25219 Ergebnisse - Zeige 25201 von 25219.

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. 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.

Aaron systematically examines God-related idioms in the Hebrew Bible to determine whether a particular idiom is meant to be understood metaphorically. Aaron challenges current methodologies that dominate biblical scholarship regarding metaphor and offers original, viable alternatives to the standard approaches. Please note that "Biblical Ambiguities" was previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 12032 7), still available)

Keine Beschreibung.

After years at the margins of medical history, the relationshipbetween war and medicine is at last beginning to move centre-stage.The essays in this volume focus on one important aspect of thatrelationship: the practice and development of medicine within thearmed forces from the late nineteenth century through to the endof the Second World War. During this crucial period, medicinecame to occupy an important position in military life, especiall...

This book offers several points of comparison between Jesus and his approximate contemporaries. It concludes that Jesus is not a Cynic of Stoic philosopher but a charismatic prophet who was recognized as Messiah through whom the Kingdom of God would appear. This publication has also been published in hardback (no longer available).

John J. Collins offers readers a model for the scholarly study of all aspects of Judaism, from the Persian period through Late Antiqity, including its influence on early Christianity. The essays are thematically grouped to cover the problem of the Canon in Second Temple Judaism and deal with apocalypticism, the Book of Daniel, the Sibylline Oracles, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Also analyzed is the relationship between Wisdom and the Apocalyptici...

By analyzing Flavius Josephus' portrayal of the Pharisees, this study clarifies some of the crucial evidence that is necessary for scholars to evaluate anew the history of the Pharisees. Included in the discussion is Josephus' writings about the group in three of his four extant works. Please note that "Flavius Josephus on the Pharisees" was previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 09181 5, no longer available).

Primary motifs in the New Testament, the person of Jesus and the future kingdom of God, resurrection and hell, are examined within their historical and hermeneutical context. New interpretations are offered in the light of contemporary scholarly discussion and debate. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Difficult problems about early Jewish and Christian calendar and chronology are discussed here, with special attention to intertestamental evidence (Qumran and other). This evidence is both examined in itself and applied to illustrate significant biblical and patristic questions. Please note that "Calendar and Chronology, Jewish and Christian") was previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 10586 7), no longer available)

This study of the use of the names 'Jew', 'Hebrew' and 'Israel' in ancient Jewish and early Christian literature - especially the Bible, Philo, Josephus, Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament and Mishnah - defines the nature of Israel and Judaism in Antiquity. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Keine Beschreibung.

From the contents: Etnicidad catalana, multiculturalismo y recomposicion del estado (Joan J. Pujadas). - Jardines: paseos por la memoria en Cataluna (Maria Jesus Buxo i Rey). - La sociedad vasca y el nacionalismo (Jose Miguel (Txemi) Apaolaza). - Etnicidad y nacionalismo: el caso de Galicia (Xose Manuel Gonzalez Reboredo). - Las serpientes contra Santiago: identidad gallega (Manuel Mandianes). - Idola tribus: Andalucia como raza, etnia y nacio...

This book makes four bold claims: 1) life is an ultimate datum, open to philosophical analysis and irreducible to physical reality, hence all materialist-reductionist explanations - most current theories - of life are false. 2) All life presupposes soul (entelechy) without which a being would at best fake life. 3) The concept of life is analogous and the most direct access to life in its irreducibility is gained through consciousness, 4) All l...

This reference provides access to a broad, balanced, and representative collection of Ancient Near Eastern texts that are part of the colorful background to the literature of the Hebrew Bible.

To paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what are the categories? What properties do they have? How do they relate to each other? Eleven essays address these questions by inquiring whether there is a clear distinction between lexical and functional categories, how syntactic categories relate to semantic categories, the relation between synta...

Straßen und Reiserouten im späten Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit, die Mühen mittelalterlicher Reisenden, das Bild der Welt auf den Karten des späten Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit, subjektive und objektive Wahrheit in islamischen Reiseberichten, Marco Polos Fassung seines Reiseberichts, die Rezeption der Reise des Hl. Brandan im späten Mittelalter, Jean de Mandevilles Reisebericht in einer spätmittelalterlichen deutschen Übersetzun...

Keine Beschreibung.

Most accounts of the Spanish transition to democracy have been celebratory exercises at the service of a stabilizing rather than a critical project of far-reaching reform. As one of the essays in this volume puts it, the "pact of oblivion, " which characterized the Spanish transition to democracy, curtailed any serious attempt to address the legacies of authoritarianism that the new democracy inherited from the Franco era. As a result, those l...

Al-Mas'udi composed his Kitab al-Tanbih wal-ishraf in the years 955 and 956, finishing it not long before his death. Based in part on earlier historical-geographical works, it offers a description of astronomical and meteorological phenomena, the divisions of the earth, the seas, ancient nations, universal chronology, and then the history of Islam until the caliphate of al-Muti' (r. 946-74).