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Political Geographies of the Bronze Age Aegean: Proceedings of the joint workshop by the Belgian School at Athens (EBSA) and the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA). May 28 to 31, 2019 by G.J. van Wijngaarden 9789042947320
RRP: $195.30Booksplease Price: $182.95Even though the demise of the Minoan and Mycenaean palaces happened more than three millennia ago, opinions on the political geography of the Aegean during the Bronze Age (2500-1100 BC) have seen... -
‘To Draw and Assemble All People unto God’: The Spiritual Journey of Maria van Oisterwijk (1470/80-1547) by U. Lawler 9789042949263
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $121.07This volume offers the first book-length study in English of the life and work of the Early Modern mystical author Maria van Oisterwijk (+1547). It provides a detailed study of her remarkable life,... -
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence against Men in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Lifting the Veil of Secrecy around a Controversial and Taboo Subject by I. Yagi 9789042949584
RRP: $144.90Booksplease Price: $137.95The book explores Congolese male experience of conflicted-related sexual victimization as it intersects with the traditional male code. To shed light on this complex and multidimensional subject, the... -
Aram Periodical: v. 18 & 19: Palestinian Christianity & Pilgrimages and Shrines by Peeters Publishers 9789042929524
RRP: $233.10Booksplease Price: $216.26The table of contents of this volume is available on our Peeters Online Journals website.Book InformationISBN 9789042929524Author Peeters PublishersFormat PaperbackPage Count 759Imprint Peeters... -
Structures Metriques des Poesies de Petrone: pour Quel Art Poetique? by W.-J. Yeh 9789042919280
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $173.61Roman prosimetrique, le "Satyricon" de Petrone se distingue des romans grecs par une structure qui melange le recit prosaique avec des sequences versifiees. Cette ecriture de forme melee en... -
Rituals and Ethics: Patterns of Repentance Judaism,Christianity,Islam by Adriano Destro 9789042914711
Booksplease Price: $146.45What patterns of repentance are presented by such different religious traditions as Judaism, Christianity and Islam? How are transgressions cancelled in the eyes of God, the individual and society?... -
Ethical Leadership and Contemporary Challenges: Philosophical Perspectives by C. Beauvais 9789042930155
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $98.47This book is a collection of essays presented at the conference on "Sustaining Ethical Leadership: An Interdisciplinary Conversation", Ottawa, Canada, 2009. The driving idea behind the conference was... -
Law, Prophets, and Wisdom: On the Provenance of Translators and Their Books in the Septuagint Version by J. Cook 9789042927032
RRP: $123.90Booksplease Price: $115.08For a long time it has been the prevailing view that the books of the Greek Bible, the Septuagint, all originated in Alexandria, the famous city in Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great. However, in... -
Expressway to Perfect Chinese Pronunciation by Zhao Ya 9789042927162
Booksplease Price: $67.91This book consists of three sets of exercises and a discussion of the mispronunciations frequently made by foreign learners (especially those whose mother tongues are Germanic languages)... -
Blood - Symbol - Liquid by Jetze J. Touber 9789042926127
RRP: $128.10Booksplease Price: $124.76Blood serves an excellent indicator of a nexus of late medieval and early modern Cultural Change, in which matter and meaning seems to have segregated progressively. As the harmony of body and spirit... -
The Homily of Zär'a Ya'eqob's Mäshafä Berhan on the Rite of Baptism and Religious Instruction: V. by G. Haile 9789042927537
RRP: $182.70Booksplease Price: $168.57The text in this volume (with its translation) is from the writings of Emperor Zär’a Ya‛eqob, the prolific scholar who reformed the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the fifteenth century... -
From Old Cairo to the New World: Coptic Studies Presented to Gawdat Gabra on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday by Y. Nessim Youssef 9789042927315
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $182.15This present volume is dedicated to Gawdat Gabra, the former director of the Coptic Museum in Cairo and now Professor of Coptology at the University of Claremont in the USA. Dr Gabra is one of the... -
The Life of Stephen of Mar Sabas: T.: v. 2 by John C. Lamoreaux 9789042906907
Booksplease Price: $134.57The present work offers an edition and English translation of the Arabic version of the Life of Stephen of Mar Sabas. When Stephen died in 794 A.D., a vivid account of his life was drawn up within a... -
