Revelation : A Pentecostal Commentary /
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Where do we go after death? What happens to us? What factors influence our destiny? What will happen to the world in years to come? Is there a controlling divine force in human experience? Is there a plan, or is life a product of random occurrences, of chance? Why is it the righteous who are persecuted and suffer while the wicked seem to prosper? Is there justice in the universe? The book of Revelation offers answers to many of these questions. Since, however, it is one of the more difficult of the New Testament books to read and interpret, it is often overlooked, neglected or even avoided by today's Christians. Yet it addresses many prophetic issues of importance to those seeking to understand God's plan for the future. Speaking through its heavy symbolism and sometimes strange visions of heaven, angels, beasts, earthly turmoil and destruction, the Apocalypse offers hope that God will overcome evil and that he does indeed control human destiny.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004397248
Revelation and falsification : the Kitāb al-qirāʼāt of Aḥmad born Muḥammad al-Sayyārī /
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For all Muslims the Qurʾan is the word of God. In the first centuries of Islam, however, many individuals and groups, and some Shiʿis, believed that the generally accepted text of the Qurʾan is corrupt. The Shiʿis asserted that redactors had altered or deleted among other things all passages that supported the rights of ʿAli and his successors or that condemned his enemies. One of the fullest lists of these alleged changes and of other variant readings is to be found in the work of al-Sayyārī (3rd/9th century), which is indeed among the earliest Shiʿi books to have survived. In many cases the alternative readings that al-Sayyārī presents substantially contribute to our understanding of early Shiʿi doctrine and of the early and numerous debates about the Qurʾan in general.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-324) and indexes. :
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Revelation in the Qur'an : A Semantic Study of the Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y /
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"In Revelation in the Qur'an Simon P. Loynes presents a semantic study of the Arabic roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y in order to shed light on the modalities of revelation in the Qur'an. Through an exhaustive analysis of their occurrences in the Qur'an as well as pre-Islamic poetry, Loynes argues that the two roots represent distinct occurrences in the Qur'anic concept of revelation, with the former concerned with spatial events and the latter with communicative. This has significant consequences for understanding the Qur'an's unique concept of revelation and how this is both in concord and at variance with earlier revelations"--
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Revision of the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 2019. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004452978
9789004451056
Neolithic revolution : new prespectives on southwest Asia in the light of recent discoveries on Cyprus /
: "Papers from a conference organized by the council for British Research in the Levant in collaboration with the Department of Anitquities, Cyprus, 20th to 23rd September 2001, Drousha Village, Cyprus". : xx, 188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm. : 1842171321
The orientalizing revolution : Near Eastern influence on Greek culture in the early archaic age /
: Translation of : Die orientalisierende Epoche in der griechischen Religion und Literatur. : 225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-152) and index. : 0674643631 (acid-free paper) : Sara.lib
Riding with the Revolution : The American Left in the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1925 /
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Riding with the Revolution tells the story of Americans who from 1900 to 1925 became involved with the Mexican Revolution. John Reed actually saddled up and rode with Pancho Villa. Later, American war resisters crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico
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1 online resource (548 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004271333
The Spirit in the Book of Revelation /
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The investigation centres on the role of the Spirit in Revelation, which the author considers is best defined as the Spirit of Prophecy. A survey of scholarship on the pneumatology of the Apocalypse is followed by a study of intertextual connections. The author's own religious context within Pentecostalism then informs a possible hermeneutic that is faithful to the ethos of the movement. Biblical and literary studies are situated within the context of a Pentecostal community as attention is paid to the prophecy concerning the temple and the witnesses in Rev 11. This key passage is shown to form the theological as well as the literary centre of the Spirit's role in Revelation.
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1 online resource. :
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