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Swinging Bridge - December 10, 2009, Michelle Canales
Swinging Bridge - December 10, 2009, Michelle Canales
Student Newspapers & Magazines
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Swinging Bridge - November 19, 2009, Tim Mackie
Swinging Bridge - November 19, 2009, Tim Mackie
Student Newspapers & Magazines
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Swinging Bridge - November 5, 2009, Tim Mackie
Swinging Bridge - November 5, 2009, Tim Mackie
Student Newspapers & Magazines
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Swinging Bridge - October 15, 2009, Tim Mackie
Swinging Bridge - October 15, 2009, Tim Mackie
Student Newspapers & Magazines
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Swinging Bridge - October 1, 2009, Tim Mackie
Swinging Bridge - October 1, 2009, Tim Mackie
Student Newspapers & Magazines
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Swinging Bridge - September 17, 2009, Tim Mackie
Swinging Bridge - September 17, 2009, Tim Mackie
Student Newspapers & Magazines
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Swinging Bridge - April 30, 2009, Alison Stratton
Swinging Bridge - April 30, 2009, Alison Stratton
Student Newspapers & Magazines
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Swinging Bridge - April 16, 2009, Alison Stratton
Swinging Bridge - April 16, 2009, Alison Stratton
Student Newspapers & Magazines
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Swinging Bridge - April 2, 2009, Alison Stratton
Swinging Bridge - April 2, 2009, Alison Stratton
Student Newspapers & Magazines
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Swinging Bridge - March 12, 2009, Alison Stratton
Swinging Bridge - March 12, 2009, Alison Stratton
Student Newspapers & Magazines
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Swinging Bridge - February 26, 2009, Alison Stratton
Swinging Bridge - February 26, 2009, Alison Stratton
Student Newspapers & Magazines
No abstract provided.
Desecrating Scriptures, James W. Watts
Desecrating Scriptures, James W. Watts
Religion - All Scholarship
Desecrations of books of scripture appear regularly in media coverage of religious and political conflicts. Twenty-first century news media have reported scripture desecrations in various Western, Middle Eastern, African, and South Asian countries. Though political tensions also arise from the desecration of sacred sites, objects, and persons, books of scripture have emerged as particularly potent objects of contestation. That is because, as a (very) old form of media themselves, scriptures encapsulate the religious experiences of many people who are used to handling the physical book with veneration. News of such a book’s desecration thus inverts a common religious experience and …
Ritual Rhetoric In Ancient Near Eastern Texts, James W. Watts
Ritual Rhetoric In Ancient Near Eastern Texts, James W. Watts
Religion - All Scholarship
Many ancient Near Eastern texts reflect a concern for ritual accuracy. They depict ancient kings justifying their ritual practices on the basis of supposedly invariable tradition and, frequently, on the basis of old ritual texts. They also invoke ritual acts and omissions to explain the course of past history and to promise future punishments and rewards. In fact, very many texts assert that ritual performance is the most determinative factor in the success or failure of rulers and nations. The rhetoric of ritual therefore pervaded royal propaganda as well as temple texts. It also provided the principal rationale for criticizing …
The Bible As Read By African Americans, Vincent L. Wimbush
The Bible As Read By African Americans, Vincent L. Wimbush
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
African Americans engagements with the Bible suggest much not only about who the people of the Bible are, how they sound and think, and what they mean and communicate but also about how Scripture functions in society and culture. African Americans use of the Bible as Scripture is varied and wide-ranging and has a storied history. These engagements should be understood as reflections of a people's long and continuing efforts to define and empower themselves. They are at once "readings" of the people of the worlds with which they were forced to negotiate. These engagements reflect the people's consistent aspiration …
Abstinence, Vincent L. Wimbush
Abstinence, Vincent L. Wimbush
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
This is an encyclopedia article.
Christ's Interpretation Of Isaiah's 52'S "My Servant" In 3 Nephi, Gaye Strathearn, Jacob Moody
Christ's Interpretation Of Isaiah's 52'S "My Servant" In 3 Nephi, Gaye Strathearn, Jacob Moody
Faculty Publications
When the Savior appeared to the “more righteous” of the Nephites and Lamanites, he used many teachings that modern readers readily recognize from the Old and New Testaments. Some critics have suggested that Joseph Smith merely lifted these teachings from his copy of the Bible.1 While some of these quotations are very similar to the accounts in the King James Bible, there are some significant differences that strongly suggest that the process was more complex and nuanced than these critics allow.
Biblical Naming Reports With, Dana M. Pike
Biblical Naming Reports With, Dana M. Pike
Faculty Publications
This study reviews the naming reports in the MT r that contain the phrase [Hebrew text] () in order to analyze the current practice of regularly rendering the subjects of these reports as indefinite. Though this is understandable in some cases, I contend that many of these subjects can just as well be understood as definite. Whereas the difference may seem insignificant in some passages, rendering the subject as definite is productive in others. A complete examination of all biblical naming reports is a large and complex undertaking, well beyond the limitations of the present study. This review of the …