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Evolution Of Maine Place Names, Edwin H. Churchill

Maine History

The article provides great detail about the Native American, English and French names of Maine places as well as information about the movement of the various groups and its impact on place names.

The Holiness Of Yahweh In Conflict With The Holiness Of Baal Vis-À-Vis Mount Zion And Mount Zaphon, Reed Lessing

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The purpose of this study is to define the holiness of Yahweh and the holiness of Baal as they are related to physical, tangible mountains. Qds is25 a holistic idea, which includes both physical and spiritual aspects Brevard Childs sums up this thesis with these words: The Old Testament understanding of space was eschatological, not mythical. It looked to the future, not to the past. However, it chose a mythical category to express the tensions within this new spatial reality. The new space had as its content God's holiness, but it was formed in the midst of a profane and …

Courier, Volume Xxiv, Number One, Spring, 1989, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

The Marcel Breuer Papers and Michael Ventris: A Biographical Note By Isabelle Hyman, Professor of Fine Arts, New York University, p.3 -- Toils and Perils of Scientific Publishing in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries By Eileen Snyder, Physics and Geology Librarian, Syracuse University, p.13 -- "Interviewing" Mr. Larkin By Robert Phillips, poet, critic, and author, p.33 -- Past and Present in Hope Emily Allen's Essay "Relics" (with the inclusion of the heretofore unpublished manuscript) By John C. Hirsh, Professor of English, Georgetown University, p.49 -- The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Two) By Gwen G. Robinson, Editor, Syracuse …

Research Design And Data Recovery Plan Archaeological Site 41wm13 At Norman's Crossing, Williamson County, Texas, Alan J. Wormser

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

The Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation (SDHPT) will replace the bridge on CR 439 (signed "County Road 129") over Brushy Creek in the south-central part of the county at Norman's Crossing (Figures 1 and 2). The new bridge will be built just east of the present bridge. The present bridge will continue to be used until the new bridge is completed, which eliminates the need for a temporary detour easement. Additional right-of-way will be obtained east of the county road in order to construct the new bridge and approaches.

Site 41WM13 was located during routine inspection by …

Phase I Cultural Resources Investigations At Justiceburg Resevoir On The Double Mountain Fork Of The Brazos River, Garza And Kent Counties, Texas, Douglas K. Boyd, Martha Doty Freeman, Michael D. Blum, Elton R. Prewitt, J. Michael Quigg

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

In 1987, Prewitt and Associates, Inc. conducted a Phase I archeological reconnaissance of the proposed Justiceburg Reservoir located in Garza and Kent counties, Texas. The investigations included a 100\ pedestrian survey, a preliminary geoarcheoloqical study, and historic archival and field research. Three hundred and seventy-five sites were documented in the ca. 8600-acre project area. Two hundred and eighty-eight sites contain prehistoric archeological components consisting of: no Paleoindian or early Archaic, 4 middle Archaic, 10 late Archaic, 10 undefined Archaic, 24 Late Prehistoric, 204 undefined prehistoric, and 45 isolated finds (total components = 252). Thirty historic archeological sites identified include 1 …

Beads Of The Early Islamic Period, Peter Francis Jr.

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

Beads from four sites involved in Early Islamic trade (7th to 12th century) are representative of the role the Muslim world played in the Indian Ocean Bead Trade. The continuation of Classical techniques, the Islamic trade's self-sufficiency, and the insight beads provide concerning past behavior are some of the issues explored.

An Exhibition Of Recent Work By Robert Colescott, Susanne K. Arnold

Theses and Dissertations

My thesis project involved organizing, curating, designing and mounting a temporary traveling exhibition of recent work by Robert Colescott, a nationally-known black American artist. The Eye of the Beholder: Recent Work by Robert Colescott was installed at the Marsh Gallery of the University of Richmond September 7-28, 1988. It included 12 large-scale acrylic paintings on canvas and four framed drawings completed since 1981. Colescott's figurative paintings are known for their satirical commentary on society in America and on the history of Western art.

Pannenberg's Quest For The Proleptic Jesus, R. David Rightmire

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

The "Throne Of God" Motif In The Hebrew Bible, Daegeuk Nam

Dissertations

This dissertation explores the biblical significance and theological implications of the "throne of God" motif through an exegetical investigation of the texts of the Hebrew Bible which have direct reference to it.

Chapter I states the problems which the biblical "throne of God" motif poses, and also theobjectives, limitations, methodology, and procedure of this study.

Chapter II reviews pertinent literature since theturn of the century. This survey reveals thecurrent status of investigation on our topic to be only fragmentary.

Chapter III is devoted to the investigation of the"divine throne" motif in ancient Near Eastern literatures such as Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, …

Margaret Lawrence: Setting Her House In Order, Marion Elizabeth Markham

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Margaret Laurence orders the world around her through the telling of story, and she shows us, in The Stone Angel, A Bird in the House and The Diviners, strong women ordering the world around them. The thesis analyzes the tales Laurence tells through Hagar Shipley, Vanessa MacLeod, and Morag Gunn respectively, examining the freedom gathered in these tellings. Christian symbols It also considers the complementary Judeo-and names and allusions through which their captivities and freedoms are eventually seen.

Each of the main characters face discrimination as woman, but each is transformed from slave to free woman, and this development of …

Tony Hillerman, Fred Erisman

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

Readers quickly discover that there are three Tony Hillermans. One is the reporter, the streetwise observer of all the grandeur and all the depravity of the human race. Another is the storyteller, the person who sees in life’s events an endless source of entertainment. The third is the Southwestemer, a native of the region acutely aware of the locale’s complex uniqueness and the strata of human history that it embraces. All three personae merge in Hillerman’s writings, placing him solidly in the veritistic tradition established almost a century ago by Hamlin Garland. Writing in Crumbling Idols (1894), Garland calls for …

Catalog For 1989-1990, University Of Maine, Part 1, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This first part (of two) of the catalog for the 1989-90 academic year at the University of Maine includes the academic calendar, general information about the institution, financial information for students, admission, and sections for the College of Arts and Humanities, College of Applied Sciences and Agriculture, College of Business Administration, College of Education, and the College of Engineering and Technology (topics listed in the Table of Contents up to page 126).