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Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xii, 250 pp., index Understanding the religious perspectives of the Mishnah starts with asking three questions. First, what is the relationship of the Mishnah to Scripture, or "oral torah" to "written torah," for understanding the religion of Judaism? Second, what is the relationship between religious ideas and the world in which those ideas emerged? Third, what is the formal religious significance of the language of the Mishnah? These questions are posed with regard to a Judaism that existed from just prior to the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E. until around 200 C.E. and assumes as well the groundwork of Neusner's earlier volume The Mishnah: Social Perspectives. In the present volume, Neusner condenses years of research on these questions and offers a clear and thorough analysis through a single lens. He looks closely at how the Halakhah of the Mishnah relates to the events prior to the Mishnah's writing (e.g., the destruction of the Temple, ca. 70 C.E., and the Bar Kokhba War, ca. 135 C.E.), through the reconstruction following Bar Kokhba until the close of the Mishnah (ca. 200 C.E.). Readers also profit from a thorough sociolinguistic explication of the rhetorical forms of the Mishnah in the light of the social context of that time. The religious perspectives of the Mishnah do not simply record the rules and regulations of bygone times; rather, they mirror the way of life and the social and religious history of Judaism.…

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xviii, 270 pp., index Understanding the religious perspectives of the Mishnah starts with asking three For Aristotle, politics, economics, and philosophy define the social construction of any society. For Judaism, the Mishnahalong with Scripturesets forth the systematic statement for understanding the social construction and world view of Judaism around 200 C.E. The Mishnah functioned as the basic law in the holy land and was adopted also by Jews in the Diaspora, from Babylonia to the western satrapies of the Iranian empire of the Sasanians. Professor Jacob Neusner takes seriously the three principal tasks of theoretical thought enjoined by Aristotle and asks us to look at the Mishnah not as an inert collection of traditions passed on, but as a deliberate, programmatic statement of Judaism's way of life and world view. He points to the systematic nature of the Mishnah, with its six divisions, and shows how collectively those divisions cover the everyday life of the people. The Mishnah contains independent judgements about the nature of the system and does not merely rehearse what tradition says about a given topic. This interpretive aspect of the Mishnah has been ignored to the interpreter's peril, because it is precisely by paying attention to how the Mishnah uses traditions for its own purposes that the interpreter can appreciate the building blocks of Judaism: its politics, economics, and philosophy.…

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xxii, 264 pp., bibliography The academic study of Judaism requires a systematic inquiry into the history, literature, and religionand eventually the theologyas revealed in the historical documents themselves. Under this premise, Three Questions of Formative Judaism encounters the canonical writings of Judaism in the context of their creation at a certain time and place. How something is said thus becomes as important as what is said. Bringing nearly fifty years of research to bear on these fundamental questions, Jacob Neusner challenges his readers to face the difficult, often unasked or neglected questions about the nature, background, and purposes of Rabbinic Judaism and rewards them with an enriched understanding and a stronger foundation for tackling the even more elusive questions concerning the theology of formative Judaism.…

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xiv, 337 pp., bibliography, index For all those interested in intellectual history, the history of the Church, the history of Late Antiquity, as well as theologians and biblical scholars. Aryeh Kofsky is Lecturer of Comparative Religion at the University of Haifa. He recently co-edited and contributed to Sharing the Sacred: Religious Contacts and Conflicts in the Holy Land (Jerusalem, 1998). Essential reading for reconstructing early Christianity, the writings of Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260340 C.E.) have held a central place for historians of early Christianity. Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History frequently stands on the scholar's shelf alongside the writings of Josephus or Philo of Alexandria. While apologists like Irenaeus and Origen have stood squarely in the spotlight, Eusebius has remained in the shadows. Kofsky contends that the value of Eusebius's own apologetic and theological writings has been neglected. He corrects this deficit and invites us to see Eusebius as a "contender for the faith" in his own right. To accomplish his goal, Kofsky takes us on a detailed tour of two of Eusebius's key documents: Eusebius's Praeparatio Evangelica and Demonstratio Evangelica.…

