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  • - Ephrem the Syrian and his Significance in Late Antiquity
    av Sebastian Brock
    2 133,-

    The articles cover a wide array of topics, including a biographical overview of the saint, an exposition of St. Ephrem's importance for Christianity today and his relevance as a theologian, an analysis of some of his works, and a bibliographic guide to editions of these works.

  • av Pau Figueras
    1 185,-

    This handbook explores beliefs of ancient Jews and Christians surrounding death and the afterlife through the lens of texts ranging from the Old Testament and New Testament, to Second Temple period and rabbinic literature, to early Christian writings.

  • - The Martyrdom of St Philotheus of Antioch in Coptic Egypt
    av Anna Rogozhina
    1 369,-

    This book examines the function and development of the cult of saints in Coptic Egypt, focusing primarily on the material provided by the texts forming the Coptic hagiographical tradition of the early Christian martyr Philotheus of Antioch, and more specifically, the Martyrdom of St Philotheus of Antioch (Pierpont Morgan M583).

  • av Javier Martinez
    1 703,-

    This publication tackles this issue by analysing and reassessing the available evidence for the late phases of the Hispanic aqueducts by looking at a wide range of sources of information, many times derived from the recent interest shown by archaeologists and researchers on late antique urbanism.

  • av Sarah Z Mirza
    1 626,-

    Early Islamic historical literature attributes several hundred pragmatic documents to the Prophet Muhammad. This study will demonstrate through three case studies the particular functions of these documents in the history of social relations in late antique Arabia.

  • - Vol. 4.2 Samuel
    av David Marcus
    1 772,-

    The first English publication of a major part of the masorah of the great Leningrad Codex.

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    - Doublet Catchwords in the Leningrad Codex
    av David Marcus
    1 149,-

    This work presents to the scholarly world the hitherto unpublished trove of over 500 catchwords that were attached to Masoretic doublet notes in the Leningrad Codex.

  • - 2018
     
    1 012,-

    Widely regarded as a premier journal dedicated to the study of Syriac, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies was established in 1998 as a venue devoted exclusively to the discipline.

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    1 703,-

    While scholarship on nonverbal communication in the Hebrew Bible has traditionally focused on ritual dress, postures of worship, and related topics, there exist a number of non-ritual gestures in the text for which we have little understanding, such as occur in the book of Proverbs.

  • - Abu Sakur as-Salimi und sein Tamhid fi bayan at-tauhid
    av Angelika Brodersen
    2 186,-

    The present work provides a new edition and substantial German commentary of the important theological Arabic work Al-Tamhid fi bayan al-tauhid ("Introduction to the explanation of monotheism") by the 5th/11th century scholar Abu Shakur al-Salimi.

  • - From Ibn Sa'd to Who's Who
    av Ruth Roded
    1 703,-

    Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Sa'd to Who's Who is a groundbreaking study of 40 bibliographical collections, dating from the 9th century to the present, investigating which type of woman Muslim scholars have deemed worthy of recording for posterity.

  • - Xusro Parviz, King of Kings of the Sasanian Empire
    av Keenan Baca-Winters
    1 388,-

    He Did Not Fear: Xusro Parviz, King of Kings of the Sasanian Empire spotlights Xusro II, the man who almost conquered the Roman Empire in the Roman-Sasanian War of the Seventh Century CE, and examines his historical prominence.

  • - Seeing Islam as Others Saw It
    av Robert Hoyland
    1 703,-

    This seminal work continues to shape the thought of specialists studying the Late Antique crossroads at which Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, and Islamic histories met, by offering the field a new approach to the vexing question of how to write the early history of Islam.

  • av Israel Davidson
    700,-

    This multi-volume work is a reprint of Israel Davidson's classic opus, with a new introduction by piyyut scholar Michael Rand.

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    728,-

    The historic American Journal of Ancient History. Bucher, 'The Annales Maximi in the Light of Roman Methods of Keeping Records', Duncan Fishwick, 'The Caesareum at Alexandria Again', Duncan Fishwick, 'A Ducking in the Tiber (Dio 61 [60],33,80)', Charles King, 'The Veracity of Ammianus Marcellinus' Description of the Huns'.

