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Memoir to Accompany the Map of the Holy Land
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Memoir to Accompany the Map of the Holy Land

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1858
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Inventing Place
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Inventing Place

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-04-30
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  • Publisher: SIU Press

This book offers a sustained but varying examination of the spatial-temporal dynamics that compose place. Essays blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as a creation formed through the collaboration of a body with a particular space.

Cities of God
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Cities of God

The history of archaeology is generally told as the making of a secular discipline. In nineteenth-century Britain, however, archaeology was enmeshed with questions of biblical authority and so with religious as well as narrowly scholarly concerns. In unearthing the cities of the Eastern Mediterranean, travellers, archaeologists and their popularisers transformed thinking on the truth of Christianity and its place in modern cities. This happened at a time when anxieties over the unprecedented rate of urbanisation in Britain coincided with critical challenges to biblical truth. In this context, cities from Jerusalem to Rome became contested models for the adaptation of Christianity to modern urban life. Using sites from across the biblical world, this book evokes the appeal of the ancient city to diverse groups of British Protestants in their arguments with one another and with their secular and Catholic rivals about the vitality of their faith in urban Britain.

Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 732

Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-12-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This third and last of the three-volume Who’s Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia. Taking as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus, the author, Wolfgang Behn (Berlin), has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user to quickly gain knowledge on the life, work, and professional background of almost every major and minor author, and thus to place each author in his/her proper perspective. A tremendous achievement and a true must for every library.

Portraying the Land
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Portraying the Land

The book presents and discusses a large corpus of Jewish maps of the Holy Land that were drawn by Jewish scholars from the 11th to the 20th century, and thus fills a significant lacuna both in the history of cartography and in Jewish studies. The maps depict the biblical borders of the Holy Land, the allotments of the tribes, and the forty years of wanderings in the desert. Most of these maps are in Hebrew although there are several in Yiddish, Ladino and in European languages. The book focuses on four aspects: it presents an up-to-date corpus of known maps of various types and genres; it suggests a classification of these maps according to their source, shape and content; it presents and analyses the main topics that were depicted in the maps; and it puts the maps in their historical and cultural contexts, both within the Jewish world and the sphere of European cartography of their time. The book is an innovative contribution to the fields of history of cartography and Jewish studies. It is written for both professional readers and the general public. The Hebrew edition (2014), won the Izhak Ben-Zvi Prize.

Bibliotheca Cisorientalia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

Bibliotheca Cisorientalia

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Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 632

Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1980
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 712

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Between Ruin and Restoration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Between Ruin and Restoration

The environmental history of Israel is as intriguing and complex as the nation itself. Situated on a mere 8,630 square miles, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf, varying from desert to forest, Israel's natural environment presents innumerable challenges to its growing population. The country's conflicted past and present, diverse religions, and multitude of cultural influences powerfully affect the way Israelis imagine, question, and shape their environment. Zionism, from the late nineteenth onward, has tempered nearly every aspect of human existence. Scarcities of usable land and water coupled with border conflicts and regional hostilities have steeled Israeli's survival ins...

Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1150

Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.