At Jerusalem's Gate

At Jerusalem's Gate
Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780802851833

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A combination of poetry and woodcut illustrations invites readers to explore the events surrounding the first Easter.

Gates of Jerusalem

Gates of Jerusalem
Author: Christopher Roberts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2018-03-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781980516972

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This book is about the rebuilding of the Wall(s) of Jerusalem and its accompanying Gates - in many respects, the building of these walls concentrated on the Gates of Jerusalem because that's where assaults from Israel's enemies were most likely. Not only is there a physical aspect to the building of these gates, there is a spiritual one too. Each gate represents an important aspect, in the life of a Christian, that needs attention or rebuilding. For example, the Sheep Gate represents the concept that: Jesus is the foundation on which our lives are built upon; the Fish Gate represents the calling of God on our lives; and the Old Gate represents the fact that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever, etc. As you read this book, allow the Holy Spirit to identify the gates that have been broken down in your life and allow God to restore your walk with the Lord in accordance with his word. If you enjoy this book, there are many other books by Christopher Roberts available to you on Amazon.

Her Gates Will Never Be Shut

Her Gates Will Never Be Shut
Author: Brad Jersak
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1630871281

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Everlasting hell and divine judgment, a lake of fire and brimstone--these mainstays of evangelical tradition have come under fire once again in recent decades. Would the God of love revealed by Jesus really consign the vast majority of humankind to a destiny of eternal, conscious torment? Is divine mercy bound by the demands of justice? How can anyone presume to know who is saved from the flames and who is not? Reacting to presumptions in like manner, others write off the fiery images of final judgment altogether. If there is a God who loves us, then surely all are welcome into the heavenly kingdom, regardless of their beliefs or behaviors in this life. Yet, given the sheer volume of threat rhetoric in the Scriptures and the wickedness manifest in human history, the pop-universalism of our day sounds more like denial than hope. Mercy triumphs over judgment; it does not skirt it. Her Gates Will Never Be Shut endeavors to reconsider what the Bible and the Church have actually said about hell and hope, noting a breadth of real possibilities that undermines every presumption. The polyphony of perspectives on hell and hope offered by the prophets, apostles, and Jesus humble our obsessive need to harmonize every text into a neat theological system. But they open the door to the eternal hope found in Revelation 21-22: the City whose gates will never be shut; where the Spirit and Bride perpetually invite the thirsty who are outside the city to "Come, drink of the waters of life."

The Gate Behind the Wall

The Gate Behind the Wall
Author: Samuel C. Heilman
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780827605558

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Samuel Heilman went to Jerusalem as a scholar and found himself walking the ancient streets as a pilgrim, on a quest to overcome his estrangement from Jewish texts and to integrate their meaning into his life.

Nicanor's Gate

Nicanor's Gate
Author: Eric A. Kimmel
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2020-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1728405424

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Set in biblical times, the story of Nicanor's Gate—one of the entrances to the Temple in Jerusalem—shows how a man's faith is important to living a happy, fulfilled life. Nicanor, a wealthy merchant from Alexandria, is thrilled when King Herod calls on him to assist in rebuilding the ruined Temple in Jerusalem. Nicanor orders massive, beautifully intricate doors to be built, especially for the Eastern Gate of the Temple, but disaster strikes while the gates are being shipped from Alexandria to Jerusalem. To escape sinking, the ship must reduce its load, and one of the doors is pushed into the sea. But a miracle happens: the heavy door surfaces, is recovered from the sea, and installed as an entrance to the Temple area.

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
Author: Kai Bird
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2010-04-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439171602

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*From the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus—the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film Oppenheimer* Now with a new introduction, Kai Bird’s fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict. In 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a charming American diplomat, moved to Jerusalem with his family. Kai could hear church bells and the Muslim call to prayer and watch as donkeys and camels competed with cars for space on the narrow streets. Each day on his way to school, Kai was driven through Mandelbaum Gate, where armed soldiers guarded the line separating Israeli-controlled West Jerusalem from Arab-controlled East. Bird would spend much of his life crossing such lines—as a child in Jerusalem, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and later, as a young man in Lebanon. In Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, a narrative that “rips along like a spy novel” (The New York Times Book Review), Bird’s retelling of “events such as Suez in 1956, the Six Day War of 1967, and Black September in 1970 are as clear and fresh as yesterday” (The Spectator, UK). Bird vividly portrays emblematic figures like George Antonius, author of The Arab Awakening; Jordan’s King Hussein; the Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled; Salem bin Laden; Saudi King Faisal; President Nasser of Egypt; and Hillel Kook, the forgotten rescuer of more than 100,000 Jews during World War II. Bird, his parents sympathetic to Palestinian self-determination and his wife the daughter of two Holocaust survivors, has written a “kaleidoscopic and captivating” (Publishers Weekly) personal history of a troubled region and an indispensable addition to the literature on the modern Middle East.

