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Dever\u27s The lives of ordinary people in ancient Israel: Where archaeology and the Bible intersect (Book Review)

open access: yes, 2016
A review of Dever, W. G. (2012). The lives of ordinary people in ancient Israel: Where archaeology and the Bible intersect. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. 436 pp. $17.05.
Kempa, Kathleen
core   +1 more source

The Construction of a Bestseller: The Case of Thomas Nettleton's Some Thoughts Concerning Virtue and Happiness (1729)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
wiley   +1 more source

Christian Spirituality in the Gospel of John [PDF]

open access: yes, 1976
One of the most fruitful realizations that has emerged from contemporary Scripture studies is that the Bible contains not one but several theologies. The plurality of approaches to God, community, and salvation goes back to the Old Testament itself.
Schneiders, Sandra Marie
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Blockchain technology disruptions: Exploring accounting and auditing academics and practitioners' perception

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the practical impact of blockchain technology (BCT), which contrasts strongly with literature that has predominantly hypothesised BCT's potential to disrupt accounting practice. We interviewed 44 practitioners and academics with knowledge of BCT across 13 countries and industries.
Musbaudeen Titilope Oladejo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human Rights and the Bible

open access: yes, 2016
Do contemporary Jews see the Bible as a source for a modern language of human rights? At first glance, there are overwhelming differences between the thought world of the Bible and that of modern human rights.
Yang, Sunggu
core  

The New Eve in Christ: The Use of the Bible in the Debate about Women in the Church [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
Reviewed Book: Hayter, Mary E. The New Eve in Christ: The Use of the Bible in the Debate about Women in the Church.
Airhart, Phyllis D.
core   +1 more source

Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
wiley   +1 more source

Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Article reviews the book The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins, by Peter ...
McGrath, James F
core   +1 more source

Learned Family on the Educator‐Kibbutzim—Knowledge, Kinship, and Social Transformation as Historical Legacy

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how educator‐kibbutzim recruit socialist‐Zionist learning traditions to construct new forms of kinship. Bringing communities of practice theory to new kinship studies, we expand on the role of knowledge in bridging the social/biological.
Lauren Erdreich, Rotem Bar Israel
wiley   +1 more source

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