Jubilee in the Bible: Using the theology of Jürgen Moltmann to find a new hermeneutic combines biblical studies with modern theology and has an orientation towards the Church. This is the first book o
Using Islamic tradition as a resource, the poets, novelists, playwright, filmmaker, and illustrator in this study discover signs of God’s creative actions amid the tensions of contemporary Muslim Amer
Palaeography, orthography and morphology of the large and important 14th century saga manuscript Möðruvallabók are described in detail using absolute numbers. Where the language isn’t uniform, each of
In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas recreates, using a bibliographical approach, the manner in which Spain was regarded in Europe in the Eighteenth centu
Stuke offers an extremely detailed and scholarly compendium of all known insects in the family Conopidae (thick-headed flies), categorized since 1919. Each entry (using the Latin nomenclature only
In this book, Lucia Ceci reconstructs the relationship between the Catholic Church and Fascism, using new and previously unstudied sources in the Vatican Archives.
Using "lived religion" as its conceptual tool, this book explores how the Reformation showed itself in and was influenced by lay people's everyday lives. It reinvestigates the character of the Reform
This study of Medieval public justice examines the practice of criminal justice at the end of the 14th century, using the northern Italian city of Reggio Emilia as a case study. The book investigates
The Old Greek Translation of Zechariah analyses the character of this translation and, using new methodological perspectives, suggests that the translator had pro-Hasmonean sympathies.
Using contemporary illustrations, Legal Maxims in Islamic Criminal Law delves into the theoretical and practical studies ofal-Qawaid al-Fiqhiyyah in Islamic legal theory. It elucidates the importance
Diversity in the Structure of Christian Reasoning makes an argument about the nature of interpretive conflicts in modern theology. Using two examples from World Christianity, it examines the hermeneut
This book studies the influence of censorship on the selection and translation of English language fiction in the People’s Republic of Poland, 1944-1989. Differences in translations are analysed using
Using a transdisciplinary approach for a thorough assessment of the much-debated religious ending of the Metamorphoses, this new and detailed commentary on Apuleius' Isis book will elucidate the narra
Using the commentaries of a group of scholars from c. 1150-1350, along with confessors’ manuals, mystery plays and sermon material, this book investigates the place of the Decalogue in medieval religi
The French pursued victory and colonisation amid a Roman landscape little affected down the centuries by local inhabitants. In the space of two generations they destroyed much of it, re-using its mate
Using the methodology of cultural translation, Flynn studies change in YHWH’s kingship and situates that change in the Neo-Assyrian period. Judahite scribes changed the theology of YHWH’s kingship, fr
The Ottoman Middle East discusses various political, social, cultural and economic aspects of the Ottoman Middle East. By using various textual and visual documents, produced in the Ottoman Empire, th
Transaction Planning Using Rules on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments by R. A. Brand, Professor at theUniversity of Pittsburgh.The Emancipation of the Individual from the S
The book discusses how conflicts were handled in medieval Scandinavia. Using practice as analytical concept, the authors explore law and litigation in conjunction with non-formal legal proceedings suc
The book presents new figurative models of interchange between Judaism and Christianity. It demonstrates the nexus connecting the account of Creation and the Tabernacle using Jewish and Christian te
Asia in the Making of Christianity studies the experience of converts from fifteen locations throughout Asia, using a variety of approaches to examine the meaning of becoming Christian. The book addre
"The Minority Concept in the Turkish Context" discusses the concept of minority in the specific Turkish context by using three different case studies: religious minorities in Turkey, Muslims of Greece
In "Gilded Voices," Qiliang He focuses on "pingtan," a storytelling art using the Suzhou dialect, to explore the role of the cultural market in mediating between the state and artists in the PRC era.
Using graphic satire as a weather vane, Spaans (history of Christianity, Utrecht U.) investigates how the contending religious groups and ideas that kept the 17th century churning in the Netherlands w
The essays in this volume examine the political economies of China, the former USSR, India, and the Philippines from the perspective of state capitalism. Using comparative and interdisciplinary method
The aim of this study is to give a more precise interpretation, using the commemorative form of activity of confraternity, of the function and purpose behind such depictions, in the case of a few sele
The Maji Maji war of 1905-07 in Tanzania was the largest African rebellion against European colonialism. This volume offers the fullest account of the war in the English language. Using oral accounts
Anglican priest Kombo (theological studies, Daystar U., Kenya) grapples with the problem of how to deliver the doctrine of the Trinity to the roots of the African cultural milieu using African intelle
"Using the most extensive collection hitherto of his published and unpublished writings, this volume provides a comprehensive, in-depth and interdisciplinary study of the ethical philosophy of al-Razi
"Using previously inaccessible documents and materials from the former Soviet Union, this book describes the strategies of noncapitalist development undertaken in order to build socialism in Mongolia
Qudama b. Ja'far was a scholarly state official in the early classical period of the Abbasid dynasty (9th-10th centuries A.D.), who wrote "The Book of the Land-Tax and the Craft of Writing." Using his
Szulakowska, who is not identified, concentrates on the intellectual and spiritual concerns of the 1590s to 1620s using Heinrich Khunrath's Amphiteatrum Sapientae Aeternae (1595, 1609) as a focal poin
Using parish records to reconstruct local religious culture, this volume examines the relationship between the expectations of the Catholic Reformation and the religious practices and beliefs of paris
The present study investigates the function of the verbal forms in biblical Hebrew narrative, using the Joseph story (Gen. 37-50) as a corpus. It demonstrates how the 'tense', 'aspect' and 'sequential
A resource for using rhetorical criticism as a methodology for interpreting the literary character of the Bible, providing a comprehensive bibliography for each testament. While the focus of the bibli
How are individuals socialized today? To answer these questions, a unique investigation has been carried out using two scales of analysis: the scale of the cosmopolitan world as well as the scale of e
In This House is not a Home, Lisa Hellman offers the first study of European everyday life in Canton and Macao. Using the Swedish East India Company as a focus, she explores how domesticity was condit
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 Constitutional Principles of Local Self-Government in Europe Giovanni Boggero offers a meticulous account of the defining features of European constitutional local government law using both an inte
