The Companion assembles a total of twenty chapters in English throughout, which – as explained in more detail in the Introduction by the two editors – are thematically divided into three sections (“parts”): “Isidore’s Contexts” (chapters 1-4, including the “Introduction”), “Themes in Isidore’s Works” (chapters 5-13), and “Transmission andReception…[Read more]

Although literature and logic share a number of surprising symmetries and historical contacts, they have typically been seen to occupy separate disciplinary spheres. Declaring a subfield in literary studies-logic and literature-this introduction outlines various connections between literary formalism and formal logic. It surveys historical…[Read more]

By applying translation theories and discourse analysis to the study of thirteenth-century English law, it is apparent that some of the terms used in secondary works and printed editions of primary sources are not based on the actual manuscript sources but instead modern biases (intersecting ethnicity and gender). The knock-on effect of this…[Read more]

Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣūrī’s Treatise on the qibla, written in the 1030s C.E., and its Qaraite rebuttal, most likely written over the course of the following decade, preserve the most substantial and extensive surviving account of the centuries-old debate between Jews and Samaritans about the chosen place, the permanent location of the sanctuary and the…[Read more]

(Sobre el «Discurso a Diogneto» y la literatura cristiana primitiva).
En este trabajo, se lleva a cabo un concienzudo estudio del «Discurso a Diogneto» o «Epistola a Diogneto» (como queramos llamar a este texto). Y en él, su autor destaca como rasgos fundamentales:
—El carácter muy temprano de este texto, que intentó armonizar la Iglesia co…[Read more]

Analysis of the communal violence that took place on September 14, 2011 in Gopalgarh town of Rajasthan

Angels, as mythical beings, appear and disappear suddenly throughout Biblical Texts, without any clear explanation of their origins or metaphysical ranks. Whether they are considered circumstantial theophanies or entities with granted self-existence and specific divine functions; such metaphysical entities have a vital presence in the religious…[Read more]