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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Jesus as the Eschatological Davidic Shepherd: Studies in the Old Testament, Second Temple Judaism, and in the Gospel of Matthew
Young S. Chae analyzes the puzzling association of the Son of David with Jesus' healing ministry in the First Gospel. This, along with the Gospel's rich shepherd/sheep images and the theme of the restoration of the lost sheep of the house of Israel, finds a significant clue in the picture of Jesus as the eschatological Davidic Shepherd according to the pattern of the Davidic Shepherd tradition in the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism. As Matthew communicates the identity and mission of Jesus, he is conversant with this tradition, particularly Ezekiel 34 and 37 as well as Micah 2-5 and Zechariah 9-14. The story of the First Gospel is the story of the return of YHWH as the eschatological Shepherd for the lost sheep of Israel and also that of the one Davidic Shepherd-Appointee as the eschatological Teacher-Prince in the midst of his one eschatological flock.
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David C Cook Publishing Company The Chosen Presents: The Shepherd
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David C Cook Publishing Company The Good Book Participant's Guide: 40 Chapters That Reveal the Bible's Biggest Ideas
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David C Cook Publishing Company The Way of the Chosen: Volume 3
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St David's Press Don't Take Me Home
Euro 2016 will forever have a special place in the hearts and memories of Wales football supporters, especially the tens of thousands who travelled to France and filled the stadiums with song, joy and colour as they proudly took their place in the spectacular 'Red Wall'. Bryn Law, author of the acclaimed Zombie Nation Awakes, was one of those passionate fans who fulfilled a life-long dream of following the Wales national team to a major tournament and 'Don't Take Me Home' is his diary of that magical month that gripped the whole nation. From arranging time off work to organising travel, accommodation and the all-important match tickets - as well as trying to explain to his patient and long-suffering family that he couldn't be sure exactly when he'd be back - Bryn perfectly describes the steep, tricky and expensive learning-curve faced by thousands of Welsh fans as he criss-crossed France by plane, car, camper van, tram and bus, desperate not to miss a match whilst enjoying the company of his friends and fellow fans. In 'Don't Take Me Home' Welsh fans can relive every game of the Euro 2016 experience from a supporter's perspective. Everyone has their own favourite memory of the tournament and Bryn lovingly recalls every game on that joyful journey: from the amazing scenes in Bordeaux to the 'chin up' disappointment of Lens; the perfect performance in Toulouse to the Celtic party in Paris; and from the sheer euphoria of Lille to the pride and au revoir in Lyon. Bryn Law's emotional, humorous yet insightful diary explains why Welsh fans - whenever they are asked about their experiences at Euro 2016 - smile, wipe away a tear and say 'It was the best month of my life': 'Don't Take Me Home'.
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David C Cook Publishing Company Clever Cub Invites Someone New
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David C Cook Publishing Company Clever Cub Tells the Truth
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David C Cook Publishing Company Just Like Jesus
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David C Cook Publishing Company My First Advent Storybook
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David C Cook Publishing Company Clever Cub Welcomes Baby Jesus
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David C Cook Publishing Company The Advent Storybook: 25 Bible Stories Showing Why Jesus Came
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David C Cook Publishing Company Jack Staples and the City of Shadows, 2
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc The Song of Hiawatha
In the summer of 1854, Longfellow wrote in his diary "I have at length hit upon a plan for a poem on the American Indians, which seems to me the right one and the only. It is to weave together their beautiful traditions as whole." What emerged the next year was "The Song of Hiawatha," a composite of legends, folklore, myth, and characters that presents, in short, lilting lines (who can forget "By the shore of Gitche-Gumme / By the shining Big-Sea Water"?) the life-story of a real Indian, who provides the focus for the narrative thread of this epic drama of high adventure, tragedy and conflict.The aim was not to tell a particular or specific story but to unite the strands of various Indian legends, to present a sympathetic portrait of many Native American tribes, and especially to disclose their profound relationship with the natural world. This when both government policies and an expanding, land-hungry population were just beginning their inexorable campaign of displacement and annihilation.The poem received a decidedly mixed reception. Our own "Boston Traveller" revealed its biases: "We cannot help but express our regret that our own pet national poet should not have selected as a theme of his muse something better and higher than the silly legends of the savage aborigines." Despite this, the poem entered into our canon of great narratives, and was revived again in 1891 when Remington, surely the most renowned artist of the West, provided with new pen and ink drawings.This handsome new, and freshly reset, edition (the only unabridged version in print) presents the full text, includes all 400 of the original Remington illustrations, and provides an index of the Indian names and their meanings.
