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More about loveable Joe Grey and Dulcie
Engaging read
Cats with strong views on life : )
Intriquing whimsical murder mystery solved by feline sleuths

Cat Raise the Dead: A Joe Grey Mystery
Shirley Rousseau Murphy
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Joe Grey can't believe his human housemate Clyde would even consider volunteering him for the Animal Therapy program at the local nursing home, just when Joe was on the verge of solving the string of burglaries that has Molena Point residents shaking in their collective boots. But it turns out it's Dulcie, Joe's pretty little cat-friend, who came up with the idea of subjecting Joe to the cooing attentions of a bunch of doddering old coots. Dulcie believes there's more going on at the old folks' home than the care and feeding of lonely seniors. And she needs Joe's help in getting to the bottom of a conspiracy ... and a very suspicious set of deaths.

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More about loveable Joe Grey and Dulcie.......2001-07-24

This time, the two talking cat detectives come to the rescue of some old people at a home and also catch a "cat burglar". When a few of the people at the home are suspicious and scared, Dulcie starts investigating and, as always, manages to get Joe Grey involved too. How they are everywhere to find out what goes on and how they can do surveilance and eavesdropping so much easier than a human are quite entertaining. Always, they keep the police captain jumping with their anonymous phone tips and keep him worried because he suspects the two cats are involved in the crime solving. He won't allow himself to believe such things and that keeps him worried. This is a great job of cat sleuthing and is an interesting book.

Engaging read.......2001-01-29

As a cat lover and a lover of mystery novels, I'll read anything that combines these two fascinations. This is the first book in the Joe and Dulcie series that I have read. However, the cat sleuth theme is not handled as convincingly here as in stories written by, for example, Lilian Jackson Braun and Rita Mae Brown. While I can suspend disbelief and accept that cats may communicate non-verbally with their owners, or with each other, I was not able to suspend my disbelief and accept that two cats can speak and read English. Nevertheless this is an engaging, rainy-day read.

Cats with strong views on life : ).......2000-05-22

I really enjoyed this light mystery. Of course, I'm a cat lover... I often chuckled at the voice, the viewpoint and the antics of these cats...who can talk to each other and understand humans very well. There were several mysteries weaving through this book. A good, fast read.

Intriquing whimsical murder mystery solved by feline sleuths.......1998-10-29

I normally do not read mysteries, but the unique slant to this, and previous titles in this wonderful series has me hooked. Owned by 6 cats, I found this book, and its predicesors a "can't put the book down" kind of read. Joe and Dulcie are fabulously developed characters and Dulcie is absolutely adorable. After this last, I wonder when these two will have kittens, and if they will be as intelligent and vocal as their parents.(Hint) Thank you, Shirley R. Murphy, for such wonderful tales. My kind of books they are. Keep them coming.

Thirty Minutes to Raise the Dead: How You Can Preach Your Best Sermon Yet, This Sunday

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Thirty Minutes to Raise the Dead: How You Can Preach Your Best Sermon Yet, This Sunday
Bill Bennett
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Explaination of Chris's death
A roller coaster ride
exciting conclusion to a delightful Jersey murder miniseries
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A Ten Star Mystery with a Heart-Stopping Twist

Raise The Dead
Jane Rubino
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Explaination of Chris's death.......2007-03-09

I was glad she wrote a book telling us why Chris died.

A roller coaster ride.......2005-03-20

Cat Austin has had a series of calls from an anonymous caller saying that they knew why her policeman husband, Chris, had died three years earlier. When a reporter friend of Cat's tries to set up a meeting between Cat and the caller, she is murdered and the caller disappears. Cat has always assumed that her husband was killed randomly by an armed man, who turned the gun on himself, there should be no why he died. She has got on with life, raising their two children, and is about to commit to Victor, also a policeman. Now the case is reopened, as it looks as though it may have been a murder because whatever case Chris was working on must have been closing in on the truth. Cat now has to relive her terrible loss, and work with the widow of her husband's murderer to find out the truth - for a while they must raise the dead to find the answers.

