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In the footsteps of Marco Polo : a twentieth century odyssey /

: 128 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. : 0670396834

The travels of Marco Polo /

: xxix, 350 pages : maps ; 19 cm.

Published 1950
The Travels of Marco Polo: Translated into English from the text of L. F. Benedetto by Professor...

: 439 p.: illus.; 23

Published 1950
The Travels of Marco Polo: Translated into English from the text of L. F. Benedetto by Professor...

: 439 p.: illus.; 23

Published 1928
The travels of Marco Polo the Venetian.

: William Marsden's translation. : 352 p. illus. 20 cm.

Published 1947
Venetian adventurer : being an account of the life and times and of the book of Messer Marco Polo /

: xiv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. : Bibliography : pages 265-277.

Published 1969
The Bible in the Works of Thomas More : Part I: The Old Testament /

: A full list of Biblical quotes in More, with context and occasional comments on sources, parallels, etc. I. Old Testament II. The Four Gospels III. Acts, Epistles, Apocalypse IV. Elements of Synthesis V. Indexes, Supplements, Concordances The print edition is available as a set of five volumes (9789060041079).
: 1 online resource (1098 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004535510

Published 1994
Scribes and translators : Septuagint and Old Latin in the Books of Kings /

: Scribes and Translators is a critical reflection on the textual pluralism as reflected in the book of Kings. The first part of the book examines the diverse texts transmitted by the manuscripts. Special attention is paid to the Antiochene text of the Septuagint that is being edited in Madrid. The second part is devoted to the analysis of Old Latin readings, transmitted by a Spanish family of Vulgate Bibles, with no support in any of the known manuscripts. Finally, the whole evidence is discussed in the frame of the plurality of texts confirmed by the Qumran documents for those books. Based on Old Latin material recently published it sheds light on the text transmission of Kings and on the translation techniques and the history of the Biblical texts in general.
: "The Grinfield Lectures 1991 and 1992 ... at the University of Oxford"--Preface. : 1 online resource (98 pages, [6] pages of plates) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-91) and indexes. : 9789004275782 : 0083-5889 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Pictorial Sunday book : containing an account of the manners and customs, rites, traditions, and antiquities of the Jews and other Eastern nations ; the whole explanatory of many portions of the Old and New...

: 592 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Published 2022
Ancient Egyptian statues : their many lives and deaths /

: "Why do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals broken? Although Late Antiquity appears to have been one of the major moments of large-scale vandalism against pagan monuments, various contexts bear witness to several phases of reuse, modification, or mutilation of statues throughout and after the pharaonic period. Reasons for this range from a desire to erase the memory of specific rulers or individuals for ideological reasons to personal vengeance, war, tomb plundering, and the avoidance of a curse; or simply the reuse of material for construction or the need to ritually "deactivate" and bury old statues, without the added motive of explicit hostility toward the subject in question. Drawing on the latest scholarship and over 100 carefully selected illustrations, Ancient Egyptian Statues proceeds from a general discussion of the production and meaning of sculptures, and the mechanisms of their destruction, to review the role of ancient statuary in Egyptian history and belief. It then moves on to explore the various means of damage and their significance, and the role of restoration and reuse. Art historian Simon Connor offers an innovative and lucidly written reflection on beliefs and practices relating to statuary, and images more broadly, in ancient Egypt, showing how statues were regarded as the active manifestations of the entities they represented, and the ways in which they could endure many lives before being finally buried or forgotten."--
: xiii, 190 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plan ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781617971341
1617971340

Published 2014
Samson : hero or fool? : the many faces of Samson /

: Samson is a peculiar character. He is the most powerful of the Israelite judges and three whole chapters in the book of Judges are allocated to him. Yet he demonstrates many weaknesses, not least for the charms of women. In the international conference "Samson: Hero or Fool?" organised at the University of Nijmegen in April, 2008, the texts of Judges 16-18 were studied from different perspectives, investigating how the complex character of this (anti)hero lived on in various ways in the later traditions about him. The contributions discuss also the reception history of the Samson traditions in later Jewish, Christian and Islamic literature, as well as his representation in figurative and performing arts
: Includes index. : 1 online resource. : 9789004262362 : 1388-3909 ;

Published 1996
Heralds of That Good Realm : Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions /

: This volume examines the transmission of biblical pseudepigraphic literature and motifs from their largely Jewish cultural contexts in Palestine to developing gnostic milieux of Syria and Mesopotamia, particularly that one lying behind the birth and growth of Manichaeism. It surveys biblical pseudepigraphic literary activity in the late antique Near East, devoting special attention to revelatory works attributed to the five biblical forefathers who are cited in the Cologne Mani Codex : Adam, Seth, Enosh, Shem, and Enoch. The author provides a philological, literary, and religio-historical analysis of each of the five pseudepigraphic citations contained in the Codex , and offers hypotheses regarding the original provenance of each citation and the means by which these traditions have been adapted to their present context. This study is an important contribution to the scholarly reassessment of the roles played by Second Temple Judaism, Jewish Christian sectarianism, and classical gnosis in the formulation and development of Syro-Mesopotamian religious currents.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004439702
9789004104594

Published 2008
Living in the Ottoman ecumenical community : essays in honour of Suraiya Faroqhi /

