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A Grammar of Qumran Aramaic by T. Muraoka 9789042925595
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €98.38This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Qumran Aramaic. Not only Aramaic texts from Qumran caves, but also contemporary texts originating from other neighbouring locations in the Judaean Desert... -
Pseudoclementina Elchasaiticaque Inter Judaeochristiana: Collected Studies by F. S. Jones 9789042924529
RRP: €142.80Booksplease Price: €138.44Alongside his long-awaited systematic introduction to the Pseudo-Clementines, F. Stanley Jones collects into one volume over thirty new and previously published essays on the Pseudo-Clementines,... -
Word Order and Phrase Structure in Gothic by Gisella Ferraresi 9789042916944
Booksplease Price: €90.25The book aims at providing a precise description of part of the Gothic syntax in the context of a formal theory of syntax. The following questions are addressed: To what extent can Gothic - despite... -
Beginning from Apollo: Studies in Apollonius Rhodius and the Argonautic Tradition by Annette Harder 9789042916296
Booksplease Price: €43.95A"Beginning from ApolloA" is the sixth volume of A"CaeculusA" and contains the Proceedings of the sixth Fransum Colloquium, held on 8 March 2003. The theme of this colloquium was Apollonius Rhodius,... -
The Septuagint and Messianism: Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense LIII, July 27-29, 2004 by M. A. Knibb 9789042917330
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €82.59The question of the extent to which the Septuagint reflects an evolution in messianic belief in comparison with the Masoretic Text has come into prominence in recent years, and in view of the role... -
Pneuma and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity: Essays on Wind, Ruach, Incarnation, Odour, Stains, Movement, Kairos, Web and Silence by B. Baert 9789042932500
RRP: €86.87Booksplease Price: €82.23The focus of these essays is the impact of wind, pneuma, and movement in medieval and early modern iconography on art historical hermeneutics. What can wind, pneuma, and movement tell... -
Hellenism - Judaism - Christianity: Essays on Their Interaction by P. W. van der Horst 9789042905788
RRP: €46.41Booksplease Price: €45.84In 1990 the author published two volumes of collected essays. The first one, Essays on the Jewish World of Early Christianity, focused on the relevance of Jewish themes and writings for the study of... -
Adaptations and Innovations: Studies on the Interaction Between Jewish and Islamic Thought and Literature from the Early Middle Ages to the Late Twentieth Century, Dedicated to Professor Joel L. Kraemer by Y. Tzvi Langermann 9789042919440
RRP: €97.58Booksplease Price: €93.78The interconnections, common interests, and other linkages between the Jewish and Islamic traditions have long been a matter of interest to academics. Today the need to understand these... -
Diet, Economy and Society in the Ancient Greek World: Towards a Better Integration of Archaeology and Science. Proceedings of the International Conference Held at the Netherlands Institute at Athens on 22-24 March 2010 by Sofia Voutsaki 9789042927247
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €94.97The last decades have witnessed the adoption and refinement of various scientific techniques that allow us to reconstruct past diets, but also to understand the role of food... -
«Noli me tangere» in Interdisciplinary Perspective: Textual, Iconographic and Contemporary Interpretations by K. Demasure 9789042933286
RRP: €134.47Booksplease Price: €126.37Noli me tangere in Interdisciplinary Perspective: Textual, Iconographic and Contemporary Interpretations is a collection of 23 essays by an international group of contributors on one... -
The Problem of the Greek Sources of Movses Xorenac'i's "History of Armenia" by A. Topchyan 9789042916623
RRP: €63.07Booksplease Price: €60.12One of the most important and disputed spheres of research on the "History of Armenia" by "the father of Armenian historiography" Movses Xorenac'i is the issue of his literary sources. The study of... -
Structure and Performance in the Roman Economy: Models, Methods and Case Studies by P. Erdkamp 9789042932807
RRP: €67.83Booksplease Price: €65.64History is a reality that can be observed only through the traces it has left. Some are words and images (on parchment, papyrus, stone or any other bearer) conveying us the emotions... -
Archaeology in Southern Caucasus: Perspectives from Georgia by A. Sagona 9789042918009
RRP: €140.42Booksplease Price: €132.46The land of Georgia, nestled in the eastern corner of the Black Sea, has assumed a certain fabled status, as indeed has much of the territory of southern Caucasus. To the Graeco-Roman mind, Georgia... -
