394 research outputs found
Writing Jude : the reader, the text, and the author.
No full textThis thesis is about the application of modern literary
criticism to the epistle of Jude. One of the major questions
it asks is "What happens to a text (Jude) when a reader reads
it using one of these literary theories?" Or to put it a
different way, "What does this way of reading emphasise which may have been neglected, ignored, or treated as
irrelevant by other forms of reading?" The answers to these questions have been constructed around three loci: the
reader, the text, and the author. Within the chapters constructed around those foci, the issues of power and desire, knowledge and language are brought to the forefront by the methods used for reading Jude. These methods
include ideas drawn from reader response criticism, feminism, psychoanalysis, intertextuality, the study of
tropes, structuralism, and post-structuralism. These methods and the ideas which they highlight are drawn together to comment on the relationship between the reader,
the text, and the author and to accent their access (or lack of it) to desire, power, knowledge, and language. The
epistle of Jude becomes an epistle that is about power and desire just as much as it is an epistle about "false teachers" and about a community of people known by the name Beloved
"Der Jude" index cards.
No full textOne drawer of index cards for Lappin's dissertation, 'Der Jude: Monographie einer Zeitschrift'In her dissertation for the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1995, the author detailed the history of the journal ‘Der Jude’ within the framework of German Jewish society and culture as well as Zionism.See also: Der Jude : Monographie einer Zeitschrift 1916-1928, MS 489.digitize
Objects of mercy in Jude: the prophetic background of Jude 22-23
No full textThe traditional understanding of Jude 22-23 is that the author exhorts his audience to extend mercy to members of the community who are wavering in their faith due to the influence of the intruders. This position rests on two primary assertions: first, that διακρινομένους (v. 22) be translated “doubt” and, second, that the three relative pronouns (ους) in w. 22-23 refer to subcategories within Jude’s audience. Both of these assertions have been challenged on grammatical grounds. Building on such evidence, 1 argue that Jude’s “prophetic discourse” follows the traditional model of prophetic condemnation with a final offer of hope and mercy Elements of typical Jewish prophetic literature’s paradigmatic warning, indictment, announcement of judgment, and final extension of mercy surface in Jude. Thus, not only grammatically but also in keeping with his “prophetic discourse,” Jude both announces condemnation and holds out hope of mercy for the intruders
Jude in the Middle: How the Epistle of Jude Illustrates Gnostic Ties With Jewish Apocalypticism Through Early Christianity
No full textIn the mid 1990's, Aarhus University's Per Bilde detailed a new hypothesis of how Judaism, Christianity and Gnosticism were connected. Bilde suggested that Christianity acted as a catalyst, propelling Jewish Apocalypticism into Gnosticism. This dissertation applies the epistle of Jude to Per Bilde's theory. Although Bilde is not the first to posit Judaism as a factor in the emergence of Gnosticism, his theory is unique in attempting to frame that connection in terms of a religious continuum. Jewish Apocalypticism, early Christianity, and Gnosticism represent three stages in a continual religio-historical development in which Gnosticism became the logical conclusion. I propose that Bilde is essentially correct and that the epistle of Jude is written evidence that the author of the epistle experiences the phenomena. The author of Jude (from this point on referred to as Jude) sits in the middle of Bilde's progression and may be the most perceptive of New Testament writers in responding to the crisis. He looks behind to see the Jewish association with the Christ followers and seeks to maintain it. He looks forward to what he perceives as a shift from early orthodoxy and battles that shift. My thesis is to use the text of the epistle of Jude to uncover its historical situation. I posit that it portrays an early church leader grounded in Jewish Apocalypticism and facing the beginnings of a new "heretical" movement. This is a thesis of connections, and the work lies in using the epistle of Jude to illustrate those connections. This study is significant in two respects. First, it will clarify background issues of Jude. Earlier scrutiny of Jude focused on its unique aspects, such as Jude's use of the non-canonical texts of 1 Enoch and the Testament of Moses. More recent scholarship has centered on the literary and rhetorical analysis of the text. I will concentrate on using the text of Jude within the context of this theory in order to determine a clearer view of the historical setting in which Jude wrote. Second, this work will further the theory of connections between Jewish Apocalypticism, early Christianity, and Gnosticism. Although much work has been done to validate the connections between Judaism and Gnosticism, less has been done specifically with regard to Jewish Apocalypticism and even less with Per Bilde's theory of the critical middle role of early Christianity. And no one has used Jude in this particular discussion.Religio
Author Gender Representation at Audio Engineering Conferences - An Anonymised Dataset
No full textThis repository contains the author gender dataset (as a comma-delimited .csv file) associated with the paper entitled 'The Impact of Gender on Conference Authorship in Audio Engineering: Analysis Using a New Data Collection Method', published in the IEEE Transactions Special Issue on Increasing the Socio-Cultural Diversity of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Related Fields. Available at: dx.doi.org/10.1109/TE.2018.2814613. Please cite both the paper and dataset if used. Visualisation is available at: http://tibbakoi/github.io/aesgender.
