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Front Matter, Spiritus Editors 2020 Oral Roberts University

Front Matter, Spiritus Editors

Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology

Spiritus 5.1 (Spring, 2020)


Full Issue: Volume 5, Number 1 (2020), Spiritus Editors 2020 Oral Roberts University

Full Issue: Volume 5, Number 1 (2020), Spiritus Editors

Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology

No abstract provided.


Teaching And Testing Textual Analysis In Reacting To The Past: Thucydides And Jigsaw Method Discussion, Cary Barber 2020 California State University, San Bernardino

Teaching And Testing Textual Analysis In Reacting To The Past: Thucydides And Jigsaw Method Discussion, Cary Barber

Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy

The activity this work presents is designed to both strengthen and evaluate students’ ability to think critically about ancient texts within a Reacting to the Past gaming environment (specifically in the game ‘The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C.’). The activity is part of a preliminary set of assignments meant to improve students’ sense of the game’s historical, social, political, economic, and religious context. Moreover, the activity helps to ensure that students can incorporate texts appropriately into speeches, writings, and general gameplay.

Using the Jigsaw Method of discussion, I organize students into ‘numbered’ (I, II, III, etc.) groups of …


Gems Of Gods And Mortals: The Changing Symbolism Of Pearls Throughout The Roman Empire, Emily Hallman 2020 Savannah College of Art and Design

Gems Of Gods And Mortals: The Changing Symbolism Of Pearls Throughout The Roman Empire, Emily Hallman

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

Born in the wombs of shells and polished by mother nature herself, pearls were regarded as gifts from the gods. For millennia, the creation of pearls was credited to the tears of heavenly creatures or the formation of sun-touched dewdrops. Countless civilizations, both Western and Non-Western, have their own myths and legends surrounding the pearl, a mark of their mysterious allure. The artform of jewelry, favored by the Roman aristocracy, took advantage of naturally perfected pearls to create stunning pieces with staggering prices. The pearl’s meaning evolved throughout the Roman Empire and into Early Christian Rome, setting up a contradictory …


The Others (2001) By Alejandro Amenábar In The Light Of Valentinian Thought, Fryderyk Kwiatkowski 2020 Jagiellonian University, Cracow and the University of Groningen

The Others (2001) By Alejandro Amenábar In The Light Of Valentinian Thought, Fryderyk Kwiatkowski

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

The article offers a Valentinian interpretation of the Hollywood film The Others (2001). A particular attention is paid to the ways in which cinematic motifs and narrative elements of the film draw on myths, ideas and symbolic imagery present in Valentinian works, especially in the Gospel of Truth (NHC I, 3) and the Gospel of Philip (NHC II, 3). In the course of the heuristic analysis, the paper argues that although the film employs Valentinian ideas, it depicts different understanding of the world. This issue is addressed in the last part of the article by situating the film within broader …


Subject Vertical File, McGarvey Ice 2020 Abilene Christian University

Subject Vertical File, Mcgarvey Ice

Center for Restoration Studies Vertical Files Finding Aids

No abstract provided.


A Hermeneutic For The Aqedah Test: A Way Beyond Jon Levenson’S And Terence Fretheim’S Models, Arlyn Sunshine Drew 2020 Andrews University

A Hermeneutic For The Aqedah Test: A Way Beyond Jon Levenson’S And Terence Fretheim’S Models, Arlyn Sunshine Drew

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Dissertation Abstract


Revelation. Paideia: Commentaries On The New Testament [Review] / Tonstad, Sigve K., Stanislav Kondrat 2020 Andrews University

Revelation. Paideia: Commentaries On The New Testament [Review] / Tonstad, Sigve K., Stanislav Kondrat

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review


The Legal Significance Of Custom In The Halakhic Jurisprudence Of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein’S Arukh Hashulchan, Shlomo C. Pill, Michael J. Broyde 2020 Emory Law School

The Legal Significance Of Custom In The Halakhic Jurisprudence Of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein’S Arukh Hashulchan, Shlomo C. Pill, Michael J. Broyde

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Determining Textual Similarity: Ga 2936 As A Test Case For The Teststellen Method, Jonathan A. Campbell 2020 Dallas Theological Seminary

