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The many roots of medieval logic the aristotelian and the non-aristotelian traditions : special offprint of Vivarium 45, 2-3 (2007) /

Table of Contents: “…: a controversy between Abelard and a pupil of Alberic on the reconciliation of ancient theses on mind and language / Martin Lenz -- Res meaning a thing thought : the influence of the Ars Donati / Anne Grondeux -- Platonism in logic and semantics -- The logic of being : Eriugena's dialectical ontology / Christophe Erismann -- Priscian on divine ideas and mental conceptions : the discussions in the Glosulae in Priscianum, the Notae Dunelmenses, William of Champeaux and Abelard / Irène Rosier-Catach -- Symbolism and linguistic semantics : some questions (and confusions) from late antique neoplatonism up to Eriugena / Stefania Bonfiglioli and Costantino Marmo -- Aristotle, Augustine and stoicism -- "Utrum idem sint dicere et intelligere sive videre in mente" : Robert Kilwardby, Quaestiones in librum primum sententiarum / Mary Sirridge -- Mental language and tradition encounters in medieval philosophy : Anselm, Albert and Ockham / Claude Albert -- Intentionality and truth-making : Augustine's influence on Burley and Wyclif's propositional semantics / Laurent Cesalli -- Aristotelian traditions in medieval logic -- Names that can be said of everything : Porphyrian tradition and 'transcendental' terms in twelfth-century logic / Luisa Valente -- Metaphor and the logicians from Aristotle to Cajetan / E. …”
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What's so great about Christianity by D'Souza, Dinesh, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking the Inquisition : the exaggerated crimes of religion -- A license to kill : atheism and the mass murders of history -- Pt. 7: Christianity and morality. Natural law and divine law : the objective foundations of morality -- The ghost in the machine : why man is more than matter -- The imperial "I" : when the self becomes the arbiter of morality -- Opiate of the morally corrupt : why unbelief is so appealing -- The problem of evil : where is atheism when bad things happen? …”
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Rolf Stein's Tibetica antiqua with additional materials / by Stein, R. A. (Rolf Alfred), 1911-1999

Table of Contents: “…The indigenous religion and the Bon po in Dunhuang manuscripts -- Theories -- The ancient religion -- Bon pos and Bon -- Theories on the antecedents of late Bon -- The Dunhuang manuscripts and the later tradition -- Dunhuang documents -- Bon po in the texts translated from Chinese and bon po communities -- Translations from Chinese -- Bon po communities -- Bon po and gshen, their differences and their functions -- Gshen rab mi bo -- Other people -- Names and their epithets -- Themes -- Funerary ritual -- Divinities -- The word Bon alone -- Linguistic and stylistic traits -- Tibetica antiqua VI. …”
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Jewish and Christian scripture as artifact and canon

Table of Contents: “…Chalcraft -- The Bible as icon : myths of the divine origins of Scripture / Dorina Miller Parmenter.…”
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Shifting social imaginaries in the Hellenistic period : narrations, practices, and images /

Table of Contents: “…self-presentation and identity of Egyptian priests in the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BCR) / Gilles Gorre -- Shifting conceptions of the divine: Sarapis as part of Ptolemaic Egypt's social imaginary / Eleni Fassa -- Modes of cultural appropriation -- Aretalogies / Andrea Jordens -- Hellenistic world(s) and the elusive concept of 'Greekness' / Eftychia Stavrianopoulou -- 'Jews as the best of all Greeks': cultural competition in the literary works of Alexandrian Judaeans of the Hellenistic period / Sylvie Honigman -- Political institutions and the Lykian and Karian language in the process of Hellenization between the Achaemenids and the early Diadochi / Christian Marek -- Interculturality in image and cult in the Hellenistic east: Tyrian Melqart revisited / Jessica L. …”
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Catalogue raisonné as memoir a composer's life / by Argento, Dominick

