Bøger af Duncan Wright

What is the Song of Songs and how can its voice possibly be heard against the din of pornography and the equally deafening silence of an apparently lifeless church? Duncan Wright, a Baptist minister who has seen at first hand the pastoral implications of both these issues, has rejected the idea of a formal commentary as a way of exploring this text. Wanting to avoid doing violence to the text by turning it into a sermon but equally reluctant to leave its treasures locked up, he has taken the advice of the composer Stravinsky: "The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music." The Songs are a poem, but Duncan cannot write poems and these days, most people cannot bear to read them. Instead, he has written a response to the Song of Songs in the form of this story.

Torres Strait lies at a crucial point both geographically and conceptually between Australia and the Pacific. This book examines methodologies used in both regions for examining bounded archaeological communities. It applies a model of social archaeologyand regionalisation to identify the settlement history of Mabuyag. By investigating sites of importance to the community this study provides an archaeology that is alive and important to the Goemulgaw people today. The author examines the archaeology of one Torres Strait Islander community, the Goemulgal of Mabuyag in central western Torres Strait. The book provides the first detailed archaeological study into the emergence and development of historically and ethnographically-known villages in the Torres Strait. The close examination of settlement and subsistence histories on Mabuyag furnishes chronological insights into the changing role of villages for a single island community. By examining chronologies previously established by archaeological researchers working in Torres Strait, this study adds to emerging broad chronological patterns across the region.

This book explores the experiences of rural communities who lived between the seventh and ninth centuries in central and eastern England. Combining archaeology with documentary, place-name and topographic evidences, it provides unique insight into social, economic and political conditions in 'Middle Saxon' England.