This is Jane Rubino's sixth Cat Austin book - and I have to say I am hanging out for more. It has taken me a while, but I have read the whole series and can't say there is a bad one amongst them. Cat Austin is a living breathing person - one of the most `alive' characters I have come across in a long time. Her whole family is one that I would so love to be part off. And Cat's interactions with her children are so like those I had with mine, I found myself talking to the book giving her advice. The writing is easy to read, light and humorous - I often found myself laughing out loud. There are not so many characters that your eyes glaze over, and the ones there are, are all well rounded and grow through the series. While the books are a series, they can be read as stand alones as there is nothing really crucial that you need to know from previous books to assist in understanding the later books. Unlike previous books in the series, this book does have flashbacks to the characters and incidents that happened three years previously, taking us up to the funerals of the two men, but it does not distract from the plot as many flashbacks can - and actually helps clarify what some of the characters where thinking, why they did what they did. All I can say is roll on book seven, and do yourself a favour and seek this series out.

exciting conclusion to a delightful Jersey murder miniseries.......2004-09-04

Ray Stites has six weeks to live if he fails to receive treatment; he has fourteen if he does, but he owes $50K and heath care is very expensive. He worries about how his beloved Kathleen will pay the bills he leaves behind when he receives a unique offer. If he kills three people, his debts will be paid and Kathleen will receive money to live off of. He agrees to kill a woman, a cop and himself.

Three years later in the Delaware Valley, widow reporter Cat Austen raises her two children alone. Cat overhears her lover, Cape May County Homicide Investigator Victor Cardenas, tell an associate that he loves her, wants to marry her, but must tell her the truth Raise the Dead about her late husband Chris, a murdered cop. Stunned Cat begins making inquiries after confronting Victor who hides behind national security. She finds a tie to Kathleen Stites and the State of Art Fertility Clinic where she got pregnant, but the link to murdering Chris remains vague; Still someone wants her to back off from learning why her husband was killed.

This is an exciting conclusion to a delightful Jersey murder miniseries that hooks readers with the three interrelated subplots tying together with no loose ends. The story line is action-paced as the audience learns along with Cat why Chris was murdered and whether her new love Victor was an instrument in her late husband's death. Cat makes the tale in her need to know the truth regardless of what she learns and how she may feel if the betrayal she suspects is real. Jane Rubino furbishes a powerful thriller that will send readers seeking more of her terrific mysteries.

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A Jewel from Jersey.......2004-07-23

This long-awaited book in Rubino's Cat Austen/Victor Cardenas series is a fast-paced mystery that takes a suprising turn, and leaves you breathless to the very last page. The hilarious dialogue, the complex relationships and the plot twist that puts a new and dramatic interpretation on the series, to this point are all the marks of a first rate mystery writer. Rubino never plays it safe and never serves up the same old formula, as many mystery writers seem to do - Raise the Dead is a unique and unforgettable read!

A Ten Star Mystery with a Heart-Stopping Twist.......2004-07-13

What can I say about Jane Rubino's latest? Hilarious. Thrilling. Heartbreaking. Suspenseful. Surprising. The book's flashback prologue puts a new twist on the murder of Cat Austen's husband, one that has dramatic and stunning repercussions. The plot also brushes up against the matter of embryonic life in a way that is not preachy, or clinical, or political because she puts her own characters into a situation where THEY are forced to think about the subject in a new light. I don't know of any other writer who is so willing to take risks with her characters or whose books I can't put down, then can't stop thinking about them once I've finished. And if you think Rubino couldn't pull off a better plot twist than Plot Twist's, are you in for a shock!

Raise the Dead!: A Practical, Christian Approach to Grief and Death

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Raise the Dead!: A Practical, Christian Approach to Grief and Death

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30 minutes to Raise the Dead
D. R. Davies
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Jesus and Easter: Did God Raise the Historical Jesus from the Dead? (ISBN: 0687199298)

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Jesus and Easter: Did God Raise the Historical Jesus from the Dead? (ISBN: 0687199298)
Willi Marxsen
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No Answer to the Question
The wrong question?
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Jesus and Easter: Did God Raise the Historical Jesus from the Dead?
Willi Marxsen
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No Answer to the Question.......2006-10-10

If you buy this book thinking it intends to deal substantively with the answer to the question in it's title, you will be sadly mistaken. Look for another book. This small book is a collection of lectures delivered by the author at several universities in the United States in 1988. His opinion is that this is an illegitimate question and you should not be asking it. So this book is really about why you ought not to be asking an "essentially meaningless" question like the one in the title of this book - Did God Raise Jesus from the Dead?

I am in agreement with the previous reviews. The main difficulty with this book is that the author makes a mistake about the definition of Christian faith. He sees faith as antithetical to reason. This is a very common error in today's world. In the traditional Christian concept, faith is almost synonymous with the word trust or confidence and is subject to reason and evidence, which is why the Biblical authors give evidence and reasoning for the Christian faith. Marxsen, however, thinks faith is something you do instead of reasoning or what you believe without any evidence. To Marxsen faith is only personal so a "faith question," like the one in the title, doesn't transcend a personal preference like whether one prefers vanilla or chocolate. Therefore, to expect an objective answer he claims is illogical.

