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Advances the hypothesis that the ninth-century illustrations in the Utrecht Psalter reflect a late antique illustrated Hebrew version of the psalms, a departure from the commonly accepted view of the origin of the Utrecht images.

A collection of essays by 35 scholars of the ancient Near East, honoring the career of Jack M. Sasson, and focusing on a variety of Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Amorite, Egyptian, Eblaite, Hittite, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Canaanite, Israelite, biblical, and archaeological subjects.

A visual survey of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris over the past 850 years. Addresses a series of key themes in the cathedral's history, including the fundraising campaign, the construction of vaults, and the liturgical function of the choir.

A collection of essays on civil religion in modern political philosophy, exploring the engagement between modern thought and the Christian tradition.

Illustrates how the discovery of electromagnetism in 1820 not only led to technological inventions, such as the dynamo and the telegraph, but also legitimized modes of reasoning that manifested a sharper ability to perceive how metonymic relations could reveal the order of things.

A comprehensive study of the history of the Pennhurst State School and Hospital (1908-87), a state-operated institution in Pennsylvania for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Explores Pennhurst's enduring impact on the disability civil rights movement in America.

Relates the story of a juvenile gorilla named Pongo, brought to Europe in 1876 and housed at the Unter den Linden Aquarium in Berlin. Examines human-animal interactions and science at a time when the theory of evolution was first gaining ground.

A collection of drawings of 330 cuneiform tablet, found in the academic papers of W. G. Lambert, one of the foremost Assyriologists of the twentieth century. Texts range from historical inscriptions to literary and scholarly texts, written by Babylonian and Assyrian scribes.

Presents a synthetic study of the Islamic and Crusader remains from the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, one of the most important cities of the southern Levant during the seventh through twelfth centuries. Includes contributions by specialists on the city's architecture, fortifications, ceramics, small finds, and organic remains.

Recounts events surrounding the recovery, in 2017, of a sixteenth-century biographical manuscript by Luis de Carvajal the Younger, a crypto-Jew executed by the Inquisition in colonial Mexico.

A collection of essays exploring the polemical encounters in the fields of religion and culture that took place among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula between the late Middle Ages and the seventeenth century.

A short introduction to the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia and Assyria, encompassing some two thousand years of literary history of the ancient Middle East.

Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes assembled these texts within wider cultural developments surrounding early modern forms of magic.

A collection of essays delineating the centuries-long dialogue of Jews and Jewish culture with China, all under the overarching theme of cultural translation.

An anthology of works by nineteenth-century French poet Paul Verlaine, presenting both the French texts and new translations and setting the poems in the context of Verlaine's troubled life and his literary development.

A study of romance, religion, and politics in seventeenth-century England, presenting a recontextualized understanding of romance as a multi-generic narrative structure or strategy rather than a prose genre.

Examines how the popular musician and public figure Bono represents the power of evangelicalism and promotes a religion of neoliberal capitalism.

An exploration of the religious contexts of Virginia Woolf's life and work, her religious practices, her ideas about God, and the new forms of community she imagined.

A multidisciplinary study of democratic politics that draws on ethnography, political theory, and rhetorical analysis to demonstrate how the rhetorics of democracy have become fetishized.

Drawing from the writings of John Dewey, identifies the core attitudes of fascism, sets forth an idea of democracy as communicative practice, and defines the values and methods of humanistic logic, aesthetics, and rhetoric.

A collection of essays on the work of German political theorist Rainer Forst, covering subjects such as justice, toleration, and the critique of power from within a normative theory of justice and law.

A collection of poetry by 19th-century author Heinrich Heine, focusing on a return to a preoccupation with his Jewish roots, with new English translations alongside the original German.

Explores how superhero comics, with their creative fusions of fantasy and realism, provide a flexible visual form for engaging issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, class, gender, sexuality) as well as for imagining and valuing different physical and cognitive ways of being in the world.

Explores how superhero comics, with their creative fusions of fantasy and realism, provide a flexible visual form for engaging issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, class, gender, sexuality) as well as for imagining and valuing different physical and cognitive ways of being in the world.