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, x, 222 pp., bibliography of works cited, indexes David H. Aaron is Professor at the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (Cincinnati). Ancient texts are ambiguous, and the Hebrew Bible is no exception. One might even frame the history of a religion as a history of a belief system's management of ambiguity. Applying a linguistic model, Aaron systematically examines and veritably celebrates this inherent ambiguity in order to understand God-related idioms in the Hebrew Bible, more specifically, whether a particular idiom is meant to be understood metaphorically. Aaron examines the original intent of the writers of biblical literature and suggests that one can conceptualize texts as metonyms for their authors and their historical contexts. Through an in-depth exploration of semantic theory, Aaron places metaphor on a non-binary "continuum of meaning" instead of using a limiting either/or conception of figurative speech. Aaron challenges current methodologies that dominate biblical scholarship regarding metaphor and offers original, viable alternatives to the standard approaches. This interdisciplinary project takes into consideration a broad range of issues, which point to further areas of study. Aaron's model for gradient judgements, that is, a method for judging statements and placing them on a "continuum of meaning," offers a new building block for biblical study and interpretation.…

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xiv, 274 pp., bibliography, index Helen J. Nicholson, Ph.D. (1990) in History, University of Leicester, is Senior Lecturer in History at Cardiff University, Wales. She has published on the Crusades and the military orders, including Chronicle of the Third Crusade (Ashgate, 1998). The Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaller, and Teutonic Knights frequently appear in the French, German, and English epic and romance literature of the Middle Ages. Love, War, and the Grail examines the religious roles of the military orders, such as caring for the sick, their warrior role of fighting Muslims, and the role of Templars in the Grail romances. It traces how these roles developed over time and looks at the role of these military religious orders in fiction of the Middle Ages. Nicholson's analysis of the military orders in medieval fictional literature is of interest both to historians and to literary specialists. This is the first in-depth study to consider the subject throughout the medieval period.…

sewn PAPERBACK with flexible thin cardboard boards, new copy was still in shrink wrap when I cataloged it. VEEN, SIJTZE VAN DER. Brill, 325 years of scholarly publishing contributions by Paul Dijstelberge, Mirte D. Groskamp, Kasper van Ommen. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2008, 180pp., . ISBN 9789004170322.…

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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 273pp; Bibliography; Index. Contents clean; some underlining and marginalia in light pencil (erasable). No ownership name; no library markings.

hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. DETAILS: fresh unused copy, fine condition but makes a little creaking sound when opened and closed, hence near fine. FUSINI, LETIZIA. Dionysus on the other shore: Gao Xingjian's theatre of the tragic. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2020, x, 243pp., . Series: Sinica Leidensia v. 147 "In Dionysus on the Other Shore Letizia Fusini argues that throughout his early exile years (late 80s-90s), Gao Xingjian gradually moved away from Absurdist Drama to develop a dramaturgical system with tragic characteristics. Drawing on a range of contemporary theories of tragedy, this book reconfigures some of the key tropes of Gao's post-1987 theater as varied articulations of the Dionysian sparagmos mechanism. They are the dismemberment of the dramatic self, the usage of constricted spaces, the divisive nature of gender relations, and the agony of verbal language. Through a text-based analysis of seven plays, the author ultimately aims to show that in Gao's theater, tragedy is an ongoing and mostly subtextual dynamism generated by an interplay of psychic forces concurrently cohesive and divisive". ISBN 9789004423299.…

1st edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 254 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Luther, Martin 1483-1546. Christian doctrine Theories of Luther, Martin 1483-1546. Biographies. 1 Kg. …

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cloth. Zustand: Sehr gut. XXIII, 255 S. : Ill., Noten ; 23 cm Very good. Shrink wrapped. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 715.

