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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983
In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
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What of the Night? Conceptions and Theology of Night in Isaiah and the Book of the Twelve
Even though a number of studies have probed the concept of time in the Hebrew Bible, very little has been said about night as a unit of time. This article investigates the conceptions and theology of night in Isaiah and in the Book of the Twelve (Minor ...
Funlola Olojede
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Why Ganymede Faints and the Duke of York Weeps: Passion Plays in Shakespeare [PDF]
This article revisits contemporary critical debates surrounding the presence of cross-dressed boys as women on the early modern stage – in particular the question of whether or to what extent boy-actors could or should be said to represent ‘women’ or ...
Sujata Iyengar
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Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Churchill and Germany: A ‘Special’ Relationship
Abstract No other country defined the trajectory of Churchill's political career more than Germany, a country of which he had little direct knowledge but which he either sought to emulate, accommodate or oppose throughout his time in politics. This article traces Churchill's relationship with Germany from his entry into politics at the beginning of the
T. G. Otte
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Paul’s Witness to Biblical Monotheism as Isaiah’s Servant in Acts [PDF]
It is an honor to submit an essay for this Festschrift for Father Frank Matera, who contributes so much to our professional lives as scholar and colleague. Because of his solicitude for elaborating responsible theological approaches to Scripture based on
Kurz, William
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The transformation of the city of Zion: From decadence to justice and prophetic hope (Is. 1:1–2:5)
This article focuses on the story of the transformation of the city called Zion. Isaiah 1:1–2:5 is the key to the book. This chapter describes the failure of Israel to be the people of God: Israel’s covenant breach, a corrupted cult and imminent ...
Alphonso Groenewald
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An introduction to the Old Testament: the canon and Christian imagination [PDF]
Title: An introduction to the Old Testament: the canon and Christian imagination. Author: Brueggemann, Walter Introduction to the Old Testament xiv, 417 p.
Uitti, Roger W.
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Assuming that biblical texts have been reworked and updated during the long period of their history of development and transmission, this paper examines the syntactic changes in the textual tradition of the Book of Isaiah.
R. Oosting
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Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis
The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
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