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Matthew as marginal scribe in an advanced agrarian society
No full textAnalysis of 22 references to scribes in the Gospel of Matthew shows that a few of them are positive comments and that the author himself was a scribe. What type of scribe was he and how can we clarify his social context? By means of the models of Lenski and Kautsky, by recent research about scribes, literacy, and
power, and by new marginality theory, this article extensively refines Saldarini’s hypothesis that the scribes were “retainers”. The thesis is that in “Matthew’s” Christ-believing group, his scribal profession and literacy meant power and socio-
religious status. Yet, his voluntary association with Christ believers (“ideological marginality”), many of whom could not participate in social roles expected of them (“structural marginality”), led to his living between two historical traditions, languages, political loyalties, moral codes, social rankings, and ideological-
religious sympathies (“cultural marginality”). The Matthean author’s cultural marginality will help to clarify certain well-known literary tensions in the Gospel of Matthew
Matthew and marginality
No full textThis article explores marginality theory as it was first proposed in the social sciences, that is related to persons caught between two competing cultures (Park; Stonequist), and, then, as it was developed in sociology as related to the poor (Germani) and in anthropology as it was related to involuntary marginality and voluntary marginality (Victor Turner). It then examines a (normative scheme' in antiquity that creates involuntary marginality at the macrosocial level, namely, Lenski's social stratification model in an agrarian society, and indicates how Matthean language might fit with a sample inventory of socioreligious roles. Next, it examines some (normative schemes' in antiquity for voluntary margi-nality at the microsocial level, namely, groups, and examines how the Matthean gospel would fit based on indications of factions and leaders. The article ,shows that the author of the Gospel of Matthew has an ideology of (voluntary marginality', but his gospel includes some hope for (involuntary marginals' in the real world, though it is somewhat tempered. It also suggests that the writer of the Gospel is a (marginal man', especially in the sense defined by the early theorists (Park; Stone-quist)
Analysis of the gain-coupled DFL as a source of short optical pulses
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. College of Engineering and Applied Science. Institute of Optics, 1985. This thesis was digitized by the Institute of Optics in 2014 and was determined to have lapsed into the public domain. If you are the author and have questions about the digitization of your work, please contact Kari Brick, Graduate Program Coordinator for the Institute of Optics, at [email protected]. Other contact information for the Institute is available at http://www.optics.rochester.eduThe results of an investigation of the distributed feedback laser (DFL) as a source for short optical pulses is reported in this thesis. The DFL provides a uniquely simple and inexpensive alternative to synchronously pumped dye lasers. The fundamental difference is the use of a modulation of the refractive index of the gain medium to provide feedback instead of external cavity mirrors. This feedback method allows the laser to produce short pulses from a single pump pulse. The modulation also limits the bandwidth of the oscillation so that the pulses are constrained to be transform limited.
To determine the optimal conditions for the production of short pulses a semiclassical rate equation model of the DFL was developed. This model is capable of predicting the output characteristics of the laser under any pumping conditions from steady state to short pulse pumping. The results from this model are shown to agree well with the existing theories in the limits where they are valid. The output duration of the laser pulse is shown to rely primarily on the cavity length and the pump pulse duration. A curve which combines these two dependences is presented which is capable of predicting the performance of any given DFL.
To compliment the theoretical study, an experimental examination of the DFL was conducted. The output was observed on a picosecond synchronized streak camera. In addition a probe pulse was scattered from the transient feedback of the laser providing a direct measurement of the modulation present. In the course of this investigation a number of Nd:YAG laser systems were constructed and evaluated as pump sources for the DFL. One such system, the cw-pumped regenerative amplifier represents a significant technological advance over previous systems for providing high power, high repetition rate, stable pulses at 1.06 um. The use of these systems as the pump for synchronous dye amplifier systems is also presented
Pulse dropout in harmonically mode-locked fiber lasers
No full textWe have studied theoretically and experimentally supermode competition in an actively mode-locked Er-fiber laser that operates in a high harmonic mode. Using an innovative numerical technique that allows us to properly account for the complex interaction of multiple pulses with the gain media, we could study the dynamics that leads to supermode competition, pulse dropouts, and pulse pair generation, and to accurately predict the limits of the stable operating regime.This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and by the Wolfson Foundation.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/826909/author
