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The Possibility of Anthropological Fideism - D. Z. Zhong - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In this book, D. Z. Zhong establishes a methodological principle for cross-cultural research, called anthropological fideism. While anthropologists take for granted that natives don''t really believe the unintelligible or inexplicable things they say, and what they say should express a deeper social meaning, Zhong contends that if we have a translation manual that can interpret a foreign language, and if natives are asserting honestly, then what natives say still express natives'' belief, no matter how absurd it seems. His anthropological fideism entails that in fact we can, and indeed we should, happily live with others'' differences while taking them literal.

DKK 556.00

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Access to Higher Education - Marty Z. Khan - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

On November 9, 1999, the Governor of Florida issued Executive Order 99-281 to establish the ''One Florida Initiative'', which abolished the use of race as a factor in university admissions. In February 2001, the South African government issued its ''National Plan for Higher Education'', which outlined a framework to redress inequities in the country''s higher education system perpetuated by the former government''s apartheid ideology. In Access to Higher Education, author Marty Z. Khan explores the challenges and conflicts the senior university leaders in Florida and South Africa faced while implementing these policies. Using a qualitative methodology and focused interviews with senior leaders at two universities in Florida and South Africa, this book highlights unique ways of implementing a policy with which one may or may not agree. This study is an important resource for policy makers, senior leaders, educational administrators, university leaders, and graduate and undergraduate students who have an interest in broadening access to higher education for those who have been traditionally discriminated against. Furthermore, undergraduate and graduate students who have a keen interest about issues of access to higher education will find this book useful.

DKK 423.00

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Psychology in Ukraine - Ivan Z. Holowinsky - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book was conceptualized as an effort to provide for a Western reader not familiar with psychology in the East, a broad outline of Ukrainian Psychology within the socio-historical context. Since the 1950s there were few publications in the USA that described psychology in the former Soviet Union (Bauer, 1962; Brozek & Mecacci, 1974; Brozek & Slobin, 1972; Rahman, 1973; Raznor, 1971). Unfortunately, some authors identified psychologists in the Soviet Union as "Russian psychologists." Only two articles (Holowinsky, 1978, 1987 specifically discussed Ukrainian Psychology. Since the 1991 declaration of independence in the Ukraine, psychologists in the Ukraine are attempting to establish scholarly cooperation with the mainstream of Western psychology. As indicated by Professor Charles A. Maher, "this book will be valuable to scholars, researchers, and practitioners, who want to learn about an important but somewhat neglected aspect of the history of tradition of psychology."

DKK 361.00

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The Babylonian Talmud - Judith Z. Abrams - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Babylonian Talmud is often cited as the bedrock upon which Judaism stands. And yet, it remains a closed book for the majority of Jews. Since the Talmud''s composition does not follow the rules of Western writing, beginning learners are often thwarted in their first attempts to "swim in the sea of Talmud." These modern learners often experience rabbinic literature as a sort of stream-of-consciousness writing that seems to wobble off-track quite frequently. Frustrated, these learners often give up. To understand the Babylonian Talmud (also called the Bavli) readers need to understand its process of composition and the fundamental differences between Western and rabbinic writing styles. Judith Abrams''s The Babylonian Talmud: A Topical Guide is a teaching tool and a reference book for those who teach and learn Talmud. It explains the Babylonian Talmud''s literary nature and metaphorical meanings.

DKK 751.00

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Insight into Two Biblical Passages - Leland E. Wilshire - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This work comprises new insights into two Biblical passages. The first study, titled ''The Anatomy of a Prohibition,'' uses the TLG computer database to offer a new interpretation of I Timothy 2:12. The author provides insight that the TLG computer, with its data selections from 200 BC/BCE to 200 AD/CE, supports the interpretation of one of the key words ''authentein'' as ''committing violent action,'' not ''having authority.'' It then explores the effect of this interpretation on exegesis, gender pronouncements, hermeneutics, tradition, theology, and relevance. As a supplement, it offers a history of traditional translations, mistranslations, and interpretations. The second insight study discusses seeing the ''suffering servant'' of Isaiah 40-55 as the city of Jerusalem. This ''Servant City'' study is based upon a comparison with the material outside the songs and with other ANE city descriptions that are also in the first millennium.

