The discussion of Clement's evil and freedom of the will constitutes a fascinating new study of a universal problem. It presents Clement's ideas in a fresh and clear manner equally intelligible to the initiated as well as the common reader.
... that the Abderite Democritus called sexual relationship a light form of epilepsy,
an incurable malady.16 Sexual encounters are accompanied by weakness,
owing to the loss of semen, since man, although born of man, is detached from
him.
The Oral Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee
Offering an analysis of oral poetry dueling performed at traditional Palestinian weddings this book addresses poetry dueling as a performative and compositional device, and explores the complex linkages between this tradition and other genres of Arabic poetry.
Offering an analysis of oral poetry dueling performed at traditional Palestinian weddings this book addresses poetry dueling as a performative and compositional device, and explores the complex linkages between this tradition and other ...
Pure, Strong and Sexless explores the representation of gender and sexuality of peasant women in turn of the century Russian culture through the writings of populist writer Gleb Uspensky. Uspensky s numerous works address a range of issues related to sexuality, including infanticide, abortion, prostitution, adultery and venereal disease. This is the first comprehensive study of populist s fantasies in regard to the peasant woman s body as a non-sexed utopian body within Russian fin-de-siecle sexual discourse. Included in this book is the first English translation of the diary of Uspensky s psychiatrist, Dr Boris Sinani. This frank account portrays the tragic decline of a sensitive observer and writer into the psychotic and delusionary world of schizophrenia. This work is an invaluable source for students of Russian literature, gender studies, and history of psychiatry."
In this MPIL volume, Janet Dyk and Percy van Keulen implement computer science, linguistic analysis, and text-historical insights in treating the differences between the Hebrew and Syriac versions of Kings. Applying the distinct disciplines helped in arriving at a more balanced assessment of the nature and provenance of the deviations observed.
Foundations for Syriac Lexicography, I (Piscataway, NJ, 2005),141–156. ———. '
Data Preparation: What are We Doing and Why Should We', in Van Keulen and
Van Peursen, Corpus Linguistics and Textual History, 133–154. ———.
studies on the Peshitta and its use in the Syriac tradition presented to Konrad D.
Jenner on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday Konrad Dirk Jenner, W. Th. van Peursen, R. B. ter Haar Romeny. attach the following lexical-semantic labels to ...
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the verbal system in the extant Hebrew witnesses of Ben Sira. It is an important contribution both to Ben Sira studies and to the debate about the tenses in Classical Hebrew.
W. Th. Van Peursen. in a time in which -0 (and "i) was employed as well. Thus
Dan. 1:10 no1? HBK is used as Aramaic no1? 'i 'lest',53 and -b ~W$ seems to be
a caique of the Mishnaic bvi (Aramaic -b "I) in 1 lQTa xvi 14 cab TO* 'jon nan 'the
...
Cornelis Anthonie van Peursen. natura naturans, aan het oneindig Verstand, als
natura naturata, voorafgaat 3°. En daarmede verandert heel de probleemstelling.
Zo kan Leibniz later wel van alle mogelijke werelden spreken, omdat het bij ...
After subjecting the Syriac translation of Ben Sira to traditional philological analysis the author conducts computer-assisted linguistic studies of phrases, clauses and texts. He reaches particularly interesting proposals for a corpus-based description of phrase structure based on a so-called maximum matrix.
Peursen, W.Th. van, 'Clause Hierarchy and Discourse Structure in the Syriac Text
of Sirach 14:20-27', in Van Peursen-Ter Haar Romeny, Text, Translation, and
Tradition, 135-148. . 'Language Variation, Language Development and the ...
This volume is a collection of articles which explore the relations between modern and classical visual art on the one hand and what is currently known or believed about visual perception, visual exploration, the eye, and the visual brain. The book includes speculative as well as firmly-grounded theories and approaches. Articles have been chosen for their scholarly value, their scientific approach as far as possible, and their intrinsic interest.
The orbitofrontal cortex has often been related with the representation of the reward value of stimuli and with the ... First, the magnitude of the activity in the
orbitofrontal cortex after the application of a reward or punishment reflected the ...
Drawing on the themes of religious rhetoric, embedded in social and political contexts, this study offers new insights into the manners in which the Catholic Church helped mould the Slovenians' responses to WWI and reconsiders the reasons for the clergy's political actions amid tensions, which resulted in the Habsburg empire's collapse.
The Church faced a dilemma when transmitting patriotic calls to defend Slovenian homeland as the enemy's forces consisted predominantly of Catholics; Ch. three addresses the Church's interpretation of suffering and sacrifice, while further ...
