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Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 29
Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning and facilitate the dissemination of cutting...
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Moche Fineline Painting From San Jose De Moro
Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru from AD 200 to 800. Studies a sample of more than 250 painted vessels from the site of San Jose de Moro, providing insights about a community of ancient Peruvian potters who shared a distinctive painting style and left a fascinating record ...
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Archaeological Research on the Islands of the Sun and Moon, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
This book provides the final results of this work on one of the most important locations in the circum-Titicaca Basin, with detailed survey and excavation data indispensable for Andeanists and other scholars interested in the development of complex political, economic, and ritual systems in prehi...
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Roger Federer
Roger Federer's sporting exploits are well-known, but who is the man behind them? This book captures the Federer phenomenon over fifteen thematically arranged chapters. And there's no shortage of anecdotes: the book is as entertaining as Federer's game.
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Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 62
Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning and facilitate the dissemination of cutting...
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Yang Xiong and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China
Yang Xiong (53 BC-AD 18), the Han philosophical master was supremely aware of longstanding traditions, ascribed both to the sages and to the Classics, contrasting the unusual strength of the basic drives for food and sex with the general weakness of the acquired inclinations toward moral behaviour.
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Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile and Beyond
The historical context for a group of ancient and medieval figural graffiti found in 2015 at El-Kurru in northern Sudan, a royal pyramid burial ground of kings and queens of Kush from about 850 to 650 BCE. Written to engage non-specialist readers, the book will be of interest to archaeologists an...
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Humayma Excavation Project, 2
This volume reports on a Nabataean campground, which provides unique testimony to the flexible character of Nabataean settlement design, and provides detailed information on the Nabataean necropolis, which shows parallels with those at both Petra and Hegra.
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City in the Desert, Revisited
Featuring previously unpublished documents and reproducing over fifty photographs from archaeological excavations led by Oleg Grabar at Qasr al-Hayr in Syria, this book recounts the personal experiences and professional endeavours that shaped the growth of the fields of Islamic archaeology, art a...
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Palestine in the Evolution of Syrian Nationalism (1918-1920)
Palestine in the Evolution of Syrian Nationalism analyzes the place of Palestine in the development of Syrian nationalism from the inception of Syria as a modern nation-state following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War.
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A Silver Book, recent work by Thaleia-Maria Georgoulis
Works by the talented Greek silversmith Thaleia-Maria Georgoulis marking her contribution to the COLLECT exhibition at London' s Victoria and Albert Museum. English and Greek. 50 photographs, b&w and col. Parallel text Greek and English
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The Smyrna Quay
Original research using new techniques shows the buildings of the legendary Ottoman port-city (modern-day Izmir) as a continuous architectural and historical ensemble. Includes architectural plans and reconstructions as well as photographs and photomosaics. 620 illus. 140 drawings 2-vol paperback...
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Modalities in Medieval Jewish Law for Public Order and Safety
The history of medieval Jewry presents one inescapable fact: the Jews were a people apart. No matter where or when we find a Jewish community in the Middle Ages, it was an alien enclave within a host society which was sometimes cordial to it and sometimes not.
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The King of Tars
The King of Tars, an early Middle English romance (ca. 1330 or earlier), emphasizes ideas about race, gender, and religion. A short poem, its purpose is to celebrate the power of Christianity, and yet it defies classification.
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Art and Practice of 16th-Century German Fencing
Joachim Meyer (ca. 1537 - 1571) was one of the most influential fencing masters of the Renaissance—a prolific writer of fencing manuals. In Art and Practice of 16th-Century German Fencing Robert Rutherfoord unpacks the complex and elegant art of Meyer's rapier in word and image, including over 20...
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Incense at the Altar
David Honey offers a history of Sinology, spanning its beginnings in the first efforts of seventeenth-century Jesuit missionaries to the growing disciplinary fragmentation of the field in the second half of the twentieth century. No comprehensive history of the field has heretofore been published...
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Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, and the Nature of Fame
Characterological study offering new perspectives on Antony and Cleopatra, the most ambiguous of Shakespeare's plays. Wide-ranging in its concerns, this monograph promises to make an essential difference in the way scholars view characterizations, fame, Shakespeare's reputation, and the eminence ...
