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Walking on the Pages of the Word of God : Self, Land, and Text Among Evangeli…
In Walking on the Pages of the Word of God Aron Engberg explores the religious language and identities of evangelical volunteer workers in contemporary Jerusalem. The volunteers are connected to Christian organizations which consider their work a natural consequence of the biblical promises to Israel and their responsibility to “bless the Jewish people”. Relying on ethnographic data of the…
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- 9789004411890
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- 228 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Currents of Encounter, Volume: 59
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Verse and Transmutation : A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Criti…
Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous recipes for the philosophers’ stone dating from the fifteenth century. These were circulated and received in association with each other until the mid-seventeenth century, when a number of them appeared in Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. These …
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- 9789004254831
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- 390 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, Volume: 21
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Treason : Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame
Volume Editor: Larissa Tracy The willingness to betray one’s country, one’s people, one’s family—to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another—is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, implications, and consequences are rarely clear cut and are often subjective. Set a…
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- 9789004400696
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- 432 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Explorations in Medieval Culture, Volume: 10
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Translating Technology in Africa. Volume 1: Metrics
Translating Technology in Africa brings together authors from different disciplines who engage with Science and Technology Studies (STS) to stimulate curiosity about the diversity of sociotechnical assemblages on the African continent. The contributions provide detailed praxeographic examinations of technologies at work in postcolonial contexts. The series of 5 volumes aims to catalyse the deve…
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- 9789004678354
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- 192 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Trust in Contemporary Society
Trust in Contemporary Society, by well-known trust researchers, deals with conceptual, theoretical and social interaction analyses, historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies, and methodological issues related to trust. The authors are from a variety of disciplines: psychology, sociology, political science, organizational studies, history, and philosoph…
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- 9789004390430
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- 284 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- International Comparative Social Studies, Volume: 42
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Visions of Justice : Sharīʿa and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia
Visions of Justice offers an exploration of legal consciousness among the Muslim communities of Central Asia from the end of the eighteenth century through the fall of the Russian Empire. Paolo Sartori surveys how colonialism affected the way in which Muslims formulated their convictions about entitlements and became exposed to different notions of morality. Situating his work within a range of…
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- '9789004330900
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- 408 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies,
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War Traditions from the Qumran Caves : Re-Thinking Textual Stability and Flui…
In this volume, Hanna Vanonen offers a fresh view to the Milhamah and Sefer ha-Milhamah manuscripts by producing a thorough close-reading analysis of them, paying attention not only to their contents but also to manuscripts as material artifacts. Vanonen demonstrates that studying the stability and instability of the War traditions does more justice to the complex material than a traditional ch…
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- 9789004512061
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- 352 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 139
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Religious Minorities in the Middle East : Domination, Self-Empowerment, Accom…
The relationship between religious majorities and minorities in the Middle East is often construed as one of domination versus powerlessness. While this may indeed be the case, to claim that this is only or always so is to give a simplified..
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- 978-90-04-21684-6
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Truth and Responsibility: A Personalist Reading of Newman
This book goes beyond a simple study of Newman’s thought and work and seeks to apply his deductions to modern value conflicts. Although it will be of particular relevance to academic readers with some prior knowledge of Newman’s works, it may also be of wider interest to students of history, philosophy, theology and spirituality. More generally, its unusual focus on Newman’s epistemology …
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- 9789004682818
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- 244 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Turbulent/Non-Turbulent Interface in Tu…
Antarmuka turbulen/tidak turbulen (TNTI) adalah batas tidak teratur antara aliran turbulen dan irrotasional, yang secara luas ada dalam berbagai jenis aliran, seperti lapisan batas turbulen, front nyala pembakaran, bercak turbulen di atmosfer dan laut, dispersal polutan, dan lain-lain. Karena pentingnya dalam mempengaruhi karakteristik intermiten dan proses pencampuran serta hiburan aliran turb…
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- 978-3-031-78151-3
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- online resource ( XI, 247 Pages)
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- Seri Buku IUTAM
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- 532.052706 JIN t
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