The foundation for all study of biblical law is the assumption that the Covenant Code is the oldest legal code in the Hebrew Bible and that all other laws are revisions of that code.
Der erste Band der Werkausgabe vollzieht den lyrischen Bogen in Klaus Merz' Werk von den Anfängen Mitte der Sechziger- über die frühen Achtziger, als Klaus Merz, nachdem er während zehn Jahren ausschließlich Prosa und Theatertexte geschrieben hatte, die Lyrik wieder aufnahm, bis in die frühen Neunzigerjahre hinein nach.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prize-winning poet It is the astonishment of Louise Gluck's poetry that it resists collection.
The Nine of Diamonds is a book in nine parts constructed to play the Butcher - the Duke of Cumberland - in a Gaelic interpretation of the ghost gamble.
This monograph, the first in English on any aspect of Joseph and Aseneth, examines Aseneth's conversion as narrated in this important but neglected apocryphal Jewish romance.
The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction.
*Winner of the 2015 Guardian First Book Award*Raw and urgent, these poems are hymns to the male body to male friendship and male love muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving.
An easy-to-understand introduction to Judaism's most sacred text The foundation of Hebrew and Jewish religion, thought, law, and society is the Torah-the parchment scroll containing the text of the Five Books of Moses that is located in every synagogue.
Injury the guide explained / is what / guides explainChatty Cathy, while not the first talking doll, was certainly the most widely known, and the only one elevated to idiom.
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Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Mench,, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America.
A new collection of poems from Les Murray that renews and transforms the contemporary world through languageIn Waiting for the Past, Les Murray employs his molten sense of language to renew and transform our experience of the world.
This beautiful anthology brings together over 250 poems about flowers, plants and trees from eight centuries of writing in English, creating a rich bouquet of intriguing juxtapositions.
The first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in EnglishIn 1923, Shuzo Takiguchi's first year at Tokyo's Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital.
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Die gefeierte Neuübersetzung von "Les Fleurs du Mal" wird hiermit ergänzt durch "Le Spleen de Paris", ein weiteres Hauptwerk Baudelaires, das den Weltruf des rebellischen Autors, dessen Werke bei Erscheinen sofort verboten wurden, mitbegründete.
Following the Attica prison uprising in September 1971, Celes Tisdale-a poet and then professor at Buffalo State College-began leading poetry workshops with those incarcerated at Attica.
La poesía norteamericana es una poesía vinculada a la naturaleza, tanto la naturaleza salvaje como la domesticada, descriptiva de la vida rural y la urbana, y de la sociedad industrializada.
This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), one of the most distinctive writers of the Victorian period.
In a period when nations are retracting within their borders, the vivid and intricate poems of Jamie McKendrick's new collection Anomaly are especially timely, and speak of a fragile legacy of openness and interconnectedness.