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How Archaeology Affects The Study Of Texts: Reflections On The Category ''Rewritten Bible" At Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

In recent years, as scholars have begun the long overdue reinvestigation of the archaeology of Khirbet Qumran, the complaint has often been heard that the existence of the texts from the eleven caves surrounding the site of Qumran has affected the archaeological interpretation of the ruins. Would Roland de Vaux, the excavator of Qumran, have identified the ruins as a communal settlement of a particular group of Jews, the Essenes, if he had not been aware of the contents of the scrolls, especially documents such as the Rule of the Community? The question is rhetorical; the answer, of course, is …

The Landscape In Transition, Tim Klunder

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

This thesis exhibition consists of a series of urban landscape paintings. These paintings attempt to explore the issues of transition and flux within the modern environment on the edge of Lincoln as the city expands into rural areas. The paintings were all executed in acrylic and comprise a broad range of sizes on both hardboard and wooden panels. The process by which they were conceived was an evolutionary one that began with the analysis of a specific site that is not far from my home and which I see on a daily basis. Initially, the most engaging aspect of this …

Ramón López Velarde 1888–1921, J. Agustín Pastén B.

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

Modern Mexican poetry begins with Ramón López Velarde. He is undoubtedly one of the most genuine poetic voices to inhabit that hard-to-classify period in Spanish American literature that stretches from Modernism to the vanguard poets. As a major representative of Spanish American postmodernismo (that is, the period that followed Modernismo), he is the first writer in Mexico to thematize the Mexican province in a new way. But he ought not be reduced to being the poet of the province. López Velarde was above all the creator of a new poetic language; this alone distinguishes him from González Martínez, for example. …

Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera 1859–1895, J. Agustín Pastén B.

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

Manual Gutiérrez Nájera, one of Mexico's best-known writers of the 19th century, has traditionally been considered one of four precursors of the Modernist period of Spanish American literature (1875–1925). It was customarily believed that the genesis of Modernismo lay in innovations in poetry, thus it was Nájera's poetic production that received the attention of the critics for a long time. In the past few years, however, after careful examination of the modernist writers' prose works, scholars have discovered not only that the first signs of Modernismo are to be found in prose, but that Nájera's major contribution to the modernist …

Enrique González Martínez 1871–1952, J. Agustín Pastén B.

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

Some have called González Martínez the last great modernist poet; others prefer to consider him the first of the postmodernists. In the end, both opinions are partially correct. He never completely abandoned certain key features of modernism. Similarly, by avoiding its superficial aspects and focusing instead on the hidden property of things, González Martínez paved the way for a type of poetic sensibility that for the first time in Latin American literature paid attention to local concerns. González Martínez’s poetic production was abundant, even though he led a very active life. He was a medical doctor, professor, and diplomat to …

Resistance To Rescue: The Indians Of Bahapki And Mrs. Annie E. K. Bidwell, Margaret D. Jacobs

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Annie Bidwell, whose story is told here, was an exemplar of the nineteenth-century Euro-American female humanitarian reform impulse. She worked diligently to introduce Christianity and domesticity to the Maidu and Bahapki Indians who lived and worked for her husband at Rancho Chico, paying special attention to the women and children. Bidwell had no doubt that her insistence on acculturation was in their best interests. But from the perspective of the Indians, she was a destroyer. Insofar as they could, they resisted her efforts to change their religion, their child-rearing practices, and their family relationships. Margaret Jacobs successfully “reads through” Bidwell’s …

George Eliot Birthday Luncheon: The Toast To The Immortal Memory, Geoffrey Beevers

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

I'm sure you all know more about George Eliot than I do, so I thought I'd talk for a few minutes about the difficulties and joys of adapting her work, and especially Adarn Bede for the stage.

I'd been asked to adapt Adarn Bede for the Orange Tree theatre in Richmond, Surrey, then a tiny room-theatre above a pub. I didn't know much about George Eliot then. I didn't know that just around the corner from the pub theatre was the beautiful house in Park Shot where she had begun to write Adarn Bede and where the sound of George …

Se Condouloir Ou Consoler? Les Condoléances Dans Les Manuels Épistolaires De L'Ancien Régime, Thomas M. Carr Jr.

