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Is There A Secular Answer To Euthanasia, American Style?, Paul Conner, O.P.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Diversity, Or Unified Pluralism, Philip A. Smith, O.P.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century In His Life: By D. M. Thomas. New York: St Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. Xxxii, 583. $29.95, Brian Barbour

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

Contributors, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

Jesuit And Jansenist In Moliere And Racine, Rodney Delasanta

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

Lady Wisdom And Dame Folly At Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The female figures of Lady Wisdom and Dame Folly, found in the postexilic Wisdom literature, have always attracted much debate and speculation. The questions of who they are and what they stand for, particularly in the case of Lady Wisdom, have been hotly debated. Is she merely a literary creation, driven by the fact that the nouns for wisdom in Hebrew and Greek, חכמה and σοφία, are feminine in gender? Or is she an actual divine figure, a female hypostasis of Yahweh, the god of Israel, indicating a female divine presence in Israelite religion? These debates have yet to be …

Trends. Mexican Politics And Hamlet: The Propaganda Of Subcommandante Marcos And The Zapatistas, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses Shakespearean themes in relationship to contemporary Mexican politics.

The Regulation Of Hebrew Printing In Germany, 1555-1630: Confessional Politics And The Limits Of Jewish Toleration, Stephen G. Burnett

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

In the contentious religious and political climate of the German empire between 1555 and 1630, rulers of Lutheran, Reformed, and Catholic cities and territories all agreed that "Jewish blasphemies" were intolerable in a Christian state, yet Jewish printing came to be both legally and politically feasible during these years. This essay examines the German imperial laws that governed the book trade, the religious and political factors that rulers were obliged to weigh when considering whether to allow Jewish printing in their domains, and the policies and safeguards that they could adopt to attenuate these potential risks. In the end, Jewish …

Review Of The Harlot By The Side Of The Road: Forbidden Tales Of The Bible, By Jonathan Kirsch, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Many modern readers think of the Bible as a "dry and preachy" book, not having much sympathy for the all-too-human passions of sex, violence and greed. In this book, Jonathan Kirsch, author, book columnist for the Los Angeles Times and practicing lawyer, attempts to change that impression, to reveal the Bible's fullness in recounting human complexity. In the process, Kirsch hopes "to take back the Bible from the strict and censorious people who wave it in our faces and to restore it to the worldly man or woman who will appreciate the flesh-and-blood passions that are described in the Holy …

[Review Of] Nachman Ben-Yehuda, The Masada Myth: Collective Memory And Mythmaking In Israel, Madison: University Of Wisconsin Press, 1995, Xxi + 401 Pp., Jonathan Roth

Faculty Publications, History

No abstract provided.

Aristotle On Akratic Action: How Rational Is It?, Patrick Mooney

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

My answer to the question asked in the paper’s title is: akratic action-acting contrary to what one believes or knows is the best course of action open to one, or “weakness of will”—is not rational at all, according to Aristotle (here restricting myself to his discussion of akrasia in the Nicomachean Ethics, VII. 1-3). In saying that it is ‘not rational at all,’ I have in mind that there is no “intellectual,” or “cognitive,” faculty at work which so much as helps to bring about the akratic act-there is, in other words, no way in which the akrates “figures out” …

Effect Of Item Clarity And Probability Of Item Endorsement On Response Latencies On Personality Test Items, James R. Kinney

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this study, regression analysis was used to examine the affects of item clarity and probability of endorsement on response latencies of 60 undergraduates responding on personality test items from the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 Personality Factor test) (Cattell, Eber, & Tatsuoka, 1970, 5th Edition). Response latencies to personality test items, though frequently studied, have yet to be operationally utilized in the interpretation of personality tests. Forty-four items from the 16 Personality Factor test were selected. Each item from the original test was rated for clarity and matched with an emotionally neutral statement with an equivalent number of words. …

A Response To Elizabeth Owen’S “4qdeutn: A Pre-Samaritan Text?”, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

I would like to thank the editors of Dead Sea Discoveries for giving me the opportunity to respond to Elizabeth Owen’s article (vol. 4:2, July 1997), which makes extensive use of my previous work on 4QDeutn. While I find myself in broad agreement with her conclusions (see below), I feel that her article, with its heavy reliance on my unpublished doctoral dissertation, gives a misleading impression of my scholarship on 4QDeutn, and I would like to take this opportunity to set the record straight.

