books by Brill Academic Publishers     books:       The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition-Two Vol. Set4 reviews Florentino Garcia Martinez, Eibert Tigchelaar Brill Academic Publishers, 1999 The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition Even though it has been 50 years from the time these discoveries started to be published, this is the first time a Hebrew/English edition of the "published texts" has ever appeared. There have always been English translations available, regularly updated as the findings were gradually released, but students who wished to explore the original language always had to visit some college library and ...             The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, 2 volume set5 reviews Ludwig Koehler, Walter Baumgartner Brill Academic Publishers, 2002 The best resource The best English lexicon of biblical Hebrew & Aramaic, KBL is also easier to use than the classic BDB. Words are listed alphabetically, rather than grouped by root, with cross-references to other words from the same root (no more trying to figure out a noun's putative "verbal root"). Akkadian tends to dominate the etymological information, rather than Arabic), along with Ugaritic. Glosses tend to ...             Technology, Disease, and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Essays Reappraising the Guns ... Brill Academic Publishers, 2003 How did Europeans prevail in conquering the so-called New World and beyond? For several years scholars have seen an answer to that question in the "Guns, Germs, and Steel" theories of experts like Jared Diamond; namely, that because of superior technology and the introduction of catastrophic disease into the Americas, Europeans succeeded in conquering and colonizing the indigenous peoples. But other historians, including the experts in this ...             Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus: Lexique Latin Medieval - Medieval Latin Dictionary - Mittellateinisches ...2 reviews J. F. Niermeyer, C. Van De Kieft, ... Brill Academic Publishers, 2002 The best Medieval Latin dictionary I have been studying classical and medieval Latin for many years and own multiple Latin dictionaries (Cassel's, Oxford, Lewis & Short, New College, in addition to this, etc...). This is the best Medieval Latin dictionary available. It is only meant for early and high Medieval Latin (thus not for Athanasius, who is 17th century, post-Renaissance). It contains many of the words that have shifted ...             Jenseitshoffnung in Wort Und Stein: Nefesch Und Pyramidales Grabmal Als Phanomene Antiken Judischen ... Lothar Triebel Brill Academic Publishers, 2004 This monograph deals with two phenomena of ancient (hellenistic and roman times) Jewish burial customs: The use of the term "nefesh" for denoting a tomb-monument etc. and the use of the pyramid as a distinct feature of tomb architecture and of decoration of burial sites. Every instance of Jewish use of either the term or the pyramid will be analysed, as well as a couple of instances from neighbouring cultures and languages (especially Nabatea ...             Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age (Numen Book Series, 90)2 reviews Olav Hammer Brill Academic Publishers, 2003 Pivotal Examination of New Age Claims This book has the potential to empty American public libraries of half of their holdings. If you believe that the key to a better world is through "feeling good," as Wayne Dyer claimed in his PBS Special, then this book is for you. If you believe that modern reincarnation, reiki, feng shui, aromatherapy, and chakras are based on ancient wisdoms of trial and error research, this book is for ...             Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period Brill Academic Publishers, 2003 Western literary, philosophical, and religious traditions from Plato and Paul to Augustine and Avicenna have utilized, exploited, or been subjected to allegorical interpretation. Naturally developing a composite picture of interpretive allegory from such a large landscape faces numerous difficulties. As the editor puts it, "to imagine a 'definitive' account of the theory and practice of allegorical interpretation in the West would require ...             Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports About Christianity and Gnosticism1 review Alan F. Segal Brill Academic Publishers, 2002 Two Powers in Heaven Publisher's info: In this study of the rabbinic heretics who believed in Two Powers in Heaven, Alan Segal explores some relationships between rabbinic Judaism, Merkabah mysticism, and early Christianity. Two Powers in Heaven was a very early category of heresy. It was one of the basic categories by which the rabbis perceived the new phenomenon of Christianity and one of the central issues over ...             