Die Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZNW) ist eine der ältesten undrenommiertesten internationalen Buchreihen zur neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Seit 1923 publ
Although there are many works dealing with Pompeii and Herculaneum, none of them try to encompass the entire spectrum of material related to its reception in popular imagination. Pompeii’s Ashes surve
Das Ziel der neuen Reihe und der zugehörigen Zeitschrift Trends in Classics ist es, fachübergreifende Studien aus allen Bereichen der Klassischen Philologien zu versammeln, die in innovativer Weise T
This book offers the first detailed analysis of "mystery" and the accompanying discourse of new revelation in early Christianity. It explores how various authors, beginning with Paul
This scholarly volume in Judaic studies takes up intellectual questions about magic and other hermeneutic topics pondered by Rabbinic scholars in early Judaism. Some of the material here has been prev
This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditional views from the modern theoretical and experimental perspective. Its focus is on the noun-verb, nou
This first volume in the series Language and Social Life is also the first monograph in English on the subject of language contact and conflict in Europe’s Low Countries, in this case treating the int
"This volume of essays takes as its point of departure Martin Buber's principle of dialogue, which he applied as a comprehensive hermeneutic method for the study of various cultural phenomena. The vol
Editors Stein and Thon present students, academics, researchers, and general interest readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles focused on the evolution of comic art from its
This study analyzes the representation of the cities buried by Vesuvius and the ways that Pompeii and Herculaneum are recreated in travelogues, novels, novellas, short stories, film, music, songs, ope
This volume examines the relationship between classical education and the rise of modernism in society in 19th-century Germany, where the German Gymnasium was rooted in a classical curriculum. It addr
In 22 papers from a September 2010 meeting in Helsinki to celebrate the work of Finnish mathematician Jouko Vaananen, mathematicians explore a broad range of topics within mathematical logic. Their to
Private associations organized around a common cult, profession, ethnic identity, neighbourhood or family were common throughout the Greco-Roman antiquity. This volume collects a representative select
The editor provides an introduction explaining that the tomb sanctuary built on Mount Nerod in southeast Anatolia, present-day Turkey, was built by King Antiochus I in the first century BCE, that it w
This book studies the house of prisoners at the city of Uruk during the revolt against king Samsu-iluna (ca. 1741 1739 BC). The history of this period is not widely known and there is no previous comp
This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of narrative beyond traditional literary texts. Analyzing a wide range of
This study analyzes Matthew’s economic language against the backdrop of other early Jewish and Christian literature and examines its import for the narrative as a whole. Careful attention to this negl
With an emphasis on the Gospel of Mark, Pokorny (biblical studies, Charles U. in Prague) explores the rich texture of meanings that have become associated with euangelion, the Greek word for gospel th
The biblical concept of Israel as the Chosen People raises the difficult question about the fate of other nations. Earlier wisdom literature did not argue in national terms but in Ben Sira we have the
In this English translation of the author's dissertation (from Ruhr U. Bochum), the three largest German communities in the American South are described during the Civil War, with a focus on their mil
Written at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics, Reproducing Enlightenment:Paradoxes of the Body Politic undertakes readings of literary and philosophical texts, ranging from Immanuel Kant, Mary
The study assesses the main issues in the current debate about the early history of Pesach and Easter and provides new insights into the development of these two festivals. The author argues that the
This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific lang