XVIII, 231 Seiten. Gr.-8vo. Kartoniert. - = European Values Studies Vol. V. Hinterer Einbanddeckel mit altem Preisschild, sonst gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, xvi, 479 pp., index of Biblical Literature, index of Modern Authors For all those interested in Jesus research, early Christianity, early Judaism, and Israel in the first century. Bruce D. Chilton, Ph.D. (1976) in Biblical Studies, Cambridge University, is Professor of Hebrew Bible and New Testament at Bard College, New York. He has published numerous books and scholarly articles on Jesus and Judaism. Craig A. Evans, Ph.D. (1983) in Biblical Studies, Claremont Graduate School, is Professor of Biblical Studies and Director of the Graduate Program at Trinity Western University and Senior Research Fellow at Roehampton Institute London. Jesus research is a difficult task because of the number of primary source materials and their complexities. These complexities involve problems that arise from imperfect preservation of sources, uncertain literary relationships among the documents themselves, and even less certain knowledge of their respective provenances. Jesus research inevitably involves reaching behind the extant sources, inferring from what lies before us the nature of the material upon which the evangelists drew. This volume reviews the criteria, assumptions, and methods involved in critical Jesus research. Its purpose is to clarify the procedures necessary to distinguish tradition that stems from Jesus from tradition and interpretation that stem from later tradents and evangelists, and to inquire into the various forces and situations that led to the emergence of the tradition as we have it. Articles are "Authenticating the Words of Jesus," Craig A. Evans, "Assessing Progess in the Third Quest," Bruce D. Chilton, "Criteria for Assessing the Authentic Words of Jesus: Some Specifications," Bruce J. Malina, "Doubts about Double Dissimilarity: Restructuring the Main Criterion of Jesus-of-History Research," Tom Holmen, "How Jesus Changed Language with Meaning: A Study in Rhetoric," Ben F. Meyer, "The Implications of Textual Variants for Authenticating the Words of Jesus," Stanley E. Porter and Matthew Brook O'Donnell, "The Lord's Prayer in Social Perspective," Douglas E. Oakman, "The Lord's Prayer: Second Thoughts on the First Petition," Norman Meltzer, "The Silence of Jesus: The Galilean Rabbi Who was More than a Prophet," Eckhard J. Schnabel, "The (Son) of (the)Man, and Jesus," Bruce Chilton, "Q 12:51-53 and Mark 9:11-13 and the Messianic Woes," Dale C. Allison, Jr., "Jesus: A Glutton and Drunkard," Howard Clark Kee, "Questioning and Discernment in Gospel Discourse: Communicative Strategy in Matthew 11:2-9," J. Ian H. McDonald, "Public Declaration or Final Judgement? Matthew 10:26-27 = Luke 12:2-3 as a Case of Creative Redaction," Scot McKnight, "The Authenticity of the Command: 'Love Your Enemies,'" William Klassen, "The Authenticity of the Parable of the Warring King: A Response to the Jesus Seminar," Charles L. Quarles, "The Sayings of Jesus in the Letter of James," Wesley Hiram Wachob and Luke Timothy Johnson.…

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, xvi, 479 pp., index of Biblical Literature, index of Modern Authors For all those interested in Jesus research, early Christianity, early Judaism, and Israel in the first century. Bruce D. Chilton, Ph.D. (1976) in Biblical Studies, Cambridge University, is Professor of Hebrew Bible and New Testament at Bard College, New York. He has published numerous books and scholarly articles on Jesus and Judaism. Craig A. Evans, Ph.D. (1983) in Biblical Studies, Claremont Graduate School, is Professor of Biblical Studies and Director of the Graduate Program at Trinity Western University and Senior Research Fellow at Roehampton Institute London. In this companion volume to Authenticating the Words of Jesus, the authors examine the important issue of the original setting and context in which the words of Jesus were spoken. They proceed on the assumption that authenticating the activities of Jesus is just as important as authenticating his words. A historical framework, made up of several fairly certain facts, must be clarified and used as a primary criterion for determining which sayings and episodes ought to be considered the stronger candidates of authentic tradition and how they should be interpreted. Many of Jesus' sayings cohere with historical elements and oftentimes either explain them or are explained by them. A complete study of the words of Jesus must also include a study of the activities of Jesus. Articles are "Authenticating the Activities of Jesus," Craig A. Evans, "Can the Third Quest Hope to Succeed?" James D.G. Dunn, "The Synoptic Gospels and History," E. Earle Ellis, "Reflections upon "the Historical Perimeters for Understanding the Aims of Jesus," William R. Farmer, "Five Gospels but no Gospel: Jesus and the Seminar," N. Thomas Wright, "The Implications of Textual Variants for Authenticating the Activities of Jesus," Stanley E. Porter and Matthew Brook O'Donnell, "Appointed Deed, Appointed Doer: Jesus and the Scriptures," Ben F. Meyer, "The Itinerant Jesus and His Home Town," J. Ramsey Michaels, "Behind the Temptations of Jesus: Q 4:1-13 and Mark 1:12-12," Dale C. Allison, Jr., "An Exorcism of History: Mark 1:21-28," Bruce Chilton, "Thye Beelzebul Controversy and the Eschatologies of Jesus," Joel Marcus, "The Encounter of Jesus with the Gerasene Deminiac," Jostein Adna, "Bedeutung und religionsgeschichtlicher Hintergrund der Verwandlung Jesu (Markus 9:2-8)," Dieter Zeller, "Jesus, the Messiah of Israel: The Debate about the 'Messianic Mission' of Jesus," Martin Hengel, "Assessing the Historicity of Jesus' Walking on the Sea: Insights from Cross-Culture Social Psychology," Bruce J. Malina, "Jesus and Zechariah's Messianic Hope," Craig A. Evans, "The Authenticity of Judas' Participation in the Arrest of Jesus," William Klassen, "Did Jesus Wash His Disciples' Feet?" Richard J. Bauckham, "'Where no one had yet been laid': The Shame of Jesus' Burial," Byron R. MCCane.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. 136 pages ; 25 cm. ex-library with plate. covers worn. occasional notes in pencil.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Ex-library, with library markings limited to ghost of spine label at foot of spine, property stamp to top-edge of textblock, property stamp (canceled) to front pastedown, and remains of barcode label at rear pastedown. 239 pages. Series: Internationale forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; volume 190. Binding crisp, corners sharp; library markings as noted above, else internally as new. 500 grams.…

