Microlepidoptera of Europe is intended to be a tool for identifying the European micro-moths. Each volume will treat a systematic unit comprising about 100-300 species. This will usually mean a family
In this substantial study, Hegewald (Indian architecture, U. College, Oxford, UK) analyzes the religious contexts, history, and ritual use of a variety of water structures in South Asia, especially In
This study, done within the comprehensive Weberian framework, focuses on religion and social change in Bangladesh through an imaginative use of qualitative as well as quantitative methods of modern so
The Renaissance in Scotland contains original essays on the following topics of cultural history: literature; manuscripts and printed books; libraries; law; universities; music; education; social, pol
This book will aid in the identification of each of the 57 species of butterfly that has been recorded in the Cayman Islands. Entries include descriptions of each species' most important characteristi
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
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
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.”
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
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
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
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 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
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.
Presents 40 years worth of papers on Arabic linguistics by a pioneering American linguist, addressing issues of phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Sections on diachronica
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.
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 Festschrift offers a range of essays in ancient Greek and Roman history, mirroring the diverse abilities of the honoree, A. J. Graham. Topics include colonization, constitutional history, and mil
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 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 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
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 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
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)
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
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
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
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
