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A Symposiastic Background to James [PDF]

, 2011
The Epistle of James is not commonly seen in relation to early Christian common meals. At the same time, the work is preoccupied with the common life of an early Christian community, which in turn was, generally speaking, closely related to the way in ...
Smit, P.B.A.
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A study of search result aggregation approaches for the digital humanities

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 11, Page 1488-1507, November 2025.
Abstract Searching across diverse information platforms, such as digital humanities archives, academic digital libraries, and encyclopedias, poses challenges in managing the queries issued to each platform and synthesizing the resources discovered. While search result aggregation interfaces address this problem, how best to present the search results ...
Milad Momeni, Orland Hoeber
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Literary and documentary evidence for lay medical practice in the Roman Republic and Empire [PDF]

, 2016
The majority of surviving ancient medical literature was written by medical practitioners and produced for the purpose of ensuring the effective diagnosis and treatment of their patients, suggesting an audience of medical professionals ranging from ...
Draycott, Jane
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Sites of Contact and Models of Change: Introduction

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 391-398, November 2025.
This Special Issue of Transactions of the Philological Society grew out of a Symposium held in November 2023 at St John's College, Cambridge, in honour of our friend and colleague, Peter Matthews, who died on 7 April 2023. Both the Symposium and the Special Issue were commissioned by the Council of the Philological Society in his memory.
Sylvia Adamson, Nigel Vincent
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Stations of the Publicum Portorium Illyrici are a Strong Predictor of the Mithraic Presence in the Danubian Provinces: Geographical Analysis of the Distribution of the Roman Cult of Mithras

Open Archaeology
The article examines the relationship between the Roman cult of Mithras and members of the publicum portorium Illyrici, the Roman customs office active in the Danubian provinces, who have been discussed in previous research as potentially important ...
Chalupa Aleš, Glomb Tomáš, Sarkisjan Juraj   +2 more
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SAND, PLANTATION URBANISM AND THE EXTENDED POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 6, Page 1281-1301, November 2025.
Abstract Recently, large parts of India and the global South have witnessed widespread sand extraction from rural sites for urban infrastructure projects, causing extensive environmental damage. Critical scholarship has theorized these sites as new extractive frontiers that facilitate the needs of green energy transitions and planetary urbanization. In
Siddharth Menon
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Tumours and cancers in Graeco-Roman times

Acta Theologica, 2005
In Graeco-Roman times all tumours (Greek: onkoi, abnormal swellings) were considered to be of inflammatory origin, the result of unfavourable humoural fluxes, and caused by an extravascular outpouring of fluid into tissue spaces.
Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers
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Filling up the measure: polemical hyperbole in 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 [PDF]

, 1996
Reviewed Book: Schlueter, Carol J. Filling up the measure: polemical hyperbole in 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16.
Humphrey, Edith M.
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Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World

, 2009
Asceticism deploys abstention, self-control, and self-denial, to order oneself or a community in relation to the divine. Both its practices and the cultural ideals they expressed were important to pagans, Jews, Christians of different kinds, and Manichees.
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Signature of Attention: Historical Ambiguities and Elisions in Contemporary Psychological Framings of Attending

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 5, Page 936-961, October 2025.
Abstract In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently ...
Antti Saari, Bernadette M. Baker
wiley   +1 more source