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"Pindar's Pythian Twelve is the only choral lyric epinicion in our possession composed for the winner of a non-athletic competition. Often regarded as an ode of straightforward interpretation, close analysis of the text reveals that it presents several challenges to modern readers. This book offers an updated translation of the text and an investigation of the main interpretative issues of the epinicion with the aid of historical linguistics. By identifying devices which Pindar might have inherited from earlier periods of poetic language, the study provides insights into the thematic aspects of the ode as well as on Pindar's compositional technique"--

How do individuals experience transformation when reading the Bible? Drawing from phenomenological qualitative research, this book delves into the dynamic relationship between the Bible and its readers, deciphering its psychological, spiritual, and cultural layers to construct a practical theology of Bible reading.

Joseph Conrad, one of the most important twentieth century novelists was of Polish extraction but wrote in English. The subject of much of his fiction was the global world but the European background and especially Poland left a significant mark on the shaping of his imagination. This book examines that aspect of his work.

In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups that are named after wolves, birds, and plants. Why these names? Young's book questions old explanations and suggests a new hypothesis: Bedouin tribes use such names to obscure internal cleavages.

The sweeping changes engendered by Oman's 1970 coup produced a new political and economic structure that was created by and for Sultan Qaboos. The initially haphazard construction matured into a durable structure that continues under Sultan Haitham.

Can a scientific instrument be regarded as a failure? Why and how? By shelling light on the complexity of these questions, the volume marks a step forward in the way historical scientific instruments can be analysed and displayed.

This book aims to discuss the art and culture produced by or associated with the Oratorians of Saint Philip Neri, focusing on issues still scarcely understood regarding the Oratorians' important artistic production, commonly forgotten when compared with other religious productions of art.

A lexicon of words and idioms used by the Andalusi people in their middle and low register speech, together with etymological discussion of items and other panchronical information.

"We believe the world needs more care. This volume seeks to describe theoretical, empirical, and phenomenological evidence toward creating a higher education environment that values excellence in its teaching, research, and service while at the same time ensuring that those involved in these endeavors are cared for. The primary purpose is to provide a state-of-the-art synthesis of the delicate balance between striving for excellence in higher education while at the same time exhibiting an ethic of care for all stakeholders involved. The second purpose is to honor the work and legacy of Jeffrey W. Cornett who embodied this balance during his long and successful career in higher education. Upon Dr. Cornett's retirement, it is fitting to visit balance between care and excellence as multiple tensions push and pull on higher education - from innovative ideas, changing funding structures, and the corporatization of higher education. This volume will serve to inform all those invested in faculty development, student learning and administration in higher education from educational researchers, practitioners, and policymakers - with the most up-to-date understandings of how we can simultaneously strive for excellence in higher education and simultaneously ensure that those around us in this shared space are cared for. Contributors are: Carolyne Ali-Khan, Richard Chant, Jeffrey W. Cornett, Daniel L. Dinsmore, Jerry Johnson, Dilek Kayaalp, Wanda Lastrapes, Madalina Tanase, Hope (Bess) E. Wilson and Brian Zoellner"--

"The twenty-first century is seeing a battle of ideas between different conceptions of governance: people-centred and party-centred. At the same time, scientific and technological developments are posing new challenges for human rights. This book identifies new dimensions in the international protection of human rights and makes the case for a new human rights diplomacy focusing on enlarging the area of common ground among governments and enhancing national human rights protection systems"--

"We believe the world needs more care. This volume seeks to describe theoretical, empirical, and phenomenological evidence toward creating a higher education environment that values excellence in its teaching, research, and service while at the same time ensuring that those involved in these endeavors are cared for. The primary purpose is to provide a state-of-the-art synthesis of the delicate balance between striving for excellence in higher education while at the same time exhibiting an ethic of care for all stakeholders involved. The second purpose is to honor the work and legacy of Jeffrey W. Cornett who embodied this balance during his long and successful career in higher education. Upon Dr. Cornett's retirement, it is fitting to visit balance between care and excellence as multiple tensions push and pull on higher education - from innovative ideas, changing funding structures, and the corporatization of higher education. This volume will serve to inform all those invested in faculty development, student learning and administration in higher education from educational researchers, practitioners, and policymakers - with the most up-to-date understandings of how we can simultaneously strive for excellence in higher education and simultaneously ensure that those around us in this shared space are cared for. Contributors are: Carolyne Ali-Khan, Richard Chant, Jeffrey W. Cornett, Daniel L. Dinsmore, Jerry Johnson, Dilek Kayaalp, Wanda Lastrapes, Madalina Tanase, Hope (Bess) E. Wilson and Brian Zoellner"--

Imaginons être à la place de l'artisan divin ? Comment aurions-nous fait pour fabriquer le cosmos tout entier ? Platon répond à cette question dans le Timée en proposant une expérience de pensée qui consiste à ordonner un chaos primordial. Imagine being in the shoes of the divine craftsman? How would you have gone about creating the entire cosmos? Plato answers this question in the Timaeus offering a thought experiment that involves ordering a primordial chaos.

Written by an international team of leading scholars, both new and established, this multi-disciplinary book features cutting edge research on both familiar and little-known authors of medieval military literature and sets the groundwork for future work on this widely used genre.

In his plays Bajazet and Mithridate Racine depicts the tragedies of characters who exercise tyranny or are the victims of tyranny. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays, their contexts, and their afterlife.

The cosmological-meteorological writings of Paracelsus (1493-1541), presented here for the first time in the most reliable German versions with facing-page translations and thorough text-based and historical commentary, are essential documents of the transition from the medieval to the modern era.

"A number of very fine reviews have been written and published in various entomological and lepidopterological journals about this volume 4 of The Geometrid Moths of Europe on Perizomini and Eupitheciini. All the Eupithecia species are illustrated in 1.5 times natural size on the colour plates. A total of 151 species are dealt with in the volume of which 133 are Eupitheciini. One new species is described and a number of species are recorded from Europe for the first time. Volume 4 sets new standards in the study of the European Eupitheciini and Perizomini. imprint Apollo (ISBN 9788788757408) in 2003"--

Does God Doubt? shows that Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner of Radzin considered God to be revealed as doubt. Thus, according to this profound and important nineteenth-century Hasidic leader, doubt is an essential aspect of the human condition, and especially of religious life.

Weaving together archival sources, material culture and the visual arts, this book sheds new light on how the cittadini or middling sorts constructed and shaped their identity through social networks and artistic patronage in early modern Venice.

This book focuses on the historical development, codification and present day perceptions of Islamic law in Zaydī Yemen in the field of waqf, the relation between theory and practice over time and the development of central waqf administration.

Sacred treasuries formed part of every medieval cathedral or church housing contents that were endowed with profound spiritual significance but were also of immense value in worldly terms. In many ways, these were the predecessors of both modern museums and modern banks.

The book comprises contemporary legal theory pertaining to Democratic States based on the Rule of Law from the perspective of general principles of law. It explains in detail, theoretically and based on the specific case law, the phenomenon of general principles of law - as a source of law and directly applicable legal norms.

This study reframes and reorients the discussion of 2 Enoch, away from standard accounts of Jewish or Christian authorship, arguing that its features reflect the eclectic and philosophically erudite religious culture of Syria or Babylonia in late antiquity.

The age of Enlightenment - the so-called age of reason - was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed Christianity's pagan origins.

Theosophy and the Study of Religion presents essays by leading scholars of religious studies and Western esotericism that draw attention to the interaction between the "secular" discipline of religious studies and Theosophy from the 19th century to the present day.