86 research outputs found
Fundamentos da escatologia de Samuel Ramos
No full textThis is a study on the fundamentals of the eschatology adopted by Samuel Ramos with the purpose of understanding the nature of the prophetic theology defended by the author. The methodology used for this purpose is based on the comparison of quotations by Ramos with a set of references extracted from sources published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, such as the Handbook of Seventh-Day Adventist Theology and the Darcom Series, published by the “Daniel and Revelation Committee” (in English DARCOM, known in Portuguese as “Sanctuary and Apocalyptic Prophecies”, in an edition of Unaspress), of the General Association of the Adventist Church, in addition to authors of hermeneutical relevance in the Adventist environment, such as Gerhard Hasel, Jon Paulien, and e Ranko Stefanovic. From this perspective, details of this author's official website, videos published on YouTube, the 1987 monograph, which despite the chronological distance, is relevant in the sense of the historical reconstruction of the author's theological mentality, and the three volumes on the book of Revelation, with the two volumes on the book of Daniel, all authored by him, will be analyzed.Se trata de un estudio de los fundamentos de la escatología adoptada por Samuel Ramos con el fin de comprender la naturaleza de la teología profética defendida por el autor. La metodología utilizada para ello se establece comparando citas de Ramos con un conjunto de referencias extraídas de fuentes publicadas por la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día, como el Tratado de Teología Adventista del Séptimo Día y la Serie Darcom, publicada por la "Comisión Daniel y Apocalipsis" (DARCOM) de la Conferencia General de la Iglesia Adventista, así como de autores de relevancia hermenéutica en los círculos adventistas, como Gerhard Hasel, Jon Paulien y Ranko Stefanovic. Desde esta perspectiva, analizaremos detalles de la página web oficial del autor, los vídeos publicados en YouTube, la monografía de 1987, que a pesar de su distancia cronológica, es relevante en el sentido de la reconstrucción histórica de la mentalidad teológica del autor, y los tres volúmenes sobre el libro del Apocalipsis, con los dos volúmenes sobre el libro de Daniel, todos de su autoría.Esse é um estudo sobre os fundamentos da escatologia adotada por Samuel Ramos com o propósito de entender a natureza da teologia profética defendida pelo autor. A metodologia utilizada para esse fim é estabelecida sobre o comparativo de citações de Ramos com um conjunto de referências extraídas de fontes publicadas pela Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia, como o Tratado de Teologia Adventista do Sétimo Dia e a Série Darcom, publicada pela “Comissão de Daniel e Apocalipse” (em inglês DARCOM, conhecida em português como “Santuário e Profecias Apocalípticas”, em uma edição da Unaspress), da Associação Geral da Igreja Adventista, além de autores de relevância hermenêutica no meio adventista, como Gerhard Hasel, Jon Paulien e Ranko Stefanovic. Sob essa perspectiva, serão analisados detalhes do site oficial desse autor, vídeos publicados no YouTube, a monografia de 1987, que apesar da distância cronológica, é relevante no sentido da reconstrução histórica da mentalidade teológica do autor, e os três volumes sobre o livro de Apocalipse, com os dois volumes sobre o livro de Daniel, todos de autoria dele
Michal, contradicting values : understanding the moral dilemma faced by Saul's daughter
No full textValue conflicts due to cultural differences are an increasingly pressing issue in many societies. Because Old Testament texts hail from a very different milieu to our own they may provide new perspectives upon contemporary conflicts and, in this context, the present dissertation investigates one particular value clash in 1 Samuel.
Studies of Old Testament ethics have attended to narrative only relatively recently. Although social-scientific interpretation has a longer pedigree, there are important debates about how to employ the fruits of anthropology in biblical studies. The first part of this thesis, therefore, attends to methodological issues, advancing four main propositions. First, attention should be paid to the moral goods that feature in the text. Second, the family, a central feature of Old Testament morality, should be understood as a set of practices rather than an institution. Third, 'models' of social action that purport to comprehend the social world of the Bible should be used only cautiously. Finally, a modified version of Bakhtin's theory of heteroglossic voices can help readers appreciate how authors present a moral vision by approving some characters' actions whilst undermining others.
