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A philosophical inquiry which explores the role and limitations of discursive reason in understanding ultimate reality. It provides case studies of mysticism within Advaita-Vedanta Hinduism, Madhyamika Buddhism and Nicene Christianity to demonstrate the value of the approach.

A unique analysis of the conflicting views toward Judaism reflected in the work of German philosophers Hegel and Nietzsche. Through his masterly analysis of the writings of both men, Yirmiyahu Yovel shows that anti-Jewish prejudice can exist alongside a philosophy of reason, while a philosophy of power must not necessarily be anti-Semitic.

A complete corpus of the extant royal inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian kings Ame l-Marduk (561-560 BC), Neriglissar (559-556 BC), and Nabonidus (555-539 BC), who were three of the last native kings of Babylonia before the conquest of Cyrus the Great.

"Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University."--Title page.

Proceedings of an international conference held at Tel Aviv University's Institute of Archaeology in 2014, covering Hellenistic history, the archaeology of Judea, and biblical studies, in order to reappraise and situate Judea within its broader regional and transregional imperial contexts.

Examines the work of satirists through the lenses of humor studies, cultural theory, and rhetorical and social philosophy, arriving at a new definition of the comic art form.

A collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation and the socioeconomic and political spheres.

Documents 170 bird species in West Virginia, with information on occurrence, population density, change since the first Atlas, and population estimates. Describes the state's geology and changing habitats as well as historical and contemporary bird conservation.

An investigation into the history of ciphers, codebreaking, and artificial languages that focuses on the Rohonc Codex, a four-hundred-year-old manuscript written entirely in cipher.

A collection of essays examining transatlantic Quakerism in the eighteenth century, a period during which Quakers became increasingly sectarian even as they expanded their engagement with worldly affairs.

A collection of essays on the work of Latin American philosopher Enrique Dussel, focusing on his ethics of liberation.

A collection of essays examining the extent to which rhetoric's relation to the sacred is one of ineffability and how our response to the sacred integrates the divine (or the altogether other) into the human order.

A collection of essays examining the rhetorics that underlie democratic politics in Latin America and the United States.

A collection of essays which deploy rhetorical lenses to explore how mathematics influences the values and beliefs with which we assess the world and make decisions, as well as how our values and beliefs influence the kinds of mathematical instruments we construct and accept.

Explores the western European idea of the witches' sabbath, based on translations of five texts dating from the 1430s, and examines how these texts went on to influence conceptions of diabolical witchcraft for centuries to come.

Examines legal documents and magic texts relevant to two cases where authorities in Tudor England confronted practicing magicians. Explores how magicians thought about the world, where they got their ideas, and how their magic was supposed to work.

A collection of essays exploring the subject of friendship in Jewish culture, history, and religion from ancient Israel to the twenty-first century.

Examines the life and writings of Roman Catholic Church reformer Ivan Illich (1926-2002) in the context of the wider field of cultural criticism that took shape in the 1960s and beyond.

Examines a rare set of family documents from central Mexico, originally written in Nahuatl, from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Illustrates a complex indigenous world, with the challenges and opportunities of life within the Spanish colonial system.

A collection of essays exploring how scholars can discern the voices, thoughts, activities, and motivations of indigenous Christians of Asia, Africa, and the Americas in texts produced in the context of European domination from 1500 to the present.

Explores ten monumental stained-glass windows, designed by the artist Jacob Landau, for the Keneseth Israel synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.

Explores the late medieval concepts of absence and void, with a special focus on the materiality of emptiness in later medieval manuscripts.

Studies Romanesque effigies as a distinctive form of medieval sculpture, emphasizing the early twelfth century as a time of rapid change in the art, culture, and politics of northern Europe.

A reexamination of French Impressionism, focusing on the culinary metaphors that the most influential nineteenth-century critics used to express attraction or disgust toward artworks.

Explores the architectural and artistic projects of Philip II of Spain, placing them in the wider context of the peninsular, European, and transoceanic Iberian dominions.

Investigates how medieval urban planning and artistic programming worked together to form dynamic environments, demonstrating the agency of objects, styles, and spaces in mapping the late medieval city.