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The Books of Jacob [a] (Polish: Księgi Jakubowe [b] [c]) is an epic historical novel [5] by Olga Tokarczuk, published by Wydawnictwo Literackie in October 2014. [6] It is Tokarczuk's ninth novel and is the product of extensive historical research, taking her seven years to write. [7] The Books of Jacob is a 912-page
In her chapter on kinship in the Book of Mormon published in Oxford press's Americanist Approaches, Nancy Bentley, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in kinship in 19th-century America, analyzes Jacob's speech. Jacob writes that God forbids polygamy to the Nephites in order to prioritize family harmony over ...
Jacob, [a] later given the name Israel, [b] is a patriarch regarded as the forefather of the Israelites, according to Abrahamic religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Jacob first appears in the Book of Genesis, originating from the Hebrew tradition in the Torah.
Throne of a Thousand Years is a non-fiction book by author Jacob Truedson Demitz, [1] first published in 1996 and again in 2020 as Centuries of Selfies.It was the first English-language historical account solely about the monarchs of Sweden.
Fundamenta nova theoriae functionum ellipticarum [1] (from Latin: New Foundations of the Theory of Elliptic Functions) is a treatise on elliptic functions by German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi. [2] The book was first published in 1829, and has been reprinted in volume 1 of his collected works and on several later occasions.
The Testament of Jacob is a work now regarded as part of the Old Testament apocrypha. [1] It is often treated as one of a trio of very similar works called the Testament of the Patriarchs, the other two of which are the Testament of Abraham and Testament of Isaac , though there is no reason to assume that they were originally a single work. [ 2 ]
Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, pronounced [ˌkɪndɐ ʔʊnt ˈhaʊsmɛːɐ̯çən], commonly abbreviated as KHM), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.
Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 – 30 January 1916) was an Australian-born folklorist, literary critic and historian who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore.