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The Day the Revolution Began Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus’s Crucifixion (2024)


Free Download N. T. Wright, "The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus’s Crucifixion"
English | 2016 | pages: 448 | ISBN: 0062334387, 0062334395 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
The renowned scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author widely considered to be the heir to C. S. Lewis contemplates the central event at the heart of the Christian faith-Jesus’ crucifixion-arguing that the Protestant Reformation did not go far enough in transforming our understanding of its meaning.

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Where War Began A Military History of the Middle East from the Birth of Civilization to Alexander the Great and the Romans


Free Download Where War Began: A Military History of the Middle East from the Birth of Civilization to Alexander the Great and the Romans by Arthur Cotterell
English | October 1, 2022 | ISBN: 0811771458 | 288 pages | MOBI | 13 Mb
Bloody fighting between rival tribes and clans has existed since the dawn of Homo sapiens, but war as we knew it began to take the more organized forms we recognize today in the ancient Near East, starting in the vital region near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (modern Iraq) and ultimately extending west to the Mediterranean Sea through what became the Holy Land of the Bible, a region eventually contested by Egypt, the Roman Empire, and others, and extending north and east into the mountains of Persia (modern Iran). In this informed and accessible history, Arthur Cotterell tells the story of how the story of the development of civilization is also the story of the development of organized warfare

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