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The Whole Scroll Story: Review Of The Meaning Of The Dead Sea Scrolls By James Vanderkam And Peter Flint, Sidnie White Crawford Jan 2002

The Whole Scroll Story: Review Of The Meaning Of The Dead Sea Scrolls By James Vanderkam And Peter Flint, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

James VanderKam and Peter Flint set out to write, in their own words, “a new, comprehensive, and up-to-date introduction” to the Dead Sea Scrolls. They have accomplished that goal admirably, especially when it comes to comprehensiveness. The volume touches on every area of scroll scholarship, and presents a synthetic account of the history of the Dead Sea Scrolls, their importance as a collection of ancient primary texts, and their impact on our understanding of Second Temple Judaism and the roots of Christianity.

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Summary Report For The 2002 Season, Mark Schuler Jan 2002

Summary Report For The 2002 Season, Mark Schuler

Excavation Reports

In 2002 a limited survey excavation attempted to ascertain the dimensions of the Northeast Church. The following discussion summarizes excavations in the apse (L504), the exterior to the southeast corner (L503), the exterior to the southwest corner (L505), the eastern end of the south aisle (L506) and a burial at the eastern end of the south aisle (L507, L508).

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Marks On Pots: Patterns Of Use In The Archaeological Record At Enkomi, Nicolle E. Hirschfeld Jan 2002

Marks On Pots: Patterns Of Use In The Archaeological Record At Enkomi, Nicolle E. Hirschfeld

Classical Studies Faculty Research

Marks scratched or painted on the Late Bronze Age (LBA) pottery of the eastern Mediterranean are often highly visible elements of the ceramic assemblage because of their bold rendering and prominent placement (fig. 1). Nevertheless, often they have been overlooked. In those instances where they have been noted, interest in them has been primarily epigraphical. Certainly some of the potmarks are connected somehow with contemporary writing systems. But all of them, signs of script or not, have some reason(s) for being painted or incised on certain vases. This paper begins the process of looking systematically for those reasons.

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Archilochus: First Poet After Homer, William Harris Jan 2002

Archilochus: First Poet After Homer, William Harris

Research Resources

Archilochus was known in ancient Greece, to everyone who knew anything about literature, as the first poet after Homer and Hesiod. To an educated Greek in the Fourth Century A.D. it would have seemed inexplicable to have to explain in a preface to the poems of Archilochus, who this famous poet was, when and where he lived and what kind of verse he wrote. Although no more precise about exact dates than we are, he would have placed Homer about four hundred years after the Trojan War, Hesiod somewhat later, and Archilochus in the time of Gyges, about or after …

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Machine Translation From The Perspective Of Relevance Theory : An Evaluative Study, Yvonne Hwee Hong Yeo Jan 2002

Machine Translation From The Perspective Of Relevance Theory : An Evaluative Study, Yvonne Hwee Hong Yeo

Student Works (2000-2009)

This study evaluates the efficacy of machine translation (MT) in domains where MT is not conventionally used, that is, in non-technical domains where the subject matters involve human, social and/or societal phenomena. The ultimate purpose of this endeavor is to assess the capacity of MT in dealing with the phenomenon of 'context' as well as utterance interpretation. The evaluation endeavor is twofold, consisting of evaluation of MT product and evaluation of MT process, with the latter being the main focus. Such evaluation is carried out through comparison between human translation corpora (HT product) and machine translation corpora (MT product). This …

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Aphrati And Kato Syme: Pottery, Continuity, And Cult In Late Archaic And Classical Crete, Brice L. Erickson Jan 2002

Aphrati And Kato Syme: Pottery, Continuity, And Cult In Late Archaic And Classical Crete, Brice L. Erickson

Dartmouth Scholarship

The analysis of ceramics from Aphrati sheds valuable new light on the history of this Cretan settlement and on its relationship with a nearby rural sanctuary at Kato Syme in the Late Archaic and Classical periods. It has long been held that Aphrati was deserted from ca. 600 to 400 B.C. A pottery deposit from the domestic quarter, however, now supports occupation of the city during this period. A ceramic classification system is presented and the morphological development and absolute chronology of several key shapes at Aphrati and Kato Syme are plotted. Historical implications of the ceramic evidence are also …

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Homer, Pietas, And The Cycle Of Duels In Aeneid 10 And 12, Randall Colaizzi Jan 2002

Homer, Pietas, And The Cycle Of Duels In Aeneid 10 And 12, Randall Colaizzi

Classics & Religious Studies Faculty Publication Series

Readers who encounter the Aeneid today often face an abridgement meant to fit the demands of a college literature survey: Troy, anderings, Dido, the Underworld-the exotic Odyssean Aeneid of the first six books. The poem's second half, if read at all, might offer only scenes from book 8 (etiology and shield), Nisus and Euryalus from book 9, sometimes Camilla in book 11, Turnus's death at the end of the poem. But since the first cut in such selections usually includes most of the warfare, Vergil's subtlety (and difficulty) can be misunderstood, especially if the poem's close is to be considered. …

