Kimberly J. Vrudny

Advantages: Great articles, great topic
Disadvantages: None

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Advantages: This Book might help Parents.
Disadvantages: None that I can think of.

..."CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE TEENAGED SOUL: 101 MORE STORIES OF LIFE, LOVE & LEARNING" was written in 1998. The Authors are Mark Victor Hansen and Kimberly Kirberger.It was written in 1997 and there are 353 pages. I sent my Grandson a Paperback copy that has excellent advice about teenagers. I would never buy a book for a gift if I didn't check it out so I borrowed it from the Library. There are so many people who write on ciao that have teenagers that I thought you might like to know about this book. ~. MY REVIEW .~ The first thing I noticed about the book is that it was written by Adults but most of the Stories are told by Teenagers. I noticed some names of famous Teenagers who had told their Stories to the Authors. Two of them are Jennifer Love Hewitt and Andrew Keegan. There was a story about a teenager who was going though... Read review

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Advantages: Interesting ideas and new translation
Disadvantages: A bit controversial, but then, that's not necessarily a disadvantage

...Harold Bloom's 'The Book of J' caused quite a stir when it first was published. The book contains both introductory essays on authorship, a discussion of the theory of different texts being used to make up the books of the Bible (the Documentary Hypothesis), some historical context, and translation notes. The bulk of the book consists of David Rosenberg's new translation of the J text, that text having been separated and isolated from the other source texts of the Torah (first five books of the Bible). The concluding section contains essays by Bloom on different characters and themes in the text, as well as some modern theoretical analysis of the text, isolated as it is in this volume from the greater mass of material in the Bible. There is a brief appendix by Rosenberg with notes specifically geared toward translation issues... Read review

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