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Claims of Identity is a book of essays discussing relationships between archetypes and identities. Drawing on history, timeless tropes, and comparative literature, this book explores the activities of identification in a variety of ways, adding significance to representations of outsiders and the marginalized in order to appreciate authors and cultures with a view toward philosophy. A thematic treatise included in this volume -- "Claims of Identity in Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy" -- argues that identity is claimed rather than inherently bestowed, and that this is contributive to California identity. The treatise also discusses Bret Harte, the original California author. Gabriel Conroy, Bret Harte's only long novel, published in 1875, tells a fiction of who "owns" California, symbolized as a silver mine in the Sierras. Various imposters are implicated. The result is a sweeping adventure that typifies Californian identity to this day, and compliments the understanding of additional topics.
The Hebrew alphabet is composed of 22 letters. This book provides a key to many interesting facets of awareness pertaining to the Hebrew alphabet and numbers. The contents here are thoroughly researched from many sources. The reader is invited to learn about this book's information and see if it is reliable. See if this book's information adds more meaning and deeper comprehension to Bible study and life in the outside world that is practiceable. This book provides valuable insights into the Holy Bible and its relationship and identity correlating to the Hebrew letters. This book is knowledge for life. The Holy Bible is used as support for these keys, relying on the King James Version translation. The foundation of numerical values and word associations of each Hebrew letter are provided on a reliable basis that can be tested through the readers' own Bible studies and life experiences. Further readings included in this work are the Wisdom of Solomon, Psalms of Solomon, Odes of Solomon, Gospel of Thomas, Didache: Teachings of the Apostles, Wisdom of Sirach, and Sdiblestudy Church. This book has been carefully and lovingly edited by Alan Lewis Silva.
Leo Tolstoy became very interested in love and relationships. He saw the world around him, much like it is now, as the world is, filled with emptiness (if you pardon the ironic phrase). And yet he felt within him a draw and yearning, and, yes, an inner knowledge that there is more, and that there are answers to our questions. "Let us be diligent," that inner light says, as if together within ourselves, we have all we need, or ever would need to find the way forward. This is a paraphrase in my own words of the attitude of these later works by Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian novelist -- and great thinker -- regardless of region. The volume includes two works, the first 100,000 words of which is the treatise, What Shall We Do, perhaps a more accessible work to be acquainted with Tolstoy's soul-searching and concerns of systematic contemporary life. The second work is a shorter yet worthy essay, providing insights as the title suggests. This edition has been lovingly and carefully edited by Alan Lewis Silva.
Alan Lewis Silva is a California author and folk singer, independent publisher of over 400 songs in the vein of blues, fado, folk-rock, and jazz. His songs are lyrically oriented, heavy in imagery, and give a Californian, Millennial, cultural expression to the plights and imaginations of the human soul submerged or emerging from the effects of the Information Age. He is the voice of a generation. Although his music has not been commercially successful, it does have integrity and is original; Alan retains ownership of all his songs, music and lyrics, and is currently working on other projects. He lives in San Diego.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the major poets of British literature and Romanticism, turned to Jesus Christ to save his life. What followed was a remarkable recovery and prolific writing career. Coleridge's life at times was inspirational, adventurous, creative, depraved, and redeeming with many highs and lows. This books features the majority of Coleridge's prose writings about Christianity. It features a poetic quality of expression that is beautiful to read; and it supports faith in Christ and the desire to share the gospel with the talents one is given. This book has carefully and lovingly been edited by Alan Lewis Silva. It features an elimination of many obtrusive notes by anterior editors, Greek but not Latin words, and excessive appendages by religious contemporaries. This is a stimulating and more accessible book for lovers of literature, philosophers, and Christians alike.
This is the Histories, volume two, of the Portuguese English Bilingual Bible book series. It is in English and Portuguese, two of the top ten most widely spoken languages on Earth. It is the King James Version and Almeida Recebida translations, good and accurate translations for learning either language, as well as having a correct and reliable translation from the received texts of the Holy Bible itself. The translators relied on "formal equivalence" to preserve phrasing and literal content from the Hebrew and Greek documents. This present volume is divided in columns for each language, with each corresponding verse line matching its equal on the opposite side of the page. The font size and style is easy to read. Typo's and the rare instance of missing information (such as superscriptions above psalms and colophons ending epistles) have been translated from English to Portuguese, and in some cases Hebrew into Portuguese, by Alan Lewis Silva, who has lovingly and carefully edited this wonderful book.
This book provides reliable knowledge about the beliefs of the early Christian church in the 100's A.D. It teaches what Christians actually believe, so you can compare then with now. Justin the Philosopher was known for his conversion out of Greco-Roman philosophy, the common intellectual exercise for people of his day. Justin, in seeking the truth, arrived at the Way from the beginning, and after his conversion, he shared God's love and taught true Christian doctrine through faith in Christ and Bible study. During persecution, Justin fearlessly refuted heresies. Justin is a church leader. Justin was martyred during the reign of Antoninus Pius Caesar around the year 159 A.D. This book contains all the surviving writings of Justin Martyr with the exception of fragments. This edition has been carefully and lovingly edited by Alan Lewis Silva. Chapter titles are rewritten to better describe the contents fairly, numerous typographical errors are corrected, and the font size is large and easy to read.
This is the Torah, volume one, of the Portuguese English Bilingual Bible book series. It is in English and Portuguese, two of the top ten most widely spoken languages on Earth. It is the King James Version and Almeida Recebida translations, good and accurate translations for learning either language, as well as having a correct and reliable translation from the received texts of the Holy Bible itself. The translators relied on "formal equivalence" to preserve phrasing and literal content from the Hebrew and Greek documents. This present volume is divided in columns for each language, with each corresponding verse line matching its equal on the opposite side of the page. The font size and style is easy to read. Typo's and the rare instance of missing information (such as superscriptions above psalms and colophons ending epistles) have been translated from English to Portuguese, and in some cases Hebrew into Portuguese, by Alan Lewis Silva, who has lovingly and carefully edited this wonderful book, the Torah.
This is the Apostles, volume six, of the Portuguese English Bilingual Bible book series. It is in English and Portuguese, two of the top ten most widely spoken languages on Earth. It is the King James Version and Almeida Recebida translations, good and accurate translations for learning either language, as well as having a correct and reliable translation from the received texts of the Holy Bible itself. The translators relied on "formal equivalence" to preserve phrasing and literal content from the Hebrew and Greek documents. This present volume is divided in columns for each language, with each corresponding verse line matching its equal on the opposite side of the page. The font size and style is easy to read. Typo's and the rare instance of missing information (such as superscriptions above psalms and colophons ending epistles) have been translated from English to Portuguese, and in some cases Hebrew into Portuguese, by Alan Lewis Silva, who has lovingly and carefully edited this wonderful book.
This is the Prophets, volume four, of the Portuguese English Bilingual Bible book series. It is in English and Portuguese, two of the top ten most widely spoken languages on Earth. It is the King James Version and Almeida Recebida translations, good and accurate translations for learning either language, as well as having a correct and reliable translation from the received texts of the Holy Bible itself. The translators relied on "formal equivalence" to preserve phrasing and literal content from the Hebrew and Greek documents. This present volume is divided in columns for each language, with each corresponding verse line matching its equal on the opposite side of the page. The font size and style is easy to read. Typo's and the rare instance of missing information (such as superscriptions above psalms and colophons ending epistles) have been translated from English to Portuguese, and in some cases Hebrew into Portuguese, by Alan Lewis Silva, who has lovingly and carefully edited this wonderful book.