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Review Of The Bible At Qumran: Text, Shape, And Interpretation, Edited By Peter W. Flint, Sidnie White Crawford Jan 2002

Review Of The Bible At Qumran: Text, Shape, And Interpretation, Edited By Peter W. Flint, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Review of The Bible at Qumran: Text, Shape, and Interpretation, edited by Peter W. Flint. Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2001. Pp. xv + 266. Price: $22.00. ISBN 0-8028-4630-0.

This volume is another contribution to the Eerdmans series Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. The essays are loosely gathered around the topic "The Bible at Qumran," and the editor has divided the articles into two groups. Part 1, "The Scriptures, the Canon, and the Scrolls," includes articles by J.A. Sanders, B.W. Waltke, E. Ulrich, C.A. Evans, and the …

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Review Of Timothy S. Laniak, Shame And Honor In The Book Of Esther, Sidnie White Crawford Jan 2002

Review Of Timothy S. Laniak, Shame And Honor In The Book Of Esther, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

This book, a study of the anthropological categories of “shame” and “honour” in the Book of Esther, represents an excellent new contribution to the field of Esther stud­ies. It is new because, as Laniak observes, the significance of the categories of “hon­our” and “shame” have diminished in the modern west (p. 1), and contemporary readers of the Book of Esther may be unaware of the operation of these categories on the plot and characters of the book. Laniak’s book, a basically unrevised form of his 1997 Harvard Divinity School dissertation, sheds important light on this ne­glected aspect of the Book …

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Esther Not Judith: Why One Made It And The Other Didn’T, Sidnie White Crawford Jan 2002

Esther Not Judith: Why One Made It And The Other Didn’T, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Brave, wise, and stunningly beautiful, Esther and Judith have much in common. Both Jewish heroines live under foreign domination. Both risk their lives to save their people from oppression. One of the few differences between the two women is that Judith is openly pious and Esther is not. Indeed, God is not even mentioned in the Hebrew version of the Book of Esther. So why was the story of Esther included in the Hebrew Bible while the Book of Judith was left out? Because Esther never threatened the status quo, but Judith was a dangerous woman who had the power …

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Gender, Class & Social Evolution In George Eliot's Middlemarch, Tim Mount Jan 2002

Gender, Class & Social Evolution In George Eliot's Middlemarch, Tim Mount

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Aristotle On Knowledge, Nous And The Problems Of Necessary Truth, Thomas Kiefer Dec 2001

Aristotle On Knowledge, Nous And The Problems Of Necessary Truth, Thomas Kiefer

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In this paper, I argue that nous for Aristotle concerns necessary truths. (1) Nous is the solution to the dilemma raised in Posterior Analytics I.3. (2) Knowledge and nous have necessary truths as their subject matter, and are identical to this subject matter. (3) This position creates two problems concerning (i) the innateness of knowledge and nous, and (ii) the mind-dependency of necessary truths. (4) The end of DA III.5 reveals an attempt to solve (i) and (ii): The necessary truths of knowledge and nous are for us innate in a certain way, appear to come to be and pass …

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Ḥadashot Arkheologiyot חדשות ארכיאולוגיות 113, Israel Antiquities Authority Dec 2001

Ḥadashot Arkheologiyot חדשות ארכיאולוגיות 113, Israel Antiquities Authority

Hadashot Arkheologiyot–Excavations and Surveys in Israel (Bilingual Series)

Tell el-Wawiyat – 1999, A-3045, Dina Avshalom-Gorni and Nimrod Getzov [1] Esh-Shuhra, A-2486, Mordechai Aviam and Aharoni Amitai [3] Har Pu‘a, G-104/97, G-60/98, G-32/99, G-101/00, Ran Barkai and Avi Gopher [4] Ha-Ela Cave, B-120/99, Erella Hovers, Yoel Rak and William Kimbel [5] El-Kabri, A-2668, Nimrod Getzov [6] Kabri, A-3056, Dina Shalem [7] Shavé Ziyyon, Mordechai Aviam [8] Er-Rama, A-2690*, Hana Abu ‘Uqsa [10] Kafr el-Makr, A-728*, Vassilios Tzaferis [12] Old ‘Akko, the Fortress, G-14/98, Eliezer Stern [13] Sakhnin, A-2459*, Michel Yitach [15] Horbat Susita, G-32/00, Arthur Segal …

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Sagp Newsletter 2002.2 (December), Anthony Preus Dec 2001

