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Butterfly Fauna of Central Panama During an El Niño Period: Preliminary Insights on Diversity Patterns

open access: yesPsyche: A Journal of Entomology, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Panama’s rich butterfly diversity, owing to its position as a biological bridge between North America and South America, remains insufficiently documented. To contribute faunistic data from this region, we conducted a noninvasive modified Pollard walk survey of adult butterflies over 20 days, between May 20 and June 14, 2023, focusing on central Panama:
Sajan K. C.   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dating the execution of John the Baptist and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History
The study is devoted to clarifying the chronology of such significant events of gospel history as the execution of John the Baptist and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Vladimir O. Nikishin
doaj   +1 more source

The Indian River that Flows from Paradise

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2022
In the Jewish Antiquities (I, 1, 3), when paraphrasing the passage of Genesis 2, 10–15, Flavius Josephus notes that the four rivers springing in paradise are the Phison (Φεισὼν), which passes through India and is called Ganges by the Greeks, the ...
Chiara Di Serio
doaj   +1 more source

Jewish Divination in the Greco–Roman Era

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 11-12, December 2024.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the divinatory methods the Jews used to address their questions in the Greco–Roman era. Scholars have previously examined how authors of the Hebrew Bible are aware of numerous divinatory techniques. The texts of the Greco–Roman era, especially the Dead Sea Scrolls, preserve even more references illuminating the ancients ...
Hanna Tervanotko
wiley   +1 more source

Philosophical Criticism of Genealogical Claims and Stoic Depoliticization of Politics: Greco-Roman Strategies in Paul's Allegorical Interpretation of Hagar and Sarah (Gal 4:21-31) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
George H. van Kooten, “Philosophical Criticism of Genealogical Claims and Stoic Depoliticization of Politics: Greco-Roman Strategies in Paul’s Allegorical Interpretation of Hagar and Sarah (Gal 4:21-31),” in Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites ...
Kooten, George H. van,
core   +1 more source

Impact of destruction – Introduction to the Josephus Seminar, Theological University Kampen

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015
This is an introduction to the contributions of Jan Willem van Henten and William den Hollander to the Josephus Seminar ‘Impact of destruction. Methodological questions in the study of Jewish and Christian reactions to the demolition of the Temple’ held ...
Koert van Bekkum
doaj   +1 more source

Menorah (No. 2, Winter, 1985) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
Reflections On Membership -- Selma And Jacob Brown Annual Lectureship Established -- Deconstructing Jewish Consciousness -- Centaurs -- Death of a Charismatic -- Metaphysical Knot -- New VCU Course ...

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Jewish Education (Chapter 26 of The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The nature of Jewish education in the first century has clear relevance for a number of issues in NT interpretation. How did Jesus learn Torah—at home, at school? Could he even read and write? Were his disciples illiterates?
Yinger, Kent
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Franciscus Josephus Thallmainer 1698–1768

open access: yesMuzikološki Zbornik, 1967
Franciscus Josephus Thallmainer 1698 ...
Marijan Smolik
doaj   +1 more source

Oral and Written Communication and Transmission of Knowledge in Ancient Judaism and Christianity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper examines the contexts of oral communication and the use of written messages in Josephus’ writings, the New Testament, and rabbinic literature, and discusses the possible reasons for using orality or writing in the respective Jewish and ...
Hezser, Catherine
core   +1 more source

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