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In Sefer Tagin Fragments from the Cairo Genizah, Marc Michaels recreates fragments from the scribal manual concerning decorative tagin and 'strange' letters found in some Sifrey Torah.

Through largely unpublished archives in the Middle East, Europe and the United States, and the Pius XII papers, in A Liminal Church Maria Chiara Rioli offers an appraisal of Jerusalem's Roman Catholic diocese in the Palestine War and its aftermath.

Evidentials and Modals offers an in-depth account of the meaning of grammatical elements related to evidentiality and modality, focusing on both theoretical and typological perspectives, ranging from Korean, Japanese, American Indian, Turkish and African languages.

Christian Missions and Humanitarianism discusses the complex relationships between Christian missions and Humanitarianism in the Middle East (1860-1948), and how non-missionaries took over, to a certain extent, the aims and organisations of the missionaries as to humanitarianism.

Analyzing daily therapeutic routines, the book takes the praxis turn to colonial medicine. Despite the extraordinary nature of the hospital under investigation, this fresh perspective draws an image of biomedicine as an inherently incoherent practice.

In this book, Volodymyr Koloda and Serhiy Gorbanenko discuss the important role of agriculture in the socio-economic development of the Khazar Khaganate and its influence on neighboring peoples.

This study combines perspectives from psychoanalysis and academic psychology, from nomothetic and idiothetic research, for more depth of vision. Options for the study of lived "religion" are discussed, taking into consideration North American and European cultural contexts of religious experience.

In The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras offers the reconstruction of the physical, religious and cultural landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga south and its conceptual development from the 18th to the 20th Dynasties.

A Grammar of Bjokapakha by Selin Grollmann constitutes the first description of the Bjokapakha language of central Bhutan (Tshangla branch, Trans-Himalayan), involving a historical-comparative account and a glossary and text collection.

This contribution by Gesine Manuwald provides an introduction to all varieties of 'Roman comedy', including primarily fabula palliata ('New Comedy', as represented by Plautus and Terence) as well as fabula togata, fabula Atellana, mimus and pantomimus.

The Exemplary Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles - the Roman Hercules - in European culture from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond, raising questions about his role as model of the princely ruler.

This study provides an analysis of more than 60 statues and fragments depicting the god Amun and his consorts which Tutankhamun, Ay, and/or Horemhab commissioned to replace those destroyed by the "heretic pharaoh" Akhenaten.

In Violence in the Hebrew Bible texts of violence in the Hebrew Bible and their reception history are discussed. The central question of the essays is how to allow for a given text's plurality of possible and realised meanings while also retaining the ability to form critical judgments regarding biblical exegesis.

Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War is part of a renewed interest in the Roman historian Cassius Dio. This volume focuses on Dio's approaches to foreign war and stasis as well as civil war.

Theatre scandals may cause dynamic changes within cultural systems. The case studies in this volume present a wide cultural and chronological variety of such scandals, illustrating the various causes, processes and interactions that characterize these shocking moments in theatre history.

This edited volume focuses on Spanish use in education, public spaces, and social media in five macro-regions of the United States: the Southwest, the West, the Midwest, the Northeast, and the Southeast.

This book examines how secret knowledge was represented visually in ways that both revealed and concealed the true nature of that knowledge, giving and yet impeding access to it.

This volume focuses on Jewish, Arab, non-Latin European, Asian, and Latin American immigrants and their experiences in their "new" homes. Rejecting exceptionalist and homogenizing tendencies within immigration history, contributors advocate instead an approach that emphasizes the locally- and nationally-embedded nature of ethnic identification.

La Diplomatie byzantine, de l'Empire romain aux confins de l'Europe (Ve-XVe s.) provides twelve articles addressing the manifold aspects of Byzantine diplomacy. Spanning the fifth to fifteenth centuries it focuses both on chronological and thematic aspects of its history.

In The Western Wall: The Dispute over Israel's Holiest Jewish Site, 1967-2000, Kobi Cohen-Hattab and Doron Bar offer an account of the recent development of Judaism's holiest site: the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City.

The history of the settlement project of the Massachusetts Bay Company in early New England. this book offers a critical reading of the settler history of its first governor, John Winthrop.

The Grammar of Central Trentino provides a comprehensive grammatical description of a Romance dialect spoken in the North-East of Italy. The description of morphological, syntactic and pragmatic phenomena is accessible to a non-specialist public interested in Romance varieties.

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) created altarpieces of startling beauty. Steven J. Cody analyzes those remarkable paintings as a means of illuminating the artist's career-long engagement with Christian theology.

In Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur, CHEN Fei reconstructs the texts of the list, interprets the format of the list, and analyzes some problems, especially the purpose of its compilation.

Three millennia of cross-Mediterranean bonds are revealed by 18 expert summaries in this book, shedding light on environmental factors; the formation of harbors; gateways; commodities; cultural impact; and the way to interpret the agents such as Canaanites, "Sea Peoples," Phoenicians and pirates.