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Blasphemy and Exaltation in Judaism: The Charge against Jesus in Mark 14:53-65 (Biblical Studies Library)

2 reviews
Darrell L. Bock

Baker Academic, 2000

Great Scholarship - AND Evangelical!
As I prepare to write an academic paper on Matthew 24:30 and Jesus' claim to be the "Son of Man" coming on the clouds with power and great glory, I find no other resource as helpful as Darrell Bock's "Blasphemy & Exaltation." The scholarship is impeccable. His evaluation of critical scholarship is incisive and largely critical, yet he does not try to "beat something with nothing." He offers his ...

Werewolf Blasphemies (Werewolf the Forsaken)

3 reviews
Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Chuck Wendig, ...

White Wolf Publishing, 2006

Excellent book for advanced ST options
This book is a wonderful addition to the almost flawless stable of Werewolf the Forsaken supplements. While not quite as broad in scope as Lore of the Forsaken or Blood of the Wolf, this book still has its uses. First and foremost among these is the in-depth treatment of the Bale Hounds. Werewolves sworn to various archetypical spirits of do-badding (Wrath, Sloth, Lust, Greed, and so on), ...

Blasphemy

143 reviews
Douglas Preston

Forge Books, 2008

Oh Ye of Little Faith
I am a devout Christian - have been all my life. I am also a fan of Preston. I did not find anything in this book the least bit offensive. True, I am not an over the top Fundamentalist Christian, although I am sympathetic with them. It seemed to me that the characters that offended so many were clearly drawn to be way far out and beyond any of the known Fundamentalist leaders. If, in fact, ...

Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence

17 reviews
Alan Dershowitz

Wiley, 2008

Just in time for Independence Day!
For the past few decades, the Religious Right has been trying to weaken, if not eradicate, the wall of separation between church and state. In their attacks, it is common for them to argue that the U.S. is a "Christian nation," "founded on Judeo-Christian morality," etc.; and they frequently buttress their arguments by citing the references in the Declaration of Independence to "Nature's God" ...

Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie

5 reviews
Leonard W. Levy

University of North Carolina Press, 1995

A Study in Religious Toleration and a Warning
Leonard Levy's book titled BLASPHEMY is a well doucmented book re the history of blasphemy persecutions and trials. Levy made clear that a defintion of blasphemy was an any affront against the sacred. He also states that one man's blasphemy can be another man's "true religion." Another important lesson is that those who are often persecuted in one generation were often those who are persecutors ...

The Shack

1511 reviews
William P. Young

Windblown Media, 2008

Wonderful and thought-provoking book
The Shack is a most wonderful book, thought-provoking, and full of wonder. You will cry one minute from the tenderness shown and laugh the next. Your heart will wrench then sing. Your emotions will run from one end of the scale to the other. It is one of the best books I've ever read and I am a better person for reading it.

Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars
Marjorie Heins

New Press, 1998

In 1989 strange things began to happen in these United States. Musicians and music store owners were charged with crimes for singing songs or selling tapes and records. The U.S. Congress passed a resolution condemning a major museum for permitting a display that "encourages disrespect for the flag." The federal arts funding agency was accused of blasphemy for assisting artists whose work dealt with religious themes. And so "censorship" became a ...

Blasphemy: Art That Offends

1 review
S. Brent Plate

Black Dog Publishing, 2006

Great pictures, writing not so hot....
I was really excited to get this book, so I sat down to read it as soon as it arrived. Honestly, the text is pretty dry - I got bored about five minutes into it.... So I quit reading, and just flipped through and looked at the art. Saw a lot of really fascinating pieces, but nothing that I felt was especially offensive.... Of course, I don't get offended easily, so maybe that's just me. I ...

Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England

1 review
Joss Marsh

University Of Chicago Press, 1998

An excellent study
I approached this book from, I suppose, a biased standpoint. I was a student of Dr. Joss Marsh's at Indiana University this past year. Through her brilliant lectures and subsequent private office conversations, I became very fond of both the person and the scholar and eagerly purchased her book. I was not disappointed! As a student of both history and english (my major and minor ...

