A Rift In The Clouds

Accompany the author on a journey which will uplift and provide an insight into the complex relationships between man, woman and the animal world. This is a very moving story of unconditional love, and the reactions of personalities faced with hereto unknown events taking place as together they journey into the unknown areas. Told from both the human and animal perspective, the reader is given glimpses of heavenly intervention and guidance. This book will tug at the heart strings and bring new insight into the relationships between man and his best friend.. The authors deep interest and understanding of the psychi, enables the reader to enjoy the humour running throughout the book, giving them glimpses of another world as stimulating, surprising and endearing the well developed characters to the readers.. Women in particular will love that which the author has written, seeing the various characters, traits associated with everyone who has been truly in love, laughing with them and crying with them.. For the male reader, it provides an opportunity to discover the intensity of feeling that a woman can undergo, as she lives, loves, is gladdened and sometimes very saddened by the events which take shape in her life...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.

Some of the things described in this book are little known to the average reader, while others are well known; but all possess the fascination of whatever is strange, marvellous, obscure, or mysterious magnified, in this case, by the portentous scale of the phenomena. The idea of the author is to tell about these things in plain language, but with as much scientific accuracy as plain language will permit, showing the wonder that is in them without getting away from the facts

"During the 20th Century Sub-Saharan Africa experienced a sweeping cultural transformation. Between 1900 and 2000 the Christian population in Kenya alone grew from less than one percent to approximately eighty percent. Behind this astonishing cultural revolution were the evangelical missionary movement and the critical support network that gave the movement its energy and staying power. Central to this network were the schools established around Africa for the children of missionaries. "School in the Clouds" is the story of the oldest and largest missionary boarding school in Africa. However, as a driving force behind this dramatic larger narrative, the history of the Rift Valley Academy is more than the story of an institution and the lives that made it up. It is a microcosm of one of the most remarkable cultural transformations in world history."--Back cover

In this examination of Zion theology and how it arises in the book of Psalms Antti Laato's starting-point is that the Hebrew Bible is the product of the exilic and postexilic times, which nonetheless contains older traditions that have played a significant role in the development of the text. Laato seeks out these older mythical traditions related to Zion using a comparative methodology and looking at Biblical traditions alongside Ugaritic texts and other ancient Near Eastern material. As such Laato provides a historical background for Zion theology which he can apply more broadly to the Psalms. In addition, Laato argues that Zion-related theology in the Psalms is closely related to two events recounted in the Hebrew Bible. First, the architectural details of the Temple of Solomon (1 Kings 6-7), which can be compared with older mythical Zion-related traditions. Second, the religious traditions related to the reigns of David and Solomon such as the Ark Narrative, which ends with David's transfer of the Ark to Jerusalem (2 Sam 6). From this Laato builds an argument for a possible setting in Jerusalem at the time of David and Solomon for the Zion theology that emerges in the Psalms.