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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Les Gaetani de Fondi Recueil d'Actes 1174-1623
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Il Paesaggio Suburbano Di Roma Dall'antichita Al
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Alle Fonti del Doping: Fortuna E Prospettive Di
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider La Chiesa Di Santo Stefano Ad Umm Al-Rasas: Ed Il
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Santo Niceto Nella Calabria Medievale: Storia,
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Studi Normanni E Federiciani
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider La Tomba Di San Luca Evangelista: La Cassa Di
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Cruciamenta Acherunti: I Dannati Nell'ade Romano
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider L'Insediamento Medievale Nella Valle del Platani
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Dionysos a Teatro: Il Contesto Festivo del Dramma
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Il Riso Di Hephaistos: All'origine del Comico
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Attraverso Il Cerchio Magico: Storia Delle
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider L'Hammam Nell'islam Occidentale Fra l'Viii E Il
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Simulacri Vesti Devozioni: Etnografia Delle
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Profumi Di Argilla: Tombe Con Unguentari Corinzi
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Forme E Strutture Della Religione Nell'italia
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Peeters Publishers Religion and Ethnicity Minorities and Social
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Peeters Publishers The Centrality of Jerusalem
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Peeters Publishers Women Churches: Networking and Reflection in the
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Peeters Publishers Compassion and Remorse: Acknowledging the
Book Synopsis"This book articulates in rich and complex ways the nature of two important moral emotions or 'ways of being' -- compassion and remorse. As an exemplar of the 'agent-centred' tradition in normative ethical theory, it is a fine piece of work, exhibiting one of the more admirable and enjoyable aspects of work in that tradition -- the ability to build bridges between a variety of philosophical traditions. Steven Tudor makes excellent use of authors in both the analytic an continental traditions, while maintaing an admirable clear style. The book elucidates in nuanced and quite sophisticated ways the various aspects of compassion and remorse, and how they are distinguishable from neighbouring and less valuable states such as pity, emphaty, guilt feelings, shame and regret. At the same time, it acknowledges and combats various criticisms of compassion and remorse as moral responses by distinguishing between distorted and undistorted forms of these states. Compassion and Remorse: Acknowledging the Suffering Other is an interesting and intelligent work of philosophy." Dr Christine Swanton, University of Auckland, New Zealand, author of Freedom: A Coherence Theory (winner of Johnsonsian Prize, 1990) "Steven Tudor's book examines two important features of moral experience, compassion and remorse, both of which deserve a central place in the contemporary revival of virtue theory. Both involve the recognition of other people's suffering, while the second also involves a personal recognition of, in some cases, responsibility for that suffering. Drawing on a number of sources -- phenomenology, theology, postmodernism, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein -- Tudor interprets these important moral responses, not as bare cognitions, but in terms of understanding, feeling and practical engagement. Following a path of clear and cogent arguments, he develops a number of moral themes so as to sketch an illuminating conception of the moral life. This is a book for the thoughtful and reflective participant in those moral debates which touch on our personal relations with, and responsibility for, each other. What it offers the reader, in the end, is a strong defence of moral universality and a common human nature." Professor Brenda Almond, University of Hull, author of Exploring Ethics: A Traveller's Tale (1998) and Vice-President of the Society for Applied Philosophy Dr Steven Tudor studied philosophy and law at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he is currently a Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy. He also practises law as a barrister.
£47.80
Peeters Publishers International Code on Religious Freedom
Book SynopsisThe A"International Code on Religious FreedomA" encompasses the widest possible collection of international texts on the matter. They are grouped under three indexes, namely: a) index by GO's (United Nations, International Labour Organization, UNESCO, Council of Europe, European Union, Organization of American States, OSCE, African Union); b) index by "juridical source" (binding and non-binding international instruments); and c) chronological index. It also includes, as far as Islam is concerned, the "Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam" and "The Arab Charter on Human Rights", as well as, insofar as Asia is concerned, "The Seoul Recommendation on Democracy and Tolerance" and "The Asian Human Rights Charter". Besides international instruments, the A"CodeA" also presents the relevant elements of the case-law of the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights, with a direct bearing on the matter at issue, in such a way that the practical problems raised, and the solutions thereto, may be known by both specialists and non-legal readers. The A"CodeA" thus becomes a source of useful and indispensable consultation for all those interested in studying the theme, and of recurrent importance. The ultimate purpose of the A"International Code on Religious FreedomA" by Professor Michelangela Scalabrino is to foster a better understanding of what is meant by "religious freedom" in the domain of the International Law of Human Rights. It is hoped that the aforementioned A"CodeA" may also serve as a source of inspiration for representatives of States and entities of the civil society, as well as for leaders of religious faiths, in devising and assessing what they could or should do, in order to favour mutual respect for, and a spirit of tolerance and a better understanding of, each other's beliefs, to the ultimate benefit of all human beings and their religious faiths.
