Product Description: This round-table conference addressed contractual models in the Semitic West, from the second millennium B.C.E. to the beginning of the Middle Ages. These juridical forms, from cuneiform Syria to the Talmud and Islamic papyri, though often standardized, retained a dynamic adaptability to both custom and specific needs...read more

Product Description: English summary: This volume brings together, in French and English, more research on the archeology and history of Jerusalem during ancient and medieval times, the foundation of the Middle Bronze Age city, and the development of Haram esh-Sherif during the early Islamic period...read more

Product Description: This volume presents all the main lectures of the XIXth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament held in Ljubljana (july 2007). The thirty-one authors represent a very good sample of the main trends and progress of cur

Product Description: This volume presents all the main lectures of the XVIIIth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) held in Leiden (August 2004). It is a very good sample of the main trends and progress of current biblical research on textual criticism (Qumran and Septuagint), biblical archaeology, literary criticism (especially Pentateuch, Joshua, Kings), biblical themes (especially in wisdom literature), as well as about the light thrown on biblical exegesis by current cognitive linguistics...read more

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Product Description: This book is published as a Festschrift on the occasion of the 70th birthday of professor Eduard Nielsen (Copenhagen). In accordance with the main themes of Eduard Nielsen's scholarly works the articles concentrate on the history of early Israel, i...read more