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The Mortuary Papyrus of Padikakem
This new study is the first translation of the papyrus of Padikakem, with an extensive commentary. The complete early Ptolemaic manuscript from the Walters Art Museum contains two uncommon texts in hieratic. The study also thoroughly examines the development of grammar and paleography among the p...
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Archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age
Analyzing the complexity of early Chinese culture history, and the variety and development of its urban formations, Roderick Campbell explores East Asia's divergent developmental paths and re-examines its deep past to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of China's Early Bronze Age.
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Mummings and Entertainments
This book presents a large sampling of the dramatic texts of John Lydgate, the preeminent poet of fifteenth-century England. These verses are, as Claire Sponsler notes in her introduction, 'of great importance for literary and theatrical history.'
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The Assyrian Dictionary, Volume 19, T [Tet}
The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...
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Multi Nominis Grammaticus
Thirty internationally recognized scholars celebrate the work of the famous Indo-Europeanist Alan J. Nussbaum. The topics range from Indo-European nominal morphology, especially in the Classical languages, to the historical grammars of Tocharian, the stylistics of the Rigveda and Aristophanean ph...
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Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 68
Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning and facilitate the dissemination of cutting...
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The Excavation of the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus at Lofkend, Albania
The burial tumulus of Lofkend lies in one of the richest archaeological areas of Albania. In addition to artifacts, the recovery of surviving plant remains, bones, and other organic material contribute insights into the environmental and ecological history of the region.
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Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture
Aims at a comprehensive, descriptive list of all authors and works known in Britain between c. 500 and c. 1100 CE. This volume brings up to date the entries on apocrypha first published in Sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture: a trial version (1990).
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The Floure and the Leafe, The Assembly of Ladies, The Isle of Ladies
An asset to any study of gender in medieval England; three poems that complement each other in their treatments of relations between the sexes. Incl. contextualizing introductions and helpful glosses; also an extensive glossary for the entire volume. Useful to not only beginning students of Middl...
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Commentary on the Song of Songs
The commentary of Rabbi Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona (d. ca. 1245) on the Song of Songs is one of the most important texts of the first clearly identified circle of Kabbalists, those operating in the Catalonian town of Gerona at the middle of the thirteenth century.
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Applied Zooarchaeology
Zooarchaeologists increasingly focus onconservation biology. This book uses a series of case studies explore the types of interdisciplinary challenges that zooarchaeologists face when crossing into the world of environmental management and animal conservation.
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The Sinai Peninsula
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Volume 7.1 (2015) contributes to a greater understanding and appreciation of the rich heritage of the Sinai Peninsula in its role as a key land bridge Africa and Asia and as a region important in its own right.
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The Demotic and Hieratic Papyri in the Suzuki Collection of Tokai University, Japan
This book contains approximately fifty late Egyptian texts, published for the first time; Representing a range of document types and of demotic handwriting. Includes a a rare word list and a new mythological narrative, one late hieratic text concerned with temple land, and some Greek fragments f...
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Pioneers to the Past
Catalogue of the Oriental Institute special exhibit of the same name, highlights the interconnected stories of an important figure in intellectual history - James Henry Breasted - and the beginnings of American scientific archaeology in the Near East at a crucial turning point in world history at...
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Bir Umm Fawakhir, Volume 2
Bir Umm Fawakhir is a fifth-sixth century AD Coptic/Byzantine gold-mining town in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt. This is the final report on the 1996 and 1997 excavation seasons, completing the detailed map of the main settlement, continuing the investigation of the outlying clusters of rui...
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Pottery and Society
Philip P. Betancourt revolutionised the study of Minoan pottery--just one of the many aspects of his career that led to his Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement. This volume presents some of the most recent studies in Minoan pottery using the techniques and methodologies pione...
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Earliest Land Tenure Systems in the Near East
This two volume set offers the first complete edition of the ancient 'kudurrus' (Uruk III-Sargonic land grant contracts) combined with detailed discussion of the social and legal aspects of the documents. All 57 'kudurrus' are presented as photographs with transliterations, translations and full ...