City of a Thousand Gates

City of a Thousand Gates
Author: Bee Sacks
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0063011492

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WINNER OF THE JANET HEIGINGER KAFKA PRIZE FOR FICTION “The novel showcases the humanity, tragedy, and complexity of life in the West Bank. . . . The characters’ interwoven lives will stay with you long after the book's denouement.” —Entertainment Weekly “Sacks is an extraordinarily gifted writer whose intelligence, compassion and skill on both the sentence and tension level rise to meet her ambition. She keeps us constantly on edge. . . . City of a Thousand Gates makes a convincing case for a literature of multiplicity, polyphonic and clamorous, abuzz with challenges and contradictions, with no clear answers but a promise to stay alert to the world, in all its peril and vitality.” —Washington Post Brave and bold, this gorgeously written novel introduces a large cast of characters from various backgrounds in a setting where violence is routine and where survival is defined by boundaries, walls, and checkpoints that force people to live and love within and across them. Hamid, a college student, has entered Israeli territory illegally for work. Rushing past soldiers, he bumps into Vera, a German journalist headed to Jerusalem to cover the story of Salem, a Palestinian boy beaten into a coma by a group of revenge-seeking Israeli teenagers. On her way to the hospital, Vera runs in front of a car that barely avoids hitting her. The driver is Ido, a new father traveling with his American wife and their baby. Ido is distracted by thoughts of a young Jewish girl murdered by a terrorist who infiltrated her settlement. Ori, a nineteen-year-old soldier from a nearby settlement, is guarding the checkpoint between Bethlehem and Jerusalem through which Samar—Hamid’s professor—must pass. These multiple strands open this magnificent and haunting novel of present-day Israel and Palestine, following each of these diverse characters as they try to protect what they love. Their interwoven stories reveal complicated, painful truths about life in this conflicted land steeped in hope, love, hatred, terror, and blood on both sides. City of a Thousand Gates brilliantly evokes the universal drives that motivate these individuals to think and act as they do—desires for security, for freedom, for dignity, for the future of one’s children, for land that each of us, no matter who or where we are, recognize and share.

Damascus Gate

Damascus Gate
Author: Robert Stone
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 534
Release: 1999-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0684859114

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American journalist Christopher Lucas is investigating religious fanatics when he discovers a plot to bomb the sacred Temple Mount.

Indians at Herod's Gate

Indians at Herod's Gate
Author: Navtej Sarna
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9788129134516

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Eight hundred years ago Baba Farid, the great Sufi saint of the Chisti order, visited Jerusalem, freshly wrested back for Islam from the Crusaders by Saladin, and meditated there for forty days in an underground room. Later, an Indian Hospice was born through a waqf endowment around that room and has welcomed Indian pilgrims and soldiers to Jerusalem ever since. For close to a century, through the tumultuous years of the British Mandate, the Second World War, the birth of Israel and the ensuing decades of conflict, the Hospice has been looked after by an Indian family first by Sheikh Nazir Hasan Ansari, a police inspector s son from Saharanpur, and then by his eldest son, Sheikh Munir Ansari. Following in the tradition of literary travellers such as Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux, Navtej Sarna wanders through the timeless narrow lanes of Old Jerusalem, sifting through fact and fable to tease out the unique story of the Indian Hospice and the Ansari family. What starts off as a personal conversation becomes a deeply researched but lightly told account that weaves historical narrative with telling personal detail.

What on Earth Is God Doing?

What on Earth Is God Doing?
Author: Renald Showers
Publisher: Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780915540808

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Walk from creation to eternity in a way guaranteed to change your view of the world. You'll finally understand the war Satan is waging against God and how that conflict has affected history, including the persecution of Jewish people and Christians.