While Marxsen is elusive, I suspect he does not believe that a resurrection event actually happened. From the tone of the book he seems to just assume that there was no actual physical resurrection. The closest he comes to answering the question is to say near the end of the book that the resurrection "exits only as an illusion which developed out of a misunderstanding." Perhaps he is some kind of Christian Naturalist or a Deist? Regardless, He goes to extraordinary lengths - the whole book actually -- to create a "just-so" story about how the first person to believe in the physical resurrection did so by mistake! Yes that's right, a simple miscommunication. It happened like this: After Jesus was crucified Peter and some others continued to meet as a "Jesus Group." They found that the "faith" feeling that Jesus had given them came back and was "alive" in them again. It made them feel that Jesus had been "raised" in them again. When one of these told others that Jesus had been "raised" the hearers naturally thought this meant "God raised Jesus from the dead." And well, you know how rumors grow --eventually they become the dominant religion on the planet; well at least this rumor did. (Now nighty night children.)

Seriously, Marxsen does not directly address the evidences for the resurrection. He mentions the empty tomb but never discusses it's evidential value. He says the post-resurrection appearances were only "visions" but never gives any supporting evidence. He does not discuss the non-biblical evidences, internal evidences, or the evidence of hostile witnesses. He never discusses what would have made the disciples be willing to die rather than deny that Jesus had been raised. Remember, these things don't matter when you are asking the wrong question in the first place.

My advice is: look for an author who takes the question seriously.

The wrong question?.......2006-09-27

The title of Marxsen's book is almost ironic because his core premise is that this is the wrong question to ask. In fact, he says this question is wrong in at least two significant ways.

First Marxsen claims any search for the historical Jesus is futile because we cannot know Jesus as he was; we only have access to how people interpreted him. The correct approach is to "ask historically for" Jesus. The primary difference is in acknowledging that we can only get as far as the people who are telling about Jesus, never to Jesus himself.

The second problem Marxsen has with the title question is that bringing the claim that God was the agent of resurrection turns what should be an inquiry about a fact (whether Jesus was raised from the dead) to a question about a statement of faith. Because faith is personal, Marxsen says this is an improper and even meaningless question.

Marxsen attempts to correct these "mistakes" by addressing what he sees as the correct questions. What did people say about Jesus? What did people mean when they said that Jesus lived after his crucifixion?

Part of Marxsen's case for the impropriety searching for the historical Jesus leads him to critique the work of Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768). Marxsen takes Reimarus to task for the methodology he employed in attempt to present a historically accurate account of Jesus. Marxsen accuses Reimarus of using what calls the "quarry method" of taking fragments of Biblical texts out of context to prove his supposition. A more modern term might be "cherry picking".

Marxsen's problem is that he makes a very similar move. He appeals to dating and sequencing the gospel writers, and to literary criticism to support his down selecting of resurrection statements until he is able to say, "...the earliest recoverable statement abut Jesus' resurrection has been successfully reconstructed." Marxsen's technique is more refined than that of Reimarus, but his method is identical in that he carefully defines every term and chooses every supposition, not to find the truth, but to prove his presupposition.

Marxsen also puts significant focus on the fact that there was no one inside the tomb to witness a physical resurrection of Jesus. His conclusion is that since nobody watched as life returned to Jesus' body, then we can have no knowledge of it, which seems obviously absurd. We consider that we have knowledge of many things that we cannot see. I know that x-rays have passed through my teeth, not because I see them, but because I see the pictures that develop on the film. In the morning, I know that it rained during the night while I slept because everything outside is wet and there are large puddles. I know that my body processes the food I eat into energy and waste. People are frequently convicted of crimes even though there was no eyewitness at the exact moment the crime occurred. We don't have to see a process to know that it has occurred. The product produced by the process is sufficient evidence that the event has occurred.

Page after page of supposition and contorted logic are not sufficient for Marxsen to prove his claim, so finally he sinks to calling the early Christians liars. Marxsen claims that they invented the empty tomb story to support their case for the resurrection of Jesus by God as an actual event. Matthew then has to defend against the Jews' counter-claim that the disciples stole the body, so Marxsen claims that Matthew lies again and says the tomb was guarded by soldiers.

When comparing Marxsen's version of history against a more literal interpretation of the Gospel texts, one would do well to apply Achem's Razor - All things being equal the simplest answer is probably correct. To put one's faith in Marxsen's revision instead of believing that there is a God that can resurrect the dead seems the less rational choice.

As historical fiction, this book is boring. As historical analysis, it is suitable for little more than inspiration for a Mel Brooks farce.