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A Letter That Has Not Been Read
Shaul Bar explores the etymology of key terms for dreams in the Hebrew Bible, presents dozens of examples of biblical dreams and visions, and categorizes them as prophetic, symbolic, or incubation. He studies biblical dreams and visions in the context of similar phenomena in the literature of nei...
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Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut
This proceedings of the Theban Symposium in May 2010, in Granada, Spain, at the Institute for Arabic Studies of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), on the general theme of 'Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut.' Contains nineteen papers that present new perspectives on t...
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The Merit of Our Mothers
The prayers in this volume are characterized by a highly personal and intimate style and mark occasions in the religious calendar, such as the Tkhine for the Blessing of the New Moon, as well as occasions in the life of a woman, such as the Tkhine for a Mother who Leads Her Child to Kheyder for t...
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The Oriental Institute 2008-2009 Annual Report
The Oriental Institute 2008-2009 Annual Report contains yearly summaries of the activities of the Institute's faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions.
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The Greening of American Orthodox Judaism
The history of a relatively unknown and short-lived Jewish collegiate organization, Yavneh (The National Jewish Religious Students Association) particularly during its heyday in the 1960s: Yavneh's appearance in 1960, its mission and organizational efflorescence, its educational innovations, its ...
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Divine Honors for Mortal Men in Greek Cities
First translation of Christian Habicht's 1970 German Gottmenschentum und Griechische Städte on ruler cults in the Hellenistic period of Greek history. Updated case studies take account of inscriptional discoveries since the original and additional supplemental material, including detailed subject...
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Catalog of Demotic Texts in the Brooklyn Museum
This catalogue is intended to be only a checklist of the Brooklyn Museum's collection of 212 Demotic Egyptian texts. The catalogue provides both the Museum and Demoticists generally with a list of all the pieces plus only such information as would make the list useful. Includes with key word, nam...
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The Roman Marble Sculptures from the Sanctuary of Pan at Caesarea Philippi/Panias (Israel)
This is the first publication on a deposit of broken marble statues, discovered in 1992 during excavations of the Roman Sanctuary of Pan at Caesarea Philippi , in Panias, Israel.
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Excavations Between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier, Part 8
This volume, the fifth to publish the results of Seele's two seasons of excavations in Nubia, presents Meroitic materials from two large cemeteries and a small settlement at the southern end of Egyptian Nubia.
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Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse
Mabel Lang's long career as a scholar and teacher has given her a unique perspective on one of the most important authors in western literature. This book brings together several of her most thoughtful papers on figures and issues including the 400, Cleon, and Alcibiades, and joins them with new ...
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Archaism and Innovation
The current volume assembles a series of studies of Middle Kingdom culture gathered around the theme of archaism, change and innovation.
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A Dictionary of Nigerian Arabic
A Dictionary of Nigerian Arabic lists (from English into Nigerian Arabic) approximately 6,000 lexemes with some illustrative sentences.
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Paul and the Citizen Body
Janelle Peters argues Paul's construction of an individual body and communal body in 1 Corinthians serves as an alternative to Roman and Greek models of citizenship. She situates the athletics and veiling of 1 Corinthians within ancient authority and citizenship, which prioritized having control ...
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Coping with Obscurity
The papers presented at Brown University's Workshop on Earlier Egyptian Grammar in 2013 discussed the grammatical value of written evidence preserved in texts of the Old and Middle Kingdoms (ca. 2350-1650 BC). They present orthographic, lexical, morphological and syntactic approaches, and are a n...
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Palamedes Volume 8
Palamedes seeks to provide a forum where, within the frames of cultural history broadly defined, ancient historians, classical philologists, archaeologists, jurists and epigraphists-all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations-can meet ...
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Architectural Improvisation
Examines the work of a group of architects which converged in Vermont in the mid-1960s, tracing the development of this Design/Build movement from its roots in Bauhaus theory at Yale School of Architecture. It includes archival photographs and drawings and new architectural photographs. A stunnin...
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Ceramics of Postclassic Cholula, Mexico
Cholula played a prominent role in shaping events of central Mexico's Postclassic period. This book provides an innovative new classification of Cholula ceramics, based on artifact assemblages recovered from excavations. A detailed and well-illustrated description of ceramic types is provided to ...
