Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East – serie
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Animals in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Philosophy
Inbunden, 2025
3066 kr
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Non-human animals are a topic of intense philosophical interest in the modern day. It is often supposed that this is a recent development, but in fact pre-modern philosophers were intensely interested in animals. Aristotle initiated a long-standing zoological tradition, but it was only part of the …
Ibn Juljul’s Generations of Physicians and Sages
Translated from the Arabic with an Introduction and Indices
Inbunden, 2023
2365 kr
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In the present book, Oliver Kahl offers, for the first time, a complete, annotated English translation of Ibn Juljul’s Ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ wa-l-ḥukamāʾ, one of the earliest Arabic texts of its kind. Ibn Juljul’s work, completed in the year 987 CE in Córdoba, is essentially a collection of …
Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary
Materials for a Reconstruction
Av Vladimir E. Orel, Olga V. Stolbova
Inbunden, 1994
5264 kr
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The Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary, a project in the making since 1986, is the first dictionary to reflect the vocabulary of the extinct Proto-Hamito-Semitic (Proto-Afro-Asiatic) language. Reconstructed on the basis of Semitic, Ancient Egyptian, Berber, Chadic and Cushitic linguistic …
Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia
Av Hermann Hunger, David Pingree
Inbunden, 1999
3026 kr
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Astronomy and astrology, or the astral sciences, played an enormous, if not a key role in the political and religious life of the Ancient Near East, and, later, of the Greek and Roman world. This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the origins of the astral sciences in the Ancient …
Judaism in Late Antiquity 1. The Literary and Archaeological Sources
Inbunden, 1994
2578 kr
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This volume introduces the sources of Judaism in late antiquity to scholars in adjacent fields, such as the study of the Old and New Testaments, Ancient History, the ancient Near East, and the history of religion. In two volumes, leading American, Israeli, and European specialists in the history, …
Judaism in Late Antiquity 2. Historical Syntheses
Inbunden, 1994
2635 kr
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These two volumes introduce the sources of Judaism in late antiquity to scholars in adjacent fields, such as the study of the Old and New Testaments, ancient history of Classical Antiquity, earliest Christianity, the ancient Near East, and the history of religion. Here, in two volumes, leading …
Geschichte des Hethitischen Reiches
Av Volkert Haas, Fiorella Imparati m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
5197 kr
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The Anatolian people of the Hittites (ca. 1700-1200 B.C.) are the subject of the underlying work. In recent decades scholars have increased our knowledge in the field enormously without bringing the new insights together in a new comprehensive handbook. This long-awaited handbook deals with the …
Kingdom of Kush
Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization
Av László Török
Inbunden, 1997
6311 kr
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The individual character of Kingdom of Kush has often been overshadowed by the overwhelming cultural presence of its neighbour Egypt. This handbook in our series "Handbuch der Orientalistik/Handbook of Oriental Studies" for the first time presents a comprehensive survey of the rich textual, …
Handbook of Ugaritic Studies
Av Wilfred Watson, Nicolas Wyatt
Inbunden, 1999
6244 kr
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Over the past seven decades, the scores of publications on Ugarit in Northern Syria (15th to 11th centuries BCE) are so scattered that a good overall view of the subject is virtually impossible. Wilfred Watson and Nicolas Wyatt, the editors of the present Handbook in the series Handbook of Oriental …
Old Syriac Inscriptions of Edessa and Osrhoene
Texts, Translations and Commentary
Av Han J.W. Drijvers, John F. Healey
Inbunden, 1998
3785 kr
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This volume contains all the known Old Syriac inscriptions from Edessa and the area around Osrhoene in Northern Mesopotamia from the first three centuries C.E., the number of which has substantially increased over the last decades. The texts are given in estrangelo script and are accompanied by an …
Ancient Egyptian Chronology
Av Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
3942 kr
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This volume deals with the chronology of Ancient Egypt from the fourth millennium until the Hellenistic Period. An initial section reviews the foundations of Egyptian chronology, both ancient and modern, from annals and kinglists to C14 analyses of archaeological data. Specialists discuss sources, …
Mishnah
Social Perspectives
Inbunden, 1999
2635 kr
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The Mishnah - the second-century law code that lays the foundation, after Scripture, of normative Judaism - encompasses all subjects that pertain to the life of the Jewish nation and as such provides a systematic basis for Israel's social order and world view. Any social program has its own …
Grammar of Neo-Aramaic
The Dialect of the Jews of Arbel
Inbunden, 1999
5103 kr
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Being direct descendants of the Aramaic spoken by the Jews in antiquity, the still spoken Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects of Kurdistan deserve special and vivid interest. Geoffrey Khan’s A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic is a unique record of one of these dialects, now on the verge of extinction.This volume, …
Phoenician-Punic Grammar
Inbunden, 2000
2419 kr
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Carefully selected examples from texts and dialects of the whole Phoenician-Punic period bring to life the grammatical description of this language. Included are fully vocalized Punic and Neo-Punic inscriptions of Roman Tripolitiana in Latin orthography as well as the literary fragments of Punic …
Judaism in Late Antiquity 5. The Judaism of Qumran: A Systemic Reading of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Volume Two: World View, Comparing Judaisms
Av Alan Avery-Peck, Jacob Neusner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
2635 kr
