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Peeters Publishers Verhalende verzamelingen: 'Flos unde Blankeflos'
Book SynopsisHet overgrote deel van de Middelnederduitse verhalende literatuur is overgeleverd in acht eenvoudig uitgevoerde verzamelhandschriften. In vergelijking met codices uit de aangrenzende taalgebieden valt op dat deze Nederduitse verzamelingen op formeel vlak een opmerkelijke consistentie vertonen: in vrijwel alle gevallen gaat het om vijftiende-eeuwse papieren eenkolomshandschriften met hoofdzakelijk wereldlijke narratieve teksten, waarvan sommige bovendien in twee of meer van de handschriften bewaard gebleven zijn. Deze studie is gewijd aan de verzamelprincipes, de gebruiksmogelijkheden en de receptie van deze acht Nederduitse tekstverzamelingen. Een bijzondere rol is weggelegd voor Flos unde Blankeflos, de Nederduitse bewerking van de beroemde Oudfranse roman Floire et Blancheflor, die in maar liefst vijf van de codices is overgeleverd. De studie voorziet tevens in een editie van de niet eerder gepubliceerde teksten uit handschrift Gdansk, Biblioteka Gdańska Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Ms. 2418.
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Peeters Publishers Die Briefe 1 und 2 des Ostsyrischen Patriarchen
Book SynopsisDie vorliegenden Bände veröffentlichen die Briefe 1 und 2 des ostsyrischen Patriarchen Timotheos erstmals auf breiter Handschriftenbasis und mit einer Übersetzung in einer modernen Sprache. Diese vergleichsweise langen Texte sind eigentliche Traktate. Brief 1 beschäftigt sich mit der Taufe, insbesondere mit der Frage, ob erneut getauft werden muss, wer von einer anderen Konfession zur ostsyrischen Kirche übertritt. Brief 2 richtet sich an Bokhtisho’, den damaligen Oberarzt des Kalifen, und widmet sich der Seele. Beide Texte sind wichtige Dokumente für die Rekonstruktion der damaligen Lehre von der Taufe resp. von der Seele. An Brief 1 ist ein sogenannter Cento angeschlossen, deraus Zitaten von Timotheos zusammengesetzt ist und dessen Tauflehre leicht verschärft. In der Einleitung werden erstmals die ursprüngliche Reihenfolge des Briefcorpus und die mutmasslichen Redaktionsvorgänge rekonstruiert.
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Peeters Publishers Het 'Liber benefactorum' van het
Book SynopsisVan 1392 tot 1578 heeft Amsterdam een groep kloosterlingen geherbergd die de statuten van de kartuizers hebben nageleefd in hun klooster Sint-Andries-ter-Zaliger-Haven. De kartuis kent zijn grootste bloei in de eerste helft van de vijftiende eeuw, ongetwijfeld mede dankzij de geest van de Moderne Devotie. Later raakt de kartuizerorde ook in Amsterdam over haar hoogtepunt heen, en wanneer rond 1520 de Reformatie deze streken bereikt, heeft het klooster het grootste deel van zijn aantrekkingskracht op de bevolking verloren. Desondanks blijft het kartuizerklooster bestaan, tot het einde wordt ingeluid met plunderingen in de jaren zestig van de zestiende eeuw. Aan het hieropvolgende kwijnende bestaan maakt de Alteratie van 1578 een eind. Er is geen bron uit het kloosterarchief die dergelijke evoluties beter in kaart helpt te brengen dan het manuscript dat in de onderzoeksliteratuur de titel Liber benefactorum heeft gekregen. Dit middeleeuwse ‘weldoenersboek’, vandaag bewaard in het Stadsarchief van Amsterdam, wordt in deze publicatie uitgegeven. De broneditie wordt voorafgegaan door een inleiding die de structuur en genese van dit bijzondere handschrift beschrijft.
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Peeters Publishers Mit Poesie vertreibe ich den Kummer meines
Book SynopsisThis is the first Western monograph since a century about a genre, cherished by Arab literati: the pre-Islamic dirge (martiya) by women. It dwells on the problem of the authenticity of these texts. Metre and rhyme of this genre are discussed in relationship to the genres predecessor - niyâha - and the dominating qasîda. Unlike the latter, the martiya does not have a clear thematical order, although the poem is often introduced by a dialogue, followed by a laudatory part, which serves to legitimize the break of self control, and finally some general remarks on Fate and Death. Marâtî were sometimes composed to comment on historical events. A poetess like al-Kansâ' used her marâtî in early Islam to emphasize pre-Islamic values.