Noli Me Tangere Mary Magdalene: One Person, Many Images by Sabine Van Den Eynde 9789042918078
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €35.62"Noli me tangere," these are the words of the risen Christ to Mary Magdalene in the Latin Bible translation of John 20:17. Few expressions from the Bible have stimulated so much interest among... -
Theological Women's Studies in Southern Europe: Theologische Frauenforschung in Sudeuropa - Recherche Theologique Des Femmes En Europe Meridionale by V. Ferrari Schiefer 9789042916968
Booksplease Price: €34.61This volume with its emphasis on "Southern Europe" is devoted now for the second time to theological research by women in a particular region of Europe. Women doing research in France, Italy, Spain... -
Commission Narratives: A Comparative Study of the Canonical and Apocryphal Acts by Istvan Czachesz 9789042918450
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €57.95Commission Narratives is based on the author's doctoral dissertation in Groningen (2002). The monograph offers the first overarching, comparative treatment of commission narratives in the canonical... -
Form and Style in Journalism: European Newspapers and the Representation of News, 1880-2005 by M. J. Broersma 9789042919921
RRP: €67.83Booksplease Price: €66.87This volume addresses the usefulness of journalistic forms and styles as leading concepts for the analysis of media history. The thirteen essays included discuss the emergence and adaptation of the... -
Cults, Creeds and Identities in the Greek City After the Classical Age by Richard Alston 9789042927148
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €106.91This volume investigates the complex and diverse developments in the religious cultures of Greek cities after the classical age. An international team of scholars considers... -
Durand of Saint-Pourçain and His Sentences Commentary: Historical, Philosophical, and Theological Issues by F. Retucci 9789042931367
RRP: €129.71Booksplease Price: €120.69The articles assembled in this volume shed new light on Durand of Saint-Pourcain and his intellectual context. They reveal how current research is nuancing and challenging... -
Living in the Light of Christ: Mystagogy in Cyril of Alexandria's Festal Letters by H. van Loon 9789042934245
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €116.44While the original goal of the 'festal letters', written by the archbishops of Alexandria, was to announce the dates of Lent, Easter, and Pentecost, they developed into treatises with... -
Offerings to the Gods in Egyptian Temples by Sylvie Cauville 9789042926189
Booksplease Price: €45.53This splendidly illustrated book serves as a dictionary of the many different types of offerings to the gods depicted in Egyptian funerary reliefs, as well as their ritual context and symbolic... -
Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry by M. A. Harder 9789042924840
RRP: €85.68Booksplease Price: €81.36This volume contains the papers of the 'Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry 9: Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry' (Groningen 2008). During the workshop a first draft of the... -
Limits to Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages by C. Giliberto 9789042927087
RRP: €97.58Booksplease Price: €91.99In the history of early medieval culture in Western Europe, limits and boundaries define the intellectual landscape. These landmarks range from manuscript contexts to 'genres', from authorial... -
Family's Many Faces - La famille au pluriel: Contemporary Family Patterns, Challenges for Christians - Les modèles familiaux contemporains, défis pour les Chrétiens by M. Rovers 9789042930964
Booksplease Price: €64.44The diversity of family models presents great challenges for contemporary Christians, from ethical point of view, as well as the spiritual level and the living together. Family... -
Mediating Mysteries, Understanding Liturgies: On Bridging the Gap between Liturgy and Systematic Theology by J. Geldhof 9789042932852
RRP: €116.62Booksplease Price: €109.00"The liturgist is a general practitioner who sees a lot in his practice and for whom virtually everything is important". The phrase from the Introduction to the book offers a... -
A Pillar of Cloud to Guide: Text-critical, Redactional, and Linguistic Perspectives on the Old Testament in Honour of Marc Vervenne by B. Lemmelijn 9789042930841
RRP: €134.47Booksplease Price: €126.37The present volume is intended as a special present on the occasion of Professor Marc Vervenne's retirement from the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven)... -
Re-thinking the Death of Jesus: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Hilasmos and Agape in 1 John 2:1-2 and 4:7-10 by T. Do 9789042930261
