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A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor Tiberius, she first spies the powerful gladiator who will ultimately be her one true passion. Yet it is the ambitious magistrate Pontius Pilate who intrigues the impressionable young woman she becomes, and Claudia finds...
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Jerusalem chronicles volume 3
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"Behold the Man is the culmination of the Jerusalem Chronicles and brings readers to an encounter with the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. How could Jesus--who preached righteousness before God, and love and mercy toward neighbors--be so hated and pursued? To the Temple officials, he was a threat to the livelihood and authority of the priesthood. To Herod Antipas, he was a threat to his ambition to be the King of the Jews. And to the...
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"A ... groundbreaking biography of the man who sent Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross. The Roman prefect Pontius Pilate has been cloaked in rumor and myth since the first century, but what do we actually know of the man who condemned Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross? In this ... biography of one of the Bible's most controversial figures, Italian classicist Aldo Schiavone explains what might have happened in that brief meeting between the governor and...
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Master nad margaret is not only the most important novel of the twentieth century, but one of the most mysterious works of world literature, full of puzzles, symbols, understatements. It might seen that everything has been said about Bulgakov's masterpieces. Afer 50 years since the publication of the book, Grzegorz Przebinda, together with his wife Leokadia and son Igor, prove with their new transation that is not true. They discover new layersof...
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"Mistrz i Malgorzata - jak wiele genialnych utworow -- wymyka sie jednoznacznemu opisowi, prowokujac mnogosc interpretacji. Tapowiesc szkatulkowa, bogata w odniesienia do literatury swiatowej, wciaz zadziwia bogactwem tematyki. Znalezc w niej mozna rozwazania na temat kondycji sztuki, echa nieustannego konfliktu tworcy z otoczeniem, klasyczny filozoficzny motyw walki dobra ze zlem, ale takze cieta satyre oraz ironiczne odniesienia do ocierajacej sie...
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