Review Of The Hidden Scrolls: Christianity, Judaism And The War For The Dead Sea Scrolls, By Neil Asher Silberman, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The Hidden Scrolls: Christianity, Judaism, and the War for the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Neil Asher Silberman. New York: Riverhead Books, 1994; London: Heinemann, 1995. Pp. xiv + 306. ISBN 0-434-70288-9.

Neil Asher Silberman, a popular writer and journalist who specializes in the area of archaeology and history of the Ancient Mediterranean, has written a fine book for the general public on the Dead Sea Scrolls in the tradition of Edmund Wilson’s The Scrolls from the Dead Sea. Silberman has a knack for taking what would in other hands be dry, esoteric subjects and rendering them into a popular …

Sagp Newsletter 1998-99.5 April, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the SAGP panel with the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association in New Orleans, May 7, 1999.

Collapsing The Philosophy/Rhetoric Disjunct: Nietzsche, Plato And The Perspectival Turn, Ned Vankevich

Institute for the Humanities Theses

Often overlooked within the standard views of academe lie hidden a number of tacit assumptions. Until the time of Nietzsche, the status of rhetoric as a discourse formation in Western intellectual history was often colored by the unflattering view generated by Plato in a number of his dialogues. In this thesis I present a case that revisits Plato and Nietzsche with an eye toward understanding the reasons why these two highly influential figures in contemporary philosophy adopt the views they advocate. In doing so, I attempt to illumine the reason Plato forms a fundamental split between philosophy and rhetoric and …

The Receptivity Of Νοῦς In De Anima Iii.4, Joseph M. Magee

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

• For Aristotle, the faculty of thought is legitimately characterized as being receptive of its objects. To construe Aristotle as holding that it is not renders a significant part of DA 3.4 to be of highly questionable internal coherence, since it makes it seem that he is claiming that something foreign might intrude into a power that has no organ and render that power inoperable. Moreover, failure to acknowledge the intellect's receptivity renders what is clearly supposed to be an explanation (mind is unmixed because it 7 knows all things) otiose and virtually unrelated to the logic of his argument. Finally, …

Heroism, Suffering, And Change, Erwin F. Cook

Classical Studies Faculty Research

Today I will address the issue of identity in the Odyssey. To do so I need to make a few general observations about the structure and content of the poem. It is immediately apparent that the Odyssey is organized by three narrative sequences: the story of Telemachus in Books 1-4, including his journey to Pylus and Sparta, the journey of Odysseus from Ogygia to Scheria in Books 5-12, and the return of Odysseus and his revenge on the suitors in Books 13-24. It is well recognized that Books 1-4 recount Telemachus’ coming of age, and that his journey plays a …

Hadashot Arkheologiyot 108 / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות קח, Israel Antiquities Authority

חדשות ארכיאולוגיות (סדרה עברית) Hadashot Arkheologiyot (Hebrew Series)

ל דן , 1996, 25/96-G, אברהם בירן [1] תל תורמוס, 2461-A, הווארד סמיטליין, קרן קובלו-פארן ועפר מרדר [4] תל חצור , 1997, 77/97-G, אמנון בן-תור [6] עינות עינן , 1996, 81/96-G, חמודי חלאילה ופרנסואה ר' ואלא [7] צפת , 2488-A, עמנואל דמתי [9] נחל יחיעם, 2335-A *, הנא אבו-עוקסאה [9] חורבת עבש, 2058-A, דינה אבשלום-גורני [11] אכזיב, בית הקברות המזרחי, 2267-A *, הנא אבו-עוקסה [12] נהריה, 2219-A *, מישל יתאח [15] מחסה סלע מגד , 1995-1996, 98/95-G-69/96 ,G, סטיבן קון ואנה בלפר-כהן [16] עכו העתיקה, חניון האבירים, 2244-A, …

Handbook Of Classical Rhetoric In The Hellenistic Period, 330 B.C.- A.D. 400 (Review), John T. Kirby

Classics Articles and Papers

An abstract for this item is not available.

Handbook Of Literary Rhetoric: A Foundation For Literary Study (Review), John T. Kirby

Classics Articles and Papers

An abstract for this item is not available.

Review Of Aux Sources De L'Antiquité Classique Gréco-Romaine: Guide-Bibliographique5, Ed. J. Poucet And J.-M. Hannick, Fred W. Jenkins

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

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1998 The Spoils Of Alaric And Athaulf: Reflections On The Siege Of Roman, Ad 410, Christina H. Roseman

C. May Marston Lectures

A commentary on some key players involved in the "Siege of Rome," detailing the strange ways their lives were interwoven. Included are Theodosius, Stilicho, Arcadius, Honorius, Galla Placidia, Alaric, Athaulf, and Constantius.

