"The Bible in Aramaic" is the fruit of more than forty years of study, during which Alexander Sperber made innumerable trips to various countries in order to visit libraries and examine manuscripts. T
This book offers a comparative analysis of the institutional law of public international organizations, covering issues such as membership, institutional structure, decisions and decision-making, lega
The first handbook to include detailed information on all 615 conifers, temperate as well as tropical, this encyclopedic work offers users as diverse as ecologists, gardeners, foresters and conservati
From a January 2002 conference at Yale University, 25 essays explore the Psalms in Jewish and Christian textual, liturgical, and artistic traditions, including what happens when texts are formed in co
An in-depth look at reports, documents, etc. describing one of the most important conflicts of the twentieth century. It was the first time that the East (Japan) fought and defeated the West (Russia).
This study investigates the reception of Ovidian heroines in Metamorphoses commentaries written between 1100 and 1618 on the Continent in England. Medieval and early modern clerical readings of the fe
Schneidel (ancient history, U. of Chicago), intending to introduce classicists and ancient historians to the field of demography, presents four case studies and a general introduction to Roman demogra
Years of research and several published articles led up to this book, in which Hanoshiro (history, U. of Michigan, Flint) focuses on the interaction between the Japanese government and the West parti
This first in-depth study of Arabic grammars of Turkic and the translation of Kitab al-’Idrak Li-Lisan al-’Atrak provides important new insights in the application of the Arabic model to Turkic in pho
A reference work containing richly illustrated descriptions and identification keys to the 161 Nordic species of the springtails of the section Poduromorpha, as well as summarising their known distrib
The book examines the cult of Sainte Geneviève, patron saint of Paris. Using hagiographic and liturgical documents, as well as municipal, ecclesiastical, and notarial records, it analyzes the religiou
The studies in this volume investigate Isaiah's use of early sacred tradition, the editing and contextualization of oracles within the Isaianic tradition itself, and the interpretation of the book of
Provides a comprehensive concordance to the Syriac New Testament according to the British and Foreign Bible Society's edition. The publication of this computer-generated Concordance fills a long term
This a fascinating account of the history of the Boni- Maroons (Aluku-Maroons) of Surinam and French-Guiana from about 1730 until 1860. Based on archival data, oral history and the literature, the aut
A collection of 175 documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Syene (Aswan), which stood at geological, ethnic, and political borders in the region of the first cataract of the
This volume examines the great social change experienced throughout the region following the demise of the Soviet Union, the advent of democracy in Russia and the economic reforms in China.
This book is based on the papers that were presented at the First International Urban Anthropology Conference, which was opened in Beijing on December 28, 1989. It contains twenty-two papers and six i
This set includes: EU Immigration and Asylum Law (Text and Commentary): Second Revised Edition Volume 1: Visas and Border Controls, ISBN 9789004222229 Volume 2: EU Immigration Law, ISBN 9789004222236
The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding explores the development of the bookbinding tradition in the Islamic world. From a craft-based perspective, Karin Scheper analyses the diverse material characteris
In this book we have gathered a number of prominent scholars who analyze the developments of administrative law from their respective perspective. The papers were first presented at a colloquium at t
Truly worldwide in its coverage, this English version of the 4th edition of the RGG, makes this gold standard of encyclopedias accessible to the English-speaking world. Taking into account the latest
Symmons organized a conference at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in June 2010 titled "Current Problematic Issues in the Law of the Sea." This volume presents 15 papers from that conference arranged
In 1957 Johannine scholars were startled by John A.T. Robinson's assertions that a "new look" at the fourth gospel would soon replace the old orthodoxy, including the then-established dictum that John
This series covers about 100,000 species of Coleoptera known to occur in the Palaearctic Region. The information provided for each species is as follows: primary taxonomic information of all available
An indispensable source of information for bibliographers and historians of mentality and visual culture. Contains inter alia a massive index of iconography, systematically arranged according to ICONC
This is the first biography of the historian Karl Lamprecht, whose theories of historical method unleashed a bitter controversy, which colored the writing of history in Germany well into the twentieth
