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Giotto, Enrico Scrovegni, and the Arena Chapel in Padua
At the turn of the fourteenth century, Enrico Scrovegni constructed the most opulent palace that the city of Padua had seen, and he engaged the great Florentine painter, Giotto, to decorate the walls of his private chapel (1303–5). In that same decade, Dante consigned Enrico’s father, a notorious usurer, to the seventh circle of ......
A collection of essays covering theology and methodology—emphasizing Wesleyan biblical hermeneutics, canonical perspectives, and the implications of these approaches for church life and work—as well as biblical texts/themes and the relationship of the study of Scripture to the life of the Christian.
This is the first exhaustive study of the Urim and Thummim since 1824, and in this book Van Dam sets out to rectify that lack of attention. He investigates all of the biblical data concerning this enigmatic oracular means of high-priestly revelation and its connection, in the historical books of the Old Testament, with the common phrase ......
Examines the portrayal of race in interwar American art. Focuses on the works of urban realist Reginald Marsh and his contemporaries to show how black figures acted as cultural and visual markers and embodied complex concerns about the presence of African Americans in urban centers.
Studies on Biblical Hebrew in Honor of George L. Klein
A collection of essays in honor of George Klein on the research and teaching of Biblical Hebrew. Contributors cover grammar, diachrony, syntax, lexicography, and pedagogy.
A collection of essays on the research and teaching of Biblical Hebrew. Contributors cover grammar, diachrony, syntax, lexicography, and ......
Judah and Saul in the Narratives of Genesis and 1 Samuel
Following upon the work of Jewish scholars who have attempted to rehabilitate the notion of chosenness in the Hebrew Bible and that of other scholars who have focused more narrowly on the fate of non-Israelites in the Old Testament, The Unfavored centers on the role of unfavored characters within Israelspecifically, Judah and ......
In this volume, Noemi Borrelli publishes 240 Messenger Texts from the city of Umma, texts that are currently housed in the collections of the Yale Babylonian Collection and the Harvard Semitic Museum. Earlier volumes of Nisaba published nearly 900 similar Messenger Texts that are in the collections of the British ......
Making the World Safe for Liberal Constitutional Oligarchy
Examines the interaction of the Truman administration in U.S. and five Bolivian governments in years leading up to Victor Paz Estenssoro's National Revolution, focusing on negotiations over the price of tin.
Making the World Safe for Liberal Constitutional Oligarchy
Examines the interaction of the Truman administration in U.S. and five Bolivian governments in years leading up to Victor Paz Estenssoro's National Revolution, focusing on negotiations over the price of tin.
