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Types Of Repetition And Shadows Of History In Hebraic Narrative, Alan Goff Jan 2021

Types Of Repetition And Shadows Of History In Hebraic Narrative, Alan Goff

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Modern readers too often misunderstand ancient narrative. Typical of this incomprehension has been the inclination of modern biblical critics to view repetitions as narrative failures. Whether you call such repetitions types, narrative analogies, type scenes, midrashic recurrences, or numerous other names, this view of repeated elements has dominated modern readings of Hebraic narratives for at least 200 years. Robert Alter, who introduced a new yet antique understanding of repetitions in the Hebrew Bible in the 1980s, began to reverse this trend. Such repeated elements aren’t failures or shortcomings but are themselves artistic clues to narrative meaning that call readers to …

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Joseph Smith As A Book Of Mormon Storyteller, Brian C. Hales Jan 2021

Joseph Smith As A Book Of Mormon Storyteller, Brian C. Hales

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

For nearly 200 years, skeptics have promoted different naturalistic explanations to describe how Joseph Smith generated all the words of the Book of Mormon. The more popular theories include plagiarism (e.g. of the Solomon Spaulding manuscript), collaboration (with Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, etc.), mental illness (bipolar, dissociative, or narcissistic personality disorders) and automatic writing, also called “spirit writing, “trance writing,” or “channeling.” A fifth and currently the most popular theory posits that Joseph Smith possessed all the intellectual abilities needed to complete the task. A variation on this last explanation proposes that he used the methods of professional storytellers. For …

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The Implications Of Some Standard Assumptions Of New Testament Scholars: Responding To A Modern Anti-Christ, John Gee Jan 2021

The Implications Of Some Standard Assumptions Of New Testament Scholars: Responding To A Modern Anti-Christ, John Gee

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

In a recent book, Raphael Lataster correctly argues that the acceptance of the general premises of New Testament scholarship, exemplified in the writings of Bart Ehrman, brings into question whether Jesus ever existed. Latter-day Saints who are serious about their witness of Jesus Christ need to be aware that acceptance of these presuppositions undermines their witness of the reality of Jesus Christ and his atonement and makes their faith vain.

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The Goodness Of God And His Children As A Fundamental Theological Concept In The Book Of Mormon, Noel B. Reynolds Jan 2021

The Goodness Of God And His Children As A Fundamental Theological Concept In The Book Of Mormon, Noel B. Reynolds

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

The phrase goodness of God does occur occasionally in the Hebrew Bible but has not been considered by Old Testament scholars to be an independent principle in Israelite theology. Rather, it has been interpreted as just another way of talking about God’s acts of hesed, or loving kindness for his covenant people and is usually interpreted in the context of the covenants Israel received through Abraham and Moses. The Book of Mormon clearly echoes that Old Testament pattern but also presents two additional conceptual frameworks that are explained in terms of the goodness of God. It advances an explicit divine …

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“If Ye Believe On His Name”: Wordplay On The Name Samuel In Helaman 14:2, 12–13 And 3 Nephi 23:9 And The Doctrine Of Christ In Samuel’S Speech, Matthew L. Bowen Jan 2021

“If Ye Believe On His Name”: Wordplay On The Name Samuel In Helaman 14:2, 12–13 And 3 Nephi 23:9 And The Doctrine Of Christ In Samuel’S Speech, Matthew L. Bowen

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

The Semitic/Hebrew name Samuel (šĕmûʾēl) most likely means “his name is El” — i.e., “his name [the name that he calls upon in worship] is El” — although it was also associated with “hearing” (šāmaʿ) God (e.g., 1 Samuel 3:9–11). In the ancient Near East, the parental hope for one thus named is that the son (and “his name”) would glorify El (a name later understood in ancient Israel to refer to God); or, like the biblical prophet Samuel, the child would hear El/God (“El is heard”). The name šĕmûʾēl thus constituted an appropriate symbol of the mission of the …

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The People Of Canaan: A New Reading Of Moses 7, Adam Stokes Jan 2021

