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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Jill Hicks Lawson
During an extended visit to her hometown located at the head of the Chesapeake Bay, Faith Livingston has the opportunity to resolve her greatest "what if." When presented with a do-over involving those who still hold her heart, should she take it? How much of her present life is she willing to risk? How is it possible to reconcile one's future path with an unforgettable past?Hicks's skillful use of first person narrative and dialogue engages her readers in the personal lives of her characters: some lovable, and some, not so much. Unexpected twists and turns mirror the fragile complexities of our own lives and the relationships we have built--and destroyed--along the way. As her stories unfold, one becomes invested in the page-turning emotions and events. Hicks is an independent author and "Sundial" is her sixth novel.
Arguing with Aseneth shows how the ancient Jewish romance known as Joseph and Aseneth moves a minor character in Genesis from obscurity to renown, weaving a new story whose main purpose was to intervene in ancient Jewish debates surrounding gentile access to Israel's God. Written in Greco-Roman Egypt around the turn of the era, Joseph and Aseneth combines the genre of the ancient Greek novel with scriptural characters from the story of Joseph as it retells Israel's mythic past to negotiate communal boundaries in its own present. With attention to the ways in which Aseneth's tale "remixes" Genesis, wrestles with Deuteronomic theology, and adopts prophetic visions of the future, Arguing with Aseneth demonstrates that this ancient novel inscribes into Israel's sacred narrative a precedent for gentile inclusion in the people belonging to Israel's God. Aseneth is transformed from material mother of the sons of Joseph to a mediator of God's mercy and life to future penitents, Jew and gentile alike. Yet not all Jewish thinkers in antiquity drew boundary lines the same way or in the same place. Arguing with Aseneth traces, then, not only the way in which Joseph and Aseneth affirms the possibility of gentile incorporation but also ways in which other ancient Jewish thinkers, including the apostle Paul, would have argued back, contesting Joseph and Aseneth's very conclusions or offering alternative, competing strategies of inclusion. With its use of a female protagonist, Joseph and Aseneth offers a distinctive model of gentile incorporation--one that eschews lines of patrilineal descent and undermines ethnicity and genealogy as necessary markers of belonging. Such a reading of this narrative shows us that we need to rethink our accounts of how ancient Jewish thinkers, including our earliest example from the Jesus Movement, negotiated who was in and who was out when it came to the people of Israel's God.
Does Scripture Speak for Itself?
Jill Hicks-Keeton; Cavan Concannon
Cambridge University Press
2022
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Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book's powerful exploration of the fraught ways in which money, race and power shape the story of Christianity in American public life. The authors' subject is the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC: arguably the latest example of a long line of white evangelical institutions aiming to amplify and promote a religious, political, and moral agenda of their own. In their careful and compelling investigation, Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon disclose the ways in which the Museum's exhibits reinforce a particularized and partial interpretation of the Bible's meaning. Bringing to light the Museum's implicit messaging about scriptural provenance and audience, the authors reveal how the MOTB produces a version of the Bible that in essence authorizes a certain sort of white evangelical privilege; promotes a view of history aligned with that same evangelical aspiration; and above all protects a cohort of white evangelicals from critique. They show too how the Museum collapses vital conceptual distinctions between its own conservative vision of the Bible and 'The Bible' as a cultural icon. This revelatory volume above all confirms that scripture – for all the claims made for it that it speaks only divine truth – can in the end never be separated from human politics.
Bay Avenue I: The Inheritance
Jill Lynn Hicks
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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"Bay Avenue I: The Inheritance" is the story of three brothers and their connection to a beach house in the quaint shore town of Lewes, Delaware. The house had been in the family for generations when a beautiful redhead and an unexpected relative entered their lives. Romance and power struggles become a heartbreaking combination changing family dynamics forever.
Literacies Before Technologies: Making Digital Tools Matter for Middle Grades Learners
Troy Hicks; Jill Runstrom
National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte
2023
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This practical book brings together coauthors Troy Hicks and Jill Runstrom with the voices of ten additional middle level educators (Grades 4-9) to explore applications of NCTE's Beliefs for Integrating Technology into the English Language Arts Classroom position statement in middle grades classrooms. Including chapters and vignettes that explore lessons and technologies for close and critical reading for literary analysis, writing to argue and inform, and considerations for remote and hybrid learning, the book follows a year in the life of Runstrom's ninth-grade English classroom. With specific lesson ideas and examples of student work, the book brings the entire Beliefs statement to life while also foregrounding the primary goal that we should consider "literacies before technologies," creating rich opportunities for reading and writing, enhanced with digital tools. An annotated bibliography is also included.
The Long Climb Back is the story of an adventurous young woman who strikes out on her own after an over-the-top marriage proposal from a winery heir. Her travels introduce her to two engaging brothers. Will she be able to return to her fianc with her mind, body, and soul intact?
Bay Avenue III: Pratt-ically Speaking
Jill L. Hicks
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Glasgow's most loved and famous hotel - choice of Hollywood stars on trips to Scotland, is the subject of this timely chronicle. Glamour, drama, stars, fame, food and travel, this book has it all in glorious colour and celebrates the best and the refurbishment of this stunning landmark for Glasgow.
How to Make Money on eBay -- Maximize Profits: Secrets, Stories, Tips and Hacks - Confessions of a 16-year eBay Veteran
Jill Bong; Jill B
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Secrets of a 16-year Full-Time Seller and Pioneering Power SellerHave you sold some items but are looking for more to sell?Are you looking to expand your eBay business but don't know where to start?Selling on eBay is a BUSINESS and I have been in this business long enough to know that there are no guarantees, regardless of past performances.In this book, I will give you the TOOLS to help you find products and to TOOLS to help you maximize your profits on eBay.Unlike other eBay authors, I do not recommend buying stock wholesale to resell on eBay.I will explain why in this book.I do not look for items to sell at garage sales or storage auctions.Finding a niche market is great, but I will show why you do not need to have a niche to make money on eBay.Instead I will show you how to maximize profits with tricks on how to get the best deals on NEW items from retail sources like Staples, Kohl's, Target and MORE
Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable 'friend', and then falls in love for real, undergraduate life becomes its own strange world .'Absolutely contemporary - perhaps even prophetic.' Joyce Carol Oates'Remarkable . A book about innocence.' Simon Garfield'A cryptic literary manifesto [about] discovering a literary personality, and the consolation art can provide.' Andrew Motion