O Caramuru Y Caramurú: Sus Relaciones En La Formación De Un Protoimaginario Nacional Uruguayo, Maria Cristina Burgueno

Modern Languages Faculty Research

This article examines the inter-textual relations between the novel Caramurú (1848?) by the Uruguayan writer Alejandro Magariños Cervantes, and the epic poem O Caramuru (1781) by the Portuguese Friar Jose de Santa Rita Durão. The thesis of the article is that these literary works reflect the deep cultural and political connections between Uruguay and Brazil, and how these links were present at the time when –surrounded by uncertainties about the viability of the new state—the elaboration of a Uruguayan national identity started. The pro-Brazilian option –shown by the selection of Caramuru, who was a foundational character of the Brazilian History …

Review Of Eschatology, Messianism, And The Dead Sea Scrolls, Edited By Craig A. Evans And Peter W. Flint, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Eschatology, Messianism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls is the first volume of a new series, Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature, being published under the auspices of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in British Columbia. The volume is a collection of eight essays presented at the first public Symposium of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute on September 30, 1995; it also contains an introduction by the editors Evans and Flint, the transcript of a panel discussion and a select bibliography. The essays are aimed at a public, nonspecialist audience, and thus provide …

Ashqelon, Afridar Neighborhood, Ha-Shiryonaim Street, A-2933/1998, Ya’Akov Huster

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In October 1998, a salvage excavation was carried out on Ha-Shiryonaim Street in Ashqelon, Afridar neighborhood (Permit No. A-2933/1998; map ref. 15848/62100), under the direction of Y. Huster.

The Rewritten Bible At Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Since the discovery of the scrolls from the Qumran caves in the late 1940s and early-to-mid 50s, the process of sorting, identifying, and editing the fragmentary manuscripts has occupied the attention of scholars. Now, as that period in the history of scrolls scholarship draws to a close, more and more attention has turned to the contents of the texts from the eleven caves in the vicinity of Khirbet Qumran as a collection. Several things may be said about this collection. First, the majority of the texts are written in Hebrew, thus pointing to Hebrew as a living language (at least …

William Ockham And Trope Nominalism, Stephen E. Lahey

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Can we take a medieval metaphysician out of his scholastic robes and force him into a metaphysical apparatus as seemingly foreign to him as a tuxedo might be? I believe that the terminological and conceptual differences that appear to prevent this can be overcome in many cases, and that one case most amenable to this project is the medieval problem of universals. After all, the problem for the medieval is, at base, the same as it is for contemporary philosophers, as for Plato: How do we account, ontologically, for many tokens of the same type? If one object has the …

Excavations And Surveys In Israel 17, Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations and Surveys in Israel (English Series)

Contents: Bet She’an, Antiquities Authority Expedition, G-30/92, G-5/93, G-12/94, Gaby Maor and Rachel Bar-Nathan [7], Caesarea , March 1992-June 1994, Yosef Porath, Avner Raban and Joseph Patrich [37], Caesarea, Expedition of the Antiquities Authority, G-38/92, G-6/93, Yosef Porath [37], Caesarea, Combined Caesarea Excavations (A), G-47/92, G-48/92, G-43/93, G-50/93, G-8/94, G-10/94, Joseph Patrich [47], Caesarea, Combined Caesarea Excavations (B), G-43/93, G-10/94, Avner Raban [54], Caesarea, Survey of Crusader Structures, G-123/92, Adrian Boas [72], Ramat Bet Shemesh, Paleoecological Survey, G-20/95, Liora Horwitz, Hagit Levy and Ehud Shani [79], Ramat …

Excavations And Surveys In Israel 18, Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations and Surveys in Israel (English Series)

Banias, 1995, G-80/95, Vassilios Tzaferis and Shoshana Israeli [1] Banias, Temple of Pan - 1995, G-110/95 [1] Tel Dan, 1995, G-52/95, Avraham Biran [5] Survey of the Map of Metulla, Prehistoric Site, G-106/90, G-6/91, G-13/93, Idan Shaked and Ofer Marder [7] Central Gloan Heights, Survey, G-107/93, G-14/95, G-19/95, Igal Ben-Efraim [8] Southern Golan Height, Survey – 1993-1994, G-108/93, G-112/94, Erez Kalmachter [10] Tel Nov, A-1988, Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah [12] Tel Hazor, 1995, G-44/95, Amnon Ben-Tor [13] Kefar Veradim, A-2160, Howard Smithline and Dina Shalem [15] …