Lost Letters Of Pergamum Book Report

The second aspect of the book, I enjoyed was the higher orrder thinking questions at the end of each chapter. Some questions, I would take to God during prayer and ask for understanding of them. I prayed for scriptural undergirding. I also like the pre-reading, during reading and after reading questions in the Appendix section. I would have incorporated them in the chapters.

The author would jump from subject to subject in a confusing manner. For instance in chapter four, she was discussing jobs in one paragraph and in the next paragraph she started talking about crime pamphlets. She oftentimes repeated information from chapter to chapter which made one wonder if she was just trying to fill up space or did she think she need to remind us about the event? Also, the book spanned over three centuries (17th-19th), yet she only spent two chapters on the first one hundred and seventy-three years and concentrated seven chapters on the last sixty-four. Also, there were several typographical errors that I found while reading the book such as: on page 140, the word blacks was spelled “blaks;” on page 202, the word among was spelled “amog;” on page 261, the word poverty was spelled “proverty;” and on page 287, the word association was spelled

The story begins in a garden. A small, simple garden right outside the mountain of Olympus. This was a place that Aios felt calm to think about the horrors and the struggles in life. The young goddess had wandered over to a young man who was sitting on a plain wooden bench. The man was a trickster, a con man. The famous Decipius. Decipius was a master of deception, knowing how to change into different forms and manipulating young beautiful women into giving him what he wanted. Decipius had changed

Nevertheless, I would applaud this book with more of its pros than cons. The book gave me an understanding and was able to challenge my view on Jesus, as I am a Christian. The author did a great job with showing the audience how Jesus had been connected and differentiated in ways through time. An example of this being Jesus is seen as the Rabbi and Jesus being known as The Logos. The way Jaroslav put this book together from the early centuries to the late centuries lets the reader have their own view and perspective on what to believe in. This book is good in making sure that it is not one-sided and being careful to not make it seem like we as the reader have to fully see things the way people in these centuries did, but instead, keep an open mind and learn

The cover of this book caught my eye and I wondered what it was. When I saw it I thought to myself and I said I would give this book a chance. I flipped the book over and I started reading a paragraph about the book. It had a lot of details and it was describing the characters very well. A good book for me is one with a

* In this time, the man who was emperor was also believed to be god, and he expected to be worshipped as one. This includes having sacrifices and temples in his honor. It also meant that he was greatly offended any time one of his subjects proclaimed against this fact, and the emperor was certain to silence that person tortuously and publically as with Antioch.

All of the things that were said and done in the book are all at least somewhat true. Although, many of the

Antipas, a quite wealthy nobleman, began his letters in a bragging type of tone sharing that not only did he come from the house of Philip but he was in fact a benefactor to two very large cities in Rome. In the beginning of the book he boasted about his standing with little to no sense of restraint. But the more his relationship with Luke grew his manner became that of a much humbler person, and opened one of his letters in such a way, “Antipas, a nobleman of Caesarea; To Luke and the noble Calpurnius” (pg.157). By writing it in this fashion he was not only seeing both Luke and Calpurnius on the same level of standing as he but we wanted them to know he thought of them this way as well. Antipas’ show of humility stood to be quite significant as we see him slowly grow more and more humble while he is going through the process of being redeemed. In the beginning we could see that he thought of Christians and Jesus as a danger to the city of Rome, he also saw Jesus as a disruptive force to the way society should be. Yet the letters continued to be exchanged and through this exchange he grew more and more curious of the personage of Jesus Christ. And we start to see a change in his attitude and opinions as well as that of his grasp of the concept.

The Odyssey is one of the oldest well known stories to date, and it is believed to be written around 2000 years ago. Its age is not the most fascinating fact though, the epic poem is comprised of 12,000 lines of death-defying, adventurous tales that are separated into different episodes. The Character traits of the might Odysseus, the structure of The Odyssey, the diction within the epic poem will be explained in this essay.

“You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city--where Satan lives.” (Revelations 2:13). In “The Lost Letters of Pergamum”, by Bruce Longenecker, he takes the name found in Revelations and creates a fictional character in a world based two thousand years ago. Antipas is a Roman Civic leader who learns much about Christianity through Luke’s Gospel writings. He learns in Luke’s writings that Jesus is “the answer” for both him, and for the first century Greco-Roman world. In many ways the world Longenecker created is similar to that of the 21st century and in many ways

This is a very interesting book because of the unique style in which William chose to present his secondary hand of information. Features of this book that fascinates me extremely, is the excessive use of biblical terms and the

The book that I have chosen out of the two books that I have read is The Road. I have read both A Lesson Before Dying and The Road had both been interesting to read and are strong contenders to be in the top five for the list. I feel however, that A Lesson Before Dying doesn’t have the type of hook that could make young readers want to continue the book and finish it. The Road, however has an apocalyptic type of setting that adds a sort of mystery and zombie feeling that young readers are usually interested in. The Road is also very easy to read and over a week or a few days you can easily finish it and start on any other books or assignments. A Lesson Before Dying takes a while to get used to and although it can teach you many things about

I found this book to be well written and researched, the downside of it was it felt more like an essay. The background stories and information was repeated several times, repetition can be good but to much just makes it seem like you ran out of things

Magisterium by Jeff Hirsch is a genuinely good read. From the character development, to the plot, to the language used throughout. The book starts kind of slowly, which is common with authors across the board, but rapidly turns into a book that you will not want to set down for even a moment.

Reading through three related stories, we discover different motifs denoting author’s thought in different time.Without any doubt, the tragic essence goes through the Three Theban Plays. As Sophocles meditates the philosophy of the tragedy all along his life, the tragic essence expands from individuals in a society. The conflict in each play becomes increasingly complicated. In Antigone, we can clearly distinguish the conflict between Antigone and Creon, family and politics. However, in Oedipus at Colonus, the play merges all the conflicts happened to former plays and enhances the theme of the story. The later part of this trilogy, especially the ending of Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus, reveals a darker and deeper phenomenon of Thebes and projects it to Oedipus. The prophet plays important role of forming the story line and tragic image of Oedipus, but the root causing the series of tragedy of the characters is not gods’ command. It is degeneration of people, which is pathetic to humanity. Finally, after suffering from family complex and exile, Oedipus is not only a victim of the society, but also the reflection of the twisted humanity of Thebes.