Determining Textual Similarity: Ga 2936 As A Test Case For The Teststellen Method, Jonathan A. Campbell

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

An important task in the field of textual criticism is the determination of which manuscripts are more closely related to one another.1 This, in turn, allows the text critic to come to a better understanding of the history of the text. The Teststellen method is one of the most influential methods currently being used to determine similarity with the Byzantine text type. This method, as practiced by the Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung, is examined with regard to its use in the Editio Critica Maior (ECM).2 The brevity of the method is appealing, as it does not require the full collation …


Nebuchadnezzar’S Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, And The End Of History [Review] / Rubenstein, Jay., André Reis 2020 Andrews University

Nebuchadnezzar’S Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, And The End Of History [Review] / Rubenstein, Jay., André Reis

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review


Jesus And The Forces Of Death: The Gospels’ Portrayal Of Ritual Impurity Within First-Century Judaism [Review] / Thiessen, Matthew., Roy E. Gane 2020 Andrews University

Jesus And The Forces Of Death: The Gospels’ Portrayal Of Ritual Impurity Within First-Century Judaism [Review] / Thiessen, Matthew., Roy E. Gane

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review


Excavating A Monumental Stepped Stone Structure At Khirbat Ataruz: The 2016-17 Season Of Fieldwork In Field G, Chang-Ho Ji, Aaron Schade 2020 La Sierra University

Excavating A Monumental Stepped Stone Structure At Khirbat Ataruz: The 2016-17 Season Of Fieldwork In Field G, Chang-Ho Ji, Aaron Schade

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

This paper presents the results of the 2016–2017 excavations of Field G at Khirbat Ataruz, an area corresponding to the southeast slope of the site that includes a large-scale stepped stone structure. According to our preliminary assessment, the remains would have been stairs ascending the eastern side of the site, which provided an access system to the Iron IIA temple on the acropolis. At the top of the steps, we have what may at some point have been a plaza paved with flat paving stones, possibly contemporaneous with the temple on the acropolis. Field G also includes Moabite architectural remains …


Introduction To The Hebrew Prophets [Review] / Nogalski, James D., Oliver Glanz 2020 Andrews University

Introduction To The Hebrew Prophets [Review] / Nogalski, James D., Oliver Glanz

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review


Reading The Bible With Horror [Review] / Grafius, Brandon R., Nathaniel Gibbs 2020 Andrews University

Reading The Bible With Horror [Review] / Grafius, Brandon R., Nathaniel Gibbs

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review


A Guide To Early Jewish Texts And Traditions In Christian Transmission [Review] / Kulik, Alexander, Ed., Rodrigo Galiza 2020 Andrews University

A Guide To Early Jewish Texts And Traditions In Christian Transmission [Review] / Kulik, Alexander, Ed., Rodrigo Galiza

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review


Bearing God’S Name: Why Sinai Still Matters [Review] / Imes, Carmen Joy. Foreword By J. H. Wright., Jo Ann Davidson 2020 Andrews University

Bearing God’S Name: Why Sinai Still Matters [Review] / Imes, Carmen Joy. Foreword By J. H. Wright., Jo Ann Davidson

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review


The Function Of Military Language In The Feeding Of The Five Thousand Narrative (Mark 6:30–44): A Narrative-Cognitive Study, Oleg Kostuyk 2020 Andrews University

The Function Of Military Language In The Feeding Of The Five Thousand Narrative (Mark 6:30–44): A Narrative-Cognitive Study, Oleg Kostuyk

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Dissertation Abstract


A Stratigraphic Analysis Of The Middle Bronze Age From The Tell Taanach Excavations In 1963, ‘66 And ‘68, Ronald H. Wakeman 2020 Andrews University

A Stratigraphic Analysis Of The Middle Bronze Age From The Tell Taanach Excavations In 1963, ‘66 And ‘68, Ronald H. Wakeman

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Dissertation Abstract


Antichrist: A New Biography [Review] / Almond, Philip C., Rodrigo Galiza 2020 Andrews University

Antichrist: A New Biography [Review] / Almond, Philip C., Rodrigo Galiza

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Book Review


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