I live in Turkey and am reading and learning a lot about Islam for obvious reasons besides my husband, his family and everyone around me being Muslim.
I really don't think this book should be authoritative in any way about understanding Islam and the Koran in general. For a start the writer is a scholar of Sunni Islam (it appears the Wahabbi sect due to his associations and affiliations as well as where he has studied) and his conclusions about what is acceptable under Islam and what is not are really not well argued at all. I particularly thought this when I read the section about women covering. He states it is an absolute obligation. However in the Koran (according to my reading of it) there is no absolute obligation and ... Read More:
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I live in Turkey and am reading and learning a lot about Islam for obvious reasons besides my husband, his family and everyone around me being Muslim.
I really don't think this book should be authoritative in any way about understanding Islam and the Koran in general. For a start the writer is a scholar of Sunni Islam (it appears the Wahabbi sect due to his associations and affiliations as well as where he has studied) and his conclusions about what is acceptable under Islam and what is not are really not well argued at all. I particularly thought this when I read the section about women covering. He states it is an absolute obligation. However in the Koran (according to my reading of it) there is no absolute obligation and ... Read More:
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This Childs First Bible is beautifully presented in a protective slip case & is illustrated with gorgeous bright and colourful pictures. It offers the young an insight into the many wonderful stories of the Bible, in terminology that they will understand. Excellent for bed time reading!
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This is another in the series of "Guides for Everyone" where Tom Wright attempts to update William Barclay's Daily Bible reading commentaries.
It is a volume small enough to fit into a coat pocket, divided into entries with a short passage of scripture (Wright's own, occasionally idiosyncratic, translation) followed by a couple of pages of reflections on the passage. Typically, these will include both an anecdote from the author's experience or an observation from life today as well as exposition about the context of the times, or description of relevant passages from the rest of the scriptures.
Wright's writing has been aptly described as "smooth as chocolate" and these reflections are immensely readable. They could be good for ... Read More:
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I recently purchased this book over amazon and was really intrigued. As this was the first book on the subject that I had found except ofcourse the orion prophecy, I was a bit annoyed that the author kept referring to other works of his. Every other paragraph seemed to begin with 'as you will already know from my other works' etc.
I found this really irritating as I hadn't read all the other books and from the way the author chose to constantly reference himself I felt that maybe this was a book simply made to further stroke his ego!
Although I find the subject completely and utterly intriguing and scary at the best of times as he is very honest about the various situations that may occur, I also found that the book ... Read More:
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As a life-time enthusiast of ufo literature and other paranormal phenomena, I was enthralled to read Alien Encounters because of its unique perspective. The Nephilim are only mentioned twice in the bible (that I know of) and few authors other than Zecharia Sitchin have ever given them much attention. So, when Missler and Eastman claimed that ufo entities were indeed the disincarnate spirits of the Nephilim who shape shift and play games on unsuspecting humans, the book took on an interesting angle to the theories of Vallee and Keel. However, I should have become suspicious early on when the authors give no evidence to support their claim that the Nephilim cannot reincarnate. I didn't realize until the very end of the book that this was nothing more ... Read More:
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As a life-time enthusiast of ufo literature and other paranormal phenomena, I was enthralled to read Alien Encounters because of its unique perspective. The Nephilim are only mentioned twice in the bible (that I know of) and few authors other than Zecharia Sitchin have ever given them much attention. So, when Missler and Eastman claimed that ufo entities were indeed the disincarnate spirits of the Nephilim who shape shift and play games on unsuspecting humans, the book took on an interesting angle to the theories of Vallee and Keel. However, I should have become suspicious early on when the authors give no evidence to support their claim that the Nephilim cannot reincarnate. I didn't realize until the very end of the book that this was nothing more ... Read More:
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This is a really excellent introduction into the current state of play on old testament biblical research. It reads like a detective novel. My only criticism is that its all a little too tidy and life isn't like that!
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This is a really excellent introduction into the current state of play on old testament biblical research. It reads like a detective novel. My only criticism is that its all a little too tidy and life isn't like that!
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This is a really excellent introduction into the current state of play on old testament biblical research. It reads like a detective novel. My only criticism is that its all a little too tidy and life isn't like that!
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