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Lawyers from different jurisdictions speak different native as well as different legal languages. Understanding one another without burdensome translation exercises is nevertheless possible - if the parties observe and make good use of...

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The Ghost of Totalitarianism

Martín Grassi deconstructs the totalitarian paradigm underlying Western political and theological discourses by a critical examination of the concept of spirit (pneuma). This notion plays a paramount role in such Western discourses as...

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A Judeo-Arabic Parody of the Life of Jesus

Miriam Goldstein provides the first-ever examination of the Judeo-Arabic versions of Toledot Yeshu (TY), the notorious parody of the life of Jesus originating in Late Antiquity, as well as a full edition and translation of Judeo-Arabic...

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Biblischer Schöpfungsglaube

Was heißt "Schöpfung" und wie unterscheidet sie sich vom Begriff "Natur"? Die biblischen Schöpfungstexte bezeugen vielfältige Vorstellungen über die Erschaffung der Welt, die Stellung des Menschen in ihr sowie die Rolle der Tiere und...

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Essays on the Psalms of Solomon

The Psalms of Solomon, a collection of 18 Jewish psalms from the Second Temple period, have long been a fascinating topic for scholarship. In this volume, leading scholars from a range of disciplines offer new insights into the cultural...

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Gallia docta?

Education is and was a mighty tool for both building communities and barring people from social participation. This volume explores the role education played for late Roman societies especially in Gaul, which was considered a landscape...

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The Characterization of Provisions Protecting...

Normally, forced heirship is primarily associated with a restraint of the decedent's testamentary freedom of disposition. Nevertheless, to effectively protect the forced heirs, forced heirship systems usually also contain various...

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Studies in the History and Archaeology of...

The archaeological and historical study of the southern Levant during the first millennium BCE - the Iron Age kingdoms and their societies as well as their successors during the Persian and Hellenistic periods -has dramatically developed...

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Colometric Analysis of Paul's Letters

Priscille Marschall focuses on a hitherto neglected aspect of the study of the elocutio of Paul's letters: colometry, i.e., the way in which ancient authors used to structure their orality-oriented compositions into "côla" ( ) and...

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The Image of the Invisible God

Given the human propensity for making and using various kinds of images, it is little surprise that religious-philosophical authors from various ancient cultures used the concept of an "image" when speaking of the divine. What does the...

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Peacemaking through Blood in Colossians

The imagery of "peacemaking through Christ's blood" in Colossians 1.20b evokes conceptual frames from both the Graeco-Roman and Jewish thought worlds. To grasp the full significance of the imagery, it is necessary to explore which frames...

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Das Recht der öffentlichen Gesundheit

Based on the discoveries made by public health research, Andrea Kießling analyzes the general framework in constitutional law for the prevention of disease and the promotion of health by the state. In this way she makes an attempt to...

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