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Torah centers and rabbinic activity in Palestine, 70-400 CE : history and geographic distribution /
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This book analyses the data about Torah centers and rabbinic activity in Palestine during Mishnaic and Talmudic times, 70-400 CE-the Roman and early Byzantine periods. The research is an interdisciplinary inquiry. It encompasses rabbinic literature as well as archeology, geography, and sociology, thus enriching the discussion of the history and scope of rabbinic activity in the different regions of Palestine. Arranged in chronological order, the book highlights the changes generated by historical events, in particular the relocation of rabbinic centers following the upheaval of the Bar Kokhba Revolt. In spite of this upheaval, Torah centers continued to develop in Palestine for several hundred years, until the end of the period under discussion.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789047440734 :
1384-2161 ; :
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The Merchant of Venice: the Activity of Patricians in the Late Middle Ages /
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For the first time, The Merchant of Venice looks at the place and role of the late medieval merchant nobility in the great international trade that took place in the world known at the time, from China and Asia to Flanders and England. These merchants who travelled the world were also shipowners, sailors and bankers. They used modern banking techniques and credit based on bills of exchange held no secrets for them. They traded spices, porcelain, cotton and silk, dyes and glassware for drapery, wool and metals. These merchants used part of their profit to embellish their city, which amazed foreign visitors, and were always on the lookout for the latest discoveries and inventions. Venice was at the height of its power at the time, but it was also on the eve of its weakening.
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1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004721692
Aëtiana IV : papers of the Melbourne Colloquium on Ancient Doxography /
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The articles collected here are based for the most part on papers read at the Colloquium "The Placita of Aëtius: Foundations for the Study of Ancient Philosophy," held in Melbourne in December 2015. The Placita , a first century CE collection of systematically organised tenets in natural philosophy ranging from first principles to human physiology is incompletely extant in several later sources. Its laborious reconstruction and the identity of its author are discussed from various angles. The text of the treatise is further elucidated by a novel statistical exploration of what is extant and what is missing. Its relation to various currents in the history of Greek philosophy and its reliability are also examined in some detail.
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1 online resource (xii, 527 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004361461 :
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Simon Dubnow's "new Judaism" : diaspora, nationalism and the world history of the Jews /
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In this volume Robert Seltzer examines Simon Dubnow (1860-1941) as the most eminent East European Jewish historian of his day and a spokesperson for his people, setting out to define their identity in the future based on his understanding of their past. Rejecting Zionism and Jewish socialism espoused by contemporaries, he argued in "Letter on Old and New Judaism" that the Jews of the diaspora constituted a distinctive nationality deserving cultural autonomy in the liberal multi-national state he hoped would emerge in Russia. Seltzer traces the young Dubnow's personal encounter with European intellectual currents that led him from the traditional shtetl world to a non-religious conception of Jewishness that resonated beyond Tsarist Russia.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004260672 :
1873-9008 ;
Christian-Muslim relations. a bibliographical history /
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Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 4 (CMR 4), covering the period 1200-1350, is a continuing volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the seventh century to the present. It comprises a series of introductory essays and also the main body of detailed entries which treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. These entries provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 4 along with the other volumes in this series is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations.
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1 online resource (xiii, 1030 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004228559 :
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Church History of Travancore /
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Church history in Kerala has a rich past. Right from the formation of Syriac Christianity till the arrival of Western Christianity in the early modern period such as the Latin Catholic Church and Protestant denominations. This comprehensive volume on church history in the Travancore region covers the discussion on pioneer missionaries who conducted their activities with the details of each church. It also contains certain unpublished documents in the form of missionaries' letters, official reports, and records. The book contains four parts. The first part contains a description of the Syriac churches of Malabar such as the Church of the East, Jacobite, and Malankara Syrian Church. Details of the famous episodes such as the Synod of Diamper, the intrusion of Latinization in Syrian Churches, the Coonan Cross Oath, and the expansion of the Jacobite Church, etc., are discussed in this part. The second part contains the missionary history under the Roman Catholic Church in Travancore under St. Francis Xavier and other Catholic missionaries. The third section covers the missions under Protestant denominations. And lastly, the final section comprises Christian literature published by Latin, Protestant, and Syriac churches, and Christian monuments in the Travancore region.
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1 online resource (1496 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004751200
Politics of Public Opinion : Local Councils and People's Assemblies in Korea, 1567-1894 /
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Eugene Y. Park's annotated translation of a long-awaited book by Kim Ingeol introduces Anglophone readers to a path-breaking scholarship on the widening social base of political actors who shaped "public opinion" ( kongnon ) in early modern Korea. Initially limited to high officials, the articulators of public opinion as the state and elites recognized grew in number to include mid-level civil officials, State Confucian College students, all Confucian literati ( yurim ), influential commoners who took over local councils ( hyanghoe ), and the general population. Marshaling evidence from a wealth of documents, Kim presents a compelling case for the indigenous origins of Korean democracy.
