Volume 1 (A and B) of the Yearbook of International Organizations covers international organizations throughout the world, comprising their aims, activities and events.
In this book Janice Ewurama De-Whyte offers a reading of the Hebrew Bible barrenness narratives. Barrenness was the threat to female honour and the lineage’s continuity. Therefore, the word “wom(b)an”
This volume offers a novel, trans-regional vision of Viking Age (9th-11th century) cultural and political contacts between Scandinavia and the eastern coasts of the Baltic Sea, using predominantly arc
In Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa, Silvia Bruzzi provides a social history of the colonial encounter across the Red Sea and the Mediterranean region during the life and times of Sitti ‘
In British Shipping in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars Katerina Galani offers a detailed account of Britain’s successful adaptation to economic warfare at sea during the intermittent conf
In Licit Magic: The Life and Letters of al-?a?ib b. ?Abbad (d. 385/995) Maurice A. Pomerantz explores the biography and literary output of a major tenth-century Muslim statesman, literary patron, and
Volume 1 (A and B) of the Yearbook of International Organizations covers international organizations throughout the world, comprising their aims, activities and events.
Ulrich presents in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible the parade of surprises the scrolls provide regarding the scriptures’ development through history. A sequel to Th
This volume contains a selection of fourteen papers presented at the Red Sea VI conference held at Tabuk University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2013. It sheds light on many aspects related to the envi
"The De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first monograph on library history. It followed a long series of minor treatments in the works of the humanists, from Petrarch to Fulvio Orsini. The De b
This atlas offers a survey of the history of Southeast Europe from 1699 until 1815, from the Treaty of Karlowitz until the eve of the Second Serbian Uprising.
In Faithful Creativity Canaris explores the significant contributions made by Francis A. Sullivan, S.J. (b. 1922) to contemporary Catholic ecclesiology, especially when viewed through the lens of doct
The volume contains editions of the extant parts of two hitherto unknown theological works by the Buyid vizier al-?a?ib b. ?Abbad (d. 385/925). The manuscripts on which the edition is based come from
In Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition, Talal Al-Azem argues for the existence of a ‘madhhab-law tradition’ of jurisprudence, and examines how legal rules were forged b
Volume 1 (A and B) of the Yearbook of International Organizations covers international organizations throughout the world, comprising their aims, activities and events.
Marvel and Artefact examines the manuscripts of Wonders of the East (London, BL, Cotton Vitellius A. xv; London, BL, Cotton Tiberius B. v; and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 614); codex, text and im
In Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe, Aleksandra Koutny-Jones examines the remarkable cultural preoccupation with death in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795), through a range of B
The core of the volume is four essays by Samuelson (b. 1936), a scholar of medieval and modern Jewish philosophy, a constructive theologian, and an early proponent of the dialogue of Judaism and scien
China’s Literary Cosmopolitans offers a comprehensive introduction to the intertwined literary careers of Qian Zhongshu (1910-98) and Yang Jiang (b. 1911) and explains why they have come to represent
Processes of Cultural Change and Integration in the Roman World is a collection of studies on the mechanisms by which interaction occurred between Rome and the peoples that became part of its Empire b
Volume 1 (A and B) of the Yearbook of International Organizations covers international organizations throughout the world, comprising their aims, activities and events.
Ulrich presents in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible the parade of surprises the scrolls provide regarding the scriptures’ development through history. A sequel to Th
Law of the Sea, From Grotius to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Liber Amicorum Judge Hugo Caminos honors the accomplished career path of a distinguished scholar, professor, diplomat
A conference on the Islamic garden was held at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1994. This volume collects eight papers from the conference and two additional papers especially written for the b
Eugene B. Borowitz is a rabbi, teacher of rabbis, and educator, and a theologian, and an important spokesperson for non-Orthodox forms of Judaism, Reform Judaism in particular. Rethinking God and Ethi
Eugene B. Borowitz is a rabbi, teacher of rabbis, and educator, and a theologian, and an important spokesperson for non-Orthodox forms of Judaism, Reform Judaism in particular. Rethinking God and Ethi
This study provides a critical edition of chapters nine and ten of Mu?i? al-tavarikh (The Sea of Chronicles) by Mu?ammad Amin b. Mirza Mu?ammad Zaman Bukhari (?ufiyani). Mu?i? al-tavarikh is a valua
The Limits of Maritime Jurisdiction brings together a renowned group of oceans scholars and practitioners to explore key contemporary law of the sea challenges facing the international community.
This volume brings together a fascinating collection of essays on air law, approached from national, European and international perspectives. These perspectives often interact, always interestingly, b
This volume offers a multi-disciplinary examination into the Hebrew of the Second Temple period as reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, inscriptions, Greek and Latin transcriptions, the Samari
This volume contains the books Ezra and Nehemiah and 1-2 Maccabees in Syriac, a language closely related to Aramaic, from an emended version of MS B. 21 Inferiore of the Ambrosian Library in Milan, ta
Glenny (New Testament studies and Greek, U. of Northwestern St. Paul, Minnesota) analyzes the Old Testament book in a single Greek manuscript, Vaticanus (B), in its own right rather than as a stage in
A specialist in marine law, Oral (law, Istanbul Bilgi U., Turkey) examines the regional cooperation mechanisms for protecting and preserving the Black Sea marine environment within the framework of in
In recent years the "war on terror" led by president George W. Bush brought a wave of attention to the issues of human rights violations committed, in this case, by the US beyond its territory. More b
This book presents a critical edition and translation of Salmon b. Yeroham s Judaeo-Arabic commentary on Qohelet. The introduction situates the work in the history of Qohelet exegesis and discusses th
A specialist mainly in late Babylonian texts from Uruk, Gehlken (U. of Frankfurt on Main) also writes on Mesopotamian astronomy. Here he examines the second half of the weather section of the Assyro-B
This catalogue presents a catalogue of 75 fragments, presented on full-page b&w plates, with a transcript of the contents (from both sides of the fragment) on the facing page (in Hebrew). The resp
In French and English, this volume contains cases numbered 16, 17, and 18 presented before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, concerned, respectively, with a dispute concerning delimit
