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Jastrow addresses how the final codification of the laws of Hammurapi evolved and which process the Babylonians used to get there. The Code of Hammurapi was subject to constant adjustments, providing that conditions constantly changed and new situations arose.

A significant portion of this article contains the original texts, translations, and comments of two Sanskrit inscriptions discovered in 1857. Both inscriptions list the names of the rulers of Chedi and the names of their consorts and kinsmen.

Scientific and comparative study of noun derivation in Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic.

The fifth published colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project (ISLP), presenting papers from an international team of authors working to develop contemporary, interdisciplinary approaches to linguistics and lexicography.

This is the first general annotated catalogue of books known to Conrad Gesner, the Swiss Renaissance polymath.

Apostolic Constitutions, as edited by Paul de Lagarde, who corrects the Greek text extensively from the Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic and Coptic translations.

Catena on selected passages from the Gospels, from Eusebius of Caesarea and others.

Two chief texts of the pseudo-Clementine literature: the Homilies in Greek, and the Recognitions in Syriac

The Lights of Revelation and the Secrets of Interpretation is a classic thirteenth-century commentary on the Qur'an.

In this translation based on the original Arabic text, Averroes defends the compatibility of philosophical investigation and Islam.

This volume contains the Greek and Syriac versions of the Contra Manicheos by Titus, Bishop of Bostra, as well as the letters of Pope Julius I and a brief expostion of the Christian faith by Gregory the Thaumaturge.

Encyclopaedic account of seventeenth century Ethiopia from contemporary sources, includes later commentary and both appendices. Copiously illustrated.

This work contains three dialogues on love, desire, and the love of God, by a Jewish physician and philosopher.

This splendid collection from the Khedivial Library contains Arabic calligraphy produced from the first century until AH 1240 (AD 1825).

Islam and the Muslim world, for missionaries, as of 1916; extensive survey of the subject, notes on missionary strategy and tactics. Extensive bibliographic appendix

The life and work of al-Ghazali, published for the Christian Literature Society of India. Bibligraphic appendix of Egyptian publications on and by al-Ghazali.

The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is the publication of the research papers presented in the Annual Symposium of the Society at the University of Toronto. The papers cover different aspects of Coptic Studies.

This document details the nineteenth-century controversy over the distribution of Bibles to the laity. This translation by a Low Church baronet includes an introduction addressed to 'all members of the Church of Christ', the original document in Latin, and translations in Italian and English.

An extract from Collectanea Christiana Orientalia (2005)

Three friends go to the library one day and check out a book titled Good vs. Evil. They start reading the book, but soon they find themselves in the story. Find out about the adventures they endure to get out of the book and back into their own world.

The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative linguistics and the history of the human language. The Journal contains articles written in English and Russian, as well as scientific reviews, discussions and reports from international linguistic conferences and seminars.

This volume introduces the concept of the Settlement Matrix, a heuristic model that connects the analysis of the symbolic and practical aspects of human culture by placing them both within the same spaces defined by a settlement and its support area.

A bilingual edition (Syriac and English) of the church festivals (Christmas, Epiphany, presentation to the temple, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, Pentecost, etc.) as used by the Syriac Orthodox Church today.

A bilingual edition (Syriac and English) of the service of burial as used by the Syriac Orthodox Church today.

A bilingual edition (Syriac and English) of the service of matrimony as used by the Syriac Orthodox Church today.

A bilingual edition (Syriac and English) of the service of baptism as used by the Syriac Orthodox Church today.

MOSAIKjournal was established in 2009 as an interdisciplinary e-journal primarily specializing in research on antiquity. Each volume is dedicated to a special topic of current academic interest. The aim of this new journal is to give scholars a joint forum of discussion and to synthesize results of different disciplines.

This book is a catalogue of the idiophones acquired by the Department of the Near East of the British Museum since the mid-nineteenth century. copper and bronze clappers and cymbals from Nimrud and from other prestigious locations and a remarkable collection of bronze bells mainly from Nimrud, unearthed by Layard around 1850.

The mythology, history, and ritual of the Mandaeans, with an account of their clergy, ritual, language, and numbers, written by a Syriac Christian who was French consul in Mosul for twenty years.