DKK 371.00

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How the Halakhah Unfolds - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This work follows the single tractate, Moed Qatan, in its passage through the principal documents of formative Judaism_the Mishnah (200 C.E.), Tosefta (300 C.E.), Yerushalmi (400 C.E.), and Bavli (600 C.E.). Author Jacob Neusner presents a systematic account of the Halakhah in its documentary unfolding from beginning to end. In acute detail, the study illustrates the comparison between the documents by showing each individual document''s treatment of the same topic.

DKK 609.00

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Little House of Oxymorons - Steven Carter - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Eschewing old clunkers like "military intelligence" and "student-athlete," this volume features well over 200 fresh and original oxymorons with commentaries-all with a satirical twist. As a satire, Little House of Oxymorons complements Steven Carter''s The New Devil''s Dictionary, a two-volume "sequel" to Ambrose Bierce''s notorious The Devil''s Dictionary of a century ago. Cover image: Allison O''Donnell, Resist, 2008. Acrylic and graphite painting on rag board.

DKK 361.00

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Existence and Transcendence - Victor Segesvary - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This research work is a serious attempt to dilemma the inadequacies of reductive materialism as it has developed in the West in the last 200 years. The epoch of scientism has produced great material wealth for some but has also seriously sapped the human and the environmental realms that have collided with this contemporary reality. Segesvary explores philosophy, theology as well as the natural sciences to develop his powerful anti-Faustian argument.

DKK 565.00

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After Aesop - Steven Carter - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In After Aesop: Improvisations on Aesop''s Fables, Steven Carter adds parody to his wide-ranging repertoire of literary genres. Aesop, perhaps the world''s best-known author, produced hundreds of fables that have been re-told countless times, but rarely parodied on a one-to-one basis. By turns hilarious, poignant, and profound, the more than 200 entries in After Aesop are certain to instruct and entertain a diverse modern audience.

DKK 441.00

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A Guide to the Study of Greco-Roman and Jewish - Philip Walker Jacobs - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book is a comprehensive reference guide and outline of Greco-Roman and Jewish and Christian history and literature for the period between 200 BCE and 260 CE. The author examines generations of scholarship in classical, biblical, historical, and religious studies. No other single text in classical or historical or religious studies provides the amount of information this text provides on Greco-Roman and Jewish and Christian history and literature. Contents: Sigla and Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Chronological Outline of Greco-Roman and Jewish and Christian History and Literature; General Bibliography of References; Bibliography of English Translations of Greco-Roman and Jewish and Christian Literature; Index of Persons.

DKK 530.00

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The Jerusalem Tradition in the Late Second Temple Period - Heerak Christian Kim - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Late Second Temple Period (c. 200 BC to 70 AD) was a period of intense social changes for the Jewish people. During this period, the Jewish people experienced a Syrian king defiling the Jerusalem Temple, the Maccabean Revolt, the celebration of Hanukkah, the establishment of a competing Jewish temple in Egypt, and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple. During this time, Jews spread out all over the Diaspora. The turmoil and the lack of visible cohesion have led many scholars to argue that there was no Jewish unity and no distinguishable Jewish identity in this time period. This book argues against this trend in academia, and posits that a strong Jerusalem tradition unified the Jewish people.

DKK 406.00

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Ox Cart to Automobile - Thomas Rasmussen - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book explores changes in economic fortunes, social life, and political issues over 200 years in western New York. Why did villages spring up in particular locations in 1820? Why did dairy farming expand during the 1850s and then contract in the 1920? Why have so many factories in western New York closed their doors since World War II? As the ox cart was replaced by the railroad, which in turn was replaced by the automobile, men and women in western New York were faced with the option to choose to farm in new ways or live and work in new places. In this book, Native Americans and early settlers, dairy farmers and milk factories, husbands and wives on the farm, shopkeepers and customers in the villages are viewed as players in a social game, each trying to score well.

