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Out-Heroding Herod

Josephus, Rhetoric, and the Herod Narratives

By: Tamar Landau

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Out-Heroding Herod

Josephus, Rhetoric, and the Herod Narratives

By: Tamar Landau

The book examines the parallel accounts of the rise, reign and fall of King Herod of Judea in the works of Flavius Josephus: Bellum Judaicum 1.204-673 and Antiquitates Judaicae 14-17. The main questions considered here concern the very existence of two separate accounts of the same historical period, the significant rhetorical differences between them, and the ways in which Josephus portrays two different images of the same man: Herod of Judea. Also under consideration here are literary and historiographical questions regarding the structure of the narratives, the implementation of rhetorical tools, the historian’s authorial voice, and the relations with earlier sources and other examples of Jewish, Greek and Roman historiography. The two Herod narratives clearly demonstrate Josephus’ meticulous implementation of rhetorical tools and dramatic devices, mostly influenced by Greek historiography. A few Roman echoes and a deeper level of Jewish assumptions appear as well. Josephus’ careful composition and highly charged rhetoric is here explained by using the modern theory of narratology. Reading the Herod narratives in light of narratological concepts like focalization, order and the narrator’s voice reveals new angles for understanding Josephus’ method as a historian and new insights concerning the image of Herod and the rhetorical means used by Josephus in portraying him.

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9047408799

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The Heart Is a Mirror

The Sephardic Folktale

By: Tamar Alexander-Frizer

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The Heart Is a Mirror

The Sephardic Folktale

By: Tamar Alexander-Frizer

Jewish studies scholars, as well as those interested in folktale studies, will gain much from this fascinating and readable volume.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814340059

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9780814340059

The Israeli Peace Movement

A Shattered Dream

By: Tamar S. Hermann

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The Israeli Peace Movement

A Shattered Dream

By: Tamar S. Hermann

This book discusses the predicament of the Israeli peace movement, which, paradoxically, following the launching of the Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993, experienced a prolonged, fatal decline in membership, activity, political significance, and media visibility. After presenting the regional and national background to the launching of the peace process and a short history of Israeli peace activism, the book focuses on external and internal processes and interactions experienced by the peace movement, after some basic postulates of its agenda were actually, although never explicitly, embraced by the Rabin government. The book concludes that, despite its organizational decline and the zero credit given to it by the policy makers, in retrospect it appears that the movement contributed significantly to the integration of new ideas for possible solutions to the Middle East conflict in the Israeli mainstream political discourse.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139483447

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9781139483445

The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age

A Globalising World c.1100–600 BCE

By: Tamar Hodos

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The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age

A Globalising World c.1100–600 BCE

By: Tamar Hodos

The Mediterranean's Iron Age period was one of its most dynamic eras. Stimulated by the movement of individuals and groups on an unprecedented scale, the first half of the first millennium BCE witnesses the development of Mediterranean-wide practices, including related writing systems, common features of urbanism, and shared artistic styles and techniques, alongside the evolution of wide-scale trade. Together, these created an engaged, interlinked and interactive Mediterranean. We can recognise this as the Mediterranean's first truly globalising era. This volume introduces students and scholars to contemporary evidence and theories surrounding the Mediterranean from the eleventh century until the end of the seventh century BCE to enable an integrated understanding of the multicultural and socially complex nature of this incredibly vibrant period.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108901174

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9781108901178

Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine

Jewish Statehood and the History of the Middle East Conflict

By: Tamar Amar-Dahl

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Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine

