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Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture by Means of Circumstances Incidentally Mentioned in Books of Voyages and Travels Into the East
Author: Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture
Author: Thomas HarmerObservations on Divers Passages of Scripture. Placing Many of Them in a Light Altogether New ... and More Amply Illustrating the Rest Than Has Been Yet Done, by Means of Circumstances Incidentally Mentioned in Books of Voyages and Travels Into the East
Author: Thomas HarmerIran and The West
Author: Cyrus GhaniPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136144668
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
First Published in 1987, this volume offers a bibliography of biographies, autobiographies and books on contemporary politics by prominent 20th century figures on the topic of Iran.
American Travelers on the Nile
Author: Andrew OliverPublisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617976326
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists to Rome, academics to Göttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century travelers, this book then turns to the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities, among them graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, traveling to the lands of the Bible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known as teenagers. Naval officers off ships of the Mediterranean squadron visited Cairo to see the pyramids. Two groups went on business, one importing steam-powered rice and cotton mills from New York, the other exporting giraffes from the Kalahari Desert for wild animal shows in New York. Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously neglected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, this book offers a new look at the early American experience in Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean world. More than thirty illustrations complement the stories told by the travelers themselves.
An Hebrew and English Lexicon, Without Points
Author: John ParkhurstPublisher:
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Category : Aramaic language
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Observations on Various Passages of Scripture
Author: Thomas HarmerTextual Transformations
Author: Tessa WhitehousePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192536354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Early modern books were not stable or settled outputs of the press but dynamic shape-changers, subject to reworking, re-presentation, revision, and reinterpretation. Their history is often the history of multiple, sometimes competing, agencies as their texts were re-packaged, redirected, and transformed in ways that their original authors might hardly recognize. Processes of editing, revision, redaction, selection, abridgement, glossing, disputation, translation, and posthumous publication resulted in a textual elasticity and mobility that could dissolve distinctions between text and paratexts, textuality and intertextuality, manuscript and print, author and reader or editor, such that title and author's name are no longer sufficient pointers to a book's identity or contents. This collection brings together original essays by an international team of eminent scholars in the field of book history that explore these various kinds of textual inconstancy and variability. The essays are alive to the impact of commercial and technological aspects of book production and distribution (discussing, for example, the career of the pre-eminent bookseller John Nourse, the market appeal of abridgements, and the financial incentives to posthumous publication), but their interest is also in the many additional forms of agency that shaped texts and their meanings as books were repurposed to articulate, and respond to, a variety of cultural and individual needs. They engage with early modern religious, political, philosophical, and scholarly trends and debates as they discuss a wide range of genres and kinds of publication including fictional and non-fictional prose, verse miscellanies, abridgements, sermons, religious controversy, and of authors including Lucy Hutchinson, Richard Baxter, John Dryden, Thomas Burnet, John Tillotson, Henry Maundrell, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, John Wesley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The result is a richly diverse collection that demonstrates the embeddedness of the book trade in the cultural dynamics of early modernity.
Observations on Various Passages of Scripture Placing Them in a New Light; and Ascertaining the Meaning of Several, Not Determinable by the Methods Commonly Used by the Learned
Author: Monthly Review
Author: George Edward GriffithsPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description