Perspective AND Composition

Mount, Christopher: Pauline Christianity. Luke-Acts and the Legacy of Paul, by Christopher Mount, (Supplements to Novum Testamentum, Volume 109. Executive Editors: M. M. Mitchell and D. P. Moessner). Leiden, Boston & Köln, Brill 2002. ISBN: 9004124721
Aus dem Klappentext: "Pauline Christianity takes a fresh perspective on the composition and reception of Luke-Acts in relationto the category <Pauline Christianity> as it has been used to describe traditions, communities, and persons connected to Paul. This inquiry is pursued along three lines: 1. the reception of the Acts of the Apostles and the <Pauline> Luke by Irenaeus is addressed; 2. the compositional intentions of the author of Luke-Acts in constructing <Pauline> Christianity are analyzed; 3. the literary Paulinism of the author is separated from the Paulinism of his sources. This study contributes to the ongoing discussion of Paul's role in the history of early Christianity by making clear the extent to which the <Pauline Christianity> of Luke-Acts has its origins in various second-century attempts to reconstruct the Christian origins." - Schnitte, wenige Seiten und Titelblatt gestempelt. Mit schwachem Abdruck einer Rückensignatur. Sonst sehr guter Zustand. ISBN: 9004124721 - , ISBN-13: 9789004124721

X, 207 (3) Seiten, Gr. 8° (25 x 16 cm), Orig.-Pappeinband.

[KW: Mount, Christopher: Pauline Christianity. Luke-Acts and the Legacy of Paul, by Christopher Mount, Neues Testament Christentum Theologie]

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Warntjes, Immo: The Munich Computus: Text and Translation Irish computistics between Isidore of Seville and the Venerable Bede and its reception in Carolingian times. (Sudhoffs Archiv. Beihefte 59). Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Vlg. 2010.
The study of computus, i.e. the medieval science of the reckoning of time, has lately received considerable attention. The focus of this research, however, has been on the few texts that can be readily attributed to well-known authors, leaving the impression that this science was understood and advanced only by a single scholar every 100 years, who appear to have been self-educated geniuses rather than the product of an intellectual milieu, a scientific tradition. In this respect, the present study of the famous Munich Computus closes the gap between the scientific writings of Isidore of Seville and those of the Venerable Bede. The Munich Computus, though known and studied for the past 130 years, has never been edited. This desideratum is met by the present study, applying editorial techniques that aim at placing every single passage of this text in its scientific context by tracing the development of the underlying ideas in the 200 years prior to the composition of the Munich text in AD 719, as well as analyzing its impact on the Carolingian renaissance; the Latin text is accompanied by an English translation and comprehensive commentary of its technical content. The introduction to the edition proper places the Munich Computus within the history of computistics, discusses the history of this text from its compilation in southern Ireland in AD 719 to the transfer of the only known manuscript containing this text from St Emmeram in Regensburg to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. In particular, the detailed source analysis brings to light important computistical texts previously hidden in the manuscripts, most importantly the Computus Einsidlensis, which makes it possible to define, for the first time, the immense Irish contribution to the history of science in the century between Isidore and Bede and with this to put the latter's scientific achievements into perspective.

CCXXI, 402 S., 11 Abb. Br. *neuwertig*

[KW: Naturwissenschaften & Technik]

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Möller, Detlev: Chemistry of the Climate System, GRUYTER, 120 ISBN: 311019791X
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing the modern world. The chemistry of the air within the framework of the climate system forms the main focus of this monograph. This problem-based approach to presenting global atmospheric processes begins with the chemical evolution of the climate system in order to evaluate the effects of changing air composition as well as possibilities for interference within these processes. Chemical interactions of the atmosphere with the biosphere and hydrosphere are treated in the sense of a multi-phase chemistry. From the perspective of a chemical climatology the book offers an approach to solving the problem of climate change through chemistry.

NEUBUCH! 2010. XX, 720 p. w. 180 figs. and 142 tabs. 17 x 24 cm 170 mm x 240 mm 180 Schwarz-Weiß- Abbildungen, 142 Schwarz-Weiß- Tabellen

[KW: Atmosphäre]

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Yazici, Adnan/Petry, Frederick E./Kacprzyk, Janusz: Uncertainty Approaches for Spatial Data Modeling and Processing A decision support perspective, SPRINGER, BERLIN, Januar 2010 ISBN: 3642106625
This volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor Ashley Morris who passed away some two years ago. Ashley was a close friend of all of us, the editors of this volume, and was also a Ph.D. student of one of us. We all had a chance to not only fully appreciate, and be inspired by his contributions, which have had a considerable impact on the entire research community. Due to our personal relations with Ashley, we also had an opportunity to get familiar with his deep thinking about the areas of his expertise and interests. Ashley has been involved since the very beginning of his professional career in database research and practice. Notably, he introduced first some novel solution in database management systems that could handle imprecise and uncertain data, and flexible queries based on imprecisely specified user interests. He proposed to use for that purpose fuzzy logic as an effective and efficient tool. Later the interests of Ashley moved to ways of how to represent and manipulate more complicated databases involving spatial or temporal objects. In this research he discovered and pursued the power of Geographic Information Systems (GISs).These two main lines of Ashley's research interests and contributions are reflected in the composition of this volume. Basically, we collected some significant papers by well known researchers and scholars on the above mentioned topics. The particular contributions will now be briefly summarized to help the reader get a view of the topics covered and the contents of the particular contributions.

NEUBUCH! 2010. 225 S. 235 mm; Studies in Computational Intelligence Vol.271

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