£75.81
Peeters Publishers Laws on Religion and the State in Post-communist
Book SynopsisThis book contains the text in English of the most important laws that discipline the relationship between States and religious groups in the Post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It is completed by a comparative analysis of these laws, that highlights the principal topics they deal with (registration and financing of religious communities, religious freedom, teaching of religion in schools, etc.)
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Peeters Publishers The Churches of Syrian Antioch (300-638 CE)
Book SynopsisIn The Churches of Syrian Antioch (300-638 CE) Wendy Mayer and Pauline Allen for the first time draw together all of the existing evidence concerning the Christian worship sites of this influential late-antique city, with significantly new results in a number of cases. In addition to providing a catalogue of the worship sites, in which each entry critiques and summarizes the available data, supplemented by photographs from the excavations, the authors analyze the data from a number of perspectives. These include the political, economic and natural forces that influenced the construction, alteration and reconstruction of churches and martyria, and the political, liturgical and social use and function of these buildings. Among the results is an emerging awareness of the extent of the lacunae and biases in the sources, and of the influence of these on interpretation of the city's churches in the past. What also rises to the fore is the significant role played by the schisms within the Christian community that dominated the city's landscape for much of these centuries.
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Peeters Publishers Reading Texts on Jews and Judaism in the Low
Book SynopsisIn the past scholars tended to present Dutch Jewish history in terms of uniqueness within the Jewish world and progressive movement towards Jewish integration, indeed assimilation, into Dutch society. S. Seeligman declared in his famous 1923 article that Dutch Jews experienced a separate and exclusive position among diasporic Jewries and coining the situation as Species Hollandia Judaica. Recent research has demonstrated the limits and weaknesses of this approach. The articles assembled in this volume oscillate between these two approaches and display the multifaceted and occasionally problematic history of Jews in the Low Countries. Thus, they do not present a coherent or new interpretation of Dutch Jewish history, but rather present various angles through which this history can be studied and understood, and further debated.
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Peeters Publishers Penser La Tradition Avec Walter Kasper:
Book SynopsisQu'est-ce que la tradition? Quelle est sa signification pour la vie humaine ainsi que pour les societes pluralistes dans la rencontre inedite des cultures? Comment, theologiquement, en partant de la tradition, l'Eglise, en tant que signe et instrument de salut universel, peut-elle rendre plus effective sa catholicite? Reprenant de maniere approfondie toutes ces questions dans un contexte epistemologique caracterise par un pluralisme de pensee, de langage et d'histoire, cet ouvrage (sur la tradition) vise a presenter les determinations essentielles d'une catholicite historiquement et culturellement ouverte. A ce titre, il touche aussi bien aux problemes les plus cruciaux de la theologie fondamentale contemporaine qu'a l'auto-comprehension de l'Eglise comme realite historique et a la question plus large, au sein meme de cette auto-comprehension, des rapports specifiques qui s'instaurent entre le "particulier" et l'"universel". Les enjeux hermeneutique (avec l'importance du langage et de la culture), societal (sur les rapports entre tradition et societes multiples dans un contexte postmoderne) et ecclesial (puisqu'il en va de la conception meme de l'Eglise) ne font que renforcer l'actualite d'une telle reflexion.
