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41) Tell
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LoveTime TravelMysterious Artifacts
What could possibly go wrong?
John Hardin, an aging, error prone time traveler finds love and stumbles upon strange artifacts that contradict today's
mainstream archaeology. Along the way he discovers a previously unknown (and somewhat misplaced) civilization in the swampy Mississippi Delta
of the 1700s. As he travels from modern day to the pre-Revolutionary War Deep South, it becomes evident to John...
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En 1947 tuvo lugar el descubrimiento de los manuscritos del Mar Muerto, más de 800 papiros y pergaminos escritos en hebreo, arameo y griego entre el año 150 a. C. y el 70 d. C. que constituyen el testimonio extrabíblico más importante del judaísmo del Segundo Templo y de los orígenes del cristianismo. Un enorme rompecabezas con fragmentos que van del tamaño de una uña hasta grandes rollos como la Regla de la Comunidad, el Libro de la Guerra,...
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Pfarrer Bernd Zimmermann möchte mit diesem Buch über sein Leben ein Zeichen setzen, an seinem Beispiel zeigen, dass die meisten Priester rechtschaffene Menschen sind, die den Glauben mit voller Überzeugung leben – das ist nach seiner Erfahrung die Mehrheit, nicht diejenigen, die kleine Seelen peinigen und Kinder missbrauchen. Zu Themen wie Missbrauch, Frauenordination und Zölibat hat er eine klare Meinung. Der Seelsorger erzählt von Zeiten...
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In recent years, art historians such as Johannes Deckers (Picturing the Bible, 2009) have argued for a significant transition in fourth- and fifth-century images of Jesus following the conversion of Constantine. Broadly speaking, they perceive the image of a peaceful, benevolent shepherd transformed into a powerful, enthroned Jesus, mimicking and mirroring the dominance and authority of the emperor. The powers of church and state are thus, conveniently...
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"A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history--and figure out why people abandoned them. In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the...
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Copernicus legacy volume 3
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Filled with pulse-pounding action and cryptic codes, The Golden Vendetta is the third engrossing book in bestselling author Tony Abbott's cloak-and-dagger series for young readers. Fans of Rick Riordan and Ridley Pearson will love this adventurous series. It's been two months since the Kaplan family hunted down the Serpens relic, but when the evil Galina Krause suddenly and violently reappears, Wade, Darrell, Lily, and Becca have no choice but to...
47) Pompeii
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An ancient city unearthed… In the 1730's, Charles of Bourbon, king of the area around present-day Naples, Italy, learned that local peasants were finding marble and other ancient objects when they dug their wells. He sent army colonel Rocque Joachin Alcubierre and later Karl Jacob Weber to explore the area. Working in darkness with only torches to light their way, Alcubierre's and Weber's crews of workers tunneled through hardened mud. The crews...
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Copernicus legacy volume 4
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This concluding book in bestselling author Tony Abbott's critically acclaimed middle grade adventure series is a mile-a-minute thrill ride. Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Ridley Pearson.
"Upon my life, I will." Across the centuries, every Guardian who has protected one of the twelve relics of the Copernicus legacy has taken this vow. But never have the consequences of the promise been more profound. The secret network of the great astronomer's...
49) Rise of the wolf
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Mark of the thief trilogy volume 2
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Now a driver in the chariot races, Nic is still a target of the Praetors because of the magical amulet he found, and they will do anything to get their hands on it--and meanwhile Atroxia is beginning to wake up.
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Readers explore an unexpected catastrophe that would entomb the city of Pompeii for centuries to come. This volume takes readers on a journey to a city preserved in time. Vivid photographs, illustrations, and fun facts will keep the interest of even the most reluctant readers.
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Haru (Latham) volume 1
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In The Valley, best friends Haru and Yama both dream of leaving as they're bullied at school, frustrated at home, and struggling to figure out who they are. One day, a powerful artifact connects itself to Yama, and they discover that they'll have to journey to The Beacon in search of answers.
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Join the Quest to Find Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark played a leading role in the book of Genesis, but after safely carrying its passengers through the Flood, the Ark disappears from the pages of the Bible. What happened to it?
Join Dr. John Morris on the adventure to find the Ark on the icy slopes of Mt. Ararat, where Genesis says it came to rest after many months of violent storm and destruction. You will learn
• how the existence of the Ark offers evidence...
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The two great Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 and 480-79 B.C., both repulsed by the Greeks, provide our best opportunity for understanding the interplay of religion and history in ancient Greece. Using the Histories of Herodotus as well as other historical and archaeological sources, Jon Mikalson shows how the Greeks practiced their religion at this pivotal moment in their history.In the period of the invasions and the years immediately after,...
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Through a twist of fate, the eruption that destroyed Pompeii in 79 CE also, preserved a wealth of evidence about the town, buried for centuries in volcanic ash. Since the town's excavations in the eighteenth century, archaeologists have disputed the evidence that might attest the presence of Christians in Pompeii before the eruption.
Now, Bruce W. Longenecker, reviews that evidence, in comparison with other possible evidence of first-century Christian...
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Les faits religieux de l'Antiquité à l'époque contemporaine.
Ce volume des Problèmes d'histoire des religions est dédié au Professeur Alain Dierkens, médiéviste spécialisé dans l'étude du religieux et directeur de la collection de 1991 à 2012. Se livre s'inscrit pleinement dans le sillage de la collection qui aborde le fait religieux dans une perspective à la fois diachronique et comparatiste. Les différentes contributions dépassent...
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After Jesus glanced at the temple coin, he said, "Render to Caesar." This book's title and theme are based upon Jesus' command to give allegiance to both the state and God.
Coauthor David Bentley is the historian-theologian who reads and translates the coins' messages. Coauthor Brad Yonaka is the geologist-scientist who finds the copper, silver, and gold coins which are on display in nearly one hundred photo-figures throughout the text.
Our God...
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This is the story of a plain silver chalice from the first century AD that now rests in the heart of England. From its momentous beginnings as the cup used by Christ at the Last Supper, and as the vessel used to catch His blood at the Crucifixion, to its unrecognised discovery in the late nineteenth century, the chalice has passed through the hands of saints, crusaders, kings, queens, Templar knights and 'Guardians'. This account revisits the beginnings...
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People of all ages are fascinated by dinosaurs. And they have a lot of questions about them too:
• When and where did dinosaurs live?
• Are they mentioned in the Bible?
• What does the fossil evidence tell us about dinosaurs?
There are some people who say dinosaurs lived millions of years ago, long before humans. But if the Bible is correct when it talks about God's creation of the world and universe, then dinosaurs and people both lived on...
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El primer siglo de la historia del cristianismo, que con frecuencia se ha presentado como el simple comienzo de la Iglesia, estuvo marcado en realidad por diferentes momentos cruciales tan inesperados como decisivos: la prematura muerte de Jesús, las apariciones del Resucitado, el establecimiento de los discípulos en Jerusalén, la sacudida causada por los helenistas, la ruptura de Pablo con la Gran Iglesia, la terrible tempestad de los años sesenta,...
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Los cazadores-recolectores de la Patagonia forman parte, al igual que los tasmanos, los bosquimanos o los inuits, del fondo mitológico de la etnología. ¿Quiénes eran?, ¿cazadores terrestres rechazados de la pampa?, ¿pescadores adaptados a un nuevo entorno? Será necesario realizar investigaciones arqueológicas en los archipiélagos occidentales y septentrionales para resolver este problema. ¿Cómo vivían? Más allá de los lugares comunes...
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