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The story of the Exodus has been one of the most vexing historico-Biblical problems to confront scholars. The fundamental chronological problems are of the utmost complexity, yet they materially affect the view that is taken of Israel's religious ...

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Delivered in 1946, these lectures discuss the use of textual criticisms in the attempt to recover the original text of Paul's Epistles. In particular, there is a detailed analysis of the manuscript P46.

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From the Biblical record it is clear that the principal occupants of Palestine at the time of the advent of the Israelites were the Amorites and the Canaanites. Who were these two peoples? Excavations have shown that towards the end of the third m...

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This is the third edition of the late Sir Godfrey Driver's Schweich Lectures, first delivered in 1944. The present edition is based on extensive revisions and additions made by the author himself. The third edition takes account of research and di...

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Professor Yadin's 1970 Schweich Lectures first describe the history of Hazor as recorded in the Egyptian Execration Texts, the Mari archives, Egyptian New Kingdom documents, the Armarna Letters, and finally the Old Testament. They proceed to give ...

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The honour of Mowbray was one of the greatest feudal estates of the Anglo-Norman kingdom. The 400 collected charters of the first three generations of the Mowbray family provide abundant material for a study of the feudal structure, economy, and a...

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The late Fr. Roland de Vaux was the excavator of Qumran, the home of the religious establishment to which the Dead Sea Scrolls belonged. He was also the organizer of the international team charged with editing the manuscripts. He was, therefore, s...

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The 1334 Lay Subsidy assessments for the whole of England.provide an invaluable index to the relative wealth of different districts and individual places in early fourteenth-century England, and afford many sidelights on the state of the country i...

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The Speculum Ecclesie of Edmund of Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury (1234-40), has come down in various versions in Latin, Anglo-Norman, and English. This edition comprises the original Latin text, never before printed and, printed en face, the ...

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No one has probably had such a close knowledge of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, from foundation to roof top, as Father Coasnon, who, among others, was instrumental in drawing up the restoration plan agreed upon in 1959 by the vari...

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Contains thirty-eight documents from the archives of the Abbey of Burton upon Trent, which date from the tenth and eleventh centuries, including the will of Wulfric and a group of single sheets discovered in the twentieth century.

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Parallels between Hittite civilisation and the Old Testament belong largely to the field of religion. In the first of his three Schweich lectures (delivered in 1976) Professor Gurney traces the historical development of the Hittite pantheon, while...

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Stuart Hampshire compares two radically different conceptions of morality, those of Aristotle and Spinoza. He discusses the relation between moral intuitions and moral theory, and the contrasting ideas of moral normality and moral conversion. Spin...

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This anonymous collection dealing with science and medicine, written c.1200 by an Englishman, helps to fill a large gap in our knowledge of the scholastic background of the twelfth century, and forms a rich mine of source material for the writings...

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The origins and development of the Church in Egypt remain one of the vexed problems of early Christian history. Dr C. H. Roberts examines the evidence of the Christian papyri discovered in Egypt to see what light they cast on the problems, and how...

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A scholarly edition of the Account Book of Peter Temple and Thomas Heritage, a Warwickshire Grazier and a London Skinner. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

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Contains surveys for the whole estate made in the reigns of Henry I and Henry II, 13th-century custumals for Minchinhampton, Avening, and Felsted, and 26 charters and leases, some of which relate to property in London. They provide valuable eviden...

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Lynn was a 'new' port of the late eleventh century, founded on the estates of the Bishop of Norwich. This volume includes transcripts or summaries of most of the documents available in original charters, cartularies, rentals, bede-rolls and the ad...

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This volume gives details of a wide range of day-to-day transactions mainly during the period 1617 to 1645. The editor adds greatly to our knowledge of Henry Best, his family, and estate in a substantial introduction, and much ancillary documentar...

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This volume makes available for the first time the complete works of the important monastic theologian, Gilbert Crispin, friend and pupil of Sr. Anselm and abbott of Westminster from 1085, and includes a completely revised edition of his influenti...

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This edition makes available for the first time a complete text and criticism of the so-called Compton Census, a count of conformists, papists and nonconformists for many of the parishes of England and Wales, which has long been of interest to dem...

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This volume contains 17 documents concerning the bishopric and monastery at Sherborne, and 5 charters from the Abbey of Horton. Their dates range from A.D. 671 to A.D. 1061, and all (with one exception) have been preserved in the impressive Sherbo...

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In The Codex, published in 1954, C.H. Roberts studied the process by which in the early centuries of our era the roll as the vehicle for literature was replaced by the codex, which has remained the format of the book ever since. New evidence that ...

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Lectures: M. Hart: The SERC Experiment in Science-Based Archaeology; M. Woods: Plato's Division of the Soul; Lord Carver: Strategy in the Twentieth Century; C. J. Becker: Farms and Villages in Denmark from the Late Bronze Age to the Viking Period;...

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The diary of Bulstrode Whitelocke MP reveals sharp insights into public affairs during the Civil Wars and Interregnum. It stands alongside the diaries of Pepys, Evelyn, and Josselin as a major source for the study of seventeenth-century politics a...

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The Papers of Bulstrode Whitelocke, brought together from various sources, form an important archive - quite separate from his Diary - and much of it unpublished or even unknown to scholars. Ruth Spalding has selected about 1000 names from the Dia...

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This account book of a small yeoman farmer in Lancashire, running from 1724 (just after his marriage) to his death in 1767, provides a record of expenditure on domestic, personal, and farming items. It is unique in offering a detailed view of hous...

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A scholarly edition of the travel journals of Jabez Maud Fisher, 1775-1779. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

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This famous essay is now republished, with a new Introduction by James Joll, at a time when its discussion of the power of nationalism in European politics seems particularly relevant. Concentrating on the revolutions in central and eastern Europe...

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This comprehensive study makes a unique source accessible to historians of the later medieval nobility. Household accounts contain invaluable evidence on daily life, diet, hospitality, etiquette, travel, the arts, politics, as well as on medieval ...

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