Author: John R. Bentley
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: japanese, studies, library, brill, prose, old, descriptive, grammar
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 9004123083
ISBN-13: 9789004123083

The oldest written stage of the Japanese language forms the subject of John Bentley’s important volume. The underlying texts (also presented here) are those of the religious liturgies (norito) and imperial edicts (A.D. 685). Part one deals with the liturgies, the writing system, texts, and phonology and the dating problem. The main chapters of the book are a description of nominals, verbs, verbal suffixes, auxiliary verbs, particles, and conjunctions. A chapter on the lexicon, detailing many hapax legomena and interesting words, makes this into a major reference work on early Japanese.

Author: John W. Marte
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: law, one, mediterranean, medieval, texts, contexts, ancient, greco, god, philo, alexandria, mosaic, roman
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $77.00
ISBN-10: 0391041908
ISBN-13: 9780391041905

This book studies the influence of Hellenism and Greco-Roman philosophy on Philo of Alexandria’s view of the Mosaic law. In particular, the book examines how Philo integrated Greco-Roman conceptions of law, such as Unwritten Law, the Law of Nature, and the "Living Law," into his understanding of the Mosaic law of the Jews and the lives of the Patriarchs. Philo transformed Greco-Roman law and shaped it into something peculiar to a Jewish understanding of the cosmos and its creation by one God. Martens examines Philo’s creativity in adapting Greco-Roman law to create something new in

Author: William H. Taylor
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: mission, nigeria, studies, religion, africa, east, scottish, educate, history, educational, work, presbyterian
Number of Pages: 281
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 9004107134
ISBN-13: 9789004107137

By using primary sources, this case study seeks to shed new light on the nature and extent of European (in this case Scottish) educational pioneering work in Africa (in this case, eastern Nigeria). It examines the essential differences between (a) the pre-colonial period, (b) the colonial period, and (c) the pre-independence period. It argues that non-formal community and political education were continuously as central to the Christian (here, Presbyterian) missionaries’ work as was the formal schooling of the young - females as well as males. While the curricula reflected the missionari

Authors:Edwin Curley,  Patricia Fetzer Moreau,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: spinoza, studies, intellectual, history, brill, chicago, issues, directions, proceedings, conference
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $152.00
ISBN-10: 9004093346
ISBN-13: 9789004093348

The proceedings of the first major international conference on the philosophy of Spinoza to be held in the United States are published here. Contained are papers on all aspects of Spinoza’s thought by 31 distinguished scholars from the United States, Europe, Israel and Australia including Jonathan Bennett, Alan Donagan, Margaret Wilson, Amelie Rorty, Richard Popkin, Jean-Marie Beyssade, Alexandre Matheron, Etienne Balibar, Pierre Macherey, Emilia Giancotti, Hubertus Hubbeling, and Yirmiyahu Yovel. Topics discussed are Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Moral, P

Author: C. Jarmo
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: sociology, studies, anthropology, honour, anderson, nels, theoretical, monographs, development, reorganization, mid, twentieth, century, nigeria
Number of Pages: 169
Published: 1987-09-01
List price: $92.00
ISBN-10: 9004083405
ISBN-13: 9789004083400

Author: Nathaniel Deutsch
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: brill, series, jewish, studies, antiquity, regency, gate, angelic, vice, guardians
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9004109099
ISBN-13: 9789004109094

This exploration of the phenomenon of angelic vice regency in late antiquity compares figures from Judaism, Mandaeism and Gnosticism. The text should be of use to those interested in the connections between late antique mythologies and the parallels between Jewish mysticism and Mandaeism.

Author: R.L. Nicholso
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: states, crusader, iii, joscelyn
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 1973-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9004036768
ISBN-13: 9789004036765