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Children and Family in Late Antiquity: Life, Death and Interaction by V. Vuolanto 9789042931350
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $164.42This volume continues the series of five previous Roman Family publications, and puts special focus on social history and living conditions in the familial contexts. It... -
Medieval Perspectives on Aristotle's De Anima by J.-M. Counet 9789042927056
RRP: $239.85Booksplease Price: $225.50A majority of the various contributions gathered in this collection result from a Colloquium entitled Soul and Intellect: Ancient and medieval perspective on the De Anima, which was held in Leuven... -
Byzantine Holy Images - Transcendence and Immanence: The Theological Background of the Iconography and Aesthetics of the Chora Church by A. Karahan 9789042920804
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $175.70Patristic thinking is the bedrock of the uniformity of Byzantine culture, legitimization of image use in the Eastern Church, as well as Byzantine aesthetics, Karahan argues. The synergy in Late... -
The Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Colour Lexemes by J. E. Hartley 9789042923119
RRP: $200.85Booksplease Price: $187.30Colours play a vital role in the daily lives of all peoples. Truly remarkable is the human ability to see such a vast array of colours. Just as intriguing is the way languages develop lexemes to... -
Translated Hallelujahs: A Linguistic and Exegetical Commentary on Select Septuagint Psalms by Jannes Smith 9789042923843
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $91.28This book explores the meaning of five psalms in the Septuagint version (104, 105, 110, 111, 112), not as interpreted in later reception history but as originally intended by the translator. The... -
Reading Zechariah with Zechariah 1: 1-6 as the Introduction to the Entire Book by H. Wenzel 9789042924543
RRP: $111.15Booksplease Price: $107.56,In light of the widely acknowledged phenomenon that Zechariah refers to previous Scripture, this thesis demonstrates that these references can significantly contribute to Zechariah's argument by... -
Exodus. Volume 1 by C. Houtman 9789042924673
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $116.43Critical Praise for Houtman's Commentary on Exodus: "This is an immensely informative and illuminating commentary which no one working on Exodus can afford to overlook" - J.W. Rogerson in Book... -
A Bibliography of Syriac Ascetic and Mystical Literature by G. Kessel 9789042924574
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $111.64This book offers a complete bibliographical presentation of Syriac authors and texts in the domain of Syriac asceticism and mysticism. It also includes Greek texts that were translated into Syriac... -
From Malines to Arcic. The Malines Conversations Commemorated by A. Denaux 9789068319163
RRP: $111.15Booksplease Price: $107.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068319163Author A. DenauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters... -
Theology Made in Dignity: On the Precarious Role of Theology in Religious Education by B. Roebben 9789042934160
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $82.80In a post-secular society contemporaries are challenged to raise and face existential questions in the midst of a plurality of (religious and non-religious) worldviews. Children,... -
The Visio Pauli and the Gnostic Apocalypse of Paul by J. N. Bremmer 9789042918511
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $97.75The "Visio Pauli" and the Gnostic "Apocalypse of Paul" is the first modern collection of studies on the most important aspects of the "Visio Pauli", the most popular early Christian apocalypse in the... -
The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power by Yaron Z. Eliav 9789042920040
RRP: $208.65Booksplease Price: $201.01Public sculptures were the "mass media" of the Roman world. They populated urban centers throughout the empire, serving as a "plastic language" that communicated political, religious, and social... -
Interregnum: Introduction to a Study on the Formation of Armenian Identity (ca 600-750) by Nina G. Garsoian 9789042925168
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $150.74Armenian mediaeval historians, who have concentrated primarily on political high points, have tended to dismiss the more than four centuries dividing the two royal epochs of the Arsacids... -
Time and Temporality in Literary Modernism (1900-1950) by R. Vogelzang 9789042933651
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $84.53This book contains a selection of the papers presented at a conference hosted by the MDRN research lab of the University of Leuven in 2013. It explores the breadth and depth of the issues ... -
Glossary of Greek Rhetorical Terms Connected to Methods of Argumentation, Figures and Tropes from Anaximenes to Quintilian by R. D. Anderson 9789042908468
Booksplease Price: $38.82This Glossary was written as a companion volume to Anderson's Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Paul. It is of course far more than a glossary in the strict sense of that word, providing the reader with... -
Reading the Political in Jewish and Christian Texts by J.A. Snyder 9789042940338
RRP: $214.50Booksplease Price: $199.06"Anti-imperial" readings of ancient texts are popular, but are they right? What does it mean to engage in "political" interpretation of ancient texts? What can Biblical... -
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures by E. Tigchelaar 9789042931282
RRP: $232.05Booksplease Price: $221.56Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Scriptures contains the papers of the Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense 2012, which focused on a series of contemporary questions in... -
Evangelica III: 1992-2000. Collected Essays by F. Neirynck 9789042909748
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $138.39Following Evangelica I (1982) and Evangelica II (1991), this third volume covers 32 essays published in the years 1992-2000, indexed and updated with supplementary notes up to 2001. It includes five... -
Vatican II and Its Legacy by M. Lamberigts 9789042912373
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $154.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042912373Author M. LamberigtsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher... -
Essays on John (Ed. by C. M. Tuckett) by B. Lindars 9789068314441
Booksplease Price: $62.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068314441Author B. LindarsFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher... -
The Scriptures in the Gospels by C. M. Tuckett 9789068319323