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Peeters Publishers Dictionnaire Inverse Du Copte
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Peeters Publishers Archaeology of Jordan II: Field Reports, Surveys
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Peeters Publishers Handschriften Uit De Abdij Van Sint-Truiden
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Peeters Publishers Aegeans in the Theban Tombs
Book SynopsisThe wall paintings of several Theban tombs represent foreigners who present gifts that are sometimes typically Cretan or Aegean. Other foreigners, although labeled "Princes of Keftiu" (Crete), are represented as Asiatics. The aim of the present volume is to analyze these wall paintings in order to distinguish the Aegeans and their gifts. The author manages to establish their characteristics in nine Theban tombs, divides chronologically in two groups, and shows that the related figures reflect actual Aegeo-Egyptian relations in the time of the XVIIIth dynasty, down to c. 1470/1450 BC. This result is obtained by a careful comparison of represented gifts with undoubtedly Minoan objects and documents from the Aegean, especially Crete.
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Peeters Publishers Bibliographie Analytique De L'archeologie De
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Peeters Publishers These Things Have Been Written: Studies on the
Book Synopsis"These Things Have Been Written" calls to mind the fashion in which the Fourth Gospel was written, with particular emphasis upon Johannine characterization. In various ways it elucidates many facets of the evangelist's notion of faith. The final chapters focus on the incarnation of the Word and the new commandment of love. Raymond F. Collins is professor of New Testament Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and former rector of The American College affiliated with the university. A specialist in the New Testament's Johannine and Pauline literature, he has published a number of significant books on the New Testament including an "Introduction to the New Testament" (1983), "Studies on the First Letter to the Thessalonians" (1984), and the "Letters That Paul Did not Write" (1988).
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Peeters Publishers Historica, Theologica, Gnostica, Biblica et
Book SynopsisPapers presented at the Tenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1987 (see also Studia Patristica 20, 21, 22 and 23). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.
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Peeters Publishers Second Century, Tertullian to Nicaea in the West,
Book SynopsisPapers presented at the Ninth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1983. The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.
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Peeters Publishers Critica, Classica, Ascetica, Liturgica
Book SynopsisPapers presented at the Ninth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1983. The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.
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Peeters Publishers The Principles and Practice of New Testament
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Peeters Publishers Augustine, Post Nicene Latin Fathers, Orientalia,
Book SynopsisPapers presented at the Ninth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1983. The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.
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Peeters Publishers The Guru in Indian Catholicism
Book SynopsisThe attempt at inculturation of the Catholic Church in India has given birth to Catholic ashrams. The essence and raison d'etre of a traditional ashram is the figure of the guru. "The Guru in Indian Catholicism" is a reflection on the implications, problems and possibilities of introducing the Hindu notion of the guru into the Catholic tradition. Catherine Cornille, a frequent visitor of the East, where she has studied and lectured, presently teaches courses in the Comparative Study of Religions at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Her current research focusses mainly on the new religious phenomena emerging from the encounter of religions and cultures.
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Peeters Publishers The Minor Agreements in a Horizontal-Line
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Peeters Publishers Studia Neotestamentica: Collected Essays
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Peeters Publishers Essentials of Functional Phonology
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Peeters Publishers Life Out of Death: Studies in the Religions of
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Peeters Publishers A Universal Faith? Peoples, Cultures, Religions
Book SynopsisThis volume of essays is dedicated to Frank De Graeve, s.j., Professor Emeritus of Missiology and the Comparative Study of Religions at the K.U. Leuven. Throughout a long teaching career in the United States and Belgium, his two main concerns have been the inculturation of Christianity in the Various continents and particular contexts, and the theological reflection on religious pluralism. The contributions to this collection are therefore centered around these two topics. Valeer Neckebrouck and Catherine Cornille are Frank De Graeve's successors in the fields of Missiology and the Comparative Study of Religions, respectively. Valeer Neckebrouck is the author of "La Tierce Eglise devant le probleme de la culture" among numerous other works, and Catherine Cornille's "The Guru in Indian Catholicism" has already appeared in this series.
