In this well-researched and scholarly book, Roitman takes issue with standard histories that attribute the commercial success of Sephardic merchants in 17th century Amsterdam to their business and tra
Eleven essays translated from Chinese and an introductory essay for each of the two sections offer English-speakers an opportunity to engage with the views of Chinese scholars. The first section deals
The 15th volume of this annual starts off with a collection of articles dealing with issues of family law in Iran and Egypt, and aspects of human rights and international humanitarian law in the Middl
"The literary and archaeological evidence indicates that angeli (angeloi) were a significant aspect of religion in the Roman Empire...[although] few readers will associate angeli with Roman religion..
The international conference Making History: Josephus and Historical Method was held in Haifa during July 2006 to examine the work of Jewish historian Josephus (37-100), with relevant architectural si
Gifted with a lucid writing style, and adept at recounting a story, Vargas ( history, The State U. of New York, New Paltz) recounts the surprisingly rowdy history of the Dominicans in 14th-century Ara
With this volume, the Review ceases publication; Lang is retiring from the University of Paderborn, Germany, which has been funding the publication since 1985, and no other institution has come forwar
The interconnected relationship of medieval Bulgarian language, letters, religion, culture, and law with the Byzantine culture from which it derived is a central thesis of this major and wide-ranging
Byron (New Testament, Ashland Theological Seminary) traces the interpretative history of the Cain and Abel story over the first millennium CE. He is not concerned with the background or manuscript det
The rise of the Byzantine war galley known as the dromon (spelled with Greek letters in the book's title) has been seen as marking the transition from Roman to Byzantine maritime history, and its demi
For students of Greek lyric poetry in the original, scholars from the University of Western Ontario and University of Toronto set out the main problems and controversies associated with the different
Spink (emeritus history, U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor) argues that the Golden Age of India did not fade away with the decline of the Gupta dynasty in the late fifth and sixth centuries, but it found its a
Using the concept of theatricality to study Water Margin and Journey to the West, this study illustrates how writing and reading in early modern China became fused with a theatrical imagination in res
This is the first comprehensive bibliography on the Karaites and Karaism. Including over 8,000 items in twenty languages, this bibliography, with its extensive annotations, thoroughly documents the pr
The essays in this volume deal with the (re)construction of the history of Ancient Israel and how that historywriting is influenced by ideology and informed by the evidence.
Democratic polities continue to be faced with politics of resentment. The first comparative study of its kind, this book rigorously examines the contemporary relevance of antisemitism and counter-cosm
Drawing on natural history, theology and philosophy, this book retraces the shifting foundations of the order of things that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant with respect to three q
This volume of conference proceedings investigates the various ways and patterns with which esoteric writings and groups establish their own tradition. This involves concepts of origin and memory, way
This book deals with the relation between the Malian state and the Tuareg people in the late 20th century, which has been characterized by three violent uprisings against Malian authority by Tuareg na
This book is a new study of one of the masterpieces of ancient Egyptian literature, offering new readings and translations, along with an analysis of the text’s grammar and versification, and a comple
Excavations at H3, Kuwait, throw important new light on the economy of the Arabian Neolithic, the early history of seafaring and boat-building, and relations with Ubaid Mesopotamia. It is now clear th
Concerned with the history of scholarly production, book markets and trans-Saharan exchanges in Muslim African (primarily western and northern Africa), as well as the creation of manuscript libraries,
This volume reviews and critiques efforts to recast governance of marine fisheries on the basis of sustainability principles (e.g., precautionary and ecosystem approaches), with a focus on Canada’s tr
This book offers a comprehensive theory of Arabicization in the Middle East and Egypt in the early period of the Arab conquests. It thereby draws on old Arab grammarians coupled with modern research i
Jews, Christians and Muslims describe elements of their origins with close reference to the narrative of Abraham, including the complex story of Abraham's relations with Hagar. This volume sketches th
Drawing on a variety of both narrative and archival sources, this study deals with the region of Adana and its new port-city Mersin as part of the transformation of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th cent
This book is major critical study on the Gospel of Peter. It introduces and advances the major debates surround this text, it offers a fresh scholarly edition of the Greek text with text-critical note
Basil of Caesarea's debate with Eunomius of Cyzicus in the early 360s marks a turning point in the fourth-century Trinitarian controversies. It shifted focus to methodological and epistemological disp
Volume 8 in the series, appearing in two parts, A and B, deals with the systematics of cyst nematodes of the subfamily Heteroderinae. Cyst nematodes are important pathogens causing extensive damage an
This book employs Cognitive Literary Theory in an analysis of Conceptual and Intertextual Blending in the Gospel of Philip and the Exegesis on the Soul, read as Christian texts contemporary with the p
The papers in this volume focus on various aspects of the deuterocanonical Book of Wisdom. They research the traditions and theology of the Book of Wisdom, and demonstrate its relationship with the co
Volume 8 in the series, appearing in two parts, A and B, deals with the systematics of cyst nematodes of the subfamily Heteroderinae. Cyst nematodes are important pathogens causing extensive damage an
Following contemporary approaches and current trends in historiography, the book in 18 papersdeals with the history of Slovene and neighbouring territories in the Middle Ages, and Slovene historiograp
Alexander's Alleged Wall Against Gog and Magog, often connected with the enclosure of the apocalyptic people, was a widespread theme among Syriac Christians in Mesopotamia. In the ninth century Sallam
With topics ranging from social and economic history to literature, language, and to art history and archaeology, the essays in his book reflect the broad spectrum of interests of its honoree, Benjam
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the Paraphrase of Shem, Codex VII, 1 in the Coptic Nag Hammdi Library. The translation, which sets out the text in paragraphs with headings and subhead
While the Arctic Ocean has long been covered with ice, recent changes in climate have caused the ice to melt, spurring conservation challenges to both the region's environment and biodiversity, as wel
Inglis presents a selective, simplified, and updated version of her doctoral thesis at the U. of Ghent, entitled European Union Enlargement: Pre-accession and Transitional Arrangements with Case Studi
Dealing with some of the main aspects of general history among the Jews of nineteenth-century Iran, this book provides the reader with over 40 selected archival and published sources. Analyzed and ann
The book deals with the relationship between Friedrich Meinecke, who is often considered to be the leading German historian of the first half of the twentieth century, and several of his students who,
