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Jürgen Becker is a renowned garden photographer who has won multiple international awards. In this book, he has compiled an outstanding selection of his recent work that will captivate both plant lovers and photography fans alike. His photographs are beautifully composed and unabashedly romantic, document wonderful gardens and are also significant works of art. It is not only the large format weighing over 61/2 pounds, canvas binding, gold foil stamping on the spine and slip case that make this book a work of art. It is also the unique bookbinding done by only the best in the field. The stunning colour reproduction unmatched in its brilliance was achieved by using seven spot colours and printing paper of the highest quality. The books printed in this strictly limited edition are numbered by hand. The texts are in both German and English. The author Alexandra Rigos is a renowned journalist. This is a book for a very special occasion!
Here, finally, is a much-needed review and analysis of the divergent interpretations of Paul. With a clear head and winsome sense of humor, Stephen Westerholm compares the traditional understanding of Paul to more recent readings, drawing on the writings of key figures in the debate both past and present. Westerholm first offers a detailed portrait of the "Lutheran" Paul, including the way such theologians as Augustine, Luther, Calvin, and Wesley have traditionally interpreted "justification by faith" to mean that God declares sinners "righteous" by his grace apart from "works." Westerholm then explores how Paul has fared in the twentieth century, in which "New Perspective" readings of Paul see him teaching that Gentiles need not become Jews or observe Jewish law to be God's people. The final section of the book looks anew at disputed areas of Paul's theological language and offers compelling discussion on the place of both justification by faith and Mosaic law in divine redemption.
An experimental novel that pushes the constraints of language to bear witness to the history of both Germany and the individual. Jürgen Becker's The Sea in the Radio is a collection of "journal sentences" divided into three sections called notebooks. In this great concert of a novel, language has been pared down to a minimum: fragments, phrases, and short sentences combine and make up a life both banal and profound. It is a life in which many of the details remain unstated or, as in miniatures, float just beyond the edges of the frame. Though at first the narrative may seem to move in a relatively harmless manner, soon enough we begin to realize that the story to be told may indeed be more unsettling than we had suspected. The Sea in the Radio is a novel that bears witness not only to one's final years but also to one's place within history in general and Germany's cataclysmic twentieth-century past in particular.
A German New Testament scholar presents a new, historically grounded explanation of the phrases Kingdom of God and God's Reign, as the central terms of Jesus' proclamation. He draws on a wide range of sources to clarify Jesus' position within early Judaism, but mainly focuses on his ministry as the beginning of the history of early Christianity. No date or publisher is mentioned for the original Jesus von Nazaret. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Thin Films for Optical Coating emphasizes the applications of thin films, deposition of thin films, and thin film characterization. Unlike monographs on this subject, this book presents the views of many expert authors. Individual chapters span a wide arc of topics within this field of study. The book offers an introduction to usual and unusual applications of optical thin films, treating in a more qualitative way general topics such as anticounterfeiting coatings, decorative coatings, light switches, contrast enhancement coatings, multiplexers, optical memories, and more. Contributors review thin film media for optical data storage, UV broadband and narrow-band filters, and optically active...
"Intricately Connected contains academic papers presented by Kim at various international conferences in the fields of biblical studies, literary criticism, and intertextuality. The articles examine the question of how various literatures connect to consciousness and culture at personal and collective levels. The focus is on the functionality of literature across time and space and addresses such questions as: How do later books of the Bible, such as Jeremiah, utilize consciousness and ideas from earlier times, such as those found in the book Deuteronomy? How does Toni Morrison link African-American experience of today with experience of slavery hundreds of years ago? How does the film Da Vinci Code (2006) assess and manipulate the received tradition of the Lord's Supper?"--BOOK JACKET.
Jurgen Becker, one of the most respected German New Testament scholars, delves into the person, world, work, letters, and thought of Paul in order to provide a comprehensive and through study that answers both historical and theological questions. He gives a detailed, careful, and imaginative presentation of the chronology of Paul's life and works diligently thorough evidence available concerning the Hellenistic world in which Paul, Judaism, and early Christianity existed.
Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1992.
An ambitious bilingual anthology of postwar German poetry.