In Early Sunni Historiography, Tobias Andersson presents the first full-length study of the earliest Islamic chronological history extant: the Tarikh (Chronicle) of the Basran ?adith scholar and histo
A Sea of Love presents 95 letters exchanged between the famous Berlin born scholar Francis Lieber and his wife Mathilde who in 1839-1845 lived separated by the Atlantic, in Columbia/SC and Hamburg. Th
This is a collection of essays that aims to offer a vertical history of war in the Mediterranean Sea, from the early Middle Ages to early modernity, putting the emphasis on the changing face of severa
This book offers an ethnography of the beliefs and practices of Vodu, as they relate to daily life in an ethnic Ewe fishing community on the coast of southern Togo.
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Concept of a Library explores the important question of whether or not the manuscripts found in the eleven caves near Qumran can be characterized as a “library.”
Marine Protected Areas Network in the South China Sea suggests legal and political measures to support the development of a network of marine protected areas in the South China Sea. They could not onl
This anthology was conceived to differ from the many other histories of scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls by recognizing the very different and often contrasting approaches and directions of scholar
This monograph searches for a solution to the crime of migrant smuggling by sea aimed at reconciling 21st century exigencies with age-old, fundamental principles such as the freedom of the high seas.
Volume 293 in the Mnemosyne Supplementa, this publication studies the Long Walls joining Athens with its harbors, which are universally accepted as symbols of naval imperialism and the crux of a depar
Simmons (Trinity College, Dublin, and marine law and ocean policy, National U. of Ireland, Galway) examines the historic waters in the Law of the Sea doctrine and its current status, especially in lig
The chief editors (a pair of judges of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea) present a legal festschrift dedicated to Judge Thomas A. Mensah, the first President of the International Tribu
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea was founded in 1996. Rao (a judge and former president of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea) and Gautier (registrar of the Tribunal; C
Volume VI deals with the work of the First Committee at the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea, namely the international seabed area. The volume thus embraces the deep seabed mining regime set
In this volume, the authors ask of the documents of the Dead Sea Library found at Qumran a simple question: how does each participate in a single Judaic religious system? Their analysis of the Dead Se
These commentaries are based almost entirely on the formal and informal documentation of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III, 1973-1982), coupled, where necessary, wi
This volume explores the question of textuality in the Dead Sea Scrolls from a wide range of perspectives, including material aspects, performance, and the extent to which any of the texts relate (to)
The linguistic character of the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other contemporary Hebrew texts remains disputed. This volume presents linguistic and philological studies dealing with the Dead Sea
As part of a resurgent scholarly interest in the Genesis Apocryphon, this volume presents a fresh transcription and translation of the scroll, along with exstenive textual notes. In addition, a detail
In this book, Professor Simu? demonstrates how Baur came to understand Christian theology as a Gnostic philosophy of religion under the influence of Bohme's unorthodox esoteric theosophy and Hegel's m
Wanting to hide nothing under stone, New Testament scholar Hogeterp (Faculteit Katholieke Theologie, Utrecht) begins by enumerating the problematic issues involved in comparing eschatological ideas in
Khalilieh (legal history and Islamic law of the sea, U. of Haifa) explores the manner in which Muslim jurists viewed and resolved maritime disputes, in comparison to their Roman and Byzantine predeces
New data and new ways of thinking have unsettled what scholars thought they knew about Qumran and other sites around the Dead Sea. Rather than moving any closer to a consensus on interpreting the find
The ancient port lies about eight kilometers north of the modern town on the Egyptian coast, and three years of excavations there were winding down in February 1982 when a house was uncovered that, am
In this volume, the authors ask of the documents of the Dead Sea Library found at Qumran a simple question: how does each participate in a single Judaic religious system? Their analysis of the Dead Se
These essays focus on various aspects of the Damascus Document, including its physical reconstruction, its relationship to other legal works in the Qumran corpus and to rabbinic law; several studies a
This book offers a new approach to the late 10th- and early 11th-century state of Samuel. Mitko B. Panov deconstructs the Byzantine distorted image of the Samuel’s polity that was recycled by the Balk
"In a new study of the Qing government's 1826 experiment in sea transport of government grain in response to the collapse of the Grand Canal (1825), Jane Kate Leonard highlights how the Daoguang Emper
In Scripture Re-envisioned Bogdan B. Bucur discusses the exegesis of biblical theophanies as an essential “ingredient” for the gradual crystallization of a distinct Christian exegesis, doctrine, litur
In the 12th Dynasty the Egyptian state sent seafaring expeditions to the land of Punt from a harbor on the Red Sea. Excavations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis have uncovered well preserved evidence of this har
In Converts in the Dead Sea Scrolls Carmen Palmer offers an interpretation of the ger in the Dead Sea Scrolls as a Gentile convert to Judaism included by means of mutable ethnicity.
In Rethinking Islamic Legal Modernism Ron Shaham presents Yusuf al-Qaradawi (b. 1926) as a genuine student of Rashid Rida (d. 1935) and offers an extensive analysis of Qaradawi's Wasati theory of ijti
