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Frank Del Olmo
A compilation of 90 columns by long-time Los Angeles Times columnist Frank del Olmo, offering a historical sweep of some of the most important issues of the last quarter century, published as a tribute following Olmos' death in February of 2004.
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Canaanite Religion
Eisenbrauns has reprinted in convenient paperback this standard work on Ugaritic religion by the well-known Ugaritologist, del Olmo Lete. The book discusses the role of the priests, kings, gods, and common man in the ritual and religion of the Canaanites. Based upon the texts from Ugarit, this work updates previous studies by Prof. del Olmo Lete, and includes new texts, citations, and his most recent analysis of the material.
Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia, 1478-1834
Stephen Haliczer has mined rich documentary sources to produce the most comprehensive and enlightening picture yet of the Inquisition in Spain. The kingdom of Valencia occupies a uniquely important place in the history of the Spanish Inquisition because of its large Muslim and Jewish populations and because it was a Catalan kingdom, more or less "occupied" by the despised Castilians who introduced the Inquisition. Haliczer underscores the intensely regional nature of the Valencian tribunal. He shows how the prosecution of religious deviants, the recruitment and professional activity of Inquisitors and officials, and the relations between the Inquisition and the majority Old Christian populat...
Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
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 academic agendas reflect larger social, economic, and cultural interests? How have schools of thought and intellectual traditions configured, and sometimes predetermined, the study of the ancient Near East? Contributions treating research during the Nazi and fascist periods examine the interpenetration of academic work with politics, while contri...
Death in the Iron Age II and in First Isaiah
Death is one of the major themes of 'First Isaiah, ' although it has not generally been recognized as such. Images of death are repeatedly used by the prophet and his earliest tradents.The book begins by concisely summarizing what is known about death in the Ancient Near East during the Iron Age II, covering beliefs and practices in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Judah/Israel. Incorporating both textual and archeological data, Christopher B. Hays surveys and analyzes existing scholarly literature on these topics from multiple fields.Focusing on the text's meaning for its producers and its initial audiences, he describes the ways in which the 'rhetoric of death' functioned in its hi...
Latino Writers and Journalists
Provides short biographies of Latino American writers and journalists and information on their works.
Shaping Immigration News
This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample of newspaper and television coverage since the early 1970s, Rodney Benson shows how the immigration debate has become increasingly focused on the dramatic, emotion-laden frames of humanitarianism and public order. In both countries, less commercialized media tend to offer the most in-depth, multi-perspective and critical news. Benson challenges classic liberalism's assumptions about state intervention's chilling effects on the press, suggests costs as well as benefits to the current vogue in personalized narrative news, and calls attention to journalistic practices that can help empower civil society. This book offers new theories and methods for sociologists and media scholars and fresh insights for journalists, policy makers and concerned citizens.
A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition
The Dictionary lists all independent morphemes ("words"), attached morphemes ("affixes") and proper names in Ugaritic, a language written in alphabetic cuneiform on clay tablets. It is an indispensable reference work for research in comparative Semitic exicography, the Old Testament and North-West Semitic epigraphy.
