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The Devil in Soho:

The Devil in Soho:

Jean Shorney

Harlow left three children, Leanne, Lorna and Luke.'” “Jesus, man, I didn't make no connection at first.” Ru snaps his fingers suddenly, startling me from my uneasy retrospection. “Luke Harlow. I know him. If it's that Luke Harlow of course.
After Appomattox

After Appomattox

Gregory P. Downs

... Burgin, Nathan Connolly, and Luke Harlow. The highest tribute an intellectual peer can pay is to take one's ideas seriously enough to expose their limitations. For their (sometimes gleeful!) assistance, I am grateful to Luke Harlow, Daniel ...
Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, ...

Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, ...

Luke E. Harlow

Luke E. Harlow. 6 The End of Neutrality Emancipation, Political Religion, and the Triumph ofAbolitionist Heterodoxy, 1862–1865 [I]n times to come scholars and historians shall be treating abolition as the great fanaticism of the nineteenth ...
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in ...

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in ...

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Harlow, Luke. 2007. “Slavery, Race, and Political Ideology in the White Christian South Before and After the Civil War.” In Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the Present, edited by Mark Noll and Luke Harlow, 203–24.
The Gospel of Luke

The Gospel of Luke

Luke Timothy Johnson

What makes this commentary on Luke stand apart from others is that, from beginning to end, this is a literary analysis.
Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, ...

Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, ...

Luke E. Harlow

Molly Oshatz pushes the debate further. Implicitly, she agrees with the Genoveses. Her essay “The Problem of Moral Progress: The Slavery Debates and the Development of Liberal Protes- tantism in the United States,” Modern Intellectual ...
Herod as a Composite Character in Luke-Acts:

Herod as a Composite Character in Luke-Acts:

Frank Dicken

2.1.3 Kazuhiko Yamazaki-Ransom, The Roman Empire in Luke's Narrative Yamazaki-Ransom's ... in Luke's thought. YamazakiRansom's objective is to discuss how Luke redefines “the idea of the people of God...by redefining the opponents ...
Luke's Gospel

Luke's Gospel

Jonathan Knight

Luke's Gospel provides a comprehensive and schematic reading of Luke's Gospel, one of the most important books detailing the life and works of Christ, in six main parts.
Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts

Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts

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Kazuhiko Yamazaki-Ransom's The Roman Empire in Luke's Narrative and Joshua Yoder's Representatives of Roman Rule both examine Luke's portrayal of authority figures, discussing what the texts might tell us about the third evangelist's ...
Go Slow: The Life of Julie London

Go Slow: The Life of Julie London

Michael Owen

She had fallen in love with a novel called Crashing, the 1980 debut of a writer named Enid Harlow. Universal optioned the book for a movie and retained Julie as a consultant on the project, which she hoped to eventually produce. Harlow's ...
Opening the Mind or Drawing Boundaries?: History Texts in ...

Opening the Mind or Drawing Boundaries?: History Texts in ...

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197 (1974): 392–404. Luke, Carmen, Suzanne de Castell and Allan Luke. “ Beyond Criticism: The Authority of the School Textbook,” in Language, Authority and Criticism, edited by Suzanne de Castell, Carmen Luke and Allan Luke, 245– 260.
The Rotarian

The Rotarian

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One participant, 16-year-old Luke Cashman of Melbourne (wearing a red cape), represented Argentina. "It's a great experience," said Luke, "because it teaches you to look at a situation from different perspectives." Luke, who hopes to become  ...
American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution

American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution

Harlow Giles Unger

" Combining stellar scholarship with action-packed history, Harlow Giles Unger reveals the truth behind the legendary event and examines its lasting consequence--the spawning of a new, independent nation.
Grappling with Demon Rum: The Cultural Struggle Over Liquor ...

Grappling with Demon Rum: The Cultural Struggle Over Liquor ...

James E. Klein

The league's tabulations are confirmed in Victor E. Harlow, Oklahoma: Its Origins and Development (Oklahoma City: Harlow Publishing Corporation, 1935), 310. 7. On early Oklahoma's working class, see Nigel Anthony Sellars, “Oil Wheat and ...
Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle

Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle

Joseph B. Tyson

Building on recent scholarship that argues for a second-century date for the book of Acts, Marcion and Luke-Acts explores the probable context for the authorship not only of Acts but also of the canonical Gospel of Luke.
Representatives of Roman Rule: Roman Provincial Governors in ...

