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Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth
Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 311-336, April 2025.Abstract This article is concerned with a ‘lightness that is as far as possible from triviality’. It argues, firstly, that a connection can be drawn between comic perception and pictures of reality that entail transcendence, understood as an otherness at the heart of things that may be indirectly glimpsed but never fully grasped as the object of fixed ...
Simon Ravenscroft
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Jewish Divination in the Greco–Roman Era
Religion 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
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Cold‐active microbial enzymes and their biotechnological applications
Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 17, Issue 4, April 2024.Microorganisms known as psychrophiles/psychrotrophs, which survive in cold climates, constitute majority of the biosphere on Earth. Microbes living in these regions are important for their metabolic contribution to the ecosphere as well as for their enzymes, which may have potential industrial and biotechnological applications.
Mohammed Kuddus +7 more
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‘Selective historians’: The construction of cisness in Byzantine and Byzantinist texts
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 32-51, March 2024.Abstract Far from being a natural, prelapsarian state, cisness is a hegemonic ideal of gender performance demanded of all people. This article explores the construction of cisness in the field of Byzantine studies, and the historiographical tropes through which it is maintained, naturalised and made invisible.
Ilya Maude
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Il ruolo della Legge Divina nel sistema dei valori cristiano antico
CoSMO, 2013 The essay examines the argumentative and hermeneutical strategies by which Early Christianity adapted concepts and notions borrowed from the past to the Gospel message.
Giovanni Filoramo
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 147-171, January 2024.Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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Zeszyty Prawnicze, 2017 Unfaithful Bride The Matrimonial Practice of the Hellenistic Judaism in the Light of Sources from the Jewish Politeuma in Herakleopolis (144/3 – 133/2 BC) Summary The author is dealing with a Greek papyrus from Herakleopolis in Egypt where a Jewish ...
Józef MÉLÈZE MODRZEJEWSKI
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The relationship between reason and revelation (look at the philosophy of Philo of Alexandria) [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2007 در خصوص نسبت عقل و وحی و به عبارت دیگر، فلسفه و دین مطالب بسیاری گفته شده است تا جاییکه برخی آن را بحث محوری قرون وسطی دانستهاند. اندیشمندان ادیان ابراهیمی با توجه به نسبتی که میان عقل و وحی قائل شدهاند، در خصوص وجود یا عدم فلسفه دینی بهطور عام و ...
reza gandomi
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Pallas, 2015 In Alexandria, since the third century BC, sophisticated machines, automatons, have been designed and perfected by three engineers combining in innovative ways, artistry and technical performance.
Marylène Lebrère
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Teaching and Learning Guide for: Episodic Memory in Animals
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
Alexandria Boyle +1 more
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