Sagp Newsletter 2002.2 (December), Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Sagp Newsletter 2001.2 (December), Anthony Preus Dec 2001

Sagp Newsletter 2001.2 (December), Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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The Influence Of Retention Intervals And Warning Signals On Prospective Memory, Michael Andrew Sarapata Dec 2001

The Influence Of Retention Intervals And Warning Signals On Prospective Memory, Michael Andrew Sarapata

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Prospective memory, memory for future events, is used for remembering duties and obligations that all people must complete. Past research has contributed to our understanding of the bases of prospective memory tasks (time versus event) and the kinds of situations requiring prospective memory (appointments, chores, deadlines, and medications). However, research has yet to examine how prospective remembering unfolds over time. For example, very little is known about how such remembering is affected by the time from when the task is encoded to the time that a task must be conducted (the retention interval), the length of the time in which …

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Hatshepsut: A Female King Of Egypt And Her Architecture, Roger Dunn Dec 2001

Hatshepsut: A Female King Of Egypt And Her Architecture, Roger Dunn

Bridgewater Review

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Ananke In Herodotus, Rosaria Vignolo Munson Nov 2001

Ananke In Herodotus, Rosaria Vignolo Munson

Classics Faculty Works

This paper examines Herodotus' use of words of the ananke family in order to determine which external of internal constraints the historian represents as affecting the causality of events. M. Ostwald's "Ananke in Thucydides" (1988) provides a foundation for examining the more restricted application of these terms in Herodotus (85 occurrences vs. 161 in Thucydides). In Herodotus, divine necessity (absent in Thucydides) refers to the predictable results of human wrongdoings more often than to a force constraining human choices. This represents an especially ambiguous Herodotean category, however, and is expressed by a wider range of terms than those with ananke-stems. …

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Literary Evidence For Roman Arithmetic With Fractions, David W. Maher, John F. Makowski Oct 2001

Literary Evidence For Roman Arithmetic With Fractions, David W. Maher, John F. Makowski

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Roman arithmetic is a perennially troubling subject for both classicists and mathematicians. Scholars universally comment on the difficulty posed by Roman alphabetical notation both in expressing simple figures and in doing written calculations. For example, Lloyd Motz and Jefferson Weaver with exasperation ask, "How ... can anyone do any arithmetic with DCCCLXXXVIII, the Roman equivalent of 888?," and Florian Cajori concludes that the Romans must have resorted to the abacus in order to multiply a number like 723 (DCCXXIII) by 364 (CCCLXIV).' Yet our sources, literary and inscriptional, indicate that the Romans were capable of highly sophisticated calculations, and, of …

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Sagp Ssips 2001 List Of Papers, Anthony Preus Oct 2001

Sagp Ssips 2001 List Of Papers, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

List of papers presented at the 2001 SAGP/SSIPS Conference

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Editorial: The Word, Gary Culpepper Sep 2001

Editorial: The Word, Gary Culpepper

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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The More In The Less: Notes On Shakespeare’S Sonnet 116, Tom D’Evelyn Sep 2001

The More In The Less: Notes On Shakespeare’S Sonnet 116, Tom D’Evelyn

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Divinely Revealed: The Qur’Ân And Non-Believers, Sandra Toenies Keating Sep 2001

Divinely Revealed: The Qur’Ân And Non-Believers, Sandra Toenies Keating

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Inheriting The Revolution: The First Generation Of Americans, William E. Hudson Sep 2001

Inheriting The Revolution: The First Generation Of Americans, William E. Hudson

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Crosses In Cellars: Toward A Comparative Literature Of The Faithful, John R. Harris Sep 2001

Crosses In Cellars: Toward A Comparative Literature Of The Faithful, John R. Harris

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Providence: Studies In Western Civilization Fall/Winter 2001, Providence College Sep 2001

Providence: Studies In Western Civilization Fall/Winter 2001, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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From Latin To Romance Languages: Celtic Contributions, Paul R. Lonigan Sep 2001

From Latin To Romance Languages: Celtic Contributions, Paul R. Lonigan

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Blessed Words: Duality Of Language In Edwin O’Connor’S The Edge Of Sadness, James Silas Rogers Sep 2001

Blessed Words: Duality Of Language In Edwin O’Connor’S The Edge Of Sadness, James Silas Rogers

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Aquinas And Obedience To Authority, Sandra Jane Fairbanks Sep 2001

Aquinas And Obedience To Authority, Sandra Jane Fairbanks

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

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Bartolomé De Las Casas, The New Evangelization, And The Hispanicization Of The North American Church, Christopher J. Walsh Sep 2001

Bartolomé De Las Casas, The New Evangelization, And The Hispanicization Of The North American Church, Christopher J. Walsh

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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