The People Of Canaan: A New Reading Of Moses 7, Adam Stokes

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Moses 7 is one of the most famous passages in all of Restoration scripture. It is also one of the most problematic in regard to its description of the people of Canaan as black (v. 8) and as a people who were not preached to by the patriarch Enoch (v. 12). Later there is also a mention of “the seed of Cain,” who also are said to be black (v. 22). This article examines the history of interpretation of Moses 7 and proposes an alternative understanding based on a close reading of the text. In contrast to traditional views, it …

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An Ishmael Buried Near Nahom, Neal Rappleye Jan 2021

An Ishmael Buried Near Nahom, Neal Rappleye

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Latter-day Saint scholars generally agree that “the place called… Nahom,” where Ishmael was buried (1 Nephi 16:34) is identified as the Nihm tribal region in Yemen. Significantly, a funerary stela with the name ys1mʿʾl — the South Arabian equivalent of Ishmael — was found near the Nihm region and dated to ca. 6th century bc. Although it cannot be determined with certainty that this is the Ishmael from the Book of Mormon, circumstantial evidence suggests that such is a possibility worth considering.

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Mine House Is A House Of Zion And Not A House Of Babylon!, Loren Spendlove Jan 2021

Mine House Is A House Of Zion And Not A House Of Babylon!, Loren Spendlove

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

In Doctrine and Covenants 132:8 we read: “Behold, mine house is a house of order, saith the Lord God, and not a house of confusion.” I propose that the words “order” and “confusion” in this passage are literary allusions to the ideals, constructs, and outcomes that embody Zion and Babylon, respectively. In other words, God’s house is a house of Zion and not a house of Babylon.

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An Early Christian Context For The Book Of Moses, David Calabro Jan 2021

An Early Christian Context For The Book Of Moses, David Calabro

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

This study argues that the Book of Moses was an early Christian text. The book’s language, literary genre, and references to its own production could fit with a date in the late first century AD. Further, the study argues that a possible ritual context of the book was a baptismal ritual, as suggested by the detailed description of Adam’s baptism in Moses 6. A comparison between the content of the Book of Moses and early Christian sources on baptism shows some close resemblances, which may suggest that the Book of Moses was read aloud, and perhaps portrayed as a ritual …

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Framing The Book Of Abraham: Presumptions And Paradigms, Stephen O. Smoot Jan 2021

Framing The Book Of Abraham: Presumptions And Paradigms, Stephen O. Smoot

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

The Book of Abraham continues to undergo scrutiny in both academic and polemical publications. The latest offering of substance in the latter category, Dan Vogel’s Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique, criticizes the work of those who argue for the antiquity and inspiration of the Book of Abraham and makes a sustained argument that the book is, instead, modern pseudepigrapha written by a pious fraud (Joseph Smith) in the nineteenth century. Book of Abraham Apologetics lays out a particular naturalistic approach to this text that works best only when certain metaphysical and methodological assumptions are taken for granted. …

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How Focus Particles And Accents Affect Attachment, Kathryn A. Carlson, David Potter Jan 2021

How Focus Particles And Accents Affect Attachment, Kathryn A. Carlson, David Potter

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

This project shows that focus and information structure, as indicated by the focus particle “only” and pitch accents, influence syntactic attachment, in contrast to the well-known effects of prosodic boundaries on attachment. One written questionnaire, one completion study, and several auditory questionnaires show that the position of “only” strongly affects attachment preferences in ambiguous sentences, while contrastive pitch accents have smaller effects. The two types of focus marking do not interact but independently impact attachment. These results support a modified version of the Focus Attraction Hypothesis, with ambiguous material drawn to attach to the most important information in a sentence. …

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"Playing The Game": A Case Study Of Latinx Leaders In An Agricultural Youth Organization, Graciela Barajas Jan 2021

"Playing The Game": A Case Study Of Latinx Leaders In An Agricultural Youth Organization, Graciela Barajas

Theses and Dissertations--Community & Leadership Development

Latinx members of the FFA Organization are disproportionately underrepresented in leadership positions. When they do get elected to leadership offices, they oftentimes have to accept behaviors that erase their cultural identity. This study aims to find what aspects of their identity they feel they have to give up in order to be seen as a potential state or national FFA candidate. Findings include the participation of the state-officer game, joining cliques that fit the white mold, and overall, assimilation on an individual and group scale. Recommendations include systemic change for state and national FFA staff, agricultural education, and the agricultural …

