The Walls of Babylon: An Alternative Reading of the Revelation to John (Arthur David)(Paperback)

The Walls of Babylon: An Alternative Reading of the Revelation to John (Arthur David)(Paperback)

The Walls of Babylon is a radically revisionist reading of the Revelation to John, offering startling insights into the historical roots of Gnosticism, the social dynamics of early Christianity, and the shattering impact of apocalyptic eschatology. Based on a careful analysis of the text, David

The First Great Powers: Babylon and Assyria (Cotterell Arthur)(Pevná vazba)

The rediscovery of Babylon and Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation. The excavation of Nineveh proved that even the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians together did not constitute the ancient world. These peoples had nothing to do with the beginnings of

Breaking the Code Revised Edition: Understanding the Book of Revelation (Desilva David)(Paperback)

The Book of Revelation contains passages of great beauty and comfort, as well as passages that strike the casual reader as bizarre, bewildering, and sometimes frightening. How are readers today to discern God's message in this peculiar part of the Bible? Breaking the Code Revised Edition provides a

The Walls of Sparta (Lloyd Charles)(Paperback)

The Walls of Sparta is a marvelous new telling of an ancient story that offers fascinating insights into Sparta's martial culture and its use of the agoge, the institution that raised young men to be elite warriors often amid the exchange of amorous same-sex experiences. But outside forces encroach

Revelation (Thomas John Christopher)(Paperback)

The book of Revelation is perhaps the most theologically complex and literarily sophisticated -- and also the most sensual -- document in the New Testament. In this commentary John Christopher Thomas's literary and exegetical analysis makes the challenging text of Revelation more accessible and

More Than Conquerors: An Interpretation of the Book of Revelation (Hendriksen William)(Paperback)

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Doyle Arthur Conan)(Paperback)

With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in The Adventures of the Empty House. The stories

Terry Jones' Barbarians: An Alternative Roman History (Jones Terry)(Paperback)

An Alternative Roman History An entertaining rewriting of Roman history from the perspective of the Barbarians who weren t really barbaric at all In this completely fresh approach to Roman history, Terry Jones offers us not only the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, he also

Levels of the Game (McPhee John)(Paperback)

Levels of the Game is John McPhee's astonishing account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968.It begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke description

Skyland (Durbin Andrew)(Paperback)

On the Greek island of Patmos, where St. John received the Book of Revelation, two writers find themselves mired in an uneasy sense of timelessness, where history and the present jumble together. As they hunt for a lost portrait of the iconic gay novelist Herv Guibert, they discover that the

King John: Third Series (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

King John tells the story of John's struggle to retain the crown in the face of alternative claims to the throne from France and is one of the earlier history plays. The new Arden Third Series edition offers students a comprehensive introduction exploring the play's relationship to its source and

Theology of the Book of Revelation (Bauckham Richard)(Paperback)

Richard Bauckham expounds the theology of the Book of Revelation: its understanding of God, Christ and the Spirit, the role of the Church in the world, and the hope of the coming of God's universal kingdom. Close attention is paid both to the literary form in which the theology is expressed and to

The Revelation of John, Volume 1 (Barclay William)(Paperback)

NOW IN AN ENLARGED PRINT EDITION!In this volume, William Barclay makes the most difficult book in the Bible easier to understand. In his introduction he examines areas such as the characteristics of apocalyptic literature and the nature of Caesar worship. John was, as Barclay shows, 'soaked and

The Book of Revelation (Larkin Clarence)(Paperback)

First published in 1919, 'The Book of Revelation' is the thorough and detailed examination of one of the most mysterious parts of the Bible by American Baptist pastor and author Clarence Larkin. Well-known and influential for his writings on Dispensationalism, many of Larkin's works have been

A Study in Scarlet & the Sign of the Four (Doyle Arthur Conan)(Paperback)

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes' - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the

Goodbye 20Th Century - Sonic Youth and the rise of alternative nation (Browne David)(Paperback / softback)

The fully authorised biography of the Godfathers of indie

Remembering Babylon (Malouf David)(Paperback / softback)

A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien

Remembering Babylon (Malouf David)(Paperback / softback)

A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Shot through with humour, and poetic intensity, Malouf's epic novel of epic scope is simple, compassionate and

A Short History of Babylon (Radner Karen)(Paperback)

Much of our perception of Babylon in the West is filtered through the poignant echoes of loss and longing that resonate in the Hebrew Bible. The lamenting exiles of Judah craved a return to their lost homeland after the sack of Jerusalem in 587 BC and their forcible removal by Nebuchadnezzar to the

On the Suffering of the World (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback)

On the Suffering of the World is a collection of the later aphoristic writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, known for their incisive, aphoristic style and dark, pessimistic view of human existence. Edited and with an introduction by Eugene Thacker, On the Suffering of the World comprises a core

Assassin's Orbit (Appel John)(Paperback)

Golden Girls meets The Expanse with a side of Babylon Five Murder forces unlikely allies On the eve of the planet Ileri's historic vote to join the Commonwealth, the assassination of a government minister threatens to shatter everything. Private investigator Noo Okereke and spy Meiko Ogawa join

Henry David Thoreau: A Life (Walls Laura Dassow)(Paperback)

'Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.' That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to 'live deliberately' in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has

Revelation - An Introduction And Commentary (Paul Dr Ian (Reader))(Paperback / softback)

An excellent new commentary on the last book of the New

If Walls Could Talk - An intimate history of the home (Worsley Lucy)(Paperback / softback)