The second part of the thesis employs this methodology to examine 1 Samuel 19.10-18a. The discussion of the moral dilemma facing Michal adduces anthropological theories and ethnographic data concerning violence, lying, and the relationship between fathers and daughters. Given that the conflicts of moral goods are 'resolved' by characters choosing to act in a certain way, the dissertation enquires after the author's assessment of each character's moral choices, and hence their theological import. The dissertation argues that Michal's loyalty to David and deception of Saul was counter-cultural, and by approving of her choice the author affirms the importance of loyalty to the Davidic dynasty
Disputatio Juridica Valedictoria, De Virgine Vidua Ejusque Juribus
No full textBremen, Gymnasium, Jur. Disp., 1714Quam Divino adjuvante Numine Sub Moderamine Viri Prænobilissimi, Clarissimi atque Consultissimi Domini, Dn. Caspari à Rheden, J. U. D. in Illustri Phabiranens. Athenæo Ejusdem Facultatis Profess. Publ. Ord. Præceptoris ac Fautoris sui Ætatem Devenerandi, Colendi, Publico placidóve Eruditorum Examini Ad diem Martis XVI. Octobr. An. M. DCC. XIV. H. L. Q. C. subjicit Responsurus Author Samuel Willett, Bremâ-SaxoEnth. 5 Gedichte der BeiträgerVorlage des Erscheinungsvermerks: Bremæ, Typis Hermanni Braueri, Illustr. Gymn. Typogr
Kajian Desain Tangga Multifungsi sebagai Fasilitas Duduk di Perpustakaan Universitas Telkom terhadap Kenyamanan Pengguna
No full textPerpustakaan modern tidak hanya berfungsi sebagai pusat literasi, tetapi juga sebagai ruang multifungsi yang mendukung aktivitas belajar, diskusi, dan interaksi sosial. Penelitian ini mengkaji fenomena penggunaan tangga multifungsi sebagai fasilitas duduk di Perpustakaan Universitas Telkom dengan fokus pada aspek kenyamanan pengguna. Metode yang digunakan adalah pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif dengan studi kasus, melalui observasi langsung dan tinjauan literatur terkait standar ergonomi dan antropometri. Objek penelitian adalah fasilitas tangga di perpustakaan Universitas Telkom yang dirancang sebagai elemen sirkulasi sekaligus tempat duduk. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa desain tangga belum sepenuhnya memenuhi standar kenyamanan, terutama dalam hal dimensi, material, finishing, hingga aspek keamanan. Permasalahan utama ditemukan pada proporsi dudukan, jarak antar modul, dan kurangnya ruang gerak serta elemen keamanan seperti pegangan tangan. Penelitian ini merekomendasikan perbaikan desain berbasis standar ergonomis guna meningkatkan kenyamanan, keamanan, dan pengalaman ruang pengguna. Temuan ini diharapkan menjadi referensi bagi pengelola perpustakaan dalam mengoptimalkan fungsi ruang dan elemen interior yang adaptif terhadap kebutuhan pengunjung.
The sense of a beginning : Bakhtinian dialogic criticism on 'the gospel' in Mark.
No full textContemporary literary approaches have caused paradigm shifts in Biblical Studies in the last two decades as it appears in a great deal of Markan studies using narrative, reader-response, deconstructive, feminist, and new historicist approaches. However, literary studies on the Gospel of Mark have not taken into account theoretical questions underlying those approaches. As a result biblical critics are driven by new trends without ever having a chance to examine the critical baggage of the approaches. Consequently, there is a gap of communication between the old and the new one. Therefore this thesis is an attempt to meet the need of enhancing the quality of critical endeavour in biblical studies. In the light of most recent competing critical theories of literature, the first contribution of this thesis is the methodological finding that Bakhtinian dialogic criticism contains the most profound philosophical and practical foundations for solving some crucial theoretical problems in contemporary literary theories. It is a critique to a Saussurian linguistic system of language which becomes the very foundation of modern and postmodern literary criticism. Bakhtinian literary theory shifts the foundation of literary criticism on linguistic signs into the creative activity of the socio-cultural production of human communication. The shift into socio-cultural reality of language communication makes the notion of 'genre' very important to unlock the problem of text and context in literary studies. Since the Gospel of Mark has fascinated most literary critics in Biblical Studies, the problem of 'genre' of this gospel is chosen as the focus of this study. Secondly, as no agreement is reached as to what 'genre' the Gospel of Mark belongs, this thesis makes its contribution to the discussion by locating the problem of 'genre' of Mark in the context of genre theories and argues that the Bakhtinian suggestion to find genre in the socio-cultural sphere by analysing artistic intercourse between narrative agents in Mark has freed the competing analysis from the unresolved problem between the kerygmatic (content oriented) approach and the analogical (form oriented) approach. To achieve