INTRODUCED BY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER STEPHEN KINGA STUNNING COLLECTION OF DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S THIRTEEN DARKEST STORIES - INCLUDING 'THE BIRDS' AND 'DON'T LOOK NOW'Amid the reflections and twisting alleyways of Venice, a grieving couple are haunted by the past. On a sharp December day, the wind changes - and the birds begin to gather. A group of wartime scientists attempt to capture the power of death, an eye operation reveals a monstrous reality, and a woman returns home ...

耶穌不談政治……真的嗎？聽到「政治」，你會想到什麼呢？在許多人的印象中，政治這個詞往往具有負面的含義，令人想起腐敗的權力、敏感且具爭議性的話題，以及「人在江湖，身不由己」的無奈。許多基督徒甚至會覺得，既然教會的使命就是傳福音，那麼教會最好不要談政治，以免製造紛爭、混淆視聽。畢竟，耶穌也不談政治，不是嗎？然而，新約學者曾思瀚博士指出，若說「耶穌不談政治」，就是徹底誤解了政治，也誤讀了福音書。身處二十一世紀的我們，往往因為缺乏背景知識，而忽略了福音書及使徒行傳中豐富的政治含義。曾思瀚博士透過扎實的新約研究功夫，重建當時的經濟、文化與意識型態，為讀者做出詮釋的示範，幫助我們看見，從「政治」的角度解讀福音書與使徒行傳，會是什麼樣子──原來，耶穌出身的加利利，不是一個平靜的鄉下漁港，而是一個政治派系錯綜複雜、革命運動風起雲湧的地區！原來，耶穌說出「寡婦奉獻的比喻」，不是要鼓勵人憑信心奉獻，而是要指責宗教領袖欺壓百姓、導致社會貧富不均！原來，...

This Audiobook contains the following works: - The Island of Doctor Moreau [H.G. wells] - Tess of the d'Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy] - The Call of Cthulhu [H.P Lovecraft] - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court [Mark twain] - The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [Robert Louis Stevenson] - Crime and Punishment [Fyodor Dostoyevsky] - Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] - A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens] - The jungle book [Rudyard Kipling] - The Border Legion [Zane Grey]

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