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Book Review: The Zohar: Pritzker Edition: Volume 10
No full textThe author reviews the book The Zohar: Pritzker Edition: Volume 10
Book Review: The Zohar: Pritzker Edition: Volume 11
No full textThe author reviews the book The Zohar: Pritzker Edition: Volume 11
The foreigner, the Beja and the leopard
No full textTale-telling. Session organised in the language assistant's house. Some members of his family were present.A foreigner promisses a Beja to give him his car and his belongings if he manages to kill a leopard within a limited area. The Beja kills it but fails to meet the conditions
The foreigner, the Beja and the leopard
No full textTale-telling. Session organised in the language assistant's house. Some members of his family were present.A foreigner promisses a Beja to give him his car and his belongings if he manages to kill a leopard within a limited area. The Beja kills it but fails to meet the conditions.Recording conditions: Edirol 09 Digital recorder ; Sony MS907 microphon
Entrevista com Zohar Shavit
No full textZohar Shavit is a full professor in the School for Cultural Studies in Tel Aviv University, Israel. In 1978 she concluded her Ph.D under the supervision of Itamar Even-Zohar, with a dissertation on modernism in Hebrew poetry of the 1920s. Departing from the fundaments of Polysystems theory, the author has been presenting, since the 1980s, innovative reflexions in the field of children’s literature (CL), many of which regarding translation and international traffic of CL. Besides her best-known work, Poetics of Children's Literature (1986), Shavit has written an important group of academic articles and book chapters in which she deals with ambivalence in CL, with the need to formulate a poetics for its study, with the role of translations in the formation of Hebrew CL, with the phenomenon of cultural interference, with the canon.Zohar Shavit é professora do departamento de Estudos Culturais da Universidade de Tel Aviv, Israel. Seu doutorado, defendido em 1978 sob a orientação de Itamar Even-Zohar, teve como tema o modernismo na poesia hebraica da década de 1920. Partindo dos fundamentos da escola de Tel Aviv referentes à teoria dos Polissistemas, a autora tem apresentado, desde a década de 1980, reflexões pioneiras no campo da literatura infantil, muitas das quais concernentes à sua tradução e circulação internacional. Além de sua obra mais conhecida, Poetics of Children's Literature (1986), a autora legou um importante conjunto de artigos acadêmicos e capítulos de livros nos quais trata do caráter ambivalente da literatura infantil, da necessidade de se formular uma poética para seu estudo, da formação da literatura infantil hebraica a partir de traduções, do fenômeno da interferência cultural, do cânone
The Aramaic of the Zohar: The Status Quaestionis
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Towards the end of the thirteenth century, the Kabbalah in Spain reached its creative peak with the emergence of Sefer ha-Zohar ‘The Book of Splendor’ (henceforth referred to as the ‘Zohar’ or ‘Zoharic literature’), Judaism’s most important corpus of mystical texts. The Zohar owes its name to Daniel 12:3: והמשכלים יזהרו כזהר הרקיע ‘The enlightened shall shine like the splendour of the sky’. It is a voluminous work of over twenty treatises mainly written in Aramaic (the tractate Midrash ha-Neʿelam ‘The Concealed Midrash’ is partly written in Hebrew). The majority of its mystical doctrines and esoteric teachings are presented within the framework of a commentary on the Torah. For comprehensive introductions to the Zohar, see Tishby (1989: 1–126) and Green (2004). An extensive overview of the structure of the Zohar can be found in Tishby (1989: 1–7; cf. Green 2004: 159–161).
Over the centuries, the Zohar has aroused mixed feelings among its readership, which initially was rather limited. Both lavish praise and immense scorn have fallen to this Jewish mystical magnum opus. Many readers have been left bewildered by the obscurity of its language, style, and contents, considering it an inscrutable work, whereas others regard its wildly fragmented and opaque nature as a genuine reflection of life’s ‘spiritual turbulence’ (quoting Tishby 1989: 8). However, once the veil that obscures its contents is lifted, the Zohar discloses an esoteric theosophy, depicted in symbolic imagery, which covers all aspects of life, from the most mundane of matters to profound divine secrets.
The Zohar’s origins and the transmission of its mystical lore were shrouded in mystery. The Spanish Jewish kabbalist Rabbi Moses de Leon, who lived in Castile and died in 1295/1305, was one of the first to bear witness to the existence of the Zohar, which initially circulated only in fragments among the kabbalists in Castile and Aragon. De Leon claimed to have an ancient Aramaic manuscript – the Zohar – in his possession that had circulated for centuries and originated from the Holy Land. It was believed that the Zohar’s main protagonist, Rabbi Simeon bar-Yochai, was its author – a belief that is still held among traditional kabbalists and Orthodox Jews. Rabbi Simeon bar-Yochai, also known under his acronym Rashbi, was a Palestinian sage who lived in the second century CE. However, shortly after the Zohar’s mysterious appearance in late-thirteenth-century Castile, the claim of Rashbi’s authorship was already met with suspicion. Some of de Leon’s contemporaries seem to have doubted the ancient, Palestinian provenance of the Zohar, rather believing that it had been pseudepigraphically written by de Leon himself. A review of the traditional and scholarly opinions on the origins and authorship of the Zohar can be found in Tishby (1989: 30–55).