Jewish Statehood and the History of the Middle East Conflict

By: Tamar Amar-Dahl

After half a century of occupation and tremendous costs of the conflict, Israel is still struggling with the idea of a Palestinian state in what is often perceived as the Biblical Eretz Israel. Mapping Zionism, enemy images, peace and war policies, as well as democracy within the Jewish State, the present study offers original insights into Israel’s role in this conflict. By analyzing Israeli history, politics and security-oriented political culture as it has been evolving from 1948 on, this book reveals the ideological and political structures of a Zionist-oriented state and society. In doing so, it uncovers the abyss between the Zionist vision of Eretz Israel on the one hand and the aspiration to achieve normalization, peace and security on the other. In view of this conflict-laden bi-national reality, the Palestinian question is identified as the Achilles‘ heel of Jewish statehood in the Land of Israel. Thus, Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine provides a fresh, innovative, critical and yet accessible perspective on one of the most controversial issues in contemporary history.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110495643

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9783110495645

Upholding Justice

Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650---1750)

By: Tamar Herzog

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Upholding Justice

Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650---1750)

By: Tamar Herzog

Explores the close relationship between judicial institutions and the social fabric of early modern Quito

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University of Michigan Press

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0472113755

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9780472113750

International Organizations in World Politics

By: Tamar Gutner

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International Organizations in World Politics

By: Tamar Gutner

International organizations (IOs) are essential and controversial actors in world politics today. They work on just about every imaginable issue that states cannot easily address individually. This timely and engaging new title offers a comprehensive overview of major IOs and their role in global governance. International Organizations in World Politics by Tamar Gutner presents a variety of theoretical approaches to analyzing the roles and impact of IOs. It then examines the historical development, governance structure, activities, and performance of major IOs. The book offers comprehensive, historically-grounded overviews of the most influential IOs, including the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization. For each IO, there is a detailed case study that illuminates the constraints and challenges the IO faces in areas that include conflict resolution, development, the environment, trade, and financial crisis. The book also examines regional organizations, with an emphasis on the European Union and the euro crisis and the African Union’s peace operations.

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418

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CQ Press

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1483355055

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Molecular Modeling and Simulation

An Interdisciplinary Guide

By: Tamar Schlick

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Molecular Modeling and Simulation

An Interdisciplinary Guide

By: Tamar Schlick

Very broad overview of the field intended for an interdisciplinary audience; Lively discussion of current challenges written in a colloquial style; Author is a rising star in this discipline; Suitably accessible for beginners and suitably rigorous for experts; Features extensive four-color illustrations; Appendices featuring homework assignments and reading lists complement the material in the main text

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387224645

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9780387224640

Regulation of Money Managers

Mutual Funds and Advisers

By: Tamar Frankel,Arthur B. Laby,Ann Taylor Schwing

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Regulation of Money Managers

Mutual Funds and Advisers

By: Tamar Frankel,Arthur B. Laby,Ann Taylor Schwing

The Regulation of Money Managers (with the original subtitle: The Investment Company Act and The Investment Advisers Act) was published in 1978 and 1980. The Second Edition, subtitled Mutual Funds and Advisers, was published in 2001 and has been annually updated since then. It is a comprehensive and exhaustive treatise on investment management regulation. The treatise covers federal and state statutes, their legislative history, common law, judicial decisions, rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, staff reports, and other publications dealing with investment advisers and investment companies. The treatise touches on other financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies, and pension funds. The work also discusses the economic, business, and theoretical aspects of the investment management industry and their effects on the law and on policy. The treatise contains detailed analysis of the history and development of the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act. It examines the definitions in the Acts, including the concept of ‘‘investment adviser,’’ ‘‘affiliates,’’ and ‘‘interested persons.’’ It outlines the duties of investment company directors, the independent directors, and other fiduciaries of investment companies. The treatise deals with the SEC’s enforcement powers and private parties’ rights of action.

