English-speaking scholars in Germany and India tap the rich potential of investigating the intricacies of Schopenhauer's incorporation of the Upanishads in his philosophy (he referred to his study of
Kartveit (Old Testament, School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger, Norway) explores construct phrases in Hebrew that use the terms " daughter" or "virgin" rather than the more usual "land" or "river.
Creativity is a highly-prized quality in almost any domain of human endeavor, whether one is crafting tangible objects from physical materials, or mental objects from concepts, words, pictures and mus
As a result of globalization, higher education institutions throughout the world are adopting English for parts of their education. Higher education is becoming increasingly international and thus lin
Who wrote the material about Jehu in the Bible, when and why did they write it, and how reliable is it? After a thorough text and literary critical examination of 2 Kings 9 10, this work demonstrates
The author analyses the grammaticalization of 'give' with infinitive in causative and modal constructions in the closely related Slavic languages Russian, Polish and Czech. Drawing on extensive diachr
This study traces how calls for poetic legitimations of community led particular eighteenth-century epics to explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations. The
One of thousands of documents sealed in a cave in Dunhuang, in Chinese Central Asia, in the early 11th century, the text studied here is a record of the pilgrimage of a Chinese monk to India about 960
With some additional contributions invited to round out this volume, most of contributions are based on papers presented at a 2007 conference at the U. of Bielefeld, Germany. An introductory essay and
Scholars from Europe and North American gathered in Chicago in October-November 2008 to interpret and assess central features of Protestant theologian and philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher's (1768-
The opening sections of some Midrashim deal with the same type of material that is found in the introductions to medieval rabbinic Bible commentaries. These are designated as “Inner-Midrashic Introduc
Drawing on a wide range of empirical data, the volume presents a thorough discussion of impoliteness and power in language. It addresses the enormous imbalance that exists between academic interest in
Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field of religious studies. The work follows in the foo
Working at the intersection of formal logic, linguistics, and philosophy, Linhares-Dias addresses the function of the class of linguistic expressions used to relate utterances to the spatio-temporal c
This is the first book in Chinese linguistics which discusses the grammar of a dialect group from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. The author uses new data and new frameworks to present an
Scheer (linguistics, Universite Nice, France) presents a development of Jean Lowenstamm's idea that phonological constituent structure can be reduced to a strict sequence of non-branching Onsets and n
The book claims that Yiddish was created when Judaized Sorbs first relexified their language to High German between the 9th-12th centuries; by the 15th century, the descendants of the Judaized Khazars
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentia
"Although in Second Temple literature we find a variety of songs concerned with the future of Jerusalem, little attempt has been made to analyse these comparatively as a generic group. In this study,