Selling and Rejecting Politics in Early Modern Europe by Joop W. Koopmans 9789042918764
RRP: $119.70Booksplease Price: $117.01Power in the early modern age, as in the present age, is an important subject for debate. What is power? Who has it or should have it? What are the underlying reasons for this? And especially, how is... -
Between Two Worlds: Yiddish-German Encounters by Jerold C. Frakes 9789042921115
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $170.21What does Yiddish have to do with German? It is a question that has perplexed Jews and Germans alike for centuries. The relationship between the two languages - both originating from a common source... -
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts: Coins of the Black Sea Region: Pt. I: Ancient Coins from the Northern Black Sea Littoral by S. Kovalenko 9789042921375
RRP: $231.00Booksplease Price: $209.90The book deals with the numismatic collection of one of Russia's principal musea, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Created initially as Moscow University Museum it houses various archaeological... -
The Qumran Legal Texts Between the Hebrew Bible and Its Interpretation by Kristin de Troyer 9789042925359
RRP: $119.70Booksplease Price: $115.35How do the halakhic texts from Qumran as well as those Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls, which attest to legal texts of the Hebrew Bible, lead to a new interpretation and understanding of the Pentateuchal... -
Irenaeus' Use of Matthew's Gospel in Adversus Haereses by D. Jeffrey Bingham 9789068319644
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $151.83This book shows how Irenaeus creatively selects and develops distinctive Matthean material, within his interpretive networks of other biblical texts in order to verbally and conceptually oppose the... -
Funerary Reliefs from the West Pontic Area (6th-1st Centuries BC) by A. Petrova 9789042930889
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $237.13This book brings together, for the first time, tombstones of the 6th-1st centuries BC from the necropoleis of the Greek colonies of the whole western Black Sea area (modern-day Bulgaria... -
Writing to Survive. A Commentary on Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters Book 7. Volume 2: The Ascetic Letters 12-18 by J.A. van Waarden 9789042933538
RRP: $224.70Booksplease Price: $209.24Asceticism, and the antidote it offers to contemporary secular disappointments in fifth-century Gaul, is the central theme in the second part of Book 7 of Sidonius Apollinaris'... -
Colegio del Pilar: Excavations in Jerusalem, Christian Quarter by J.-B. Humbert 9789042934559
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $196.12The archaeological sounding on the site of the Colegio del Pilar in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1996 was a salvage excavation, suspended for administrative reasons. The present... -
Metaphors in the Psalms by A. Labahn 9789042922563
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $186.25Understanding the Psalms implies understanding the metaphors they use in bringing to expression the reflections on God, the world, the enemies, the self. In modern scholarship the study of figurative... -
The Manifestation of God's Merciful Justice: A Theocentric Reading of Romans 3:21-26 by V.P. Chiraparamban 9789042936485
RRP: $205.80Booksplease Price: $192.36Rom 3:21-26 is crucial to the Letter to the Romans. Yet the construction and syntax of the pericope is perplexing, its meaning ambiguous or even obscure, its rhetoric complex and its... -
Subhalmaran. The Book of Gifts: T. by D. J. Lane 9789042915183
RRP: $207.90Booksplease Price: $192.86This work provides a Syriac text and English translation of writings on ascetical life by Subhalmaran, early seventh-century metropolitan of Beth Seloq, now Kirkuk in Iraq. He was a contemporary of... -
In Spirit and Truth: An Exegetical Study of John 4:19-26 and a Theological Investigation of the Replacement Theme in the Fourth Gospel by Benny Thettayil 9789042918870
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $108.93In the context of his conversation with the Samaritan woman the Johannine Jesus says "the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth" (4:23). In this monograph Benny Thettayil... -
Functional Specialisation within the Language Network: Effects of Cortical Dysfunction by M. Vandenbulcke 9789042919389
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $100.82In this thesis, the author describes the functional contribution of different brain areas to language and knowledge processes and he sheds light on disease mechanisms underlying cognitive dysfunction... -
Calliope: Melanges De Linguistique Indo-europeenne Offerts a Francine Mawet by S. Vanseveren 9789042921436
