Timothy C Lim

Doing Comparative Politics: An Introduction to Approaches and Issues, 3rd ed.

This systematic, user friendly, and refreshingly unusual introduction to comparative politics has not only been updated and refined in the third edition, but also fully revised to reflect the impact of major new developments in world politics. Designed to teach students how to think comparatively an...

The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Oxford Handbooks)

In 1946 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. Despite the much publicized delays in the publication and editing of the Scrolls, practically all of them had been made public by the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the fi...

The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Very Short Introduction

Everyone has heard of of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but amidst the conspiracies, the politics, and the sensational claims, it can be difficult to separate myth from reality. Here, Timothy Lim explores the cultural and historical background of the scrolls, and examines their significance for our understan...

The Formation of the Jewish Canon (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in Ancient Judaism from the emergence of the Torah in the Persian period to the fi...

Doing Comparative Politics: An Introduction to Approaches and Issues 2nd edition by Lim, Timothy C. (2010) Paperback

On Scrolls, Artefacts and Intellectual Property (JSP Supplements)

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in Palestine, recovered in Jordan, and largely edited by an international Christian team who prevented public access to unpublished manuscripts. Subsquently, the state of Israel, which had already purchased many of the Scrolls, has assumed responsibility for all of th...

Local Citizenship in Recent Countries of Immigration: Japan in Comparative Perspective

Because of severe domestic labor shortages, Japan has recently joined the increasing number of advanced industrialized nations that have begun importing large numbers of immigrant workers since the 1980s. Although the citizenship status of foreign workers is the most precarious in such recent countr...

Pesharim (Companion to the Qumran Scrolls)

The Companion to the Qumran Scrolls series offers comprehensive and accessible introductions to the corpus of texts from Qumran. This volume, devoted to the characteristic biblical commentaries, discusses their contents and history, as well as their generic relationship to both New Testament and rab...

The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Very Short Introduction

The Derivatives Sourcebook

The Dead Sea Scrolls In Their Historical Context

The Dead Sea Scrolls In Their Historical Context

Reflection And Refraction