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Biblia del Jubileo 2000 Sagradas Escrituras Versión Antigua, Reina Valera 2000 Traducida de los Textos Originales en Hebreo y Griego al Español por Casiodoro de Reina (1569) y cotejada con la revisión de Cipriano de Valera (1602) Apoyada en el Nuevo Testamento de Francisco de Enzinas (1543) y en el Nuevo Testamento (1556) con los Salmos (1557) de Juan Pérez de Pineda Y cotejada posteriormente con la traducción antigua de William Tyndale al Inglés (Nuevo Testamento de 1534) y con la Versión Autorizada (King James) de 1611. Versión inglesa: Jubilee Bible 2000

The Essential Russell Martin is a collection of work by the internationally renowned writer that spans forty years. Collected here are three excerpts from novels and a novella, five articles, and excerpts from seven narrative nonfiction books-all of them published between the years 1983 and 2022. As he describes in the book''s introduction, Martin has written often over the years about the work people choose to do and how they go about it. He has written about people with disabilities a number of times and has been lured by the inspired work of artists-painters, musicians, writers-who have achieved monumental creative heights. Both Europe and the New World have captured his attention, and he has always been as interested in history as the present moment. He written about death repeatedly, and once wrote about the young men, most of them actually still boys, who forged a football team that had a transcendent season. When Colorado College awarded him an honorary doctorate, the citation read, in part, "Mr. Martin offers to general audiences precise and accurate, but highly readable, studies of extraordinarily complex issues. He does more: he sees beyond what is already known; he moves beyond synthesis to new insights. His work is disciplined, analytical, and creative. It is also profoundly humane." This is an important retrospective collection of some of the very finest work by one of America''s most celebrated writers.

Christian fundamentalism is based on as literal an interpretation of the bible as possible. The nature and development of this interpretation is misguided because it accepts the misunderstandings and deliberate distortions of the biblical message. Those who take such a literal perspective must avoid the world of scientific knowledge and live in a past age that is often irrelevant today. Fundamentalism is ultimately dangerous because it is deceptively simple, unacceptably wrong, and morally inadequate. There are valid alternatives that avoid the literalist trap and provide a comprehensive understanding that is logically defensible, spiritually satisfying, and realistic in the modern world.

Science has invalidated much of the bible, including its theistic understanding of God. Christianity and Judaism will become irrelevant unless they change to accommodate a scientifically defensible understanding of God.

From 1505 to 1689, Russia''s tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. The realm''s most beautiful young maidens--provided they hailed from the aristocracy--gathered in Moscow, where the tsar''s trusted boyars reviewed their medical histories, evaluated their spiritual qualities, noted their physical appearances, and confirmed their virtue. Those who passed muster were presented to the tsar, who inspected the candidates one by one--usually without speaking to any of them--and chose one to be immediately escorted to the Kremlin to prepare for her wedding and new life as the tsar''s consort. Alongside accounts of sordid boyar plots against brides, the multiple marriages of Ivan the Terrible, and the fascinating spectacle of the bride-show ritual, A Bride for the Tsar offers an analysis of the show''s role in the complex politics of royal marriage in early modern Russia. Russell E. Martin argues that the nature of the rituals surrounding the selection of a bride for the tsar tells us much about the extent of his power, revealing it to be limited and collaborative, not autocratic. Extracting the bride-show from relative obscurity, Martin persuasively establishes it as an essential element of the tsarist political system.

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Consists of 1.3 linear feet of notes from courses taken at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1941-42, and summer continuing education at the Princeton Institute of Theology in 1949 and 1955.

It is generally taken for granted that the authority of Judaean leaders was limited by the Romans from 6 - 66 CE to the extent that Jewish officials required Roman permission before carrying out such important functions as convening for official judicial purposes and capital punishment. This work examines the three critical pieces of literary evidence on which a determination of the extent of local autonomy ultimately rested.