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The political vow of Jephthah in Judges 11:30-31
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2021 This study responds to Jephthah’s ambiguous vow that led to a heart-wrenching and outrageous tragedy. There are conflicting ideologies held by Jephthah and the Deutronomist tradition in laying the biblical theology foundations.
Makmur Tore, Nelci N. Ndolu
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The Use of the Bible in Modern Court System: A Critique of the Appropriateness of the Practice [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological StudiesThe study examines the practice of using the Bible to swear in the law court. It exposes biblical texts that speak about swearing of oath and taking vows. Since this is an ongoing debate, the paper raises scholarly opinions that support and speak against
Abraham Nortey
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Les Cahiers de Framespa, 2012 The French Grand Siècle remains a privileged field for the study of the dialectical relationship between art and power. Through the analysis of images representing Louis XIII’s vow, which showed how the King of France consecrated his kingdom to God ...
Léo Minois
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Black Genius Flexin’: The Radical Potential of a Dreams Assessment in Participatory Research
Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 2023 The devastation of COVID-19 and racial violence in 2020 suffocated the dream potential of Black families in North Carolina. That same year, Village of Wisdom (VOW) received rapid funding and leveraged this funding to support an inaugural group of five ...
Dawn X Henderson +6 more
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VOW: vaccination of well-being / Yatisafinah Mohamad [PDF]
, 2020 This project is a road tour campaign branding project, Vaccination of Well-Being (VOW).
Mohamad, Yatisafinah
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The vow of Ivan Crnojević to the Virgin Mary in Loreto under the shadow of the ottoman conquest [PDF]
Balcanica, 2017 This paper looks at the circumstances in which Ivan Crnojević, a fifteenth-century ruler of Zeta (historic region in present-day Montenegro), made a vow to the Virgin in a famous pilgrimage shrine, the Santa Casa in Loreto (Italy), where he was ...
Živković Valentina
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, 2023 In Plato’s Phaedo 118a, we read this description of the very last seconds before Socrates died from the poison that pervaded his body after he was forced to drink the potion of hemlock that the State had measured out for his execution: Then he ...
Nagy, Gregory
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Old Testament Essays, 2022 Psalms of lament characteristically include affirmations of trust and sometimes a vow to praise God in the future. This article questions the motivation behind such vows by looking carefully at whether future praise is conditional on God’s positive ...
June Dickie
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The Nazirite Vow and Fertility
, 2011 Nazirites are a well-documented phenomenon within the context of the Hebrew Bible. The bulk of research has focused mainly on the role of Samson as a life long Nazirite, but little has been done concerning the role of women within the context of the ...
Moulton, Vincent M.
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About an Oirat Written Monument Devoted to the Tradition of ‘Matsg’ Ritual Performance
Oriental Studies, 2018 The article describes a Buddhist text in Clear Script relating to the gso-sbyong class and discovered in Uvs Province (Western Mongolia) under the title “Bacaq barixu yosun orošibo” - from the perspective of the tradition of home prayers of the Kalmyks ...
G. B. Korneev
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