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Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesusby Thomas Cahill , Luann WaltherISBN 0385483724 (0-385-48372-4)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus'Book summary:Desire of the Everlasting Hills is another present from the pen of Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews. In this third volume of the bestselling Hinges of History series, he knits together history, politics, sociology, and faith with contemporary insights that yield remarkable results.
After painting with broad brush strokes an entertaining picture of the Greek, Jewish, and Roman world, Cahill focuses on Jesus. With illuminating deductions and clever speculation, Jesus is seen though the eyes of his biographers in their Gospel accounts. Each of these authors' lives is reconstructed in such a way that the richness of their writing and their subject matter is wonderfully enhanced.
The section on Paul, detailing how his life and letters shaped the early church, should be required reading for every student of the Bible. From his beginnings in the cosmopolitan city known as Tarsus through his calling, like the patriarchs and prophets before him, he becomes "the perfect vehicle for this moment in the development of the Jesus Movement." His mix of Greek reasoning with rabbinical training casts the stories of the early church into a thoughtful theology. He is seen here as the earliest egalitarian who not only impacted the early church but all of western civilization.
Cahill challenges many traditional religious ideas while also taking on some of the more radical contemporary interpreters of biblical literature. As with the other volumes in this series, the marginal notes are filled with a wealth of interesting information. Combining his own fresh translation of many New Testament highlights with respect and humor, Thomas Cahill's book is for the believer and nonbeliever alike. --Tracy Danz [via]
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- Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus: ISBN 0385482515 (0-385-48251-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Desire of the Everlasting Hills : The World Before and after Jesus: ISBN 0375408525 (0-375-40852-5)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print - Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus: ISBN 0385483724 (0-385-48372-4)
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- Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus: ISBN 0385482515 (0-385-48251-5)
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The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feelsby Thomas CahillISBN 0385482493 (0-385-48249-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels'Book summary:Thomas Cahill, author of the bestselling How the Irish Saved Civilization, continues his Hinges of History series with The Gifts of the Jews, a light-handed, popular account of ancient Jewish culture, the culture of the Bible. The book is written from a decidedly modern point of view. Cahill notes, for instance, that Abraham moved the Jews from Ur to the land of Canaan "to improve their prospects," and that the leering inhabitants of Sodom surrounded Lot's lodging "like the ghouls in Night of the Living Dead." The Gifts of the Jews nonetheless encourages us to see the Old Testament through ancient eyes--to see its characters not as our contemporaries but as those of Gilgamesh and Amenhotep. Cahill also lingers on often-overlooked books of the Bible, such as Ruth, to discuss changes in ancient sensibility. The result is a fine, speculative, eminently readable work of history. [via]
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Hardcover, Doubleday - The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels: ISBN 0385482493 (0-385-48249-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels: ISBN 0385482485 (0-385-48248-5)
How the Irish Saved Civilizationby Thomas CahillISBN 0340633417 (0-340-63341-7)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europeby Thomas CahillISBN 0340637870 (0-340-63787-0)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Irish Saved Civilization : The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe'Book summary:The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe.Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars" -- and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost -- they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization. [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe: ISBN 0385418485 (0-385-41848-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday - How the Irish Saved Civilization : The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe: ISBN 0340637862 (0-340-63786-2)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton Educational - How the Irish Saved Civilization : The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe: ISBN 0340637870 (0-340-63787-0)
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- How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe: ISBN 0385418493 (0-385-41849-3)
Jesus' Little Instruction Book: His Words to Your Heartby Thomas CahillISBN 0340627719 (0-340-62771-9)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europeby Thomas CahillISBN 0385495552 (0-385-49555-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe'Book summary:After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today.
By placing the image of the Virgin Mary at the center of their churches and their lives, medieval people exalted womanhood to a level unknown in any previous society. For the first time, men began to treat women with dignity and women took up professions that had always been closed to them.
