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
In a fascinating expose of the sub-text of the Bible, this book shows that covert polemics is a significant feature of biblical writing on various contentious issues, such as cultic locations (Beth El
The present volume, consisting of 35 studies of various portions of Josephus' Jewish Antiquities, is an attempt to examine the oldest systematic commentary on the historical books of the Bible that ha
This book proposes a novel approach to the analysis of ritual action.Founded upon an in-depth study of the transvestism naven ceremony of the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea, it focuses on the relational a
The purpose of this book is to gather in a single narrative the rather disparate stories of Dominican friars in Southern Africa over the past four centuries. It is a social history of the Dominicans i
This book performs for the Academici Libri what P.L. Schmidt achieved for the De legibus - it studies the entire tradition of the work, including its original publication, its influence in Antiquity,
This book provides a translation of the only surviving ancient commentary on Plato's Gorgias, written by the Alexandrian Platonist Olympiodorus in the sixth century AD. There are substantial notes on
This is the first substantial commentary on Lucian's fantastic journey narrative, the True Histories - the earliest surviving example of science fiction in the Western tradition. The Introduction situ
From the introduction: "Eleven of the fifteen chapters were written by participants in the Oklahoma Supreme Court's Sovereignty Symposium. While some of the chapters are based on papers presented at t
This book presents the 'Chapter on Satan' (Bab al-shaytan) from a long unrecognized Ismaili work called the Kitab al-shajara by the fourth/tenth-century Khurasani dai, Abu Tammam.The satans of Abu Tam
A charming memoir by Yuki Yoshida, wife of Shigeru Yoshida who became Japan’s post-war prime minister of national reconstruction. Includes fascinating observations on diplomatic life, visits to the En
McLaren (Chinese, La Trobe U., Melbourne) analyzes examples of a Chinese oral narrative form favored by unlearned classes in the late imperial period during the 15th century. They are part of a body o
Volume III includes: a systematic examination of all international maritime boundaries worldwide, the text of every modern boundary agreement, descriptions of judicially-established boundaries, plus o
This volume provides a genealogy of the modern historiography of medieval philosophy up to the present, rediscovers fifty years of German scholarship, criticizes what has become the standard approach,
Developed from papers presented at the first European Colloquium on Pacific Studies this volume addresses the dynamics of contemporary Oceanic religions. In particular, the contributors investigate ho
This is a major study of Lycia in the Achaemenid Persian period, the first book-length treatment of the area's history in English. It provides major reassessments of the evidence,important for underst
This volume presents a critical edition of Laurens Pignon's treatise Contre les devineurs (1411) and examines its literary and historical context of courtly magic and astrology in Burgundy and France
This exhaustive analysis of the issue of Hellenistic colouring of LXX Proverbs concludes that the impact of Stoicism has been overestimated. Moreover, the law plays a more prominent role than previous
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
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
Since the rise of Islam, Jews have been living in the Yemen as the only non-Muslim minority. Their status, never enviable, deteriorated in the 20th century as the Imam Yahya sought to maintain Islami
This book examines how Johannes Buxtorf's works helped to transform seventeenth-century Hebrew studies from the hobby of a few experts into a recognized academic discipline.The first two chapters exam
The essays in this volume are the product of an interdisciplinary research seminar on “The Early State in Africa”, conducted during the 1979-1980 academic year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. T
The World of Ibn Tufayl consists of ten essays by scholars in different fields in Arab-Islamic studies on Ibn Tufayl's Hayy ibn Yaqzan, one of the most extraordinary works of medieval Arabic literatur
Baptism in the Theology of Martin Luther satisfies the need for a comprehensive survey, in English, of Martin Luther on baptism. The mature Luther was unstinting in praise of baptism. How does his vig
This book is a comparative study in the hermeneutics of the ancient interpretations of the biblical Joseph story. Assuming that every interpretation results from a creative encounter between the ultim
Brugman provides a historical background for students who are able to read modern Arabic or are on their way to doing so, and for colleagues and future colleagues. He also assumes that readers have at
Translated from Albrecht's (classical philology, U. of Heidelberg) 1994 second edition of Geschichte der r÷ischen Literatur , changing bibliographic references to English editions and translations of
Warden Richard Mocket's Doctrina et Politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae is a Summa of Anglican doctrine and organisation compiled by a chaplain of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. It includes (anonymo
The aim of this work is to recover classical Roman assumptions about women on the basis of the surviving linguistic data. The author provides a control to her study of the connotations of the major La
This collection in English of important modern articles on the Didache (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles), including an extensive review of scholarship over the past fifty years, provides a valuable re
This volume makes available to the scholarly world the Otot ha-Shamayim, Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Hebrew version of Aristotle's Meteorology, completed in 1210. This treatise, based on the Arabic paraphrase
A Publication of new research on different aspects of warfare in the age of the Dutch Revolt. An important survey of the state of affairs by Dutch historians, all experts in their field.
Only four of the 14 papers are in English, the others being in French as is the preface. They shed light of the pharmacology of the second-century Greek physician who worked at the court of the Roman
The Sangitasiromani, 'Crest-jewel of Music', is a major Sanskrit work on Indian musicology, composed in 1428 AD by scholars from all parts of India who participated in a musicological congress organiz
This investigation into the formation of the Community Rule is the first to make full use of all the evidence of the Cave 4 fragments which have recently been made available to scholars.
Symbols as Power concentrates on the papacy from the end of the Investiture Contest in 1122 until the re-establishment of the Roman Senate in 1143. By combining an investigation of such media as art,
Historical thought, whether it is expressed in writing or through works of art, inevitably contains elements of fiction. Thus in every phase of the development of historical thinking the question aris
The famous Nile Mosaic of Palestrina, ancient Praeneste in central Italy, dating to c.100 BC, is one of the earliest large mosaics which have been preserved from the classical world. It presents a uni
