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Abstract Couple infertility is a very ancient medical condition. One of the first descriptions of familial infertility/subfertility is contained in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, written in the 10th century BC and reporting tales from the oral tradition even occurred about 800 years earlier.
Manuela Simoni +2 more
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Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
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Disloyalty and destruction: religion and politics in Deuteronomy and the modern world [PDF]
Divine violence in the Old Testament is troubling for many modern Western readers. I explore a heuristic reading strategy for understanding YHWH's demand for Israel’s exclusive loyalty and concomitant threats of destruction in canonical Deuteronomy ...
Barrett, Robert Carl
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Sounds of war: Historical, chronological and literary implications of military vocabulary in exodus 15, judges 5 and 1 Samuel 17 [PDF]
The trend in linguistic studies in the mid-to-late 20th century has been towards establishing dates of composition for an archaic layer of Biblical Hebrew attested in the Massoretic Text.
Nikkel, Paul N
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Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew
This article examines a previously neglected fragment of an early medieval commentary on Matthew’s Gospel, the bifolium Hereford Cathedral Library, P. II. 10. I argue on palaeographical grounds that this fragment was produced in Bede’s monastery of Wearmouth‐Jarrow in the first decades of the eighth century, at roughly the same time as the production ...
Samuel Cardwell
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Participation in Christ and Divine and Human Righteousness: Reading Paul with Gregory of Nyssa
Abstract Participation in Christ and divine and human righteousness are vital, yet perennially debated, Pauline motifs. Arguably, what is most distinctive and crucial about ‘righteousness’ in Paul's epistles is its christological re‐definition in texts such as 1 Cor 1:30.
Joshua Heavin
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Text, time, and travel: temporal pathways of postsocialism and Islam
Abstract As the concept of postsocialism faces increased scrutiny, there is a call to expand its spatiotemporal scope beyond socialist contexts in order to reclaim its analytical capacity. In Azerbaijan, the quiet resurgence of tezkirahs – biographical anthologies rooted in both the Islamic and Soviet traditions – presents an opportunity to explore how
Serkan Yolaçan
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This article takes Bede's account of the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria as a case study in the mechanics and function of narrative. It is now recognized that Bede's sources for his Ecclesiastical History were very limited and that in composing it he relied upon his own deductions as a historian and upon his narrative skill to provide ...
Catherine Cubitt
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Abstract During the seventeenth century, thousands of English‐speaking Protestants went to the Maghreb as captives, diplomats, traders, and travellers. Distant from the guiding and controlling hands of monopoly trading companies and the established churches, and placed under various pressures by non‐Christian neighbours, colleagues, and captors, these ...
Nat Cutter
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Seeing Otherwise: ‘The Least of These’ and Revelation in Jean‐Luc Marion
Abstract In his familiar essay in Phenomenology and the ‘Theological Turn’, Jean‐François Courtine writes that the ‘cardinal experience’ of revelatory phenomena would undoubtedly be the incarnation. But in its singularity, this experience, he admits, seems to elude phenomenological thought.
Thomas Breedlove
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