The communion bread, believed to be the body of Jesus, encouraged the formulation of new questions in philosophy: Could reality be so fluid that one substance could be transformed into another? Could ordinary bread become a holy reality? Could mud become gold, as the alchemists believed? These new questions pushed the minds of medieval thinkers toward what would become modern science.
Artists began to ask themselves similar questions. How can we depict human anatomy so that it looks real to the viewer? How can we depict motion in a composition that never moves? How can two dimensions appear to be three? Medieval artists (and writers, too) invented the Western tradition of realism.
On visits to the great cities of Europemonumental Rome; the intellectually explosive Paris of Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas; the hotbed of scientific study that was Oxford; and the incomparable Florence of Dante and GiottoCahill brilliantly captures the spirit of experimentation, the colorful pageantry, and the passionate pursuit of knowledge that built the foundations for the modern world. Bursting with stunning four-color art, MYSTERIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES is the ultimate Christmas gift book. [via]More editions of Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe:
Pope John XXIIIby Thomas CahillISBN 014311302X (0-14-311302-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pope John XXIII'Book summary:Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli was an unexpected choice to follow the ultra conservative Pope Pius XII in 1958. At seventy-six years old, 'a fat old man with twinkling eyes and a seductively resonant voice', neither a well-known public figure nor a highly trained theologian, he was at first regarded as a transitional pope. During his brief but unforgettable reign as Pope John XXIII, however, he astonished the world with the seminal and unprecedented change he brought about in the Catholic Church, and in particular with his concern for the fundamental plight of humankind. Pope John XXIII was unlike any other pope. To understand his extraordinary impact, which still resonates today, and his crucial importance to the world's one billion Catholics, Thomas Cahill opens this biography with a concise but sweeping history of the Catholic Church and the papacy, culminating in Pope John XXIII's reign in the mid-twentieth century. In rich, impassioned prose, Cahill follows the pontiff's life from his peasant roots to his establishment of the landmark Second Vatican Council, with its emphasis on worldwide social justice, which marked the beginning of a true shift in the Catholic Church and its relationship to the modern world. In a biography that will captivate Catholics and non-Catholics alike, Cahill's signature blend of imagination, interpretative insight and scholarship mirrors Pope John's own intuition, spontaneity and all-embracing vision. [via]
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matterby Thomas CahillISBN 0385495544 (0-385-49554-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter'Book summary:In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece.
The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated; other important innovations and accomplishments, however, are unknown or underappreciated. In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill explores the legacy, good and bad, of the ancient Greeks. From the origins of Greek culture in the migrations of armed Indo-European tribes into Attica and the Peloponnesian peninsula, to the formation of the city-states, to the birth of Western literature, poetry, drama, philosophy, art, and architecture, Cahill makes the distant past relevant to the present.
Greek society is one of the two primeval influences on the Western world: While Jews gave us our value system, the Greeks set the foundation and framework for our intellectual lives. They are responsible for our vocabulary, our logic, and our entire system of categorization. They provided the intellectual tools we bring to bear on problems in philosophy, mathematics, medicine, physics, and the other sciences. Their modes of thinking, considered in classical times to be the pinnacle of human achievement, are largely responsible for the shape that the Christian religion took.
But, as Cahill points out, the Greeks left a less appealing bequest as well. They created Western militarism and, in making the warrior the ultimate ideal, perpetrated the assumption that only males could be entrusted with the duties of citizenship. The consequences of their exclusion of women from the political sphere and the social segregation of the sexes continue to reverberate today.
Full of surprising, often controversial, insights, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea is a remarkable intellectual adventureconducted by the most companionable guide imaginable. Cahills knowledge of his sources is so intimate that he has made his own fresh translations of the Greek lyric poets for this volume. [via]More editions of Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter:
- Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter: ISBN 0385495536 (0-385-49553-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea : Why the Greeks Matter: ISBN 0375432310 (0-375-43231-0)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print - Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter: ISBN 0385495544 (0-385-49554-4)
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- Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter: ISBN 0385495536 (0-385-49553-6)
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