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Stage 5. Resembling a phoenix, the Bird of Hermes represents regeneration. Combined, they can make the Elixir of Life. The Sun signifies gold and the Crescent Moon represents silver. Stage 7 The final figure on the Ripley Scroll presumably represents the scribe or maybe George Ripley himself , holding a quill pen.

By The British Library. Also will confess the plot twist at the end surprised me! The humour is so, so gold though. I wish more books had this stellar level of hilarity. Magnus is forever a favourite. I also really enjoyed the audiobook! I think it's set after City of Fallen Angels , so it was a bit of a throwback too and heartily reminded me that 1 I really need to reread TMI because I remember so little lolol, and 2 I've missed the old crew so much!

PLOT So Magnus and Alec are off on a Europe "vacation" except obviously that's a disaster and they end up hunting down a cult which Magnus may or may not have started. There's demons, doomed train rides, exploding houses, satanic rituals, blazing swords, and Alec charging into trouble the very second it blinks because he's a freaking Gryffindor and can't help himself. So so little relaxing was done. One of his meltdowns included being upset at the prospect of dying when everyone around him was so badly dressed.

Magnus is everything. Because, look, Alec was a closeted gay kid absolutely buckling under the pressure of needing to be a great enough hero, a good enough person, someone everyone loved enough And like punch me in the gut why don't you thanks. Alec resonates with me so much, and I know with so so many other readers. I'm SO glad more of his thoughts and perspectives are in this book. I simultaneously want to hug him and cry and also be in awe of him. He's not perfect, he's foolish, he has an amazing arc about vulnerability in this book.

And it just makes me love him more. Also every time they get romantic Nothing like a demon here to spit on your love life. The soft scenes, the gentle cuddling scenes, the kisses, the deepening relationship of two people who are learning to be vulnerable ajfldksad I loved it. I laughed so much and the lines were golden. They also dragged Jace just the whole time for no reason and it was amazing. Okay first off, most importantly, we get Helen Blackthorn and Aline backstory!!!

I MEAN. Also the Blackthorns are mentioned, Raphael is here being so pissy and antisocial I love him , Barnabus Hale is there, oh and Jonny Rook for a while. Tessa makes an appearance. I just love how it was so so funny, and it was really a good adventurous romp after how stressful QOAAD was. But it was also vulnerable and soft. And I love the killing demon scenes, but I also love just two worn out magical creatures flopped on a Venetian lounge, cuddling before the next scene of bloodstain and bruises.

The balance? I loved this book so much. View all 7 comments. Why not? I'll give it a go. View all 16 comments. Apr 25, annie rated it it was amazing Shelves: poc-rep , ya-fiction , lgbt , vampires , angles , werewolves , fantasy , faes , hunters-slayers , demons.

Apr 07, sapphia rated it did not like it Shelves: lgbtq , ugh , absolutely-not. Warning: I get very angry in this review. I don't particularly like Malec, because I hate big age differences in relationships, especially queer ones. It's a stereotype and it's awful and predatory. It also seems out of character for Magnus to go a Warning: I get very angry in this review. It also seems out of character for Magnus to go after a literal teenager but maybe that's just me And I hate this thing CC has about Magnus being sort of ageless because he's immortal which is bullshit.

You're not old just because you have wrinkles and look old, age is experience and wisdom. Magnus is very old, him being a warlock does not change that and she keeps trying to make it so! It's mentioned several times throughout her books and it's such bullshit!! It's basically just Clare going ' guys it's not pedophilia I swear, Magnus is not old because magic lulz '. Anyway, so this book.

This fucking book. What absolute fucking bullshit. What an absolute asspull! Without spoiling anything I can say that all of the character and relationship growth in this book is non-existent in the rest of the series! This is a complete asspull! She pulled this shitty plot straight outta her ass and I am mad about it. Listen, this was one of my more anticipated reads of the year. I almost fucking pre-ordered that special edition with the sprayed pages. I was expecting a fan-service book about Malec vacationing in Europe, okay?

I was expecting that and I was fine with it! I've lost my patience with Shadowhunter bullshit, evidently. Which is strange because while I've not always enjoyed CC's writing or her characters at least it's been readable to me.

Guess I've grown up, holy shit. A huge thing is that the fight scenes are so fucking dull. Whenever there was a fight scene I wanted to cry in frustration. They're sooo fucking boring.

And they make up almost half of the book! Probably more!! And they're always interrupting the romance scenes??? It's basically just; Malec kissy suddenly! Sorry, I'm getting mad writing this. I ended up just skipping several pages whenever there was a fight scene until the plot started happening again, and I missed absolutely nothing.

Entire scenes of people fighting and nothing happening. There are no stakes, because all of the characters appear fine in the books that come after this. So what was the point?

Like I said, I expected this to be complete fan-service! But it is not. Just a bunch of meaningless nonsense that doesn't fit in with the rest of the series. This book is basically just Clare blue-balling us in-between shitty fight scenes and asspull plots.