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $144.12This volume contains the papers from the 45th Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense, held in Leuven in 1996. The book comprises 14 invited papers as well as 21 offered papers read at the meeting. The... -
Isaiah III. Volume 3 / Isaiah 56-66 by J.L. Koole 9789042910652
RRP: $122.85Booksplease Price: $121.19The Historical Commentary on the Old Testament is a new international series of commentaries which devotes explicit attention to the history of interpretation of biblical tradition in all its stages,... -
Obadiah by J. Renkema 9789042913455
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $73.18In spite of its diminutive size, the book of the minor prophet Obadiah has consistently occasioned major literary-critical, exegetical and hermeneutical questions. Jerome's observation 'the shorter,... -
The Greek Future and its History. Le futur grec et son histoire by F. Lambert 9789042935136
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $190.81Le futur grec est atteste pendant plus de trente siecles dans de nombreux documents d'une grande diversite dialectale. Il a donc une histoire specialement interessante qu'explore cet... -
The Limits and Possibilities of Postmetaphysical God-talk: A Conversation Between Heidegger, Levinas and Derrida by J.-A. Meylahn 9789042928961
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $131.68Postmetaphysics in this book is interpreted as thinking through metaphysics at the closure of metaphysics by thinking the impossible possibility of metaphysics. In this site... -
Josephus' Account of the Early Divided Monarchy (AJ 8,212-420): Rewriting the Bible by Christopher T. Begg 9789068315066
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $137.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068315066Author C.T. BeggFormat PaperbackPage Count 377Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters... -
Messianism and the Septuagint by J. Lust 9789042915152
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $138.26The essays reproduced in this volume have been selected on the basis of their common theme: Messianism in the Septuagint. The aim of the papers is to answer the following basic questions:... -
The Rise of Jahwism: The Roots of Israelite Monotheism by Johannes C. de Moor 9789068319019
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $84.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068319019Author J.C. De MoorFormat PaperbackPage Count 445Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher... -
Worship in the Network Culture: Liturgical Ritual Studies. Fields and Methods, Concepts and Metaphors by M. Barnard 9789042930698
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $148.88Worship signifies a wide field of liturgical ritual practices that extend from the Sunday morning service in a mainline church through a worship service in an African... -
Gods, Kings, and Merchants in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia by D. Charpin 9789042932753
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $98.42Gods, kings and merchants, a way of designating religion, politics and the economy: three spheres which in the modern world are quite distinct, even if they do interact constantly. The... -
The Akedah Servant Complex: The Soteriological Linkage of Genesis 22 and Isaiah 53 in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Writings by P.N. De Andrado 9789042929043
RRP: $111.15Booksplease Price: $106.88This book traces the convergence of two biblical texts, Akedah (Genesis 22) and the Fourth Servant Song (Isaiah 53) in early Jewish and Christian writings. The passages share verbal and... -
The Normativity of History: Theological Truth and Tradition in the Tension between Church History and Systematic Theology by M. Lamberigts 9789042933194
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $180.36This collection of essays engages the basic themes of the five-year, joint research project (GOA) The Normativity of History. The project brought together specialists in the... -
Persuasion and Dissuasion in Early Christianity, Ancient Judaism and Hellenism by Pieter W. van der Horst 9789042912809
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $83.38In 2001, scholars working in the fields of early Christianity, ancient Judaism, and Hellenism at the Faculty of Theology of Utrecht University and the Catholic Theological University in Utrecht... -
Housing and Habitat in the Ancient Mediterranean: Cultural and Environmental Responses by C.A. Hope 9789042933262
RRP: $230.10Booksplease Price: $223.37This volume presents the outcome of the international conference 'Housing and Habitat in the Mediterranean World: responses to different environments' that celebrated the tenth... -
More Than Men, Less Than Gods: Studies on Royal Cult and Imperial Worship: Proceedings of the International Colloquium Organized by the Belgian School at Athens (November 1-2, 2007) by Panagiotis P. Iossif 9789042924703
RRP: $237.90Booksplease Price: $224.07More Than Men, Less Than Gods is conceived as a demonstration project, with the goal of opening new perspectives in the study of Graeco-Roman ruler worship. A principal emphasis is placed on the... -
Leviticus 1-10 by J.W. Watts 9789042929845
RRP: $181.35Booksplease Price: $173.84James Watts uses rhetorical analysis for this detailed exposition of Leviticus 1-10. In dialogue with a wide variety of contemporary scholarship on Leviticus, this commentary... -
The Biblical Canons by J. M. Auwers 9789042911543
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $144.75This volume contains the Proceedings of the 50th Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense: the 40 contributions, written in English, French and German, focus on the canons of the Old and New Testament as well... -
Medical Utopias: Ethical Reflections About Emerging Medical Technologies by Bert Gordijn 9789042917002
RRP: $91.65Booksplease Price: $89.93The field of medicine is generally greeted with great enthusiasm. This can be witnessed in the immense support for medical progress, which is widely hoped to lead to a realization of idealized goals... -
The Art of Detachment by Markus Vincent 9789042925267
RRP: $181.35Booksplease Price: $169.88Detachment is widely recognized as one of the key concerns of Eckhart in his anthropology. This monograph of the editor of the series introduces this concept from Eckhart's teaching on divine... -
A Homily on the Passion of Christ Attributed to Elishe: Translated from the Classical Armenian with Introduction and Notes by Professor R. W. Thomson 9789042908413
Booksplease Price: $58.99This book offers the first translation of the 'Homily on the Passion of Christ' attributed to the Armenian historian Elishe. The 'Homily' rephrases the biblical narrative from the Last Supper to the...