Ziggurat: How Ur Gave Birth
Ziggurat takes place in a time of innovation and change within people and within communities. "What is trying to happen here?" is the book's underlying question, a question to which we can all relate as we stand at the start of a new millennium.
In his classic novel, Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann says, Deep is the well of the past." When the sons of Jacob reconsidered and drew their brother out of the well into the light of his uncertain future, he emerged midway between the Euphrates and the Nile. These two rivers of creativity became our Western CIvilization. Joseph was soon to draw his people into that other vortex of new and recorded ideas, the land of Egypt, far from the city of Ur, birthplace of his grandfathers.
This novel reaches nine generations deeper into the well of Joseph's past to follow the ambition and soul searching of Gart-eber-Sin, a young immigrant in the city of Ur. Is also examines his relationship with Kre-eg-el-Sheh, a man of similar age but of markedly different background and personality. The dynamics of urban life and regional affairs draw this unlikely pair together as their personal aspirations are transformed and melded into the destiny of their people and ours.
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Ziggurat: How Ur Gave Birth
Ziggurat takes place in a time of innovation and change within people and within communities. "What is trying to happen here?" is the book's underlying question, a question to which we can all relate as we stand at the start of a new millennium.
In his classic novel, Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann says, Deep is the well of the past." When the sons of Jacob reconsidered and drew their brother out of the well into the light of his uncertain future, he emerged midway between the Euphrates and the Nile. These two rivers of creativity became our Western CIvilization. Joseph was soon to draw his people into that other vortex of new and recorded ideas, the land of Egypt, far from the city of Ur, birthplace of his grandfathers.
This novel reaches nine generations deeper into the well of Joseph's past to follow the ambition and soul searching of Gart-eber-Sin, a young immigrant in the city of Ur. Is also examines his relationship with Kre-eg-el-Sheh, a man of similar age but of markedly different background and personality. The dynamics of urban life and regional affairs draw this unlikely pair together as their personal aspirations are transformed and melded into the destiny of their people and ours.
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Ziggurat: How Ur Gave Birth

Ziggurat: How Ur Gave Birth

Ziggurat: How Ur Gave Birth

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Ziggurat takes place in a time of innovation and change within people and within communities. "What is trying to happen here?" is the book's underlying question, a question to which we can all relate as we stand at the start of a new millennium.
In his classic novel, Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann says, Deep is the well of the past." When the sons of Jacob reconsidered and drew their brother out of the well into the light of his uncertain future, he emerged midway between the Euphrates and the Nile. These two rivers of creativity became our Western CIvilization. Joseph was soon to draw his people into that other vortex of new and recorded ideas, the land of Egypt, far from the city of Ur, birthplace of his grandfathers.
This novel reaches nine generations deeper into the well of Joseph's past to follow the ambition and soul searching of Gart-eber-Sin, a young immigrant in the city of Ur. Is also examines his relationship with Kre-eg-el-Sheh, a man of similar age but of markedly different background and personality. The dynamics of urban life and regional affairs draw this unlikely pair together as their personal aspirations are transformed and melded into the destiny of their people and ours.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940012352392
Publisher: Chora House Press
Publication date: 06/01/2008
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Kenneth R. Briggs and Janet Briggs have spent years looking for ways to understand the human condition. Attracted by the ideas of some of the early human potential movement authors, they traveled from their home in Idaho to California to attend the Esalen Institute and others. They found the writings and workshops of Joseph Campbell, with his blend of world religions, mythology, and psychology uniquely suited to their interests. It was Professor Campbell who first encouraged Janet to publish some of her early works. During the 1970s, Kenneth and Janet began to write together.
Yin and Yang Come Home, their first book, was published by Branden Press in 1975.
Following an extended period of travel in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, they moved to Boston where Janet enrolled in Harvard Divinity School. While she studied New Testament and world religions, Ken served as clinical director of East Boston Counseling Center, an Instructor at Harvard Medical School, and Clinical assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Ken and Janet currently live in Pennsylvania. They have two children and three grandchildren.
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