French Language and Literature Papers

Si la lettre de consolation suscite l'intérêt des chercheurs depuis un certain temps, l'expression épistolaire des condoléances est moins étudiée, bien que la lettre de condoléance ait peu à peu supplanté celle de consolation. Le propos de cette enquête sera d'examiner l'interpénétration des deux genres et les tensions qui en résultent, en privilégiant les condoléances, le moins étudié des deux genres. Au fond, ces genres représentent deux façons différentes d'approcher le deuil. Se condauloir, c'est 'participer à la douleur de quelqu'un, témoigner qu'on prend part à son déplaisir'. Consoler, c'est 'soulager, adoucir, diminuer l'affliction, la douleur d'une personne' (Dictionnaire …

Review Of The Twisted Muse: Musicians And Their Music In The Third Reich, By Michael Kater., Alan E. Steinweis

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Ths is a serious book about "serious" music. Michael Kater's Twisted Muse is the author's second major contribution in five years to the study of music under National Socialism. In hs previous volume, Different Drummers (Oxford, 1992), Kater provided a detailed and nuanced examination of jazz under the Nazis. In his new book, Kater turns his attention to the world of serious (ernste) music, a category encompassing not only classical compositions and performances, but also a good deal of the contemporary music of the 1930s and 1940s.This book bears many of the hallmarks of Kater's earlier work on …

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 9:3 – Fall 1997, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

A Brief History of the Textile Collections at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Letter from the President
Letter from the Editor
Textile Museum Introduces a Learning Center
Lineups Change at Several Museums
Conference Reviews
Kalamazoo Medieval Congress has Four Textile Sessions
Announcements
Symposia/Seminars/Workshops
Exhibitions

The "Domestic Air" Of Wilderness: Henry Thoreau And Joe Polis In The Maine Woods, Thomas Lynch

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Thoreau's "Allegash and the East Branch," from the Maine Woods collection, provides a particularly useful excursion on which to examine his wilderness ideology. It is one of the final works in the Thoreau corpus and hence suggests his mature vision. On ths trip he spent significant time in intimate contact with what he considered to be wild nature; and he did so in the company of Joe Polis, a sophisticated Penobscot Indian who was literate in white culture as well as an expert in his own culture's ways of being at home in nature. Polis lived on Indian Island in …

Blanket Statements, Issue 50, Fall 1997

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 50, Fall 1997

Review Of The Scepter And The Star: The Messiahs Of The Dead Sea Scrolls And Other Ancient Literature, Ed. John J. Collins, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The popularity of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the controversy surrounding their publication have led to the appearance of a spate of books on the Qumran scrolls in recent years. With so many books on the shelves, it is difficult for the reader to differentiate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff. Among the books recently published concerning the scrolls, John Collins's book The Scepter and the Star represents a nugget of pure gold.

School At The Center: Mending Breaks In The Broken Heartland, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Some years ago I was teaching a course called "The Literature of Agriculture," accounts of how farmers and rural people made a living over time. Hesiod, Virgil, Chaucer's rural tales, George Eliot, Great Plains modem farm novels, and Wendell Berry's writings about the unsettling of America were the fare. One of my students remarked in passing, "Don't know if I can read this stuff. I only went to a small high schooL" He knew nothing of the literature about smallness and quality in education and had no pride of community. Later I asked the rural class if they planned to …

Blanket Statements, Issue 49, Summer 1997

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 49, Summer 1997

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 9:2 – Summer 1997, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

Bibliography: 1996
Letter from the President
Letter from the Editor
Announcements
Symposia/Seminars/Workshops
Board of Directors

Wreath-Laying In Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, Carol A. Martin

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The nineteenth century was an age of travellers, including many famous British women travellers. Lady Hester Stanhope lived for years in the Middle East, Mary Kingsley explored the jungles of Gabon and died while performing medical work in South Africa, Isabella Bird Bishop journeyed around the globe and wrote books on Malaysia, China, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, the Sinai Peninsula, and the valleys and peaks above 10,000 feet in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

George Eliot was also a woman interested in travel, though in ways different from those of the women I have just named. Several of the earliest …

