Mohr Siebeck, 2024. — 274 p. — (Forschungen zum Alten Testament 184). The authors of this volume celebrate the contributions of David P. Wright to the fields of biblical studies and ancient Near Eastern studies. They place particular focus on topics of ritual and law, the major concerns of Wright's scholarship. The studies included deal with various texts and issues in the...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020. — xx, 578 p. — (Ancient Magic and Divination 8/3). Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centers upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2011. — xvi, 618 p., 134 ill. — (Ancient Magic and Divination 8/1). Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft....
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2016. — xviii, 642 p. — (Ancient Magic and Divination 8/2). Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian...
Brill, 2015. — 426 p. — (Ancient Magic and Divination 10). The Akkadian series Maqlû, 'Burning', remains the most important magical text against witchcraft from Mesopotamia and perhaps from the entire ancient Near East. Maqlû is a nine-tablet work consisting of the text of almost 100 incantations and accompanying rituals directed against witches and witchcraft. The work...
Routledge, 2023. — 255 p. This collection of original essays addresses salient issues in a range of empirical and conceptual analyses, providing detailed case studies of phenomena in Bantu languages and robust and interesting discussions on the structure of the noun phrase. The volume speaks to contemporary debates on the Bantu noun phrase, seeking to stimulate a greater...
Brill, 1954. — lxii, 414 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 8). Introduction The Ku Hua P’in Lu or Old Record of the Classifications of Painters by Hsieh Ho of the Southern Ch’i Dynasty [CHINESE TEXT] The Hsü Hua P’in with its Preface by Yao Tsui of the Ch’en Dynasty a Native of Wu-Hsing A Record of the Famous Painters of All the Dynasties by Chang Yen-Yüan Finished in the Year A.D. 847...
Brill, 1974. — viii, 328 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 12). Contents Preliminary Material From earliest times to the end of the Three Kingdoms The Chin Dynasty The Liu-Sung Dynasty The Ch’i Dynasty (479-502) and the Liang Dynasty (502-557) The Ch’en Dynasty (557-588) The T’ang Dynasty The T’ang Dynasty (continued) Bibliography and Sources Index of European and modern Chinese and...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 619 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 152). A central, much-studied feature of the poetry of 3rd cent. BCE Alexandria is the artistic treatment of the cultural past, the reception of earlier Greek poetry and artwork in the artistic creations of a new, Greco-Egyptian world deracinated both geographically and temporally from the heroes and...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2010. — xvi, 259 p. — (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 247). The Kakawin Ramayana, arguably the oldest Old Javanese epic text in Indic metres (circa 9th century AD), holds a unique position in the literary heritage of Indonesia. The poem has retained a remarkable vitality through the centuries in the...
University of Sydney, 2009. — 322 p. Umman-manda (literally “Troops of Manda”) is an Akkadian compound expression used to denote military entities and/or foreign peoples in a diverse number of texts pertaining to separate periods of ancient Near Eastern history. The dissertation initially discusses the various difficulties in ascertaining the etymology of the second component...
Habilitationsschrift. — Mohr Siebeck, 2007. — 271 p. — (Forschungen zum Alten Testament 51). In den Erzählungen der Samuelbücher stehen Saul und David einander nicht nur als Einzelfiguren gegenüber, sondern repräsentieren auch ihre jeweiligen Reiche Israel und Juda. Das durchgängige Kompositionsmerkmal des Figurenkontrastes spiegelt deshalb auch den israelitisch-judäischen...
University of Oxford, 1974. — 585 p. The last comprehensive biography on Francesco Filelfo was written well over one hundred and fifty years ago. Since then the general state of knowledge about this humanist has been largely conditioned by G. Voigt's hostile assessment and G. Bendaucci's unsystematic and unreliable studies. Monographs on Filelfo's stay at Florence and Siena...
SIL TChad, 2015. — 109 p. Yedina, also known as Buduma (Boudouma), is a Chadic language of the Biu–Mandara branch spoken around Lake Chad in western Chad and neighbouring Cameroon and Nigeria.
Edited with a facing-page translation by C. Given-Wilson. — Clarendon Press, 1997. — 388 p. —(Oxford Medieval Texts). Adam Usk, the full details of whose remarkable life are here revealed for the first time, was born in Usk around the middle of the fourteenth century. Through the patronage of the Mortimer family - the earls of March - he studied law at Oxford, eventually rising...
Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020. — 268 p. — (European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions 26). This monograph demonstrates that the books of Exodus–Numbers, taken together, are the result of one, highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Deuteronomy. This detailed reworking consists of around 1,200 strictly sequentially organized conceptual, and at...
