Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
The Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ Implied in the Image of the Paschal Lamb in 1 Cor 5:7
An Intertextual, Exegetical and Theological Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
St. Paul uses the image of Paschal Lamb only once. What is the real meaning of this symbol in his theology? It symbolises the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ but with a different emphasis. What does he emphasize?
The aim of this study is to show the exegetical meaning of 1 Cor 5:7 in order...
Eschatology of the Thessalonian Correspondence
A comparative study of 1 Thess 4, 13-5, 11 and 2 Thess 2, 1-12 to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The book refers to universal eschatology contained in the Letters to the Thessalonians (1 Thess 4, 13-5, 11; 2 Thess 2, 1-12). The whole material is divided in two groups (eschatological motifs and apocalyptic motifs). Each of the motifs is analysed in the Biblical context and in the Intertestamental...
Marital Separation in Contemporary Ireland
Womens Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
This book is based on detailed interviews with a group of Irish women who have experienced marital separation. It links the women’s accounts with literature on the values and beliefs about marriage, women and family which were prevalent when they were growing up in Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s....
by Moshe Y. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Around the tenth century Jewish merchants from Central Asia arrived in Kaifeng. Welcomed by the Emperor, they integrated into China’s economy, society and culture. They intermarried with their hosts, following patrilocal custom with Chinese wives adopting their husbands’ Jewish traditions. In...
Defining collocation for lexicographic purposes
From linguistic theory to lexicographic practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This volume aims to promote a discussion on the definition of collocation that will be useful for lexicographic purposes. Each of the papers in the volume contains addresses in detail one or more aspects of three main issues. The first issue concerns, on the one hand, the boundaries between collocations...
by Lisa Socrates
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Why does the 1974 war in Cyprus remain so dominant in Greek-Cypriot cinema? How has this event shaped the imagination of contemporary filmmakers, and how might one define the new national cinema that has emerged as a result? This book explores such questions by analysing a range of Greek-Cypriot films...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Currently, we are witnessing a «border game» with participants on a global scale. The massive movement of illegal immigrants and refugees who have arrived in Europe over the last few months has led political leaders, activists’ movements and anonymous citizens to rethink practices and discourses....
From Individual to Collective
Virginia Woolfs Developing Concept of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
This book argues that a profound shift can be found in the works of Virginia Woolf, from an early «pursuit of the individual» to a late «pursuit of the collective». Evidence for this shift is found both in the narrative modes she employed and the methods by which thought is represented in the...
Revealing Democracy
Secularism and Religion in Liberal Democratic States
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Anxieties over the Islamic face covering and over the proper management of otherness in liberal democracies seem to have reached a new peak with the introduction of legislation banning the burka in France and Belgium, and recent proposals for similar statutes in Quebec. What assumptions are contained...
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Language: French
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Les études réunies dans ce volume examinent les possibilités et les modalités de transmission du sacré, dès lors qu’il n’est plus considéré comme objet exclusif du discours religieux et qu’il apparaît lié à la création littéraire. Il s’agit de voir comment les écrivains en renouvellent...
Mission en retour, réciproque et interculturelle
Étude sur la présence chrétienne africaine en Belgique
Language: French
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Cet ouvrage étudie la contribution de la diaspora chrétienne africaine en Europe, à travers la présence des Églises et des pasteurs, à la mission de l’Église chrétienne au XXIe siècle. En d’autres termes, celui qui avait reçu la mission hier devient missionnaire envers celui qui jadis...
The Foreign Language Appropriation Conundrum
Micro Realities and Macro Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
This monograph’s title reflects the need to articulate the classroom actions and strategies of an increasingly efficient technological environment with symbolic, cultural, and political issues, namely the multi-dimensionality of affiliations, which today condition the practices of learners, teachers,...
Stampa e regimi
Studi su "Legioni e Falangi/Legiones y Falanges", una "Rivista dItalia e di Spagna"
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Come tutta la stampa «di regime» anche Legioni e Falangi. Rivista d’Italia e di Spagna / Legiones y Falanges. Revista mensual de Italia y de España (1940–1943), pubblicata tra Roma e Madrid, può leggersi come una narrazione univoca degli avvenimenti di quegli anni attraverso le immagini e...
Popular Politics and Popular Culture in the Age of the Masses
Studies in Lancashire and the North West of England, 1880s to 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
The book is a selection of essays from the author’s work since the early 1980s. It presents an analysis of political and cultural trends based upon a series of case studies drawn from the North West of England, covering mainly the years between the Third Reform Act (1884) and the outbreak of the...