Angels, prophets, rabbis & kings from the stories of the Jewish people

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Patricia L. Nederveld

A simple retelling of how Adam and Eve disobeyed God and had to leave the Garden of Eden. Includes follow-up activities.

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author: Bonnie Temple

A shepherd leaves his flock of ninety-nine sheep in order to find the one which is lost. The parable of the lost sheep is the first member of a trilogy about redemption that Jesus tells after the Pharisees and religious leaders accuse him of welcoming and eating with "sinners." - Wikipedia. Bigger is better with Bible Big Books! An impressive 16X20 inches, these are storybooks everyone can see even from the back row! Each book is beautifully illustrated, a memorable, kid-friendly telling of a Bible story you want your children to know and remember. And Bible Big Books are easy to read aloud because text is reproduced on the back cover. Captivating, educational, and fun, Group's Bible Big Books are ideal read-alongs for every parent or teacher. Teach the wonderful stories of the Bible in a memorable way. Group's Bible Big Books re-create favorite Bible stories in words and pictures preschool children will understand and remember. - Publisher.

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translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole

The first major poet of the Hebrew literary renaissance of Moslem Spain, Shmuel Ben Yosef Ha-Levi HaNagid (993-1056 C.E.) was also the prime minister of the Moslem state of Granada, battlefield commander of the non-Jewish Granada army, and one of the leading religious figures in a medieval Jewish world that stretched from Andalusia to Baghdad. Peter Cole's groundbreaking versions of HaNagid's poems capture the poet's combination of secular and religious passion, as well as his inspired linking of Hebrew and Arabic poetic practice.

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[compiled and translated by] Helen Waddell

"Writing excitedly to her sister Meg in 1929, Helen Waddell quotes an early review of Mediaeval Latin Lyrics: 'Miss Waddell has kept her promise well: she promised a volume of translations from those fascinating "vagantes". Some indeed are among the loveliest in any literature; and Miss Waddell has not dulled their brightness. She has come to them not merely with scholarship and literary tact, but with a soul attuned to the thought and feeling and the very idiom of another day. She has the most important of the translator's qualifications - a perfect empathy with her material.'" "Through the marvellous empathy this reviewer unerringly describes, she unlocked some of the secrets and literary achievements of the Middle Ages for the scholar and the general reader alike. The vagantes, to whom the reviewer refers, are also the subject of her earlier book, The Wandering Scholars (1927) which similarly won golden opinions. These two books and her novel Peter Abelard (1933) made her the most famous medievalist of her generation." "And this was no passion fashion. Helen Waddell's books, particularly this one, have informed and inspired generations of medievalists. Mediaeval Latin Lyrics is an authoritative and delightful guide to a period of European civilization and literature, when Latin was still a vibrant means of communication throughout the western world."--Jacket.