest settlement in the state of Missouri. Lead miners were in Old Mines as early as 1719. The founding of Old Mines in 1723 coincides with the land grant awarded to Philippe Franc...
The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 3: From Voltaire to Wagner by: Léon Poliakov (Author),Miriam Kochan(Translator) Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Publication Date: 2003/10/15 Language: English Print Length: 592 pages ISBN-10: 0812218655 ISBN-13: 9780812218657 Book Description Covering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, The History of Anti-Semitism presents in elegant and thoughtful language a balanced, careful assessment o...
Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Mode Jewish Thought (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry) by: Gilad Sharvit (Author) Publisher: Brandeis University Press Publication Date: 2022/11/11 Language: English Print Length: 332 pages ISBN-10: 1684581036 ISBN-13: 9781684581030 Book Description A fine example of the best scholarship that lies at the intersection of philosophy, religion, and history. Dynamic Repetition proposes a new understanding of mode Jewish theori...
Alexandrine Teaching on the Universe (Routledge Revivals) by: R. B. Tollinton (Author) Publisher: Routledge Edition: 1st Publication Date: 2024/11/1 Language: English Print Length: 186 pages ISBN-10: 1032892536 ISBN-13: 9781032892535 Book Description Originally published in 1932, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1931. The views of the universe as held by the great teachers of Ancient Alexandria are discussed: Philo, Clement, Origen, Plotinus and the Gnostics a...
The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom by: Candida Moss (Author) Publisher: HarperOne Publication Date: 2013/3/5 Language: English Print Length: 320 pages ISBN-10: 0062104527 ISBN-13: 9780062104526 Book Description In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to s...
The Fake Prison Doctor of Auschwitz: Uncovering the Truth Behind Holocaust Fraudsters by: Bogdan Musial (Author) Publisher: Pen and Sword Military Publication Date: 2024/9/30 Language: English Print Length: 200 pages ISBN-10: 1399044052 ISBN-13: 9781399044059 Book Description After over half a century of secrecy, a Swiss bank safe was opened, it contained the long-lost research notes of Josef Mengele, as well as those of his chief assistant in Auschwitz. They had been deposited there by the assi...
The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality by: Hanno Sauer (Author) Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: 2024/9/12 Language: English Print Length: 416 pages ISBN-10: 0197790259 ISBN-13: 9780197790250 Book Description In this sweeping new history of humanity, told through the prism of our ever-changing moral norms and values, Hanno Sauer shows how mode society is just the latest step in the long evolution of good and evil and everything in between. What makes us m...
Nothing Sacred by: Stathis Gourgouris (Author) Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication Date: 2024/5/7 Language: English Print Length: 360 pages ISBN-10: 0231215150 ISBN-13: 9780231215152 Book Description Nothing Sacred makes a bold call for reconceptualizing the projects of humanism and democracy as creative sources of emancipatory meaning, from the immediate political sphere to the farthest reaches of planetary ways of living.Restaging Aristotle’s classic notion of the “political anima...
Laws of the Spirit (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) by: Ariel Evan Mayse (Author) Publisher: Stanford University Press Edition: 1st Publication Date: 2024/5/28 Language: English Print Length: 424 pages ISBN-10: 1503638278 ISBN-13: 9781503638273 Book Description The compelling vision of religious life and practice found in Hasidic sources has made it the most enduring and successful Jewish movement of spiritual renewal of all time. In this book, Ariel Evan Mayse grapples with one ...
Cognitive History: Mind, Space, and Time by: David Dunér (Editor),Christer Ahlberger (Editor) Publisher: Walter de Gruyter Publication Date: 2019/3/4 Language: English Print Length: 194 pages ISBN-10: 3110579677 ISBN-13: 9783110579673 Book Description This book is the first introduction to the new field called cognitive history. The last decades have seen a noticeable increase in cognitive science studies that have changed the understanding of human thinking. Its relevance for historical researc...
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