The discipline of Sinology, as it has been developed in the West, is rooted in philology. Despite the variety of new scholarly fashions and approaches to the study of premodern China that have arisen during the past half-century, the careful examination of texts remains fundamental for all serious S...
The discipline of Sinology, as it has been developed in the West, is rooted in philology. Despite th...
Penn State University Press / 978-0-940490-16-1
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Over the last 40 years, the study of word-order variation has become a prominent and fruitful field of research. Researchers of linguistic typology have found that every language permits a variety of word-order constructions, with subject, verb, and objects occupying varying positions relative to ea...
Over the last 40 years, the study of word-order variation has become a prominent and fruitful field...
Penn State University Press / 978-1-57506-191-7
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The struggle to read Jeremiah 31:31–34 as Christian Scripture has a long and divided history, cutting across nearly every major locus of Christian theology. Yet little has been done either to examine closely the varieties of interpretation in the Christian tradition from the post-Nicene period...
The struggle to read Jeremiah 31:31–34 as Christian Scripture has a long and divided history,...
Penn State University Press / 978-1-57506-702-5
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Sixteen essays from the Albright conference held at the Johns Hopkins University charting the course of ancient Near Eastern studies in the twenty-first century. This landmark volume is essential reading for both students and scholars.
Sixteen essays from the Albright conference held at the Johns Hopkins University charting the course...
Penn State University Press / 978-0-931464-96-6
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Comprehensive collection of ancient Akkadian literature spanning three millennia. This larger, completely new, 3rd edition contains many compositions not in the previous editions; new translations of previously included compositions; incorporation of new text fragments identified or excavated since...
Comprehensive collection of ancient Akkadian literature spanning three millennia. This larger, compl...
Penn State University Press / 978-1-883053-76-5
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Ancient Israel is widely regarded as having been set apart from the nations, representing a unique sociopolitical entity in the ancient world. United by a common tribal identity and a commitment to worshiping the God who delivered them from Egypt exclusively, the Israelites established an egalitaria...
Ancient Israel is widely regarded as having been set apart from the nations, representing a unique s...
Penn State University Press / 978-1-57506-427-7
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This milestone study is a thorough examination of the various cultic and social phenomena connected with the temple—activities connected with the temple’s inner sphere and belonging to the priestly circle. The book also seeks to demonstrate the antiquity and the historical timing of the...
This milestone study is a thorough examination of the various cultic and social phenomena connected...
Penn State University Press / 978-1-57506-185-6
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Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable number of aspiring and established writers alike, New York City is widely perceived as the publishing capital of the United States and the world. This...
Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary...
Penn State University Press / 978-0-271-08232-5
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This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances link the supernatural, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways.Supernatural marvels represented in vivid visual detail are foundational to the characteristic Middle English genres of romance and...
This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romance...
Penn State University Press / 978-0-271-07964-6
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Benjamin Hoffmann’s Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For writers such as John Hector St. John de Crèvecœur and Claude-François de Lezay-Marnés...
Benjamin Hoffmann’s Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American p...
Penn State University Press / 978-0-271-08008-6
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