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Peeters Publishers Essays on John (Ed. by C. M. Tuckett)
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Peeters Publishers The Book of Daniel in the Light of New Findings
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Peeters Publishers The Archive of the Theban Choachytes: A Survey of
Book SynopsisThe archive of the Theban choachytes contains over 80 texts, Greek and demotic. They are largely private documents that together constitute the papers of a family of choachytes (undertakers). It is known since the beginnings of modern Egyptology and Papyrology as the "Hermias Archive" after the antagonist of the choachytes in a now famous Greek law suit kept in Turin. Although its bilingual information contributed in no uncertain measure to the decipherment of demotic, a large part of this fundamentally demotic archive is still not or not properly published. This Survey reviews for each text, Greek or Demotic, all relevant data in great detail and determines its exact place within the whole of the archive. The second half of the book presents the study of a number of special subjects that emerge from the contentts of the archive, such as the topography of Thebes (city and necropolis), prosopography, mummies and liturgies, but also more general subjects as onomastics, prices and transfer tax (enkyklion), and the diplomatics of the documents.
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Peeters Publishers Miscellanea Martin Wittek. Album De Codicologie
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Peeters Publishers Le Livre De Parcourir L'Eternite
Book SynopsisAu premier rang de la litterature funeraire de Basse Epoque, le Livre de parcourir l'eternite est une oeuvre d'une richesse et d'une complexite exceptionnelles, dont l'originalite reside dans l'inventaire des places sacrees visitees par le defunt et surtout dans le catalogue de fetes et rites auxquels il participe. Aux documents deja connus, dont le P. Leyde T32, s'ajoutent aujourd'hui une serie de paralleles supplementaires - une douzaine de papyrus hieratiques inedits, un papyrus demotique et l'inscription d'un couvercle de sarcophage. Les 19 versions de provenance variee, datees de l'epoque greco-romaine autorisent l'etablissement definitif du texte, l'analyse detaillee de ses elements, la mise en valeur de ses structures. Une etude axee sur l'articulation des actes du defunt, de l'espace et du temps revele la nature de la finalite de l'ouvrage, construit dans une perspective essentiellement chronologique. Par sa thematique funeraire, ses developpements geographiques, liturgiques et calendriques, le Livre de parcourir l'eternite est l'une des plus remarquables syntheses religieuses de l'Egypte tardive. Traduction, commentaire philologique, synthese, transcription et photos des textes. Index.
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Peeters Publishers Die Syrische Apokalypse Des Pseudo-Methodius: T.
Book SynopsisThe homily "On the Succession of the Kings and the End of Times" attributed to bishop Methodius of Patara (died ca. 311) is one of the most influential non-biblical apocalyptic texts both in Eastern and in Western Christianity. Written about 692 in Iraq by a Syriac-speaking Christian, it was soon translated into Greek and Latin, and subsequently into many other languages in East and West. The present edition offers the first critical text based on all extant Syriac textual witnesses, including references to the forthcoming new edition of the oldest Greek and Latin recensions by W.J. Aerts and G.A.A. Kortekaas in the Subsidia of CSCO. The present volume also includes the facsimile edition of the text (difficult of access) in the Oriental manuscripts Mardin Orth. 368 and Mardin Orth. 891. The German translation is provided with a comprehensive apparatus of explanatory notes and preceded by and introductory essay discussing the historical, religious and literary aspects of this important text, which may be considered as one of the earliest Christian responses to the rise of Islam.
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Peeters Publishers Mxit'ar Sasnec'i's Theological Discourses: V.
