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Mythologizing Jesus : from Jewish teacher to epic hero / by MacDonald, Dennis R.,1946-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: The Christian superhero --Born divine and human --Empowerment from above and enlisting sailors --Feeding thousands --Master of the winds --Tamer of monsters --Curing an old woman and bringing a girl back to life --Water walker --Land of the dead --Blind seer --Daring hero eats with the enemy --Hero in disguise transformed --Curing a boy with a demon --Entering a city in disguise --Clearing out a den of robbers --Prophet anointed by a woman --Following a water carrier --Preparing for death while friends sleep --Traitor in the midst --Cowardly promise breaker --Preferring a rascal to a hero --Heroic death and mourning women --Rescuing a corpse --Living dead --Disappearing into the sky --Appendix. The gospels of Matthew and John.Our culture is well-populated with superheroes: Superman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, and more. Superheroes are not a modern invention; in fact, they are prehistoric. The gods and goddesses of the Greeks, for example, walked on water, flew, visited the land of the dead, and lived forever. Ancient Christians told similar stories about Jesus, their primary superhero—he possessed incredible powers of healing, walked on water, rose from the dead, and more. Dennis R. MacDonald shows how the stories told in the Gospels parallel many in Greek and Roman epics with the aim of compelling their readers into life-changing decisions to follow Jesus. MacDonald doesn’t call into question the existence of Jesus but rather asks readers to examine the biblical stories about him through a new, mythological lens.
Subjects: Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In paradise [sound recording] by Matthiessen, Peter,author.(CARDINAL)122337; Bramhall, Mark,narrator.(CARDINAL)348903;
Narrated by Mark Bramhall"In the late autumn of 1996, more than a hundred people gather at the site of a former death camp. Throughout that week, they offer prayer and witness at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection platform. They eat and sleep in the sparse quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a century before, sent more than millioin Jews to their deaths in this single camp. These people are joined by Clements Olin, an American academic of Polish descent, there to complete his research on the strange suicide of a survivor, even as he questions what a non-Jew with no connection to its history can contribute to the understanding of so monstrous a catastrophe. As the days pass, tensions both political and personal surface among the participants, stripping away any easy pretense to resolution or healing. Caught in the grip of emotions and impulses of bewildering intensity, Olin is forced to abandon his observer's role and to bear witness, not only to his family's ambiguous history but to his own as well."--containerTitle and statement of responsibility from disc.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Family secrets; Jewish women; Teachers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Mathematician's Shiva / by Rojstaczer, Stuart.(CARDINAL)653349;
"A comic, bittersweet tale of family evocative of The Yiddish Policemen's Union and Everything Is Illuminated, Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch and his family would like to mourn the passing of his mother, Rachela, with modesty and dignity. But Rachela, a famous Polish emigre, mathematician and professor at the University of Wisconsin, is rumored to have solved the million-dollar, Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. Rumor also has it that she spitefully took the solution to her grave. To Sasha's chagrin, a ragtag group of socially challenged mathematicians arrives in Madison and crashes the shiva, vowing to do whatever it takes to find the solution-even if it means prying up the floorboards for Rachela's notes. Written by a trained geophysicist, this hilarious and multi-layered debut novel brims with colorful characters and brilliantly captures humanity's drive not just to survive, but to solve the impossible"--
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Problems and exercises.; Mathematicians; Mathematics; Jewish teachers; Mourning customs;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Crusoe's daughter / by Gardam, Jane.(CARDINAL)351994;
Subjects: Fiction.; Jewish refugees; Jewish children; Women teachers; Loss (Psychology); Orphans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Kate's war : a novel / by Henley, Linda Stewart,author.(CARDINAL)889171;
"Twenty-year-old Kate is poised to launch into a long-anticipated life of independence when Britain declares war in 1939. After that announcement, her dream of escaping the London suburb she grew up in and pursuing a singing career is quashed: she must stay put with her family and prepare for bombing and possible invasion by Germany. Living in these anxious times, Kate strives to achieve balance in her life, though a speech disability interferes with her singing and a failed romance adds to her distress. But when a young Jewish girl whose parents have been deported comes to her for help, Kate?s goals change. Taking on a responsibility she never could have imagined, she learns that freedom and survival cannot be taken for granted -- and as new responsibilities outweigh earlier goals, she learns that assisting others to escape unspeakable evil requires new perspective, as well as courage she didn?t know she had."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Young women; Music teachers; Jewish children; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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In paradise / by Matthiessen, Peter.(CARDINAL)122337;
"From the two-time National Book Award winning author of The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country, a short, powerful novel about an American professor of Holocaust Studies who, over the course of a weeklong spiritual retreat at Auschwitz, is forced to grapple with his own past and a family secret: the Jewish mother abandoned to her doom by his Gentile father"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Teachers; Jewish women; Family secrets; Internment camps; Nazi concentration camps;
Available copies: 25 / Total copies: 30
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The human stain / by Roth, Philip.(CARDINAL)147288;
Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; African American men; College teachers; Jewish men; Passing (Identity);
Available copies: 35 / Total copies: 39
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The human stain [large print] / by Roth, Philip.(CARDINAL)147288;
Subjects: Large print books.; Psychological fiction.; African American men; College teachers; Jewish men; Passing (Identity);
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 8
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The human stain / by Roth, Philip,author.(CARDINAL)147288;
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming made public.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; African American men; College teachers; Jewish men; Passing (Identity);
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Letting go / by Roth, Philip.;
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; College teachers; Jewish men; Jews;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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