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David C Cook Publishing Company Rest: Finding Stillness in the Midst of Busy
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David C Cook Publishing Company Be Exultant - Psalms 90- 150: Praising God for His Mighty Works
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David C Cook Publishing Company Be Authentic ( Genesis 25- 50 ): Exhibiting Real Faith in the Real World
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David C Cook Publishing Company Fresh Eyes on Jesus' Parables: Discovering New Insights in Familiar Passages
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David C Cook Publishing Company Living Crazy Love
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David C Cook Publishing Company Your God Knows - Includes Six-Session Video Series: 6 Tough Questions for an Omniscient God (a Study of Nahum and Beyond)
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David C Cook Publishing Company Do the Thing - Includes Six-Session Video Series: Gospel-Centered Goals, Gumption, and Grace for the Go-Getter Girl
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David C Cook Publishing Company Calling: Awaken to the Purpose of Your Work
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David C Cook Publishing Company Ruth and Esther
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David C Cook Publishing Company Genesis 12- 25
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc America: A History in Verse: Volume 3, 1962-1970
“Seething Nation! Vast & Flowing! Day & Night & Dawn!” Poet Edward Sanders tells the story of America in incandescent verse. Bold, sweeping, investigative, rhapsodic, hilarious, heart-rendering, thought-provoking, Edward Sanders’ three-volume, America: A History in Verse uniquely and brilliantly tells “the story of America...a million stranded fabric / woven by billions of hands & minds.” It is by turns angry, wistful, defiant and extremely funny re-inventions of historical and biographical worlds, a highly original mix of chronicle, anecdote, document, reportage, paean and polemic. Volume 3, 1962-1970 begins with “the time of a randy young president with a bad back / who attracted the squint-eyed scorn / & even the hatred of the / National Security Grouch Apparatus,” of “a strange man named Johnson / & then the reappearance of an even stranger man named Nixon.” It was the time of Vietnam, civil rights, space shots, and evil—”the only word for some of it.” But it was also the time of the poet’s youth and Oh! what bliss to be young, alive, and high in those excruciatingly interesting times, those days “when we searched for meaning / in the sawdust floors of rebel cafés / or the stardust soars of psychedelic haze.” What a whirling hurry of years it was, what a flash of time! And what a necessary, twenty-first-century Whitman Sanders is, channeling Clio for our great nation, ”where so many sing without cease / work without halt / shoulder without shudder / to bring the Feather of Justice to every / bell tower, biome & blade of grass.” Long may Sanders sing us the 1960s, and long may his America “dwell in peace, freedom & equality / out on its spiraling arm / in the Milky Way.”
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc The Geography of the Imagination
“One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century.”—Washington Post Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present—and pretty much everything in between. Not only had Davenport seemingly read (and often translated from the original languages) everything ever written, he also had the ability, expressed with unalloyed enthusiasm, to draw connections between how cultural synapses make, define, and reflect our civilization.Davenport serves as the reader’s guide through history and literature, pointing out the values and avenues of thought that have shaped our ideas and our thinking. In these forty essays we find fresh thinking on Greek culture, Whitman, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Melville, Tolkien, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Charles Olson, Marianne Mo
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc Am I Pretty When I Fly?: An Album of Upside Down Drawings
Like a long, funny letter from an old friend, an album of drawings by the legendary singer and activist for social justice, Joan Baez. Since retiring from active performing, Baez has focused her formidable talents on painting and drawing. This collection of drawings shows another side of Baez: lovingly loose and charming sketches on reoccurring themes such as politics, relationships, women, animals, and family. Each section, organized thematically, includes an introductory piece by the artist. Baez approaches her line drawings as exercises in freedom: she begins drawing upside down—often using her non-dominant hand—without any preconceived notion of where the lines might lead her. Beginning with her seminal debut album in 1960, Baez has been a musical force of nature of incalculable influence whose earliest recordings fed a host of traditional ballads into the rock vernacular. In 1963, she introduced Bob Dylan to the world, beginning a tradition of mutual mentoring that continued across her many recordings. As a lifetime advocate for non-violent social change, she marched on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr., shined a spotlight on the Free Speech Movement, took to the fields with Cesar Chavez, organized resistance to the Vietnam War, and inspired Vaclav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic. Am I Pretty When I Fly? reveals yet another side of a beloved icon.