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Peeters Publishers Perspectives on English. Studies in Honour of
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Peeters Publishers Thomistica
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Peeters Publishers Flanders in a European Perspective. Manuscript
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Peeters Publishers Progress in Unity? Fifty Years of Theology within
Book SynopsisAs an expert and lively tour-guide, Brinkman takes the reader through the breathtaking landscape of a half-century of ecumenical dialogue. The author makes an invaluable contribution by his deft selection of documents, his thought-provoking commentary on key issues, and his keen discernment of the missionary challenge that faces the church of Christ as it travels on the road to greater visible unity. the work is equally suitable for personal reading and for the college or seminary classroom. A veritiable feast for ecumenical and evangelical readers. This work is a refreshing stimulus to reflection, prayer, and action for the unity and mission of the church in a troubled world. George Vandervelde President of the North American Academy of Ecumenists, Professor of Systematic Theology, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Canada One thing becomes clear from Martien Brinkman's book : those who claim that the ecumenical movement went into a deadlock have not studies its results. Most people suffer from a lack of memory when it comes to the history of ecumenical theology during the past 70 years. This book provides medicine for ecumenical amnesia. It deals especially with the Faith and Order Movement and Commission, within the World Council of Churches. There flows, from Brinkman's book a whole new stream of an ecumenical theological tradition which is scarcely known, even to academic theologians. This tradition treats of such matters as Scripture and Tradition, Faith and Sacraments, Church, World and Kingdom of God. This book provides an excellent overview and in-depth evaluation of the major currents in this developing ecumenical tradition. It will certainly promote its reception in the churches and its study in the academy. At the same time, however, it keeps an eye open for the difficulties and tensions of the dialogue between ecumenical amd evangelical Christians, and between the theological methods of the North and the South. It will be difficult to find any more reliable study-guide to the results of the multilateral ecumenical dialogues of the twentieth century. Anton Houtepen Professor of Ecumenism, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands This book, conceived as a study-guide to the Faith and Order Movement, does precisely what it sets out to do and does it well. It brings the reader into close contact with the documents and studies published by this influential section of the World Council of Churches. Such an inventory comes at the right time, just as the Commission on Faith and Order takes stock after the World Conference of Santiago, and under the guidance of a new director. It is no secret that Faith and Order has been invited to reflect upon its future orientation. The well-documented and orderly survey which Prof. brinkman offers us here will certainly be of help in such a process. Jos Vercruysse S.J. Professor of Church History and Ecumenism, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome
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Peeters Publishers L'ecrit Sans Titre. Traite sur L'origine du Monde
Book SynopsisL'analyse de la composition de ce traite a partir de la rhetorique hellenistique permet de constater qu'il a ete redige avec un grand souci de coherence et de croire qu'il a ete concu comme un ouvrage de propagande gnostique destine a des lecteurs juifs. Deux series de transformations semblent toutefois avoir bouleverse l'arrangement de ses parties et modifie la fonction de certaines figures, dont celle de Sabaoth. C'est du moins ce qui permet d'expliquer au mieux l'impression simultanee de coherence et de desordre que ce traite produit chez son lecteur. Cette nouvelle edition et traduction jette une lumiere neuve sur un des traites les plus fascinants de la collection de Nag Hammadi et sur les liens avec Eugnoste le Bienheureux (NH III,3 et VI,1), qui sont d'une importance capitale pour l'histoire du gnosticisme.
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Peeters Publishers Den Menschen mit Dem Himmel Verbinden. Eine
Book SynopsisDie katechetischen Homilien Theodors von Mopsuestia, eines der grossten Exegeten und Dogmatiker der Alten Kirche, sind nicht im griechischen Original auf uns gekommen, sondern in der Volks- und Literatursprache des christlichen Orients, dem Syrischen. Die Grunde hierfur sind bekannt, sie liegen in der mit Leidenschaft und Erbitterung gefuhrten Debatte um die Rechtglaubigkeit seiner Positionen. Die vorliegende Studie mochte einen ersten Einblick in das theologische Denken des Bischofs von Mopsuestia bieten und zu einem vertieften Verstandnis seines Werkes anregen. Die Grundidee, die sich hinter den Einzelthemen verbirgt, ist die rechte Verbindung und Zuordnung von Gottlichem und Menschlichem, Ewigem und Zeitlichem, Unwandelbarem und Verganglichem.
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Peeters Publishers Origeniana Sexta: Origen and the Bible. Origene
Book SynopsisLes etudes sur Origene, le grand theologien alexandrin de la premiere moitie du IIIe siecle, offraient une lacune: aucun ouvrage recent ne traite du sujet "Origene et la Bible" dans tous ses aspects. Le Sixieme Colloque consacre a Origene a voulu combler ce manque: le present livre resulte des travaux menes par les specialistes qui se sont reunis pendant cinq jours durant l'ete 1993 a Chantilly (France). Il aborde successivement huit grands themes: la situation de l'hermeneutique d'Origene par rapport aux traditions classique, juive, gnostique et patristique; Origene devant le texte de la Bible (le probleme des Hexaples); l'argumentation scriptuaire d'Origene; les rapports entre l'exegese d'Origene et sa theologie; Origene exegete de la Bible, avec une insistance particuliere sur l'Evangile de Jean et les Lettres de Paul; la posterite de l'hermeneutique d'Origene d'abord chez les Peres grecs (Didyme, Gregoire de Nysse, Cyrille d'Alexandrie, Maxime le Confesseur); ensuite chez les Peres latins (en particulier Hilaire de Poitiers) et au Moyen Age; enfin les debats autour de l'hermeneutique d'Origene aux epoques moderne (Erasme, Luther, Beze) et contemporaine. Les soixante articles de ce volume sont rediges en allemand, anglais, espagnol, francais, italien. Plusieurs Index (notamment un Index scriptuaire) facilitent la consultation de ce livre, que ses editeurs ont concu a la fois comme un ouvrage de reference pour de longues annees et comme un instrument de travail permettant d'entreprendre d'autres recherches.
