Ronald W Murphy

The Everyday Atheist

The Everyday Atheist, by Ronald F. Murphy, is an honest look at his growing skepticism within his previously unquestioned religious community. This book represents Mr. Murphy's first work in a series that will attempt to discuss the stark realities of taboo subjects from the unbiased perspective of ...

Blueprints Psychiatry (Blueprints Series)

Part of the highly regarded Blueprints series, Blueprints Psychiatry provides students with a concise review of what they need to know in their psychiatry rotations or the Boards. Each chapter is brief and includes pedagogical features such as bolded key words, tables, figures, and key points. A que...

Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival

The story of the Holy Grail has gripped the imaginations of millions since it first appeared in medieval romances, among them Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German Parzival (c. 1210). Strangely, the Grail is identified in Parzival not as a cup or dish, but as a stone. This oddity is usually in...

The Heliand: The Saxon Gospel

A spirited retelling of the Gospel story in a Germanic setting, the ninth-century A.D. Old Saxon epic poem The Heliand is at last available in English in Ronald Murphy's graceful new translation. Representing the first full integration and poetic reworking of the Gospel story into Northern European ...

Unexplained World of The Chestnut Ridge: A Hike through the Goblin Universe of the Laurel Highlands

Delve into the mysterious phenomena happening in Western Pennsylvania with paranormal investigator Ronald L. Murphy, Jr. Unexplained World combines hard research and historical data with first hand accounts gathered by Murphy and his fellow adventurers as they experience the small towns and untamed ...

The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales

The fairy tales collected by the brothers Grimm are among the best known and most widely-read stories in western literature. In recent years commentators such as Bruno Bettelheim have, usually from a psychological perspective, pondered the underlying meaning of the stories, why children are so enthr...

Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North

Winner of the 2014 Mythopoeic Myth & Fantasy Studies AwardAt the heart of the mythology of the Anglo-Scandinavian-Germanic North is the evergreen Yggdrasil, the tree of life believed to hold up the skies and unite and separate three worlds: Asgard, high in the tree, where the gods dwelled in their g...

The Tormented

Ten tales of tormented terror straight from Ronald L Murphy's twisted imagination. Enter the world of ghosts, werewolves, vampires, and other creatures that go bump in the night.

The New Jerome Biblical Commentary

Book of Job: A Short Reading

Irish Famine Immigrants in the State of Vermont. Gravestone Inscriptions: Gravestone Inscriptions / Compiled by Ronald Chase Murphy and Janice Church Murphy

The Saxon Savior: The Germanic Transformation of the Gospel in the Ninth-Century Heliand

The Saxon Savior: The Germanic Transformation of the Gospel in the Ninth-Century Heliand