Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time
has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such life …

A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human
imagination over three millennia “Richly detailed and illustrated.... An engaging exploration …

Philip Burton explores Augustine's treatment of language in his Confessions-a major work of
Western philosophy and literature, with continuing intellectual importance. One of …

In re-examining the Christianization of the Roman Empire and subsequent transformation of
Graeco-Roman classical culture, this volume challenges conventional ways of …

Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle
Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over …

This book assembles eighteen studies by internationally renowned scholars that epitomize
the latest and best advances in research on the greatest polymath in Latin Christian …

Uncovered in 1941 near Cairo, the Tura papyri brought to light numerous works attributed to
Didymus the Blind, including commentaries and grammatical lessons on the Psalms and …

The cognitive science of religion that has emerged over the last twenty years is a
multidisciplinary field that often challenges established theories in anthropology and …

Practices of reading form an important center of synagogal worship as well as Jewish
scholarship. The monograph reconstructs the development of ritual reading practices in …

2 David Ganz two tablets of the Pact, stone tablets inscribed with the finger of God”(Ex. 31,
18). 5 In this account, sacred scripture's power is explained by a close link to divine origin …