Table of Contents: “…Songs about Spring -- Sicilian limes -- Divertimento for piano and strings -- The resurrection of Don Juan -- Ode to the west wind -- String quartet -- The boor -- Six Elizabethan songs -- Colonel Jonathan the saint -- Christopher Sly -- The masque of angels -- Royal invitation, or homage to the Queen of Tonga -- Variations for orchestra (the mask of night) -- The revelation of Saint John the divine -- The shoemakers' holiday -- Letters from composers -- A nation of cowslips -- Bravo Mozart! …”
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In search of the lost feminine decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization / by Barnes, Craig S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rewriting the story of western civilization -- Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy -- The mystery of Minoan civilization -- An expectation of rebirth or immortality -- Time as a circle rather than a line -- The troubling question of war -- Crete and the issue of female sexuality -- The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable -- Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy -- The collapse of the Minoan world -- The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges -- The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in Mother Earth -- The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters -- The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean -- A warrior civilization emerges -- Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage -- Values shaped by storytellers -- An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous -- Mother Earth is overthrown -- Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women -- Odysseus rejects Calypso -- Homer poses the choice between love and property -- Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage -- Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond -- Daughters die for civic good -- A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women -- Oedipus, the lost son -- A glorious monument enshrining the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- Objections to the warrior civilization -- Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine -- Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction -- Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts -- A short-lived Islamic challenge -- The metaphor of the holy grail -- Devil talk and witch burnings -- Closing the book on the patriarchy -- History as a choice of stories -- Women coming home to dignity -- The declining utility of war -- Another story all along.…”
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist as thinker a reader in documents and essays /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida Smith -- The Essays -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the long view / Vivian Gornick -- Missed connections: abolitionist feminism in the nineteenth century / Christine Stansell -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Stuart Mill and the nature of feminist thought / Barbara Caine -- Stanton on self and community / Richard Cándida Smith -- "The pivot of the marriage relation": Stanton's analysis of women's subordination in marriage / Ellen Carol DuBois -- "Free woman is a divine being, the savior of mankind": Stanton's exploration of religion and gender / Kathi Kern -- Stanton and the right to vote: on account of race or sex / Ann D. …”
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The making of the slave class by Carrier, Jerry, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The not so free market -- The American class system -- The Okies, a case study -- Class traits -- One nation under God -- The European roots of Christian class culture, predestination and the divine rights of kings -- Christianity and predestination comes to America -- The early history -- The revivalist movement -- The Catholic experience in Protestant America, and growing conflicts within the working classes -- Other American working-class Christian movements -- The ghetto complex -- Christianity vs. science and modernism -- Jewish impact on America, Anti-Semitism and more class conflict -- The Ku Klux Klan & other white Christian supremacists -- Christianity & capitalism, the creation of American economic and class culture -- The first sexual revolution -- Prohibition -- War on the working class: the war on drugs -- The Christian conservatives take control of American politics -- More politics and decline of the liberals and moderates -- Christian conservatives vs. the civil rights movement -- Christian conservatives vs. the judiciary -- Father knows best, Christianity vs. women -- Class and the gay movement -- Class warfare: Christianity vs. …”
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The making of the slave class by Carrier, Jerry, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The not so free market -- The American class system -- The Okies, a case study -- Class traits -- One nation under God -- The European roots of Christian class culture, predestination and the divine rights of kings -- Christianity and predestination comes to America -- The early history -- The revivalist movement -- The Catholic experience in Protestant America, and growing conflicts within the working classes -- Other American working-class Christian movements -- The ghetto complex -- Christianity vs. science and modernism -- Jewish impact on America, Anti-Semitism and more class conflict -- The Ku Klux Klan & other white Christian supremacists -- Christianity & capitalism, the creation of American economic and class culture -- The first sexual revolution -- Prohibition -- War on the working class: the war on drugs -- The Christian conservatives take control of American politics -- More politics and decline of the liberals and moderates -- Christian conservatives vs. the civil rights movement -- Christian conservatives vs. the judiciary -- Father knows best, Christianity vs. women -- Class and the gay movement -- Class warfare: Christianity vs. …”
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist as thinker a reader in documents and essays /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida Smith -- The Essays -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the long view / Vivian Gornick -- Missed connections: abolitionist feminism in the nineteenth century / Christine Stansell -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Stuart Mill and the nature of feminist thought / Barbara Caine -- Stanton on self and community / Richard Cándida Smith -- "The pivot of the marriage relation": Stanton's analysis of women's subordination in marriage / Ellen Carol DuBois -- "Free woman is a divine being, the savior of mankind": Stanton's exploration of religion and gender / Kathi Kern -- Stanton and the right to vote: on account of race or sex / Ann D. …”
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Angelomorphic pneumatology Clement of Alexandria and other early Christian witnesses / by Bucur, Bogdan Gabriel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Angelomorphic pneumatology in Clement of Alexandria -- "The other Clement" and angelomorphic pneumatology -- Prolegomena : the place of the hypotyposeis in the Clementine Corpus -- Protreptikos, paidagogos, didaskalos -- Ethics, physics, epoptics -- Physics to epoptics : ma'asse bereshīt to ma'asse merkavah -- The hypotyposeis and later orthodoxy -- Clement on divine unity and the cosmic multiplicity -- Unity and multiplicity in the logos -- Unity and multiplicity in the Spirit -- Clement's "celestial hierarchy" -- The principles of the hierarchy -- The function of the hierarchy -- Clement on the interior ascent -- Clement's theory of prophetic inspiration -- Clement's understanding of "spirit of Christ" and "Paraclete" -- "Spirit of Christ" -- "Paraclete" -- Angelic or angelomorphic pneumatology? …”
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David and Zion biblical studies in honor of J.J.M. Roberts /

