Publications
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Constructing and Experiencing Jewish Identity
(2022)
Classification is an inherent feature of all societies. The distinction between Jews and non-Jews has been a major theme of Western society for over two millennia. In the middle of the twentieth century, dire consequences ...
Tense and Text in Classical Arabic
(2018-05-06)
This study undertakes to examine the problem of the tenses in Classical Arabic. While aware of the long tradition which shaped the discussion of this subject, and building, in fact, on some important insights offered by ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 14 (2008)
(2010)
International law
Indo-Slavic Lexical Isoglosses and the Prehistoric Dispersal of Indo-Iranian
(2025)
During the past decade, the ancient DNA revolution has had a massive impact on the scholarly debates on the origins and dispersals of language families. Now, linguists are asking the question: does linguistic and genetic ...
Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Heritage
(2017)
Indigenous rights to heritage have only recently become the subject of academic scholarship. This collection aims to fill that gap by offering the fruits of a unique conference on this topic organised by the University of ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 2 (1992)
(1994)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. Readership: Academics and practitioners who deal with international ...
Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature
(2004)
This is the first part of a new narratological history of Greek literature, which deals with the definition and boundaries of narrative and the role of narrators and narratees.; Readership: All those interested in ancient ...
Antisemitismus im 19. Jahrhundert aus internationaler Perspektive
(2019)
Der Blick zurück auf den Antisemitismus im 19. Jahrhundert zeigt seine internationale Verflechtung und erleichtert zugleich das Verständnis des Antisemitismus im 20. Jahrhundert und in der Gegenwart. Denn das 19. Jahrhundert ...
The Jewel of Annual Astrology
(2020)
The Jewel of Annual Astrology is an encyclopaedic treatise on Tājika or Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology, dealing particularly with the casting an interpretation of anniversary horoscopes. Authored in 1649 CE by Balabhadra ...
Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America
(2017)
This issue of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and development trajectories in Latin America, focusing on the Andean region. It aims to enrich our understanding of recent development ...
Authority and Performance
(2015)
One can hardly exaggerate the importance of the church councils in the 5th and 6th centuries. They provide us with great insights into the situation in the late Roman Empire and particularly into the role of the Church at ...
Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education
(2020)
Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education brings together leading and emerging scholars in adult education in order to capture the vitality and complexity of contemporary adult education research, marked by ...
Jesuits and the Natural Sciences in Modern Times, 1814–2014
(2019)
From 1814, linked to their educational work, Jesuits made significant contributions to the natural sciences, especially in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, seismology, terrestrial magnetism, mathematics, and biology ...
Negotiating the Fabric of the African University
(2025)
This book is the first volume of two edited collections that critically assess the historical and contemporary processes that have shaped the formation and transformation of the African university. It provides general ...
Jeremia und seine Verkündigung
(2025)
In seinem Jeremiabuch sucht Werner H. Schmidt mit seiner Darstellung nach Jeremia selbst zurückzufragen. In Aufnahme und Abwandlung von Redeformen und Einsichten seiner prophetischen Vorgänger lässt sich Jeremias Eigenart ...
Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective (300–1600)
(2015)
This volume comprises fifteen articles on the differing functions that purity, impurity, pollution and related categories could fulfil in Asian and European religions and societies of the 3rd to 17th century c.E. They focus ...
Religiöse Sozialisation (muslimischer) Jugendlicher in mediatisierter Welt
(2025)
Erkan Binici’s study examines how (muslim) adolescents, aged 12 to 19, perceive and interpret religion in their everyday media use, based on interviews and documentary method. The findings show that within their media and ...
UN Security Council Referrals to the International Criminal Court
(2018)
Galand critically spells out a comprehensive conception of the nature and effects of Security Council referrals that responds to the various limits to the International Criminal Court’s exercise of jurisdiction over ...
Philipp von Stosch: Collecting, Drawing, Studying and Publishing Engraved Gems
(2025)
This book, published with two online appendices, highlights and discusses critically a facet of Stosch that stands in sharp contrast to the dense negative mythology of him as a spy, hoarder and libertine which for a long ...
