In a career spanning almost five decades, Baruch Levine s numerous publications reflect his wide-ranging interests and areas of expertise in the study of the Hebrew Bible, the ancient Near East, and early Judaism. In Search of Meaning brings together fifty-one of the most import…
An archaeological exploration of the ancient inhabitants of the circum-Mediterranean region exploring their migration patterns, health, and diet.
This volume looks at positive psychology from a culturally-responsive, empirically-driven perspective to avoid a descent into pseudoscience. Through evidence-based, regionally relevant topics in the field of well-being, this volume shows how increasing levels of excellence in th…
This text seeks to explain what factors account for the consolidation of young democracies in over 30 countries in Latin America and Europe throughout the last quarter of the 20th century.
The history of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study dates back to 1935, and it is the one area of scholarship that has been continuously represented at the Institute ever since, encompassing all four schools--Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Historic…
Uses recently declassified French and British government documents to describe how the two countries secretly divided the Middle East during World War I and the effect these mandates had on local Arabs and Jews.
The History of cartography
by Woodward, David, Harley, J.B., (John Brian), Lewis, G. Malcolm
"In the interwar Eastern Mediterranean, European colonial modes of establishing land claims and controlling populations converged with a recent Ottoman past featuring desperate and violent efforts at nationalization and an increasingly empowered Zionist settler colonialism. Stat…
Probes the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality. This book puts forward an argument that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth century, and traces the …