Search Results - "Near East"

Writing and cultural influence studies in rhetorical history, orientalist discourse, and post-colonial criticism / by Ezzaher, Lahcen E., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Ch. 1. The Ancient Near East in Classical Rhetoric -- Plato and the Egyptian Myth of Writing -- Solon's Egyptian Story -- Roman Rhetoric and the Controversy over Asianism -- Ch. 2. …”
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Writing and cultural influence studies in rhetorical history, orientalist discourse, and post-colonial criticism / by Ezzaher, Lahcen E., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Ch. 1. The Ancient Near East in Classical Rhetoric -- Plato and the Egyptian Myth of Writing -- Solon's Egyptian Story -- Roman Rhetoric and the Controversy over Asianism -- Ch. 2. …”
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The Hebrew Bible reborn from Holy Scripture to the Book of Books : a history of biblical culture and the battles over the Bible in modern Judaism / by Shavit, Jacob

Table of Contents: “…"Back to the Bible" : the biblical revolution in the nineteenth century -- Wellhausen and his school : the Jewish response to higher criticism -- "Truth shall spring out of the earth : the initial Jewish reaction to the archaeology of the ancient Near East -- The Babel-Bibel controversy as a typological event -- Friedrich Delitzsch and a second "Tower of Babel" -- Delitzsch's three lectures on Babel and Bibel -- The controversy in the German arena : theology vs. science -- At war : within and without -- Contra Delitzsch : revelation, originality and ethics -- From Noah to the Sabbath -- After Delitzsch : the Bible and Jewish Bible study in Germany between the two world wars -- Bible criticism arrives in Eretz Israel : struggle and reception -- "Extra-academic" Bible study and Bible criticism -- Orthodox Bible criticism in Eretz Israel -- The Bible as history and biblical archaeology: "can two walk together? …”
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The Hebrew Bible reborn from Holy Scripture to the Book of Books : a history of biblical culture and the battles over the Bible in modern Judaism / by Shavit, Jacob

Table of Contents: “…"Back to the Bible" : the biblical revolution in the nineteenth century -- Wellhausen and his school : the Jewish response to higher criticism -- "Truth shall spring out of the earth : the initial Jewish reaction to the archaeology of the ancient Near East -- The Babel-Bibel controversy as a typological event -- Friedrich Delitzsch and a second "Tower of Babel" -- Delitzsch's three lectures on Babel and Bibel -- The controversy in the German arena : theology vs. science -- At war : within and without -- Contra Delitzsch : revelation, originality and ethics -- From Noah to the Sabbath -- After Delitzsch : the Bible and Jewish Bible study in Germany between the two world wars -- Bible criticism arrives in Eretz Israel : struggle and reception -- "Extra-academic" Bible study and Bible criticism -- Orthodox Bible criticism in Eretz Israel -- The Bible as history and biblical archaeology: "can two walk together? …”
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Given world and time temporalities in context /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Tyrus Miller -- Temporality in the long run -- Walking backwards into the future : the conception of time in the ancient Near East / Stefan Maul -- Epic remains : seeing and time in the odyssey / Karen Bassi -- Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the shape of history / Jonathan Beecher -- World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimocl -- Historical figures : mediations, citations, narrations -- The transfiguration of proper and improper sounds from Christian to Jewish environments / Ruth Ha Cohen -- Quoting from the past, or dealing with temporality / Britta Duelke -- Taking time : temporal representations and cultural politics / Richard Terdiman -- Image-times, image-histories, image-thinking / Richard Terdiman -- Documentary reenactments : a paradoxical temporality that is not one shapes of modernity / Bill Nichols -- Time and progress time as progress : an enlightened sermon by William Robertson / László Kontler -- Religious revivals : modernity and religion in Friedrich Nietzsche's anti-Christ and Richard Wright's the outsider / Andrew Wegley -- Hetero-temporalities of post-socialism / Lisa Rofel -- The politics of temporality Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida to the planetarium : from cosmos to history and back / David Hoy -- Eternity no more : Walter Benjamin on the eternal return / Tyrus Miller -- A microscope for time : what Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the movies owe to distant stars / Karl Clausberg.…”
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The Biblical Herem : A Window in Israel’s Religious Experience / by Stern, Philip D.