ANALYSIS OF POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM AND MOVING SYSTEM IN MATIC BUGGY CAR
No full textThe buggy car is a vehicle possessing mini dimension boarded by single to four passenger seats in which it is able to provide the demand of transportation in industrial estates and plantations such as oil palm plantations. The massive need for a simple transportation to assist the specific human works in the area of plantations in Kalimantan is an appropriate reason to choose this technology. Based these, researchers focus to analyze a simple transportation model, inexpensive, however highly efficient land device for plantation works. This vehicle enormously expected to help the modes of transportation in general plantations and estates. Beside those, it can be an educational model in vocational education of university and college to enhance the student’s interest and skill to deepen the field of educational mechanical engineering. Furthermore the author and team attempt to design then analyze the mechanical drive system and power transmission of Buggy automobile with a simple construction and components that are easily found in the market. This research has conducted by implementing the experimental research type (True Experiment Research). By the results of analyzing the types of actuators, the type of power transmission and steering model for Buggy automobile, it has been obtained that the transmission system used is the CVT (Continually Variable Transmission) type that mechanical works based on engine speed and centrifugal force. Eventually the total weight of buggy car is 157 kg, minimum power at about 5,37 HP, Shaft diameter at around 55 mm, Pitch diameter of Gear spur (dp) integrated in differential gear is 48 mm. The total weight of the vehicle including the weight of the driver has a significant impact on engine performance. Overall, light vehicles must look better because the engine capacity is adjusted to the chassi
Hand and horse labor for an unemployment relief project concerning Kansas State Agricultural College athletic grounds
No full textTouchstone is Kansas State University's student-edited literary arts magazine that showcases literary work by graduate and undergraduate students. It is published annually each spring by the College of Arts and Sciences with assistance from Kansas State University's creative writing faculty, the Fine Arts Council, and the English Department.CONTENTS: 02:10:31 / Kevin Brown -- Leona / Jimbo Ivy -- Maturing / Jerrod Bohn -- Drift 1 / Brianna Mishler -- Ghost of Christmas past / Heather Farris -- Novena to St. Rita / Jerrod Bohn -- Lists / Moira Niebauer -- Window washer at noon / Ericka Brunson -- Puddle 1 / Brianna Mishler -- Closing the store on summer nights / Dennis Etzel, Jr. -- Opera / Emily H. Freeman -- The story / Dunya Mikhail -- Author Profile: Dunya Mikhail [interview] / Lamees Al-Athari -- Hell point / Jonathan Hall -- Love is a good night at the bars / Kyleigh Payne -- Static in the form of a red circle / Ericka Brunson -- From an artist's letter to a young man / Allison Branch -- Touch / Katherine Settle -- Becoming Banksy / Sean Conner -- The occupations of sating / Austin Tremblay -- Pioneer spirit / Tracy Tucker -- Blue River ice / Jonathan Hall -- A celiac break-up / Allison Branch -- Hog killing weather / Richard Boada -- Cameo / Trina Burke -- Birth II / Brianna Mishler -- Anatomy of a dying town / Lauren Tipton -- Bed & breakfast / Tom O'Connor -- September / Chella Courington -- Aquatic / Katherine Settle -- Autopsy and a eulogy / Clay Cogswell -- Navajo woman / Kimo Armitage -- How I spent my father's cancer / Kyleigh Payne -- Malevolent / Jonathan Hall -- Us in a mirror / Richard Boada -- San Francisco #5: even housing projects are pretty / Shantha Laura Susman -- Author Profile: Charles Baxter [interview] / David Murphy & Katherine Settle -- Interior #7 / Katherine Settle -- Soul bruise at 27.39726027 years / Marc Welsh -- Almost like music / Meredith Duling -- Curves and hollows / Aileen Sanku -- Ethereal / Jonathan Hall -- Honeymoon / Amy Forgue -- On Decatur / Jenny Molberg -- Queen Wilhelmina, in exile, Ottawa, Canada / Laura Dunn -- Geode / Brianna Mishler -- Luneberry grove / Miranda Merklein -- When Berryman died / Chella CouringtonCitation: Murphy, D. (Ed.). (2008). Touchstone, 40.Morse Department of Special Collection
The Gospel of Mark as a Therapeutic Ritual Script