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Peeters Publishers Nahum
Book SynopsisIn this commentary an attempt is made to prove that the book of Nahum was written in Jerusalem, ca. 660 BCE, by a talented, faithful royal scribe. He used the pseudonym Nahum as an indication of his purpose: to encourage the people of Judah groaning under the tyranny of the Assyrians. He took his inspiration from the earlier prophetics of Isaiah and from Psalms, which he probably regularly heard or sang in the temple. He also used his familiarity with the Assyrian literature, especialy with the texts of vassal treaties and royal annals, to express in fitting words the announcement of the downfall of the Assyrian empire symbolized by its capital Niniveh. After the fulfilment of this prediction in 612 BCE the book of Nahum must have become very popular, as it proved clear example of true prophecy. It had much influence upon Habakuk and exilic prophets like the Second Isaiah and Jeremiah, who interpreted its message in the new situation of the Babylonian opprression. Traces of this influence are also found in the literature of the community of Qumran and in the NT.
£30.46
Peeters Publishers La situation critique de l'Église catholique:
Book SynopsisQuelle est la situation de l'Église catholique aujourd'hui? Quel bilan peut-on tirer cinquante ans après le concile Vatican II et quel avenir peut-on envisager? Un même constat émerge des différentes contributions de ce volume que ce soit d'un point de vue historique, sociologique, juridique, philosophique ou théologique : le catholicisme connaît une crise profonde. Il s'affaisse, il s'affaiblit numériquement et culturellement du moins, en Europe tout particulièrement. Cela conduit à parler d'une déculturation, voire d'une exculturation du catholicisme. Mais si cette crise témoigne d'un affaiblissement certain, elle peut aussi être l'occasion d'une évaluation critique et d'un discernement créatif. Puisse cet ensemble diversifié d'analyses et d'interprétations, convergentes à bien des égards, alimenter désormais la réflexion et les pratiques ecclésiales.
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Peeters Publishers Contemplate the Gentleness of God
Book SynopsisOne of the most beautiful Hymns of the Liturgy of the Hours begins with this verse: «Who is God to love us so much…? » In discerning the mystery of the unspeakable love and tenderness of God for the humanity and for the entire universe, the book of Claire Dumont, intertwined with biblical wisdom, shares the experience of a believer who is always seeking for a better answer to the unending question: Who indeed is God? The reading of the Bible, as much as the experience of the humanity, often heaves us into a scenario of violence that seems to obscure its meaning. Nevertheless, gentleness and tenderness are brought forward through countless witnesses and by an irrepressible desire for compassion and peace. It is in contemplating the gentleness of God the Father, Son and Spirit - their unconditional love - , that we can assimilate and regain this gentleness in the Church, in society, in families, in communities or in small groups. By her simple approach, the author dares to witness with great conviction and openness to this profound mystery.
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Peeters Publishers Robert Rypon, Selected Sermons. Volume 1: Feast
Book SynopsisThe fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are considered the golden age of preaching in medieval England. The Latin sermons edited and translated in this volume, preached by Robert Rypon (c. 1350–1421/22) and collected in a single manuscript, are both representative and exceptional instances of the preaching during this period. Rypon was an English Benedictine monk educated at Oxford and a member of Durham priory, where he served a number of important roles. He preached regularly not only to his monastic community but to lay and clerical audiences at Durham cathedral and in parishes around Durham and Northumbria. Many of his analogies, metaphors, and exempla are original or distinctive in their development, but he applies all of them to traditional homiletic concerns, such as the seven deadly sins, the acts of mercy, the theological virtues, the Ten Commandments, prayer, and penance. He also artfully employs the complex scholastic sermon form popular with preachers trained at the universities. His sermons open a window onto the world of preaching and the religious culture of late medieval England. This volume includes a selection of sermons preached on various Sundays and other feast days during the liturgical year, along with seven sermons preached on saints’ days, which include the feasts for John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, and Oswald, the seventh-century king of Northumbria. The second volume will include a selection of sermons preached during Lent.
