Nothing annoyed the peddlers of pure reason, aka the representatives of eighteenth-century Enlightenment, more than the survival of myths--in this case Greek myths--which they viewed as illustrating c
Since the 1980s there has been much scholarship on Israelite and Jewish monotheism, but mostly on its origins. Here 10 essays from a June 2012 colloquium in Gottingen explore the portrayal of it at a
This volume addresses important questions in late-medieval book production and the history of the medieval book through original and substantial studies of one of the most remarkable surviving example
"Holy war and just war are unfortunately not only keywords for recondite excursions into the past, but equally for problems of the present. This applies as well for the attempts of rulers to justify w
This volume contains the Proceedings of the 23rd Congress of L'Union Europaeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants held in Sassari from Thursday 28th of September to Sunday 1st October 2006. The 26 articl
"With the Lombards invading Italy, and Slavs invading Illyria, and very active slave-dealers at work, the number of men and women who reached Rome and carried a papal letter, to sort out a legal or pe
Goldziher enlarged and corrected lectures he was invited to deliver at Uppsala University in September 1913 for his Die Richtungen der islamischen Koranauslegung (Leiden, 1920). His account of the var
This impressive work presents the 1979 dissertation written by Papadaki-Oekland under the direction of Hans Belting at Heidelberg U., Germany, and published posthumously by her daughters. Published in
Secularization of Western Culture is, if not a myth, then grossly overrated. A current interest in belief and religion has recognized Christianity's influence on European history, philosophy and mater
Historians and archaeologists search for markers of distinction in texts and physical artifacts in the Middle East from Neolithic through Persian periods and Hellenistic through Byzantine periods. Amo
The sixth-century controversy provoked one of the most serious and long-lasting schisms of the early Medieval Church, exposing fault lines not only between East and West and between the Empire and the
The authors (U. of Melbourne, Australia) began excavation of the complex sites located in Bayburt, Turkey (with finds dating from the Late Chalcolithic to the Ottoman period) in 1988 and have previous
In this revision of her doctoral dissertation (at the U. of Melbourne, Australia), McConchie has written a contextual analysis of the making of iron in which she considers received opinion and offers
This volume reports on the results of excavations conducted by the American Schools of Oriental Research at the Iron Age settlement of Tell Qarqur between 1993 and 1999. The volume begins with an over