Universität Innsbruck, 2015. — 242 p. — (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 151). The study of Tocharian B grammar, grammar in the sense of the scientific analysis of the language, is in a curiously disjointed state. There are two or three short, and quite good, grammatical sketches (Krause, 1952, Krause and Thomas, 1960, Pinault, 2008) and a few, very good,...
Brill, 2014. — 264 p. — (Septuagint Commentary Series). This work is the first major commentary of LXX Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremiah in English. Rather than seeing LXX mainly as a text-critical resource or as a window on a now-lost Hebrew text, this commentary, as part of the Septuagint Commentary Series, interprets Baruch and EpJer as Greek texts and from the perspective...
Palgrave Macmillan US, 2005. — 319 p. — (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures). This book re-evaluates the perception of "courtly love" in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn.
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 244 p. — (Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 25). Professor William Y. Adams presents sixteen papers on Nubia, written at various times during his lengthy and productive academic career. Most of those selected had been previously published only in a limited way; encompassing a wide range of topics, Adams wanted to enable...
St Cross College, Oxford, 2018. — 284 p. In the aftermath of the Late Bronze Age ‘Collapse’ many Mycenaean and Minoan sites were left destroyed, abandoned, or diminished. In the Early Iron Age the vestiges of the Bronze Age at these sites formed ‘landscapes of memory’ in which communities engaged with the past through practices such as ‘tomb’ and ‘hero’ cult. An additional...
St Cross College, Oxford, 2018. — 45 p. Иллюстрации и таблицы к книге Adamson Christopher James. Identity and society within ‘landscapes of memory’: Iron Age cult at Bronze Age ruins (1000-700 BC): /file/3741217/
Brill , 2012. — 827 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1. The Near and Middle East 103). This volume represents the state of the art in research on the Muslim legal scholar, theologian and man of letters Ibn azm of Cordoba (d. 456/1064), who is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant minds of Islamic Spain.
The Australian National University, Canberra, 1992. — 266 p. In this study I compare the Malayic isolects, and attempt to reconstruct their common ancestor, Proto Malayic. There are several motives for this study. First, little is known about the linguistic evolution of the Malayic isolects, or the nature of Proto Malayic (PM). The reconstruction of PM may also provide more...
Lisse: Peter de Ridder Press, 1977. — 507 p. The objective of the present book is to give a description, as completely as possible, of the native language (a variety of Quechua) spoken in the province of Tarma, which is part of the department of Junin in the Andes of Central Peru and which is situated at a relatively short distance (northeast) of the capital Lima. The data...
University of Texas – Austin, 2019. — 606 p. This dissertation presents a systematic analysis and description of the phonetics, phonology, and morphology of the Chajul dialect of Ixil, an indigenous Mayan language of Guatemala. Following an introduction to the language and speakers, and the methods and presentation of this study, the phonetics and phonology are treated...
Brill, 2021. — viii. 268 p. — (Shii Islam: Texts and Studies, Volume: 02). This volume advances the critical study of exegetical, doctrinal, and political authority in Shiʿi Islam. Naive dichotomies of “reason” and “esotericism” in Islamic Studies have often marginalized Shiʿi thought or impeded its understanding. The studies presented here aim to foster more exacting...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017. — 426 p. — (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 24). In Speech and Thought in Latin War Narratives, Suzanne Adema offers linguistic and narratological tools to analyse and interpret narratorial choices in speech and thought representation in Latin narratives. Her approach combines insights from (cognitive) linguistic and narratological theories...
Brill, 2018. — 317 p. — (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 31). In Tenses in Vergil’s Aeneid, Suzanne Adema presents a framework to analyze the role of tenses in Latin narrative texts. She applies the framework to the tense forms of the Aeneid, investigating their role in its narrative style and structure.
Indogermanische Forschungen. — 2015. — Vol. 120. — 1-30 p. Abstract: A new hypothesis for the distribution of nasalized and non-nasalized preterites in Lycian is proposed. This hypothesis allows us to trace, in a straightforward way, the appearance of the nasalized preterites. Keywords: Anatolian languages, Lycian, Lycian nasalized preterites, Lycian verbal system, Lycian...
Leuven: Peeters, 2021. — XX, 217 p. — (Études Bibliques. Nouvelle Série 85). Was the identity of the Holy Spirit as a personal agent already obvious in the expressions of faith at the pre-literary stage of Christianity? This book traces the evolution of the expression of the early Christian faith in relation to the notion of pneuma (spirit). It shows that, first of all pneuma,...
University of London, 1984. — 296 p. This study aims at presenting an adequate description of the verbal piece which forms the core of the grammar of Ebira language. Ebira is one of the lesser known languages of Nigeria in which little scholarly work has yet been done. Ebira is my mother tongue. Chapter One gives the general introduction and describes the location (with sketch...
