Sign in with Facebook
“This faith, is not like a deed to a house in which one may live with full rights of possession. It is more like a kit of tools with which a man may build himself a house. The tools will be worth just what he does with them. When he lays them down, they will have no value until he takes them up again.”
― The Robe
― The Robe
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“The most important of these texts are the Nuzi tablets from northern Iraq, which date to the fifteenth century B.C.E. To cite just a few examples, in Nuzi a barren wife is required to provide a slave woman for her husband to bear his children—a clear parallel to the biblical story of Sarai and Hagar in Gen 16.”
― The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel
― The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel
Shing-kit’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shing-kit’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
204 books
|
27 friends
2,028 books
|
353 friends
72 books
|
134 friends
114 books
|
198 friends
169 books
|
40 friends
3 books
|
15 friends
15 books
|
20 friends
0 books
|
155 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Shing-kit
Lists liked by Shing-kit
