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Theoretical issues in the interpretation of Cappadocian, a not-so-dead Greek contact language [PDF]
, 2010 Cappadocian is a mixed Greek-Turkish dialect continuum spoken in the Turkish Central Anatolia Region until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Only a few Cappadocian dialects are still spoken in present-day Greece.
Janse, Mark
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Old Testament Scholarship and the Religious-Philosophical Sense of “Life” in Ordinary Language
Old Testament Essays, 2023 The word “life” appears in a variety of contexts in Old Testament (OT) scholarship. Included are the use of non-technical senses from ordinary language and the associated folk-philosophical assumptions implicit therein. This article investigates whether
Jaco Gericke
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Physical Violence and Scapegoating Within the Family: An Exploration of Biblical Texts and Contemporary Psychology. [PDF]
J Relig Health, 2023 Poljak Lukek S, Pate T, Gostečnik C.
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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Women's Empowerment and Intra‐Household Bargaining Power
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We assess the effectiveness of the Abbreviated Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A‐WEAI) in predicting intra‐household bargaining power. We conducted a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with agricultural households, where spouses made decisions about money allocations.
Marina Nacka +2 more
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Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract How do older people navigate African cities? This paper addresses that question through vernacular accounts of everyday mobility in Accra and Sekondi‐Takoradi, Ghana. By engaging with geographies of later life, it challenges the Southern urban critique to better reflect the plurality of marginality, and contributes to reimagining how ...
James Esson +5 more
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Das geheimnisvolle Wort ‘Michtam’
Verbum et EcclesiaThe mysterious word “Michtam”: The Hebrew word מִכְתָּם appears six times in the Hebrew Bible and it only occurs in the book of Psalms at the beginning of the chapter (16:1, 56:1, 57:1, 58:1, 59:1, 60:1). This Hebrew word has been understood differently.
Philip S. Chia
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Feelings Without Emotion: Rethinking Male Friendship and the Value of Personal Reticence
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 171-182, March 2026.ABSTRACT In various Euro‐American contexts, commentators have highlighted how emotional reticence inhibits men's ability to understand themselves and connect with others. More generally, public discourses of affective expressivity often present curtailed emotion as a form of “repression.” Through an ethnographic account of male railway enthusiasts ...
Thomas Yarrow
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