This commentary explains the true meaning of the book of Exodus and makes its message plain.Exodus recounts the supreme Old Testament example of the saving acts of God, narrates the instituting of Passover and enshrines the giving of God's law. It portrays Moses as the prototype of all Israel's prophets, and Aaron, the first high priest.Paul Williamson offers a careful and clear treatment of this foundational text, with its overarching focus on the divine-h...

Godly Love: Impediments and Possibilities examines the theory of “Godly Love,” understood as including a vertical axis denoting the love of God and a horizontal axis involving the love of others, is at the core of a new field of research that studies how divine love influences the love of others and vice-versa. It is a multidisciplinary research program into the benevolent expressions of the Great Commandment of the Christian tradition involving the theological and social sciences. Theolog...

DescriptionBlockchain: The First Comprehensive guide to Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, smart contacts, and the Future of Blockchain is your one-stop guide to everything that you need to know about the blockchain technology and the different cryptocurrencies. This book is your handy manual that will teach you:What a blockchain isHow the blockchain worksThe different cryptocurrenciesHow to earn cryptocurren...

Although outlawed in many states, serpent handling remains an active religious practice—and one that is far more stereotyped than understood. Ralph W. Hood, Jr. and W. Paul Williamson have spent fifteen years touring serpent-handling churches in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia, conducting scores of interviews with serpent handlers, and witnessing hundreds of serpent-handling services. In this illuminating book they present the most in-depth, compreh...

Paul is one of a set of titles in the Candle Little Lambs series. These books are designed for children 2 and over, and the small format is great for toddlers. There are plenty of pictures for little ones to look at accompanying the simple retellings. The full series includes: Adam and Eve, Noah and the Ark, Joseph, Moses in the Bulrushes, Ruth and Naomi, Samuel, David and Goliath, Daniel and the Lions, Jonah and the Great Fish, Baby Jesus, Peter the Fisherman, The Good Samaritan, The Prod...

'A love of nature and attention to detail clearly shine through.' - Les WicksPaul Williamson's earlier poetry collections are Edge of Southern Bright and A Hint of Eden.

'Williamson presents great images and plays so well with colour in this manuscript. His environmental poems shine with naked engagement.' - Les WicksA new collection from the author of Ties to Red Hill, Edge of Southern Bright, To the Spice Islands, Moments from Red Hill and The DNA Bookshelf.

‘Williamson’s working life poems have a real strength, and as with so much of his work, it really soars when he is describing the natural environment and wildlife.’ – Les Wicks

Ilsa is a passionate woman. Her life is a story of adventure, bravery, compassion, learning, leadership, triumph, and loss. She is a soul on a journey, learning many lessons as well as she can, living in an ancient Celtic world. The society where she lives is ruled by a spiritual government that espouses strong green values and respect for Mother Earth in all its forms; it is a place where people strive for peace and harmony in their lives. It is a very different world from the modern, hig...

This is a horror story of native American violence. It carries a grim lesson for the whole country. Political doctrines have played no part in the violence and murder that have brought much ill fame to one corner of Illinois. On the map, Williamson is just another county. But in history it is a place in which a strange disease has raged for more than eighty years—a disease marked by a pathological tendency to settle differences by force.Fascinated by this, Paul M. Angle, the well-kn...

What kind of knowledge could be obtainable just by thinking? Debating the A Priori presents a series of exchanges between two leading philosophers on how to answer this question. In this extended debate, Boghossian and Williamson contribute alternating chapters which develop radically contrasting views and present detailed replies to each other's arguments. A central case is the nature of basic logical knowledge and the justification for basic deductive inferences, but the argumen...

A remarkable collection, Robots through the Ages includes stories from some of the best writers of science fiction, both old and new.This anthology, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg, offers a sweeping survey of robots as depicted throughout literature. Since the Iliad—in which we are shown golden statues built by Hephaestus “with minds and wisdoms”—humans have been fascinated by the idea of artificial life. From the Argonautica t...