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Unpublished Bo-Fragments in Transliteration II
These Hittite text fragments are part of a large collection found during the early Turkish-German excavations at the Hittite capital Hattusa before the Second World War. This book offers a large number of unpublished text fragments from the collection, both photographed and in transliteration, al...
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Immortal Egypt
Essays on Egyptology by G.R. Hughes, D. Schmandt-Besserat, K. Butzer, W.K. Simpson, H.A. Liebowitz, T.A. Wertime, L. Mesnick Gallery and C. Aldred.
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Blood and Beauty
The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation ...
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Ayla
Featured are thirty-seven illustrations that highlight the magnificence that was the great Islamic port of Ayla on the Gulf of Aqaba. The site is located in modern Aqaba, Jordan and has been excavated by the Oriental Institute under the directorship of Donald Whitcomb since 1986.
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Ritual Landscape and Performance
Ritual Landscape and Performance contains various articles discussing the use of ritual landscape from the Old to the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, by focusing on landscape archaeology of specific sites such as Saqqara, el-Bersheh, Abydos, Thebes, as well as Aniba in Nubia.
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A Window on Their World
The court diaries of Rabbi Hayyim Gundersheim (d. 1795), a member of the rabbinic court of late eighteenth-century Frankfurt, shed light on daily life in the Judengasse ("Jewish lane"), home to over 3,000 people, including Meyer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the famous banking family.
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Modern Jewish Mythologies
Based on the Mason Lectures delivered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the winter of 1995, the ten essays in this volume demonstrate the function and dynamic effect Jewish mythologies in social, political, and psychological life.
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Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past
Describes the state of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad and chronicles the damage done to archaeological sites by illicit digging. Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name opening at the Oriental Institute April 10, 2008, this book commemorates the fifth anniversary of the lo...
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The Ethiopian Legend of Solomon and Sheba
The Queen of Sheba is one of the most famous women of antiquity, rivaled only by Cleopatra and Helen of Troy for wealth, power and beauty. She is best known for her legendary meeting with King Solomon, an encounter that has resonated through time, nowhere more powerfully than in Ethiopia. 95 colo...
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The Archaeology of the Ostraca House at Israelite Samaria
The Caesarea Mithraeum (sanctuary or temple of the god Mithras) is only one of two excavated from eastern half of the Empire. Includes new photographs, plans and section drawings; catalogues the small finds from the vault, and technical details about the recovery of information about frescoes and...
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Hebrew Union College Annual
The Journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.
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Beyond the Ubaid
Contains 23 papers that explore what the "Ubaid" is, how it is identified, and how the Ubaid in one location compares to another in a distant location. The papers are the result of "The Ubaid Expansion? Cultural Meaning, Identity and the Lead-up to Urbanism," an International Workshop held at Gre...
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In Service of the Duke
Writing in the mid-15th century, Master Paulus Kal was the agent and fencing master to the powerful Duke Ludwig IX of Bavaria. In this fencing book prepared for his ducal patron he presented in beautifully rendered and highly detailed illuminations figures wielding the sword, sword and buckler, d...
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The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos, Volume 1 Wall Scenes (Parts 1 and 2)
Volume 1 "Wall Scenes" consists of of two books, with a total of over 400 illustrations and Preface. Volume 2, "Pillars, Miscellany, and Inscriptions", contains additional elements of the temple, as well as translations of the inscriptions found in the temple.
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Settlement Pattern Studies in the Americas
Seventeen distinguished scholars recount the history of settlement pattern archaeology and detail case studies ranging from Alaska to Oaxaca to Peru. The chapters grow out of papers prepared for a symposium at the 61st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in New Orleans in...
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The Complete Renaissance Swordsman
Translated into English for the first time, this book includes a valuable and extensive technical introduction, with illustrations from both original sources and modern photographs. Antonio Manciolino's instructions are easy to follow, sword-in-hand, even by beginners, while providing years of tr...
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In Saint George's Name
As a window into the knight and his craft, In Saint George's Name: An Anthology of Medieval German Fighting Arts brings readers a treasure trove of historic combat treatises, musings on the culture and context of the martial arts in the late Middle Ages and hands-on illustrated training exercises...
