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The Bible says that YHWH alone is God and that there is none like him-but texts and artwork from antiquity show that many gods looked very similar. In this volume, scholars of the Hebrew Bible and its historical contexts address the problem of YHWH's ancient look-alikes, providing recommendations for how Jews and Christians can think theologically ......
This important critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary explores their place in the wider history of European museums and collecting, their role as public institutions, and their involvement in the complex cultural politics of the Habsburg Empire. Focusing on institutions in Vienna, Cracow, Prague, Zagreb, and ......
The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches-synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational-this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of research? How do ......
Explores the prominence of insects in the literal and symbolic economies of early modern England. Examines concepts cutting across species (insect and otherwise) and draws attention to the work of early modern natural historians.
This is the story of the landfill that operated in Jerusalem during the first century CE and served as its garbage dump during the ca. 50-year period that followed Jesus's crucifixion through to the period that led to the great revolt of the Jews just prior to the city's destruction. The book presents an extensive investigation of hundreds of ......
Examines the human-dog relationship in modernist literature, analyzing works by Jack London, Virginia Woolf, Albert Payson Terhune, J. R. Ackerley, Samuel Beckett, and others to show how dogs challenge the autonomy of the human subject and the humanistic underpinnings of traditional literary forms.
This engrossing narrative recounts the story of Jane de La Vaudere (nee Jeanne Scrive), a prolific and celebrated writer of France's Belle Epoque. Interweaving biography and literary analysis, Sharon Larson examines the ways in which La Vaudere adapted her persona to shifting literary trends and readership demands-and how she created and profited ......
Explores the prominence of insects in the literal and symbolic economies of early modern England. Examines concepts cutting across species (insect and otherwise) and draws attention to the work of early modern natural historians.
