LIBROS DEL AUTOR: derek olsen

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: derek olsen

  • Image and Likeness
    Derek Olsen
    'The world is aching. It is you who will show all of Greece the Way.'These words, from a mysterious martial arts master named Zhang, transform the life of a soul-searching, unemployed doctoral graduate, Cassandra Yin. Her family knows the aching he speaks of-having immigrated to Athens from Xi’an, China when Cassandra was twelve-they now find their world threatened by a new wav...
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  • The Clepsydra
    Derek Olsen
    As terrorism sweeps the globe, religious differences seem impossible to reconcile. Spiritual leaders of the Islamic and Christian worlds are turning to time-altering water clocks to restore the peace between faiths that once existed in medieval Spain. Among them are the Tejedors—a progressive Muslim family from Andalusia who believe the solution is to hasten the flow of time to...
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  • Honey of Souls
    Derek A Olsen
    The Honey of Souls is the first full-length study of the Explanation of the Psalms by Cassiodorus. While the Explanation became a seminal document for the monastic movement in the West and was eagerly read and widely quoted for centuries, it has languished in relative obscurity in the modern period. Derek Olsen explores Cassiodorus and his strategies for reading as a window int...
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  • Reading Matthew with Monks
    Derek A Olsen
    In Reading Matthew with Monks, Derek Olsen seeks to evaluate whether earlymedieval monastic biblical interpreters can serve as effective conversationpartners for modern readers who are committed to broadening their reading ofScripture. Olsen puts the interpretations of four modern Scripture commentaries inconversation with Ælfric of Eynsham’s interpretations of four texts from ...
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    29,41 €