Representatives of Roman Rule: Roman Provincial Governors in ...

Joshua Yoder

137 In The Roman Empire in Luke's Narrative, Kazuhiko Yamazaki-Ransom focused on Luke's portrayal of Jewish and Gentile rulers in Luke-Acts.138 Focusing on the biblical narratives and Second Temple literature, he discerned common ...
A Theology of Community Organizing: Power to the People

A Theology of Community Organizing: Power to the People

Chris Shannahan

For information about the Islamic Foundation, see http://www.islamicfoundation. org.uk, accessed 11 May 2010. For information about Luke Bretherton, see http:// divinity.duke.edu/academics/faculty/luke-bretherton. It should be noted that Luke  ...
Contemplating Christ with Luke

Contemplating Christ with Luke

George Pell

Cardinal George Pell's Contemplating Christ with Luke comprises a series of reflections on a year's Sunday readings from the Gospel of St. Luke.
Representations of the Afterlife in Luke-Acts

Representations of the Afterlife in Luke-Acts

Alexey Somov

A significant advance in research on the ideas of the afterlife in Luke– Acts is presented in Outi Lehtipuu's work, The Afterlife Imagery in Luke's Story of the Rich Man and Lazarus. Lehtipuu neither attempts to frame these ideas as a ...
The Destiny of Violet and Luke

The Destiny of Violet and Luke

Jessica Sorensen

THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Luke Price's life has always been about order, control, and acting tough on the outside.
Unmanly Men: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts

Unmanly Men: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts

Brittany E. Wilson

Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts Brittany E. Wilson. History 5 (1991): 20– 33. Walton, Steve. “'The Heavens Opened': Cosmological and Theological Transformation in Luke and Acts.” Pages 60–73 in Cosmology and New Testament ...
What Disruptive Thinking Is, and Why You Should Be Doing It

What Disruptive Thinking Is, and Why You Should Be Doing It

Luke Williams

This Element is an excerpt from Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business (9780137025145) by Luke Williams.
Luke: A Commentary

Luke: A Commentary

John T. Carroll

Authoritative commentary on the Gospel of Luke for the New Testament Library series
How to Craft a Disruptive Hypothesis: Be Wrong at the Start ...

How to Craft a Disruptive Hypothesis: Be Wrong at the Start ...

Luke Williams

This Element is an excerpt from Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business (9780137025145) by Luke Williams.
The past as legacy: Luke-Acts and ancient epic

The past as legacy: Luke-Acts and ancient epic

Marianne Palmer Bonz

Argues that the historical occasion of the great literary epics was an analogous situation for the composition of Luke-Acts.
New Perspectives on the Nativity

New Perspectives on the Nativity

Jeremy Corley

... 436-56), Brittany E. Wilson has argued cogently that a similar contrast to the one I detect (as developed by Luke in the Benedictus) is present in the words addressed to Mary by Elizabeth in Luke 1:42: “Blessed are you among women,” when ...
Beginner's Luke

Beginner's Luke

Sol Luckman

He is sui generis, literally believing himself into being. BEGINNER'S LUKE is the first novel in a series of six madcap adventures that, collectively, make up the imaginary life of this lovably irreverent modern-day Walter Mitty.
The Gospel of Luke

The Gospel of Luke

Joel B. Green

This highly original commentary, part of the New International Commentary, is unique for the way it combines concerns with first-century culture in the Roman world with understanding the text of Luke as a wholistic, historical narrative.
Luke for Everyone

Luke for Everyone

Tom Wright

Tom Wright's guide to Luke, which includes a wealth of information and background detail, provides real insights for our understanding of the story of Jesus and its implications for the reader.
Slow Hand Luke

Slow Hand Luke

Debbi Rawlins

And hang on... It looks like Annie has no choice but to turn him in. That is, until Slow Hand Luke decides to live up to his name—

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