"In You All Things”: Biblical Influences on Story, Gameplay, and Aesthetics in Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Zero Dawn [PDF]
, 2021 This article considers several instances of biblical reception in the science-fiction role-playing game Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony, 2017).
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"Suspicion Is More Likely To Keep You Alive Than Trust:” Affective Relationships with the Bible in Octavia Butler’s Parables [PDF]
, 2021 Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents provide readers with often radical re- visions and critiques of biblical texts. This article asks how the principal characters’ affective engagements with Scripture vary, and considers ...
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Sacred Schematics, or Ships and Sanctuaries [PDF]
, 2021 This paper compares the development of fictional ship schematics for the original Star Trek’s Enterprise to the scribal schematics of the Temple in two key biblical passages (1 Kings 6 and Ezekiel 40-44) and a Talmudic discussion of the Hall of the ...
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The Haunting of Jesus: Reading Mark through the Gothic Mode [PDF]
, 2021 Spirits and the associated messianic secret play a central role in the Gospel of Mark. In this article I present a Gothic reading of the gospel. In the beginning of Mark, Jesus is driven by a spirit into the wilderness.
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Attachment to land: Land Reform and the Anglican Church of Southern Africa [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2023 The land and the people are inextricably linked and inter-dependent. Place attachment provides a useful lens through which to examine land reform and people’s attachment to land.
Jean Pienaar
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Seeing the Stripping of Jesus as Sexual Violence [PDF]
, 2020 Recent work in biblical studies has given increased attention to a reading of Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse. This article explores how the stripping of Jesus might be understood as an example of abuse ‘hidden in plain sight’.
David Tombs +1 more
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Treatment planning with a 2.5 MV photon beam for radiation therapy
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Purpose The shallow depth of maximum dose and higher dose fall‐off gradient of a 2.5 MV beam along the central axis that is available for imaging on linear accelerators is investigated for treatment of shallow tumors and sparing the organs at risk (OARs) beyond it.
Navid Khaledi +5 more
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Embodied Readers: Teaching about the Earliest Christians in Rural Protestant America [PDF]
, 2020 This article discusses the ways in which my Introduction to the New Testament class at the University of Tennessee engages with and offers students tools for understanding and participating in social activism, particularly around race, ethnicity, gender ...
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Queering Jesus: LGBTQI Dangerous Remembering and Imaginative Resistance [PDF]
, 2021 Queering Jesus is a call to remember the danger of the story of Jesus. The primary aim of this article is to offer a comprehensive survey of the representation of queer Jesus.
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Leadership mentoring and succession in the Charismatic churches in Bushbuckridge
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014 Leadership mentoring and succession programmes are critical in the development and preparation of emerging leaders for leadership transitions. By virtue of their one-founder-leaders whose special leadership talents are usually celebrated by their ...
Richard M. Ngomane, Elijah Mahlangu
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