DKK 423.00

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The Treasury of Judaism - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This is the first volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. Focusing on the seminal period of normative Judaism, the editor Jacob Neusner presents in three parts the teachings of Rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, the first six centuries of the Common Era. The topical abstracts, which deal with the sacred calendar (volume one), events in the life cycle (volume two), and theological expositions (volume three), are presented in documentary sequence, from the Mishnah, ca. 200, through the Bavil or Talmud of Babylonia, ca. 600. This is the story told in abundant selections of Rabbinic classics of the age, the first centuries C.E., in which the two Talmuds and Midrash came to closure.

DKK 521.00

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Labyrinth - Jim Mcghee - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

It has been said that Don Nigro now has more plays in print than any American playwright. This is surprising considering that he remains relatively unknown to the general public. Despite his obscurity, Nigro is on his way to being regarded as one of the country''s great dramatists. His work has been performed in colleges, universities, off-off-Broadway, and community theaters both in the U.S. and abroad. In Labyrinth, McGhee chronicles Nigro''s stories, plays, settings, and characters of almost 200 monologue, one-act and full-length plays. Given the breadth of Nigro''s characters and exciting plots, Labyrinth is a useful resource for directors, actors, and enthusiasts in both professional and repertory theater. In addition, Labyrinth introduces readers to generations of gripping tales about extraordinary people. McGhee''s book is a welcome addition to any theater library.

DKK 503.00

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The Treasury of Judaism - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This is the third volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. Focusing on the seminal period of normative Judaism, the editor Jacob Neusner presents in three parts the teachings of Rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, the first six centuries of the Common Era. The topical abstracts, which deal with the sacred calendar (volume one), events in the life cycle (volume two), and theological expositions (volume three), are presented in documentary sequence, from the Mishnah, ca. 200, through the Bavil or Talmud of Babylonia, ca. 600. This is the story told in abundant selections of Rabbinic classics of the age, the first centuries C.E., in which the two Talmuds and Midrash came to closure.

DKK 698.00

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The Treasury of Judaism - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This is the second volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. Focusing on the seminal period of normative Judaism, the editor Jacob Neusner presents in three parts the teachings of Rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, the first six centuries of the Common Era. The topical abstracts, which deal with the sacred calendar (volume one), events in the life cycle (volume two), and theological expositions (volume three), are presented in documentary sequence, from the Mishnah, ca. 200, through the Bavil or Talmud of Babylonia, ca. 600. This is the story told in abundant selections of Rabbinic classics of the age, the first centuries C.E., in which the two Talmuds and Midrash came to closure.

DKK 547.00

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The Road to Democracy in Germany - Lowell W. Culver - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Road to Democracy in Germany is the first comprehensive study to be published on state (Land) and national elections in the Federal Republic of Germany. The book covers the over 200 regional and seventeen Bundestag elections held between 1946 and 2011. Culver not only records the election results in statistical form, but discusses the issues that influenced the election outcomes, the electoral systems under which the elections took place, the party system they have occasioned on both state and national levels, the party composition of the ministries formed and their influence on the party make-up of the federal government and Bundesrat, in which the states are directly represented. The book traces the initial creation of the states and federal government after World War II, the elections held over a sixty-five year period, the electoral arrangements instituted, and the party system and governments that have evolved.

DKK 494.00

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Jeremiah in Talmud and Midrash - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This sourcebook collects and classifies how Israelite Scripture was received and recast in the language community that produced the dual Torah of Judaism. It is well known that verses of prophecy figure as proof-texts in Rabbinic exegesis of scriptural narratives, but to what end, and with what larger concept in mind? With extensive translation and documentation, author Jacob Neusner uses the case of Jeremiah in the Rabbinic canon of the formative age to examine the Rabbinic document''s response to the prophetic ones in terms of how they select, explain, and utilize the language of Scripture. The book also explores how one particular kind of ancient Israelite Scripture, the prophetic books, found a place in the new language community formed by the Rabbinic sages and documented in their canon from the Mishnah (ca. 200 C.E.), through the Talmud of Babylonia, a.k.a. the Bavli (ca. 600 C. E.).