Galen and Chrysippus on the Soul: Argument and Refutation in the De Placitis Books Ii-III (Philosophia ... Teun Tieleman Brill Academic Publishers, 1996 This volume deals with books II and III of the On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato by the medical scientist and philosopher Galen of Pergamum (129-c. 210 CE ). In these books Galen offers an extensive critique of Stoic psychology, quoting a large number of passages from the otherwise lost treatise On the Soul by the great Stoic philosopher Chrysippus. This first full-scale study of Chrysippus' mode of argumentation ...             Resurrection of the Body in Early Judaism and Early Christianity: Doctrine, Community, and... Claudia Setzer Brill Academic Publishers, 2005 How did the belief in resurrection become part of the symbolic construction of early Jewish and Christian communities? Why was it a marker for who did or did not belong in certain groups? Using insights from the social sciences and rhetorical studies, the author discusses the development of belief in resurrection in early Jewish circles and the growth of a resurrection apologetic in early Christianity. Examining materials on the Pharisees, ...             The Art and Logic of Ramon Llull: A User's Guide (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters) ... Anthony Bonner Brill Academic Publishers, 2007 Ramon Llull (ca. 1232-1316), mystic, missionary, philosopher, lay theologian, and one of the founding fathers of Catalan literature, was chiefly known in his own time and in subsequent generations as the inventor of a combinatorial, semi-mechanical method of demonstration, which he called his 'Art' and which he had developed to free interreligious debate from its fruitless textual base. Most of the extensive modern literature has been dedicated ...             Brill's Companion to Herodotus Brill Academic Publishers, 2002 Herodotus's "Histories" can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as na?ve and "archaic", the "Histories" are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary, ...             Jews, Judaism, And the Reformation in Sixteenth-century Germany (Studies in Central European Histories) Stephen G. Burnett (Editor) Dean Phillip Bell (Editor) Brill Academic Publishers, 2006 This book represents a multi-disciplinary approach to the problem of the Jews and the German Reformation. The contributions come from both senior and emerging scholars, from North America, Israel, and Europe, to ensure a breadth in perspective. The essays in this volume are arranged under four broad headings: 1. The Road to the Reformation (late medieval theology and the humanists and the Jews), 2. The Reformers and the Jews (essays on Luther, ...             Biblical Ambiguities: Metaphor, Semantics, and Divine Imagery1 review David H. Aaron Brill Academic Publishers, 2002 Ambivalent It is scholarly in its method. However, the conclusions are just that the Bible contains ambiguities and that some ambiguities are more ambiguous than others. Ambiguity may function as a Bible code, but God will tell us when the scrolls will be undone.             The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road (Brill's Inner Asian Library) Brill Academic Publishers, 2008 This book covers new ground on the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road. Much of twentieth-century scholarship on the Silk Road examined the ancient archaeological objects and medieval historical records found within each cultural area, while the consequences of long-distance interaction across Eurasia remained poorly studied. Here ample attention is given ...             The Mongol Empire and Its Legacy (Brill's Scholars' List)1 review Brill Academic Publishers, 2001 Major evaluation of the Mongol impact on history The Mongol empire was founded early in the thirteenth century by Chinggis Khan and within the span of two generations embraced most of Asia, becoming the largest land based state in history. The united empire lasted only until around 1260 but the major successor states continued on in the Middle East, present day Russia, Central Asia and China for generations, leaving a lasting impact much of ...             The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital (Historical Materialism Book Series, 1) Christopher John Arthur Brill Academic Publishers, 2004 This book both argues for, and demonstrates, a new turn to dialectic. Marx's "Capital was clearly influenced by Hegel's dialectical figures: here, case by case, the significance of these is clarified. More, it is argued that, instead of the dialectic of the rise and fall of social systems, what is needed is a method of articulating the dialectical relations characterising a given social whole. Marx learnt from Hegel the necessity for a ...              search for books ambiguities, bestattungswesens, christianity, chrysippus, dictionary, edition-two, eighteenth, epistemology, geistesgeschichte, gnosticism, historical, histories, interpretation, jenseitshoffnung, latinitatis, materialism, mittelalters, mittellateinisches, nachbarkulturen, philosophia, pyramidales, reappraising, reformation, refutation, resurrection, sixteenth-century, strategies, technology, urchristentums, worterbuch books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Imagine (Deluxe Edition) leave a comment home  impressum - about us