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Unsound and Informally Fallacious Preterist Arguments for Mark 13:24‐27
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 6, Page 796-811, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Abstract: The following article evaluates two common arguments for preterist interpretations of Mark 13:24‐27, collectively dubbed the ‘time‐text’ argument. These two arguments support symbolic and/or historicised interpretations. Our thesis is that the first argument is unsound and the second commits the informal fallacy of false dilemma ...
Elton L. Hollon
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Power and the Aerial Sublime in Victor Pelevin
The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 4, Page 582-598, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This essay distinguishes flight as a salient trope throughout multiple Pelevin texts: Omon Ra (1992), Chapaev and the Void (1996), Generation P (1999), Empire V (2006), and Love for Three Zuckerbrins (2014). It examines flight through the aesthetics of the sublime—classical, (post)‐Soviet, and postmodern.
Sofya Khagi
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“Blessed Are the Killers of Infants”—Understanding the Imprecation of Psalm 137 in Light of the Canonical Contexts of the Major Prophets [PDF]
, 2020 The imprecation of Psalm 137, “Blessed are the revengers and the killers of infants” (vv. 8–9) does not seem to be in conformity with the broader messages of the Psalter, “Blessed is the man who delights in the law of Yahweh (Ps 1:1–2) and who dwells in ...
Park, Ryu, Ryu Park
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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 430-458, August 2023., 2023 The present paper deals with forced migration experienced by subjects of the Byzantine Empire captured by foreign enemies in the context of warfare between the seventh and the tenth centuries. The focus of the first part is on the scenarios faced by individuals and groups when an enemy had taken control of a settlement or a larger territory. The second
Grigori Simeonov
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Evidence, hints and assumptions for late pregnancy in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Acta Paediatrica, Volume 112, Issue 7, Page 1371-1377, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Ancient women, who survived childhood mortality, received good and adequate nutrition, did not work hard and escaped death during childbirth could live fairly long lives. Girls started procreation after marriage, usually at 15 years, had on average seven children, childbearing lasted 14–21 or more years and could happen at the age of 35 or ...
Ariadne Malamitsi‐Puchner +1 more
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GOD IS BEAUTIFUL, UGLY, DEAD: NAVID KERMANI, FERIDUN ZAIMOGLU AND (MORE THAN) CHRISTIAN ART
German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 410-430, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Navid Kermani's and Feridun Zaimoglu's engagements as Muslims with Christian art reveal the possibilities and limitations of aesthetic experiences of the divine beyond all doctrinal divides. Although Kermani's own research into the aesthetic dimension of Islam highlights the potential for art to offer spiritual insight, his rejection of some ...
Joseph Twist
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Multi‐Ideology, Multiclass Online Extremism Dataset, and Its Evaluation Using Machine Learning
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023 Social media platforms play a key role in fostering the outreach of extremism by influencing the views, opinions, and perceptions of people. These platforms are increasingly exploited by extremist elements for spreading propaganda, radicalizing, and recruiting youth.
Mayur Gaikwad +5 more
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 675-690, December 2022., 2022 This article challenges the observation that historians and the discipline of History have not been helpful in addressing some of the important challenges in the Study of Religion by concentrating on “the local” and on deconstruction rather than on construction and “the global.” By undertaking a cross‐cultural case study — Medieval and Early Modern ...
Gerard Wiegers
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The Pastoral Introduction to the Book of Ezekiel
, 2021 Księga Ezechiela nie należy do pism często czytanych w liturgii mszalnej. Jej orędzie nie jest jednak drugorzędne. Pismo powstało w okresie wygnania babilońskiego, w VI w. przed Chr.
Jasiński, Andrzej S.
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An international divine judgment in Jer 25 MT : the central pillar to the Book of Jeremiah
, 2022 Jer 25 bezeichnet den Schwerpunkt des Jeremiabuches. Obwohl das Kapitel in der Reihenfolge der Ziffern an zentraler Stelle steht, ist es auch inhaltlich sehr ergiebig.
Manuveliparambil, Antony Sijan
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