23 research outputs found
Teaching Maths with Confidence: Insights for Change, a Policy Document
No full textThe research and its publication were funded by the late Dame Shirley Conran DBE through
Learnus and The Maths Anxiety Trust.
The research was carried out by two teams of researchers:
Fay Cosgrove and Zebedee Friedman (both University of Cardiff)
Dr Rosalyn Hyde (University of Southampton), Dr Elizabeth Parr (Liverpool John Moores University)
and Dr Rachel Stenhouse (Manchester Metropolitan University)
The members of the Steering Committee included all members of the research teams and in addition
Professor Margaret Brown (King’s College London, chair), Dame Professor Celia Hoyles (University
College London), Caroline Shott (Learnus), Noor Al-Musawi (Greenford High School), Dr Sylvia
Gattas (University College London)
Fay Cosgrove acted as Research Co-ordinator, and was the author of this report
“How Thankful We Should Be to Know the Truth”: Zebedee Coltrin’s Witness of the Heavenly Origins of Temple Ordinances
No full textIn this article, we examine circumstantial evidence for the claim of Zebedee Coltrin, contained in a secondhand report within a heretofore unpublished letter, that Jesus Christ came personally to the Kirtland Temple over an extended period to give instruction about temple work. After summarizing what Joseph Smith seems to have known about temple ordinances by 1836, we attempt to show when and how the experience reported in the letter might have occurred. We give short biographies of the participants in the story of the letter: Luna Ardell “Dell” Hinckley Paul, Zebedee Coltrin, and “Brother Potter.” We cite Matthew. B. Brown’s observations on the question of why it might have been expedient that the Saints wait several years before receiving the full complement of temple ordinances that were eventually administered in Nauvoo. Both a typescript and a reproduction of the manuscript of the letter are provided, as is an additional letter to family members from co-author K-Lynn Paul describing the circumstances under which his grandmother’s letter was found and donated to the Church. The Dell Paul letter is consistent with arguments that the Prophet learned much about temple ordinances through personal experiences with heavenly beings, translations, and revelations as much as a decade before he got to Nauvoo. If the letter’s claim that Jesus Christ “stood and talked to them just as I am talking to you” is accurately reported, it provides an additional witness of the Savior’s frequent presence in Kirtland in 1836
RCMIP Phase 1 Data
No full textRCMIP phase 1 dataset accompanying the initial submission of Reduced complexity model intercomparison project phase 1: Protocol, results and initial observations to Geoscientific Model Development. The full author list can be found in the paper.</p
The Authorship of John and the Identity of the Beloved Disciple
No full textThe Gospel of John, the fourth gospel in the New Testament, is one of the most popular books of scripture containing a powerful introduction as well as many oft-quoted verses. However, since the early 19th century the authorship of the Gospel of John has been challenged by a number of scholars as they have proposed alternative authors against the traditional ascription of the Gospel to John the Son of Zebedee. Beginning with David Friedrich Strauss in 1835, an increasing number of scholars have shifted to believing that other sources are responsible for producing the fourth gospel. Raymond Brown suggests that the gospel arose out of a community of early Christian believers, a Johannine Community. Richard Bauckham claims that a different John, John the Elder, is the author of the fourth Gospel. Lastly, Ben Witherington III proposes that Lazarus is the author and the Beloved Disciple. The fourth position examined, and argued for, is the traditional understanding that John the Apostle, the Son of Zebedee, is both the author of the Gospel and the Beloved Disciple. Within all four of these arguments, both the internal arguments of scripture and the external arguments from writers and accounts in the 1st and 2nd centuries were considered, though greater weight was often given to the gospel and other passages of scripture that provide clues towards the identity of the author of the gospel and, consequently, the Beloved Disciple
John Mark, Author of the Gospel of John with Jesus' mother
No full textThis article shows that the anonymous author of the Fourth Gospel, called the Gospel of John,
probably was John Mark, a young inhabitant of Jerusalem and, after Jesus’ resurrection,
member of the first church of Jerusalem and author of the Gospel of Mark. Characteristics of
the author of the Fourth Gospel, who is described and acts in it as “the disciple whom Jesus
loved” and who is described by the Early Church Fathers as “a priest [who] wore the
sacerdotal plate”, are compared to the characteristics of John Mark, known from the Acts of
the Apostles and Paul’s letters, and also to the characteristics of the anonymous rich young
ruler and of the anonymous fleeing young man, both known from Mark’s gospel as
approaching, but then leaving, the still mortal Jesus. This article also shows that the
traditional identification of the anonymous author with the apostle John, son of Zebedee, is
impossible.