Die ›Kriegshistoriographie‹ des Orosius
(2025)
Through his way of historical representation, Orosius wants to proof that Christianity is not responsible for the catastrophe of his own time: the sack of Rome in 410 AD. In her study, the author examines Orosius’ numerous ...
Menschenrechte und Gerechtigkeit als bleibende Aufgaben
(2020)
Menschenrechte bilden die Grundlage von Gerechtigkeit, doch sie geraten zunehmend unter Druck. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen dem universalen Anspruch der Menschenrechte, der Partikularität menschlichen Lebens und den ...
Psychological Themes in Classical Islamic Literature:
(2025)
Are you curious about the contributions of the Islamic intellectual heritage to the field of psychology? Psychological Themes in the Classical Islamic Literature provides a captivating window into the rich Islamic scholarly ...
Religion and Secularity
(2013)
Religion and Secularity assembles studies on the concept of „secularity“ in various cultures, thereby tracing the entangled history of the modern re-configuration of the religious field across the Eurasion continent.; ...
Aus der Welt gefallen
(2019)
Drawing from the archive of the Perthes publishing house, this study reconstructs how cast away explorers shaped not only the literary imagination but also the history of cartography. Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, ...
Philo of Alexandria
(1988)
The first author in which the traditions of Judaic thought and Greek philosophy flow together in a significant way is Philo of Alexandria.This study presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of Philo's knowledge ...
Geschichte im Dienst für das Vaterland
(2018)
Instrumentalisierung der Geschichte zur Legimitation politischen Handelns
Human Nature in Gregory of Nyssa
(2000)
This study in the thought of Gregory of Nyssa seeks to demonstrate in what sense and to what extent the philosophical notion of universal human nature functions as the systematic backbone of this church father's theology.; ...
Religion and Ecology
(2024)
This volume is a scholarly endeavor that distinguishes itself from other publications addressing the intersection of faith and environmental stewardship. Assembled through a collaborative effort between the University of ...
Career and Career Guidance in the Nordic Countries
(2020)
Career and Career Guidance in the Nordic Countries explores what kind of context the Nordic region offers for the pursuit of career, how the development of careers are supported and how career guidance is enacted in this ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 20 (2014)
(2018)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Law of the Sea
(2022)
This book explores how ocean governance expert Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918–2002) spent decades fighting to promote her radical vision of a just ocean order in the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention.
Universal Śaivism
(2018)
In Universal Śaivism Peter Bisschop provides a critical edition and annotated translation of the sixth chapter of the Śivadharmaśāstra `Treatise on the Religion of Śiva’, the so-called Śāntyadhyāya 'Chapter on Appeasement’. ...
A Structural Commentary on the So-Called Antilegomena
(2024)
The structural approach facilitates exposure of the elements of eschatological teaching characteristic of 2 Peter’s author with its correct or incorrect interpretation. Narratives drawn from Jewish tradition aim to show ...
The Soviet Zone of Germany
(2024)
Anyone who wants to learn how the GDR was analyzed and classified half a decade after its founding by a German-American team of outstanding experts in more than 600 pages will hardly find a better source than this largely ...
Complexity and Simplicity
(2024)
This book is the outcome of an original and interdisciplinary undertaking by the Academy of Young Scholars and Artists based in Wrocław, Poland. One of the fundamental objectives of the Academy is to improve and foster ...
Medicine in Ancient Assur
(2021)
In Medicine in Ancient Assur Troels Pank Arbøll offfers a microhistorical study of a single exorcist named Kiṣir-Aššur who practiced medical and magical healing in the ancient city of Assur (modern northern Iraq) in the ...
Proceedings of 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP)
(2025)
The proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production provide you with 816 papers representing the leading research in livestock genetics around the globe. This book covers all aspects of ...
Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition
(2022)
The trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal ...
Religious Transformations in Europe
(2025)
This book focuses on individuals who, in the course of their lives, turned away from their religious communities of origin. In some case, individuals who criticized their religious communities sought to reform them from ...
The Jesuit Encounters with Islam in the Asia-Pacific
(2023)
This book explores the strategies adopted by the Jesuit missions under the Portuguese and Spanish patronage before Islamic powers such as the Mughal Empire in South Asia and the expansion of Islam in the Southeast Asian ...