Oxford University Press

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The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish DiasporaA radical new study of the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek. This was an        enterprise of seminal importance. Without it there would have been no Western Jewish        disapora and no Christianity. Tessa Rajak places the production of the Septuagint in        historical context,...

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The subject of this book is the Western astronomical tradition from ancient        Babylonia to the European Renaissance, with special emphasis on the Greek period.          Throughout the book two questions recur: what evidence permits us to reconstruct the        astronomy of the ancient past? How was astronony actually practiced? The book...

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Information Technology has become a key factor in industry and society in the postwar world and continues to evolve, re-shaping the local and global economy and reorienting comparative and competitive advantages. The production of IT has itself changed and shifted through a number of generations. Government policy towards IT has taken different...