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Peeters Publishers La Deesse SGrol-ma (Tara), Recherches Sur La
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Peeters Publishers Immigration and Emigration within the Ancient
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Peeters Publishers Le Tonnerre, Intellect Parfait (NH VI, 2): Avec
Book SynopsisDepuis son identification comme traite distinct au sein du codex VI, en 1962, le traite intitule "Le tonnerre, intellect parfait" n'a cesse de susciter l'etonnement et l'embarras de ses commentateurs. La recherche menee sur ce traite depuis 1970 a cependant permis d'eclairer plus d'un aspect du texte, par exemple, ses liens avec la Sagesse biblique et l'Isis hellenistique ou encore sa forme litteraire, et ont ainsi balise la voie pour tout futur interprete du traite. Mais celui-ci reste confronte a l'aporie hermeneutique creee par l'absence de tout cadre narratif ou d'un contexte mythologique clair, et par un recours systematique a des oppositions et a des antitheses dont on ne sait jamais si elles sont voulues pour elles-memes ou si elles resultent de l'application mecanique d'un procede litteraire. Dans cet ouvrage, une interpretation d'ensemble du traite est presentee ainsi que le premier commentaire consacre a lui. L'ouvrage comporte en outre un texte copte nouvellement etabli, une traduction fracaise, des index du vocabulaire et des formes grammaticales, ainsi qu'une etude de l'orthographe du Codex VI et de la langue du traite.
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Peeters Publishers Studies in Ancient Hebrew Semantics
Book SynopsisThis publication is a collection of studies devoted to various aspects of the semantics and lexicography of Ancient Hebrew. All contributions except the last two were originally delivered as papers to a symposium held in July 1994 at Leiden University. The symposium rounded off a three-year-long international network funded by the European Science Foundation under the leadership of Prof. Dr. J. Hoftijzer, from whose contribution to the present volume one may gain an insight into the conception and philosophy of the research project and its history so far. This volume will, in addition to some earlier publications which have appeared in the Zeitschrift fur Althebraistik, give the reader some idea of the general thinking which has assisted the authors in the formulation of their approach to the task lying before them. It ought to be emphasised, however, that all the studies appearing in this volume ought to be of interest to any Hebraist and Old Testament scholar, for they are hardly "in-house" publications, but address some important aspects of the Ancient Hebrew semantics and lexicography.
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Peeters Publishers A Healthy Rivalry. Human Rights in the Church
Book SynopsisHuman rights in the Church...The combination, human rights and the Church, is not always an easy one, although church authorities increasingly promote human rights and their meticulous application in civil society. This book aims to describe human rights in the Church as they already exist today (in the 1983 Code of Cann Law, in everyday practice) and as they can be developed in the future. Human rights in the Church could be promoted by the development of a health legal culture and by simulating independent responsibility among the Christian faithful. By using existing canon law as creatively as possible and by promoting reasonable changes with an eye to the future, the quality of internal church life can be improved without endangering theological foundations. Indeed, good legal structures are a matter of justice. Finally, this book is a plea for constructive dialogue in the Church. The faithful and the hierarchy are not enemies. They share a common source of inspiraton which is not vitiated by their choice of rival philosophical or pastoral options. Indeed, a healthy rivalry between committed Christians can be a real gain for the life of the Church. Rik Torfs, Dean of the Faculty of Canon Law K.U.Leuven, Lic. Iur., Not., J.C.L., J.C.D. (Leuven). Before joining the faculty of Canon Law, he taught at the University of Utrecht (K.T.U.). He also teaches at Antwerp University (U.I.A.). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Church and State Research (Milan) and editor of the "European Journal for Church and State". His research and publications are in the field of general norms of Canon Law, Catholic hospitals and schools, marriage law and the realtions between Church and State.
