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The Evolution of Intermarriage Law in the Hebrew Bible
The Torah Unabridged is a detailed examination of legal reasoning in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the exegetical operations by which biblical laws related to intermarriage were applied to circumstances and persons that lie outside the sphere of their explicit content, this book reconstructs the ways in which laws regarding intermarriage evolved, ......
Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
Explores two principal genres of illicit learned magic in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic, which could not.
Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
Explores two principal genres of illicit learned magic in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic, which could not.
With special reference to conference translation from French and Spanish
This handbook introduces general principles of translation while focusing on translating French and Spanish into English within a conference setting. General principles are elucidated in an introduction, in a postlude entitled "The Elements of Good Translation," and throughout the French and Spanish parts.
Making the World Safe for Liberal Constitutional Oligarchy
Examines the interaction of the Truman administration in U.S. and five Bolivian governments in years leading up to Victor Paz Estenssoro's National Revolution, focusing on negotiations over the price of tin.
Making the World Safe for Liberal Constitutional Oligarchy
Examines the interaction of the Truman administration in U.S. and five Bolivian governments in years leading up to Victor Paz Estenssoro's National Revolution, focusing on negotiations over the price of tin.
In this volume, Noemi Borrelli publishes 240 Messenger Texts from the city of Umma, texts that are currently housed in the collections of the Yale Babylonian Collection and the Harvard Semitic Museum. Earlier volumes of Nisaba published nearly 900 similar Messenger Texts that are in the collections of the British ......
Judah and Saul in the Narratives of Genesis and 1 Samuel
Following upon the work of Jewish scholars who have attempted to rehabilitate the notion of chosenness in the Hebrew Bible and that of other scholars who have focused more narrowly on the fate of non-Israelites in the Old Testament, The Unfavored centers on the role of unfavored characters within Israelspecifically, Judah and ......
Studies on Biblical Hebrew in Honor of George L. Klein
A collection of essays in honor of George Klein on the research and teaching of Biblical Hebrew. Contributors cover grammar, diachrony, syntax, lexicography, and pedagogy.
A collection of essays on the research and teaching of Biblical Hebrew. Contributors cover grammar, diachrony, syntax, lexicography, and ......
