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Performing Papal Supremacy: Niccolò Cieco's Capitoli for Martin V and Eugenius IV

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses two poems performed by the blind oral poet (or canterino) Niccolò Cieco of Arezzo for the first two popes elected after the Great Schism, Martin V and Eugenius IV. It argues that Niccolò's characterisation of the papal office must be understood in relation to both medieval canon law and contemporary ecclesiological ...
Isaac Figliuoli
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The modernity of bible translation research [PDF]

, 2007
This presentation questions the unattractive and outdated image of bible translation research. On the basis of Nida and Chesterman, it shows how modern oral and written aspects of bible translation research can be.status ...
van Doorslaer, Luc
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Framing Peninsular Crypto‐Jews as Part of the Sephardic Diaspora

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When we talk about the Sephardic diaspora, we often talk about Iberian conversos who leave the Peninsula, supposedly to live openly as Jews in places like Algiers, Venice, Amsterdam or the Ottoman Empire. But what about those conversos who continued to identify in some way as Jews but who remained in Spain and Portugal?
David A. Wacks
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Accelerated Bible Translation: Reflections on 21st Century Challenges and Opportunities

Journal of Language, Culture, and Religion
Calls to “accelerate” Bible translation have grown in recent decades, fueled by expanding global participation in the Bible translation movement and increasing impatience over the slow engagement of Bibleless communities.
L. Jones
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Bible Translation And Relevance Theory

, 2014
Bible translation commenced with the oral interpretations and translations of the fifth century B C (Neh. 8-5.9) and is still In progress. Over the centuries various translation techniques were employed (see, for instance, De Waard 1990),' but sincc ...
F. Deist
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Iberian Scepticism in Istanbul: The Hebrew Philosophical Dialogue Attributed to Don Joseph Nasi

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On 28 April 1577, the printer Joseph Ya’abetz in Constantinople printed a rare Hebrew pamphlet titled Ben Porat Yosef (Joseph, the Offspring of a Fertile Tree). Its author, Isaac ben Samuel Onkeneira, claims to report a philosophical debate between Don Joseph Nasi (1524–1579), the powerful Portuguese‐born agent at the Ottoman court, and a ...
Carsten L. Wilke
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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When Science Becomes Law: Proficiency, Deficiency, and the Regulation of Literacy

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 62, Issue 1, January/February/March 2027.
This graphic depicts how the “Science of Reading” functions as a legitimizing discourse in the translation of literacy research into policy. As literacy policy is enacted through assessments, interventions, retention policies, and educator evaluation systems, literacy becomes increasingly organized through categories of proficiency and deficiency ...
CoCo Massengale
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Gendered Relational Climate Information Services and Kenyan Pastoralist Adaptation

Climate Resilience and Sustainability, Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2026.
Climate Information Services in Kenyan pastoralist communities operate through socio‐technical arrangements shaped by gendered power relations and material infrastructures. Access, interpretation, and use of forecasts depend on legitimacy within communal arenas, gatekeeping through devices and institutions, and translation processes aligned with ...
Waithira A. C. Dormal
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Towards the problem of existence of the Pre-Islamic Arabic translation of the Bible

The Oriental studies
The article traces the problem of emergence of the Arabic written translations of biblical texts. There is a generally accepted idea about the period of formation of Islam (i.e., the early 7th century) as the starting point after which the first written ...
A. Maskevitch
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