This article describes the current crisis in Pentateuch research, presenting its origin and results, as well as the impact on the modern research. It shows the main players in the debate and its contribution to the current status in the field. It finishes describing the future of the research, as we can grasp from the current research and the…[Read more]

This article describes the current crisis in Pentateuch research, presenting its origin and results, as well as the impact on the modern research. It shows the main players in the debate and its contribution to the current status in the field. It finishes describing the future of the research, as we can grasp from the current research and the…[Read more]

This article describes the current crisis in Pentateuch research, presenting its origin and results, as well as the impact on the modern research. It shows the main players in the debate and its contribution to the current status in the field. It finishes describing the future of the research, as we can grasp from the current research and the…[Read more]

The Department of Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna is currently investigating settlement processes and material culture in rural areas of the Roman province of Noricum by means of noninvasive survey methods. The aim is to create a new and widely accessible digital data base for different, tangible forms of rural settlement…[Read more]

The Department of Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna is currently investigating settlement processes and material culture in rural areas of the Roman province of Noricum by means of noninvasive survey methods. The aim is to create a new and widely accessible digital data base for different, tangible forms of rural settlement…[Read more]

The Department of Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna is currently investigating settlement processes and material culture in rural areas of the Roman province of Noricum by means of noninvasive survey methods. The aim is to create a new and widely accessible digital data base for different, tangible forms of rural settlement…[Read more]

This paper analyzes the continued propensity of men to cite other men, and more importantly, to NOT cite the work of women, in Communication Studies. After documenting the continued and troubling persistence of the erasure of women’s scholarship, the paper argues for intervening at the points at which the field reproduces itself.

This paper analyzes the continued propensity of men to cite other men, and more importantly, to NOT cite the work of women, in Communication Studies. After documenting the continued and troubling persistence of the erasure of women’s scholarship, the paper argues for intervening at the points at which the field reproduces itself.

This paper discusses the emergence of a women’s diasporic cinema that challenges the representation of Indian women as guardians of Indian values. Through the examination of three films directed by women filmmakers (Mira Nair, Deepa Mehta and Nisha Pahuja), this analysis proposes to delve into the reconfiguration of Indian identity in a context o…[Read more]

A review of “Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask,” catalogue for the eponymous 2017 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

List of Texts for A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007).

Analyses the introduction of Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah’s Risāla fī ’l-Jawāb ʿan masāʾil mushkila fī ’l-tarkīb, its key concept (al-muwāḍaʿa al-sharʿiyya), and its relation to Muʿtazilī uṣūl al-fiqh.

The paper revisits the arguably most conspicuous example of a Jewish Muʿtazilī Hexaemeron in Arabic. Its 11th century Byzantine Hebrew translation bears the title “Bereshit Rabbah” and attributes the work to Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah (fl. 1040-1070) whose authorship has been questioned in recent scholarship. Based on a reconstruction of all extant…[Read more]

Surveys the Begriffsgeschichte of istiṭāʿah (< τὸ αὐτεξούσιον; τὸ ἐφ´ ἡμῖν) in antique and late antique philosophical and theological/patristic texts, the Syriac&Arabic reception history of the Nicomachean Ethics, Alexander of Aphrodisias's Maqāla fī l-istiṭāʿa, Nemesius of Emesa's K. Ṭabīʿat al-insān, and early Christian-Arabic literature, and…[Read more]

Discusses the Graeco-Syriac-Arabic transmission of Nemesius of Emesa’s Περὶ φύσεως ἀνθρώπου and related texts. The focus is on the notions of istiṭāʿah (τὸ αὐτεξούσιον; τὸ ἐφ´ ἡμῖν), irāda, qaṣd and ikhtiyār (προαίρεσις) in philosophical theories of action, the reception history of the Nicomachean Ethics, and their historical and conceptual relati…[Read more]

Analyses the introduction of Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah’s Risāla fī ’l-Jawāb ʿan masāʾil mushkila fī ’l-tarkīb, its key concept (al-muwāḍaʿa al-sharʿiyya), and its relation to Muʿtazilī uṣūl al-fiqh.

The paper revisits the arguably most conspicuous example of a Jewish Muʿtazilī Hexaemeron in Arabic. Its 11th century Byzantine Hebrew translation bears the title “Bereshit Rabbah” and attributes the work to Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah (fl. 1040-1070) whose authorship has been questioned in recent scholarship. Based on a reconstruction of all extant…[Read more]

Surveys the Begriffsgeschichte of istiṭāʿah (< τὸ αὐτεξούσιον; τὸ ἐφ´ ἡμῖν) in antique and late antique philosophical and theological/patristic texts, the Syriac&Arabic reception history of the Nicomachean Ethics, Alexander of Aphrodisias's Maqāla fī l-istiṭāʿa, Nemesius of Emesa's K. Ṭabīʿat al-insān, and early Christian-Arabic literature, and…[Read more]

Discusses the Graeco-Syriac-Arabic transmission of Nemesius of Emesa’s Περὶ φύσεως ἀνθρώπου and related texts. The focus is on the notions of istiṭāʿah (τὸ αὐτεξούσιον; τὸ ἐφ´ ἡμῖν), irāda, qaṣd and ikhtiyār (προαίρεσις) in philosophical theories of action, the reception history of the Nicomachean Ethics, and their historical and conceptual relati…[Read more]

The papper offers an identification and reconstruction of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣūrī’s “Kitāb fī bāb al-qibla” together with its anonymous Qaraite refutation (al-Naqḍ ʿalā l-Sāmira). Building on previous studies by A. Loewenstamm, A. Halkin, H. Pohl, and others, this paper will also provide new evidence from the Firkovitch collections (mainly ФIPK. СA…[Read more]