Scholarly Verbiage.......2006-09-22

The book by Marxsen contains a lot of very scholarly verbiage but little substance. He makes sweeping claims and broad sweeps of the brush to attempt to dispel the idea that we can know the "historical Jesus" (13) and that all attempts to the present "have failed for the good." (13) He tells us that we should "not appeal to the historical Jesus. If we do it anyway, then we are appealing to an entity which cannot be attained and which therefore for us does not exist." (13)
Marxsen defines the historical Jesus as "...Jesus before anyone has ventured any interpretation of Him..." and "...The historical Jesus must be reconstructed." Marxsen says that we need to get to the Jesus and what he really said not what people said he said ... and what he really did, not what people said he did. (16)
He wants to get as "...close to Jesus as possible. With this attempt, however, I can only get as far as the people who are telling us about Jesus, never any further...we can only get to Jesus through what people have said about him, and that does not bring us to the historical Jesus." (22, 23)
He differentiates between the statements "Jesus has risen from the dead" and "God has raised Jesus from the dead." The difference is that the first is possibly a statement of fact (as far as we can know it) and the second is a statement of faith that is presumed by the cultural context of what the writers (whoever they were) expected to be able to say.
Marxsen points to something he calls "Jesus' activity towards others" and tells us that this produces faith in others so that they can act the same way. In doing this he defines this as having faith in Jesus, yet not in the person but in his activity.
On page 35 Marxsen has problems with all the divine titles given to Jesus by the writers such as "Son of Man", "Son of David", "son of David", "Messiah", "Son of God" and last of all, "God." He says, "Indeed, one has to say, as we have noted, that Jesus was the Bridegroom. But was he all of these? And was he all of these together?" "If Jesus was truly the Son of Man, then with the best of intentions he cannot have been at the same time the Messiah, nor the Son of God, etc."
Throughout the book Marxsen seems to not be aware that many statements made by the writers were made as eyewitnesses to the fact that Jesus was crucified and died and that they saw, touched and ate with him for 40 days afterward. Surely they knew what a dead man looked like and what a live man looked like. He takes issue with the statements that could destroy his arguments only in passing and says that he cannot take up their explanation in the book, which may be inconvenient, but he offers no references, footnotes or endnotes in the book so that the reader can look further into the subject.
By his assertions he says that there is no way to get to the actual Jesus that walked the earth but this is self defeating since he seems to be able to get back to the intentions and thoughts of the people that wrote about him, even to the point of finding the mystery text that they had before them so they could be "redactors" and not recorders of actual events they experienced.
It seems obvious that Marxsen is not desirous to have the Jesus that is commonly found in the Bible and evangelical Christian faith. He defines "resurrection" for us as follows: Jesus' resurrection is that moment in which the dead Jesus comes to life, however that coming to life took place or however one may conceive of it." (41) The resurrection is left in this vague form throughout the book so that one may make up ones own version it seems. He further comments on page 42 that "We must hold to this point: One cannot believe in the resurrection as an event which happened in the past. Indeed, one cannot believe in an event at all, no matter what kind of an event."
As such I do not see how he can even say that the texts of the Bible that he refers to are found to be written at any time in the past and if they were how do we know this? He claims that the interpretation of the writers that record statements such as "Jesus has risen" cannot reliability make these claims if they add "God has raised Jesus from the dead." And yet, Marxsen seems to be able to know that someone has tampered with the text, redacted it and changed it and attributed to Jesus things he never said and things he never did. Since we can never know anything back in the past it may be asked how he knows this?
While claiming to be a "New Testament scholar" (37) his arguments are not convincing. He makes it totally a matter of "faith" while the writers tell us we can know (Luke. 1:1-4; John 20:30-31; Acts 1:1-3; 1 John 1:1-4; 5:13) for certain the things that what we take by faith are events that really happened.

Raise The Dead #3 : Thicker Than Water (Arthur Suydam's Andy Warhol / Marilyn Monroe Tribute Cover - Dynamite Comic Book 2007)

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Raise The Dead #3 : Thicker Than Water (Arthur Suydam's Andy Warhol / Marilyn Monroe Tribute Cover - Dynamite Comic Book 2007)
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Dynamite enters the land of the dead with an all-new Zombie tale set in the middle of a full-scale zombie infestation! This time though, theres a twist, as Dynamite puts the "living" into the living dead! Writers Leah Moore and John Reppion are joined by the newest Dynamite artistic sensation, Hugo Petrus, for this special Zombie event! In issue #3, our dwindling band of survivors has headed out of the city and straight towards a research facility where they hope to take shelter from the growing undead tide. But what - and who - they will find there is just another horrific chapter in their desperate bid for survival!

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Raise The Dead
Lillian De Waters
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THIS 38 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Finished Kingdom: A Study of the Absolute, by Lillian De Waters. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564597415.

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30 Minutes to Raise the Dead
D.R. Davies
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