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1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004709980
Essays on Turkish literature and history /
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In Essays on Turkish Literature and History Barbara Flemming makes available essays partly previously published in German. They offer insights gained through decades of scholarship. Although the Ottoman period is central, a wide range is covered, including an early Turkish principality, Mamluk and Ottoman Egypt, and contemporary southeastern Turkey. The essays look into historical and political factors involved in the preoccupation with the world's ending, into Muslim-Christian dialogue, the sultan's prayer before battle, and the bilingualism of poets. Of particular interest are the sections on female participation in mysticism, on an anti-Sufi movement in Cairo, on the Ottoman capital's appeal to collectors and emigrants (Diez, Süssheim, Böhlau), and on the far-reaching effects of alphabet change.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004355767 :
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The history of the peoples of the Eastern Desert /
: Proceedings of a conference held Novrmber 25-27, 2008 at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo. : xii, 506 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.). : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781931745963 (hbk.)
History of the patriarchs of the Egyptian Church : known as the History of the Holy Church /
: Translation of (Ta'rikh batạ̄rikat al-Kanīsah al-Misṛīỵah) edited by Yassā ʻAbd al-Masị̄h and O. H. E. Burmester (Cairo, 1943- ) Their edition of the Arabic text continues that begun by Seybold and published under title Historia patriarcharum Alexandrinorum, tomus I (Beir̄ut, 1904-10). : volumes ; 28 cm.
Maximus I. von Turin : die Verkündigung eines Bischofs der frühen Reichskirche im zeitgeschichtlichen, gesellschaftlichen und liturgischen Kontext /
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This volume deals with the sermons of St. Maximus I, Bishop of Turin about AD 305-420. It presents an exemplary study which, besides clarifying problems of dating and authorship, points out the importance of context for an appropriate interpretation of sermon literature. The sermons are thus placed in the contexts of contemporary history, of society and of liturgy. The liturgical contextualisation forms the core of the book. The author reconstructs the liturgical year of late-Antique Turin and takes it as the basis of a detailed diachronic analysis of the bishop's preaching from advent to pentecost. Additionally, the Feasts of the Saints are seen in their kerygmatic function. In a concluding chapter the author tackles such problems as the exegetical nature of preaching and the importance of the Bible.
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1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-327) and index. :
9789004313071 :
0920-623X ; :
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Proba the Prophet : the Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba /
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In Proba the Prophet: The Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed offers an in-depth study and reappraisal of the Cento of Proba and its reception. Proba's poem belongs to the few extant Latin texts from Antiquity penned by a woman writer, and one of the oldest Christian Latin poems. Schottenius Cullhed surveys and challenges common preconceptions and biographical constructions of the poem's author and early readers, and examines their impact on interpretations and evaluations of the text. The author also develops and puts to use an alternative model for understanding the poem and convincingly shows how the Virgilian source texts form a complex net of internal and external biblical typologies within the Cento .
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1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-253) and indexes. :
9789004289482 :
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A Brief History of Chinese Buddhism and Buddhist Thought /
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This book provides a comprehensive but concise introduction to Chinese Buddhism and the study of Buddhism in China: their Indic roots, their Sinicization, the development and philosophies of the three central lineages, the natural exchange between Buddhist cultures and schools of thought, the foundations of Buddhist studies in China, and the chief schools and sects in Chinese Buddhism as well as their characteristics and ethos.
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1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004700345
A social history of late Ottoman women : new perspectives /
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In A Social History of the Late Ottoman Women: New Perspectives , Duygu Köksal and Anastasia Falierou bring together new research on women of different geographies and communities of the late Ottoman Empire. Making use of archives, literary works, diaries, newspapers, almanacs, art works or cartoons, the contributors focus particularly on the ways in which women gained power and exercised agency in late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey. The articles convincingly show that women's agency cannot be unearthed without narrating how women were involved in shaping their own and others' lives even in the most unexpected areas of their existence. The women's activities described here do not simply reflect modernizing trends or westernizing attitudes-or their defensive denial. They provide an array of local responses where 'the local' can never be found (and should never be conceptualized) in its initial, unchanged, or authentic state.
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1 online resource (xiv, 348 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004255258 :
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Brill's companion to Valerius Flaccus /
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Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus is the first English-language survey on all key aspects of this Flavian poet and his epic Argonautica (1st century CE). A team of international specialists offers both an account of the state of the art and new insights. Topics covered include textual transmission, language, poetic techniques, main themes, characters, relationship to intertexts and reception. This will be a standard point of departure for anyone interested in Valerius Flaccus or Flavian epic more generally. Contributors are: Antony Augoustakis, Michael Barich, Neil Bernstein, Emma Buckley, Cristiano Castelletti, James Clauss, Robert Cowan, Peter Davis, Alain Deremetz, Attila Ferenczi, Marco Fucecchi, Randall Ganiban, Mark Heerink, Alison Keith, Helen Lovatt, Gesine Manuwald, Ruth Parkes, Tim Stover, Ruth Taylor-Briggs, and Andrew Zissos.
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1 online resource (xiii, 438 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-408), abstracts of articles, and indexes. :
9789004278653 :
1872-3357 :
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