“…In The Transmission of "Beowulf," Leonard Neidorf addresses philological questions that are fundamental to the study of the poem. …”

“…The author reassembles this work, which has only been preserved through papyrus fragments as well as later authors' accounts, into a new edition that offers detailed philological and interpretive commentary on all of the surviving descriptions and fragments…”

“…Based on a meticulous philological analysis of the Hebrew text, the author presents a new, transparent Norwegian translation. …”

“…Building on a firm philological, literary, and exegetical foundation, Hoeck adds insights from patristic, medieval, and contemporary spiritual interpretation."-- Peter S. …”

“…His attempts to reconstruct Odysseus’ voyage remain as famous as his philological works. A member of the French School at Athens and director of the École pratique des hautes études, where he taught ancient geography, he was also a thoughtful and courageous observer of contemporary events: a Dreyfusard in France and a defender of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. …”

“…The edition of First Corinthians of this 9th century document is followed by a close analysis of linguistic and philological aspects, while the underlining of interesting exegetical points reveals the theological interest of the text…”

“…Taking a fresh and innovative angle of enquiry, Anna Angelini investigates continuities and changes in the representation of divine powers in Hellenistic Judaism, thereby revealing the role of the Greek translation of the Bible in shaping ancient demonology, angelology, and pneumatology. Combining philological and semantic analyses with a historical approach and anthropological insights, the author both develops a new method for analyzing religious categories within biblical traditions and sheds new light on the importance of the Septuagint for the history of ancient Judaism. …”

“…Annotation Nubian studies needs a platform in which the old meets the new, in which archaeological, papyrological, and philological research into Meroitic, Old Nubian, Coptic, Greek, and Arabic sources confront current investigations in modern anthropology and ethnography, Nilo-Saharan linguistics, and critical and theoretical approaches present in post-colonial and African studies. …”

“…The volume is divided into four parts – "Critical Epistemologies", "Critical Philologies", "Critical Time and Critical Space", and "Critical Approaches" – and uses these as spaces to propose disciplinary transformation. …”

“…"In this meticulously argued book, David Konstan takes a close look at classical Greek and Roman texts, as well as the Bible and early Judaic and Christian writings, and argues that the fundamental idea of 'sin' arose in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, although this original meaning was obscured in later Jewish and Christian interpretations. Through close philological examination of the words for 'sin,' in particular the Hebrew hata' and the Greek hamartia, he traces their e uses over the centuries in four chapters, and concludes that the common modern definition of sin as a violation of divine law indeed has antecedents in classical Graeco-Roman conceptions, but acquired a wholly different sense in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. …”

“…The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celesti al Myth in Beowulf is a welcome contribution to the overlapping fields of Beowulf-scholarship, Old Norse-Icelandic literature and Germanic philology. Not only does it present a wealth of new readings that shed light on the craft of the Beowulf-poet and inform our understanding of the poem’s major episodes and themes; it further highlights the merits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach alongside a comparative vantage point. …”

“…In Trial by Farce, prize-winning theater historian Jody Enders brings twelve of the funniest legal farces to English-speaking audiences in a refreshingly uncensored but philologically faithful vernacular. Newly conceived as much for scholars as for students and theater practitioners, this repertoire and its familiar stock characters come vividly to life as they struggle to negotiate the limits of power, politics, class, gender, and, above all, justice. …”

“…For 20 years, he was the editor of the prestigious journal Modern Philology…”

“…This book is part of such research, dealing mainly with the philological-historical interpretation of epigraphic and literary texts, taking into account the research of archaeologists – as far as possible, since the author is not an archaeologist. …”

“…In the framework of the "return to philology" (Edward Said), this book treats al-Shidyāq's approach to language as a radical social and cultural criticism of the nineteenth century, which sheds new light on the Nahḍa, the Arab renewal movement on the eve of modernity. …”

“…The study contains two surveys, a philological-philosophical analysis of what is argued in Buddhist teachings as the assignment of building a temple, and a historical outline of the architectural development from the 1870's onwards with a specific focus on how these temples were discussed as religious places. …”

“…By opposing sectarian discourses with the universal weapons of history, philology and anthropology, in short, the entire arsenal of science and reason, the history of religions of the past enables us to deflate modern myths, and not only those of others but also our own. …”

“…Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies offers a platform in which the old meets the new, in which archaeological, papyrological, and philological research into Meroitic, Old Nubian, Coptic, Greek, and Arabic sources confront current investigations in modern anthropology and ethnography, Nilo-Saharan linguistics, and critical and theoretical approaches present in post-colonial and African studies. …”

“…They echo the foundations of “political philology”, laid down by Jean-Claude Zancarini in his study on the crucial Florentine texts of the Italian Wars. …”