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"Blest land of Judaea! Thrice hallowed in song, Where the holiest of memories pilgrim like throng, In the shade of thy palms, by the shores of thy sea, On the hills of the beauty, my heart is with thee." --_Whittier_.

A Galilean boy, a fisherman, a follower of Jesus, one of the twelve Apostles, one of the favored three, the beloved one, the Apostle of love, the Apostle of childhood, the one of all men who gave to mankind the clearest view of Jesus Christ--such was St John.

For young people he is a fitting study. To aid such is the purpose of this volume.

Let us first glance at the land where he lived, surrounded by influences that directed his life, and moulded his character.

Palestine was called by God Himself "The Glory of All Lands." He made it the home of His people the Jews, who long waited for the promised time when it should have greater glory by becoming the home of the Messiah, the Son of God. Before He was born the Jews were conquered by the Romans, and governed by them instead of the Jewish judges and kings. The country was divided into three parts. The southern was called Judaea; the middle, Samaria; and the northern, Galilee, which was the most beautiful part. It contained the hills of Galilee, and the plain and sea of Gennesaret, hallowed by the presence of Jesus, and what He there did.

At the time of which we write, two thousand years ago, Galilee was not inhabited wholly or chiefly by Jews. Other peoples, called Gentiles, were mixed with the Jewish race which continued to cultivate the land, and to tend the vineyards and olive-yards, and to dwell in the fisherman's huts and moor their boats on the sandy beach. Some Jews were artisans, working at their trades in the smaller towns. But there were vast crowds of foreigners whose life was a great contrast to that of the Jews. Their customs were those of the nations to which they belonged. They spoke their own languages. They worshiped their own false gods. Their amusements were such as they were accustomed to in their distant homes. This was especially true of the Romans who had theatres, chariot races, and gladiatorial combats, by the peaceful waters of Galilee.


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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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It is not impossible that in the minds of some persons the idea of employing gentle measures in the management and training of children may seem to imply the abandonment of the principle of authorityas the basis of the parental governmentand the substitution of some weak and inefficient system of artifice and manoeuvring in its place. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bridget Marquardt, Lars Larson, Webley John Hauxhurst, Jacob Young, H. Clay Myers, Jr., Brian Boquist, Robert Y. Thornton, Maurine Brown Neuberger, Zale Parry, Elbridge Trask, Lucia Wiley. Excerpt:Brian Boquist Brian James Boquist (born October 20, 1958) is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oregon . He currently serves in the Oregon Senate representing district 12. Previously, he was in the Oregon House of Representatives , representing District 23 in the mid-Willamette Valley from 2005 to 2009. Early life and career Boquist was born and raised on a dairy farm in Tillamook, Oregon . He attained the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America and graduated from Tillamook High School before enlisting in the United States Army in 1975. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Western Oregon State College (now Western Oregon University ) and an MBA from Oregon State University . Boquist is a special forces lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve , and since 1991, is an executive with International Charter Incorporated, an international aviation company that specializes in a variety of support operations for private organizations and the United States government. His firm has worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America. He served as Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of Army special forces in Iraq in 2003 - 2004, receiving the Bronze Star Medal and recommendation for promotion for his service. Political career In 2000 and 2002, Boquist was the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives in Oregon's 5th congressional district , but lost both times to incumbent Darlene Hooley . In 2004, Boquist decided against a run for Hooley's seat, but when Oregon state representative Lane Shetterly resigned to run the Oregon ... ... Read more

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This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s great masterpiece is a major literary event.

Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts–The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider–as a unified narrative, a “mythological novel” of Joseph’s fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the world of patriarchs and pharaohs, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and the universal force of human love in all its beauty, desperation, absurdity, and pain. The result is a brilliant amalgam of humor, emotion, psychological insight, and epic grandeur.

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Pleasantly Surprised
I had to buy this book for class, and did not look forward to reading it.I enjoyed the book, and even though the professor only required specific parts, I am reading the whole thing.

Mann's reader as participant in the festival
It has been a pleasure reading the reviews of othersof this magisterial work. We form a kind of brotherhood across space and time in the task of praising to the outside world the grandeur of the work Mann himself considered his magnum opus. I once owned the previous Lowe-Porter translation and could get precisely nowhere with it. Now Mr. Woods has made it accessible to any literate spirit. I use the term "spirit" advisedly. For in the Prelude, entitled "The Descent into Hell," Mann sets forth a cosmogony derived from Gnosticism apparently, in which God permitted the soul, at its urgent request, to descend to earth to intermix with matter and then, in order to redeem the soul from this entanglement sent out a second emissary, as it were, the spirit, from the heavenly realm. But the spirit also got itself overengaged with this earthly compound of soul-matter, losing sight, one might say, of its original mission of rescue, much as an ambassador to a foreign land, if he stays there too long, loses the sense of his original representation and instead becomes an advocate for the foreign country, as Mann points out with exquisite irony. But then, gentle reader, the bombshell explodes, and Mann cuts through all of his own thick and multilayered ironies to set forth what I, at least, consider the strongest sentence I have ever encountered, anywhere:

[The spirit] remains, no matter how it presents itself, what it is: the messenger of
warning, the principle of opposition, umbrage, and wandering, which stirs up
within the breast of one individual, among all the great host of the lustily
complacent, an uneasiness at our preternatural wretchedness, drives him out
of the gates of the past and the given and into the extravagant adventure of
uncertainty, and makes him like the stone that, once it has broken away and
begins to roll, is destined to set in motion an ever-growing, rolling,
incalculable cascade of events.[pp. 35-6]

And from this immediately ensues the epic spiritual adventure of Abraham into the uncharted domain of grasping for an understanding of and relationship withthe sole and ultimate source of sovereignty in the universe. And if this weren't enough, Mann then goes on to equate Abraham's adventure with the adventure of the storyteller (!) in daring to reach out to compose a tale such as this one.
Obviously I could go on forever in this vein, but my sole object is to plant my flag with the other on-line reviewers here and perhaps by this to induce some innocent wandering passerby of a reader to get out there and buy the book and read it, and by that act of participation, under any view a daunting and time-consuming committment, to join in Mann's festival of life, of storytelling as high art, of recapitulating in himself or herself the tradition of absorbing one's own cultural roots at the deepest level of joy and satisfaction. So there.--Mark B. Packer

Cosmic Delight, Comic Gesture
I'm at a loss about how to begin a review of the titanic marvel "Joseph and His Brothers" because of its being so many things, adding fright to the one who tries to properly bring forth what future readers are in store for upon opeing its first page and delving into "Descent into Hell."

