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Calendars in the Book of Esther: Purim, festivals and cosmology
No full textThe paper hypothesises that Esther added an extra month and a day to the king’s calendar to thwart the date of the annihilation of the Jews on Adar 13, a date chosen by Haman’s casting of lots. The result was that the Jews in the provinces were preparing and celebrating Passover when the Jews of Sushan, who had the benefit of additional time, were fighting then feasting. It argues that Esther’s intervention is directly related to Babylonian apotropaic calendar manipulation and that the mathematical and calendrical data in the text indicate how two different Babylonian calendars in the Book of Esther might work: a 354-day lunar calendar and a 360-day calendar. I also suggest is also a relationship between the chronology in Esther and with the reigns of the Persian kings. The essay includes comparative material relevant for the discourses on the role of different calendars in Second Temple Judaism, astrology, cosmology and Jewish festivals. The analysis of the suggested calendars and the textual data in Esther includes different dates for Shavuot followed by different groups in Second Temple Judaism, one of which is reflected in a 364-day calendar scheme that is also attested at Qumran. (9,000 words
Introduction to Studies on Magic and Divination in the Biblical World
No full textThis collection of essays by participants in the Magic and Divination in the Biblical World research group of the European Association of Biblical Studies represents a wide ranging, analytical, and often unconventional approach to a relatively neglected area within biblical studies. The original articles by new and established scholars include Mesopotamian demonology, Akkadian literary influences, exorcism, healing, calendars, astrology, bibliomancy, dreams, ritual magic, priestly divination, prophecy, magic in the Christian Apocrypha and the New Testament, magic in rabbinic literature, and Jewish biblical magic bowls
Introduction to Studies on Magic and Divination in the Biblical World
No full textThis collection of essays by participants in the Magic and Divination in the Biblical World research group of the European Association of Biblical Studies represents a wide ranging, analytical, and often unconventional approach to a relatively neglected area within biblical studies. The original articles by new and established scholars include Mesopotamian demonology, Akkadian literary influences, exorcism, healing, calendars, astrology, bibliomancy, dreams, ritual magic, priestly divination, prophecy, magic in the Christian Apocrypha and the New Testament, magic in rabbinic literature, and Jewish biblical magic bowls
Calendars in the Book of Esther:Purim, festivals and cosmology
No full textThe paper hypothesises that Esther added an extra month and a day to the king’s calendar to thwart the date of the annihilation of the Jews on Adar 13, a date chosen by Haman’s casting of lots. The result was that the Jews in the provinces were preparing and celebrating Passover when the Jews of Sushan, who had the benefit of additional time, were fighting then feasting. It argues that Esther’s intervention is directly related to Babylonian apotropaic calendar manipulation and that the mathematical and calendrical data in the text indicate how two different Babylonian calendars in the Book of Esther might work: a 354-day lunar calendar and a 360-day calendar. I also suggest is also a relationship between the chronology in Esther and with the reigns of the Persian kings. The essay includes comparative material relevant for the discourses on the role of different calendars in Second Temple Judaism, astrology, cosmology and Jewish festivals. The analysis of the suggested calendars and the textual data in Esther includes different dates for Shavuot followed by different groups in Second Temple Judaism, one of which is reflected in a 364-day calendar scheme that is also attested at Qumran. (9,000 words
Introduction to Studies on Magic and Divination in the Biblical World
No full textThis collection of essays by participants in the Magic and Divination in the Biblical World research group of the European Association of Biblical Studies represents a wide ranging, analytical, and often unconventional approach to a relatively neglected area within biblical studies. The original articles by new and established scholars include Mesopotamian demonology, Akkadian literary influences, exorcism, healing, calendars, astrology, bibliomancy, dreams, ritual magic, priestly divination, prophecy, magic in the Christian Apocrypha and the New Testament, magic in rabbinic literature, and Jewish biblical magic bowls
Calendars in the Book of Esther:Purim, festivals and cosmology
No full textThe paper hypothesises that Esther added an extra month and a day to the king’s calendar to thwart the date of the annihilation of the Jews on Adar 13, a date chosen by Haman’s casting of lots. The result was that the Jews in the provinces were preparing and celebrating Passover when the Jews of Sushan, who had the benefit of additional time, were fighting then feasting. It argues that Esther’s intervention is directly related to Babylonian apotropaic calendar manipulation and that the mathematical and calendrical data in the text indicate how two different Babylonian calendars in the Book of Esther might work: a 354-day lunar calendar and a 360-day calendar. I also suggest is also a relationship between the chronology in Esther and with the reigns of the Persian kings. The essay includes comparative material relevant for the discourses on the role of different calendars in Second Temple Judaism, astrology, cosmology and Jewish festivals. The analysis of the suggested calendars and the textual data in Esther includes different dates for Shavuot followed by different groups in Second Temple Judaism, one of which is reflected in a 364-day calendar scheme that is also attested at Qumran. (9,000 words
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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