So yeah, what is the plot, you may ask? Here be spoilers For some fucking reason, Magnus started a cult as a joke hundreds of years ago in the name of his demon dad, conveniently lost his memories about it all, and now the cult is under the new leadership of a warlock who wants to find him so they can sacrifice him to dear old dad.

This starts to happen as him and Alec are traveling around Europe, because of course. Like with all CC's books, it was so easy to predict what was going to happen and who the bad guy was going to be. The new warlock cult leader is Shinyun who is traveling with them and whose mark is What the fuck is this world-building????

Her warlock's mark is a frozen face???? SHe can't make expressions and that's her warlock mark?????? Every single warlock's mark so far has been animal attributes or unusually colored hair or skin.

I d0n't know why this bothers me so much but its just so stupid and doesn't make sense. Can a stiff leg be a warlock's mark?? If she can't make expressions because her face is frozen, how can she speak??? Open her mouth??? So fucking stupid. The thing about this plot is that it is absolutely ridiculous that none of this ever gets mentioned ever again in any of the other series. You wanna talk about the characters? Oh my fucking god.

Oh my god. The fact that people genuinely think Clare is a good writer astounds me when she pulls shit like this. The books starts with a big exposition dump. Who is that for. Who is going to pick this up as their first Shadowhunter novel. There is no tension in this book. We know they're gonna survive and never talk about this again until the next fucking book comes out where they're magically gonna acknowledge it again.

Fuck this shit. FUkc THis shit Who is to blame? Is it Wesley Chu? Asspull Clare???? They are so boring, non-threatening and just so fucking difficult to imagine? I've never been able to imagine these things. They're always described as black blobs with insect-stuff and teeth and tentacles and???? OK All it takes to kill them is one stab and then poof they're gone to hell.

No clean up necessary, whew. So fucking lame. There's never any tension with them, they're almost comically described sometimes.

Shadowhunter's main purpose in life is to hunt demons, and the demons fucking suck. Nice one. This review is a bit of a mess, I've cleaned it up a bit but feel the need to convey my rage to you through exclamation points and caps lock, because yes. Anyway, I know I'm probably just screaming into the void at this point because Clare has such an astronomical following, it's actually ridiculous.

But whatever, here you go. My two cents about this shitshow. Oh, and the acknowledgements Basically just CC sucking her own dick. What would we do without her. Ugh, I say, UGH! Lady Midnight [TBA] 2. Lord of Shadows [TBA] 3. View all 3 comments. I received a chapter sample of this at a Queen of Air and Darkness book signing. I'm such Cassie Clare-trash that I bought this mini-Shadowhunter novel today! Without love, the miracle never came.

Why do I sound like I'm advertising this book xD They both want to go on vacation for some peace and quiet—unfortunately, that doesn't last very long when Tessa pops up during an awkward moment and brings up the bad news xD. She looked again at Alec, who had inherited his coloring from Shadowhunters long gone. Shadowhunters Tessa had loved. Sounds like revenge. The worst part is that the leader of The Crimson Hand is going by the name of Magnus Bane so word's going out that he's causing all of this and that's not good.

Art by Cassandra Jean Ahhh my favourite parts were definitely seeing all the references to the other books in The Shadowhunter World. Especially mentions of TID characters. Knowing the way Will and Jem loved each other had changed his feelings for Nephilim , and seeing Jace—calm, superior Jace—in pieces over Alec had made him like the boy much more. Both Tessa and Magnus turned to him with identical looks of shock.

And I forgot how funny Malcolm could be before everything else happened. And why Barnabas hates him so much xD. A light vapor seemed to drift from the tip of his finger. I hope you find it. The moment it went up for sale! Haha I actually feel bad for Barnabas, though. He wanted to be the one to host the party. Breakfast will be one of those meals. In fact, breakfast will be the most important of those meals, because breakfast is the most important meal of the day. He's right, though. You cannot go on without breakfast.

Who knows how that would affect a mission. Apr 18, Kevin Irish Reader rated it liked it. Pseudepigraphical books attributed to fictitious authors were preserved as independent works in a variety of languages. These apocryphal and pseudoepigraphical books were cherished by the members of the Judean Desert sect. Prior to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of the books had been known only in translation such as the book of Tobit and the Testament of Judah , while others were altogether unknown.

Among these are rewritten versions of biblical works such as the Genesis Apocryphon , prayers, and wisdom literature. The exegetical works written by the sectarians deal with the interpretation of the laws of the Pentateuch such as the Temple Scroll , of various biblical stories such as the Testament of Levi , and, in particular, of the words of the Prophets.

The method of biblical interpretation known as pesher is unique to Qumran. The pesharim may be divided into two types: those dealing with a specific subject such as 4QFlorilegium , and those written as running commentaries.

In pesharim of the second type, the biblical text is copied passage by passage in the original order, and each passage is explained by turn. The interpretations themselves are prophetic in nature and allude to events related to the period in which the works were composed hence their importance for historical research.

