The twelve research articles presented here – half of them historical, half literary – are linked by the double bond of a regional and a temporal orientation. With minor exceptions, they bear on Spanish-speaking America in the twentieth century.

As in the previous collection, the number and scope of the topics treated address a wide range of interests. The papers hereby presented touch upon all the major literary genres – poetry, drama, fiction – and stretch over several centuries of English and American literature. In addition, there are a number of articles on critical theory, stylistics and linguistics.

Many years have passed since the first volume of “Studies in History” appeared in this series. However, a considerable number of historical papers are included in several volumes of Scipta Hierosolymitana. Like the first one, the present volume of historical studies reflects work being done by Hebrew University historians, most of them connected with the Department of History, the Department of Jewish History, the Department of Classics, the Institute of Asian and African Studies, and the Department of Contemporary Jewry. One should not, therefore, expect a central theme in a volume of this kind.

This present volume is a collection of papers written by members of the Department of Art History at the Hebrew University in 1972.

While this volume cannot be said to deal comprehensively with all aspects of the fascinating field of Aggadic Studies, it certainly offers variety in the types of material investigated and the methods of enquiry employed. The essays in this book provide historical, literary, and social analyses of the rich rabbinic literature.

The magical subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls is studied here by scholars from different disciplines, who present different perspectives. As a whole, the opinions expressed here are characteristic of the approach that might perhaps be called the Jerusalem School in Scrolls research.

The variety of subjects dealt with in this volume, reflects the wide scope of the department's interests. The order in which they appear tries to follow the natural sequence of the criminal drama: pre-sentencing stages; implications and consequences of the sentence; aspects of clinical criminology; some penological problems; and the statistical evaluation of certain characteristics of crime in this country.

Of the four papers included in this volume, one deals with geomorphology, another one with cartography; the bulk of the volume however, is formed by two regional studies focused on special regional problems – one on population problems of Eastern Nigeria, the other on the development of the Central Jordan Valley. Includes 37 plates

The present volume consists of essays written by members of the Department of Philosophy. The essays, disparate both in method and aim, are intended to represent the range of points of view, problems and techniques which preoccupy the writers. Section A consists of some exegetical and critical studies, most of which are devoted to Kantain themes. Section B presents the writers; philosophical positions with regard to various issues.

The three sections into which the book is divided are groupings suggested by the material which members of the Faculty of Humanities contributed. The first section focuses on Hebrew and Yiddish drama: this is an area not frequently dealt with in general philological journals. The second section ranges from mediaevel drama to Beckett. The final section is on Shakespeare. Includes 17 plates

The editors have not considered it their task to adopt any definite view of their own – or even a common outlook among themselves – with any questions treated in this volume, nor to ensure that any such view be presented to the reader. It was the design of this collection to bring forward fundamental questions in different branches of law, and at the same moment, to present the various opinions of the contributors.