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Peeters Publishers La topographie de la Jérusalem antique: Essais
Book SynopsisJérusalem eut histoire mouvementée et une évolution urbaine décrites par les historiens de l’Antiquité. Depuis 130 ans on a cherché à retracer les remparts, à comprendre les sièges, à restituer les grands édifices, à décrypter son urbanisme. Avec leurs regards croisés, on devinait les illustres monuments disparus : le temple d’Hérode, le temple capitolin d’Hadrien, la longue basilique chrétienne de Justinien. Ils n’avaient sous la main que le mur du Temple, le Saint-Sépulcre, le Dôme de la Roche. Ils ont sans relâche scruté Jérusalem, avec compétence et passion qui font toujours autorité, on croyait la connaître. Aujourd’hui elle est devenue un sujet qui suscite la curiosité du monde entier. Les recherches interdisciplinaires qui se multiplient apportent chaque jour de nouveaux documents. Les vieilles cartes, le potentiel de la photographie d’avant 1914 qui sort des tiroirs, la mise à disposition des technologies nouvelles comme la photographie satellitaire, le traitement des données sur ordinateur bouleversent les méthodes d’investigation. L’auteur a pris la ville à bras-le corps, dans toute sa complexité. En apprenant d’abord l’acquis accumulé avec un respect qui est dû, c’est avec une formation d’ingénieur qu’il a mené l’enquête. La méthode qui diffère l’a mené à des intuitions nouvelles. Habitant sur place et au fil des ans arpentant les rues et les ruelles, les endroits secrets, les places comme les arrière-cours il a cherché à vérifier ses intuitions un crayon en main, un décamètre et une machine à calculer. La géométrie des grands travaux dans les quartiers des princes hasmonéens, puis ceux d’Hérode, l’ampleur de l’Aelia Capitolina d’Hadrien lui sont apparues par transparence, transformées par le temps mais dont l’organisation demeure. Le croisement des axes urbains atteste la marque de leurs idéologies. L’emplacement des grandes constructions a laissé l’empreinte de leurs politiques ou de leurs propagandes concurrentes. L’auteur bouleverse la vision de la Jérusalem antique. Son habileté d’horloger excelle à décrire les grilles d’urbanisme et à placer les unes par rapport aux autres. On le suit avec une curiosité accrue au fil de la lecture. Les quartiers ont été fondés par les rois hasmonéens au IIe s. av. J-C et la place de la Porte de Damas s’ouvre en agora. Au nord du Temple, Hérode lotit un quartier pour y mettre un théâtre et son quadriportique. L’arc de l’Ecce Homo redevient une porte hérodienne percée dans le Deuxième mur de la ville. L’ambitieux petit-fils Hérode Agrippa déploie la ville au nord et le Tombeau des Rois y trouve sa place. Tout a été remanié après la destruction du Temple pour l’implantation intra-muros de la Dixième Legio Fretensis. Jérusalem a été embellie par Hadrien qui en fit une colonie romaine pour y célébrer son propre culte et celui de Jupiter, en place du Sépulcre, et sur une plate-forme sacrée de l’ancien Temple juif a trôné la statue équestre d’Hadrien. Le bilan de ces travaux est une recherche audacieuse. Elle ravive un débat qui s’annonce fécond.
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Peeters Publishers Scriptures in the Making: Texts and Their
Book SynopsisThe volume examines how the making and the transmission of scriptures was shaped and influenced by major changes in the Second Temple societies. The book contains both detailed readings of biblical and related texts (the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, Qumran Scrolls, and the New Testament) and analyses of what can be known about the societal preconditions of their emergence and use. Many essays discuss the theoretical and methodological premises of our knowledge regarding various social, material, and religious aspects of life in the Eastern Mediterranean in the first centuries before and after the turn of the Common Era. The book offers critical and up-to-date insights into such questions as textual plurality, cultural interaction, the nature of scribal culture and spatial contexts of textual transmission. The essays clarify how the texts and their transmission became an integral part of religious and communal identity building strategies during the Second Temple period.
