After examining Jewish writings and Greek literature of the classical and Hellenistic periods, this study reveals that Paul is unique in his exlusive use of the???? word group for the divine pledge, w
The essays in this compendium examine Late-Biblical writings dating from the Hellenistic period that relate to religion and society. A focus is placed on threat scenarios and on the drawing of differe
A handsomely-produced volume, this new book on architect Mies van der Rohe will appeal both to professional architects and students interested in Mies, and to fans of coffee-table books on buildings.
Couto develops a positive argument to support the claim that there is a prima facie reason for the state to protect and promote certain objectively valuable goods, and thereby rejects the liberal comm
Analyzing the biblical corpus and the text of Ben Sira with respect to the lexical set "to teach," Widder comes to reasonable conclusions about the meanings of words, and suggests the conceptual world
This book will introduce the field of forensic semiotics as a tool for understanding crime and criminality. It will focus on how symbolism, ritual, and other sign-based activities play a crucial role
In an age where the globalization process is threatening the uniqueness and vitality of small towns, and where most urban planning discourse is directed at topics such as metropol-regions or mega-regi
The Romantic mode and representations of emotion would seem to be a perfect fit. By focusing on the esthetics of emotions, their genre-typical enactments and representation in the works of Arnim, Gund
Pragmatics of society takes a socio-cultural perspective on pragmatics and gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use. The volume covers a wide range of topics within
The aim of the volume is to make information more widely available to scholars and linguists and to encourage greater efforts toward documentation of the languages of South America. Campbell (U. of Ha
Davydova (U. of Hamburg) analyzes the category of the English present perfect in light of data from second-language varieties such an Indian and East African, and English learned as a foreign language
How is the continuity of family enterprises and of aristocratic and bourgeois dynasties ensured? This is the question given close attention in German-language novels at the end of the 19th century in
Ten years after the first ECTIL project in this field, liability for medical malpractice is still a hot topic throughout Europe and it continues to expand and develop. This study compares thirteen Eur
Following his study of the structure of Irish, Hickey (linguistics, U. of Duisburg and Essen) here provides an overview of its present-day dialects, for students and scholars who do not necessarily ha
The 11 texts relate philosophical perspective on time to literary theory's attempts to clarify how time appears, functions, and is construed in and by narratives. The idea is to group seminal texts in
Initiated and edited by one of the 20th-century's great semioticians, EDS was originally published in 1986, and Sebeok himself saw to the 1993 second edition's light revisions; but for the third editi
These papers are inspired by a March 2005 international workshop held at Saarbruken on the teaching of second language prosody and seek to fill the gap between second language acquisition and second l
Moseten belongs to the small, unclassified language family Mosetenan and is spoken by roughly 800 people in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes and the adjoining lowland region. This grammar is the fi
Among the European peoples immigrating to Britain in the years 1933 to 1950 were members of the Polish army, displaced persons, former prisoners of war from Italy and the Ukraine, and laborers recruit
Historical linguistic theory and practice contains a great number of different 'layers' which have been accepted in the course of time and have acquired a permanency of their own. These range from neo
From a May 2011 conference in Warsaw, 19 essays consider playful language in Greek and Latin from the perspectives of discourses of play, theory and practice of the ancient riddle, visual poetry in th
Barbour (U. of Waikato, New Zealand) presents a grammar of the Southern Oceanic language Neverer, which is spoken by about 560 Mindu and Sakhan people on Malekula Island in Vanuatu, and has been virtu
This is the first book to bring together the fields of theoretical and empirical studies in syntax on the one hand and the methodology of quantitative linguistics on the other hand. An introduction in
This book examines the poetry of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs. It shifts established patterns of reception by analysing the author’s reception in East and West Germany after the war and th
In Aulus Gellius’ Noctes Atticae the lack of homogeneity of form and content is an explicitly declared programme, and the work has been assigned to the miscellanies of the 2nd century AD. This volume
This monograph provides a fresh perspective on judgment according to works by challenging both the majority scholarly view and the new perspective advocated by E. P. Sanders, James D. G. Dunn and N. T
In this volume eminent historians compare German and British statesmen in war, from the Seven Years' War to World War II. The subjects of the biographical essays range from Frederick the Great and Wil
This volume is the first comparative study of the political tools employed by the Popes and the perception of the Papacy in different regions, so combining the perspectives of the Roman center and tha
This text evolved from two workshops held at the U. of Lund in 2002 and 2003, and investigates the architecture of focus in grammar from different perspectives. Twenty papers by 24 contributors are or
This first verse-by-verse commentary on the Greek text of the Testament of Abraham places the work within the history of both Jewish and Christian literature. It emphasizes the literary artistry and c
The author examines a group of myths and festivals in ancient Greek religion in which the motifs of the exchange of gender roles and sexual transformation play a central role. The application of prese
This book presents the theory that the linguistic and cultural landscape of Europe north of the Alps and the Pyrenees was shaped in prehistoric times by the interaction of Indo-European speakers of la
A formgeschichtlich study of the Hebrew and Aramaic letters of the Old Testament and its environment (9th century BCE to 2nd century CE) presenting a history of the genre of the northwest Semitic epis
After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921–2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. Th
Karduniaš, as the kingdom of the Kassites in Babylonia was called in ancient times, was the neighbor and rival of great powers such as Egypt, the Hittites, and Assyria. But while our knowledge of the
This is the first book on Paul Tillich and Judaism, which is a neglected aspect of Tillich’s thought. Tillich’s dialectical and theological history of religion is examined in key primary s
Kant on Human Dignity offers an in-depth study of Kant’s conception of human dignity and its relation to human value and the requirement to respect others. Based on an analysis of the relevant passage
With almost 200 million native speakers, Bangla ranks among the top ten languages in the world in number of speakers; yet despite its status as a major world language and its rich and lengthy literary
The book reviews new technologies and devices aimed to improve labor management and outcomes. These diverge between looking at a better way to use fetal heart rate monitors (that are used in 90% of la
A spin-off from the multi-volume Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, this new series will present monographs and edited volumes exploring the reception of the Bible in a variety of academic a