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc When You See My Mother Ask Her to Dance
An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez. Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal thoughts, and cherished memories of her family, including pieces about her younger sister, singer-songwriter Mimi Fariña. Speaking to the people, places, and moments that have had the greatest impact on her art, this collection is an inspiring personal diary in the form of poetry. While Baez has been writing poetry for decades, she’s never shared it publicly. Poems about her life, her family, about her passions for nature and art, have piled up in notebooks and on scraps of paper. Now, for the first time ever, her life is shared revealing pivotal life experiences that shaped an icon, offering a never-before-seen look into the reminiscences and musings of a great artist. Like a late-ni
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David C Cook Publishing Company Suddenly Single: Rebuilding Your Life After Divorce
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David C Cook Publishing Company And I Will Bless Them: Releasing Transformation Through the Spoken Blessing
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David C Cook Publishing Company Letters to the Church
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David C Cook Publishing Company Galations
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David C Cook Publishing Company Phillipians
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David C Cook Publishing Company Wiersbe Bible Study Series: Mark
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David C Cook Publishing Company Be Alert ( 2 Peter 2 & 3 John Jude ): Beware of the Religious Impostors
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David C Cook Publishing Company Be Ready ( 1 & 2 Thessalonians ): Living in Light of Christ's Return
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David C Cook Publishing Company Courageous: Being Daughters Rooted in Grace
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David C Cook Publishing Company Count It All Joy: Discover a Happiness That Circumstances Cannot Change
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David C Cook Publishing Company Forensic Faith: A Homicide Detective Makes the Case for a More Reasonable, Evidential Christian Faith
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David C Cook Publishing Company Big Book of Coloring Pages and Activities for Toddlers
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David C Cook Publishing Company God's Crime Scene Participant's Guide: A Cold-Case Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe
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David R. Godine Publisher Inc A Gardener at the End of the World
A gardener’s pandemic journal that combines memoir with an exploration of the natural world both inside and outside the garden. In March 2020, Margot Anne Kelley was watching seeds germinate in her greenhouse. At high risk from illness, the planning, planting, and tending to seedlings took on extra significance. She set out to make her pandemic garden thrive but also to better understand the very nature of seeds and viruses. As seeds became seedlings, became plants, became food, Kelley looks back over the last few millennia as successions of pandemics altered human beings and global culture. Seeds and viruses serve as springboards for wide-ranging reflections, such as their shared need for someone to transport them, the centrality of movement to being alive, and the domestication of plants as an act of becoming co-dependent. Pandemic viruses only occurred through humankind’s settling down, taking up agriculture, and givin
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David C Cook Publishing Company Found: God's Will
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David C Cook Publishing Company Wretched Saints: Transformed by the Relentless Grace of God
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David C Cook Publishing Company Basic Bible Interpretation
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David C Cook Publishing Company Minor Prophets, Volume 2: Demonstrating Bravery by Your Walk
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David C Cook Publishing Company So the Next Generation Will Know: Preparing Young Christians for a Challenging World
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David C Cook Publishing Company Be Basic: Believing the Simple Truth of God's Word, Genesis 1-11
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David C Cook Publishing Company M46 Crash Course: Dads Fighting for the Hearts of Their Children
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