  •  
    2 151,-

    This volume offers papers that emerged from the meeting of the International Syriac Language Project (ISLP) which took place at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, in September 2016, and at the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, in August 2017.

  • - Books XV-XXI. From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD
     
    3 135,-

    He nevertheless, found time, clarity of mind, and determination to write a voluminous world chronicle, which he completed four years before he died in November 7, 1199. The present edition and its translation begin with Book XV and end with Book XXI, the last Book in the Chronicle, thereby covering more than 160 years, from AD 1031 to AD 1195.

  • av Christopher Paul Clohessy
    1 369,-

    As Abu 'Abd Allah al-Husayn, son of 'Ali and Fatima and grandson of Muhammad, moved inexorably towards death on the field of Karbala', his sister Zaynab was drawn ever closer to the centre of the family of Muhammad, the `people of the house' (ahl al-bayt).

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    822,-

    Narsai, called the "Lyre of the Holy Spirit," on account of countless metrical memre-hymns that he composed, lived between ca. 399 and ca. 502, and was thus contemporary for a while of another major theologian and poet, Jacob of Sarug (d. 520).

  • - A Syriac Catholic Panegyric from Seventeenth Century Malabar
    av Radu Mustata
    890,-

    A study of a homily in praise of Saint Thomas, written in Syriac by a Catholic missionary. The homily, which is preserved in two manuscripts, is an important witness to the interaction between the Indian Syrian Christians and the Western Catholic missionaries.

  • av Sabine Schmidtke
    4 205,-

    Iranian libraries hold only few manuscripts that testify to the extended and intensive Mu'tazilite past in the various centers of Zaydi scholarship in the Caspian region, in Hurasan, and in Rayy

  • - A Comparative Philosophical Analysis
    av Agust Magnusson
    1 703,-

    Throughout the years, there has been an extensive engagement with the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard from the perspective of Western philosophy and theology. Kierkegaard's thought has been examined through the lenses of Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, existentialism, post-modernism, feminism, and literary theory, to name just a few.

  • - A Trauma Informed Reading of Lamentations
    av James Yansen
    1 893,-

    Utilizing insights from trauma studies, Daughter Zion's Trauma advances the view that awareness of trauma's potential effects sheds light on many of the book of Lamentations' complex literary features, and suggests new interpretive possibilities.

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    615,-

    In this fourth installment of the long Homily 71, On the Six Days of Creation, Jacob treats of the events of the fourth day, the creation of the spheres of light over the earth: the sun to rule over the day, and the moon and the stars to rule over the night.

  • av Ebbe E Knudsen
    1 703,-

    This book is the culmination of the Turabdin Project, the goal of which is to monitor the development of Modern Literary Syriac from the 1980s to the present.

  • - Second Edition
    av Christopher Clohessy
    764 - 1 349,-

    The only child of Muhammad to survive him, Fatima was from early times taken up by Shi'a Islam, for whose adherents she is the virgin mother, the heavenly intercessor with untold power before God's throne, and the grieving mother of al-Husayn, the Shi'a's most important martyr.

  • - Text, Translation, and Discussion
    av Alex Neroth van Vogelpoel
    1 444,-

    This volume provides a study and an original edition and translation from Syriac into English of Discourse Two of Gabriel of Qatar's liturgical commentary, written in the first half of the seventh century.

  • - A Facsimile Edition of Ms New York Public Library, Arabic Manuscripts Collections, Volume 51985A
    av Sabine Schmidtke
    4 205,-

    In 1934 the New York Public Library (NYPL) purchased a sizable collection of 250 volumes of Arabic manuscripts through the fund for Semitic literature that had been provided by Jacob Heinrich Schiff.

  • - Martyrdom and Monasticism in Medieval Iraq
     
    1 047,-

    The History of Mar Behnam and Sarah tells the story of two siblings who convert to Christianity under the tutelage of Mar Mattai, a monastic leader and wonderworker from the Roman Empire.

  • - Gender and Performance in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature
    av Caryn Tamber-Rosenau
    1 703,-

    From Jael's tent peg to Judith's sword, biblical interpreters have long recognized the power of the "lethal women" stories of the Hebrew Bible and related literature.

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