By Nils Arne Pedersen

This quantity is the 1st large research of a Christian paintings from the 4th century, Titus of Bostra's Contra Manichaeos, that's the single textual content from the early Greek Church commencing a complete theodicy. The examine illuminates the text's relation to modern theology and philosophy and translates it within the gentle of the ideological conflicts among pagans, Catholic Christians and Manichaeans within the 4th century. It comprises an exam of the potential Manichaean assets utilized by Titus, and, in addition, a severe textual content examine and translation of primary passages in Contra Manichaeos, established either at the Greek textual content and the Syriac model of it.

By Bruce M. Metzger

By Martin Mulsow, Richard H. Popkin

This quantity bargains with conversions to Judaism from the sixteenth to the 18th century. It offers six case stories via prime overseas students on phenomena as crypto-Judaism, ''judaizing,'' reversion of Jewish-Christian converts and mystery conversion of non-Jewish Christians for highbrow purposes. the 1st contributions research George Buchanan and John Dury, by way of 3 reports of the milieu of overdue seventeenth-century Amsterdam. The final essay is worried with Lord George Gordon and Cabbalistic Freemasonry. The contributions may be of curiosity for highbrow historians, but in addition historians of political concept or Jewish experiences. individuals contain: Elisheva Carlebach, Allison P. Coudert, Martin Mulsow, Richard H. Popkin, Marsha Keith Schuchard, and Arthur Williamson

By Walter Scheidel

In conjection with an in depth severe survey of modern advances and controversies in Roman demography, the 4 case-studies during this quantity illustrate a number of varied techniques to the examine of historic inhabitants heritage. The contributions handle a couple of the most important concerns in Roman demography from the evolution of the tutorial box to seasonal styles of fertility, the variety of Roman voters, inhabitants strain within the early Roman empire, and the top of classical urbanism in past due antiquity. this can be the 1st collaborative quantity of its variety. it's designed to introduce old historians and classicists to demographic, comparative and interdisciplinary views, and to situate and contextualize Roman inhabitants experiences within the wider ambit of historic demography.

By George Raudzens

Throughout the Nineteen Sixties, students replaced their reason behind the eu conquest of the area from racial and ethnic superiority to ecu wrestle enhance as a result of weapons, and epidemic ailment because of the inability of Euroasian immunities within the New international

By Professor and Chair of Religious Studies - Islamic Studies Jamal Malik, Gail Minault

This quantity explores the problems of cultural reciprocity among Europeans and South Asians. In doing so, winning assumptions approximately those complicated relationships are tested.

By Véronique Krings

This collective quantity is dedicated to the Phoenician and the Punic civilization studied for its personal goal but in addition for its dating with contemporaneous cultures of the traditional Mediterranean. the 1st half discusses a few of the resources in terms of the Phoenician and Punic global; a moment half makes an attempt to sum up different points of its fabric and cultural surrounding. The 3rd half expounds the current country of our wisdom of the Phoenicians and the Punics in all of the huge geographical parts the place they've got emerged. The paintings therefore assembles essentially, with ease and as thoroughly as attainable the elemental proof that may permit experts of fellow disciplines to begin themselves, and well-informed researchers to accomplish or money simply their info. This quantity contains a bibliography, illustrations, maps and indexes.

By Johnson Asamoah-Gyadu

This quantity examines Pentecostal/charismatic renewal in an African context. Ghanaian Pentecostalism in its glossy charismatic shape has turn into the main seen expression of renewal inside indigenous Christianity. The e-book first articulates the contribution of the older African initiated church buildings (AICs) to neighborhood Christianity arguing that, regardless of a gift decline, the AICs have left an everlasting theological imprint on indigenous Christian expression. additionally, it bills for the increase of the hot self sustaining church buildings, the charismatic ministries. those were proliferating around the West Africa sub-region because the past due Seventies. as well as this, the ebook explores how the emphases of the hot Ghanaian charismatics--internationalism, transformation, prosperity, therapeutic and deliverance--provide necessary insights into the character of recent African Pentecostal spirituality.

By Mark Karlen, Rob Fleming

Area making plans includes even more than sketching a initial ground plan. A clothier needs to take a client's programming wishes under consideration and should also give some thought to how different components akin to development codes and environmental elements impact a spatial composition. house making plans fundamentals, now in its 3rd version, deals a hugely visible, step by step method of constructing initial flooring plans for advertisement areas. The booklet offers instruments for visualizing house and walks the dressmaker via different concerns resembling development code standards and environmental keep watch over wishes. particular programming options lined comprise matrices, bubble diagrams, CAD templates, block plans, and extra. New to this version are insurance of the fundamentals of stair layout, an important element for making plans areas.

By Rieuwerd Buitenwerf

This quantity features a thorough research of the 3rd booklet of the Sibylline Oracles. This Jewish paintings used to be written within the Roman province of Asia someday among eighty and forty BCE. It bargains insights into the political beliefs of the writer and his conception of the relation among Jews and non-Jews, particularly within the box of faith and ethics. the current examine involves 3 elements: 1. introductory questions; 2. a literary research of the booklet, translation, and remark; three. the social surroundings of the booklet. It goals to additional the scholarly use of the 3rd Sibylline e-book and to enhance our wisdom of early Judaism in its Graeco-Roman atmosphere.