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Lewis Shiner (born December 30, 1950, in Eugene, Oregon) is an American writer.. Shiner began his career as a science fiction writer, and then identified with cyberpunk.He later wrote more mainstream novels, albeit often with magical realism and fantasy elements.
Shrine is a 1983 horror novel by English writer James Herbert, exploring themes of religious ecstasy, mass hysteria, demonic possession, faith healing and Catholicism. Plot [ edit ]
This badge represents the ornate head reliquary of St Thomas Becket and was probably sold near his shrine in Canterbury. Studying the imagery of pilgrim badges quickly leads to an ability to identify the shrine or saint associated with them. For example, St Thomas of Canterbury is often shown being martyred by one of a group of four knights. [9]
The Badge of Honor novel series is a series of novels written by W.E.B. Griffin about the Philadelphia Police Department. Although the books were originally set in the 1970s and early 1980s, and the characters have only aged a few years (Matt Payne is still only 27), Book VIII, Final Justice , moves the story to the post-9/11 era .
The original meeting resulting in the formation of the Order was held on February 20, 1911, by Shriners in the Captain’s office of the S.S. Wilhelmina to visit Aloha Temple in Hawaii. Noble A.M. Ellison of San Francisco, California was elected the leader (called a "director") and the original group, called "a cast", with thirteen members. It ...
The shrine houses the Isaiah scroll, dating from the second century BCE, the most intact of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Aleppo Codex, dating from the 10th century CE, the oldest existing Hebrew Bible. [4] A facsimile of the original Isaiah scroll is now on display in the Shrine of the Book.
Some resources for more complete information on the Dead Sea Scrolls are the book by Emanuel Tov, "Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert" [2] for a complete list of all of the Dead Sea Scroll texts, as well as the online webpages for the Shrine of the Book [3] and the Leon Levy Collection, [4] both of which present photographs and images of the scrolls and fragments themselves for ...
Side-view of the shrine of the Stowe Missal, mid-11th century. The format and function of cumdachs may derive from book caskets used by early Christian Romans.Both types were intended to protect sacred text or relics, and it is plausible that Irish monasteries would seek to emulate the prestige and, according to the Irish art historian Rachel Moss, "splendour of Roman liturgical ceremonies". [5]