This study focuses on the legal formularies used in Aramaic deeds of conveyances from antiquity and asks the following two questions: (1) based on these documents, can we speak of a discrete Aramaic legal tradition, and (2) if we can do so, whence and how did this tradition aris…
This Dissertation offers significant insights in understanding a peasant church in Madiri Puram village (pseudonym), South India. Researches from ecclesial perspectives are very rare. When the gospel entered the village it brought remarkable changes in faith, community life, hea…
This dissertation reevaluates the literary history of modernism in Urdu poetry through a study of the controversial poet N. M. Rashed (1910-75). Best known as the first poet of free verse in Urdu, Rashed's position in the formal history of Urdu modernism is assured. Yet critics,…
Simpliciusthe greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics, lived in the sixth century A.D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle's works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-ol…
Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics, lived in the sixth century A.D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle's works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-…