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America and Her Commentators

More than Homer Knew – Studies on Homer and His Ancient Commentators

This book contains a collection of twenty-one essays in honour of Professor Franco Montanari by eminent specialists on Homer, ancient Homeric scholarship, and the reception of the Homeric Epics in both ancient and modern times. It covers a wide range of important subjects, including neoanalysis and oral poetry, the Doloneia, the Homeric scholia, the theoretical …

The Great Torah Commentators

This work features biographies of over 100 of the greatest Torah sages and representative selections of their work.

The Gospel treasury, and expository harmony of the four evangelists

Great Face for Radio

A Great Face For Radio is John Anderson's hilarious memoir of his experiences in more than forty countries as the sports correspondent at Independent Radio News and a commentator for Sky Sports.

Ancient Commentators on Aristotle - Ammonius: Interpretation of Porphyry’s Introduction to Aristotle’s Five Terms

One of his six introductions to philosophy, widely used by students in Alexandria, Ammonius' lecture on Porphyry was recorded in writing by his students in the commentary translated here. Along with five other types of introductions (three of which are translated in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle volume Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with …

Que nada se sabe

Innato es en los hombres el deseo de saber, pero a pocos es concedida la ciencia. Y no ha sido en esta parte mi fortuna diversa de la del mayor número de los hombres. Desde mi primera edad, aficionado a la contemplación de la naturaleza, dime a inquirir minuciosamente sus secretos; y aunque, al principio, …

Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics

In this unique insight into the history and philosophy of mathematics and science in the mediaeval Arab world, the eminent scholar Roshdi Rashed illuminates the various historical, textual and epistemic threads that underpinned the history of Arabic mathematical and scientific knowledge up to the seventeenth century. The first of five wide-ranging and comprehensive volumes, this …

The Church's Bible - John

This Church’s Bible volume on the Gospel of John contains carefully selected and translated homilies and commentaries from such church fathers as Cyril of Alexandria, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory the Great, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Augustine, Athanasius, and the Venerable Bede. Ranging chronologically from the second century to the ninth, these substantial patristic selections provide an …

SUNY series in Islam-The Anonymity of a Commentator

The Anonymity of a Commentator examines the life and writings of the Egyptian Sufi-scholar Zakariyya al-An?ari (d. 926/1520), the longest-serving chief Shafi'i justice to the Mamluk sultanate during its final years. It analyzes al-An?ari's commentaries in the disciplines of Sufism and Islamic law as a case study to illustrate how and why Muslims produced commentaries …