DKK 653.00

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The Police in Hong Kong - Allan Y. Jiao - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Police in Hong Kong is the first comprehensive study of the Hong Kong Police Force, one of the largest police organizations in the world. Through detailed examinations of police practices and their value orientations, Professor Jiao aims to develop knowledge about policing in Hong Kong and related social, political, and cultural conditions in which the police operate. This work includes descriptions and analyses of: - the historical background of the Hong Kong Police - management of the 1997 handover of power from Britain to China - organizational structure and operation of the police force - changes and reforms of the police over the years - impact of the Bill of Rights - street police vs. management police behaviors - crime, organized crime, and vice problems - control of corruption and misconduct With an emphasis on empirical evidence, Professor Jiao relies heavily on his interviews with over 200 officers and on-site observations of a variety of police activities for the form and content of this study. As such, this work fills a void in criminal justice and police studies as well as Asian studies.

DKK 494.00

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The Lucy Memorial Freed Slaves' Home - Frank A. Salamone - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Fieldwork has been combined with archival research conducted in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Nigeria to explicate the manner in which the Sudan United Mission strove to create a Christian Northern Nigerian identity in order to combat a Muslim Hausa identity. To accomplish this transformation, the missionaries created a home for freed Nigerian slaves; it was named after Lucy Guinness Kumm, one of its founders. The story of the home and its use takes place in the midst of Lord Lugard''s colonial ideal of indirect rule and the working misunderstanding in which local rulers presumably conducted local affairs in an independent manner free from direction from the colonial government. The reality was much different and each of the participants chose to ''misunderstand'' the actions, motives, and histories of the others. These included indigenous Muslim rulers, so-called ''pagans,'' colonial officials, and missionaries. In the midst of numerous intrigues, the Sudan United Mission took care of over 200 freed slave children and initiated significant educational reforms. The depiction of a plural society and its expatriates is a major contribution. The book has value for studies in education, colonial history, and cultural anthropology.

DKK 361.00

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Historical Genesis - Richard James Fischer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The beginning chapters of Genesis come alive with characters, places, and events almost totally unknown outside of the Bible itself except when illuminated by the fascinating history of the ancient Near East. Did a man we call Adam actually exist? Was someone known to us as Noah warned of a cataclysmic flood and instructed to build an ark? Could the Tower of Babel incident actually have happened? When archaeological artifacts and literature began to surface from ancient Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) nearly 200 years ago, only a handful of archaeologists dared to point out that there appeared to be a close relationship between Genesis and the ruminations of the Sumerians and Akkadians who once lived there. Often enduring great personal hardships, these archaeological pioneers produced copious translations and marvelous insights. Cuneiform texts compiled from almost two centuries of exploration have added significantly to our understanding of the historical underpinnings of the Old Testament. The reader will gain a new appreciation for the historical integrity of Genesis 2-11, and marvel at the evidence that the persons, places, and events depicted, though long misunderstood, could be real. Please visit Richard J. Fisher''s web site at http://www.historicalgenesis.com.

DKK 518.00

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The Rabbinic Utopia - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book expounds upon the Utopian vision of Rabbinic Judaism in its classical documents. Rabbinic Judaism carries forward, and itself forms, a massive Utopian enterprise, a design of an ideal condition for humanity. It carries forward the two matched Utopian projects of the Pentateuch_Eden, the Land of Israel_and on its own forms a system for an ideal social and metaphysical order. That is because the law of that Judaism set forth a plan for the construction of an ideal society in a perfect age. Over time, the Israelite community undertook to realize that plan in concrete ways: to build Utopia in the green and pleasant Land of Israel. So, normative Judaism assumes as its task to realize a Utopian vision. Its vision takes the form of law. Some of the law at the time of its presentation in the Mishnah in ca. 200 C.E. and successor documents of amplification could be realized. Some could not. But the whole of the law formed a statement of integrity. All the parts were essential to the system. By fulfilling the law, or Halakhah, the faithful Israelite would help realize in the here and now Utopia, an ideal world.

