The JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH Revised Edition renews and revises the iconic Jewish Publication Society Bible translation, enabling readers to experience the Hebrew Bible with all the power and precision of the original Hebrew text.

Using the English translation first published in JPS's landmark 2023 volume The JPS TANAKH: Gender-Sensitive Edition, along with the Hebrew text, this landmark Revised Edition clarifies archaic or unclear English language and ritual terminology to offer a more accurate understanding of the Bible's meaning. It presents gender-inclusive renderings where appropriate and gendered ones when called for historically and linguistically, incorporating the best of contemporary research on the subjects of Israelite history and religion, literary studies, philology, linguistics, and the social sciences to offer a faithful and accurate translation.

References to persons are gender sensitive yet consistent with ancient gender norms, and the translation strives for inclusive language when referring broadly to people, ancestors, and humankind. References to God are typically gender neutral and generally avoid grammatically masculine pronouns and labels, with careful examination of each context yielding the most appropriate rendering. To enable the Tetragrammaton (God's four-letter name) to be encountered as a name and without masculine connotations, the edition typically translates it as "God" (in small capitals) rather than "the Lord."

By integrating advances in scholarship and changes in English while maintaining utmost fidelity to the original Hebrew, the Revised Edition of the venerable JPS Tanakh translation is sure to become the new Bible translation of choice for readers who embrace biblical scholarship with reverence for tradition, and for communities and individuals who adopt an inclusive perspective in today's world.

Im 12. Jahrhundert entstand im Zuge der Kirchenreform der Praemonstratenserorden, der sich in seiner Anfangszeit besonders durch das enge Zusammenleben von maennlichen und weiblichen Ordensmitgliedern auszeichnete. Gerade deshalb eignet er sich in besonderer Weise fuer die Erforschung und Neubewertung der Institution des Doppelklosters.

Am Beispiel von Frauenbreitungen, Germerode, Vessra, Trostadt und Tueckelhausen untersucht Sandra Gross praemonstratensische Stifte mit symbiotischen Konventen von ihrer Gruendung bis zum Jahr 1400. Im Fokus steht die Entwicklung der Schwesterngemeinschaften nach dem Ende der Kohabitation und die Handlungsspielraeume, die den Chorfrauen zur Verfuegung standen. Frauenkommunitaeten, die aus Stiften mit symbiotischen Konventen hervorgingen, waren keineswegs zwangslaeufig zum Niedergang verurteilt. Entscheidend fuer ihr Fortbestehen war massgeblich ihr geistliches und weltliches Umfeld. Verbindungen zu Bischoefen und adlige Netzwerke staerkten die Konvente und verhalfen ihnen zu groesserer Handlungsfaehigkeit. Eine ausreichende wirtschaftliche Ausstattung als wichtige Basis eines handlungs- und ueberlebensfaehigen Konvents wurde neben diversen Besitzerwerbungen im Umfeld der Gemeinschaften zunehmend durch Stiftungen sichergestellt.

This book explores how late antique condemnations of rituals at stones, trees and springs reveal deliberate ecclesiastical strategies designed to control devotion, redefine sacred landscapes and consolidate episcopal control across the rural territories of post-Roman Gaul and Hispania.

By analysing sermons, conciliar canons, penitentials, hagiography and civil legislation, the book shows how accusations of idolatry in natural spaces functioned as rhetorical tools to regulate ritual plurality and impose orthodoxy in Gaul and Hispania in the 6th to 8th centuries. Engaging with ongoing historiographical debates on the persistence of non-Christian practices in rural areas during Late Antiquity, it challenges the conventional view that such rituals were merely residual traces of pre-Roman or Roman belief systems. Combining historical, textual and anthropological approaches, it reframes so-called 'rural paganism' as a discursive construction and proposes novel insights into the intersection of ritual practices, ecclesiastical authority and the role of natural features in the construction of religious landscapes.

Intended for scholars and students of religion in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages and of the history of early Christianity, this book also appeals to readers interested in cultural landscapes and the transformation of religious practices in the post-Roman West.

The fleets and naval forces employed by the Roman Empire have traditionally been conceived as a ‘Roman navy’ that guarded the waterways of the Mediterranean and the northern frontier. No longer facing major competition at sea, this navy is supposed to have gradually decayed over the 1st and 2nd centuries until being swept away during the barbarian invasions of the 3rd. Directly challenging the concept of a ‘Roman navy’ and associated narratives of institutional decline, this book reassesses the role and development of fleets and naval forces of the late Roman Mediterranean (3rd?6th centuries). This is accomplished through a systematic investigation into the fate of the early imperial classes as well as the creation and development of new classes in the later Empire.

Beyond these obvious naval forces, this book also examines the employment of ships by other ‘non-naval’ military units and the creation of ad hoc fleets for major campaigns. Finally, it analyses the evolution in design and employment of military galleys over the same period, providing a more comprehensive and balanced understanding of the role and transformation of the fleets and ships used by the late Roman military.

Through the Eyes of Jewish Child Survivors from Poland offers an intimate social history of Jewish childhood during and after the Holocaust. Centered on children from German-occupied Poland but informed by experiences across Nazi-occupied Europe, the book highlights the child's own perspective to illuminate rescue, survival, and relationships with adults under the Nazi occupation. In the first part, Joanna Beata Michlic examines children's wartime experiences, showing how agency, gender, class, and religious or social background shaped their chances of survival. The second part traces the complex efforts of these young survivors to reclaim both childhood and Jewish identity, revealing the gap between their hopes and the actual opportunities of the immediate postwar period.

Drawing on children's diaries, letters, testimonies, and memoirs, Michlic illuminates how children experienced and remembered trauma: the destruction of their families, the loss of their prewar worlds, and the struggle to adapt to a new reality, challenging myths that sentimentalize the children's endurance and portray the Holocaust as neatly concluded. This powerful study shows why the history of Holocaust child survivors remains a vital resource for understanding vulnerability, agency, and the enduring impact of war and genocide.