The International Journal of Levant Studies, No. 5/2023, MEGA Publishing House, 2024, 202 pp.
Price: 36,75 lei
The fifth issue of the prestigious publication of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization – “The International Journal of Levant Studies” – included in the prestigious Index Copernicus database at the beginning of the year, has now seen publication.
“"The strength of our scientific journal lies in its ability to construct an overall vision based on specific analyses of tangible and intangible heritage, religious traditions and myths, as well as open or frozen conflicts, approached from the perspective of cultural diplomacy – an editorial goal that has, until present, been insufficiently exploited, at least in Romania and the Balkans.
The theories of historical science and of current political developments, combined with field studies in cultural geology, geography, biology, archaeology, sociology, and ethnology, will constitute the main topics we present to both established researchers as well as a younger generation interested in learning about the general context of the Levant, whose stability has often determined world peace," argued Emeritus Professor Emil Constantinescu, the President of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Journal of Levant Studies alongside: Winston P. Nagan – Director of the Institute for Human Rights, Peace and Development at the University of Florida (US) and Member of the Board of Trustees of the World Academy of Art & Science; James Galvin – Professor of the Modern History of the Middle East at the University of California (Los Angeles, US); Anna Sapir Abulafia – Professor of the Study of Abrahamic Religions at the University of Oxford (UK); Ora Limor – Professor of Medieval History and Conversion Literature at the Open University of Jerusalem; Dan Grigorescu – Emeritus Professor at the University of Bucharest and scientific researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization.
Editor-in-chief: Cătălin-Ștefan Popa, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization
Articles:
Haim Goren, Tel-Hai College, Upper Galilee, Israel – “Among the Immense Marshes along the Danube: Robinson and Smith’s Odyssey between Constantinople and Vienna”
Iskandar Beheiry, The American Theological Library Association (ATLA), Chicago, US – “A Syriac Orthodox List of Diyāqūs (Servants of the Church) from the Late Ottoman Period”
Selim Ferruh Adalı,Department of History, Social Sciences University of Ankara – “Who is the King of Meshech and Tubal? Phrygians and Medes in Ezekiel’s Gog Oracle”
Liviu Mihail Iancu, Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, Bucharest – “Nubar Hamparțumian (December 4, 1927 – November 17, 2013). Recovering an Unjustly Forgotten Biography”
Ionelia Panea, Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, University of Bucharest – “Sources of Renewable Energy from Romania”
Daniel Iosif, Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, Bucharest – “Typology and Distribution of Geosites in the Danube Defile (Romanian Side)”
Reviews:
Michael L. Gross, “Military Medical Ethics in Contemporary Armed Conflict: Mobilizing Medicine in the Pursuit of Just War” (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), ISBN 978‐0190694944, USD 48.68 (Nicoleta-Monica Popa-Fotea)
Jeffrey Rop, “Greek Military Service in the Ancient Near East, 401–330 BCE.” (Cambridge & New York, Cambridge University Press, 2019), xxvi + 265 p., ISBN 978-1108499507, USD 99.99 (Liviu Mihail Iancu)
The list of subscribers to The International Journal of Levant Studies continues to grow, most recently with the addition of the important academic center at the University of Princeton, which served as a model for the establishment of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization.
Interested members of the general public can obtain the current as well as the prior four issues of the International Journal of Levant Studies from the headquarters of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization (2A Mareșal Constantin Prezan Blvd., Sector 1, Bucharest, 0723 289 799 e-mail: office@institutlevant.ro).
