Ishbom

Ishbom By: Shimon-Chipp King MA Ishbom is a story about a Zurconien from the planet Zurcon and his journey of self-discovery and navigating the paradox of light and dark to gain Nivda; (knowledge, understanding and wisdom). The story explores how expectations, assumptions, attachments, judging others, justifying, blaming, opinions, ideologies, are all part of a dark Cloud that dims the Zurconiens light. For them to gain Nivda, they must go within and acknowledge their attachments to the Cloud and take back their light, which they have forgotten. Ishbom and his journey is a modifier for navigating the human experience through the paradox of good and evil. It illustrates how to recognize the areas of consciousness that feed the dark side of the human condition and the introspection and self-actualizing it takes to change the paradigm. I hope to give my readers the tools for navigating their human experience through the deceptions, lies, and illusions that is in the way of discovering their true nature of love, compassion, and selflessness. I would like my readers to see that the truth is found by going within and acknowledging the delusions that are the cause of their suffering.

Like the first volume in this series (WealthWatch, Pickwick, 2011) this book attempts to do two things: (a) examine the primary socioeconomic motifs in the Bible from a comparative intertextual perspective, and (b) trace the trajectory formed by these motifs through Tanak into early Jewish and Nazarene texts. Where WealthWatch focuses on Torah, WealthWarn focuses on the single largest section of the Bible—the Prophets. Where the ancient Near Eastern texts surveyed in WealthWatch include the Epic of Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, and the Epic of Erra, the texts examined here include Inanna's Descent, the Babylonian Creation Epic (enūma elish), the Disappearance of Telipinu, and the Ba`al Epic. Where the Jewish texts surveyed in WealthWatch include historical and sectarian texts, the texts studied here include Ezra-Nehemiah, the Epistle of Jeremiah and Tobit. Where the Nazarene texts in WealthWatch focus on the stewardship parables found in the Gospel of Luke, the texts examined here focus on several prophetic vignettes from the Gospel of Matthew and Acts of the Apostles.