“…The author demonstrates the multiple literary dimensions and interpretative strategies that came to form the Hebrew Bible in the context of the ancient Near East, the Dead Sea Scrolls in the context of an emergent biblical-Jewish culture, and the classical rabbinic Midrash in the context of an emergent rabbinic civilization in late antiquity. Within each study, and in the collection as a whole, the author shows a broad range of creative methods, always with a scholarly concern to illuminate the religious ideas of Scripture as it was perceived through diverse hermeneutical lenses and exegetical methodologies. …”

“…The crisis of liberal education is ... an intellectual crisis of the 1rst magnitude, which constitutes the crisis of our civilization.' These doomsday words of Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind (1987) are among the latest and most politically in1⁄4ammatory manifestations of a 'crisis' that this book demonstrates has been going on for two centuries. …”

“…Podemos afirmar, transcurridos 125 años, que el llamado desastre de 1898 fue la clausura de un siglo en el que España permaneció enclaustrada en sus luchas civiles y aislada de una nueva realidad internacional en la que, a priori, no tenía que haberse autoexcluido ya que, al contrario de cierto pensamiento pesimista noventayochista, no pesaba sobre nuestra nación ni una maldición ni una incapacidad patológica para incorporarse a ese nuevo mundo -- Contracubierta…”

“…Sin embargo, los partidarios de los derechos de los estados siguen viendo a Lincoln como un gobernante autoritario que suspendió las libertades civiles y suprimió el supuesto derecho legítimo a secesionarse…”

“…Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. …”

“…En la Italia de mediados del siglo XVI, cuando el crecimiento de las señorías, la pérdida de libertades políticas y civiles, el aumento de la dominación extranjera y la consolidación del poder eclesiástico, habían socabado la confianza de las élites en los "estudia humanitatis" para comprender y guiar el mundo, la pregunta por la historia como tarea política y cognitiva resurge con fuerza en Venecia y su "hinterland" paduano. …”

“…This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. …”
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“…A captivating history of civilization that reveals the central role of the horse in culture, commerce, and conquest. …”

“…La ricerca filosofico-giuridica presentata nel volume segue quattro direttrici principali: la ricostruzione, in chiave storico-filosofica, della nozione di coscienza rilevante per l¿istituto, nonché delle vicende che hanno portato alla nascita e allo sviluppo del contrasto tra legge e coscienza; la distinzione tra l'obiezione di coscienza e figure ad essa tradizionalmente limitrofe, quali il diritto di resistenza e la disobbedienza civile; la proposta di una teoria generale del diritto positivo all'obiezione di coscienza, intesa come categoria dogmatica unitaria; l'ampia analisi critica del contesto italiano, tra ipotesi obiettorie riconosciute ed altre rivendicate…”

“…This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. …”

“…Il tema delle opere d’arte è strettamente connesso alla vicenda civile ed economica dell’Italia, tanto che la tutela del patrimonio artistico già da tempi risalenti ha costituito oggetto dell’attenzione del legislatore e della stessa Costituzione repubblicana. …”

“…The Janus-faced art of performing is both destructive and civilizing.This is the first in a trilogy of books on the fundamental DNA of human expression: performing, narrating, and imaging --…”

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