Wreath-Laying In The George Eliot Memorial Garden Nuneaton, Ruth Harris

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

I am deeply grateful for the honour of being invited to lay a wreath in memory of George Eliot, and to lay it in a place that meant so much to her.... Nuneaton. Before the heavens opened, I pictured us all gathered outside surrounded by green grass, trees and flowers, and able to imagine the spirit of George Eliot not in her study surrounded by books but out-of-doors, enjoying the fresh air. Some imagination is needed to visualize a little girl gathering flowers in the sunshine, or running towards a Round Pool after her older brother, or leaping with delight …

Review Of Michael Berkowitz, Zionist Culture And West European Jewry Before The First World War, Alan E. Steinweis

Department of History: Faculty Publications

In this elegantly written and nicely designed book, Michael Berkowitz offers the reader a fascinating discussion of Zionism as a cultural phenomenon among the assimilated Jews of western and central Europe in the two decades preceding World War I. Berkowitz is particularly interested in how the Zionist movement employed political symbols, myths, and icons in an effort to spawn a new Jewish national consciousness to which assimilated bourgeois Jews in France, Britain, and Germany could safely subscribe without compromising their allegiance to the country of their citizenship. In contrast to the masses of Russian-Polish and Rumanian Jews, for whom migration …

Tapping Into The Campus Power Structure: The Duty Of Black Student Leaders In Predominantly White Universities, Andrew C. Davidson

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 2nd Annual Conference (1997)

As young student leaders, the knowledge gained through experience, discipline, reading, and a clear vision can be helpful in developing strategies to produce a more positive campus climate.

Mentoring Programs For African American College Students In Predominantly White Institutions: Relationships To Academic Success, Marybeth Gasman

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 2nd Annual Conference (1997)

“When adapted to historically underrepresented groups in the college setting, mentoring is thought to transmit skills, values, and attitudes, as well as to provide a positive link to the institution.”

Derrick A. Bell, Derrick A. Bell

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 2nd Annual Conference (1997)

No abstract provided.

Teaching Conscientizacao: Helping Social Work Students Raise Their Awareness Levels Of Cultural Diversity, Theresa Barron-Mckeagney, Claudette Lee

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 2nd Annual Conference (1997)

“Teaching students how to raise their awareness levels and their consciousness can be both a frustrating and exhilarating challenge for the professor.”

Exploring Campus Climate: Investigating Student Perceptions At Two Community Colleges—Panel Presentation, Marcia London Albert, Sandra B. Moore

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 2nd Annual Conference (1997)

This presentation focuses on student life and comfort, perceptions of faculty commitment to diversity, perceptions of campus climate, observation of racism on campus, experiences of racism on campus, and other related issues.

Action: A Common-Sense Approach To Improving Your Campus Climate, Steve Birdine

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 2nd Annual Conference (1997)

This is an interactive session. Participants will leave with an action plan for improving their campus environment.

Re-Orientation: An Important Concept, Particularly For Minorities, Tajuddin Millatmal

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 2nd Annual Conference (1997)

“Most employees need help in many areas of their work in order to clearly understand the rights and responsibilities which help them to become more efficient and productive.”

Minority Teacher Preparation In An Ex-Urban Setting: A Case Study Of The Lakeland College Urban Teacher Outreach Program, Perry R. Rettig

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 2nd Annual Conference (1997)

“The issues of race, gender, and authority in the classroom are not simply theoretical issues, but serious challenges that female teachers of color face each time they step into a classroom.”

Why Black Psychology In The Introductory Psychology Course?, Linda Rhone

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 2nd Annual Conference (1997)

“An important factor is the need for more psychologists over the next decade, particularly psychologists of color, who can bring perspectives other than Eurocentric.”

Enhancing The Capacity Of The University Of Nebraska Medical Center To Effectively Integrate With The Realities Of 21st Century America, John Mcclain, Aletha J. Gray, Gina Wilson-Ramirez

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 2nd Annual Conference (1997)

“Beyond a commitment from senior-level policy makers, specific problematic activity must be undertaken. This session will describe a range of initiatives.”

I Can See Clearly Now, Kenneth A. Tucker

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 2nd Annual Conference (1997)

This session presents new and diverse perspectives on student leadership. Leadership is not a set of personal attributes.