This volume is the first comprehensive survey of iconic books and texts tracing their development and influence from ancient to modern times and comparing their roles in multiple cultures and religiou
The third and final part of the publication of the literary, religious, and scholastic texts recovered in excavations by Leonard Woolley at Ur in 1922-34 is largely the work of Shaffer (Hebrew U. of J
How do the halakhic texts from Qumran as well as those Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls, which attest to legal texts of the Hebrew Bible, lead to a new interpretation and understanding of the Pentateuchal la
The Late Old Babylonian period (1711-1595 B.C.) was at the end of 500 years of "uninterrupted textual production in lower Mesopotamia" (from the preface), and it was a time of political instability. S
Jacobsen (systematic theology, Aarhus U., Denmark) presents the results of a research project engaged with the factors that played a role in the development of a normative corpus of scripture and doct
This 13th volume of the Iranica series is dedicated to the memory of the late Ronald Emmerick (1937-2001), former professor of Iranian philology at the U. of Hamburg, Germany. The 33 contributions thu
Derived from a conference of the same name (its date and location are not noted) the 41 papers of this volume consider the history and production of manuscripts produced in Europe through the 15th cen
From the second half of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th, Greek images prevailed in defining most political theories in English literature, says Lucht, then quite abruptly, Roman images a
Old English poetry is considerably more playful than is often acknowledged, says Niles, who is not further identified, and interpreting it may comprise a game in which riddling authors match wits with