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Toward A Supernatural Biblical Hermeneutic, Alberto I. Bonilla-Giovanetti Jan 2021

Toward A Supernatural Biblical Hermeneutic, Alberto I. Bonilla-Giovanetti

The Asbury Journal

Many people who live and learn in the west, including Christian laity and scholars, inadvertently accept a materialistic cosmology in which the material world is all that exists, with the exception of God. This perspective is contrary to how the majority of ancient and modern people view the world. This essay seeks to analyze how this materialistic worldview is seen in biblical studies, and then proposes that biblical scholars should presuppose a supernatural worldview as a key aspect of their hermeneutics.

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Digital Equity In The Time Of Covid: Student Use Of Technology For Equitable Outcomes, Joy Washington, Andrea Woodard, Jonathan D. Becker, Joan A. Rhodes, Andrew Harris, Oscar Keyes, David B. Naff Jan 2021

Digital Equity In The Time Of Covid: Student Use Of Technology For Equitable Outcomes, Joy Washington, Andrea Woodard, Jonathan D. Becker, Joan A. Rhodes, Andrew Harris, Oscar Keyes, David B. Naff

MERC Publications

This issue brief is the third and final in a series published by the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium (MERC) addressing digital equity in K-12 schools. It examines research regarding students’ use of and outcomes related to technology. Research finds that inequities exist in use and outcomes for students based on gender, language, ability, race, SES and other sociocultural factors. Based on these inequities, theoretical and practical recommendations are discussed.

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2021 Reports Of Ministries And Institutions, Crcna Jan 2021

2021 Reports Of Ministries And Institutions, Crcna

Agendas and Acts of Synod

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 Synod med via teleconference.

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Remembering Happy Birthday, Valerie Solanas! : An Experiment In Devisng New Theater From Text, Archives & Research, Emma Kervel Jan 2021

Remembering Happy Birthday, Valerie Solanas! : An Experiment In Devisng New Theater From Text, Archives & Research, Emma Kervel

Theses & ETDs

This thesis documents the creative process & performances of a devised theater experiment titled Happy Birthday, Valerie Solanas! Performed at New College of Florida in March of 2018, the piece took shape over the course of two months of research and table work, documented in the first chapter of this thesis, and two subsequent months of improvisational experimentation, development, and rehearsal by the creative ensemble. Through my documentation of our process, I trace our transition from an initial goal of devising politically charged performance material adapted from Euripides' The Bacchae through a period of background research and exploration of other …

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Prefrontal And Auditory Cortex Activity During Music Listening In Musicians Compared To Non-Musicians, Emily Schenck Jan 2021

Prefrontal And Auditory Cortex Activity During Music Listening In Musicians Compared To Non-Musicians, Emily Schenck

Theses & ETDs

In an attempt to replicate past research on the effect of musical experience on the brain, this study employs functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure cortical activity in musicians and non-musicians when actively and passively listening to music. I hypothesized that musicians would have higher activation in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPCF) and auditory cortex than non-musicians in the active listening, but not passive listening condition. This hypothesis was supported, with results showed that musicians showed an overall pattern of deactivation in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the auditory cortex. However, these results contradict many previously accepted findings in …

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A Laboratory Of Progressive Reform: Nationalism And Poverty Relief In Working-Class, Irish Catholic Griffintown, Montreal, Caroline Newberg Jan 2021

A Laboratory Of Progressive Reform: Nationalism And Poverty Relief In Working-Class, Irish Catholic Griffintown, Montreal, Caroline Newberg

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the Irish Catholic working-class ethnic enclave of Griffintown in Montreal, Quebec, during the height of the progressive movement in North America, 1890 through 1920. Using both original archival research and secondary sources to build upon history, anthropology, and urban studies, I argue that within Canada, poverty reform in Griffintown embodied the progressive focus on urban, industrial poverty, including the clash and collaboration between elite reformist goals and working-class survival tactics. I emphasize the different nationalisms motivating poverty relief: state-based nationalism for elite progressive reformers, and ethnicity-based nationalism for Irish Catholics in Griffintown. My first chapter contextualizes the …

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Otherwise Than Phenomenology: Emmanuel Levinas On Performative Language, Time, And Henri Bergson, Evan Thompson Jan 2021

