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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797353603321

Autore

Beauchamp Paul

Titolo

Fifty biblical portraits / / Paul Beauchamp ; drawings by Pierre Grassignoux ; translated by Peter Rogers, SJ

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milwaukee, Wisconsin : , : Marquette University Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

0-87462-790-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Marquette studies in theology ; ; number 74

Disciplina

221.9/22

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Abraham : the chosen one -- Abraham : in the beginning was the plural -- Abraham : life, death -- Abraham : binding and unbinding -- The name of Isaac : "WiIl Laugh" -- Jacob the deceiver -- Jacob, continued -- Jacob the wrestler -- Joseph -- Moses between two peoples -- Moses the visionary -- Moses in the place of God -- Moses and Pharaoh -- Moses in the sin of his people -- The raised-up serpent -- Joshua conquers the Promised Land -- Rahab and the Wall of Jericho -- Samson, or brimming over -- Ruth : bread, flesh, word -- Samuel : a transition -- Samuel executes the King of the Amalekites -- Saul : the elected and rejected king -- David : courage and ability -- David the beloved -- David put to the test -- From David to Jesus -- Solomon and wisdom -- Adam -- Adam and Eve -- After Solomon : Rehoboam -- Jeroboam : the secession of the North -- Elija : like fire -- Another Elija -- Elija, yesterday and tomorrow -- Elisha the disciple -- The prophet Hosea -- Isaiah -- Isaiah : births -- Jeremiah and the end of the kings -- Jeremiah and Moses -- Jeremiah towards the future -- Ezekiel -- An unknown person : the "Servant" -- Nehemiah : the return -- Job : the cry of the leper -- Jonah and the man from everywhere -- Tobit, his son Tobit, and Raphael -- Esther or disguises -- Judith -- Daniel and the end of times -- Appendix. Portraits and genealogies in the Bible.