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    Reading Joshua as Christian scripture

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    The perception of historical and ethical difficulties associated with Joshua in the twentieth century have led to difficulties in appropriating it as Christian Scripture. I argue that from the perspective of cultural memory Joshua nonetheless has an important role as Scripture, but, moreover, that in engagement with patristic interpretation such difficulties call for Joshua to be read in a different way from that in which it has been since at least the time of Calvin onwards. I develop a way of reading based on recent anthropological approaches to myth, such as those of Victor Turner and Seth Kunin in particular. I combine this treatment of myth with Paul Ricoeur's approach to narrative hermeneutics and the hermeneutics of testimony to produce a reading of Joshua in dialogue with its reception and use in order to argue for a constructive contemporary means of reading Joshua as Christian Scriptur

    Letter from Seth Low

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    Whittier House scrapbooks document Whittier House programs, events, and anniversary celebrations through newspaper clippings, lecture fliers, newsletters, event programs, and ticket stubs. Newspaper clippings are primarily from the Jersey Journal. There is also Whittier House fundraising materials, including pamphlets, appeal letters, brochures, and postcards. The Whittier House Social Settlement, the first settlement house in New Jersey, was established in Jersey City, N.J. (Hudson County) in 1894. Founded by Cornelia Foster Bradford, who would remain with the organization as headworker until 1926, Whittier House was based on the settlement house, Toynbee Hall, in England. Whittier House provided various recreational and educational programs, along with much needed social services, for the immigrant populations of Jersey City. Many of these successful services were used as models for large-scale social reform movements through the state. In 1935, the Whittier House was taken over by the Boys' Club of Jersey City

    Nur-i-Afshan V.10 no.10 March 1906

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    Contents: Foreign telegrams [Letter] - Editorial notes - He supplants not supplements by Joshua, Seth - What the thibetant lad said to himself This volume of Nur-i-Afshan published weekly on Fridays from Ludhiana

    Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series: Seth Warshaw, Class of 2023

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    The Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series seeks to give our readers further insight into the Articles and Notes published in the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. In this interview, Seth Warshaw discusses his Note, And a Second Opinion for All… And Anything Else? The Jack Eichel Saga and Issues of Medical Autonomy, which was published in Volume 41, Issue 1. This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on October 10, 2023. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above

    Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series: Seth Warshaw, Class of 2023

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    The Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series seeks to give our readers further insight into the Articles and Notes published in the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. In this interview, Seth Warshaw discusses his Note, And a Second Opinion for All… And Anything Else? The Jack Eichel Saga and Issues of Medical Autonomy, which was published in Volume 41, Issue 1. This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on October 10, 2023. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above

    A video browser that learns by example

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    Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-74).by Joshua Seth Wachman.M.S

    'Comments' on Charles Stephenson's 'Process of Community' and Ronald Foresta's 'Evolution of the Modern Urban Core' - from the 8th NJ History Symposium

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    This comments paper by Seth M. Scheiner, an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, is from 'New Jersey's Ethnic Heritage: Papers Presented at the Eighth Annual New Jersey History Symposium, December 4, 1976.' Scheiner critiques two research papers from the 8th NJ History Symposium: Charles Stephenson's 'Process of Community' and Ronald Foresta's 'Evolution of the Modern Urban Core.' He also provides additional research related to urban models, demographical statistics, and immigration patterns in New Jersey

    Improved algorithm visualization and witness detection in educational fusion

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    Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-108).by Joshua E. Glazer.M.Eng
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