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The Berlinka Collection / Monika Jaglarz -- Manuscripta Americana and the Provenance of Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10 / Monika Jaglarz and Julia Madajczak -- Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10 in Relation to the Marquesado Census Corpus / Julia Madajczak -- Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10: The Scribes / Szymon Gruda -- The Creation and History of the Tepoztlan Census / Julia Madajczak, Szymon Gruda and Monika Jaglarz -- The Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments in Numbers / José Luis de Rojas -- Family Relations in Tepoztlan / Katarzyna Granicka -- Administrative Structure and Social Groups in Tepoztlan / Julia Madajczak -- Land and Tribute in the Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments / José Luis de Rojas -- Glossary of Nahuatl Terms / Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas -- Conventions for the Transcription of the Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments / Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas -- Transcription and Translation / Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas.

"A critical anthology of indigenous-authored texts, including Nahua, Quechua, and Spanish which native peoples and Spaniards convey their perspectives on Spanish colonial order. The first volume with native testimonies of Spanish expansion and examines geographically and culturally realities of indigenous elites in the colonial period"--Provided by publisher

"The History of the 'Slave of Christ' : From Jewish Child to Christian Martyr offers the first critical editions and English translations of the two Syriac recensions of this fascinating text, which narrates the story of a young Jewish child, Asher, who after converting to Christianity and taking the name ʻAbda da-Miḥa ('slave of Christ') is martyred by his father Levi in a scene reminiscent of Abraham's offering of Isaac in Genesis 22. In a detailed introduction, the authors argue that the text is a fictional story composed during the early Islamic period (ca. 650-850) probably in Shigar (modern Sinjār). Building upon methodology from the study of Western Christian and Jewish texts, they further contend that the story's author constructs an imagined Jew based on the Hebrew Bible, thereby challenging the way that previous scholars have used this text as straightforward evidence for historical interactions between Jews and Christians in Babylonia at this time. This ultimately allows the authors to reevaluate the purpose of the text and to situate it in its Late Antique Babylonian context"--

Verlagswerbung: "Als Soldat der Reserve war es mir eine Ehre, meinem Land zu dienen. Selbst, wenn die Gefahr zum ständigen Begleiter wird. Der Tod ist für mich kein Unbekannter. In allen meinen Einsätzen wurde ich täglich damit konfrontiert, doch wenn die Situation eintritt und Freunde betroffen sind, kann man den Eigenschutz, den man um seine Seele aufgebaut hat, komplett vergessen. Die Trauer überwältigt alle Vorsätze. Die Zeit in Afghanistan prägte mich in einer tief menschlichen Weise. Je länger ich mich in diesem weit entfernten Teil der Welt befand, desto tiefer wurde das Verständnis über die Kultur der Menschen im Land. Neue Sichtweisen auf ein Land, das in den Medien nur als Krisengebiet betrachte wird. Ich habe aber auch die Schönheit gesehen und Freunde gefunden."