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Paperback in very good, almost as-new condition; minor shelfwear only. One tiny pen mark on one page; contents otherwise clean, sound, bright. TPW. Used.

1st edition. Ex-library copy. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 126 pages : illustrations. Contents: Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / J. A. van Dorsten -- Editor's Preface / J. A. van Dorsten -- Acknowledgements / J. A. van Dorsten -- List of Illustrations / J. A. van Dorsten -- Introductory Note / J. A. van Dorsten -- I THOMAS BASSONoriginCologne c. 1578-c.1583Plantinconversion?flight / J. A. van Dorsten -- II Leiden 1583/84Elsevier's house1585 printerEnglish interest / J. A. van Dorsten -- III 1586teacherfreedom from rentpetition to LeicesterLawes and Ordinances1587buys a houseWarachtich verhaelmuster pamphletsCosmoOratio ad Elizabetham / J. A. van Dorsten -- IV 1588-1593interest in the UniversityTemplum Salomonis 1593/94English hospes1593 Govert a student / J. A. van Dorsten -- V 1593/941594 'University printer'Himne de Leyden 15941595 member of the University'The Music-book'foundation of the University Librarypetition of 1596 / J. A. van Dorsten -- VI 1598 nomination as beadle1601 Robert Greene translated160416061600/01-1602/03 Govert abroad / J. A. van Dorsten -- VII Govert marries Anna de Gheyn 1608Basson-de Gheyn1609 Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraftsonnet by Scriveriusprinter in the Arminian cause 1609-1612 / J. A. van Dorsten -- VIII 1612 back to England?William Bedwell and Bassondeath of Thomas Basson / J. A. van Dorsten -- IX 1630 sale of shop and pressauction cataloguecontents of Basson' shopthe press'H.N.''Familia Charitatis'the 'familist' press in CologneThomas Basson's connexions with the 'Family'conclusion / J. A. van Dorsten -- Back Matter -- Appendix I A checklist of works printed by Thomas Basson at Leiden, 15851612 / J. A. van Dorsten -- Appendix II Plantin's Journael, 15821583 / J. A. van Dorsten -- Appendix III Purchase of a house from Franc. Raphelengius, 7 February 1587 / J. A. van Dorsten -- Appendix IV Some documents concerning 'De conjugatien in Engels ende Nederduijtsch', 1586, and the Belgicæ oratio . ad . Elizabetham, 1587 (App. I, 12) / J. A. van Dorsten -- Appendix V 1595: Printing and Membership of the University / J. A. van Dorsten -- Appendix VI 1595: Basson and the new University Library / J. A. van Dorsten -- Appendix VII 1596: Concerning the Monopoly of Printing Theses / J. A. van Dorsten -- Appendix VIII Auction catalogue 1630 / J. A. van Dorsten -- Index of Proper Names / J. A. van Dorsten. Subjects: Basson, Thomas 1554 or 5-ca. 1613. Printing Netherlands Leiden History. 1 Kg.…

Softcover/Paperback. Zustand: Gut. 552 p. Good. Ex-library with usual library markings. Clean pages. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100.