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The Roman Aqaba Project
This first of three projected volumes of the project’s final report focuses on the regional environment and the regional survey. Analysis of the environment employs a wide range of evidence to analyse the physiography, geology, soils, seismic history, climate and natural resources.
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Views from Phlamoudhi, Cyprus
Fieldwork in the village of Phlamoudhi, Cyprus from 1970-1973 by the Columbia University Expedition to Phlamoudhi recorded the only systematically excavated evidence for Middle to Late Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement north of the Kyrenia Mountains. This book's chapters cover the two main excav...
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The Edwin Smith Papyrus
This volume contains the original hieratic text, complete transcription into hieroglyphs, transliteration, English translation, philological apparatus and copiously illustrated medical commentaries for the 48 clinical cases of the Edwin Smith Papyrus.
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Philosophy of Religion After "Religion"
Recent historical study shows that we did not always imagine religion in the way we often do today - as a special domain of life or society. The present volume seeks to move the philosophical study of religion beyond the limits of our modern understanding of what counts as "religion."
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Breaking New Ground in John
Over the past two decades, Ruben Zimmermann has sought to advance Johannine scholarship in several respects and to challenge the scholarly consensus at various points. In this volume, Ruben Zimmermann considers Johannine imagery, parables, characters, Christology, and ethics in order to break new...
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Gates to Paradise
Europe's largest complex of medieval monumental bronze objects is made up of around 30 doors cast from various copper alloys. These doors, most of which are located in Italy, date from the 11th-12th centuries and are the epitome of medieval metal craftsmanship. This is the first book in English o...
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Archaeological Sites of the Nile Delta of Egypt
Archaeological Sites of the Nile Delta of Egypt is intended to be a directory, providing an overview and a direction to original sources, without seeking to republish all the known information about each site. It makes available the data on all 783 of the sites in the Egypt Exploration Society’s ...
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The Middle English 'Castle of Love' and Robert Grosseteste's Anglo-Norman Original, 'Le Chasteau d'amour'
This new edition of the Middle English Castle of Love includes a French text of Le chasteau d'amour, Robert Grosseteste's Anglo-Norman poem that forms the basis of the medieval English translation.
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Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete, Volume 3
Volume 3 presents the supplementary materials that support the settlement history of the Vrokastro region, derived from intensive and systematic survey. The book presents brief summaries of regional pottery of the Bronze Age, Roman, and medieval to modern periods (with tables). Illustrations incl...
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The Thousand and One Churches
This new edition includes over 250 digitized images from the Gertrude Bell Archive, offering a unique glimpse into travel and archaeology in the early 20th century. Supported by the Joukowsky Family Foundation, the book provides invaluable documentation of Anatolian monuments, many of which have ...
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New Theories on the Ancient Maya
Papers from the 1987 Maya Weekend conference at the University of Pennsylvania Museum present current views of Maya culture and language. Also included is an article by George Stuart summarizing the history of the study of Maya hieroglyphs and the fascinating scholars and laypersons who have help...
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Visions of a Huichol Shaman
The brilliant visionary yarn paintings of the shaman-artist Jose Benitez Sanchez emerge transformed into two-dimensional form from fleeting, sublime visionary experiences triggered by the complex chemistry of the divine peyote cactus. Benitez's visions are of the Huichol universe in Mexico's rugg...
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Vom Geist der Gesetze
De l'esprit des lois changed the world. The principle of the separation of powers that became so self-evident in Western legal thought can primarily be traced back to this work, in which Montesquieu presents the three state forms of democracy, monarchy, and despotism in their respective dependenc...
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Verfahrenskoordination und Gerichtsstandsvereinbarungen
To prevent torpedo actions, the Brussels Ibis Regulation links the procedural coordination primarily to exclusive jurisdiction agreements. Against this background, Lino Bernard comprehensively examines the impact of jurisdiction agreements on the coordination of parallel proceedings in European C...
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Verfassungsstaatlichkeit und Supranationalität
Rodin Robakowski examines the relationship between a supranational legal system such as the European Union and the laws of its member states. Legal theory can provide an external point of view to examine the requirements for an autonomous legal system and the concept of normative conflicts within...
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Religion und Distanz
What is religion? In an age of religious pluralism, syncretism and new forms of spirituality, Hanna von Lingen embarks on a search for a Christian concept of religion, drawing on the myth theories of Ernst Cassirer and Hans Blumenberg which shed new light on religion in its function for postmoder...