finding 'genre' in the socio-cultural sphere, this thesis focuses on Bakhtinian analysis of the process of artistic intercourse between narrative agents. The narrative communicative interrelationships between narrative agents is constructed in this thesis as a 'stereophonic' Bakhtinian model of dialogic communication. This model is an original contribution of this thesis for revising the traditional two dimensional model of narrative communication. Based on this dialogical model of communication, a special role is given to the Bakhtinian 'author-creator' in the realization process of genre through the interaction of polyphonic voices. Through the interaction of voices of the author-artist and the hero we are led to discover a relatively stable type of portraying and controlling reality in Mark, known as the genre of Roman 'satire'. The closest literary affinity is Satyrica by Petronius. This narrative strategy of 'satire' in Mark has its root in the prophetic discourse of the Old Testament which is saturating the speech of the narrator, John the Immerser, the centurion, the people, and even Jesus. Finally, the whole search for Markan 'genre' culminates in the analysis of the realization of genre through the analysis of Bakhtinian chronotope. The reality of the genre of Mark is its social reality that is in its role as dpxrj/ 'beginning'. As the Gospel of Mark proclaims itself as 'a beginning', it defines its claim of socio-cultural 'authority' in early Christianity. It is this 'sense of beginning' which enables the narrating and the narrated world of Mark to interact dialogically
Apocalypsis Haereseos, Das ist: Offenbarung der Ketzerischen Lügen und Irrthümen/ Welche Anthoinette Bourignon In unterschiedlichen Büchern/ sonderlich in dem Teutschen Tractat Gezeugniß der Warheit benambset Außgestreuet/ und dadurch die in Gottes Wort bestetigte/ reine/ gläubige/ dem Worte Gottes/ und denen in Formula Concordiae begriffenen Libris Symbolicis mit Hertzen und Mund zugethane Kirchen dieser löblichen Fürstenthümer Schleßwig/ Holstein/ zu vergifften/ sich unterstanden: Mit einem vierfachen Register
No full textBeyond the Text: Capturing the Reality of the Image
No full textThroughout musical history composers have responded to extra musical influences, whether the setting of texts, responses to paintings, religion or political situations. On occasion the structure of a poem such as Haiku or iambic pentameter has directly influenced the structure of the music. However, the nature of this relationship is often some kind of close representation or emotional response.
My own work as a composer has been similarly informed by a wide range of extra musical sources; the work of author/poets Samuel Beckett and Paul Celan, painters Francis Bacon and Gerhard Richter, or the theories of the philosopher Jacques Derrida among others; and further, the notion of artistic resistance from a political point of view in relation to the work of the poet Alina Vitukhnovskaya or the writings of playwrights Edward Bond and Peter Weiss. What might be the meaningful links between music, poetry, painting, philosophy and politics, beyond more direct forms of expression, such as text setting, narrative, or figurative painting? How might issues of language problematize such creative discourses and by connecting border areas of representation access new modes of expression and meaning? Further, how might such issues relate to composition, in terms of what lies beyond the text, and the concept of material? This paper will address such issues in relation to my own work as a composer and how such interconnections have informed my practice
VOICES BY THE SEA: A DIALOGIC READING OF THE EXODUS NARRATIVE
No full textIt is known that the biblical account of Israel’s past consists of diverse generic, thematic and ideological elements, between which inconsistencies and tensions sometimes arise. This phenomenon is defined as ‘scriptural complexity’. From early times this complexity has been treated by source or redaction criticism; currently, canonical-theological and literary approaches are employed. This thesis adopts a Bakhtinian ‘dialogic’ approach to languages and literary voice, to study the ‘scriptural complexity’ in the book of Exodus, especially the narrative in chaps. 12-14 and the inserted song in chap. 15. After introducing the ‘scriptural complexity’ and the possible methods of dealing with it (Chapter 1), and the life and the concept of dialogism of Bakhtin (Chapter 2), the Bakhtinian concepts will be adopted and applied to the book of Exodus. A survey of the voices of the ‘speaking person’ in the book will be conducted, and the Passover instructions in Exodus 12 will be used as a test case to illustrate what results from a dialogic reading of the biblical text (Chapter 3). Based on this, a dialogic reading of the narrative of the Israelites crossing the Sea (Chapter 4) and the Song of the Sea (Chapter 5) will be performed. The voice of the narrator in the narrative of the Israelites’ crossing of the Sea will also be studied (Chapter 6).