Original publisher's paperback, title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: xxvi, 402pp., [ij], graphs, tables, chapterreferences & conclusions, notes on authors, index authors, index subjects. Very fine copy - as new., Volume 7: European Values Studies.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. viii, 213 pages : 23cm. ex-library with plate. no notes or highlighting. Illustrating the different ways in which "vocation-profession" can be interpreted, and how it can be studied from various perspectives and with different scientific sensibilities, this book demonstrates how the concept of Beruf continues to be fertile for contemporary sociology. CONTENTS : Vocation / Andrew J. Weigert and Anthony J. Blasi -- Italian youth and the ideas of vocation / Frango Garelli -- Vocation as a personal choice / Luigi Berzano -- Vocation versus vocational status in the lives of current and former vowed American Catholic religious / Anthony J. Blasi -- Vocation and vocational "crisis" : a study of Italian former priests / Giuseppe Giordan -- Civic engagement and church policy in the making of religious vocations : cross-national variation in the evolution of priestly ordinations / Robert M. Fishman and Keely Jones -- Women, religious agency and the politics of vocation / Laura M. Leming -- Seminarians and vocation / Giovanni Dal Piaz -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life : vocation as a social movement / Robert C. Butler.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 158 pages ; 24 cm. ex-library with stamp, but no other markings or notes etc. 'The democratic experiment in Africa has had a chequered history over the 1990s. Authors in this volume argue that African civil society is less likely to support democracy, they measure African democracy by the women's rights movements and unravel the mythical hope of technology.'.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. ix, 253 p. : ill.

1st edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 313 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Epigraphs -- Max SAUNDERS: General Editor's Preface -- Sir Frank KERMODE: Foreword -- Max SAUNDERS: Introduction -- I: CONDITIONS OF MODERNITY: TECHNOLOGY, GENDER, AND THE CITY -- Philip HORNE: Absent-Mindedness: Ford on the Phone -- Sara HASLAM: Ford's Training -- Giovanni CIANCI: Three memories of a Night: Ford's Impressionism in the Great London Vortex -- Robin PEEL: Ford and the Simple Life: Gender, Subjectivity and Class in a Satirized Utopia -- II: THE GOOD SOLDIER: DESlRE, TEXT, AND HISTORY -- Davida PINES: Irony and the Marriage Plot in The Good Soldier -- Caroline PATEY: Empire, Ethnology and The Good Soldier -- Sally BACHNER: 'The Seeing Eye': Detection, Perception and Erotic Knowledge in The Good Soldier -- Roger POOLE: The Unknown Ford Madox Ford -- Martin STANNARD: The Good Soldier : Editorial Problems -- Bernard BERGONZI: Fiction and History: Rereading The Good Soldier -- III: FORD, THE WAR AND THE POST-WAR: ENGLISHNESS, SOCIETY, HISTORY -- Dennis BROWN: Remains of the Day: Tietjens the Englishman -- Robert L. CASERIO: Ford's and Kipling's Modernist Imagination of Public Virtue -- Cornelia COOK: Constructions and Reconstructions: No Enemy -- IV: FORD AND MODERN WRITING: BIOGRAPHY, INTERTEXTUALITY, AND STYLE -- Joseph WIESENFARTH: Ford Madox Ford, Violet Hunt, and the Battle of the Books: SexuaI/Textual Hostilities -- Ros PESMAN: 'Drawn From Life': Stella Bowen and Ford Madox Ford -- Elena LAMBERTI: Ford Madox Ford and Ernest Hemingway in the Literary Arena of Paris, 1924 -- W.B. HUTCHINGS: Ford and Maupassant -- Vita FORTUNATI: The epistemological malaise of the narrator character in Ford, Conrad, Pirandello and Svevo -- Paul SKINNER: Ford Madox Ford and the Unnoticeable Things -- The Contributors -- Abbreviations. Subjects; Ford, Ford Madox 1873-1939 Criticism and interpretation. Ford, Ford Madox 1873-1939. Ford, Ford Madox. Social change in literature. Technology in literature. Authors, English 20th century History and criticism. 1 Kg.…

Softcover/Paperback. Zustand: Gut. 544 pages. Good. Ex-library with usual library markings. Cover shows mild wear. Clean pages. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100.

, Moorman, Marissa / Sheldon, Kathleen, ed. Lusotopie Volume XII 1/2, 2005: Gendered Social Relationships, Vol. 12, Nos. 1-2 (English, French and Portuguese Edition) by. Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005, xiii, 299pp., PAPERBACK, very good, small chip at top of spine. Journal concerned with issues of colonisation based on studies of Portuguese speaking areas: Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique. Texts in English, French, and Portuguese. 9789004149922 ISBN 9004149929.…

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First Edition (presentation copy). Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.Includes publisher' business card and hand written note. Physical description; 154 pages. Subjects; Women of the Middle East. Women of the Islamic World. Islamic Studies. Women Studies. Academic Journals. 1 Kg.…