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
An extraordinary achievement, accomplished over a five-year period by a smoothly functioning team of some 300 contributors and seven editors, led by executive editor Norman A. Stillman, who credits hi
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
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.
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
The Gnostic Library continues where the Dead Sea Scrolls left off. It is based on the Nag Hammadi codices, which were unearthed in 1945 -- a discovery considered as significant as the Dead Sea Scrolls
Tuerk (a judge and former vice-president of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany) compiles various articles he has written on law of the sea topics, including the evol
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is an international court with competence to settle disputes concerning the law of the sea. It is a central forum for the settlement of disputes relat
The Law of the Sea and Polar Maritime Delimitation and Jurisdiction explores the impact the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea has had on the polar regions including a number of issu
In a revision of his 2009 doctoral dissertation at Oxford University, Stokl (Oriental studies, U. College London) examines prophecy in the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and modern Iran and a
A legal officer in the Royal Australian Navy, McLaughlin explores legal issues around United Nations (UN) naval operations within areas that serve as buffers between the open sea and a country's terri
The Armaic Dead Sea Scrolls represent roughly 13% of the Qumran library and correspond to a wide range of genres and topics. This book consists of the proceedings of a conference on the Aramaic scroll
In the 1960s, in a three-chambered cave on the western shore of the Dead Sea, excavators discovered two sets of family archives along with skeletons and other artifacts dating from a second-century Je
Through a detailed examination of key Dead Sea Scroll texts this is a fresh study of the role of temple worship and cosmology in the formation of the ancient Jewish belief in true humanity’s transcend
The Damascus Document is a key text among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The last eight extant copies of this document have recently been published. This volume offers a first analysis of its legal part since
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 reference work for international maritime law practitioners, a report of the International Law Association, American Branch Law of the Sea Committee, provides legal definitions with commentary an
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
The international law of delimitation is principally concerned with delimiting overlapping areas of the sea between states with opposite or adjacent coasts. The author, a South Korean diplomat, examin
The series presents not a synoptic edition of the Bible as read in the Qumran documents, but a synopsis of the biblical books that are found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, most of them from the Qumran co
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
The Law of the Sea Convention: US Accession and Globalization, provides valuable insight into a number of contemporary and pressing issues concerning the world s oceans and their management. Organized
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) has provided a substantial framework for international legal instruments of fisheries management, but those instruments have not succeeded at
In a "series of studies on the international, legal, institutional and policy aspects of ocean development," co-directors of the Law of the Sea Institute, University of California, Berkeley, introduce
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
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
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 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
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
A historian of Judaism, Heger challenges common scholarly interpretations of 1 Enoch and the Dead Sea Scrolls with respect to two related problems. The first concerns the imposition of modern concepts
The present volume, a supplement to the 7-volume 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), contains documents associated with three new organizations: the International Seabed Aut
A literary analysis of Mark 6:45-56 (Jesus' sea-walk), viewed through the lens of fantastic fiction. The author utilizes ancient and modern fantasists, and supports theological reflection with substan
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 2008 Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies at New York University, dedicated to "The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60: The Scholarly Contributions of NYU Faculty a
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 ‘
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Society's 2007 annual meeting, held in San Diego, included a number of special sessions on recent development in scrolls
Papers from a June 2004 conference focus on Russia's ocean interests, with particular reference to international energy policy, the Arctic, and the law of the sea. Papers are in sections on global per
