Aleph – Beth

Aleph – BethDie Handschriften aus Qumran und weiteren Fundorten bieten einen einzigartigen Einblick in das Hebrische und Aramische der Zeit des Zweiten Tempels. Das philologische Wrterbuch erschliet in der Tradition der kritischen Lexikographie antiker Texte erstmals umfassend den nichtbiblischen Wortschatz dieser Quellen (neben den Texten vom Toten Meer auch Geniza Manuskripte), und ordnet ihn in die hebrische bzw. aramische Sprachgeschichte ein.

His poetic reflections

Kealey offers the first full-length study of one of the most powerful figures in twelfth-century England

Prominent among them are the rise of online reading

This piece serves as a crucial text for medical and colonial history as it recounts the most ambitious medical project conceived and carried out to its day

Lewis and Clark

The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics—that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens—but also the central act of Western warfare

Stretching from Malibu to the Mexican border

In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California “can and does furnish the best bad things

The sweetness of music is something that has puzzled Christian theologians for centuries

and mobilized men for war

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