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History of the J.G. Brill Company

By: Debra Brill

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History of the J.G. Brill Company

By: Debra Brill

A biography of a company that for years was on the cutting edge of development of a rapidly evolving and growing industry--production of streetcars and railroad cars.

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Indiana University Press

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0253339499

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9780253339492

The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition

By: Debra Scoggins Ballentine

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The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition

By: Debra Scoggins Ballentine

There are many ancient West Asian stories that narrate the victory of a warrior deity over an enemy, typically a sea-god or sea dragon, and his rise to divine kingship. In The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition, Debra Scoggins Ballentine analyzes this motif, arguing that it was used within ancient political and socio-religious discourses to bolster particular divine hierarchies, kings, institutions, and groups, as well as to attack others. Situating her study of the conflict topos within contemporary theorizations of myth by Bruce Lincoln, Russell McCutcheon, and Jonathan Z. Smith, Ballentine examines narratives of divine combat and instances of this conflict motif. Her study cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries as well as constructed time periods, focusing not only on the Hebrew Bible but also incorporating Mesopotamian, early Jewish, early Christian, and rabbinic texts, spanning a period of almost three millennia - from the eighteenth century BCE to the early middle ages CE. The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition advances our understanding of the conflict topos in ancient west Asian and early Jewish and Christian literatures and of how mythological and religious ideas are used both to validate and render normative particular ideologies and socio-political arrangements, and to delegitimize and invalidate others.

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Oxford University Press

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0190273151

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9780190273156

Beyond Expulsion

Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg

By: Debra Kaplan

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Beyond Expulsion

Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg

By: Debra Kaplan

Beyond Expulsion is a history of Jewish-Christian interactions in early modern Strasbourg, a city from which the Jews had been expelled and banned from residence in the late fourteenth century. This study shows that the Jews who remained in the Alsatian countryside continued to maintain relationships with the city and its residents in the ensuing period. During most of the sixteenth century, Jews entered Strasbourg on a daily basis, where they participated in the city's markets, litigated in its courts, and shared their knowledge of Hebrew and Judaica with Protestant Reformers. By the end of the sixteenth century, Strasbourg became an increasingly orthodox Lutheran city, and city magistrates and religious leaders sought to curtail contact between Jews and Christians. This book unearths the active Jewish participation in early modern society, traces the impact of the Reformation on local Jews, discusses the meaning of tolerance, and describes the shifting boundaries that divided Jewish and Christian communities.

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Stanford University Press

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0804774420

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9780804774420

Hebrews

By: Debra J. Bucher,Estella Boggs Horning

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Hebrews

By: Debra J. Bucher,Estella Boggs Horning

What constitutes a faithful life? At its most basic level, the New Testament book of Hebrews considers this essential question and pleads with its audience to find in faithful living the rest that Christ offers. The book begins with a poetic reflection on the one who lived the most faithful of lives—Jesus—and concludes with words of exhortation to go and do likewise. In the 37th volume in the Believers Church Bible Commentary series, scholars Debra J. Bucher and Estella Horning examine at great length one important aspect of Hebrews: Jesus as the “new covenant” and the “once for all,” better sacrifice who replaces the daily and yearly sacrifices offered in the temple in Jerusalem. The authors give attention to the ways this idea has been used to minimize the value of other religious traditions and even to legitimize the horrors of the mid-twentieth century. They carefully unpack the language around sacrifice and covenant based on the saving work of Jesus, drawing out encouragement found in Hebrews to live as individuals and as a community led by Jesus, the pioneer and high priest. Bucher and Horning don’t shy away from the difficult language in Hebrews, but rather help readers understand its historical context and then how to use the text with love within our own context. About the Believers Church Bible Commentary series This readable commentary series is for all who seek more fully to understand the original message of Scripture and its meaning for today—Sunday school teachers, members of Bible study groups, students, pastors, and other seekers. —From the Series Foreword

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MennoMedia, Inc.

