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Celibacy in the Ancient World: Its Ideal and Practice in ...

Celibacy in the Ancient World: Its Ideal and Practice in ...

Dale Launderville

Is there a socially constructive role for celibacy? These questions guide Dale Launderville, OSB, in his study of celibacy in the ancient cultures of Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece prior to Hellenism and the rise of Christianity.
Piety and Politics: The Dynamics of Royal Authority in ...

Piety and Politics: The Dynamics of Royal Authority in ...

Dale Launderville

Providing important background on life in three major civilizations, this volume will be valued by a wide range of scholars and students, especially in the fields of biblical studies, ancient history, and political science.
The American Benedictine Review

The American Benedictine Review

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Celibacy in the Ancient World: Its Ideal and Practice in PreHellenistic Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece, by Dale Launderville, O.S.B. (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2010. pp. 571. Paper. $69.95 ISBN 978-0-8146-5697-6). This book is about ...
Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals ...

Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals ...

Margo Kitts

At the same time it is also worth noting, with Dale Launderville and many others, that poetic resonance with actual religious experience in ancient Near Eastern and Greek texts may be measured not just in terms of narrative coherence - as ...
Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew ...

Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew ...

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Dale Launderville. 55. The additional element of male shamans frequently cross- dressing demonstrates that this is part of a broader pattern of gender boundary transgression, and cannot be assumed always to have a patriarchal undertone.
Theology and Power: International Perspectives

Theology and Power: International Perspectives

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He cites Dale Launderville's analysis of ideology and the social world of kingship in Amorite Babylon, Homeric Greece, and Ancient Israel that demonstrates “that the institution of kingship was a cultural, social, economic, political and religious ...
Ezekiel's Hierarchical World: Wrestling with a Tiered Reality

Ezekiel's Hierarchical World: Wrestling with a Tiered Reality

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The animal faces of Ezekiel's cherubim (Ezek 10:14, 22)—the lion face, the ox face, and the eagle face—all suggest a potential for animalistic violence (see, e.g., Jer 4:7; Exod 21:28; Deut 28:49). Dale Launderville correctly states, “Fire, as a ...
The Ways of a King: Legal and Political Ideas in the Bible

The Ways of a King: Legal and Political Ideas in the Bible

Geoffrey P. Miller

17 Dale Launderville's Piety and Politics: The Dynamics of Royal Authority in Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and. 10 Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). Rorty's approach to ...
Spirit and Reason: The Embodied Character of Ezekiel's ...

Spirit and Reason: The Embodied Character of Ezekiel's ...

Dale Launderville

103 David W. Tandy, Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece (Berkeley: University of California, 1997) 92–93. 104 Tandy, Warriors into Traders, 109, 125; Seaford, Reciprocity and Ritual, 18, 194, 198–99. 105 Tandy ...
The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

Stephen F. Dale

Dale, Stephen F., The Gardenof the Eight Paradises: Bâbur and the Culture of Empire in CentralAsia, Afghanistan and India (1483–1530) (Leiden: Brill, 2004). Dale, Stephen F., Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade 1600–1750 (Cambridge  ...
Hastings Herald

Hastings Herald

E. Dale Hastin Smith

E. Dale Hastin Smith. E. Dale Hastin Smith S. 4204 Conklin St. Spokane, WA 99203-6235 Volume 1 2 rtta mot DOES WfJ CUCUIATI. Front Cover.
A Political Education Life Arts Project: A Civil Tongue with ...

A Political Education Life Arts Project: A Civil Tongue with ...

Dale Drakeford

Dale Benjamin Drakeford To: President George W. Bush From: Dale Benjamin Drakeford Re: Teamwork Government March I, 2001 Letter Number 4 How much more can we take? Surely, you will not fall into the pardon trap. Drug dealers, and  ...
Grandeur of the Everyday: The Paintings of Dale Kennington

Grandeur of the Everyday: The Paintings of Dale Kennington

Dale Kennington

Grandeur of the Everyday is the first full-length volume dedicated to the life and work of Dale Kennington--an accomplished master of contemporary American realism.
Dinosaurs Should Have Gone To School

Dinosaurs Should Have Gone To School

Dale Benjamin Drakeford

Dale Benjamin Drakeford ... gone to school: a new theory on dinosaur extinction as easy as abcxyz as propositioned by mister peace, ph.d: the poop, the pageantry, the prose and the poetry/by Dale Benjamin Drakeford-1st edition. p. cm 1.
PREAMBLES