Otherwise Than Phenomenology: Emmanuel Levinas On Performative Language, Time, And Henri Bergson, Evan Thompson

Theses & ETDs

Contemporary philosophical research has, following Gilles Deleuze, turned toward the work of Henri Bergson with the intent of challenging phenomenology and its lingering influence. While Bergsonism has been put to anti-phenomenological use since Deleuze’s 1988 study, Bergsonism, one figure stands out for his ambiguous situation vis-à-vis the opposition between Bergsonism and phenomenology. Eight years prior to the publication of Bergsonism, Emmanuel Levinas wrote, “[i]t is important to underline the importance of Bergsonism for the entire problematic of contemporary philosophy; it is… the priority of duration over permanence—there is access to novelty, an access independent of the ontology of the Same”. …

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Revisitng Spinoza’S Tractatus Theologico-Politicus In Light Of Gadamer, Sofia Umpierre Jan 2021

Revisitng Spinoza’S Tractatus Theologico-Politicus In Light Of Gadamer, Sofia Umpierre

Theses & ETDs

In this this thesis, I analyze Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise with an aim to explicating Spinoza’s hermeneutics. In my analysis of Spinoza’s Scriptural hermeneutics, I pay close attention to the features of the project which I think can be translated to literary texts in a meaningful way. My criterion for what can be translated to literary texts in a meaningful way is in large part based on Gadamer’s own criticism of Spinoza’s use of the “methodological ideal of the natural sciences”. I follow Gadamer on his point that this adoption of scientific methodology is clearly out of place in the case …

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Off To The Mother Country: Community Cultural Wealth And The Construction Of Empowered Motherhood By Windrush Jamaican Transnational Mothers, Arantxa Prince Jan 2021

Off To The Mother Country: Community Cultural Wealth And The Construction Of Empowered Motherhood By Windrush Jamaican Transnational Mothers, Arantxa Prince

Theses & ETDs

Following its massive losses in World War II, Great Britain passed the British Nationality Act of 1948 to fill the pressing need for labor. This act was instrumental to the progression of migration and reform laws because it claimed all citizens of Great Britain’s colonies as British subjects. With their newfound status, commonwealth citizens from all over began to migrate to Great Britain for labor opportunity and social mobility, including Jamaican transnational mothers. These unsung heroes of Great Britain’s rehabilitation migrated from Jamaica to Great Britain during the years of 1948 to 1971, and, as a result of their migration, …

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Emotional Regulation And Gender: An Exploration Of How Gender And Emotion Regulation Relate To Physiological And Psychological Responses To Emotionally Powerful Music, Jon-Douglas Werstler Jan 2021

Emotional Regulation And Gender: An Exploration Of How Gender And Emotion Regulation Relate To Physiological And Psychological Responses To Emotionally Powerful Music, Jon-Douglas Werstler

Theses & ETDs

Previous research has established that men and women differ in their physiological arousal and subjective response to emotional stimuli. The present study aimed to investigate why this difference occurs. Specifically, I explore how sex/gender and expressive suppression influence subjective-emotional response and physiological arousal when listening to music. This empirical study involved recruiting human subjects to a laboratory study in which self-reported emotional experiences and physiological measurements (heart rate and skin conductance responses) were assessed under either an expressive suppression or control condition. Importantly, whereas prior research has found effects on the basis of binary categorization of "sex", the present work …

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The Possibility For Self-Determination: Foucault’S Enlightenment Ethos And Care For The Self, Peter Visscher Jan 2021

The Possibility For Self-Determination: Foucault’S Enlightenment Ethos And Care For The Self, Peter Visscher

Theses & ETDs

In this thesis, I investigate the question of whether it is possible for the self to have a form of being free from the influence of historical limits. Following Michel Foucault’s genealogical and archaeological methodology, I argue that while such a form of being is impossible, we can still exercise free self-determination as a way to reject historical limits. I begin by establishing the problem of limits upon the self’s being, drawing from Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks to show the potential harms they can cause. I then posit a form of being prior to these historical determinations, which …

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La Conservation Coloniale Au Service De L’Exploitation : Changing Conceptions Of Land And Environmental Policy In French Algeria And Indochina, Joseph Daniels Jan 2021

