The Resurrection of Bayou Savage: Guitar Ghost Fighter

March 18th, 2010

The Resurrection of Bayou Savage: Guitar Ghost Fighter Ghost Fighting Heros – Sci Lover – Smithdale MS
I just read book 2, Bayou Savage, “The Ghost Wars” and picked up and finished this first book becasue I love these characters. I throughly enjoyed both books!!!! My opinion is that if Jeff Foxworthy wrote a ghost fighting action hero series, they would read like these book. The Razor character is my favorite….
Perfect for ANY Musician – M. Burns – Dayton, OH USA
I can safely say this is one of the coolest books I’ve ever read. Russell takes guitar playing to a new level in this thriller about a “Guitar Ghost Hunter” who battles ghosts with an Old Fender Guitar, and the legend and circumstances surrounding his life and death. If you like science-fiction that won’t take you 6 years to finish reading, you’ll love this book. Perfect for readers of all ages, and musicians in particular.
Simply Wonderful! – –
Imagination! The author can hardly harness all of the ideas that flow through this work. So innovative and creative that one never knows exactly what’s going to happen. Once you think you have it figured out…bingo! – another plot twist. A marvelous new, fresh take on the “200-year-old man” concept. Musicians will love this book!! It’s a page burner!
What a cool idea to have a ghost slaying guitar! The futuristic setting and the flashbacks to the 20th and early 21st Centuries are right on. I found myself trying to be a part of the whole story. The Savages are such real characters. Bayou trying to please his father and Razor, the ghost ass kicker, always ready for the challenge. The song references brought back many great memories and the humor throughout the book had me reading with a smile on my face. Hopefully, there will be more of the Savage family coming! : Bayou Savage was in a coma for over two hundred years. He was known as a guitar ghost-fighting legend. Steve Johnson’s task was to bring him back to life and figure out who and what he was.

Not much was known from that time period, except that Bayou had inherited a guitar from the true ghost fighter of ghost fighters, the famous “Razor Savage.”

To accomplish this, Steve had to go into Bayou’s brain and bring him back to consciousness. This was the start of an incredible adventure of reliving the final days of the true ghost wars. Were the legends true? Did Bayou commit suicide? Was Razor all that he was cracked up to be?

Time was running out on Steve and he decided to take the plunge on Oct 31, Halloween night. What follows next is a hilarious, detailed account of a hero who didn’t want to be a hero, a true father-son relationship, and the magic and music of Bayou Savage.

The Resurrection of Bayou Savage: Guitar Ghost Fighter

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Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life

March 16th, 2010

Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life Excellent, engaging book by a spectacular scholar… – brian – Mass., USA
Fair disclosure: I know Professor Levenson, i.e., as one of his students. But honestly, this is a very, very good book; if you are even remotely interested in the topic of resurrection in ancient Israelite literature and Judaism, then you should buy this volume immediately.

This book is highly readable, relatively jargon-free, and is written as much for educated non-scholarly readers as much as for the academic community. Rarely does a book serve both communities so well.
A Major Disappointment – Cebes – Dracut, MA United States
Levenson is one of the top Biblical scholars today, and his previous book Death & Resurrection of the Beloved Son is simply a brilliant and innovative work, albeit demanding. So one expected further great things in Levenson’s new book. This book purports to challenge the scholarly consensus that the doctrine of resurrection of the body is a major innovation in traditional Judaism and probably the result of influence from the Persian religion of Zoroastrianism, which did include such a doctrine. But the argument falls flat. While there are a couple of mentions of the possibility of reviving the dead in the pre-apocalyptic period, even Levenson himself admits that the standard Jewish view was that bodily death was final. He also points out that what mattered for traditional Judaism was not individual survival after death, but survival of the Jewish people as a whole. However, he does not seem to realize that this last point undercuts his argument, for it suggests that the doctrine of individual bodily resurrection was indeed a dramatic innovation. His argument that bodily resurrection was continuous with traditional Judaism comes down to the extremely weak claim that God is a God of life and promised blessings to Israel. But how you can derive a very specific and alien doctrine of bodily resurrection at judgment day, from this extremely vague generality about God being a god of life, is beyond me. Wouldn’t it seem to be more likely that being directly exposed to this new specific doctrine of resurrection among the Persians would be a better explanation? Nor does Levenson explain, if the resurrection idea is continuous with the Jewish tradition, how it is that so many Jewish groups vigorously opposed this new doctrine (e.g. the Saducees). In the end, even Levenson admits that, as he puts it, the conventional view that resurrection is a major innovation “is not necessarily wrong” (Watch out for double negatives: they usually indicate when an author is making a reluctant concession), and that there is a “large measure of truth” to the conventional view. In order to defend his unlikely conclusion, Levenson is forced to insist on a more “dynamic” conception of truth. That sure sounds like relativism to me. But in any case, the argument is extremely weak and unconvincing. By all means, read Levenson’s “Death and Resurrection.” But this new book just doesn’t measure up.
Levenson challenges the standard opinion of scholarship, which holds that the notion of bodily resurrection is a late development within Judaism supported only briefly by the early rabbis who employed methods of biblical interpretation at odds with modern scientific criticisms. By examining concepts such as ancestral lineage, family name, Sheol, and key biblical texts, Levenson convincingly demonstrates that the concept of resurrection developed over a long course of time from Judaism’s roots,and by neglecting the concept in recent centuries Judaism has missed out on one of it’s own treasured tenets of hope. Rarely does a book turn scholarship on its head as this one does — a must read for Jewish and Christian scriptural, historical, and theological scholars. :

This provocative volume explores the origins of the Jewish doctrine of the resurrection of the dead. Jon D. Levenson argues that, contrary to a very widespread misconception, the ancient rabbis were keenly committed to the belief that at the end of time, God would restore the deserving dead to life. In fact, Levenson points out, the rabbis saw the Hebrew Bible itself as committed to that idea.
The author meticulously traces the belief in resurrection backward from its undoubted attestations in rabbinic literature and in the Book of Daniel, showing where the belief stands in continuity with earlier Israelite culture and where it departs from that culture. Focusing on the biblical roots of resurrection, Levenson challenges the notion that it was a foreign import into Judaism, and in the process he develops a neglected continuity between Judaism and Christianity. His book will shake the thinking of scholars and lay readers alike, revising the way we understand the history of Jewish ideas about life, death, and the destiny of the Jewish people.

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Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity (Ekstasis)

March 13th, 2010

Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity (Ekstasis) : How were ideas and experiences of transformation expressed in early Christianity and early Judaism? This volume explores the social and philosophical frameworks within which transformative ideas such as resurrection and practices of becoming “”a new being”" were shaped. It also explores the analogies and parameters by which transformation was being observed, noted and asserted. The focus on transformation helps to connect topics that tend to be studied separately, such as cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, and conversion. The textual material is wide-ranging and there are new readings of core passages. Ideas and experiences of transformations in early Christianity and early Judaism Connects topics that tend to be studied seperately (cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, conversion) With wide-ranging textual material

Metamorphoses: Resurrection, Body and Transformative Practices in Early Christianity (Ekstasis)

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