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1513805983

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Reading Herodotus

A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History

By: Debra Hamel

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Reading Herodotus

A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History

By: Debra Hamel

Hamel takes us on a delightful, audacious romp through The History of the Persian Wars. Debra Hamel’s book is a lively introduction to The History of the Persian Wars, Herodotus's account of Persia's expansion under four kings—Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes—and its eventual collision with the city-states of Greece. The History can be a long slog for modern readers, but it is full of salacious tales about sex, violent death, divine prophecies, and cannibals. Following the structure of the original work, Hamel leads the reader through a colorful tour of the central stories that compose The History. She highlights the more interesting and important parts of the story while providing readers who are new to Herodotus with the background information necessary to appreciate the author’s wide-ranging subject matter. At once academic and cheeky, the experience of this book is like reading Herodotus while simultaneously consulting a history of Greece and a scholarly commentary on the text.

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JHU Press

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1421407159

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History of the J.G. Brill Company

By: Debra Brill

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History of the J.G. Brill Company

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A biography of a company that for years was on the cutting edge of development of a rapidly evolving and growing industry--production of streetcars and railroad cars.

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Indiana University Press

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God Comforts Israel

By: Debra Moody Bass

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God Comforts Israel

By: Debra Moody Bass

What was the message in Isaiah 40-55? Who was the intended audience? Chapters 40-55 of the book of Isaiah, also known as Second Isaiah or Deutero-Isaiah, have been examined and discussed by many biblical scholars. In this new work, Debra Moody Bass synthesizes the work of noted authorities on Deutero-Isaiah, recent scholarly analysis, and archaeological work from prominent archaeologists such as E. Stern to identify the audience and message in this critical passage. God Comforts Israel identifies the message God gave to the people of Israel in the 6th century B.C.E. as a message of comfort. This comfort was all encompassing and was meant to encourage the exiles to return to Jerusalem and become the "Servant of Yahweh" and proclaim to "the ends of the earth" the salvation of God.

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University Press of America

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0761833471

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9780761833475

The Battle of Arginusae

Victory at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War

By: Debra Hamel

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The Battle of Arginusae

Victory at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War

By: Debra Hamel

Aimed at classics students and general readers, the book provides an in-depth examination of the fraught relationship between Athens' military commanders and its vaunted sovereign democracy.

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JHU Press

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1421416816

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9781421416816

Going South

Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement

By: Debra L. Schultz

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Going South

Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement

By: Debra L. Schultz

Compelling first-hand stories of Jewish women fighting racism in the American south while coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust.

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NYU Press

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081479775X

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9780814797754

The People of Plato

A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics

By: Debra Nails

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The People of Plato

A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics

By: Debra Nails

The People of Plato is the first study since 1823 devoted exclusively to the identification of, and relationships among, the individuals represented in the complete Platonic corpus. It provides details of their lives, and it enables one to consider the persons of Plato's works, and those of other Socratics, within a nexus of important political, social, and familial relationships. Debra Nails makes a broad spectrum of scholarship accessible to the non-specialist. She distinguishes what can be stated confidently from what remains controversial and--with full references to ancient and contemporary sources--advances our knowledge of the men and women of the Socratic milieu. Bringing the results of modern epigraphical and papyrological research to bear on long-standing questions, The People of Plato is a fascinating resource and valuable research tool for the field of ancient Greek philosophy and for literary, political, and historical studies more generally. In discrete sections, Nails discusses systems of Athenian affiliation, significant historical episodes that link lives and careers of the late fifth century, and their implications for the dramatic dates of the dialogues. The volume includes a rich array of maps, stemmata, and diagrams, plus a glossary, chronology, plan of the agora in 399 B.C.E., bibliography, and indices.

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Hackett Publishing

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1603840273

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9781603840279

Yoga

The Art of Transformation

By: Debra Diamond,Molly Emma Aitken

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Yoga

The Art of Transformation

By: Debra Diamond,Molly Emma Aitken

Published by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Yoga: The Art of Transformation, October 19, 2013 - January 26, 2014. Organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the exhibition travels to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, February 22-May 18, 2014, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 22-September 7, 2014.

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Smithsonian Books

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1588344592

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9781588344595

Saracens, Demons, & Jews

Making Monsters in Medieval Art

By: Debra Higgs Strickland

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Saracens, Demons, & Jews

Making Monsters in Medieval Art

By: Debra Higgs Strickland

These images, which reached a broad and socially varied audience across Western Europe, appeared in virtually all artistic media, including illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, sculpture, metalwork, and tapestry.".