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Given world and time temporalities in context /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Tyrus Miller -- Temporality in the long run -- Walking backwards into the future : the conception of time in the ancient Near East / Stefan Maul -- Epic remains : seeing and time in the odyssey / Karen Bassi -- Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the shape of history / Jonathan Beecher -- World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimocl -- Historical figures : mediations, citations, narrations -- The transfiguration of proper and improper sounds from Christian to Jewish environments / Ruth Ha Cohen -- Quoting from the past, or dealing with temporality / Britta Duelke -- Taking time : temporal representations and cultural politics / Richard Terdiman -- Image-times, image-histories, image-thinking / Richard Terdiman -- Documentary reenactments : a paradoxical temporality that is not one shapes of modernity / Bill Nichols -- Time and progress time as progress : an enlightened sermon by William Robertson / László Kontler -- Religious revivals : modernity and religion in Friedrich Nietzsche's anti-Christ and Richard Wright's the outsider / Andrew Wegley -- Hetero-temporalities of post-socialism / Lisa Rofel -- The politics of temporality Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida to the planetarium : from cosmos to history and back / David Hoy -- Eternity no more : Walter Benjamin on the eternal return / Tyrus Miller -- A microscope for time : what Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the movies owe to distant stars / Karl Clausberg.…”
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The Biblical Herem : A Window in Israel’s Religious Experience / by Stern, Philip D.

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Journal of Women's History Guide to Periodical Literature / by Fischer, Gayle V.

Table of Contents: “….) -- Australia/New Zealand -- Biography -- Individual and Collective Biographies -- Journals and Diaries -- Letters -- Oral History -- Birth Contro -- l Abortion -- Fertility -- Infanticide -- Material Culture -- Reproductive Rights and Options -- Canada -- Economics (see also Work) -- Africa -- Asia -- Australia -- Europe -- Latin America -- Middle East/Near East -- North America -- Soviet Union -- Education Methods -- Students -- Teachers -- Ethnicity -- Asian -- European -- General Immigrants -- Jewish -- Latin American -- Europe -- Central Europ -- e Eastern Europe -- France -- Great Britain -- Northern Europe -- Southern Europe -- Family -- Childbirth -- Childcare -- Demographics -- Ethnicity -- Infant Mortality -- International -- Kinship -- Motherhood -- Feminism -- Biography -- General -- International Organizations -- Politics -- Religion -- Theory -- Friendship -- Health -- Health Care/Preventive Health Care -- Illness -- Maternity/Childbirth -- Medical Issues -- Psychology -- Latin America -- Law/Crime -- Courts, Trials, and Prisons -- Divorce, Family, and Marriage -- Female Criminality -- Lawyers -- Reproductive Rights and Illegitimacy -- Work and Protective Legislation -- Lifestages and Lifestyles (except married) -- Life Courses -- Old Age -- Never-Married Women -- Widowhood -- Youth -- Marriage/Divorce -- Courtship -- Demographics -- Divorce -- Ethnicity -- International -- Polygamy -- Material and Popular Culture -- Architecture/City Planning/Neighborhoods -- Books/Literary Images/Literature -- Crafts/Quilts/Embroidery Fashion/Textiles/Beauty -- Culture -- Food -- Photographs/Paintings/Visual Images/Movies Popular Culture/Mass Media/Advertising -- Science and Technology -- Middle East/Near East -- Military/War -- Home Front -- Jobs -- Peace -- Activism -- War Service -- Politics -- First Ladies -- Government Policy -- Political Participatio -- n International Relations -- Monarchies -- Office Holders Parties -- Women{u2019}s Rights -- Pornography -- Professions -- Professional Career Choices -- White Collar Work -- Prostitution -- Religion -- Catholocism Missions and Missionaries -- Protestantism -- Religious Issues and Witchcraft -- Sexuality Ideology -- Lesbianism (see also Lifestages and Lifestyles) -- Practices -- Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- Virginity/Celibacy -- Social Reform/Community -- Organizing -- Family Planning and Aid To Children -- Health Reform -- Industrial Reform -- Moral Reform -- Social Movements/General Temperance -- Women{u2019}s Clubs -- Women{u2019}s Rights Movements -- Soviet Union -- Sports -- Suffrage -- Anti-Suffrage -- International Suffrage -- United States -- National -- East -- Midwest -- South -- West -- Construction/Deconstruction/Reconstruction -- Women{u2019}s History/Feminist History -- Women{u2019}s History Methodology and Other Disciplines -- Cross-Cultural Theory and Women{u2019}s History -- Biography Women{u2019}s History and Labor -- Historiography and Sources -- U.S. …”
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Journal of Women's History Guide to Periodical Literature / by Fischer, Gayle V.