De Gruyter, 2001. — 288 p. — (Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare). The series was founded in 1896. it is dedicated to rare Greek and Latin texts together with translations and commentaries, as well as detailed introductions, so rendering them more accessible to a broader readership. Since 2000 the series has concentrated on "Homer's Iliad. A full commentary", presenting the...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2013. — 412 p. — (Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 60). Ever since Vlastos’ “Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought,” scholars have known that a consideration of ancient philosophy without attention to its theological, cosmological and soteriological dimensions remains onesided. Yet, philosophers continue to discuss thinkers...
John Benjamins, 2021. — viii, 415 p. — [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 48]. The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive and...
Revised Edition. — Edited and translated by Alan Orr and Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson. — Clarendon Press, 1991. — 344 p. — (Oxford Medieval Texts). With revised Latin text and English translation. New historical notes and rewritten Introduction. Columba is one of the best-known saints of the early Celtic church; through his foundation of the abbey of Iona he had a far-reaching...
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020. — 410 p. — (De Septuaginta Investigationes (DSI) 12). How ancient texts could and could not be changed has been in the focus of vibrant scholarly discussions in recent years. The present volume offers contributions from a representative group of prominent scholars from different backgrounds and specialties in the areas of Classical and Biblical...
Cioffi Carmela (ed.). — De Gruyter, 2017. — 354 p. — (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana: BT 2023). Die vorliegende Neuausgabe des Andria-Kommentars des römischen Grammatikprofessors Aelius Donatus ersetzt Wessners Teubneriana von 1902: Basierend auf der erstmaligen vollständigen Sichtung und Erfassung der mittelalterlichen und humanistischen...
Ayto John, Barratt Alexandra (eds.). — London; New York; Toronto: Oxford University Press: 1984. — 256 p. — (Early English Text Society. Original Series 287). Aelred of Rievaulx, one of the leading and most influential figures of early English Cistercianism, was born at Hexham and died at Rievaulx Abbey, of which he had been abbot for some twenty years, on 12th January 1167. He...
Brill, 2002. — 586 p. Морейская хроника (греч. Χρονικόν του Μορέως) — анонимная стихотворная хроника первой половины XIV века на среднегреческом языке. Представляет собой подробную историю завоевания и господства франков в Морее. Главная часть «Морейской хроники» охватывает события 1205—1292 годов на Пелопоннесе, пролог касается Первого и Четвёртого крестовых походов.
Louvain: Peeters, 1998. — VII, 218 p. — (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 569. Subsidia 97). Anschließend an die 1993 erschienene Erausgabe des syrischen Urtextes der Apokalypse des Pseudo-Methodius, besorgt von G.J. Reinink (CSCO, Scriptores Syri, T. 220 und 221), folgt jetzt die Neuausgabe der griechischen Übersetzung und deren Übersetzung ins Lateinische, die die...
Louvain: Peeters, 1998. — X, 231 p. — (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 570. Subsidia 98). Anschließend an die 1993 erschienene Erausgabe des syrischen Urtextes der Apokalypse des Pseudo-Methodius, besorgt von G.J. Reinink (CSCO, Scriptores Syri, T. 220 und 221), folgt jetzt die Neuausgabe der griechischen Übersetzung und deren Übersetzung ins Lateinische, die die...
Brill, 2012. — 776 p. — (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 107). The origin of transcendental thought is not to be sought in Kant's philosophy but is a medieval achievement. This book provides for the first time a complete history of the doctrine of the transcendentals, from its beginning in the "Summa de bono" of Philip the Chancellor (ca. 1225) up to...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2016. — 332 p. There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic...
Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008. — 252 S. — (Wiener Byzantinistische Studien 27). Hymnen waren ein wesentlicher Teil der hagiographischen Literatur und des Heiligenkultes in Byzanz. In der spätbyzantinischen Zeit existierten bereits Hymnen auf die wichtigsten Heiligenfeste jeden Tages des Jahreszyklus, die in den Menaia überliefert wurden....
Casewit Yousef (ed.). — New York University Press, 2023. — 656 p. — (Library of Arabic Literature). A Sufi scholar’s philosophical interpretation of the names of God. The Divine Names is a philosophically sophisticated commentary on the names of God. Penned by the seventh-/thirteenth-century North African scholar and Sufi poet ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī, The Divine Names...
Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber, Klaas van Walraven (eds.). — Brill, 2014. — xxii, 544 p. The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central,...
Sebastian Elischer, Rolf Hofmeier, Henning Melber, Andreas Mehler (eds.). — Brill, 2015. — xxvi, 515 p. The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions...
Jon Abbink, Sebastian Elischer, Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber (eds.). — Brill, 2016. — xxvi, 516 p. The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West,...
Jon Abbink, Sebastian Elischer, Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber (eds.). — Brill, 2017. — xxiv, 526 p. The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West,...