No full textJohn H. (Jack) Elliott, Professor Emeritus of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco, is one of the founding figures of social-scientific criticism and its application to biblical interpretation as well as to the interpretation of other ancient literature.In this tribute 21 well-known practitioners of social-science criticism build on and advance various aspects of Elliott’s work and methodology. Norman Gottwald retraces the evolution of social-scientific criticism and its significance, David Aune examines the term magic as a socio-religious category, Scott Bartchy writes on Paul’s tenuous authority in Corinth, Alicia Batten looks at the characterization of the rich in the Epistle of James, Stephen Black studies the ethnic identity of John Chrysostom’s congregation in fourth-century Antioch, Zeba Crook explores memory theory in Luke’s Gospel, Richard DeMaris applies ritual studies to Mark’s Gospel, Jonathan Draper examines the role of purity and pollution in the story of the rich ran and Lazarus, Dennis Duling explores smell as a neglected dimension of social-scientific studies in ancient and biblical literature, Philip Esler looks at the possible role of Psalm of Solomon 17 in the death of Jesus, David Horrell re-examines aspects of the social strategy of 1 Peter, Ralph Klein explores attitudes to imperial authority in Bel and the Dragon and Daniel, Stuart Love applies anthropological studies on spirit aggression to Luke’s Gospel, and James Mackey challenges traditional theological notions of Jesus’ divine identity as well as traditional historical interpretations of Jesus’ trial.In other chapters, Bruce Malina examines the term ‘author’ and questions its appropriateness as a term for ancient writers, Halvor Moxnes looks at the historical Jesus beyond the traditional ethnic and nationalist identity models that have informed scholarship on the subject, John Pilch establishes a model for understanding the social and psychological development of ancient figures like Jesus, Richard Rohrbaugh looks at the role of genealogy in the New Testament and its world, Herman Waetjen argues that the Jubilee stands as background and context in the parable of the wicked tenants, Robert Wilken demonstrates the role and use of 1 Peter 2.13-17 in second-century martyr accounts, and Ritva Williams advocates an ideological critique in examining the parable of the shrewd stewar
Scientific access into Mercer Subglacial Lake: scientific objectives, drilling operations and initial observations
No full text© The Author(s), 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Priscu, J. C., Kalin, J., Winans, J., Campbell, T., Siegfried, M. R., Skidmore, M., Dore, J. E., Leventer, A., Harwood, D. M., Duling, D., Zook, R., Burnett, J., Gibson, D., Krula, E., Mironov, A., McManis, J., Roberts, G., Rosenheim, B. E., Christner, B. C., Kasic, K., Fricker, H. A., Lyons, W. B., Barker, J., Bowling, M., Collins, B., Davis, C., Gagnon, A., Gardner, C., Gustafson, C., Kim, O-S., Li, W., Michaud, A., Patterson, M. O., Tranter, M., Ryan Venturelli, R., Trista Vick-Majors, T., & Elsworth, C. Scientific access into Mercer Subglacial Lake: scientific objectives, drilling operations and initial observations. Annals of Glaciology, 62(85–86), (2021): 340–352, https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2021.10.The Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) Project accessed Mercer Subglacial Lake using environmentally clean hot-water drilling to examine interactions among ice, water, sediment, rock, microbes and carbon reservoirs within the lake water column and underlying sediments. A ~0.4 m diameter borehole was melted through 1087 m of ice and maintained over ~10 days, allowing observation of ice properties and collection of water and sediment with various tools. Over this period, SALSA collected: 60 L of lake water and 10 L of deep borehole water; microbes >0.2 μm in diameter from in situ filtration of ~100 L of lake water; 10 multicores 0.32–0.49 m long; 1.0 and 1.76 m long gravity cores; three conductivity–temperature–depth profiles of borehole and lake water; five discrete depth current meter measurements in the lake and images of ice, the lake water–ice interface and lake sediments. Temperature and conductivity data showed the hydrodynamic character of water mixing between the borehole and lake after entry. Models simulating melting of the ~6 m thick basal accreted ice layer imply that debris fall-out through the ~15 m water column to the lake sediments from borehole melting had little effect on the stratigraphy of surficial sediment cores.This material is based upon work supported by the US National Science Foundation, Section for Antarctic Sciences, Antarctic Integrated System Science program as part of the interdisciplinary (Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA): Integrated study of carbon cycling in hydrologically-active subglacial environments) project (NSF-OPP 1543537, 1543396, 1543405, 1543453 and 1543441). Ok-Sun Kim was funded by the Korean Polar Research Institute. We are particularly thankful to the SALSA traverse personnel for crucial technical and logistical support. The United States Antarctic Program enabled our fieldwork; the New York Air National Guard and Kenn Borek Air provided air support; UNAVCO provided geodetic instrument support. Hot water drilling activities, including repair and upgrade modifications of the WISSARD hot water drill system, for the SALSA project were supported by a subaward from the Ice Drilling Program of Dartmouth College (NSF-PLR 1327315) to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. J. Lawrence assisted with manuscript preparation. Finally, we are grateful to C. Dean, the SALSA Project Manager, and R. Ricards, SALSA Project Coordinator at McMurdo Station, for their organizational skills, and B. Huber of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory for providing the SBE39 PT sensors and the Nortek Aquadopp current meter and assisting with interpretation of the data. B. Huber also provided helpful input on programing and calibrating the SBE19PlusV2 6112 CTD
Discernment of relevation in the Gospel of Matthew
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