Efthimiadis-Keith (Old Testament, U. of the North, South Africa) takes an entirely new approach to the Book of Judith, Currently part of the Apocrypha, Judith tells the story of a Jewish woman who sav
Early in the seventeenth century the Western Pyrenees were riven by one of the greatest witch panics in history. The mountain villagers were in uproar when villagers' children reported how they were b
Charney (South East Asian history, U. of London) presents the first general study of warfare in southern Asia since 1952. The period encompasses the introduction of firearms, the consolidation of stab
Becking (Old Testament, Utrecht U.) presents a coherent set of essays on the interpretation of the Old Testament passage. He emphasizes the ability to recognize the communicative patterns in a text an
Autonomy has become a code word for an all-purpose means of including sub-state groups in the three major functions that make for the essence of international law: the allocation of competence, the fu
Brill's New Pauly is the English edition of Der Neue Pauly published by Verlag J.B. Metzler since 1996. The ambitious, authoritative project will comprise 20 volumes (of which this is the fifth). It i
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
To launch the series, contributors presumably from classics or literary criticism focus on the formal devices within ancient Greek texts that authors use to enchant or persuade their readers. They loo
This volume examines Pentecostal/Charismatic renewal in an African context. Ghanaian Pentecostalism in its modern Charismatic form has become the most visible expression of renewal within indigenous C
The great ports of the Low Countries have long served in the international commerce of ideas as well as goods. In these 13 essays contributors examine how issues of faith from the sixteenth to the eig
Since 1948, when the first volume of this extraordinary classic appeared, we've impatiently awaited an English translation of Traite de Zoology . The project is now begun by the great Dutch publishin
Tius, Catholic Bishop of Bostra about 362-378 made perhaps the most comprehensive attempt in the first four centuries of Christianity to formulate a theodicy. His Against the Manichaeans has been negl
In the wake of the Vietnam War, a range of environmental protection laws applicable to wartime were instituted by the international community. However, in light of the depleted uranium used by the Uni
Setzer (religious studies, Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York) writes on early Jewish/Christian relations and women in early Judaism and Christianity. Here she explores why belief in resurrection
Most early Christians could not read, points out Schiell, a Baptist pastor in Texas, so the writings that have survived to the present were intended to be read aloud, to be performed in public. He arg
Shalem (history of Islamic art, Munich U., Germany) has done an admirable job of assembling a vast quantity of material on the many so-called tenure horns, or oliphants, that survive from the Middle A
Scott takes a multidisciplinary approach in examining the ramifications of multinational treaties that have proliferated since World War II. She explains that treaties are intended to establish behavi
This volume - a Festschrift in honour of the renowned Acts of the Apostles-scholar Eckhard Plumacher- contains various articles on several aspects of Luke's Acts of the Apostles
Scholars specializing in the area are well aware that secular Hebrew poetry began about the ninth century under the influence of Arabic secular poetry, but Tobi (Hebrew Medieval literature, U. of Haif
Broue (history, Institut d'etudes politiques, Grenoble) understands the proper socialist revolution to mirror that of the Bolsheviks. In the case of Germany, which experienced five years of struggle a
Pormann (oriental studies, Oxford U.) examines the handbook of seventh-century Alexandrian physician Paul, which is also called Compendium of the Pleiades because it consists of seven books. After e
While he was compiling the Biographical Dictionary , Loewe encountered a number of problems that required research; he included the answers but not the necessary support for them. He does so here, an
Perhaps because Allatios (1586-1669) was not a particularly original writer, says Hartnup; his writings are not deeply studied nor widely known to modern scholarship, though he stood at the center of
Eighth-century BC Greek poet Hesiod has fooled modern scholars into mistaking his narrator for him, says Stoddard (classics, Florida State U.), and they therefore have not given him due credit as a po
Any war wreaks havoc on cities as well as the countryside. "Endangered Cities" explores specifically the urban experience in twentieth-century war-torn Europe. Volume contributors draw on the history
Having written extensively about the various rDzogs chen (Great Perfection) traditions of Tibet, Achard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) here presents the Collected Revelations
Kadhim (Arabic language and literature, Dartmouth College) analyzes a number of 20th-century Arabic odes, qasidahs, which pursue an overtly anti-colonial agenda while remaining mindful of their litera
The story of Apollonius, King of Tyre has rightly been called the most popular romance of the Middle Ages. From Iceland to Greece, from Spain to Russia, versions of this novel are recorded. It is the
This is a biography of Zahir al-Din Muhammud Babur (1483-1530), the founder of the state that would evolve into the Mughal Empire. Although the legacy of that Empire looms large in Asian history, Dale
The 455 entries of this compendium represent a broad selection of the nearly 2700 Hebrew books printed in the 16th century. Each two-page entry features a description of the book's contents, the autho
Revising a doctoral thesis written at Switzerland's Graduate Institute of International Studies, Bottigliero (international humanitarian law, U. of Hong Kong) explores the issue of victim compensation
Zertal (ancient near eastern archaeology, U. of Haifa) reports the results of archaeological excavations during 23 years beginning in 1978 in the central hill country of the Land of the Bible, the mai
In this study of the hero as he is manifest in the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, McGrath (Sanskrit, Harvard U.) focuses principally on Karna, arguing that he represents an ideal typology for heroic-aryan
Twenty-six international academics contribute 12 chapters derived from the Institute for Research on Intercultural Cooperation's April 2001 conference held at Tilburg U., the Netherlands. They explore
Four articles and a substantial introduction reprinted from Nan Nü Men, Women, and Gender in China (2004) vol. 6, no. 1. explore topics along what is increasingly seen as artificial border between t
Originally published in 1983 in Japanese (Ibunka no hazama de) by Bungei Shunju, Japan's leading intellectual monthly, shortly after the author's death, the English text from which the Japanese transl
This is a paperbound reprint of a 2002 book about which Book News wrote: British Marxist scholar C.J. Arthur combines two mutually supportive trends in Marxist theory: that of systematic dialectic and
Tanner (history, Ohio State U.) offers a new model of the development of medieval government from the later ninth century in northern France, drawing on a cluster of insights developed by social histo
This text is based on presentations from an international conference held in the Netherlands in April 2002, as part of a larger project undertaken by the African Studies Centre in Leiden to study glob
Though Christianity is generally considered a western religion, even by Christians living in Asia, Mullen (religious studies, U. of Birmingham) points out that none of the early but possible sites of