PREAMBLES

Dale Benjamin Drakeford

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Drakeford, Dale Benjamin Preambles/Dale Benjamin Drakeford p. cm. 1. Poetry. 2. Self-Help. 3. Spirituality. 4. Activities. 5. Public Domain and Keyboard Illustrations Case Wrap Edition ...
Tales of the Tepee

Tales of the Tepee

Edward Everett Dale

... Westerners 7 (December 1973): 1-21; Arrell M. Gibson, "Edward Everett Dale," Great Plains Journal 18 (1979): 79-84; David J. Murrah, "Edward Everett Dale," in Historians of the American Frontier: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, ed.
Rainey Times

Rainey Times

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Howard Co , IN 6 Bobby Dale Goodrich 1951 - b: October 8, 1951 in Elwood, Madison Co., IN .. +Linda McCloud 1951 - b: Aft 1951 7 Bradley Dale Goodrich 1971 - b: Aft. 1971 '2nd Wife of Bobby Dale Goodrich: +Louanna Unknown 1951 - b: ...
The Earnhardts: A Biography

The Earnhardts: A Biography

Gerry Souter

Describes the life, career, and death of NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt, and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s popularity and fan support following his father's accident.
A Boy's Own Dale: A 1950s childhood in the Yorkshire Dales

A Boy's Own Dale: A 1950s childhood in the Yorkshire Dales

Terry Wilson

Told with affection, dry humour and a respect for the landscape and its people, A Boy's Own Dale is a charming tale of a long-lost world.
POWER POSITIVE Moments That Document Nicely Why You Must ...

POWER POSITIVE Moments That Document Nicely Why You Must ...

Dale Benjamin Drakeford

Dale Benjamin Drakeford. POWER POSITIVE Moments That Document Nicely Why You Must Invest Your Vote In Bernie Sanders (Trump, Carson, Fiorina, Paul.. .) Copyright 2016 by Dale Benjamin Drakeford All Rights Reserved. No part of this ...
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.: Racing's Living Legacy

Dale Earnhardt, Jr.: Racing's Living Legacy

James MacDonald

"A biography of NASCAR sports star Dale Earnhardt, Jr"--Provided by publisher.
Pocket Poems And Pedagogy: Inspired Lessons for Guidance: A ...

Pocket Poems And Pedagogy: Inspired Lessons for Guidance: A ...

Dale Benjamin Drakeford

Dale Benjamin Drakeford. Owners of this book can contact the author at daledrakeford ...
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.: A Car Racer Who Cares

Dale Earnhardt, Jr.: A Car Racer Who Cares

Ken Rappoport

"A biography of race car driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr., highlighting his charitable work"--Provided by publisher.
Rapacia: The Second Circle of Heck

Rapacia: The Second Circle of Heck

Dale E. Basye

In the second installment of the popular series, Heck, Dale E. Basye takes Milton and Marlo Fauster on a journey that is as clever, as laugh-out-loud funny, and as satisfying as the first.
Arduino Internals

Arduino Internals

Dale Wheat

Author Dale Wheat shares his intimate knowledge of the Arduino board—its secrets, its strengths and possible alternatives to its constituent parts are laid open to scrutiny in this book.
Bo's Boos & Poos Reviews

Bo's Boos & Poos Reviews

Dale Drakeford

Illustrations by Dale Benjamin Drakeford and Justin C. O'Neill. p. cm Summary: Independent stories and poems connect through the social-emotional development of a new student growing in school and life experiences that he seeks, ...
Blimpo: The Third Circle of Heck

Blimpo: The Third Circle of Heck

Dale E. Basye

With more clever, dark humor and zany silliness, Dale E. Basye sends Milton and Marlo Fauster back for thirds in another laugh-out-loud installment of the popular series Heck.
Dinosaurs on the Go!

Dinosaurs on the Go!

Penny Dale

Penny Dale's dinosaur books have it all: construction vehicles and all sorts of cars, trucks, trains, helicopters, and rescue vehicles. These stories have tons of kid appeal, always bursting with noise and energy and a surprise ending!
A Laboratory Course for Programming with Java

A Laboratory Course for Programming with Java

Nell B. Dale

Dale (University of Texas-Austin) teaches students how to program with Java by actively engaging them in the learning process, providing 14 chapters of lab activities that focus on the topics presented in the text Programming and Problem ...
Dale Fiers: Twentieth Century Disciple

Dale Fiers: Twentieth Century Disciple

D. Duane Cummins

Many call A. Dale Fiers the most significant figure in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of the twentieth century.

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