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“A Reader’s Hebrew and Greek Bible, 2nd ed.” edited by A. Philip Brown II, Bryan W. Smith, Richard J. Goodrich and Albert L. Lukaszewski
No full textReview of A. Philip Brown II and Bryan W. Smith (Hebrew and Aramaic OT), and Richard J. Goodrich and Albert L. Lukaszewski (Greek NT), eds., A Reader’s Hebrew and Greek Bible, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2020), pp. xxviii + 1652 (OT) + 585 (NT), ISBN 978-0310109938. £70.0
Legal Rigidity and Digital Fluidity: Relationships between the State and the Internet
Get PDFThis paper shall focus on the transformative nature of technology, namely in facilitating criminal and terrorist activity and the unique challenges to regulation. The Internet requires a re-examination of static concepts of territorial boundaries and legal jurisdictions which contribute to uncertainty in regulation. 
Time-famine, resource obsession and the good life in a pandemic
Get PDFIn the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper explores the argument that human action cannot be understood apart from embodied imaginations of what is good and of what it means to be living a good life. Drawing particularly on the thought of the sociologist Hartmut Rosa, it explores how COVID-19 relates to the concept of ‘time-famine’, and how this thrusts many of us into a crisis of the good life. From this exploration the paper offers some open and preliminary thoughts about what impact this crisis of time and the good life has on local congregations.This paper is adapted from chapter 12 of The Congregation in the Secular Age: Keeping Sacred Time Against the Speed of Modern Life by Andrew Root © 2021 Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/ and is used by kind permission of the publisher
Is Innovation a sound justification for Medical Patents?
Get PDFThis essay will interrogate the legality of medical patents, arguing that one ought to reject the traditional utilitarian framework often used to justify IP law. Instead, this essay will turn to a more deontological justification for IP rights in UK law
Christian consolation and theology’s task today
Get PDFFramed by Isaiah 41, this article proposes a theology of consolation which does not seek to dismiss or minimize the reality of suffering. Instead, the centrality of the cross in Christian theology dignifies human experiences of suffering, frailty and even mortality, such as those that face us in a time of COVID-19. And yet, because the crucifixion births resurrection, Christian consolation can offer more than dignity and understanding, it also offers real hope and meaning in and through suffering
Singing and dancing in the cruellest month: A reflection on theology and poetry in a time of COVID
Get PDFThis article explores what contribution poetry and the arts can make to the human experience in a time of pandemic. It argues that artistic productions can ‘enlarge the heart’ such that sorrow and anxiety are not removed or defeated but are, as in the biblical text, ‘woven […] into a larger imaginative story.’ This argument is made through close examination of three poems: T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”, written in 1922 during the Spanish flu epidemic; “Quarantine” by Eavan Boland, set during the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s; and Malcolm Guite’s “Easter 2020”
Examining Concepts of Reflexivity and Positionality in Native and Indigenous Research Methods
Get PDFThe progression of anthropology as a discipline has long been recorded as having a mutually reinforcing relationship with colonial discourses of power (see particularly Lewis 1973, Pels 1997). This has created a multitude of power dynamics which infiltrate research methods on both micro and macro levels. Thus, reflexivity and positionality have emerged as two crucial elements of the ethnographic process in order to allow for a critical examination of these power dynamics
The Social Life in a 19th Century Engraved Drawing of St Salvator’s Chapel in St Andrews: an Object Biography
Get PDFDuring the summer vacation of 2020, I bought a 19th-century engraved drawing from an online used-bookstore in Beijing depicting St Salvator’s Chapel in St Andrews. After researching the artist, I found it was originally a book page detached from The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland written and illustrated by Robert. W. Billings (1845). As a Chinese student studying at the University of St Andrews, I was very excited to have it in my collection, for it has traveled from the UK to China and resembles my own experience of being an international member of the community
Basic Income: The Left Libertarian Case for a Tax on Attention
Get PDFTaking a left libertarian account of distributive justice, Steiner argues for a basic income funded by a tax on land. In this essay, I argue along similar lines for a basic income funded by a tax on the involuntary drawing of attention. I first argue that the involuntary drawing of a person’s attention denies them their liberty to direct their attention. I then show that attention is a production factor in some modern work, taking the paradigm case of advertising. With these premises, I conclude that when attention is a production factor, part of the product is owed to those whose attention was drawn --- and extend this to argue for a universal basic income, funded by work which takes involuntary attention as a production factor, and is situated in public spaces
The Emergence of the Political Voice of Syria\u27s Civil Society from within the Non-Violent Movements of the Syrian Uprising
No full textThere is a tendency in the mainstream media to frame the situation in Syria as a one dimensional conflict. Assaad al-Achi points out how “war is much more sensational than a nonviolent movement, (…), that is what sells” and as such that is what is overwhelmingly depicted. As a result, with the absence of pivotal elements of the struggle on the ground, the complexity of the situation is obscured. In many ways, this dominant narrative leads us to what Yassin Al Haj Saleh highlights as an ‘unknowing’ of Syria and its people by “the West and the world at large” which makes “the population invisible, indeed non-existent.” Everything that is Syrian, in essence, is absent. Its inner dimensions, its people, are passed over in silence. For Al Haj Saleh, the conditions of life, education, health, culture, art, structures of rule, distribution of wealth, stories of men and women, their lives, faces and names. And issues of justice, freedom, human dignity, and the rule of law also remain outside of this narrative. (...) A change of approach is necessary in order for us to become visible, for us to exist