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Peeters Publishers Palestinian Traditional Pottery: A Contribution
Book SynopsisPalestinian Traditional Pottery stands out, first and foremost, as a scholarly testimony to the disappeared and disappearing craft of traditional pottery making by Palestinian women and men potters. It offers a contribution that has been long awaited and is long overdue. The material it provides, both textual and pictorial, is based on field research completed in the 1970s by two very different, yet complementary, researchers and authors. For various reasons, this material lay dormant over four decades until it was retrieved and returned to the light of day. The occasion for the creation of the volume was the death in 2017 in the U.S. of one of the authors, John Landgraf. Fortunately, the other author, Owen Rye in Australia, had most of the written material still in his possession, which was then digitized, arranged, and edited. The graphic material, especially the black and white – and beautiful color – photographs, taken by the two authors, was also gathered and cataloged for use in the book. The photographs of the women potters are particularly poignant, since they date to the final decade of their pottery making activity. Assembling and producing the book required months of painstaking collaborative work by the editors and the layout artist, with results that are worthy of their efforts. This volume invites readers into the two distinct worlds of Palestinian women and men potters at work in the 1970s: the women in or outside their village homes, and the men in their mostly urban workshops. With Palestinian culture under siege, the scholarship presented here aims to record and preserve a key part of that culture. It stands out equally as a memorial volume for John Landgraf, who lived in Jerusalem from 1965 to 1980, dedicating himself to archaeology, ethnography, and social work.
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Peeters Publishers Collected Essays on the Greek Bible and Greek
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together 28 of John Lee’s most significant articles and book chapters published from 1969 to 2020. The papers are unified by a focus on ancient Greek language across a range of texts and dates. Many of the essays relate to the Septuagint, while the New Testament is the subject of others. Surveys of the state of Greek lexicography, reviews of lexicons, and lexicographical studies feature strongly. Some essays cover topics such as the Atticist Grammarians; one takes a ground-breaking sociolinguistic approach to Mark’s Gospel; and one discovers an early appearance of Greek monotonic accentuation in the first edition of the Greek New Testament.
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Peeters Publishers The Catholic Church and its Orthodox Sister
Book SynopsisIn 1993 the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church promulgated what became known as the Balamand Document, “Uniatism, Method of Union of the Past and the Present Search for Full Communion”. While the first agreed statements of that ecumenical dialogue aroused great enthusiasm and hope for Catholic-Orthodox unity, the Balamand documented interjected a period of instability in Catholic-Orthodox relations that has persisted to this day. These sixteen essays by Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic and independent scholars bring together studies on the quarter century since the Balamand document was first proclaimed. The first section of this book presents the historical and theological context of modern Orthodox-Catholic ecumenical dialogue. What is often at stake in movements of reconciliation are the healing of painful memories of the past. The second part of the book examines the reception and, in some cases, non-reception of the Balamand Document in Central and Eastern Europe, while the third section engages the reception of the Balamand Document in the Middle East, with chapters on the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church of the East. The various authors reveal the great diversity that exists in the spiritual, theological, historical and liturgical traditions of the Eastern Catholic Churches, especially in their relations with the Orthodox Churches. The studies also examine differing perspectives on both the benefits and problematics of directly engaging Eastern Catholics in ecumenical dialogue, and the role that they might play in a vision of full communion so that reconciliation and unity have a truly authentic and lasting significance.
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Peeters Publishers Repenser la rétribution. Rethinking Retribution
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to clarify the idea of retribution and to propose a reasoned definition of the concept through philological and lexical studies. It faces the question whether a legal system, or even a moral one, is possible without retribution, whether justice – including divine justice – can be conceived without an underlying perspective of retribution. It analyses how the idea of retribution, when is assumed to be present, is articulated with that of mercy, justification, forgiveness, or grace. It considers the functions that this idea can serve in various literary contexts and different discursive registers. But it also raises the question of whether, in the biblical texts, divine justice is not more restorative and not proportional to the act committed than stricto sensu retributive.It is a volume of proceeding of colloquia held at the Institut Catholique de Paris in 2020 and 2021.
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Peeters Publishers PsSal 9 im Kontext der sogenannten Psalmen
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Peeters Publishers Meaningful Meetings with Foreigners in the World of the Bible
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Peeters Publishers Aseneth and the Honeycomb
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Peeters Publishers Qumran and the New Testament
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Peeters Publishers Jeremiah 4651
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Peeters Publishers Imperial Powers and Women
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Peeters Publishers Studies on the Old Latin of the Book of Esther
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Peeters Publishers From Here and There
£71.25
PEETERS PUB Handschriftenbezit En Boekengebruik Trappisten
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PEETERS PUB Ontmoetingen Met Lutgart Van Tongeren Deel II
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Peeters Ontmoetingen Met Lutgart Van Tongeren Deel VI
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PEETERS PUB Ontmoetingen Met Lutgart Van Tongeren Deel VII
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