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The dataset was produced using a novel method which used self-identified pronouns, therefore allowing for as many groups as necessary to describe the population.
A list of authors was generated from conference proceedings.
An email was sent to each author to acquire their pronoun.
If no email was available/no response was received, a pronoun was acquired from a biography.
If no biography was available, a pronoun was inferred from traditional gender markers and gender presentation.
If no gender marker/photograph was available, the entry was labelled as 'Information Unavailable'. For brevity, the label 'Unknown' is used in the paper.
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The columns in the dataset are as follows:
ID: unique identifier of entry
Pronoun: pronoun of entry
Position (abs): numerical absolute position within author list for entry
Position (relative): relative position within author list for entry (either First, Last, or Middle)
Single/multi-author: whether the publication for that entry has a single author or has multiple authors (single author publications are excluded from author position analysis)
Conference: Full conference name of entry
Topic: Topic of conference of entry, taken from conference name
Year: Year of conference of entry
Type: Type of publication for that entry as listed on the online conference proceedings
Grouped Type: Grouping of publication types for that entry for easier analysis due to inconsistencies in online conference proceedings (groups are: workshop, poster, paper, panel, keynote, invited speaker, invited paper, demo)
Inc. for author pos?: True/False as to whether to include the entry for analysis over author position (included types are: paper, invited paper, poster as these have meaningful author orders)
Inc. for single/multi-author?: True/False as to whether to include the entry for analysis over single/multi author (includes types are: paper, invited paper, poster as these have meaningful author orders)
Invited paper status: Grouping of the types to allow statistical analysis over invited vs non-invited types (invited types are: invited speaker, invited paper, keynote, panel. Non-invited types are: poster, paper, demo, workshop)
NB: Some grouping of the data is required as online conference proceedings are not always consistent (Column 10). Some labelling of the data is required to determine which entries to include in certain types of analysis (Columns 11-13).
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This dataset is distributed in the hopes that it will prove useful under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, with no warranty; or the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular problem.
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Dataset curated by: Kat Young and Michael Lovedee-Turner at the Audio Lab, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, University of York.
