Epistles


Letters to a Young Poet
84, Charing Cross Road
Letters from a Stoic
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations (from the Beaten Track): The Letters of Richard P. Feynman
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
A Life in Letters
The Screwtape Letters: Also Includes "Screwtape Proposes a Toast"
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Letters from Father Christmas
Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version
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Amélie Nothomb
The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so on, were texts into which others were free to enter, or not. Letters, on the other hand, did not exist without the other person, and their very mission, their significance, was the epiphany of the recipient.
Amélie Nothomb, Life Form

There are no known non-biblical references to a historical Jesus by any historian or other writer of the time during and shortly after Jesus's purported advent. As Barbara G. Walker says, 'No literate person of his own time mentioned him in any known writing.' Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo Judaeus of Alexandria (20 BCE-50 CE)—alive at the purported time of Jesus, and one of the wealthiest and best connected citizens of the Empire—makes no mention of Christ, Christians or Christianity in h ...more
D.M. Murdock, The Origins of Christianity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus Christ

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