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When Does Hope Drive Social Change? Empirical Insights and Their Policy Implications
ABSTRACT When and how does people's hope for change drive social transformation? This question has gained urgency amidst the profound sociopolitical crises of the 21st century, including escalating intergroup conflicts, accelerating environmental degradation, and mounting threats to democracy.
Oded Adomi Leshem, Eran Halperin
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ABSTRACT This article explores how educator‐kibbutzim recruit socialist‐Zionist learning traditions to construct new forms of kinship. Bringing communities of practice theory to new kinship studies, we expand on the role of knowledge in bridging the social/biological.
Lauren Erdreich, Rotem Bar Israel
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Written with the Finger of God: Divine and Human Writing in Exodus
The presence of writing in the book of Exodus must be considered not only for its contribution to the narrative as story, but also as a witness to several key socio-political issues (such as the interplay of textuality and orality in ancient Israel), for
Doak, Brian R.
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Role Identity and Professional Identity: Educators' Experiences During Wartime
ABSTRACT The study explores role identity and professional identity of educators as manifested in a crisis zone of war. The concept of identity is debated with researchers and theorists challenging the notion of a fixed, unchanging identity. Instead, identity is seen as fluid, constantly being formed and transformed.
Shosh Leshem +5 more
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An 'Extraordinary Fact': _Torah and Temple_ and the Contours of the Hebrew Canon, Part 1
Recent studies on the final form of the Hebrew Bible suggest that it is not a literary and historical accident but rather the result of deliberate editorial activity.
Stephen Dempster
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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Mobilizing Documents: Identification, Bureaucracy, and Policing in Transnational Mobility
ABSTRACT This co‐authored essay builds on a growing anthropological literature that engages critically and creatively with idealized official and popular ideas about documents of/in migration regimes. Documents are often championed as a common and unquestionable good in transnational migration but they are intrinsically tied to inequalities and ...
Sahana Ghosh +5 more
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The Prophet and divine manifestation: On the translation of ‘prophet’ in the Shona Union Bible
The Shona Union Bible of 1950, which happens to be the commonly used version of the Bible among the Shona of Zimbabwe did not translate the word ‘prophet’ choosing rather to transliterate it. This is rather amazing considering the key role of this office
Lovemore Togarasei
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Reproductive issues in the Torah [PDF]
Fertility was the basis of primitive man’s economy. It is therefore not surprising to find that various facets of fertility and reproduction are mentioned and commented upon in connection to religious based texts from the period.
Savona-Ventura, Charles
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