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Thomas Pynchon
No full textA study of female archetypes in Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" and "V.".M.A.Includes bibliographical references p. ([38-41])[Jude Christopher Miller
The Letter of Jude and Graeco-Roman Invective
No full textMany have attempted to identify the opponents in Jude and have addressed the manner in which the author characterises this group. Moreover, scholars have expended considerable energy on the analysis and explication of Jude’s rhetorical structure and style, and there is wide consensus that as a text, Jude is a sophisticated letter. However, less work has attended to the evaluation of Jude within the tradition of Graeco-Roman invective. In comparing verses from Jude to some examples from such literature, we find similar themes. In particular, the letter of Jude and some Graeco-Roman moralists engage in a particular tactic to undermine, even destroy, the character of their opponents. They both present them as effeminates, which, although a stereotype, is one of the worst insults a writer or orator could wage against an adversary. This article argues that Jude engages in such character assassination, invoking effeminacy in the manner that he describes his opponents’ behaviour, and placing them in a long line of debauched and condemned figures from ages past
Jude and 1 Enoch: From Tertullian to Augustine on the 'Apostle Judes' citation of 1 Enoch'
No full textThere is perhaps no richer cite in early Christianity for exploring the complicated and uneasy relationship between the concepts of "canon," revelation, authority, and tradition than in the case of Jude's reliance upon 1 Enoch (and, to a lesser extent, the Assumption of Moses). Not only does Jude cite 1 Enoch verbatim (his only "scriptural" citation), but the language, imagery, and eschatology of the entire epistle is heavily indebted to this great (and once quite popular) apocryphon. What is the meaning of a "canon" that includes the Epistle of Jude, but rejects that text to which Jude so reverentially refers? Is Jude not to be trusted when it says that Enoch authored the words from 1 Enoch? The problem is not made any easier by the way Jude cites 1 Enoch. In fact, the language of Jude, and of other early Christians, belies the claim of some modern scholarship that the practice of pseudepigraphy, especially in testamentary or apocalyptic genres, was so common as to be transparent. In fact, ancients were often quite credulous. Jude identified the author of 1 Enoch as the antediluvian "seventh from Adam," and Tertullian addressed such concrete problems as how Enoch's teachings could have survived the flood. Such serious and literal commitment to Enochic authorship left no easy out for those who would receive Jude but not 1 Enoch. From the author of 2 Peter, who used most of Jude but omitted reference to Enoch or the Assumption of Moses, to Augustine, who granted that Enoch must have written something divine, I explore the various strategies early Christians adopted for dealing with Jude's use of an apocryphon. This survey illuminates the distinctions various early Christians were making—and were forced to make by Jude's citation— between inspiration and canonicity
James and Jude: a Rhetorical Dramatistic and Metaphoric Analysis
No full textThis study applies modern rhetorical methodologies in the textual analysis of two New Testament epistles, James and Jude. Following an artifactual background and literature review, the metaphoric and pentadic methodologies are summarized. James was examined using metaphoric methodology, which revealed the letter\u27s thematic elements more clearly than does biblical scholarship\u27s conventional topical treatment. Key portions of the artifact supported the theory of metaphoric t hought. Jude received a Burkean internal pentadic analysis, which suggested that the author relied on an act-agency ratio to describe doctrinal error. Among the textual conclusions apparent from these analyses are that James is more unified textually than previously regarded, and that the motive in Jude reveals the extent of doctrinal deception in early Christianity. Suggestions for future research include the continuance of these methodological applications, the merits of exploring the Metaphoric Pentad and a challenge that rhetorical and biblical scholars cooperate further in future interdisciplinary criticism
Understanding financial networks through minority game
No full textThe recent financial crisis has highlighted the fact that financial systems are complex in nature and understanding financial systems is not a trivial task. One of the major factors that contribute to the complexity of financial systems is the presence of human traders in these systems. Also, the interaction between these human traders leads to traders getting influenced by other trader’ decisions and thus adding another layer of complexity. It has been observed that, social interactions among traders form a social network that influences economic decisions made by these traders. This has lead to a study of a new branch of economics namely “social economics” which takes into consideration the fact that traders are influenced by their social circle. “Social economics” is gaining popularity because the study of psychological aspects of human behavior is able to enhance the modeling of economic models especially the allocation of resources. W.B. Arthur introduced the El Farol Bar Problem in 1994, which shows how agents with bounded rationality and no interaction can show emergent behavior. The Minority game is a variant of the El Farol Bar Problem and it basically shows how agents collectively behave in an ideal situation while competing, by means of adaptation, for a scarce resource even without interacting with each other. In order to extract more characteristics of financial markets from the Minority Game, we modify it by introducing communication among the agents, thereby letting them get influenced by each other’s decisions. We aim to observer herding phenomena as agents are likely to take actions similar to that of their neighbors. Financial markets are quite dynamic in nature and the interacting traders form a network whose topology dynamically evolves. We study the effect on the network topology due to dynamic updates of the link weights of a financial network. We start with two initial network topologies namely a torus network and a random network. We also observe herding phenomenon among the agents. The degree distribution of the nodes of this financial network is fat-tailed, which is characteristic of a network that is robust against random fluctuations.M. S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Savio Jude D'Souz
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