The usual argument against John Mark as the beloved disciple and author of the Fourth
Gospel is that he was not an apostle following Jesus, so he could not have written about Jesus’
activities outside of Jerusalem. This article says that John Mark could have written about
these activities, if he had the co-operation of Mary, the virgin mother of Jesus, who was also
his own ‘mother’ from the moment when Jesus, dying on the cross, recommended them to
each other as ‘mother’ and ‘son’, saying to them “Behold your son” and “Behold your
mother”. From that moment he even “took her to his own home”. Jesus’ mother, who is
anonymous in the Fourth Gospel, just like the author and beloved disciple himself is
anonymous in it, is a co-author of this gospel, and this also explains the literary and
theological difference between the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of John
Jeszcze o autorstwie IV Ewangelii
No full textBasing himself, implicitly or explicitly, on the findings of diachronic and synchronic studies on the author of the Fourth Gospel, the author presents his own opinion about the authorship of this Gospel. He believes that it is John, the son of Zebedee, on of the Twelve Apostles. The work of John the Apostle is continued by John’s collaborator, one of the most prominent personalities of John’s community, namely John the Presbyter. It is in his surrounding, in Ephesus, that the proper edition of the Fourth Gospel was completed. And it is there that John the Apostle, the father of church community, which came from Syria to Asia Minor, was called “the disciple whom Jesus loved”. The last editor, after the death of John the Presbyter, in face of the dangers threatening the Church in Asia, intended to bind it closely with the authority of the “beloved disciple”, that is John son of Zebedee. He did it through his final remarks on the writing of the Gospel. From that time, that is from the time of the last edition the belief that John the Apostle was its author has paved its victorious way through ages. At the time the main editor of the Fourth Gospel, i.e. John the Presbyter, has fallen into oblivion
On the implausibility of identifying the disciple in John 18:15–16 as a Galilean Fisherman
No full textJohn 18:15–16 mentions an unknown disciple of Jesus who “was known to the high priest” giving him access to the events in Caiaphas’s courtyard. A minority of scholars maintain the identity of this disciple is consistent with John, the son of Zebedee, whom they also maintain was the author of the Fourth Gospel. To support this position, the commonplace fiction of Galilean fishermen belonging to an aspiring “middle-class” is asserted. This article reviews the arguments and suggests that a more robust representation of class stratification in the ancient world demonstrates the implausibility of such a scenario
On the Implausibility of Identifying the Disciple in John 18:15–16 as a Galilean Fisherman
No full textJohn 18:15–16 mentions an unknown disciple of Jesus who “was known to the high priest” giving him access to the events in Caiaphas’s courtyard. A minority of scho- lars maintain the identity of this disciple is consistent with John, the son of Zebedee, whom they also maintain was the author of the Fourth Gospel. To support this posi- tion, the commonplace fiction of Galilean fishermen belonging to an aspiring “middle- class” is asserted. This article reviews the arguments and suggests that a more robust representation of class stratification in the ancient world demonstrates the implausi- bility of such a scenario
Theological Affinities Between the Fourth Gospel and the Book of Revelation
No full textThe focus of this study is on the exploration of theological affinities between the Fourth Gospel and Revelation. While I personally hold to the apostolic authorship of both writings by John, the son of Zebedee — admittedly a minority view in contemporary Johannine scholarship—the specific identity of the author will not be of primary concern here. Rather, my focus will be on the plausibility (or lack thereof) of common authorship, whether by the apostle or another writer. If it can be shown that the differences in outlook between the Fourth Gospel and Revelation may be accounted for by different subject matter, genres, and circumstances addressed, an important objection against the common authorship of the two documents will be removed
Vaccination of pigs with a DNA construct expressing an influenza virus M2-nucleoprotein fusion protein exacerbates disease after challenge with influenza A virus
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