Abraham

Twenty-five young Israeli men and women discuss their land and people, revealing their intimate selves and how they deal with daily life in the crossfire of political conflict

A collection of anecdotes and legends culled from both written sources and personal interviews with Civil War veterans.

Vol. 22- (1968/69- ) includes its Miscellanies, pt. 7- (1970- )

Retells the Bible story of Abraham and his wife Sarah, to whom God gave a son named Isaac and the land of Canaan as a home for their descendants.

This volume investigates the plots of the Genesis stories. Rather than fragmenting Genesis into hypothetical sources and reading each in isolation from the others, as has often been the case in scholarship, this final-form reading exposes the coherence and complexity of the book. In particular, the initial announcements of plot, prefacing each major block of the book are shown to exercise an intimate yet surprising influence over the narratives they govern. The seemingly naive stories of Genesis, when read wholistically, offer profound insights into the interplay between divine providence and human free will.

A thorough revision of Youngbloods two earlier studies: How it all Began and Faith of our Fathers, The Book of Genesis provides students with a vast resource for understanding the beginning of the universe, marriage, society, redemption, life, sin and civilization. Ronald Youngblood makes a profound application of the Genesis' message to the issues of contemporary life.

Flying B Ranch has been the pride of the Braxby family for generations, and Will Braxby is determined to keep the property to the family. No one can separate him from the Braxby family legacy—not his older son and daughter, who have no interest in running the Braxby ranch; not his mentally challenged son’s inability to function normally; not his best friend; not his workers; heck, not even God. But how far will his resolve take him when tragedy after tragedy befalls him?

It is a tale of three men who survived the horror of Nazi Germany during the second world war. the men were able to stay alive during interment in a concentration camp. A struggle was carried out each and every day. Finally they were freed at the end of the war. They came to America and found freedom. Some lost their families and one lost his wife and child. Anger and hate was always in their minds, but they found their faith to be strong and eventually were able to give of themselves to others. It is a remarkable journey. God always finds those in need and hears your prayers. When one finds love in your heart, you can touch the souls of other hearts. Their reward was to be found in the afterlife. There they will continue their struggle to witness and remember those that died during the Holocaust. Their new affirmation was to help people remember and to do good deeds by directly loving others.

A Jungian psychoanalyst with a background in Judaism and Zen Buddhism explores the history of God concepts in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. This book is about the Abrahamic God’s inner journey, an epic that begins in the Hebrew Bible—the common source of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This God emerges as a living, textured personality as tormented as a Shakespearean character and as divided against humanity as the devil who personifies his dark side. Yet in heroic fashion, he embarks on a journey to greater consciousness, stretching into himself in the Talmud, New Testament, Qur’an, and Gnostic writings. Then finally, with and through the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic mystics, he discovers his true self as the absolute Godhead. He takes up residence in their psyches as their own Divine Mind or true self. The book suggests that what God learned from his journey might be something that we in turn could learn from and that could help us at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In this way, God’s inner journey becomes a metaphor for our own. Michael Gellert, a Jungian psychoanalyst, treats this story and the sacred writings that convey it as psychological facts—as expressions of the human psyche—regardless of whether or not God actually exists. He shows how the Hebrew Bible presents God as a primitive, barbaric tribal war god while centuries later the mystics portray him as their innermost essence and emptied of all projected, external, anthropomorphic images. Thus, God’s inner journey and the evolution of human consciousness—his story and ours—parallel each other and are integrally related. Rich in historical detail and psychological insights, this is a book that will be welcomed by seekers of every background and orientation.