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The authors have asked of the documents of the Dead Sea Library found at Qumran a simple question: how does each participate in a single Judaic religious system? They propose a reading of the Scrolls from the hypothesis that all of them, in one way or another, rest upon one, authoritative, Judaism. …
Onomasticon of the Hittite Pantheon, Volume 3
Part Three
Inbunden, 2001
3169 kr
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The Onomasticon of the Hittite Pantheon by Ben van Gessel was published in 1998. In three years time the work has established itself as the ultimate comprehensive reference work concerning the Hittite pantheon.With the publication of Part Three, the main work will be made accessible to a wider …
Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, Volume 2
Volume Two: b-, p-, f-
Av Gábor Takács
Inbunden, 2001
4006 kr
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The multi-volume Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian by Gábor Takács "promises to open a new chapter in Egyptian and Afro-Asiatic comparative lingustics" (A. Dolgopolsky, in Israel Oriental Studies). The amount of material offered, the extensive treatment of scholarly discussions on each item, and …
History of the Animal World in the Ancient Near East
Inbunden, 2001
5050 kr
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This book is about all aspects of man’s contact with the animal world; sacrifice, sacred animals, diet, domestication, in short, from the sublime to the mundane.Chapters on art, literature, religion and animal husbandry provide the reader with a complete picture of the complex relationships between …
Christliche Architektur in Ägypten
Inbunden, 2001
4343 kr
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This is the first comprehensive survey of Christian architecture in Egypt from the fourth century up to early modern times, covering not only church architecture, but also and extensively the building art of pilgrimage centers, monasteries, cemeteries, defence structures and private houses. Special …
Karaite Judaism
A Guide to Its History and Literary Sources
Inbunden, 2003
5959 kr
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Karaism is a Jewish religious movement of a scripturalist and messianic nature, which emerged in the Middle Ages in the areas of Persia-Iraq and Palestine and has maintained its unique and varied forms of identity and existence until the present day, undergoing resurgent cycles of creativity, …
Grammar of the Ugaritic Language
Second impression with corrections
Av Daniel Sivan
Inbunden, 2001
3090 kr
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Ugaritic, discovered in 1929, is a North-West Semitic language, documented on clay tablets (about 1250 texts) and dated from the period between the 14th and the 12th centuries B.C.E. The documents are of various types: literary, administrative, lexicological. Numerous Ugaritic tablets contain …
Mishnah in Contemporary Perspective
Part One
Av Alan Avery-Peck, Jacob Neusner
Inbunden, 2002
2635 kr
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The authors of the studies on the Mishnah collected in the present volumes represent the best of contemporary scholarship on that document. In the past thirty years, the Mishnah seen as a document on its own terms has taken its place as a principal focus in the academic study of religion and of …
Studies in the Aramaic Legal Papyri from Elephantine
Inbunden, 2002
2284 kr
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Long recognized as a brilliant cross-cultural study, Yochanan Muffs’ work analyzes the legal formulary of the Aramaic papyri from Elephantine, at the first cataract of the Nile, where a Persian garrison comprised of Jewish soldiers and their families lived throughout most of the 5th century B.C.E. …
Luwians
Inbunden, 2003
2499 kr
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The Luwians played at least as important a role as the Hittites in the history of the Ancient Near East during the second and first millennia BCE, but for various reasons they have been overshadowed by and even confused with their more famous relatives and neighbours. Redressing this imbalance, the …
Arabische Dialektgeographie
Eine Einführung
Av Peter Behnstedt, Manfred Woidich
Inbunden, 2005
2329 kr
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This volume is the first comprehensive and systematic description of the dialect geography of the Arabic language which investigates the methods and insights developed in the European context and how these can be applied to the domain of Arabic. It also deals briefly with the problems of the …
Historical Muscat
An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer
Inbunden, 2006
2365 kr
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Historical Muscat is an attempt to define and explain the historical environment that determined the significance and design of Oman’s capital city Muscat, its twin city Matrah, and their environs prior to 1970. It also examines how the development of the Muscat conurbation since 1970 has …
Carian Language
Inbunden, 2006
4547 kr
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This handbook provides a complete and updated view of our current knowledge about Carian, one of the Indo-European languages spoken in ancient Anatolia. The decipherment of the Carian alphabet has only recently made it possible to analyze Carian inscriptions and to classify the Carian language …
Inscribing South Asian Muslim Women
An Annotated Bibliogaphy & Research Guide
Av Tahera Aftab
Inbunden, 2007
2948 kr
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In this volume comprehensive coverage of South Asian Muslim women's lives and their experiences, historically and contemporaneously, fills a serious gap in the existing scholarship regarding variegated patterns of Muslim communities. The careful selection of key sources with annotations makes these …
Classic Ships of Islam
From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean
Inbunden, 2007
3495 kr
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This book charts the development of Islamic ships and boats in the Western Indian Ocean from the seventh to the early sixteenth century with reference to earlier periods. It utilizes mainly Classical and Medieval Arabic sources with iconographical evidence and archaeological finds. Maritime …
Arabic Manuscript Tradition
A Glossary of Technical Terms and Bibliography – Supplement
Av Adam Gacek
Inbunden, 2008
3170 kr
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The present work supplements the original volume of The Arabic Manuscript Tradition (AMT), both its glossary of technical terms and bibliography. It includes new entries of technical terms, additional definitions of, and/or citations for, the entries already found in AMT, and recent publications on …
