Steve Mason

Sandy Rigsby

Exploring the Sunday Lectionary: A Teenager's Guide to the Readings - Cycle B is an engaging guide designed to help teens explore the Sunday readings in a group setting or alone as a guide to personal reflection. Each session focuses on a particular Sunday. The authors provide background on each of the readings to put them in context, then ask a series of questions, which guide teens to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the scriptures. Some of the questions help young people connect the readings with situations they face in everyday life. An innovative Taking My Scripture Home section challenges them to act upon the truths they find in the Sunday readings. Advantages of this book: --covers all three readings as well as the Responsorial Psalm --provides factual background information describing the context of the reading --explores each reading in depth --gives two distinct experiences of scripture study: questions for a group and private reflection questions --can be used in a small or large group setting or as a personal resource --easy to facilitate --inexpensive +

A Teenager's Guide to the Readings, Cycle B

Exploring the Sunday Lectionary

Volume 1b in Brill's Josephus Project contains Book 2 of Josephus' Judean War (translation and commentary). This book deals with a period of enormous consequence: from King Herod's death (4 BCE) to the first phase of the war against Rome (66 CE). The commentary aims at a balance between historical and literary issues.

Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 1B: Judean War 2

Poems deal with the Vietnam War, death, fear, courage, the pointlessness of war, memorials for the dead, and the strength of the human spirit

Warrior for Peace

Eugenio Ercolani

Tom Betts

Welcome Pardners' to the second issue of The Spaghetti Western Digest! Two hundred forty-five pages of delicious Spaghetti western content. In this issue, we look at the good, the bad, and the genre's obscure films. We have also included new interviews with Italian film experts Daniel Camargo, Roberto Curti, Kevin Grant, and the fabled director Sergio Martino! The contributors to this issue include some of the genres best writers, including Tom Betts, Dennis Capicik, Eugenio Ercolani, Steve Fenton, Rene Hogguer, Steve Mason, Tony Nash, and Van Roberts! Michael Hauss edits the Spaghetti Western Digest. So, for A Fistful of Dollars, issue #2 can be yours, Amigos!

Issue # 2

The Spaghetti Western Digest

A conflict that erupted between Roman legions and some Judaeans in late A.D. 66 had an incalculable impact on Rome's physical appearance and imperial governance; on ancient Jews bereft of their mother-city and temple; and on early Christian fortunes. Historical scholarship and cinema alike tend to see the conflict as the culmination of long Jewish resistance to Roman oppression. In this volume, Steve Mason re-examines the war in all relevant contexts (e.g., the Parthian dimension, Judaea's place in Roman Syria) and phases, from the Hasmoneans to the fall of Masada. Mason approaches each topic as a historical investigation, clarifying problems that need to be solved, understanding the available evidence, and considering scenarios that might explain the evidence. The simplest reconstructions make the conflict more humanly intelligible while casting doubt on received knowledge.

Steve Mason

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