Blasphemy: A Novel

7 reviews
Tehmina Durrani

South Asia Books, 1999

Blasphemy
A very intense reading. It did not take me too long to become part of the suffering of the character at the hands of peer Sain. I have experianced this believe system in our family. It took me more than 5 years to make my case with the family and finally to get rid of the 'Holy Man'. Tehmina has done a wonderfull job of painting the 'Peer Culture' in Pakistan. The falsehood of this culture has ...

Schizophrenic Sermons: Blasphemy, Heresy, and Deceptions Preached as Scripture by Prominent Independent ...

1 review
Jeri Massi

Jupiter Rising Books, 2008

Schizophrenic Sermons: Poor Delivery, Poor Style, Poor Documentation
Schizophrenic Sermons is very unlike the previous book, Schizophrenic Christianity. Where Schizophrenic Christianity was full of sources and quotations, Schizophrenic Sermons was poorly documented, and seemingly put together in great haste. The chapters on the sermons reviewed themselves are full of insightful commentary from Scripture, but also filled with snide, off-topic comments from the ...

Blasphemy
David A. Lawton

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993

Blasphemy
Alain Cabantous

Columbia University Press, 2002

The book takes us on a journey through the Christian West with braggarts, craftsmen, soldiers, sailors, and their coarse, forbidden exchanges. More than simply an exhaustive inventory of the uses of and bans on blasphemy, the book is a lively analysis of the relationship between the blasphemer, the machinery of language, and that of repression.

The French Revolution as Blasphemy: Johan Zoffany's Paintings of the Massacre at Paris, August 10, 1792 ...

1 review
William L. Pressly

University of California Press, 1999

Buyer beware
Zoffany is a fun painter and this book is a great choice of subject. However I am wary of buying because according to the publisher, there are only 2 colour plates (plus 100 black-and-white illustrations). Pretty poor for a 1999 publication and damned shoddy for a university press

Baubles of Blasphemy

9 reviews
Edwin F. Kagin

Freethought Press, 2005

Irreverent and thought provoking
If you are a true believer, this book will be utter sacrilege. If you have an open mind, this book will make you think and laugh and think again. Edwin F. Kagin's humor and insight on subjects as diverse as the Blessed Virgin Mary and separation of church and state may cause you to revise your own viewpoint and look at the world a little differently. I can't wait to share Hades with Edwin ...

Dangerous Speech: A Social History of Blasphemy in Colonial Mexico
Javier Villa-Flores

University of Arizona Press, 2006

Dangerous Speech is the first systematic treatment of blasphemous speech in colonial Mexico. This engaging social history examines the representation of blasphemy as a sin and a crime, and its repression by the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish colonists viewed blasphemy not only as an insult against God but also as a dangerous misrepresentation of the deity, which could call down his wrath in a ruinous assault on the imperial enterprise. Why ...

Blasphemy in the Christian World: A History
David Nash

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Blasphemy--the denial or denigration of God--has a long history. Jesus was tried for blasphemy. Early Christians felt that the Jews in taking such action were themselves guilty of it. But it is not a story confined to the remote past. The publication in 2005 of 12 cartoons in a Danish newspaper linking the prophet Mohammed to terrorism sparked outrage in the global Islamic community. And that was not an instance of blasphemy intruding itself ...

The Rozabal Line

46 reviews
Shawn Haigins

Lulu.com, 2007

Sensational, Risky, Mysterious, Entertaining, Satisfying
"The Rozabal Line" is an exciting richly detailed and tightly woven novel. It is loaded with surprises and includes hairpin turns and slow careful climbs to reach the highest peak of excitement, leaving the reader breathless, with no time to recover because the next moment of reading pleasure involves an unexpected drop into unanticipated depths. All I can say is move over Dan Brown, you have a ...

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