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Princeton University Press

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0691057192

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9780691057194

Interfaces with English Aspect

Diachronic and Empirical Studies

By: Debra Ziegeler

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Interfaces with English Aspect

Diachronic and Empirical Studies

By: Debra Ziegeler

The field of verbal aspect has been a focus for the derivation of a multiplicity of theoretical approaches ranging over decades of linguistic research. From the point of view of recent studies, though, there has been relatively little emphasis on the nature of the interaction of aspect with other categories, and the ways in which our knowledge of aspect acts as a primary semantic contributor to the creation of other basic verbal parameters such as tense and modality. This book aims to cross some of the categorial borders, using a collection of studies on the interfaces of English aspect with other grammatical domains. The studies in the book have been assembled in order to answer two central issues surrounding the nature of English aspect: the possibility of the historical co-existence of a perfective and imperfective grammatical distinction in English, and the derivation of modality as an inference arising out of specific conflicts and combinations of lexical and grammatical aspect. In answering these questions, a data-driven, rather than a theory-driven approach is favoured, and the general principles of Gricean pragmatics and grammaticalisation are applied to a wide range of empirical sources to propose alternative explanations to some long-established problems of English historical linguistics and semantics.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027230927

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9789027230928

Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw

Animals, Language, Sensation

By: Debra Hawhee

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Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw

Animals, Language, Sensation

By: Debra Hawhee

We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetoric. Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, what you find is surprising: they’re crawling with animals. With Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw, Debra Hawhee explores this unexpected aspect of early thinking about rhetoric, going on from there to examine the enduring presence of nonhuman animals in rhetorical theory and education. In doing so, she not only offers a counter-history of rhetoric but also brings rhetorical studies into dialogue with animal studies, one of the most vibrant areas of interest in humanities today. By removing humanity and human reason from the center of our study of argument, Hawhee frees up space to study and emphasize other crucial components of communication, like energy, bodies, and sensation. Drawing on thinkers from Aristotle to Erasmus, Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw tells a new story of the discipline’s history and development, one animated by the energy, force, liveliness, and diversity of our relationships with our “partners in feeling,” other animals.

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University of Chicago Press

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022670677X

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9780226706771

Comprehensive Criminal Procedure 2006

By: Ronald Jay Allen,Joseph L. Hoffmann,Debra A. Livingston,William J. Stuntz

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Comprehensive Criminal Procedure 2006

By: Ronald Jay Allen,Joseph L. Hoffmann,Debra A. Livingston,William J. Stuntz

For the cases and rules relevant to both investigative and adjudicative issues in criminal procedure, turn to this timely and comprehensive supplement. Designed for use with either of the authors' casebooks, Comprehensive Criminal Procedure, Second Edition, or Criminal Procedure: Investigation and Right to Counsel, this supplement is equally useful with a wide variety of teaching materials. This 2006 Case and Statutory Supplement offers the most important developments on: search and seizure interrogation of suspects evidence the Supreme Court's 2005-2006 term it also provides additional materials to round out general constitutional or statutory precepts to deepen student understanding. Be sure to examine a copy before your next course.

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Aspen Publishers

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0735557667

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9780735557666

Comprehensive Criminal Procedure, 2008 Supplement

By: Ronald Jay Allen,Joseph L. Hoffmann,Debra Livingston,Henry J Friendly Professor of Law William J Stuntz

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Comprehensive Criminal Procedure, 2008 Supplement

By: Ronald Jay Allen,Joseph L. Hoffmann,Debra Livingston,Henry J Friendly Professor of Law William J Stuntz

To ensure that you have the most up-to-date and complete materials for your Criminal Procedure class, be sure to use Comprehensive Criminal Procedure, 2008 Case Supplement .

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Aspen Publishers

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0735571600

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9780735571600

So You Think You're Good at Trvia

By: Patrick Downs,Debra Weiss

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So You Think You're Good at Trvia

By: Patrick Downs,Debra Weiss

Trivia buffs can rate themselves with 2,000 of the most intriguing questions ever assembled on movies, television, art, music, nature, sports, literature, food, science, and many other subjects. This book is in a user-friendly format that allows readers to find the answers without seeing the answers to other questions. (August)

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Signet

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0451205324

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9780451205322

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