In more recent times, Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), the founding father of modern Kabbalah scholarship, went to great lengths to prove that Moses de Leon was indeed the main author of the Zohar (1941: 156–204). Under the influence of Scholem’s academic authority, it was henceforth commonly accepted as axiomatic that the Zohar was composed in late-thirteenth-century Castile by de Leon, who had attributed his work to the second-century Palestinian sage Rashbi to give it authoritative status. Scholem’s single-authorship theory drastically shifted the cultural context in which the Zohar had been written: it was no longer second-century Palestine, but thirteenth-century Spain. Not only was the Zohar rooted in rabbinic thought and kabbalistic concepts which dated all the way back to the high Middle Ages, it was also influenced by the intellectual exchange of ideas with the surrounding Christian and Muslim cultures.
More recently, the prevalent scholarly opinion on both the authorship and the coherence of the Zohar has undergone a drastic revision. It is now commonly accepted by researchers that the Zohar was written by multiple authors, although, in all probability, Moses de Leon is likely to have contributed to the bulk of the Zohar. The multiple authorship theory had already been briefly touched upon by Jellinek (1851), but it was properly advanced by Liebes (1993) (see also Meroz 2016). Because the Zohar seems to have been composed, extended, and changed throughout several generations, it is nowadays generally viewed as a collective literary product, hence the increasingly popular reference to this corpus as ‘Zoharic literature’. Nevertheless, although contemporary scholarship has tackled fundamental questions regarding the provenance and authorship of the Zohar, this Jewish mystical corpus still poses many a riddle, especially when it comes to its Aramaic idiom
Capital Flight and the Hollowing Out of the Philippine Economy in the Neoliberal Regime
Get PDFCapital flight is the movement of capital from a resource-scarce developing country to avoid social controls, and measured as net unrecorded capital outflow. Capital flight from the Philippines was 36 billion in the 1980s, and $43 billion in the 1990s. Indeed these figures are significant amounts of lost resources that could have been utilized in the country to generate additional output and jobs. Capital flight from the Philippines followed a revolving door process – that is, capital inflows were used to finance the capital outflows. This process became more pronounced with financial liberalization in the 1990s. With these results, we argue that capital flight resulted in the hollowing out of the Philippine economy and, more important, neoliberal policies underpinned the process.Capital flight; external debt; revolving door; Philippines
Caracterização de materiais argilosos para aplicações terapêuticas: os barros de Beja
Get PDFOs efeitos terapêuticos e/ou cosméticos das argilas são
amplamente reconhecidos e o seu uso é tão antigo como a
própria humanidade. Têm sido utilizadas em vários países,
em termas ou centros de talassoterapia, para tratar
problemas reumatológicos, doenças de pele ou para fins
cosméticos.
Atualmente, o uso de geoprodutos para tratamentos é
conhecido como Geoterapia. A Peloterapia é uma variante
da Geoterapia e consiste no uso de argilas por via interna ou
externa devido às suas propriedades: analgésica, anti inflamatória, cicatrizante, tonificadora, vitalizante e
antitóxica.
O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal estudar oito
amostras de solos residuais recolhidos na zona de Beja e
averiguar se apresentam, ou não, características adequadas
para a utilização em peloterapia.
Realizaram-se diversos ensaios de caracterização
granulométrica, mineralógica, físico-química e tecnológica
dessas amostras de argilas. Entre os ensaios realizados
para verificação da sua adequabilidade para peloterapia,
selecionaram- se: granulométricos como curva
granulométrica, sedigraph e superfície específica;
mineralógicos por Difração de Raios X (DRX) de agregados
orientados e não orientados; físico-químicos por
Fluorescência de Raios X (FRX), matéria orgânica (MO), pH,
condutividade, Capacidade de Troca Catiónica (CTC); e
tecnológicos como tempo de arrefecimento, abrasividade,
limites de consistência, expansibilidade, viscosidade, calor
específico e absorção de óleo.
As amostras Beja 3, Beja 21 e Beja 40 cumprem os valores
mínimos aceitáveis para serem utilizadas em peloterapia, no
entanto, sugere-se a elaboração de ensaios futuros com o
intuito de averiguar se são prejudiciais para a saúde humana
e maximizar os seus efeitos benéficos.The therapeutic and/or cosmetic effects of clays are widely
recognized, and their use is as old as humanity itself. The use
of clays in many countries, in spa or thalassotherapy centres,
to treat rheumatological or skin problems or for cosmetic
purposes is frequent. Geotherapy is the treatment with
geoproducts. Pelotherapy is a variant of geotherapy and
consists of the use of internal or external clays due to its
properties: analgesic, anti-inflammatory, healing, toning,
vitalizing and antitoxic.
