Publications
Now showing items 2301-2310 of 2604
The Western Karaim Torah
(2021)
This volume offers the critical edition and an English translation of the oldest translation of the Pentateuch into Western Karaim copied in 1720 by Simcha ben Chananel (died 1723). The manuscript was compared against ...
Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead Sea Scrolls
(2022)
Scholars working with ancient scrolls seek ways to extract maximum information from the multitude of fragments. Various methods were applied to that end on the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as on other ancient texts. The present ...
Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience
(2019)
This book aims to show that recent developments in neuroscience permit a defense of free will. Through language, human beings can escape strict biological determinism. Readership: All interested in the philosophy of sciences, ...
Abenteuer in der Moderne
(2020)
Wer in der Moderne von Abenteuern erzählt, setzt sich dem Verdacht der Trivialität aus. Doch ein stillschweigender Verzicht aufs Abenteuer fällt auch kanonischen Autoren der Moderne schwer. Der Sammelband nimmt diese ...
Enough Already! A Socialist Feminist Response to the Re-emergence of Right Wing Populism and Fascism in Media
(2020)
This text analyses the rapid rise of global authoritarian populism and fascism and how these movements incorporate misogyny into their ideologies within and beyond social media. Readership: Readership includes those ...
Religions and Trade
(2013)
Religions and Trade carves new pathways into the world of religious dynamics. In this array of essays a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions were formed and transformed ...
Schüler:innen mit Lernschwierigkeiten konstruieren Geschichte
(2025)
Jan-Christian Wilkening erforscht, wie Schüler:innen mit Lernschwierigkeiten gemeinschaftlich Geschichte konstruieren, indem einerseits das historische Denken jener Gruppe und andererseits angenommene konstituierende Aspekte ...
New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World
(2023)
Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor ...
Vom politischen Anreiz zur liberalen Überzeugung
(2020)
Während Religionsgemeinschaften häufig zugeschrieben wird, inhärent demokratieaffin oder demokratiefeindlich zu sein, stehen sie tatsächlich in einer komplexen wechselseitigen Beziehung zu ihrer Gesellschaft. Ob eine ...
Women Judges in the Muslim World
(2017)
Women Judges in the Muslim World: A Comparative Study of Discourse and Practice offers a socio-legal account of public debates and judicial practices surrounding the performance of women as judges in eight Muslim-majority ...