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Abstract This chapter discusses the ransoms paid to airline hijackers. It starts with Arthur Barkley, who demanded a ransom of $100 million after the threat of a gun, a razor, and gasoline in his arsenal. Even though Barkley shot two FBI agents, he was found innocent by reason of insanity.
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This chapter describes the process of ransoming Jewish captives. Jewish captives had to be ransomed with money raised by the Jewish communities themselves and paid by them to the captors. Over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Jewish society succeeded in creating a broad transregional economic network whose goal was to ransom its members ...
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This chapter describes the process of ransoming Jewish captives. Jewish captives had to be ransomed with money raised by the Jewish communities themselves and paid by them to the captors. Over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Jewish society succeeded in creating a broad transregional economic network whose goal was to ransom its members ...
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Milton Studies
ABSTRACT Milton’s worldly, prosaic Manoa has won few admirers, and the ransom plot in Samson Agonistes often elicits puzzlement. This article situates Manoa in relation to the soteriological anxieties that Milton’s tragedy explores. Drawing on Freud’s psychoanalytic account of monotheism, this article suggests that Manoa’s presence ...
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ABSTRACT Milton’s worldly, prosaic Manoa has won few admirers, and the ransom plot in Samson Agonistes often elicits puzzlement. This article situates Manoa in relation to the soteriological anxieties that Milton’s tragedy explores. Drawing on Freud’s psychoanalytic account of monotheism, this article suggests that Manoa’s presence ...
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Between Ransom and Release: Exploring Caringscapes of Ransom Kidnappings by Somali Pirates
Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 2021Brittany V Gilmer, Joshua Wakeham
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