Time to prepare the way in the wilderness : papers on the Qumran scrolls /
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This collection of articles on the Dead Sea Scrolls by fellows at the Institute for Advanced Studies of The Hebrew University (1989-1990) represents the ongoing work of editing and interpreting one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the century. This volume includes articles on the contents and significance of the scrolls, the biblical scrolls, the legal rulings of the sectarians and their prayer texts.
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1 online resource (viii, 157 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004350182 :
0169-9962 ; :
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A king and a fool? : the succession narrative as a satire /
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In A King and a Fool? The Succession Narrative as a Satire Virginia Miller applies a new version of Douglas Muecke's taxonomy of irony to the Succession Narrative. She argues that the narrative in 2 Samuel and 1 Kings has the essential feature of satire, namely, a pervasive sense of pejoratively critical irony. By her account, King David is the object of ironic attack, and therefore, an object of condemnation. Given that the primary purpose of satire is reform, Miller claims that the purpose of the Succession Narrative is a call for reform in the leadership of Israel.
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1 online resource. :
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9789004411722
Cynical suspicions and Platonist pretentions : a critique of contemporary political theory /
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In Cynical Suspicions and Platonist Pretensions , John McGuire offers a critique of recent trends in contemporary political theory, specifically concerning the 'dangers' of cynicism and the contamination of public reason. In the view of many theorists and pundits, cynicism remains one of the gravest ills to befall any democratic society, injecting a virulent estrangement which leaves sufferers unable to trust elected representatives and unwilling to participate in collective action. Starting with a reconstruction of the performative and rhetorical tactics of the 'first' Cynic, Diogenes of Sinope (c. 323 BCE), John McGuire aims to demonstrate how cynicism's non-defeatist, relentlessly sceptical ethos provides an important counterweight to the self-aggrandising designs of moralists and policymakers alike.
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1 online resource (vii, 239 pages) :
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9789004364929 :
1572-459X ; :
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The sequential imperative : general cognitive principles and the structure of behaviour /
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In The Sequential Imperative William Edmondson explains how deep study of linguistics - from phonetics to pragmatics - can be the basis for understanding the organization of behaviour in any organism with a brain. The work demonstrates that Cognitive Science needs to be anchored in a linguistic setting. Only then can Cognitive Scientists reach out to reconsider the nature of consciousness and to appreciate the functionality of all brains. The core functionality of the brain - any brain, any species, any time - is delivery and management of the unavoidable bi-directional transformation between brain states and activity - the Sequential Imperative. Making it all work requires some general cognitive principles and close attention to detail. The book sets out the case in broad terms but also incorporates significant detail where necessary.
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1 online resource. :
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9789004342996 :
0929-8436 ; :
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The purpose of the Gospel of Mark in its historical and social context /
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This study investigates the issues of the origin and purpose of the Gospel of Mark. The author argues that Mark's Gospel was written in Galilee some time after the Jewish Revolt in 70 AD for a Christian audience that was living under the threat of persecution. The first part of the book examines the situation of Mark's intended readers, and the nature of and reasons for their persecution. The second part establishes in what way the Gospel addresses the situation of Mark's original readers.
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1 online resource (xv, 286 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p.[239]-256) and indexes. :
9789047413943 :
0167-9732 ; :
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Valuing others in classical antiquity /
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How does a discourse of 'valuing others' help to make a group a group? The fifth in a series exploring 'ancient values', this book investigates what value terms and evaluative concepts were used in Greece and Rome to articulate the idea that people 'belong together', as a family, a group, a polis, a community, or just as fellow human beings. Human communities thrive on prosocial behavior. In eighteen chapters, ranging from Greek tragedy to the Roman gladiators and from house architecture to the concept of friendship, this book demonstrates how such behavior is anchored and promoted by culturally specific expressions of evaluative discourse. Valuing others in classical antiquity should be of interest to linguists, literary scholars, historians, and philosophers alike.
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1 online resource. :
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9789004192331 :
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Newsletter, Number 23 (January, 1957)
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Members of the Center will be particularly concerned with the effect of recent events in Egypt on their fellow-members who are working there. Immediately following the account of the Annual Meeting are items of news from Egypt and some account of Egyptological activities in the United States.
A Medieval Critique of Anthropomorphism : Ibn al-Jawzī's /
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This study consists of a critical edition of Ibn al-Jawzī's Kitāb Akhbār as-Sifāt (KAS) along with an annotated translation and introduction. KAS is a critique of anthropomorphic conceptions of God, directed in the first instance against Ibn al-Jawzī's fellow Hanbalī, but also against Sunnī traditionalists more generally. As an intra-Hanbalīr polemic, KAS sheds important new light on the intellectual fault-lines within medieval Hanbalism, and reveals the extent to which kalām had penetrated the Hanbalite school by the 12th century. In his work, Ibn al- Jawzī's makes extensive use of kalām , drawing on its technical language and crafting his arguments against anthropomorphism on the basis of the dialectical methods developed within the great theological schools of medieval Islam. The study also contains a translation of al-ʿAlthī's Risāla , a pointed response to Ibn al-Jawzī, written by a fellow Hanbalī from a traditionalist perspective.
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9789004453265
9789004123762
Newsletter, Number 85 (APRIL 1973)
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CONTENTS:
Notes from Princeton--
Rapport Preliminaire Sur La Compagne De Fouilles a
Thebes Ouest De La Mission Archeologique De L’Universite De Milano (Italie) En Fevrier -
Mars 1973 --
Cabinet Reshuffle--
Notes on Activities in Egypt--
Center's Guest Book--
ARCE Fellow Alumni.
Newsletter, Number 78 (JULY 197])
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CONTENTS:
Notes from Princeton--
Work ln the Necropolis of El-Tarif / by Dr. Dieter Arnold--
Report of the Fourth Campaign of the Austrian Mission, University of Vienna, in the Asasif / by Dr. Manfred Bietak--
Impressions of a Fellow Traveller / by John L. Foster--
U. A. R. Cabinet of Ministers--
National Archaeological Institutes in Cairo--
Notes on Activities in the UAR--
The Center’s Guest Book.
Newsletter, 13 Desember 1954
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On later pages in this Newsletter a series of reports by Mr. Bothmer, Director, and Mr. Dimick, Fellow of the Center in Cairo, is published in chronological sequence on preparations for removing the heavy blocks of limestone covering the Boat Grave adjacent to the Great Pyramid of Cheops, and on the actual lifting of some of them. These eye-witness accounts by ecient if Jlcally competent observers are of immediate interest as news and of permanent value for the archaeological record.
Newsletter, Number 27 (February, 1958)
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Reports received in. December and early January from Edward F. Wente, Director of the Center in Cairo, painted the immediate future of archaeological research in Egypt proper in rather gloomy colors. His most recent letter, dated January 22, is, however, rather more hopeful. This Newsletter, presents a summary, with a few additions from other sources, of the news in Mr. Wente*s letters. Following this is a communication from Mr. John Alden Williams, the Center's second Fellow, on work in the Islamic field.
Newsletter, Number 45 (April, 1962)
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At & meeting of the Executive Committee held on March 16, the Fellow-ships offered by the Center through the generosity of the Bollingen Foundation were awarded as follows:
To Nicholas B. Millet, for research in Egyptology. In view of his outstanding services to the Center and his achievements in his field, Mr. Millet's Fellowship has been renewed for the coming season. In addition to continuing his Egyptological studies, Mr. Millet has assisted, during the past two seasons, in the work of the late-Pennsylvania excavations in Nubia, in connection with which he has been described as a "born excavator." Mr. Millet will continue as Director of the Center in Cairo.