DKK 388.00

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Historical Genesis - Richard James Fischer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The beginning chapters of Genesis come alive with characters, places, and events almost totally unknown outside of the Bible itself except when illuminated by the fascinating history of the ancient Near East. Did a man we call Adam actually exist? Was someone known to us as Noah warned of a cataclysmic flood and instructed to build an ark? Could the Tower of Babel incident actually have happened? When archaeological artifacts and literature began to surface from ancient Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) nearly 200 years ago, only a handful of archaeologists dared to point out that there appeared to be a close relationship between Genesis and the ruminations of the Sumerians and Akkadians who once lived there. Often enduring great personal hardships, these archaeological pioneers produced copious translations and marvelous insights. Cuneiform texts compiled from almost two centuries of exploration have added significantly to our understanding of the historical underpinnings of the Old Testament. The reader will gain a new appreciation for the historical integrity of Genesis 2-11, and marvel at the evidence that the persons, places, and events depicted, though long misunderstood, could be real. Please visit Richard J. Fisher''s web site at http://www.historicalgenesis.com .

DKK 406.00

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Analytical Templates of the Bavli - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In the Mishnah (ca. 200 C.E.), the Tosefta (ca. 300 C.E.), and the commentaries that joined them-the Yerushalmi, the Talmud of the Land of Israel (ca. 400) and the Bavli, and the Talmud of Babylonia (ca. 600)-the law of Judaism is outlined topic by topic. The exposition of these topics, however, is shaped in part by a generic analytical program. The hermeneutics of the Halakhah of the formative canon guides the Rabbinic sages to say the same thing about many things. Specifically, issues of a patterned analytical character guide the presentation, so that most topics in some measure, and some topics in paramount measure, serve to illustrate ubiquitous, generic problems of thought or intellectual templates. Two generative problems, found in four intellectual templates, predominate: [1] intentionality and concomitantly, [2] teleology, [3] resolution of doubts and concomitantly, [4] the classification of mixtures. The second and fourth templates form subsets of the first and the third. In this project, author Jacob Neusner identifies the occurrences of the four intellectual templates and shows, in complete detail, where and how the same problems recur time and again.

DKK 512.00

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Der Sandmann/The Sandman By E. T. A. Hoffmann - E.t.a. Hoffmann - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

E.T.A. Hoffman can be considered one of the fathers of German Gothic Horror. He wrote one of the first German horror novels, Die Elixiere des Teufels (The Devil’s Elixirs), and he also wrote the story to which Tchaikovsky composed the Nutcracker Suite. The Sandman is a story that is unique in its perspective, which depends on which of the main characters’ viewpoints one believes. If one follows the interpretation of the romantic, Nathanael, then there is a mad man after him (from a childhood trauma related to the Sandman). If one believes the viewpoint of Clara, the rational one, it is all in his mind and pure fantasy. Written in 1816/17, the topic of the automaton is also a question of what is real and what is merely perceived to be real, which is at the root of the uncanny, as described by Freud, among others. Blurring the lines between mechanical and human is a very contemporary issue with virtual assistants and AI’s whose voices are indistinguishable from humans. This narrative is over 200 years old still and has many interesting and prescient questions at its core that modern audiences will find interesting and engaging.

DKK 312.00

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The Possibility of Anthropological Fideism - D. Z. Zhong - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Access to Higher Education - Marty Z. Khan - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Psychology in Ukraine - Ivan Z. Holowinsky - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Babylonian Talmud - Judith Z. Abrams - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Insight into Two Biblical Passages - Leland E. Wilshire - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

How the Halakhah Unfolds - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Little House of Oxymorons - Steven Carter - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Existence and Transcendence - Victor Segesvary - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

After Aesop - Steven Carter - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A Guide to the Study of Greco-Roman and Jewish - Philip Walker Jacobs - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Jerusalem Tradition in the Late Second Temple Period - Heerak Christian Kim - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Ox Cart to Automobile - Thomas Rasmussen - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Treasury of Judaism - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Labyrinth - Jim Mcghee - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Treasury of Judaism - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Treasury of Judaism - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Road to Democracy in Germany - Lowell W. Culver - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Jeremiah in Talmud and Midrash - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Police in Hong Kong - Allan Y. Jiao - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Lucy Memorial Freed Slaves' Home - Frank A. Salamone - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Historical Genesis - Richard James Fischer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Rabbinic Utopia - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Historical Genesis - Richard James Fischer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Analytical Templates of the Bavli - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Der Sandmann/The Sandman By E. T. A. Hoffmann - E.t.a. Hoffmann - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

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