In this book, renowned Islamic scholar Angelika Neuwirth presents key features of her course on “The Koran as a Text of Late Antiquity.” The work transcends polarizing analyses and…

Das seit 1949 von der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften betreute Polybios-Lexikon erschließt in Form eines Bedeutungswörterbuchs umfassend den Wortschatz der Historien des Polybios (um 200-120 v.…

Niederlagen - sei es in einzelnen Schlachten, sei es in einem Krieg - stellen einen Zugang zu historischen Epochen und Entwicklungen dar, dessen Erkenntnispotential in der bisherigen historischen…

The European law applicable to contractual obligations was first detected as an independent legal subject matter at the end of the 1990's. It has since established itself as a broad and complex…

['The reform of the law on bonds'] This volume includes the lectures of a conference on reforming the law on bonds organized by the ILF on 5 February 2004. The Federal government's plan to…

The voting right is the central management right of stockholders. The conditions under which stockholders exercise their voting rights have changed substantially in recent years due to the…

The question of whether the German constitutional system is capable of reform leads the author to an initial analysis of the German Constitution in respect to its amendments. The author takes a…

Diese Ausgabe faßt die 1974 erschienenen Bände 1 und 2 in einem Band zusammen. Sie enthält alle 20 Gesänge des Epos in der textlichen Form, die der Autor für seine letzte Ausgabe (1789/1800)…

Der Band enthält 212 Briefe, von denen mehr als zwei Drittel hier zum ersten Mal gedruckt erscheinen. Im Mittelpunkt des Briefwechsels steht zunächst die Trauer um Klopstocks 1758 verstorbene…

Why Bertuch? In the Weimar of Goethe and Carl August, Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747-1822) was an important and still largely underestimated figure. He was privy chancellor and private secretary…

This volume provides a typological description of word-building as exemplified by denominal verbs. Basics results of the study include the conceptual apparatus and typological questionnaire for…

Language change and language acquisition can be studied in terms of the development and/or reconstruction of grammatical forms. Both grammaticalization theory and certain approaches to language…

The study documents the extensive manuscript transmission of Ars memorativa-treatises of the 15th century. It includes information on authors and text contents, arranging the subject in the…

At the beginning of the 18th century, the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum seemed to coincide with the developing interest inclassical culture. But instead of noble innocence and simple…

Die Syntaxforschung hat in den letzten Jahren große Fortschritte erzielt, bietet aber auch das Bild erheblicher Zersplitterung. Die vorliegende Darstellung führt theoretische und empirische…

Wenn Sprechen als Verständigungshandeln gilt, dann sind die Formen der Sprache durch ihren Beitrag zur Verständigung geprägt. Charakteristisch für die funktional-pragmatische Perspektive ist es…

Basing its approach on the linguistic theories of Eugenio Coseriu, the study takes a corpus of 30 intensive interviews and examines them for indications of processes of linguistic creation and…

The term “conversational analysis” denotes a relatively recent research field, which was originally developed by sociologists and was then taken up by linguists and made a decisive…

This work examines public discourse during the America Revolutionary era and offers new insights into faith communication and public theology in America. The analysis is focused on the basic…

Only recently three notebooks by Hans von Soden (1881-1945) were found in which he recorded four seminars Adolf Harnack taught between the summer of 1904 and early 1906. The seminars were…

This interpretation of the opening of the Book of Isaiah proposes a typology of prophetic superscriptions, challenges the existence ofthe genre of aprophetic lawsuit, and interprets Israel's…

The notably negative presentation of the Jews is a frequently raised topic of discussion about the Gospel of Peter, but this phenomenon has not been examined in detail until now. This book…

We are all too familiar with the complex new triggers of geopolitical uncertainty: a financial system that knows no boundaries, renationalization, desecularization, and both the bright and dark…

mit dem angezeigten Werk leistet Ernst Gölitzer einen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Erkenntnisfortschritt auf dem Forschungsgebiet der alexandrinischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte, er legt das solide…

This volume offers a systematic study of the use of literary quotations in Pliny’s letters. By looking at exemplary quotations from Homer and Virgil, the author shows how Pliny uses…

The work comprehensively treats the implications which were associated with the sale of Italian cultural assets to significant personalities of the German Reich – particulary Hitler und…

In October 2004 the European stock corporation, or Societas Europaea (S.E.), has been made available in the EU as a European form of company. Then, in 2001, a surprising accord was reached…

The compilation titled Decisions in Church Cases since 1946 (KirchE) publishes judicial decisions on the part of state courts in Germany with regard to the relationship of church and state and…