This literature, later to evolve in a Christian monastic context, is unknown in the Bible, and its discovery at Qumran represents the earliest testimony to its existence. The picture that emerges from the scroll is one of a community that functioned as a collective unit and pursued a severe ascetic lifestyle based on stringent rules.

The scroll, written in Hebrew, was found in twelve copies; the copy displayed in the Shrine of the Book, which is almost complete, was discovered in The Temple Scroll, which deals with the structural details of the Temple and its rituals, proposes a plan for a future imaginary Temple, remarkably sophisticated, and, above all, pure, which was to replace the existing Temple in Jerusalem.

The scroll is written in the style of the book of Deuteronomy, with God speaking as if in first person. Some authorities consider it an alternative to the Mosaic Law; others, a complementary legal interpretation midrash halakha.

This work combines the various laws relating to the Temple with a new version of the laws set out in Deuteronomy 12— Its author probably belonged to priestly circles and composed it at a time before the Community left Jerusalem for the desert, in the second half of the second century BCE.

It was apparently written against the background of the controversy centering on the Temple in Jerusalem. The profoundly religious, reclusive community living at Qumran devoted all its energies to the worship of God.

The sectarians believed that the angels were their companions and that their spiritual level elevated them to the border between the human and the divine. The atmosphere of sanctity that enveloped them is evident from the one hundred biblical psalms and more than two hundred extra-biblical prayers and hymns preserved in the scrolls.

Most of the latter were previously unknown; they include prayers for different days even the End of Days , magical spells, and so forth. The members of the Community of the yahad retired to the desert out of a profound conviction that they were living in the End of Days and that the final Day of Judgment was close at hand. One of the greatest spiritual revolutions in human history was launched toward the end of the First Temple period, when the Jewish people began to shape their ancient traditions into holy scriptures.

This process gathered momentum particularly after the destruction of the Temple and the Babylonian exile in the late 6th century BCE and culminated in the first centuries CE with the canonization of the corpus of sacred books we now call the Hebrew Bible, which paved the way for both the New Testament and the Koran. This event is commonly regarded as the earliest evidence for the revolutionary process through which the ancient traditions of the Jewish people became sacred books, the most authoritative source for religious belief and practice.

Scribes and priests among the Jewish exiles in Babylonia furthered this process by collecting the ancient traditions of the Bible, committing them to writing, and editing them; during the Persian period ca.

Another landmark in the canonization of the Hebrew Bible is documented in the opening passage of the book known as The Wisdom of Ben Sira or Ecclesiasticus , written around the year BCE.

The canonization process came to an end in the first centuries CE, when the Hebrew Bible received its final form. From the time of these scrolls until the 8th century CE, the period to which the earliest biblical manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah have been ascribed, no Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible have been preserved some of the biblical fragments from the Cairo Genizah were written according to the authoritative version mentioned above.

Evidence of the biblical text from the 4th to 8th century CE has been preserved only by Christians — in Greek, Latin, and other translations.

This technological innovation made it possible to utilize both sides of the page for writing and to leaf through the manuscript easily. It was only in the 8th century CE, however, that Jews began to adopt this method, and even then, only for the purposes of study and interpretation. Books read as part of the obligatory synagogue service such as the Pentateuch and the Book of Esther were still written, as required by tradition, on scrolls; the text appearing on the scrolls consisted only of consonants, without vocalization or punctuation.

The shift from scroll to codex made it possible, for the first time, to record in writing all the instructions for copying and pronunciation — the Masorah — which had until then been transmitted orally from one generation to the next. The Birth of the Aleppo Codex The Aleppo Codex, known as the keter crown in Hebrew or the taj in Arabic — a title of honor given to select ancient manuscripts, mainly in Eastern countries — was written at the beginning of the 10th century CE.

The Aleppo Codex is considered to be the most accurate existing manuscript of the Masoretic text another well-known manuscript is the Leningrad Codex of Its text is practically identical to the pre-Masoretic version of the biblical text that has been preserved in some of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran approximately one thousand years older than the Codex and the somewhat later scroll fragments found at Masada and the vicinity, as well as some of the biblical fragments discovered in the Cairo Genizah.

The Codex originally contained between and leaves, but, unfortunately, only of them have survived, representing some three-quarters of the Bible.

We do not know who commissioned the Aleppo Codex. We do, however, know from the colophon that it was purchased, many years after its completion, by a wealthy Karaite of Basra, Iraq, named Israel Simhah, who donated it to the Karaite synagogue in Jerusalem. In the late 11th century CE it was smuggled out of the country, either by Seljuks in or by Crusaders , and offered for sale in Egypt.

In the Middle Ages, scribes worked seated on the floor or on a mattress, with a board laid over their knees as a working surface. The text was either dictated or copied from another book. To avoid making mistakes, the scribes would pronounce the words aloud before writing them. The texts were copied onto parchment or papyrus, and later also onto paper, using a stylus or quill dipped into ink.

Other pieces of equipment included a knife for marking the lines and columns and piercing holes, scissors for cutting the parchment, a case to hold the writing implements, and an inkwell.