Bob MacDonald

How can a person who reads no Hebrew get closer to the text and feel of the Hebrew scriptures? This is a question that readers frequently ask, wondering whether they are getting an adequate immersion in the culture, rhythms, and vocabulary of those who wrote long ago. Bob MacDonald, author of the monumental work Seeing the Psalter (Energion Publications, 2013), has continued his work studying the rhythm, music, and structure of the Hebrew scriptures...

How can a person who reads no Hebrew get closer to the text and feel of the Hebrew scriptures? This is a question that readers frequently ask, wondering whether they are getting an adequate immersion in the culture, rhythms, and vocabulary of those who wrote long ago. Bob MacDonald, author of the monumental work Seeing the Psalter (Energion Publications, 2013), has continued his work studying the rhythm, music, and structure of the Hebrew scriptures...

My daughter recently called me an Old Codger. I corrected her and said, "No, you are wrong there, my dear. I am not an old codger, but a Grumpy Old Man!"And as the saying goes…… 'I'm a grumpy old man. I do what I want when I want, where I want!'I belong to the Silent Generation. That means my birthday falls between 1928 and 1945. I have mentioned the generation I belong to because I will touch on incidents involving those of the other generations...

In this manuscript, I have drawn on and listed some data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics involving domestic violence in Australia. Such data is listed hereunder but rather than bore the reader with those banal details I will concentrate on events which could be looked upon as being more of an anecdotal nature.My career with the Western Australia Police Force stretched for thirty years, with the majority of that period based at police stations...

How can a person who reads no Hebrew get closer to the text and feel of the Hebrew scriptures? This is a question that readers frequently ask, wondering whether they are getting an adequate immersion in the culture, rhythms, and vocabulary of those who wrote long ago. Bob MacDonald, author of the monumental work Seeing the Psalter (Energion Publications, 2013), has continued his work studying the rhythm, music, and structure of the Hebrew scriptures...

Orphan Zachery Budd began his life in the workhouses and poorhouses of Eighteenth-Century London. From there he graduated to eking out a living as a bare-knuckled prize-fighter in the city's back streets.In 1865, on hearing tales of America from seafarers, he sailed from Southampton, England, to California per favor of the sailing vessel SV Seagull, arriving at the port town of Stockton.To pay his way and to bide his time while waiting to travel by...

In the gold rush of 1946, the quiet town of Leonora is rocked by murder.An indigenous woman is killed and her death almost goes unnoticed by authorities but for one man, Constable Terry Pocock. He befriends Willy, Leonora's sole Wongi tribesman who fought for Crown and Country. If only Willy will tell. It isn't until the body of an old white prospector is found down a mine shaft that the outside help arrives. Terry employs the support of the district...

How can a person who reads no Hebrew get closer to the text and feel of the Hebrew scriptures? This is a question that readers frequently ask, wondering whether they are getting an adequate immersion in the culture, rhythms, and vocabulary of those who wrote long ago. Bob MacDonald, author of the monumental work Seeing the Psalter (Energion Publications, 2013), has continued his work studying the rhythm, music, and structure of the Hebrew scriptures...

Jake Bonny, orphaned since a tender age, had spent his childhood and early years living and laboring on his uncle's barge. The tedious life on the vessel and the Arkansas River came to be Jake's entire existence until, one day, he broke free of his kinsman's domineering hold over him.Travelling by foot, he made his way westward until arriving in Tombstone. By chance, he stepped into the role of an unofficial assistant to the town's elderly town marshal.As...

This story follows the life of a young man, Chad Fowler after he enlists with the police force of Western Australia as a constable.Each incident in which he becomes involved is based on real-life experiences. However, unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner.This work provides the reader with behind-the-scenes...