I have never before and doubt ever will again read a 1,500 page 'tale,' let alone one that includes a continuous barrage of gripping stories alongside psychological insight of God-like proportions. What's icing on the cake as to this book's sheer power and unforgettableness is its comic charm. I did not know I was going to be reading what is pretty much a comedy when being pulled into this marvelous Old Testament narrative.

If you have read the biblical account of Jacob and Esau on down to Joseph in Egypt and are worried that its contents couldn't stay intriguing for this many pages, there is good news, because it, for the most part, very much is.

In the preface, translator John E. Woods accurately proposes he thinks that "Mann ... wanted to make sure he had readers worthy of him" while explaining that some portions of this interweaving jewel are prone to be more difficult to read than what is, thankfully, the majority. And it is this truth, in which I agree with this stirling translator, that I breifly dwell upon.

In several used bookstores I've been to, the only part of this story that I ever saw available, and in a volume all its own, was H.T. Porter's translation of "Joseph in Egypt." Given its apparent availability over the other three parts, I suspected it would be the best - which Mann himself thought to be true. But, solely from the perspective of, as Virginia Woolf would aptly call me, a 'common reader,' I bring forth that those trickier 'riddles' that Woods forwarns, or maybe just mentions, occur most often in this third volume. The feel of being sidetracked a little too much continues on into the beginning segments of "Joseph the Provider."

Do these, I will dare to say, overly descriptive, meandering pages that include some repitition detract all that much from the sheer pleasure that dominates most of what is nothing short of this literary feast and party? Hardly not. For outside of this minor qualm over the author perhaps going a little too far about content that probably didn't require as much attention, there is no book I have read up until now that has offered more to a reader than this. I guess "sublime" is not a bad word to use when measuring the result of Mann's cataclysmic efforts that encompassed a time span of 16 years, no less, including a 5-year absence between the third and fourth stories.

He touches on such juicy, delicious insights about mankind, helping to devour the notion that life is different now compared to then. And while it is entirely varied in custom, how could our experiences be all that different due to the fact that we all have one monstrous thing in common, our humanity.

Mann had me wondering if he wasn't something more than human, though, his elegance, wisdom, humor and charm are in such top form. And while it could have been one of the great many gods of Baal that Mann includes throughout who could have helped guide his pen, I'm more prone to believe it was the God of the wanderer who possessed his wrist on occasion.

AN OUTSTANDING BOOK
One of the greatest books ever written.

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Beautiful!
The new translation of Joseph and His Brothers is beautiful, as is the novel.Yes, it's long--about 1500 pages--but it's worth all the time it takes to read.Perhaps this isn't the place to start, if you haven't read Mann before, but if you already admire his work, you're going to love this book. ... Read more

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It is not impossible that in the minds of some persons the idea of employing gentle measures in the management and training of children may seem to imply the abandonment of the principle of _authority_, as the basis of the parental government, and the substitution of some weak and inefficient system of artifice and manoeuvring in its place. To suppose that the object of this work is to aid in effecting such a substitution as that, is entirely to mistake its nature and design. The only government of the parent over the child that is worthy of the name is one of authority--complete, absolute, unquestioned _authority_. The object of this work is, accordingly, not to show how the gentle methods which will be brought to view can be employed as a substitute for such authority, but how they can be made to aid in establishing and maintaining it.
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The Teacher, or Moral Influences in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

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Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young by Jacob Abbott

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CONTENTS.CHAPTER I. THREE MODES OF MANAGEMENTCHAPTER II. WHAT ARE GENTLE MEASURES?CHAPTER III. THERE MUST BE AUTHORITYCHAPTER IV. GENTLE PUNISHMENT OF DISOBEDIENCECHAPTER V. THE PHILOSOPHY OF PUNISHMENTCHAPTER VI. REWARDING OBEDIENCECHAPTER VII. THE ART OF TRAININGCHAPTER VIII. METHODS EXEMPLIFIEDCHAPTER IX. DELLA AND THE DOLLSCHAPTER X. SYMPATHY:--I. THE CHILD WITH THE PARENTCHAPTER XI. SYMPATHY:--II. THE PARENT WITH THE CHILDCHAPTER XII. COMMENDATION AND ENCOURAGEMENTCHAPTER XIII. FAULTS OF IMMATURITYCHAPTER XIV. THE ACTIVITY OF CHILDRENCHAPTER XV. THE IMAGINATION IN CHILDRENCHAPTER XVI. TRUTH AND FALSEHOODCHAPTER XVII. JUDGMENT AND REASONINGCHAPTER XVIII. WISHES AND REQUESTSCHAPTER XIX. CHILDREN'S QUESTIONSCHAPTER XX. THE USE OF MONEYCHAPTER XXI. CORPORAL PUNISHMENTCHAPTER XXII. GRATITUDE IN CHILDRENCHAPTER XXIII. RELIGIOUS TRAININGCHAPTER XXIV. CONCLUSION
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