The main objective of this work was to study eight residual soil
samples collected in the Beja region and to verify if they
present or not suitable characteristics for use in pelotherapy.
The author selected several laboratory tests to characterize
the selected samples, such as particle size, mineralogical,
physicochemical, and technological of these clay samples.
Among these tests performed to verify its suitability for
pelotherapy, the author selected the following: particle size
such as particle size curve, sedigraph and specific surface;
physicochemical by X-ray fluorescence (XRF), determination
of organic matter (MO), pH, conductivity, Cation Exchange
Capacity (CTC); mineralogical by X-ray Diffraction (XRD) of
oriented and unoriented aggregates; and technological such
as cooling time, abrasiveness, consistency limits,
expandability, viscosity, specific heat and oil absorption.
Beja 3, Beja 21 and Beja 40 samples meet the minimum
acceptable values to use in pelotherapy, however, it is
suggested that future trials be carried out to ascertain whether
they are harmful to human health and maximize their
beneficial effects.Mestrado em Engenharia Geológic
Active/Passive, ‘Diminished’/‘Beautiful’, ‘Light’ from Above and Below: Rereading Shekhinah’s Sexual Desire in Zohar al Shir ha-Shirim (Song of Songs)
Get PDFIn Zohar al Shir ha-Shirim, the Zohar’s reading of Song of Songs, Shekhinah, echoing themes associated with the Shulamite of the biblical text, consistently initiates cosmic union. Sexual desire in the zoharic texts is a form of capital necessary to facilitate sefirotic intercourse, although scholarly readings of the zoharic corpus often identify Shekhinah as a passive receptacle. This, however, is only true if the endemic contradictions within the texts are glossed over. In Song of Songs, the Shulamite’s sexual ‘initiative’ is core. This was not lost on the author(s) of Zohar al Shir ha-Shirim, who, in struggling to explain Shekhinah’s sefirotic role in line with the erotics of Song of Songs, inescapably echoed the ‘depatriarchalizing’ themes of the biblical text. As this article demonstrates, in Zohar al Shir ha-Shirim, Shekhinah is active and repeatedly encourages and frustrates cosmic sexual intercourse. Zohar al Shir ha-Shirim shows that it is possible to reread Shekhinah’s role beyond the androcentrism of the authors as well as scholarly assumptions about her passivity
Poetics of children's literature /
No full text"Since its emergence in the seventeenth century as a distinctive cultural system, children's literature has had a culturally inferior status resulting from its existence in a netherworld between the literary system and the educational system. In addition to its official readership--children--it has to be approved of by adults. Writers for children, explains Zohar Shavit, are constrained to respond to these multiple systems of often mutually contradictory demands. Most writers do not try to bypass these constraints, but accept them as a framework for their work. In the most extreme cases an author may ignore one segment of the readership. If the adult reader is ignored, the writer risks rejection, as is the case of popular literature. If the writer utilizes the child as a pseudo addressee in order to appeal to an adult audience, the result can be what Shavit terms an ambivalent work.Shavit analyzes the conventions and the moral aims that have structured children's literature, from the fairy tales collected and reworked by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm--in particular, "Little Red Riding Hood"--Through the complex manipulations of Lewis Carroll in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," to the subversion of the genre's canonical requirements in the chapbooks of the eighteenth century, and in the formulaic Nancy Drew books of the twentieth century. Throughout her study Shavit, explores not only how society has shaped children's literature, but also how society has been reflected in the literary works it produces for its children."--pub. desc.Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index."Since its emergence in the seventeenth century as a distinctive cultural system, children's literature has had a culturally inferior status resulting from its existence in a netherworld between the literary system and the educational system. In addition to its official readership--children--it has to be approved of by adults. Writers for children, explains Zohar Shavit, are constrained to respond to these multiple systems of often mutually contradictory demands. Most writers do not try to bypass these constraints, but accept them as a framework for their work. In the most extreme cases an author may ignore one segment of the readership. If the adult reader is ignored, the writer risks rejection, as is the case of popular literature. If the writer utilizes the child as a pseudo addressee in order to appeal to an adult audience, the result can be what Shavit terms an ambivalent work.Shavit analyzes the conventions and the moral aims that have structured children's literature, from the fairy tales collected and reworked by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm--in particular, "Little Red Riding Hood"--Through the complex manipulations of Lewis Carroll in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," to the subversion of the genre's canonical requirements in the chapbooks of the eighteenth century, and in the formulaic Nancy Drew books of the twentieth century. Throughout her study Shavit, explores not only how society has shaped children's literature, but also how society has been reflected in the literary works it produces for its children."--pub. desc
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