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €68.64This volume looks carefully at the peculiar Johannine usage of the noun hilasmos in 1 John 2:2 and 4:10. Outside of 1 John, hilasmos is not used elsewhere in the NT. Moreover,... -
Xerxes and Babylonia: The Cuneiform Evidence by C. Waerzeggers 9789042936706
RRP: €140.42Booksplease Price: €132.46In the summer of 484 BCE Babylonia revolted against Xerxes, king of Persia. In recent years, a debate has crystallized around the nature of Xerxes' response to this challenge... -
The Geopolitics of Pope Francis by J. De Volder 9789042940659
RRP: €86.87Booksplease Price: €82.42Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope in March 2013 with a clear agenda of internal reform of the Vatican and the Catholic Church. Yet the reformist Pope Francis has also... -
Catalogue of the Additional Armenian Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin by Michael E. Stone 9789042922327
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €89.65The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin has a world-famous collection of oriental manuscripts assembled by the late Sir Alfred Chester Beatty during the last century. A catalogue of the Armenian... -
A Divine Round Trip: The Literary and Christological Function of the Descent/Ascent Leitmotif in the Gospel of John by S.E. Humble 9789042932432
RRP: €91.63Booksplease Price: €86.13How does the Evangelist utilize the Descent/Ascent Leitmotif to shape the telling of Jesus' story, and what is he conveying by incorporating this round trip language? The argument of... -
Unearthing the Wilderness: Studies on the History and Archaeology of the Negev and Edom in the Iron Age by J.M. Tebes 9789042929739
RRP: €134.47Booksplease Price: €126.54The arid areas of the Negev and Edom played a prominent role in the socio-economic and cultural development of the Iron Age civilizations of the southern Levant and... -
Hamam - Commentary on the Book of Proverbs: Edition of the Armenian Text, English Translation, Notes and Introduction by Ronald W. Thomson 9789042915831
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €58.07This is the first translation of the late ninth-century Armenian commentary on the Book of Proverbs by Hamam, who is better known for his commentary on grammar. Armenian biblical exegesis is a little... -
Politics, Administration and Society in the Hellenistic and Roman World by Leon Mooren 9789042909946
RRP: €145.18Booksplease Price: €138.36These are the Proceedings of one of the colloquia organized by the International Research Group "Society and Administration in the Hellenistic and Roman World", patronized by the Flemish Fund for... -
1 Chronicles by P.B. Dirksen 9789042916197
Booksplease Price: €46.09During the last few decades there has been a growing scholarly interest in the Book(s) of Chronicles, which resulted in a respectable number of commentaries in various languages. Yet, the book... -
Yusuf Al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded (Kitab Hazz Al-Quhuf Bi-Sharh Qasid Abi Shaduf): Volume II: English Translation, Introduction and Notes by H. T. Davies 9789042919129
RRP: €140.42Booksplease Price: €136.65This translation provides access to a work of rare importance for the study of the social, economic, and intellectual life of Egypt during a critical but understudied period of its history and is a... -
Insights into Editing in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East: What Does Documented Evidence Tell Us about the Transmission of Authoritative Texts? by J. Pakkala 9789042933804
RRP: €110.67Booksplease Price: €103.67Documented evidence has shown that the Hebrew Bible was edited by successive scribes for centuries, and the impact of editing on the resulting text has proven to be crucial. A better... -
Esther: Juxtaposition of the Septuagint Translation with the Hebrew Text by H. Kahana 9789042915800
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €70.27This book is essentially a very exacting comparison between the Septuaginta translation of the Esther Scroll and its Hebrew text. Each and every verse in the Scroll is graphically presented in a four... -
Solved by Sacrifice: Austin Farrer, Fideism, and the Evidence of Faith by Professor Robert MacSwain 9789042927384
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €73.90Austin Farrer (1904-1968), Warden of Keble College, Oxford, was a remarkably creative and significant figure in twentieth-century theology. Robert MacSwain argues that one explanation for Farrer's... -
Carlo Dolci. A Refreshment by J. Imorde 9789042934566
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €52.63Carlo Dolci. A Refreshment reevaluates the works of the Florentine painter Carlo Dolci. For art historical authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the...