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In The Scriptural Tale in the Fourth Gospel, Ed Gerber argues that the story of Jesus has been told as a creative retelling of the story of Adam & Israel, first in the prologue, and then in the body of the Gospel as a whole.

In Personal Religion and Magic in Mamasa, West Sulawesi, Kees Buijs describes the traditional culture of the Toraja's. The focus is upon the personal religion as it has its centre in a special way in the kitchen of each house.

The Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in Belgium is a bi-lingual (English and Arabic) union catalogue presenting the Oriental manuscripts held by Belgian public institutions. This first volume, a handlist, contains brief descriptions of the collection of the Université de Liège.

Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond offers the readers a diversity of articles by 19 prominent scholars who address the problems related to the endangered languages in Anatolia, Ukraine, China, Mongolia, Daghestan, Ossetia and in the Greater Himalayan region.

In The Dura Language: Grammar & Phylogeny Nicolas Schorer provides the definite descriptive account of this poorly documented language of Nepal and investigates the phonology, nominal and verbal morphology, lexical and syntactic properties as well as the phylogeny of Dura.

The contributors argue that the Westphalian influence on international relations has blinded the analysis that would awaken our awareness of the increasing erosion of state boundaries. It has in effect retarded our recognition of the common condition we share.

In The Frontiers of Mission: Perspectives on Early Modern Missionary Catholicism leading international scholars provide a fresh assessment of the challenges that the Catholic church encountered at the frontiers of mission in the early modern era.

This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. It features case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe.

This collection honors Professor John T. Townsend through fresh essays on the interpretation of the common Jewish and Christian Scripture - the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament - as well as its two off-shoots, Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament interpretation and Jewish-Christian relations.

This book deals with the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia - where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth- and most specially with the relationship between origins and faith. It also deals with the consequences of coercion on intellectual debates and on the production of knowledge and addresses questions such as dissimulation, dissidence, religious doubt and unbelief.

This anthology examines the phenomenon of the Neo-Baroque through interdisciplinary perspectives. Understanding the Neo-Baroque as transcultural (between different cultures) and transhistorical (between historical moments) the contributors explore its slippery nature of the Neo-Baroque.

Spike Milligan's ground-breaking radio comedy program The Goon Show created a universe where time and space expand and contract seemingly at will and without notice. The cosmology featured in The Goon Show was governed by confusion, contradictions, fluidity and uncertainty.

Un Jésus postmoderne offers a thorough analysis of forty contemporary French novels depicting the life of Jesus. This study shows how these novels reflect recent advances in biblical exegesis and respond to today's debate on fundamentalism and secularism.Un Jésus postmoderne propose une analyse détaillée de quarante romans français contemporains portant sur la vie de Jésus, romans qui reflètent les progrès de l'exégèse biblique mais aussi le débat actuel sur le fondamentalisme et la laïcité.

In Encountering Ability, Scott DeShong considers the philosophical and political implications of how ability and its correlative, disability, come into being in thought, culture, and literature, revealing how the discourse of ability unsettles the very foundations of discourse and ability.

Established experts and new voices debate the current situation and future research directions in the Theology of Religions. Perspectives from a range of religious traditions and theological backgrounds are offered as contributions to this expanding research field.

This volume offers a novel approach to the study of religion and secularity by using a singular micro-level event - a bus campaign - to explore issues pertaining to the status of religion and the regulation of nonreligion in various national settings.

This is the first complete English translation of al-Radd al-jamīl attributed to al-Ghazālī (d. 1111), the most detailed refutation of the divinity of Jesus by a Muslim author in the classical period of Islam.

This volume explores the intersections between narrative disruption and continuity in post-9/11 narratives from an interdisciplinary transnational perspective, foregrounding the transatlantic cultural memory of 9/11.

L'ouvrage présente la première édition critique, traduction annotée et étude du Kitāb dā'irat al-aḥruf al-abjadiyya attribué à Hermès, texte de magie pratique basée sur la science des lettres ('ilm al-ḥurūf).This book provides a critical edition and translation of the Kitāb dā'irat al-aḥruf al-abjadiyya, a treatise of practical letter magic attributed to Hermes, giving anyone interested in magical traditions a way to understand the intricacies of the science of letters ('ilm al-ḥurūf).

The book deals with the genesis, formation and development of two fundamental aspects of English Law, common law and equity. The common law laid down the rules governing cohabitation in communities and human rights. Equity was the offspring of natural law designed to prevent and remedy injustice resulting from unconscionable conduct. English law including both common law and equity was introduced in former British Colonies and dominions. In most of them it was retained after independence. This is the principal legacy of English colonization of countries. The introduction, application and retention of English law is reflected in Cyprus, a former British colony.

Neil Murphy considers the role the French ceremonial entry played in the negotiation between urban elites and the Valois monarchy for rights and liberties. Drawing on extensive research, he shows that ceremonial entries lay at the heart of how the state functioned in later medieval and Renaissance France.

A Companion to Vittoria Colonna offers a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary vision of this important writer of the Italian renaissance, whose influence extended far beyond her own century.

A grammar of Kurtöp presents the phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of Kurtöp, a Tibeto-Burman language of northeastern Bhutan. When possible, data are presented in a comparative light, lending insight into the development of phenomena such as tonogenesis and nominalizations.

In Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond, contacts between Early Medieval Baltic Finns, Sami, Scandinavians, Slavs and Balts are discussed and exemplified. Communication expressed through material culture is analysed in order to understand the culturally diverse regions in the Baltic and beyond.

In The Role of Legal Advisers in International Law prominent international legal professionals provide a range of original insights on the position of legal advisers and their vital contribution to the development, interpretation and application of international law.

The Key to Power? studies the notion of 'access to the ruler' from a wide variety of perspectives and discusses its significance for the study of power relations in late medieval and early modern courts.

This volume brings together fifteen essays that examine the appearance, meaning, and significance of dogs in painting, sculpture, manuscripts, literature, and legal records of the period, reaching beyond Europe to include cultural material from medieval Japan and Islam.

Winner of the 2017 Verbruggen prize Montfort Castle, the principal fortress of the Crusader Teutonic Order, was built in the 1220s and occupied and dismantled by the Mamluk army in 1271. This volume includes discussions on the castle's history, architecture, material culture, and the archaeological work carried out at Montfort.