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Peeters Publishers Two Cardinals: John Henry Newman, Desire Joseph
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Peeters Publishers The Corinthian Correspondence
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Peeters Publishers Der Ktaba D-Durrasa (Ktaba D-Ma'Wata) Des Elija
Book SynopsisElija, east-Syrian (nestorian) bishop of al-Anbar west of Baghdad flourished in the first half of the Xth century. His voluminous Ktaba d-Durrasa (Book of Instruction) is composed of metrical stanzas and consists of thirty centuries (therefore known as Ktaba d-Ma'wata), arranged in ten Memre. It is a work of didactic poetry, deeply influenced by Dionysius the Areopagite and his theory of symbolism. We meet a manual of theoria based on Scripture, nature and tradition addressed to monks (and clergy?) and reflecting their hierarchical order of illumination. Of special interest are the large portions with mainly typological explanations of the AT and the NT. From 19 manuscripts of western and eastern libraries a solid text (the common archetype of ca. the 12th/13th century) is established. The second part (Memre IV-VI) is in preparation.
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Peeters Publishers Studies in the Book of Exodus: Redaction,
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Peeters Publishers Nature et Grace Dans la Theologie Occidentale.
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Peeters Publishers The Mount Sinai Arabic Version of IV Ezra: T.
Book SynopsisThe edition is a diplomatic edition based on the text of the Arabic version of IV Ezra as found in the unique tenth-century manuscript Ms Mt Sinai Arabic Codex 589 which contains the full text of this version. It is a translation of a Syriac text closely related to the sole survivor in Ms Milan, Ambrosian Library, B. 21 Inf. It is not identical with any of the other known Arabic versions of IV Ezra, which appear to have been translated from the Greek. The introduction to the edition contains a description of the manuscript, a discussion of its orthography and its scribal mistakes and of the adopted method of text edition. The translation is an annotated translation. The introduction deals among others with the relation between the Syriac version of IV Ezra and its Arabic translation, the fragment in Ms Berol. Sprenger 30 (Ahlwardt 9434), the relation between the Arabic version of IV Ezra and the Arabic version of the Apocalypse of Baruch in the same manuscript and the occurence of Middle Arabic elements in the text.
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Peeters Publishers Deuteronomy and Deuteronomic Literature:
Book SynopsisThe volume is presented to Professor C.H.W. Brekelmans in celebration of his 75th birthday. The editors were of the opinion that there could be no better way to honour Chris Brekelmans than with a collection of articles treating the "Deuteronomic" traditions found in the Book of Deuteronomy as well as in the so-called Tertrateuch, and Deuteronomistic History. In the past years, a renewed impetus has been given to the development of Deuteronomic Studies. The present Festschrift aims at contributing to the current debate which has a special interest in methodological questions regarding the identification and characterization of "Deuteronomistic" texts in the aforementioned complexes of Old Testament writings. The volume is divided into four sections. The first section offers a collection of articles which focus on the Book of Deuteronomy itself. The second section contains contributions dealing with Deuteronomic History. The third section is devoted to the relationship between the Deuteronomic - in the largest sense of the word - traditions and the Tetrateuch. The fourth and final section presents a collection of articles on a number of important issues, each of which offers its own direct or indirect contribution to the study of the Deuteronomi(sti)c literature and its relationship to the remaining texts of the Old Testament.
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Peeters Publishers Symbols of Transcendence: Religious Expression in
Book SynopsisThe dynamic of religious expression employs symbolic language, actions, and art. These symbols are symbols of transcendence because it is transcendence which is the unique referent that sets apart symbols which give rise to religious understanding from symbols which do not. The main objective of this book is to demonstrate that in Louis Dupre's work all religious expression, insofar as it has a transcendent reference, is intrinsically symbolic. Religious language is never purely objective nor purely subjective, but a dialectical relation with a transcendent dimension. True to the teachings of Dupre, this book uncovers that without a transcendent referent, religious symbols lose their religious significance. This is the plight of the (late-post)modern condition which resulted from the fracturing of nature into its cosmic, human and transcendent components. To regain a sense of transcendence the believer is forced to make an inward turn akin to the mystical practice of past ages. This does not recover a sense of transcendence for culture but can do so for the believer's personal spiritual life.
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