The reading shows that several different ‘voices’ are involved in the transmission of the tradition, and these represent a dialogue between different possible ideologies. This dialogue re-accentuates the authoritative voice of YHWH such that it allows later generations to participate truly and dialogically in the observance of the traditions. Exploring the multiple and complex dialogic relationships between the various voices indicates that the narrative in the Exodus events foregrounds the characters’ voices, and allows them to interact dialogically. It results in an enriched and multilayered understanding of the role of each ‘voice’ in the story. The exploration of the dialogic relationship between the singing voices of the inserted song and the narrative voices also enables the reader to understand and respond to the implicit significance of YHWH’s action in the narrative. Analysis of the Bakhtinian concept of ‘authoring’ also suggests that the narrator’s voice represents the authorial voice of the biblical narrative. By bestowing form to the verbal material, this authorial voice leads the reader to participate in a dialogue between the various voices and to co-author the values and significance according to various ‘dialogizing backgrounds’. This thesis argues that it is beneficial to read the biblical discourse as utterance with ‘voices’ rather than mere text, so that the reader can re-enter the once uttered discourse and participate in a living dialogue through the ‘scriptural complexity’
Silence and the crisis of self - legitimation in English romanticism
No full textMy thesis depicts the crisis of self-legitimation that has accompanied the onset of modern hermeneutics, with its historicised and organicised version of the Enlightenment's 'universal perspective.' In this it follows the lead of the contemporary hermeneuticist Hans- Georg Gadamer in resuscitating the notion of prejudice, but contrasts it with Hannah Arendt's discussion of the human condition. She implicitly locates the problem in modern hermeneutics, the aporia, in the very philosophy of life that Gadamer embraces as its solution. Gadamer confuses the task of the humanities as a search for truth with what it ought to be, a search for meaning. I begin with his depiction of Kant's attack on the sensus communis; I conclude with an examination of the consequences of this attack on the orientation and interpretative practices of current schools of literary criticism with specific reference to Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn. In the central chapter, I focus upon Coleridge's attack on Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) in the Bioeraphia Literaria, reading it as a fundamental defence of prejudice based on the very fact that man has been made in imago Dei. The consequent logocentricity of humanity that Coleridge insists upon opposes Wordsworth's emphasis upon a transcendental idea of 'feeling.' This fundamental notion forms the basis of Coleridge's definition of the primary imagination. I argue the distinctiveness of his definition from that of the other Romantics and maintain its necessity to escape the aporia. This point is proved negatively by Shelley's Mont Blanc, which seizes upon the radical consequences of Wordsworth's poetics, presenting both heresy and obscurity in the poem. The word 'crisis' thus reflects the urgency with which I advocate the need to re-adopt Coleridge's emphases in contemporary literary criticism
Merging and diverging : the Chronicler's integration of material from Kings, Isaiah, and Jeremiah in the narratives of Hezekiah and the Fall of Judah
No full textThe phenomenon of inner-biblical interpretation and inter-textual replication of scriptural material within the Old Testament is receiving significant attention in current scholarship. Two narratives which are repeated three times in the Hebrew Bible provide a particularly fruitful case study for this type of research: the Hezekiah narrative (2 Kgs 18-20; Isa 36-39; 2 Chr 29-32) and the account of the fall of Judah (2 Kgs 24-25; Jer 52; 2 Chr 36). This study extends the contributions of redaction-critical, literary-critical, and text-critical studies examining the narratives of 2 Kings 18-20//Isaiah 36-39 and 2 Kings 24:18-25:30//Jeremiah 52 and emphasizes their subsequent reception in Chronicles. In addition, this investigation advances the discussion of the Chronicler's reliance upon and method of incorporating material from the Latter Prophets. It is the conclusion of this thesis that the Chronicler was familiar with the versions of the Hezekiah narrative and the account of the fall of Judah in both 2 Kings and the Latter Prophets. His method of handling these alternative accounts reflects both direct quotation (particularly in the case of 2 Kings) and indirect allusion to themes and idioms (with regard to the Latter Prophets). The result is a re-telling of Judah's history which is infused with hope for restoration as articulated by the Latter Prophets. By portraying an idealized account of Israel's past history which corresponds to prophetic descriptions of the nation's restoration, Chronicles illustrates the accessible, utopic potential held out to every generation of faithful Israel
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