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This is Jon Fosse’s critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption.

Every get the feeling that your company culture is completely insane? That your organisation is inherently dysfunctional and seems to emphasize pointless drama over getting work done? The good news is that you’re right: Your company’s culture is screwed up. The bad news is that most everyone else’s company culture is throwing sparks too. Culture is the product of the people that you work with, and people are...really quite interesting, given all the ways that well-meaning people can screw things up.

Your Daily Portion Life Application Adult Bible Study Guide: How to Study Bible Prophecy - Q2 2025 Every quarter, the Seventh-day Adventist Church publishes The Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide (Quarterly), inviting members and guests to engage with Scripture and grow together in a global classroom. This quarter’s focus on Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy is timely, considering people around the world are desperately trying to contextualize much of what is happening in the news in real time. I love this concept! It enriches my faith so much that I host a daily...

K.T. Dixon spent months traveling the Florida Keys in search of tales that reflect the true essence of the islands. KEY NOTES is a collection of fun and entertaining short stories unearthed during those journeys. From the northern Keys in Biscayne Bay to their southern tip in Key West, these tales bring to life the eccentric characters and bizarre events that shaped the colorful history of the island chain. Though some of the stories seem far-fetched, their authenticity is still there for you to explore today. That is if you have the spirit to venture into America's last true frontier.

What would Jesus read? The Book of Tobit was part of the Greek Bible most often quoted by Jesus Christ and the Apostles. Did they make allusions to it? Does it agree with the teachings of the New Testament?

The winner of numerous awards and recipient of four starred reviews, Anne Ursu's Breadcrumbs is a stunning and heartbreaking story of growing up, wrapped in a modern-day fairy tale. Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. But that was before he stopped talking to her and disappeared...

The authors of the New Testament regularly quote and allude to Old Testament passages that point to the presence, person, and work of Jesus. Jesus himself claimed that Moses wrote about him (John 5:46). And on the road to Emmaus, Jesus instructed the disciples from "Moses and all the prophets"...

The wisdom of Solomon was part of the Greek Bible most often quoted by Jesus Christ and the Apostles. To what degree did Jesus and the Apostles regard the content of this book, and incorporate it in their teachings? The evidence is in the text itself. Conceptual themes are considered with respect to frequent allusions made throughout the New Testament.

The book of Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, also called Ecclesiasticus, is the longest book of the deuterocanon. It was originally written in Hebrew, and fragments have been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. It was later translated into Greek and added to the works of the Septuagint in the second century before Christ. This book helps to make the transition from the Old Testament to the New. It was well known and frequently alluded to by Jesus, the Apostles, and the Early Church. Many of the concepts are echoed in the Sermon on the Mount and other key teachings of Jesus Christ.

The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, How to Study the Bible's Use of the Bible: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that...

Jude's verses 14-15 reference Enoch's prophecy, but that prophecy is directly taken from the Book of Enoch! So what does the Book of Enoch say? Does Jesus Christ reference the Book of Enoch? Find out now in this brand-new audiobook!

Quicksand is the third tale in the life of Native American hero Billy Brightpath. In this adventure Brightpath returns to the one place on earth that he hoped to never see again. While Billy is half a world away dealing with startling news from the past, things take a turn for the worst back home on the Big Cypress Reservation. When his quirky cousin Abby is drawn into the fray, she enlist the assistance of a most unusual character and things really start popping. With battles taking place on two fronts, Sara Sinclair deals with the stress of keeping a secret that could blow the lid off of ...

The book 'Rhetoric & Prosody, a handbook of Figures of Speech, rhymes, and poetic feet for High School Students’ is crafted explicitly for high school and graduate students to provide a basic understanding of the topic. It covers chapters on Rhetoric and the seven classes of Figures of Speech, often referred to as the embellishments of speech, which writers or leaders use to impress their readers or audiences. The book delves into similes, metaphors, antitheses, epigrams, oxymorons, metonymies, synecdoche, hypallages, personifications, pathetic fallacies, apostrophes, visions, hyperboles,...

From the Singing Bowl of the Soul: Fifty Poems is a volume of reflections on a myriad facets of life as they appear to the poet in fleeting glimpses or more sustained visions. These epiphanies (elliptical or extended as the case may be) emanate, for the most part from intuitive apprehensions or sensory perceptions, proceeding sometimes from the most mundane observations to unexpected discoveries. The speaker’s voice, often ironical, at times exasperated, though sometimes invested with a suppressed wonder is rarely effusive. While this collection has poems on time, art, changing ...

Modern Protestant Christianity often overlooks the background of the inter-testamental books of Wisdom. The Apostles were very familiar with these books, however; and made frequent allusions to them throughout the New Testament. When these copious allusions are considered, it illustrates a worldview that had already diverged significantly from the ancient Hebrew traditions, and is closer to the Greek Bible version of the Septuagint which they more often used.

Feed your curiosity of the Bible by exploring the deeper meaning behind familiar Old Testament passages. Below the surface of every seemingly ordinary Bible verse lies a deeper meaning just waiting to be discovered. And these hidden insights aren't just reserved for scholars, academics, or...

Jesus made frequent allusions to the intertestamental wisdom books of Tobit, the Wisdom of Solomon, and the Wisdom of Jesus Ben Sirach. Paying attention to these background texts provides context which helps to illuminate the teachings of Jesus, especially those found in the Sermon on the Mount.

A follow-up to the memoir Land of Allusions which focuses on Andrew Davie's continued recovery from a ruptured brain aneurysm and also offers a philosophical reflection of those events, as well as more applicable movie references.

The book 'Rhetoric & Prosody, a handbook of Figures of Speech, rhymes, and poetic feet for High School Students’ is crafted explicitly for high school and graduate students to provide a basic understanding of the topic. It covers chapters on Rhetoric and the seven classes of Figures of Speech, often referred to as the embellishments of speech, which writers or leaders use to impress their readers or audiences. The book delves into similes, metaphors, antitheses, epigrams, oxymorons, metonymies, synecdoche, hypallages, personifications, pathetic fallacies, apostrophes, visions, hyperboles,...

What would Jesus read? Ever heard of the Book of Ahikar? It is an ancient Hebrew legend replete with proverbs, which is explicitly referenced in Tobit, and is also alluded to in Sirach and by Jesus and the Apostles in the New Testament.