La Conservation Coloniale Au Service De L’Exploitation : Changing Conceptions Of Land And Environmental Policy In French Algeria And Indochina, Joseph Daniels

Theses & ETDs

At its core, this thesis is an environmental history on Algeria and Indochina as French colonies. The period of study starts with pre-colonial, Old Regime Enlightenment texts on Algeria that were published in 1838, after colonization began, and follows a progression of colonization until the beginning of the twentieth century until just before the Great War. The main goal of the thesis is to analyze how and why certain environmental and land use policies were implemented in the colonies, and how these laws eventually supported the expropriation of land from the native populations to colonists. In the thesis, the pre-colonial …

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Pandemic Poetry: An Exploration Of Disability Poetics, Audience Feedback, And Digital Re-Performance In A Global Pandemic, Cole Schmidt Jan 2021

Pandemic Poetry: An Exploration Of Disability Poetics, Audience Feedback, And Digital Re-Performance In A Global Pandemic, Cole Schmidt

Theses & ETDs

This thesis project is a creative one, seeking to employ theory through practice, for my own betterment as a scholar and artist. I sought to explore the ways in which audience feedback and re-performance affect my own engagement with my work in disability poetics and spoken word performance. Due to the necessity of a global pandemic, this thesis also explores this through the lens of digital performance. I utilize theory from three main disciplines of study -Music, Poetry, and Performance- to begin to answer my research questions. These questions include: how is effective performance produced and received, what techniques and …

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Chinese Jade: Making The Past Serve The Present, Karl Hahn Jan 2021

Chinese Jade: Making The Past Serve The Present, Karl Hahn

Theses & ETDs

Jade is a semi-precious mineral that has played a significant role in Chinese societies since antiquity. As a material culture, jade has a life beyond the context that it was created in and is capable of evoking images of the past. This paper explores jade culture’s significance to Chinese culture at different points in time and its use in state and political legitimization. Jade culture has been recycled throughout Chinese history to reflect societal shifts and to meet the particular needs of a given society. This paper starts by looking at jade culture during Chinese antiquity, and then during the …

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Preparation For Teaching Students With Emotional Disabilities: A Comparison Of Perceptions Of Teachers With A Mild Intervention License And Teachers With An Emotional Disabilities License, Patricia Dawn Eaton Jan 2021

Preparation For Teaching Students With Emotional Disabilities: A Comparison Of Perceptions Of Teachers With A Mild Intervention License And Teachers With An Emotional Disabilities License, Patricia Dawn Eaton

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The purpose of this qualitative study was to compare perceptions of preparedness to teach students with emotional disabilities (ED) between teachers with a mild intervention license and teachers with an ED license. The study examined the perceptions of five teachers with a mild intervention license and five teachers with an ED license as derived through one on one personal interviews. A qualitative transcendental phenomenology methodology was chosen for the study to capture the lived experiences of the participants through the authentic interview process. Major findings were that teachers with a mild intervention license did not perceive themselves to be prepared …

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Mobilization Of Women In Africa: The 2019 Sudanese Uprising, Mahder Habtemariam Serekberhan Jan 2021

Mobilization Of Women In Africa: The 2019 Sudanese Uprising, Mahder Habtemariam Serekberhan

African American Studies - All Scholarship

In 2019 we witnessed the possibilities of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-racial, multi-cultural, and multi-gendered democracy and a bottom-up democratization process led by women. Sudanese youth and women led and participated in mobilization and demonstration that not only reflected the mass character of the social formation, but also managed to subvert the Islamist military dependent capitalist state (and its apparatus). Over the span of 30 years, the regime, under Omar al-Bashir, managed to entrench and escalate structures and systems of exploitation and oppression necessary for capital accumulation. The intensified neoliberalization and militarization, at the expense of women’s super-exploitation, was made possible …

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Table Of Contents, Vol. 16, Issue 1, 2021 Jan 2021

Table Of Contents, Vol. 16, Issue 1, 2021

Undergraduate Review

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Undergraduate Review, Vol. 16, Issue 1, 2021 Jan 2021

Undergraduate Review, Vol. 16, Issue 1, 2021

Undergraduate Review

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