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"It is a story known around the world. Born of an Arabic tale, it has been interpreted hundreds of times in Persian, Turkish, and Indian languages. It has influenced playwrights, composers, filmmakers, scholars, modern popular language, the first opera of Islamic origin, and individuals as varied as Aleister Crowley and Eric Clapton. The tragic tale of love unfulfilled - Majnun and Layla. Qays and Layla were madly in love. So in love, it has been...
2) The Ukraine
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"The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications. In the title story, Chapeye facetiously plays with the English misuse of the article "the" in reference to Ukraine, capturing a country as perceived...
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"Sunrise is a collection of interconnected stories examining the effects of nuclear power on generations of women. Connecting changes to everyday life to the development of the atomic bomb, Sunrise shows us how the discovery of radioactive power has shaped our history and continues to shape our future"--
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Diese Übertragung des Neuen Testaments lässt sich lesen wie ein Roman. Sie erweckt das Geschehen intensiver und bildhaft er zum Leben als die klassischen Übersetzungen. Und wird durch die Verszählung für jeden Absatz nun auch zur praktischen Alltagsbibel. Dabei vereint Fred Ritzhaupt die frische Lebendigkeit der heutigen Sprache mit einer hohen Treue zum griechischen Urtext. Und macht den Gott erfahrbar, den Jesus als Vater vorgestellt hat. Wer...
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"A groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature, María Fernanda Ampuero confronts machismo, inequity and violence in her latest short story collection. An undocumented woman answers a job posting only to find herself held hostage, a group of outcasts obsess over popular boys drowned while surfing, and two girls suspect sinister behavior from the missionaries lodging in their home. Simultaneously terrifying and exquisite, Human...
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This powerful gospel narrative tells the story of the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as recounted by Matthew, a former tax collector turned disciple. Listen as Barnabas Corner brings this timeless story to life with his captivating narration in Nigerian Pidgin English.
Get ready to embark on a journey of faith and discover the power of the gospel in a new and exciting way. Let's begin.
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This powerful gospel narrative tells the story of the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as recounted by the physician Luke, a companion of the apostle Paul.
The Gospel of Luke, tells how God fulfilled his plan for the world's salvation through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, the promised messiah.
Listen as Benjamin Sesugh Kperrun of Barnabas Corner brings this timeless story to life with his captivating...
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""Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pinpoint descriptions are pared to perfection. His people twitch with life." -- Scotsman In Between Friends, Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the...
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Welcome to the Gospel According to Mark.
This powerful gospel narrative tells the story of the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as recounted by Mark.
Listen as Barnabas Corner brings this timeless story to life with his captivating narration in Nigerian Pidgin English.
Get ready to embark on a journey of faith and discover the power of the gospel in a new and exciting way.
Let's begin."
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Get ready to dive into the powerful and transformative message of "The Gospel According to John" in Nigerian Pidgin English. In this captivating audiobook, you will embark on a spiritual journey through the life, teachings, miracles, and profound message of Jesus Christ, as narrated in the unique flavor of Nigerian Pidgin English.
As you listen to the skilled narration, you will be immersed in the rich cultural context and the heartfelt expressions...
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Los Evangelios apócrifos se escribieron en los primeros siglos del cristianismo y cuentan historias relativas a Jesús, que no aparecen en los textos canónicos. Son escenas omitidas por la ortodoxia cristiana, que se encontraron, en el siglo XX, en los rollos del Mar Muerto y los de Nag Hammadi.
A estos documentos se les dio el nombre de Evangelios por su aspecto similar a los cuatro evangelios admitidos en el canon del Nuevo Testamento. Sin embargo,...
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John Nelson Darby was an Anglo-Irish Bible teacher associated with the early years of the Plymouth Brethren. Darby first published translations in French and German. In 1867, he produced a literal English version of the New Testament. After his death in 1882, his followers produced an Old Testament based on Darby's French and German translations. The complete Darby Bible was first published in 1890.
Darby's purpose was, as he states in the preface...
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La NBLA es la palabra de Dios escrita en el lenguaje de tu corazón.
¡Descubre por qué la Biblia es el libro más vendido en la historia del mundo! El Nuevo Testamento de la NBLA es la forma perfecta de explorar la mayor obra literaria jamás escrita. Millones de vidas han sido cambiadas y toda nuestra sociedad ha sido afectada por este asombroso libro.
El texto del Nuevo Testamento de la Nueva Biblia de las Américas retiene de manera precisa el...
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Jesus is Timeless. Jesus is Now.
God with Us: The life-changing story of Jesus. Told for our times.
Take the journey to experience the Good News of the Gospels like never before!
God with Us tells the story of Jesus from the Gospels of the Bible. The four Gospels are blended into one powerful story--a sequential journey through the life and message of Jesus.
Free study resources include personal reflections for each chapter based on the lectio divina...
15) Jesus' Parables
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Jesus' Parables
Jesus was the master story-teller. His parables are full of powerful insights, answering such questions as: What is God like? How can I forgive others? How can I keep praying when I feel like giving up? Who should I be kind to? This fresh translation of 15 of Jesus' parables will help you take up the challenge of the radical lifestyle that Jesus wants for his followers.
Are you so familiar with the text of your preferred Bible version...
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Finally, all twelve months of the Women's Daily Devotional are together in one volume!Being a woman of God is a calling, and now more than ever, our quiet time with God is a necessity we cannot neglect. The Women's Daily Devotional series explores a new fruit of the spirit every month and provides Bible verses, personal stories from the author, reflection, questions, and prayer suggestions for every single day of the year.In this anthology, you'll...
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Robert Alter is professor of the Graduate School and emeritus professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary, for which he received the National Jewish Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. His other awards include the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Contribution to American Letters, among other awards....
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How did two very different language communities encounter and make early choices about Christianity? This book is a historical record of the Dagomba and Konkomba people groups of Northern Ghana as they embraced the Bible translated into their mother tongues. Author Dr. Sumani Sule-Saa employs Professor Lamin Sanneh's groundbreaking hermeneutic of 'mission as translation' as a grid to examine the effect of Bible translation on the lives of these two...
19) Your utopia
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"From the acclaimed author and translator of Cursed Bunny, a fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fears -- and deepest desires. Bora Chung's inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and dark humor reaches its peak in these tales of loss and discovery, dystopia and idealism, death and immortality. In a thrilling translation by the acclaimed Anton Hur, readers will experience...
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