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  • The Book of Job
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    This book is the product of fifty years of scholarship. It consists of two main parts: the first is an essay on the history of interpreting the book of Job in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The second part is a commentary on the book. ...
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    48,97 €

  • Executioner’s Hill
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    Strange things comin’ and goin’ on that hill . . .The guillotine challenges the axe-wielding executioner’s craft. This exploration of capital punishment set in a small Dutch town in 1799 sears with the immediacy of today’s current debate.A play in three acts, Executioner’s Hill explores the dynamics of the death penalty, and challenges attitudes from both sides of the issue. ...
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    13,53 €

  • George Washington’s Religion
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    In this book, Professor Stephen Vicchio gives a comprehensive analysis of the religious beliefs of the first president of the United States, George Washington. After discussing Washington’s early religious life in the Anglican and Episcopal churches, Professor Vicchio goes on to analyze Washington’s views on God, the Bible, religious toleration, ethics and virtue, prayer, and w...
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    25,77 €

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Religion
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    This work is a summary and analysis of Abraham Lincoln’s religion. This study begins with a description of the earliest relations Mr. Lincoln had with religion, his parents’ dedication to a sect known as the 'Separate Baptists.' By late adolescence, Lincoln began to reject his parents’ faith, and he appears to have been a religious skeptic until his marriage to Mary Todd. After...
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    26,64 €

  • Ivan & Adolf
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    Two characters--one drawn from literature, the other from history--wind up as Hell’s last tormented residents, each searching for the key to redemption.Cared for and guided by the wise maid Sophie, Adolf strives to attain forgiveness and Ivan struggles with his inability to forgive.Who will be the last man in Hell? ...
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    15,38 €

  • The Legend of the Anti-Christ
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    In The Legend of the Anti-Christ, Stephen Vicchio offers a concise and historical approach to the history of the idea of the Anti-Christ, including precursors to the idea, the development of the idea in the New Testament, as well as the understandings of the legend of the Anti-Christ in the history of Christianity. Vicchio also raises the question of why there is so much emphas...
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    43,36 €

  • Biblical Figures in the Islamic Faith
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    ''Vicchio believes that by understanding how much Muslim tradition overlaps with the biblical traditions of Judaism and Christianity, we might begin to expose a wedge of common ground on which understanding and respect might begin to be built. ''Vicchio begins with a brief introduction sketching some fundamentals of Muslim history and culture, and clearing away some common mis...
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    33,68 €

  • Jefferson’s Religion
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    Thomas Jefferson’s views have led many to conclude that he was an atheist, as recently as in the work of Christopher Hitchens. But the third President has also been labeled a deist, a Unitarian, and a Christian. Philosopher and theologian Stephen Vicchio takes on the challenge of analyzing Jefferson’s writings in detail to see if any of these appellations is fitting. The author...
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    20,51 €

  • Job in the Medieval World
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    In this second of a three-volume work, Vicchio addresses the Job traditions as interpreted in the period of the Middle Ages--in Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources. From the Vulgate to the Qur’an, from Maimonides to Calvin, Vicchio addresses the complexities of the ''reception history'' of intriguing work. Two appendices address how Job has been treated throughout history in ...
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    28,30 €

  • Job in the Modern World
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    In this third of a three-volume work, the author traces the interpretation of the book of Job from the Authorized Version of the Bible (King James Version) through philosophers of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. He also covers Job in the literature of the Romantics, Blake, Melville, and Dostoyevsky. As appendices, he treats Job in Geography (Uz), Job and ...
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    27,42 €

  • Job in the Ancient World
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    In this first of a three-volume work, Vicchio addresses the most ancient Hebrew text of Job in all its complexity, with particular emphasis on the problems of evil and suffering. But he follows this with the ''reception history'' of the text--how it was translated, read, and interpreted in other ancient works: the Septuagint, apocryphal books, early Christian writings, Talmud, ...
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    28,30 €

  • The Voice from the Whirlwind
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    ''This book is concerned with why the world is not such an easy place in which to live. Human beings, as its apparently most sentient creatures, live daily in a morally ambiguous environment. Most of us experience contentment, happiness, and even profound joy. But these experiences are all too often interspersed or punctuated with unwarranted suffering, excruciating pain, and s...
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    30,88 €