In this book Kadushin offers a running commentary on sections of Leviticus Rabbah. His goal is not only to explicate individual sections of this Late Antique midrashic work, but also to highlight the basic conceptual framework within which the rabbis worked. Kadushin's commentary highlights the indeterminacy of belief and the genuine emphatic trends that distinguish rabbinic Judaism while also …
This study analyzes the history of the festival of Sukkot during the second temple and rabbinic periods. While the Jerusalem temple stood, Sukkot was the preeminent festival and primary pilgrimage. The cult observed the festal week with sacrifices, processions, fertility rites and other temple rituals. The destruction of the second temple in 70 CE left rabbinic Judaism with the question of how …
The concept of information freshness has developed over the last few years into an active and rapidly growing area of research. It has become known as the Age of Information (AoI). After its initial formal introduction, it became clear that it was very relevant (if not crucial) for numerous applications, ranging from autonomous vehicle systems, the Internet of Things, real-time computing to dat…
Vila Romano-British dan Pemakaman Anglo-Saxon di Eccles, Kent menyajikan studi tentang lembah Medway tengah dan bawah selama milenium pertama Masehi. Fokus utamanya adalah vila Romawi Eccles dan pemakaman Anglo-Saxon, yang digali antara tahun 1962–1976 dan dipimpin oleh Alec Detsicas. Sebuah laporan tentang vila penting ini sepanjang sejarah panjangnya disajikan, dan penilaian ulang terhadap …
Ergonomi produksi – ilmu dan praktik merancang tempat kerja industri untuk mengoptimalkan kesejahteraan manusia dan kinerja sistem – adalah tantangan kompleks bagi seorang desainer. Manusia adalah sumber daya yang berharga dan fleksibel dalam setiap sistem penciptaan, dan selama mereka tetap sehat, waspada, dan termotivasi, mereka berkinerja baik dan juga menjadi lebih kompeten seiring wakt…
Meningkatkan kualitas produk telah menjadi hal yang penting bagi rantai makanan di negara-negara berkembang. Kualitas dan inovasi dalam rantai makanan: pelajaran dari Afrika menyajikan serangkaian studi kasus tentang peningkatan kualitas makanan dan inovasi dalam rantai makanan Afrika, dengan kasus dari Afrika Selatan, Ethiopia, Benin, Uganda, dan Senegal. Buku ini didasarkan pada proyek peneli…
Aftermath: Genocide, Memory and History examines how genocide is remembered and represented in both popular and scholarly memory, integrating scholarship on the Holocaust with the study of other genocides through a comparative framework. Scholars from a range of disciplines re-evaluate narratives of past conflict to explore how memory of genocide is mobilised in the aftermath, tracing the devel…
One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn’t suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians, by pundits and other publics. How well scholars in a discipline articulate their own definition can influence not only issues of image but the very success of the discipline in serving students and its other constituencies. The Activist WPA is an effort to address this ran…
The topic of bioenergy is a multidisciplinary one, where the use of resources and skills can be optimized for the development of sustainable models. It is a time for green strategies, but also for action. It is, therefore, necessary to implement projects that address virtuous examples of the circular bioeconomy. All politicians are called on to contribute, because this global goal can only be a…
The topic of bioenergy is a multidisciplinary one, where the use of resources and skills can be optimized for the development of sustainable models. It is a time for green strategies, but also for action. It is, therefore, necessary to implement projects that address virtuous examples of the circular bioeconomy. All politicians are called on to contribute, because this global goal can only be a…