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  • The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Greco-Asian Culture
    Roland H. Jr. Worth / Roland HJrWorth
    The companion to The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Roman Culture, this study explores the social world in which early Christians functioned in Asia, providing a comprehensive picture of life in this eastern province of the Roman Empire and focusing on how the local environment affects the interpretation of the book of Revelation.The history, population, local culture, econ...
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    39,74 €

  • The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Roman Culture
    Roland H. Jr. Worth / Roland HJrWorth
    ''To understand the immediate cultural and societal background of the cities to which John wrote in Revelation 1 and 2, we must first understand the broader background of Roman civilization and its impact upon Asian province,'' writes Roland H. Worth in the introduction to this fascinating, information-packed work. It is an in-depth study of the history, culture, society, econo...
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    28,32 €

  • The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Roman Culture
    Roland H. Jr. Worth / Roland HJrWorth
    ''To understand the immediate cultural and societal background of the cities to which John wrote in Revelation 1 and 2, we must first understand the broader background of Roman civilization and its impact upon Asian province,'' writes Roland H. Worth in the introduction to this fascinating, information-packed work. It is an in-depth study of the history, culture, society, econo...
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    45,41 €

  • The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Greco-Asian Culture
    Roland H. Jr. Worth / Roland HJrWorth
    The companion to The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Roman Culture, this study explores the social world in which early Christians functioned in Asia, providing a comprehensive picture of life in this eastern province of the Roman Empire and focusing on how the local environment affects the interpretation of the book of Revelation.The history, population, local culture, econ...
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    56,83 €

  • No Choice but War
    Roland H. Worth
    In July 1941 the United States, after a decade of worsening economic relations, announced a total embargo against Japan. The embargo had actually begun in 1940 with a so-called moral embargo under which U.S. exports of planes and war material to Japan were barred. In early 1941 Washington squeezed the Tokyo government further by unofficially tightening exports of petroleum. ...
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    42,76 €

  • Pearl Harbor
    Roland H. Worth
    In 1945 a joint committee of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives was appointed to investigate and hear testimony from a variety of military and civilian leaders about the attack on Pearl Harbor. Brought together here is a cross-section of the relevant testimony from the Congressional committee’s 39-volume report. Witnesses recount events leading up to the war, Ameri...
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    56,66 €

  • Shapers of Early Christianity
    Roland H. Worth
    In 100 A.D., Christianity was practiced only by a small, oppressed minority. Three hundred years later, Christianity had become one of the world’s major religions. But this change did not happen easily. The imperial government of Rome, intellectual tradition and battles within the church itself influenced the transformation. Every viewpoint had its champions and opponents an...
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    43,88 €

  • Messiahs and Messianic Movements through 1899
    Roland H. Worth
    A messiah is an individual appointed by God to a specific task of importance, and elevated to a level of far greater authority than a prophet by leading (or claiming to lead) a group or movement. The movement comes to be uniquely centered on his or her teachings, and the messiah claims spiritual and temporal authority over its followers. This book is an examination of both m...
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    57,31 €

  • Congress Declares War
    Roland H. Worth
    The dramatic events of the Pearl Harbor attack have been covered in detail from a wide variety of approaches. What came next--the American declaration of war, the intervention of Germany and Italy and the U.S. proclaiming war against them as well--has been given considerably less attention. This detailed volume fills that gap with careful analysis of how the public and Congr...
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    57,58 €

  • Alternative Lives of Jesus
    Roland H. Worth
    There is a body of religious literature, most of which was written centuries after the New Testament, that attempts to provide supplemental or alternative accounts of the life of Jesus Christ. The most exhaustive surviving alternative versions to the New Testament come from orthodox circles and are often creative 'imaginings' that try to fill holes in the canonical gospel ac...
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    57,53 €

  • Secret Allies in the Pacific
    Roland H. Worth
    Even though the United States was still officially at peace prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it was secretly devising a chain of intelligence-sharing alliances with future allies in the impending war in the Pacific. This work is divided into four sections, which bring together bits and pieces of often isolated details about the intelligence alliance, allowing re...
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    42,88 €