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Innerparteiliche Wettbewerbsdemokratie
Intra-party democracy is intra-party competitive democracy. German constitutional democracy can be described as a system of a competitive aggregation of interests. The German Basic Law incorporates this concept of competitive democracy into political parties. In his thesis, the author deals with ...
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Kontrollierte Unabhängigkeit
The European Central Bank's unconventional monetary policy measures culminated in a fundamental dispute between the German Constitutional Court and the European Court of Justice. Against this background, the author analyzes the fundamentals of monetary policy in EU law in light of the macroeconom...
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Eugen Huber und Max Rümelin
The correspondence between Eugen Huber and Max von Rümelin provides insights into the legal methodological discourse at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. It combines private exchanges between friends with the history of codification in Germany and Switzerland fro...
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Unternehmenssanierung in der Insolvenz
A market-oriented insolvency law should aim to prevent the liquidation of viable companies. To achieve this, it must offer an effective legal framework for corporate restructuring. Through a comparative analysis with two Greek restructuring procedures, Natalie Papadopulou evaluates whether the in...
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Urheberrecht und Rechtsgeltung
Copyright-protected content is often offered and downloaded illegally on the internet. With regard to the phenomenon of so-called "internet piracy," Timm Pravemann analyzes the extent to which copyright law lacks acceptance and enforceability and what consequences can result from this. He propose...
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Respondeat superior und Unternehmensdeliktsrecht
The historical legislator intended the liability of employees in tort to favor businesses. However, court attempts to close these recognized liability gaps only ever fail or succeed in an unsatisfactory doctrinal manner. In contrast, Mareike Klappert's study calls for the abolition of § 831 of th...
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Verhängnisvolle Weisheit
What is wrong and problematic about wisdom, so that it can turn out to be fatal for the wise? Marcel Krusche addresses this question on the basis of Old Testament texts in which wisdom appears as an ambivalent or detrimental quality and the (supposedly) wise have a negative image.
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Smart Devices und Smart Contracts
Remote access options and pre-coded deactivations raise legal questions. Daniel Timmermann's study advances the academic debate by comprehensively taking stock of regulations on conflict of laws, law of obligations, copyright, property, tort, enforcement, insolvency and product safety law.
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Europäisierte Verteidigung
Defence is a key issue for the European Union today. In the face of the new challenges to European security, the European Union is strengthening its defence policy. As Jelena von Achenbach shows, the resulting legal and political integration in the EU´s defence policy raises problems of democrati...
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Europäische Plattformverfassungen
Who sets the standards in the digital world? Christian Ollig shows how the Digital Services Act establishes a new era of fundamental rights protection in the European Union.
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Predigt und Erbauung
What rhetorical strategies with the goal of edification do theologians pursue in sermons? How are their theological concepts expressed in this aesthetic form, which is oriented towards the reality of people's lives? This volume is intended as a foundation for understanding the most important Prot...
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Selbstregulierung und Konvergenz durch Corporate-Governance-Kodizes
Annette Petow's interdisciplinary study examines corporate governance codes and their enforcement mechanisms. She investigates aspects of regulatory theory and provides an economic analysis before comparing in detail British, French, and German codes and how they converge.
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P Conclusion and Post-P Rearrangements in Exodus 25-31 and Leviticus 8-9
Domenico Lo Sardo's study of Exod 25-31 and Lev 8-9 builds on his previous research in Exod 35-40, analyzing the Priestly Writing's literary development. He suggests that the Tabernacle's construction was part of a project focused on space, time, and divine presence, aiming to restore worship and...
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Spätantike Apostelerzählungen
Theologically and historically worthless? Tobias Nicklas shows that the late antique apostle narratives, which have received little attention to date, are rather to be understood as continued Jesus Christ narratives, offers for identity formation, political statements and important testimonies of...
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Social-Media-Accounts verstorbener Personen
What legal challenges arise in the case of a digital inheritance in the form of a social media account? Anna Herzing examines the inheritability of the contractual right of use, providers' general terms and conditions clauses and the personal rights implications of further use and exploitation by...
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