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Paul climaxes 1 Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 15 by employing the rhetorical device called insinuatio, which delays the most controversial topic of resurrection until the end of the letter after subtly hinting at it at the outset.

This work is both a critical response to the abuse and misuse of Paul's words on unity and a proposal to read them as a way to care about "others."

The Synoptikon presents the texts of the Synoptic Gospels alongside one another and in relation to their Judaic contexts. Discrete typefaces highlight particular streams of tradition that interacted so as to produce the Gospels. The depth of the Synoptic tradition consequently emerges, as well as its breadth.

This book highlights the powerful impact of some important Spanish Jesuits (Suárez, Acosta, Ribadeneira, Mariana) on some relevant English thinkers such as Locke, Bacon, and others, regarding politics, law and natural rights, an influence sometimes hidden and always controversial.

Through looking at fragments of poetry on garbage and as graffiti, as well as at lesser-studied sources, like inscriptions on pottery, architecture, and especially wooden tablets known as mokkan, this book explores how both writing and literature spread through early Japan.

Quedlinburg Abbey was one of the oldest and most prestigious women's religious communities in medieval Germany. This essay collection conveys the abbey's illustrious history, political importance, and cultural significance through studies on, among others, its architecture, rich treasury, and its abbatial effigies.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the scope and content of the right to citizenship in international human rights law and argues for a rights-based interpretation of the right to citizenship based on the principle of jus nexi.

The first comprehensive study of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls from the Qumran caves, this book provides a valuable starting point for exploring this understudied treasure of ancient Judaism

In the House of Heqanakht: Text and Context in Ancient Egypt gathers Egyptological articles in honor of James P. Allen, Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University.

The 11 contributions in this volume explore the role of early modern and modern dynastic kingdoms and empires in Europe, the Middle East and Eurasia the evolution of border controls from the 16th to the 20th century.

This book is the first comprehensive monographic treatment of the New Kingdom (1539-1078 BCE) necropolis at Saqqara, the burial ground of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, and addresses questions fundamental to understanding the site's development through time.

This volume provides deep insights into the dynamics and processes of knowledge creation and transfer in the Middle Ages by analysing the manuscript Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 - an important textual witness for the creation of the Decretum Gratiani.

The Spirit throughout the Canon brings together leading Pentecostal biblical scholars from across the world as it accounts for the appearance of the divine Spirit from the Pentateuch to the Apocalypse in a defining work for Pentecostal pneumatology.

This volume presents dozens of classical Hebrew texts translated into literary Italian. It is the first study of an almost ignored corpus, showing the degree of cultural and linguistic integration of the Jews of Italy long before the German Haskala.

This collection examines aspects of the Vietnamese diaspora resettlement experience in various national settings. It investigates issues such as community politics, identity formation, generational conflicts and how different conditions of exit from Vietnam have created fractures within the contemporary Vietnamese diaspora.

Investigating the importance of casuistry in a variety of genres in early modern Spain, this volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship, and calls for a re-thinking of the development of early modern Spanish literature and thought.

This volume honors Prof. James R. Royse for his scholarly achievement in the fields of New Testament textual criticism and Philonic studies. It contains seventeen articles, prefaced by an introductory biographical article and a list of his publications.

The book An Introduction to Islamic Psychology discusses the possibility, foundations, and characteristics of Islamic Psychology. It also introduces research methodology in Islam-based psychology. Additionally, it reviews the Quranic theory of personality and presents the methods of Islamic psychotherapy.

The Tibetan Gesar epic has known countless retellings, translations, and academic studies. The Many Faces of Ling Gesar, presents its historical, cultural, and literary aspects for the first time in a single volume for both general readers and specialists.

When claiming territories, States use all kinds of legal, geographical, and historical arguments, as well aseffectivités. In recent maritime cases, States have begun using underwater archaeology and submerged heritage as a basis for their claims. This book takes a critical look at that policy.

This volume is an encyclopaedic reference of prominent literacy terms. Key terms with frequent misconceptions are debunked to provide a critical perspective. Citation of relevant theorists and research findings enables readers to further explore these topics.

Shusterman's Somaesthetics is a wide-ranging collection of penetrating essays by twelve scholars examining in rich detail the many dimensions of philosopher Richard Shusterman's pragmatism and somaesthetics, complemented by his own chapter of responses to these scholars

This book presents Eastern Old Japanese corpus scattered in various 8-9th century texts and a cross-referenced dictionary including all the lexical items found in this corpus.

The volume offers an in-depth commentary with a new text and English translation of Apuleius' Metamorphoses III. The introduction and appendix cast new light on the literary, stylistic and textual features as well as the philosophical, socio-cultural and religious context of Apuleius' novel.

This book examines the multiple contexts for the pseudepigraphal Apocalypse of Abraham, including the ancient Jewish milieu in which it was originally written and its medieval Christian Slavic setting.

Drawing on a thousand years of European travel writing and mapmaking, Dym suggests that after centuries of text-based itineraries and on-the spot directions guiding travelers and constituting their reports, maps in the fifteenth century emerged as tools for Europeans to support and report the results of land and sea travel. With each succeeding generation, these linear journey maps have become increasingly common and complex, responding to changes in forms of transportation, such as air and motor car 'flight' and print technology, especially the advent of multi-color printing. This is their story.