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On the Bankruptcy Situations and the Alexia Value
Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2012 The main result of this paper is to show that the three ancient bankruptcy situations from the 2000-year-old Babylonian Talmud can be solved by using the average lexicographic value (Alexia) from cooperative game theory.
S. Z. Alparslan Gök, A. Sarıarslan
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Commentary: Prioritising Randomized Trials; David P. Farrington's Legacy for Criminology in the 21st Century: As Criminological Research Tilts Towards Ideology, Randomized Experiments Are Key for Reinforcing True Science. [PDF]
Crim Behav Ment HealthCriminal Behaviour and Mental Health, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 6-9, February 2025.
Weisburd D.
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Torah Trumps Life: Reflections on Uncivil Religion and Haredi Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Religions, 2023 As if by design, crisis reveals basic structural fault lines. In the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, non-Haredi Jews expressed surprise and even outrage about the ultra-orthodox Haredi response to the pandemic.
Zachary J. Braiterman
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Election, Favoritism, and Freedom: Towards a Modern Jewish Theology of Matrilineal Descent
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 775-795, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This article offers an account of the broad theological contours of the Jewish practice of matrilineal descent. I make the case that matrilineality epitomizes God's contingent preference in favoring and electing Israel. I link Mara Benjamin's recent work to recuperate asymmetrical power relations for feminist theology to the asymmetrical ...
Judah Isseroff
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Bloodletting in Babylonia Revisited
Aestimatio, 2023 : The question of bloodletting in Babylonia (and surgery in general) has hardly been studied, since evidence is sparse, while at the same time bloodletting in the Babylonian Talmud has been assumed to have been employed, although based upon questionable ...
M. J. Geller
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Evidence, hints and assumptions for late pregnancy in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Acta Paediatrica, Volume 112, Issue 7, Page 1371-1377, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Ancient women, who survived childhood mortality, received good and adequate nutrition, did not work hard and escaped death during childbirth could live fairly long lives. Girls started procreation after marriage, usually at 15 years, had on average seven children, childbearing lasted 14–21 or more years and could happen at the age of 35 or ...
Ariadne Malamitsi‐Puchner +1 more
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The tension between state ownership and private quasi‐property rights in water
WIREs Water, Volume 10, Issue 1, January/February 2023., 2023 Increasingly, water regimes end up granting quasi‐property rights to actors, which may hinder states to adaptively govern water governance. Abstract A critical legal issue in water governance is who owns and who holds property rights in water. Hence, we address the question: How has the state of legal knowledge on private property rights in water ...
Hilmer J. Bosch, Joyeeta Gupta
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 707-725, December 2022., 2022 How can historians untangle the dynamics between intentional religious belief, inherited cultural practices and the numerous contexts (social, cultural, political) that outline relationships between religious majorities and religious minorities? This paper uses the exceptionally complex past of east central Europe in the modern period (and the 1930s ...
Sarah A. Cramsey
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