2010 saw the publication of the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, which took place in Galway 14-16 July, 2006. That first collection, wh
The nature of Taiwan's present day linguistic diversity may not have manifested itself the way it did had Taiwan not been colonized by Japan from 1895 to 1945, suggests Heylen (Taiwanese culture and l
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
What is the common denominator of Nordic artists and artist groups like Adel Abidin, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Das Beckwerk, Bjork, Olafur Eliasson, Hakki, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Julie Edel Hard
In this third volume deriving from the excavations of the Viking town of Kaupang of 2000-2003, a range of artefacts is presented along with a discussion of the town's inhabitants: their origins, activ
The Jewish-Hellenistic story about Joseph and Aseneth tells first how Aseneth, the daughter of Pentephres the priest of Heliopolis, became the wife of the patriarch Joseph following her conversion to
"This is an account of a remarkable nomadic people in West Africa, presumably the only hunting and foraging community to withstand its bloody legacy of slave-raiding,colonization, warfare and environm
This volume provides a highly detailed study of the short and troubled reign of Maximinus Thrax. Haegemans asks why Maximinus had such difficulty in consolidating his rule, examining the reasons behin
Revising his doctoral dissertation at the University of Cambridge, Tino (theology, U. of Trnava, Slovakia) argues that the book of Chronicles was most likely written in the late Persian or early Helle
"Activating the past explores critical historical events and transformations associated with embodied memories in the Black Atlantic world. The assembled case-studies disclose hidden historical refer
During his nine-month stay in China, the Japanese monk Saicho (767-822) was alleged to have been initiated into an illustrious esoteric lineage starting from a prestigious Indian Esoteric patriarch. I
How do people know God and the world? A meaty question, but one which O'Dowd poses in this expansion of his doctoral thesis, translated from the original German. The book uses Deuteronomy as a basis f
A gaping hole exists in archaeological scholarship about the ancient and classical Near East: Where are the women? To help remedy this omission, Nakhai (Judaic Studies, University of Arizona) presents
Cardullo (media and communication, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey) looks at the development of avant-garde theatre in the twentieth century with an emphasis on the work of Brecht and Pin
Lehmann (emeritus, church history, U. of Aarhus, Denmark), who has published extensively in this field, presents a collection of 15 previously published or newly translated articles concerning the Syr
Volume one of the publications providing the excavation reports from rescue excavations relating to the Tylos period in Bahrain, this book details the glass and pottery vessels from those excavations.
Volume one of the new series Architecture Medii Aevi, this title focuses solely on ecclesiastic architecture around 1300, as the Gothic tradition moved from largely French-centric to a European phenom
