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Excerpt from Design: An IntroductionIn this book you will find that the words inspiration, expression, imagination, intui tion, lavishly employed in most writings about the subject, are here used sparingly. In recent years these terms have come to acquire a sort of exotic ¿avor, mystical overtones that have taken them out of everyday practice and thrown a veil of irrationality across the men tal processes involved. This is not the fault of the...

In Psalm 49 and the Path to Redemption, Janet Smith revisits her PhD dissertation, Dust or Dew: Immortality in the Ancient Near East and in Psalm 49, reconfiguring the book for a general audience and expanding it to focus on a theme of biblical redemption. The new work takes the reader through the development of Israel's belief in an afterlife, both the positive hope but also the negative fate of those who are spiritually impoverished. Beyond ...

In Psalm 49 and the Path to Redemption, Janet Smith revisits her PhD dissertation, Dust or Dew: Immortality in the Ancient Near East and in Psalm 49, reconfiguring the book for a general audience and expanding it to focus on a theme of biblical redemption. The new work takes the reader through the development of Israel's belief in an afterlife, both the positive hope but also the negative fate of those who are spiritually impoverished. Beyond ...

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Dust or Dew addresses the question of Israel's unique contribution to beliefs about afterlife in the Ancient Near East as hinted at in Psalm 49. Dust or Dew shows which other readings, from the literature of both ancient Israel and its neighbours, enriches our understanding not only of the psalm and but also of Israel's developing concepts of sheol and redemption for the righteous.

Excerpt from Design: An Introduction Here is the source of all color-vision, in the so-called white light of the sun. This continuous gradation of the spectral colors can be seen whenever a beam of sunlight is dispersed by means of a glass prism or a shower of water drops. The different wave lengths of light are thus separated and the rainbow colors show themselves. Objects are visible to us because of the characteristic ways they reflect or...