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
The first comprehensive survey of the important corpus of Indic literature on Sanskrit grammar extant in Tibetan translation in the Buddhist canon.A systematic study of the history of the Tibetans' ex
This volume contains a series of studies on aspects of Mark's distinctive Greek. C.H. Turner's pioneering articles on Mark's usage form the basis of the book. Other comparable articles by those influe
A selection of passages from the Nag Hammadi texts that the editors believe are or might be related to passages in the Bible. Following each, is either the relevant Biblical text or a citation of book
The administration of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily has long been held up to be the most advanced government in twelfth-century Europe. However, until now there has been considerable confusion about ho
This book has been written from the conviction that general statements about the philosophical position taken by Theophrastus in this small, but extremely difficult, treatise can only be made on the b
Galen (2nd century A.D.), after Hippocrates, the most distinguished physician of antiquity, has left us numerous medical works to which no complete Greek-English dictionary or concordance was availabl
The essays in this volume, all freshly written for this purpose, focus on the concept of time in the major religious traditions. Two essays prepare the methodological grounds by elaborating the phenom
This title has been out of print for some years, but has now been reprinted. It is now generally recognised as the definitive text on British spiders. Roberts' first edition of this work (3 vols, in 1
Traditionally anticlericalism has been regarded as a significant historical factor, by some historians even as the unifying focal point for the host of movements known as the Reformation of the sixtee
This is a pioneering study of the impact of Christianization on the Chinese. Focusing primarily on the minority peoples of Yunnan province, it nonetheless fully mirrors the historical development of t
An English translation of a 1983 Japanese annotated translation of the Aobo tu , a compilation of information about salt production in China, written by Chen Chun in the 14th century. Also presents a
The contributions in this Festschrift extend over the whole range of Indian civilization: in the first part the earlier stages of Indian history spanning the period from the Indus civilization up to m
This book presents the first critical edition of the Syncategoreumata by the thirteenth-century philosopher Peter of Spain (Petrus Hispanus Portugalensis), accompanied by a facing-page English transla
This work comprises a literary comparison of surviving alternative versions of selected narrative-cycles from the Nights. Pinault draws on the published Arabic editions--especially Bulaq, MacNaghten,
The 10-km square dot-distribution maps, based on 30 years’ recording by members of the British Bryological Society, were produced at the Biological Records Centre, ITE, Monks Wood. Each species’ map i
The present volume contains a selection of studies on the Aramaic texts from Qumran, originally published in Spanish but thoroughly revised here, which investigate the contributions made by the Qumran
This book explores licensing theory and its implications for a theory of syntax. It brings together a series of new papers which focus on developing a constrained set of licensing mechanisms relating
The 10-km square dot-distribution maps, based on 30 years’ recording by members of the British Bryological Society, were produced at the Biological Records Centre, ITE, Monks Wood. Each species’ map i
This book allows anyone to identify all species of the limited, but very interesting Egyptian butterfly fauna. All the species are illustrated in full colour. Though written in a non-technical languag
Nigel of Canterbury (often referred to as Nigel Wireker or Nigel de Longchamps) was a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, during the troubled decades after the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. Nigel is wide
In this article, the author attempts to demonstrate that the study of inland fisheries can provide additional insight into the culture of the Meybrat, a tribal community living around the Ayamaru lake
This general bibliography on West Kalimantan contains 1855 references concerning monographs and periodical articles and 50 concerning bibliographies. They are arranged in broad subject categories, wit
'If not now, when?' Hillel, Pirke Avot, I 14. The text edition which I hereby submit to the reader has been my constant companion for much of the last nine odd years. But the relative stability of my
Manuscrits inedits publies avec une introduction et des notes. This study, based on unpublished documents, concentrates on the notorious Venetian trial of 1555.
The six-volume Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism -with first volume published in 2009 and completed in 2014 with Vol. 6- is a thematic encyclopedia, presenting the latest research on all the main aspec
Foundational questions of creation, stewardship, the ethics of use and new biblical interpretations of human relationships with the earth abound in this relatively new field of study, and the papers p
This volume deals with books II and III of the On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato by the medical scientist and philosopher Galen of Pergamum (129-C.210 C.E.). In these books Galen offers an ext
A collection of essays on syntactical questions in the field of Hebrew and Aramaic, dealing with the nominal sentence, the particle 'et, clause types, word order and concord within sentences, the stat
While governments repeatedly proclaim that one should not negotiate with terrorists, Zartman (School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins U.) argues "there are negotiations and negotiation
This edition, mainly based on the FARMS database, presents for the first time all the non-biblical Qumran texts classified according to their genres, together with translations. The Reader consists of
Nonnus once vied with Homer for popularity; today his Dionysiaca languishes in obscurity. The Challenge of Epic offers a literary critical rehabilitation of Nonnus' fifth-century AD poem. It argues th
An anthology of 42 essays by distinguished scholars on current research and methodology in the art history of the late medieval and early modern periods in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Belgiu
Culture in Common explores the transnational history of traditionalist art in modern East Asia through a contextualist account of Wang Yiting’s (1867-1938) social use of painting and calligraphy to me
Formal and thematic devices demonstrate that Hebrew poetry is composed of a consistent pattern of cantos (stanzas) and strophes. The formal devices include quantitative balance on the level of cantos
This two-volume work was originally published in 1993, and a paperbound edition was published in 2001; this is a reprint, also paperbound. The intellectual roots of this study lie, as the author state
Having written extensively about astronomy and astronomical instruments in Islamic civilization, King synthesizes both the religious and the scientific calculations of time in Islam from about 750 to
