Product Description: The linguistic character of the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other contemporary Hebrew texts remains disputed. This volume presents linguistic and philological studies dealing with the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew of the Late Second Temple period.

Featuring front-line practitioner's insights based on the author's extensive experience as a senior New York parole officer, this book explores the complex, "real" world of adult and juvenile probation, institutions, and parole. It focuses on the cutting-edge of both practice. Relates front-line experiences of juvenile and adult probation and parole agencies throughout the country. Discusses some of the newest, often controversial, concepts that have had an impact on both the theory and practice of probation and parole--community-based corrections, justice model, determinate sentencing, graduated sanctions, intermediate punishments, blended sentences, restorative justice, mandatory sentences, sanctioning flexibility, law enforcement role of probation/parole officers, the supervision of drug and alcohol abuse offenders and sex offenders. For anyone who interested in the state-of-the-art in the theory and practice of probation and

Product Description: This volume offers a multi-disciplinary examination into the Hebrew of the Second Temple period as reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, inscriptions, Greek and Latin transcriptions, the Samaritan oral and reading traditions of the Pentateuch, and Mishnaic Hebrew.

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Product Description: Following a successful symposium held in Leiden in 1995 a second international gathering took place, also in Leiden, two years later. The volume contains revised papers covering a wide range of linguistic and textual subjects and presented by scholars from eight countries: Austria (Reiterer), Denmark (Ehrensvard), France (Joosten), Israel (Fassberg, Hurvitz, Kister, Qimron), Netherlands (Baasten, Beentjes, Muraoka, van Peursen, van Uchelen, Wesselius), Spain (Perez Fernandez), UK (Aitken, Elwolde), USA (M...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Infiltrating the American airfields as part of a daring mission for Germany, agent Peter Krug confesses his acts to American priest Father Anthony D'Angleo, who is bound to confidentiality by the seal of the confessional but vows to stop Krug. Reprint.

In December 1995 an international symposium was held in Leiden, concerning the subject of the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the book of Ben Sira. The papers, presented at this symposium, are collected in this volume. The papers deal with various aspects of grammar, syntax, and lexicon of Hebrew texts of the Judean Desert. They include the first publications of a Nahal Hever text, and the important apocryphal book of Ben Sira.

Infiltrating the American airfields as part of a daring mission for Germany, agent Peter Krug confesses his acts to American priest Father Anthony D'Angleo, who is bound to confidentiality by the seal of the confessional but vows to stop Krug. Reprint.