Table of Contents: “…Vaughn -- David and Zion in the theology of the deuteronomistic history: theological ideas in 2 Samuel 5/7 / John T. Willis -- The divine sovereign: the image of God in the priestly creation account / Bernard F. …”
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Angelomorphic pneumatology Clement of Alexandria and other early Christian witnesses / by Bucur, Bogdan Gabriel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Angelomorphic pneumatology in Clement of Alexandria -- "The other Clement" and angelomorphic pneumatology -- Prolegomena : the place of the hypotyposeis in the Clementine Corpus -- Protreptikos, paidagogos, didaskalos -- Ethics, physics, epoptics -- Physics to epoptics : ma'asse bereshīt to ma'asse merkavah -- The hypotyposeis and later orthodoxy -- Clement on divine unity and the cosmic multiplicity -- Unity and multiplicity in the logos -- Unity and multiplicity in the Spirit -- Clement's "celestial hierarchy" -- The principles of the hierarchy -- The function of the hierarchy -- Clement on the interior ascent -- Clement's theory of prophetic inspiration -- Clement's understanding of "spirit of Christ" and "Paraclete" -- "Spirit of Christ" -- "Paraclete" -- Angelic or angelomorphic pneumatology? …”
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David and Zion biblical studies in honor of J.J.M. Roberts /

Table of Contents: “…Vaughn -- David and Zion in the theology of the deuteronomistic history: theological ideas in 2 Samuel 5/7 / John T. Willis -- The divine sovereign: the image of God in the priestly creation account / Bernard F. …”
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The military and society in Russia 1450-1917 /

Table of Contents: “…Steinberg -- Military Aviation, National Identity, and the Imperatives of Modernity in Late Imperial Russia -- Gregory Vitarbo -- "To Build a Great Russia": Civil-Military Relations in the Third Duma, 1907-12 -- David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye -- PART III -- Patriotism, Nationality, Religion and the Military -- Battle for the Divine Sophia? Ivan IV's Campaigns against Polotsk and Novgorod -- Sergei Bogatyrev -- Tatars in the Muscovite Army during the Livonian War -- Janet Martin -- Baptizing Mars: The Conversion to Russian Orthodoxy of European Mercenaries during the Mid-Seventeenth Century -- William Reger IV -- 'Guardians of the Faith' Jewish Traditional Societies in the Russian Army: The Case of the Thirty-Fifth Briansk Regiment -- Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtem -- Swords into Plowshares: Opposition to Military Service Among Sectarians, 1770s to 1874 -- Nicholas B. …”
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Resurrection the power of God for Christians and Jews / by Madigan, Kevin, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…-- The deeper roots of Resurrection -- The victory of the divine warrior -- Summary : old and new in Resurrection -- The least known teaching in Judaism -- Powerful to save -- An obligation, not an option -- Doubts and reforms -- What was wrong with the Gnostic Gospel? …”
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Recognizing the stranger recognition scenes in the Gospel of John / by Larsen, Kasper Bro

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Odysseus' scar and Jesus' wound marks -- Previous studies in Johannine recognition -- The present study : aim, method, and outline -- Anagnorisis in a theoretical and historical perspective -- Anagnorisis in Aristotle's poetics -- The embarrassments of recognition -- Anagnorisis and the cognitive dimension of John's Gospel -- The semiotics of recognition -- The dual appearance of the observed -- How to display the recognition Mark : showing, telling, and whispering -- Aspects of recognition : identification and social recognition -- Anagnorisis as a type-scene in ancient literature -- The meeting -- The move of cognitive resistance -- The move of displaying the token -- The moment of recognition -- Attendant reactions and physical (re-)union -- Anagnorisis and arrival (John 1-4) -- Anagnorisis within the matrix of John's narrative -- Prologue and prejudice : prefatory whisperings -- The prologue's web of identity relations -- The logos changes its guise -- Recognizing a stranger : comparing Jesus with Odysseus -- Establishing Jesus' presence in the story-world (1:19-51) -- John the Baptist : recognizing the wrong man (1:19-28) -- Jesus and John the Baptist : from baptismal scene to recognition scene (1:29-34) -- Jesus and the disciples : call narratives in the form of recognition scenes (1:35-51) -- Semeia as Semata : tokens of Jesus' divine doxa -- Jesus and the Samaritan woman (4:4-42) : betrothal and recognition -- Recognition in conflict (John 5-19) -- John 5:1-18 : a recognition parody -- "I am" : a recognition formula -- John 9 : blindness and insight -- The recognition scenes of the hour -- The exposure of Judas as traitor (13:18-30) -- Jesus' arrest : from discovery to self-disclosure (18:1-12) -- Peter's denial (18:15-18, 25-27) -- Jesus judged by Pilate : by what law? …”
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Flavius Josephus interpretation and history /

Table of Contents: “…Kottek -- Josephus and discrepant sources / Etienne Nodet -- Josephus, the Temple, and the Jewish War / Eyal Regev -- The purposes and functions of the synagogue in late Second Temple period Judaea : evidence from Josephus and archaeological investigation / Samuel Rocca -- Propaganda, Fiktion und Symbolik: die Bedeutung des Jerusalemer Tempels im Werk des Josephus / Gottfried Schimanowski -- Josephus, Catullus, divine providence, and the date of the Judean War / Daniel R. …”
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Resurrection the power of God for Christians and Jews / by Madigan, Kevin, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…-- The deeper roots of Resurrection -- The victory of the divine warrior -- Summary : old and new in Resurrection -- The least known teaching in Judaism -- Powerful to save -- An obligation, not an option -- Doubts and reforms -- What was wrong with the Gnostic Gospel? …”
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