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This book examines the development of film criticism in Cape Town’s daily press from 1928 to 1930, using film reviews from the Cape Times and Die Burger. The character of film criticism in the period under discussion is explained by describing the general function of film criticism, as well as comparing the local with the international film press. The basis for the comparative analysis is a list of films screened in three selected cinemas in Cape Town.

In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars released the groundbreaking document "A Sacred Obligation," which includes ten statements about Jewish-Christian dialogue focused around a guiding claim: "Revising Christian teaching about Judaism and the Jewish people is a central and indispensable obligation of theology in our time." Following the worldwide reception of their document, the authors have expanded their themes into Seeing Judaism Anew. The essays in this volume offer a conceptual framework by which Christians can rethink their understanding of the church's relationship to Judaism and show how essential it is that Christians represent Judaism accurately, not only as a matter of justice for the Jewish people, but also for the integrity of Christian faith. By linking New Testament scholarship to the Shoah, Christian liturgical life, and developments in the church, this volume addresses the important questions at the heart of Christian identity, such as: Are only Christians saved? Why did Jesus die? Why is Israel so important to Jews, and what should we think about the conflict in the Middle East? How is Christianity complicit in the Holocaust? What is important about Jesus being a Jew?

The first edition of Surgery of the Hip loint has had certain measures of success. Its cover won the Outstanding Award for art at a publishers trade show. A year later it was translated into Spanish for exposure to the vast world of the Spanish speaking peoples. As I traveled through Europe, it was repeatedly a pleasant surprise to have the book recognized as an authorita tive reference. This was a great tribute to the experts whose diligent efforts made it all possible. Apparently the book has stood the test of time to judge from the many inquiries and constructive comments made toward urging us on to write a second edition. It was not an easy task to gather another cadre of authorities to update our knowledge of the hip joint. People who have earned respected positions in their field are unavoidably burdened with a busy schedule, so a chapter in this text must be appreciated as coming from someone devoted to giving up some of his precious time for the sake of sharing his knowledge with peers and students.

The Iron Age and Roman town at Silchester (Hampshire, UK) has been the subject of intensive new, field-led research since the 1970s, which is shedding important fresh light on the development and character of the town, with a major excavation and publication programme continuing with the Town Life Project centred on Insula IX. The illustrated papers collected in this volume contribute to a social and economic history of the town, essential steps towards a characterisation of urbanism in Roman Britain. Following an introduction by the editor, the majority of the 14 contributions re-assess and contextualise aspects of, first, the material culture of the town, viz: iron smelting at Silchester between the late Iron Age and the 5th century AD (J. R. L. Allen); a characterisation of the small finds assemblage from Insula IX (N. Crummy); a reassessment of the Silchester pump (Stein); an overview of pottery supply to Silchester and its hinterland (Timby); building and the Silchester tile industry (Warry). Second, a group of papers reassesses aspects of the biological remains of the town in a wider context, viz: a review of the Romano-British dog (K. Clark); animals in the economy and culture of the town in the wider context of Roman Britain (Ingrem); the place of Silchester in archaeobotany (Robinson); and fuel consumption in the late Roman town in its landscape context (Veal). Further contributions consider the origins of Calleva in the late Iron Age (Cunliffe); how interpretations of the town have changed since the later 16th century (Hingley); the building of the later Roman town wall (J. R. L. Allen); the evidence for foreigners and locals in the town (Eckardt); and a multi-stranded, sociological overview of change over time in a residential insula (Fulford).

The Society of Antiquaries' excavation of Silchester's Insula IX in 1893-4 left most of the stratigraphy undisturbed. A new programme of work has shown that the Insula underwent radical change, c. AD 250/300, with the construction of new workshop and residential buildings on the orientation of the Roman street-grid, following the demolition of mid-Roman buildings arranged on different, pre- and early Roman alignments. The plans of several properties and individual buildings were recovered, and analysis of the rich range of artefactual and biological data has allowed a detailed and differentiated characterisation of the life and occupations of the inhabitants in the 4th century. The context of the 5th century ogham-inscibed stone is explored and the history of the insula is followed into the 5th/6th century.