RRP: $102.90Booksplease Price: $100.38Sous le titre evocateur de Calliope, ce volume rassemble les contributions offertes a Francine Mawet, Professeur a l'Universite Libre de Bruxelles, par des collegues et amis. Langue, grammaire,... -
Grecisms in Ancient Armenian by G. Muradyan 9789042923461
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $173.61This book is a systematic presentation of the linguistic features in all the published Ancient Armenian texts, mainly belonging to the so-called Hellenizing School of translations (late fifth - early... -
From Violence to Peace: Dismantling the Manipulation of Religion by Ramon Martinez De Pison 9789042929197
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $89.36From Violence to Peace introduces us to three monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and the distorted image of a God who is praised when committing violence. Instead peace... -
Beyond Darkness and Sleep: The Inuit Night in North Baffin Island by G. Bordin 9789042931398
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $196.12This is a place where night is dark, like everywhere else, and bright, like nowhere else. This is a people for whom sleep belongs to nighttime, but who nonetheless favor nocturnal... -
The Carthusians in the Low Countries: Studies in Monastic History and Heritage by K. Pansters 9789042931800
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $158.59Most of the essays gathered in this volume evolved from papers that were delivered at a conference in the former charterhouse Our Lady of Bethlehem in Roermond (1376). This conference... -
The Literary Growth of the Song of Songs during the Hasmonean and Early-Herodian Periods by T. Elgvin 9789042935273
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $177.35The author presents a reedition of the Qumran Canticles scrolls, demonstrating that turn-of-the-era 4QCanta,b contain variant recensions of Canticles, substantively shorter than the Masoretic text... -
Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXIX - Papers presented at the Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2015: Volume 5: Clement of Alexandria by M. Vinzent 9789042935754
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $184.84The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford. These... -
Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXXIX - Papers presented at the Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2015: Volume 15: The Fountain and the Flood: Maximus the Confessor and Philosophical Enquiry by M. Vinzent 9789042935853
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $184.84The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford. These papers range over... -
The Fayoum Survey Project: The Themistou Meris. Volume B: The Ceramological Survey by D.M. Bailey 9789042936287
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $237.13This volume accompanies Volume A which presents the archaeological survey of the sites of the Themistou Meris (north-western Fayoum), by giving a thorough introduction to the pottery found during the... -
The Book of Nature in Early Modern and Modern History by Klaas van Berkel 9789042917521
Booksplease Price: $116.49From 22-25 May, 2002, the University of Groningen hosted an international conference on 'The Book of Nature. Continuity and change in European and American attitudes towards the natural world'. From... -
Studies on Jewish and Christian Historical Summaries from the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods by A. Livneh 9789042939677
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $158.59This volume surveys the brief accounts of Israelite history written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek between the third century BCE and the first century CE and found in compositions that did not enter... -
The Catholic Church and its Orthodox Sister Churches Twenty-Five Years after Balamand by Teule H.G.B. 9789042949386
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $184.84In 1993 the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church promulgated what became known as the Balamand Document, "Uniatism, Method of... -
David in Cultural Memory by I. Fröhlich 9789042937482
RRP: $119.70Booksplease Price: $115.35The studies collected in this volume are the outcome of papers presented at the workshop “David in Cultural Memory,” held at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University Budapest, 9-10 October, 2013. The... -
Monks and the Hierarchical Church in Egypt and the Levant during Late Antiquity: With a Chapter on Persian Christians in Late Antiquity by Adam Izdebski by E. Wipszycka 9789042946521
RRP: $249.90Booksplease Price: $235.66Many modern scholars of late antique Christianity are convinced that there was a structural conflict between the Church of the bishops and monasticism, which was a charismatic movement that emerged...