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Samaritan Scribes and Manuscripts

By: Alan David Crown

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Samaritan Scribes and Manuscripts

By: Alan David Crown

This book aims to provide the critical tools to help scholars in their use of Samaritan manuscripts. The basic codicological tools is a series of complementary data-bases compiled from typological studies of the physical properties of manuscripts. Each typology is in effect a diachronic profile created by painstaking comparison and analysis of the physical properties of manuscripts of known provenance and/or date. Using these typologies or diachronic profiles it is possible to evaluate the chronology of the physical characteristics of any manuscript - the quire or gathering structure, ink, ruling, spacing of the text on the folio, sewing of the sections ... Naturally, the more information available about the physical properties of any manuscript the better the chance of making correlations between the typologies of different properties. The basic rule in palaeography and codicology is that the researcher works on an inductive basis from as wide a sample as possible of dated manuscripts. It is hoped that in the studies in this volume, evidence has been provided which will serve as a guide both to the appearance and the nature of Samaritan manuscripts and to the evaluative process that one would employ in examining them for codicological purposes. The reader should be able to apply the criteria provided here to the evaluation of whatever data can be retrieved from any undated Samaritan manuscripts with which he is confronted. Alan D. Crown in the preface

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161474902

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A Bibliography of the Samaritans

By: Alan David Crown

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A Bibliography of the Samaritans

By: Alan David Crown

Contains nearly 1,000 new items directly concerned with Samaritan studies written since 1984, retains the alphabetical arrangement by author and the subject index, and supplies a new title index.

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402

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Scarecrow Press

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0810826461

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9780810826465

The Curse of Ham

Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

By: David M. Goldenberg

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The Curse of Ham

Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

By: David M. Goldenberg

How old is prejudice against black people? Were the racist attitudes that fueled the Atlantic slave trade firmly in place 700 years before the European discovery of sub-Saharan Africa? In this groundbreaking book, David Goldenberg seeks to discover how dark-skinned peoples, especially black Africans, were portrayed in the Bible and by those who interpreted the Bible--Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Unprecedented in rigor and breadth, his investigation covers a 1,500-year period, from ancient Israel (around 800 B.C.E.) to the eighth century C.E., after the birth of Islam. By tracing the development of anti-Black sentiment during this time, Goldenberg uncovers views about race, color, and slavery that took shape over the centuries--most centrally, the belief that the biblical Ham and his descendants, the black Africans, had been cursed by God with eternal slavery. Goldenberg begins by examining a host of references to black Africans in biblical and postbiblical Jewish literature. From there he moves the inquiry from Black as an ethnic group to black as color, and early Jewish attitudes toward dark skin color. He goes on to ask when the black African first became identified as slave in the Near East, and, in a powerful culmination, discusses the resounding influence of this identification on Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thinking, noting each tradition's exegetical treatment of pertinent biblical passages. Authoritative, fluidly written, and situated at a richly illuminating nexus of images, attitudes, and history, The Curse of Ham is sure to have a profound and lasting impact on the perennial debate over the roots of racism and slavery, and on the study of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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468

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Princeton University Press

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1400828546

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9781400828548

Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1970-1994

By: David Scholer

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Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1970-1994

By: David Scholer

This is a sequel to the immensely useful Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1948-1969, which was the first volume to appear in the Nag Hammadi Studies series. The volume provides a complete integration of Supplements I-XXIV to the Bibliography as published in Novum Testamentum 1971-1997, with additions and corrections. In total the update contains over 6092 entries. Nag Hammadi and Gnostic studies continue to be of critical importance for the study of ancient religions in the Graeco-Roman world and for the study of the world of early Christianity, and the present bibliography provides an indispensable reference tool for work in these fields.

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BRILL

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9004439641

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 2 (900-1050)

By: David Thomas,Alexander Mallett

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 2 (900-1050)

By: David Thomas,Alexander Mallett

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 2 (CMR2) is the second part of a general history of relations between the faiths. Covering the period from 900 to 1050, it comprises a series of introductory essays, together with the main body of more than one hundred detailed entries on all the works by Christians and Muslims about and against one another that are known from this period. These entries provide biographical details of the authors where known, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between leading scholars in the field, CMR2 is an indispensable basis for research in all elements of the history of Christian-Muslim relations.

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BRILL

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9004216189

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9789004216181

Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe: Volume 1, Italy (excluding the City of Rome), Spain and Gaul

By: David Noy

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Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe: Volume 1, Italy (excluding the City of Rome), Spain and Gaul

By: David Noy

The first readily-accessible and completely up to date survey of the Jewish inscriptions of Western Europe.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521619777

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9780521619776

Slave Players

Harry Rider, Private Detective

By: David R. Pummer

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Slave Players

Harry Rider, Private Detective

By: David R. Pummer

Harry Rider, private detective, is just trying to get by. He has regular clients for background checks, the occasional missing person or find a long lost relative, but nothing like this. He is thrust into a world he had only heard about. One that could get him killed.

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AuthorHouse

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1452031770

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9781452031774

Sectarianism in Early Judaism

Sociological Advances

By: David J. Chalcraft

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Sectarianism in Early Judaism

Sociological Advances

By: David J. Chalcraft

Sectarianism in Early Judaism' applies recent developments in sociological analysis to sect formation and development in early Judaism. The essays examine sectarianism in a wide range of different forms: the many layers of redaction in religious texts; the development arcs of sectarian groups; the role of sectarianism across Jewish history as well as in the time of the Second Temple; and the relations within and between sects and between sects and wider society. The book aims to establish a conceptual framework for the analysis of sects and, in doing so, makes particular use of the work of Max Weber and Bryan Wilson, exploring the limits of their typologies and sociological theories.

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Routledge

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1317491386

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Samaritan Scribes and Manuscripts

Samaritan Scribes and Manuscripts

A Bibliography of the Samaritans

A Bibliography of the Samaritans

The Curse of Ham

The Curse of Ham

Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1970-1994

Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1970-1994

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 2 (900-1050)

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 2 (900-1050)

Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe: Volume 1, Italy (excluding the City of Rome), Spain and Gaul

Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe: Volume 1, Italy (excluding the City of Rome), Spain and Gaul

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