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Wolters Kluwer

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145487063X

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9781454870630

Sounding Roman

Representation and Performing Identity in Western Turkey

By: Sonia Tamar Seeman

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Sounding Roman

Representation and Performing Identity in Western Turkey

By: Sonia Tamar Seeman

How do marginalized communities speak back to power when they are excluded from political processes and socially denigrated? In what ways do they use music to sound out their unique histories and empower themselves? How can we hear their voices behind stereotyped and exaggerated portrayals promoted by mainstream communities, record producers and government officials? Sounding Roman: Music and Performing Identity in Western Turkey explores these questions through a historically-grounded and ethnographic study of Turkish Roman ("Gypsies") from the Ottoman period up to the present. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork (1995 to the present), collected oral histories, historical documents of popular culture (recordings, images, song texts, theatrical scripts), legal and administrative documents, this book takes a hard look at historical processes by which Roman are stereotyped as and denigrated as "�ingene"---a derogatory group name equivalent to the English term, "gypsy", and explores creative musical ways by which Roman have forged new musical forms as a means to create and assert new social identities. Sounding Roman presents detailed musical analysis of Turkish Roman musical genres and styles, set within social, historical and political contexts of musical performances. By moving from Byzantine and Ottoman social contexts, we witness the reciprocal construction of ethnic identity of both Roman and Turk through music in the 20th century. From neighborhood weddings held in the streets, informal music lessons, to recording studios and concert stages, the book traces the dynamic negotiation of social identity with new musical sounds. Through a detailed ethnography of Turkish Roman ("Gypsy") musical practices from the Ottoman period to the present, this work investigates the power of music to configure new social identities and pathways for political action, while testing the limits of cultural representation to effect meaningful social change.

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0199949247

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Expanding the Palace of Torah

Orthodoxy and Feminism

By: Tamar Ross

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Expanding the Palace of Torah

Orthodoxy and Feminism

By: Tamar Ross

Expanding the Palace of Torah offers a broad philosophical overview of the challenges the women’s revolution poses to Orthodox Judaism, as well as Orthodox Judaism’s response to those challenges. Writing as an insider—herself an Orthodox Jew—Tamar Ross confronts the radical feminist critique of Judaism as a religion deeply entrenched in patriarchy. Surprisingly, very little work has been done in this area, beyond exploring the leeway for ad hoc solutions to practical problems as they arise on the halakhic plane. In exposing the largely male-focused thrust of the rabbinic tradition and its biblical grounding, she sees this critique as posing a potential threat to the theological heart of traditional Judaism—the belief in divine revelation. This new edition brings this acclaimed and classic text back into print with a new essay by Tamar Ross which examines new developments in feminist thought since the book was first published in 2004.

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Brandeis University Press

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168458051X

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Out-Heroding Herod

Josephus, Rhetoric, and the Herod Narratives

By: Tamar Landau

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Out-Heroding Herod

Josephus, Rhetoric, and the Herod Narratives

By: Tamar Landau

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BRILL

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9047408799

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The Obama Vision and Nuclear Disarmament

By: Emily B. Landau

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The Obama Vision and Nuclear Disarmament

By: Emily B. Landau

The study analyzes the major developments in nuclear arms control and disarmament in the first two years of the Obama presidency, focusing on the impact of the new disarmament agenda on the nuclear nonproliferation regime. The essays compiled here probe the Obama administration's at times conflicting emphases on nuclear arms control and disarmament, and their implications for deterrence and the determination to confront proliferators such as North Korea and Iran. Also explored here are international treaties for control and disarmament of other weapons of mass destruction; the tension in US-Russia relations over the American missile defense program; and implications of the new agenda for the Middle East, particularly as it relates to Israel and the nuclear realm.

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9657425220

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Book's by Tamar Landau

Out-Heroding Herod

Out-Heroding Herod

The Heart Is a Mirror

The Heart Is a Mirror

The Israeli Peace Movement

The Israeli Peace Movement

The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age

The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age

Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine

Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine

Upholding Justice

Upholding Justice

International Organizations in World Politics

International Organizations in World Politics

Molecular Modeling and Simulation

Molecular Modeling and Simulation

Regulation of Money Managers

Regulation of Money Managers

Sounding Roman

Sounding Roman

Expanding the Palace of Torah

Expanding the Palace of Torah

Out-Heroding Herod

Out-Heroding Herod

The Obama Vision and Nuclear Disarmament

The Obama Vision and Nuclear Disarmament

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