: This book dedicated to Suraiya Faroqhi shows that the early modern world was not only characterized by its having been split up into states with closed frontiers. Writing history "from the bottom", by treating the Ottoman Empire and other countries as "subjects of history", reduces the importance of political borders for doing historical research. Each social, economic and religious group had its own world-view and in most of the cases the borders of these communities were not identical with the political frontiers. Regarding the Ottoman Empire and the other early modern states as systems of different ecumenical communities rather than only as political units offers a different approach to a better understanding of the various ways in which their subjects interacted. In this context the term ecumenical community designates social, religious and economic groups building up cross-border communities. Different ecumenical communities overlapped within the boundaries of a state or in a specific area and gave them their distinctive characters. This festschrift for Suraiya Faroqhi aims to describe some of the close contacts between various ecumenical communities within and beyond the Ottoman borders.
: 1 online resource. : "Publications by Suraiya Faroqhi": pages [479]-488.
Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789047433187 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2016
The present state of Old Testament studies in the Low Countries : a collection of Old Testament...

: In The Present State of Old Testament Studies in the Low Countries fifteen leading scholars from Belgium and the Netherlands give an overview of their work. This collection celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap brings together the results of high quality research on many fields, from computer-assisted analysis to biblical theology, from the archaeology of Palestine to early rabbinic exegesis, from logotechnical analysis to delimitation criticism. It shows that Old Testament research in Belgium and the Netherlands is multifaceted and innovative.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004326255 : 0169-7226 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2009
Pentadic redaction in the Manichaean Kephalaia /

: Discovered in 1929, the Manichaean Kephalaia have opened up an important window on the early development of Manichaean doctrine. This study identifies a significant redactional tendency whereby the compilers of the text sought to clarify ambiguities in "canonical" Manichaean tradition by means of five-part numerical series. This discovery challenges the conventional wisdom of Manichaean scholarship, which has long maintained that, since Mani recorded his own teachings in a series of what later became canonical writings, Manichaean doctrines were transmitted relatively unchanged from the master to successive generations of disciples. Since this assumption is now called into question, it now becomes necessary to re-evaluate received notions about the shape of both the Manichaean "canon" and "tradition."
: Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Université Laval, 2006 under title: Counting the cosmos : five-part numeric patterning in the Manichaean Kephalaia. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-236) and indexes. : 9789047427827 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2005
The wisdom of Egypt : Jewish, early Christian, and gnostic essays in honour of Gerard P. Luttikhuizen /

: This collection of essays gives a vivid impression of Egypt as background and stage of Jewish, Christian, and Gnostic thought and life in antiquity. It demonstrates Egypt's important role in the history, literature and culture of these religions.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 537-547) and indexes. : 9789047407676 : 0169-734X = : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2005
The wisdom of Egypt : Jewish, early Christian, and gnostic essays in honour of Gerard P. Luttikhuizen /

: This collection of essays gives a vivid impression of Egypt as background and stage of Jewish, Christian, and Gnostic thought and life in antiquity. It demonstrates Egypt's important role in the history, literature and culture of these religions.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 537-547) and indexes. : 9789004331013 : 0169-734X = : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2006
Sôfer mahîr : essays in honour of Adrian Schenker /

: The essays that comprise this volume in honor of Adrian Schenker address a variety of issues and topics in the field of textual criticism and the textual history of the Hebrew Bible. Except for the Book of Kings, the contributors are editors of individual Biblical books for the new Biblia Hebraica Quinta . The topics of the essays range from assessments of the overall textual situation for a particular book to investigations of translation technique to studies of particularities in the Leningrad Codex and its Masorah. Most books of the Hebrew Scriptures are treated in one of the essays.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789047409106 : 0083-5889 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2019
The Principal Pauline Epistles: A Collation of Old Latin Witnesses

: The earliest Latin versions of the writings of the New Testament offer important insights into the oldest forms of the biblical text, the use of language in the ancient Church and the foundations from which Christian theology developed in the West. This volume presents a collation of Old Latin evidence for the four principal Pauline Epistles (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians and Galatians). The sources comprise twenty-six Vetus Latina manuscripts, ten commentaries written between the fourth and sixth centuries and four early testimonia collections. Their text differs in many ways from the standard Vulgate version. Created using innovative digital editing tools, this collation makes this valuable data available for the first time and is complemented by full electronic transcriptions online.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004390492 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2015
The Dead Sea scrolls and the developmental composition of the Bible /

: Winner of the 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner of the Frank Moore Cross Award for Best Book in Biblical Studies from ASOR Winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society 2017 Publication Award for Best Book Relating to the Hebrew Bible Eugene Ulrich presents in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible ( (also available as paperback) the comprehensive and synthesized picture he has gained as editor of many biblical scrolls. His earlier volume, The Biblical Qumran Scrolls , presented the evidence - the transcriptions and textual variants of all the biblical scrolls - and this volume explores the implications and significance of that evidence. The Bible has not changed, but modern knowledge of it certainly has changed. The ancient Scrolls have opened a window and shed light on a period in the history of the text's formation that had languished in darkness for two thousand years. They offer a parade of surprises that greatly enhance knowledge of how the scriptural texts developed through history.
: Sequel to: The Biblical Qumran scrolls (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; volume 134). : 1 online resource (xxi, 346 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xxi) and indexes. : 9789004296039 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.