The Neuroptera of Malesia: 4 (Fauna Malesiana Handbooks) - Hardcover

New, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004124977 ISBN 13: 9789004124974

Publisher: Brill, 2003

Synopsis

This volume brings together much hitherto highly scattered information on lacewings and their allies known from Malesia. It includes keys to generic level, notes on the diversity and representation of each genus, and comments on the faunal relationships within the region. Each of the twelve families is defined, and information on biology and any economic importance summarised. A regional checklist of all species recorded from Malesia and nearby areas, with original references to descriptions of all taxa. Use of the book by non-specialists is facilitated by illustrations of many characteristic and diagnostic structural features, and a glossary explains much of the technical terms employed.

About this title

Synopsis

The present volume contains essays dealing with the Second Temple Jewish traditions and documents preserved solely in their Slavonic translations. It examines these Slavonic pseudepigraphical materials in the context of their mediating role in the development of early Jewish mystical traditions from Second Temple apocalypticism to Merkabah mysticism attested in rabbinic and Hekhalot materials. The book represents the first attempt to study Slavonic pseudepigrapha collectively as a unique group of texts that share common theophanic and mediatorial imagery crucial for the development of early Jewish mysticism. The study demonstrates that mediatorial traditions of the exalted patriarchs and prophets played an important role in facilitating the transition from apocalypticism to early Jewish mysticism.

About the Author

Tim New is Reader in Zoology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He has wide interests in insect systematics, ecology and conservation and is a recognised expert on Neuroptera and Psocoptera. He has published widely on these orders and travelled much to collect and study them in many parts of the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 9004124977
• ISBN 13: 9789004124974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 204