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The first volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae covers the inscriptions of Jerusalem from the time of Alexander to the Arab conquest in all the languages used for inscriptions during those times: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syrian, and Armenian. The 1,120 texts have been arranged in categories based on three epochs: up to the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70, to the beginning of the 4^th century, and to the end of Byzantine rule in the 7^th century.

From the Middle Ages to modern times, from religion to philosophy and vice versa, from Christianity to Judaism to Islam - this volume includes papers written in honor of Friedrich Niewohner, the scholar and historian of philosophy who died in 2005. These studies thematically follow up on his work and continue a critical analysis of his critical philosophy of religion.

The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn:

• How the individual terms "Jewish" and "culture" are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary Studies, Sociology, Religious Studies, History, Art History, and Film, Television, and New Media Studies.
• How Jewish cultures are theorized, looking at key themes regarding power,...

Die von dem Antwerpener Jesuiten Jean Bolland (1596-1665) begrundeten Acta Sanctorum sind eines der wirkungsmachtigsten Werke des fruhneuzeitlichen Antiquarianismus. Aufgrund der von Bolland und seinen Nachfolgern bearbeiteten Text- und Datenmengen, der von ihnen etablierten gelehrten Netze und der mit beachtlicher publizistischer Intelligenz ausgefochtenen Kontroversen reprasentieren die Acta Sanctorum einen idealen Gegenstand, um neuere Ansatze der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, der Geschichte der fruhneuzeitlichen Historiographie und Hagiographie zu vertiefen.

The second volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae covers the inscriptions of Caesarea Maritima and the coastal region of the Middle Coast from Tel Aviv in the south to Haifa in the north from the time of Alexander to the Muslim conquest. The approx. 1,050 texts comprise all the languages used for inscriptions during this period (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Samaritan, Syrian, and Persian) and are arranged according to the principal settlements and their territory. The great majority of the texts belongs to Caesarea, the capital of the province of Judaea/Syria...