Table of Contents: “….) -- Australia/New Zealand -- Biography -- Individual and Collective Biographies -- Journals and Diaries -- Letters -- Oral History -- Birth Contro -- l Abortion -- Fertility -- Infanticide -- Material Culture -- Reproductive Rights and Options -- Canada -- Economics (see also Work) -- Africa -- Asia -- Australia -- Europe -- Latin America -- Middle East/Near East -- North America -- Soviet Union -- Education Methods -- Students -- Teachers -- Ethnicity -- Asian -- European -- General Immigrants -- Jewish -- Latin American -- Europe -- Central Europ -- e Eastern Europe -- France -- Great Britain -- Northern Europe -- Southern Europe -- Family -- Childbirth -- Childcare -- Demographics -- Ethnicity -- Infant Mortality -- International -- Kinship -- Motherhood -- Feminism -- Biography -- General -- International Organizations -- Politics -- Religion -- Theory -- Friendship -- Health -- Health Care/Preventive Health Care -- Illness -- Maternity/Childbirth -- Medical Issues -- Psychology -- Latin America -- Law/Crime -- Courts, Trials, and Prisons -- Divorce, Family, and Marriage -- Female Criminality -- Lawyers -- Reproductive Rights and Illegitimacy -- Work and Protective Legislation -- Lifestages and Lifestyles (except married) -- Life Courses -- Old Age -- Never-Married Women -- Widowhood -- Youth -- Marriage/Divorce -- Courtship -- Demographics -- Divorce -- Ethnicity -- International -- Polygamy -- Material and Popular Culture -- Architecture/City Planning/Neighborhoods -- Books/Literary Images/Literature -- Crafts/Quilts/Embroidery Fashion/Textiles/Beauty -- Culture -- Food -- Photographs/Paintings/Visual Images/Movies Popular Culture/Mass Media/Advertising -- Science and Technology -- Middle East/Near East -- Military/War -- Home Front -- Jobs -- Peace -- Activism -- War Service -- Politics -- First Ladies -- Government Policy -- Political Participatio -- n International Relations -- Monarchies -- Office Holders Parties -- Women{u2019}s Rights -- Pornography -- Professions -- Professional Career Choices -- White Collar Work -- Prostitution -- Religion -- Catholocism Missions and Missionaries -- Protestantism -- Religious Issues and Witchcraft -- Sexuality Ideology -- Lesbianism (see also Lifestages and Lifestyles) -- Practices -- Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- Virginity/Celibacy -- Social Reform/Community -- Organizing -- Family Planning and Aid To Children -- Health Reform -- Industrial Reform -- Moral Reform -- Social Movements/General Temperance -- Women{u2019}s Clubs -- Women{u2019}s Rights Movements -- Soviet Union -- Sports -- Suffrage -- Anti-Suffrage -- International Suffrage -- United States -- National -- East -- Midwest -- South -- West -- Construction/Deconstruction/Reconstruction -- Women{u2019}s History/Feminist History -- Women{u2019}s History Methodology and Other Disciplines -- Cross-Cultural Theory and Women{u2019}s History -- Biography Women{u2019}s History and Labor -- Historiography and Sources -- U.S. …”
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Water, life & civilisation climate, environment, and society in the Jordan Valley /

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Water, life & civilisation climate, environment, and society in the Jordan Valley /

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Seeking out the wisdom of the ancients essays offered to honor Michael V. Fox on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday /

Table of Contents: “…Fontaine -- The Instruction of Amenemope and Proverbs 22:17-24:22 from the perspective of contemporary research / Nili Shupak -- The woman of valor and a woman large of head : matchmaking in the ancient Near East / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- The fly and the dog : observations on ideational polarity in the book of Qoheleth / Tova Forti -- A sense of timing : a neglected aspect of Qoheleth's wisdom / Richard L. …”
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Seeking out the wisdom of the ancients essays offered to honor Michael V. Fox on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday /

Table of Contents: “…Fontaine -- The Instruction of Amenemope and Proverbs 22:17-24:22 from the perspective of contemporary research / Nili Shupak -- The woman of valor and a woman large of head : matchmaking in the ancient Near East / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- The fly and the dog : observations on ideational polarity in the book of Qoheleth / Tova Forti -- A sense of timing : a neglected aspect of Qoheleth's wisdom / Richard L. …”
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A companion to Greek art

Table of Contents: “…Egypt and North Africa / Sabine Weber -- 16. Cyprus and the Near East / Tamar Hodos -- 17. Asia Minor / Veli Kose -- 18. …”
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A companion to Greek art

Table of Contents: “…Egypt and North Africa / Sabine Weber -- 16. Cyprus and the Near East / Tamar Hodos -- 17. Asia Minor / Veli Kose -- 18. …”
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