Product Description: This collection of nineteen essays is the fruit of ongoing collaboration in Biblical Studies between the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Manchester and Sheffield. The essays are arranged under three headings (General Studies; Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism; and New Testament, Early Christianity and their Contexts) but share many overlapping interests...read more

Product Description: A long time rather neglected by biblical scholars, the books of Leviticus and Numbers have recently, after the breakdown of the traditional documentary models, shifted into the centre of the pentateuchal research. According to the new consensus the Torah came into existence during the Persian period as a founding document of nascent Judaism; the books of Leviticus and Numbers contain numerous texts which reflect the very last stages of the formation of the Pentateuch in the Persian period, revealing at the same time that an urge was felt for a continuing actualization and interpretation of the mosaic Law...read more

Product Description: Germany in the shadows Forged in the chaos ... ... of the Awakening and the Euro-Wars, the German Alliance is a land torn by strife, rebellion, political turmoil and powerful magic. From the towering glass-and-chrome skyscrapers of Frankfurt to the anarchy of Berlin, from the Green War camps of the Rhine-Ruhr megaplex to the Troll Kingdom of the Black Forest, 21st-century Germany teems with opportunities and unseen dangers for the shadowrunner...read more

Product Description: The present volume is the result of a team research which gathered biblical scholars, philologists, and historians of religions, on the issue of the multiple Interpretations of Moses" inherited from the ancient mediterranean cultures...read more

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Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Theologische Fakult'at der Universit'at Genf, 1988.

Product Description: This book presents 111 problem situations with regard to contraception in a brief and concise form, from A-Z. It is unique of its kind and indispensable for use in practice and for any practicing gynecologist.

Product Description: Many women would like to either partly or completely dispense with their monthly menstruation and its accompanying attributes. Taking oral hormonal contraceptives (OC) is possible. However, currently no OC preparation is authorized specifically for this indication in Germany...read more

Product Description: Opening the Books of Moses presents an introduction to the first five books of the Bible. It is written for any student engaged in the scholarly study of these most central of biblical texts. The aim throughout is to examine the books with a view to illuminating the ideas, beliefs and experiences of the time...read more

Product Description: The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This colloquium brought together biblical scholars, Assyriologists and scholars of Antiquity to discuss the question of taboo and its transgressions, from the perspective of their disciplines and through their particular corpus of texts: Bible, literary or archeological evidences from Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt and the Mamelouk period...read more

Product Description: In April 2010, scholars of Assyriology and Biblical Studies at the College de France, Paris, gathered for a colloquium to discuss the archaeological and textual evidence for the ways in which ancient Near Eastern societies dealt with their dead...read more