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King, Daniel Robert, Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Evolution: Editors, Agents, and the Crafting of a Prolific American Author
No full textKing, Daniel Robert, Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Evolution: Editors, Agents, and the Crafting of a Prolific American Author. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2016. Pp. 232. ISBN: 9781621902478 Thomas Mantzaris Cormac McCarthy’s literary achievements have granted him a position among the greatest living American authors of our times. Marked by a distinctive style and double-edged realities, his literary works have constituted seminal points in the development of American literary..
The Helsinki effect international norms, human rights, and the demise of communism
No full textIn The Helsinki Effect, author Daniel Thomas argues that the Helsinki Final Act 1975 transformed East-West relations and provided a common platform around which opposition could mobilise
Supplementary studies in Rio Grande Valley history
No full textCorrupted, a poem / Tom Emrick -- Primal Matamoros : ancient refuge among the Estuaries of the Rio Bravo / Craig H. Roell -- U.S.-Mexico relations during the establishment of the American Consulate in Matamoros : 1826-1842 / Melisa C. Galvan -- Captain King’s Cotton : the Civil War blockade-running adventures of Richard King and Mifflin Kenedy / Walter E. Wilson -- The sad saga of John V. Singer / Norman Rozeff -- Ulster and the Texas-Mexico Border : John McAllen and his family / Thomas Daniel Knight -- Joseph Kleiber and his letter press book / Anthony K. Knopp and Alma Ortiz Knopp -- Jose Agustin Quintero y Woodville : Confederate Special Agent / Jim Mills -- The Putegnat Family and J. P. Putegnat’s escape from a Yankee prison / Tara Putegnat -- Putting the pieces together : the rhetoric of oral tradition in the Twentieth-Century Rio Grande Valley / Monica Reyes and Andy Najera -- President Emeritus Miguel A. Nevarez and the transformation of South Texas / Rolando Avila -- The history of Baseball in Brownsville / Manuel Gutierrez -- Reynosa’s Iglesia Evangélica Esmirna and Pentecolism in Latin American / J. Steven Rice -- Spanish-speaking institutions and language assimilation in the Rio Grande Valley / Alexandre Couture Gagnon and Carlos Daniel Gutierrez Mannix -- English/Spanish flip/flop greetings in South Texas / Scott J. Bird -- Crimen organizado y migración clandestina en Tamaulipas / Oscar Misael Hernandez-Hernandez -- The drug cartel and drug-related violence in Matamoros / Daniel Perales -- An assessment and an explanation of the recent violence in Tamaulipas, Mexico / Arturo Zarate Ruiz -- The Border Wall, a poem / Tom Emrick.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/regionalhist/1014/thumbnail.jp
The Book of Daniel and manticism: a critical assessment of the view that the Book of Daniel derives from a mantic tradition
No full textThis dissertation examines the consensus view that is based on Hans-Peter
Müller's 1969 and 1972 articles: Daniel was a mantic wise man in the Mesopotamian
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court, and this was the self-understanding or aspiration of the maskilim of Dan 11:33, 35,
12:3, 10, who wrote the book. Chapter 1 reviews the arguments that make the mantic connection and Chapter 2 concludes that a direct connection with the Danes of Aqht, Ezek, and Jub, and with the angel in 1 Enoch should be rejected. There is evidence that the
tradition of a priest in Ezra 8: 2 and Neh 10: 7, and found also in the superscription to
the Old Greek of Bel, and 4 Ezra 12:10-11, and suggested the name.
Chapter 3 concludes that the portrayal of the court diviners in Dan 1-6 is wholly
negative and includes both the diviners, and the essence of the professions, i. e., the
ability to interpret a divine revelation. The critique is conveyed through the story line,
explicit criticisms, irony, and humour. Chapter 4 concludes that Daniel, the interpreter
of dreams and the writing on the wall, is distinguished from every other character and role. In the final form of Dan, Daniel as the divinely assisted each time he interprets, just as when he receives help from an interpreting angel in Dan 7-12.
Chapter 5 demonstrates that the portrayal of Daniel as the divinely assisted
interpreter makes sense of the reinterpretation of old prophecies against the Assyrians
as prophecies against Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Hab 2:2-4 and Isa 52-53 were also
understood as predictions about the maskilim themselves. Comparisons are then made
with the Teacher of Righteousness, the writers of the Hodayot, and with three Essenes
portrayed by Josephus. These too were portrayed as divinely assisted interpreters
Daniel Hannan, Thomas Paine, and the Rhetoric of Outrage
No full textThe purpose of this rhetorical study is to examine the textual charisma of Thomas Paine\u27s Common Sense and Daniel Hannan\u27s speech The Devalued Prime Minister of a Devalued Government and how that charisma made these artifacts successful in spreading outrage surrounding the historical and political events of their respective eras. The author uses Weber\u27s theory of charisma filtered through Rosenberg and Hirschberg\u27s expanded theory identifying lexical charisma, or the charisma of messages. The author analyzes Paine\u27s and Hannan\u27s use of persuasiveness, believability, and powerfulness, translating each of these characteristics into specific cues that can be identified in the individual texts. The author argues for a new subdivision of protest rhetoric called outrage rhetoric
Key to the genera of the Cerambycidae of western North America
No full textJames R. LaBonte, Joshua B. Dunlap, Daniel R. Clark, Thomas E. Valente, Joshua J. Vlach, Oregon Department of Agriculture.Title from PDF cover (viewed on October 20, 2021).Covers OCLC #1277514227 and OCLC #1226522396.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Extra studies in Rio Grande Valley history
No full textVaqueros del Valle, a poem / Manuel Medrano -- Matamoros and the Tejanos of Victoria and Goliad in the Texas Revolution: conflicting loyalties and ‘Assiduous Collaborators’ / Craig H. Roell -- Antonio Canales Rosillo / James Mills -- The origins of Salome Balli McAllen / Thomas Daniel Knight -- Sally Skull: the legend / Sondra Shands -- The Kawahata Family comes to the Valley / Randall Sakai – The Battle of Reynosa / Jesus Ramos -- Los días siguientes a la toma de Matamoros por los Constitucionalistas / Andres Cuellar -- H-E-B: an American and Valley success story / Norman Rozeff -- Algunas revistas culturales de Matamoros de 1940 a 1951 / Rosaura Alicia Davila -- Valerio Longoria: for a quarter a song / Manuel Medrano -- Hometown hero: technical Sergeant Noe R. Gonzales, B-17 flying fortress radio operator / Noe E. Perez -- Hidalgo County jury duty, 1954-1960 / Rene Rios -- Little steps by giants: a story of two minority groups working together for racial equality in Edinburg, Texas / Marissa Marmolejo and Thomas De La Cruz -- Timeless chaos: Hurricane Beulah’s march through the Lower Rio Grande Valley, September 1967 / Fernando Ortiz Jr. -- This one is for the masses: a (re)telling of South Texas and its people / Topacio Santivañez -- Migrant children and safe houses in the Tamaulipas-Texas border region / Oscar Misael Hernandez-Hernandez -- The inception of the idea of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley / Peter Gawenda -- Ephemeral Valley unity and the legislative creation of UTRGV / Anthony Knopp and Alma Ortiz Knopp -- The newest university in the 21st Century: the challenges of creating UT-RGV / Michael L. Faubion -- Attitudes toward immigration policy partisanship and ethnorace: a view from La Frontera / Jessica Lavariega Monforti and Adam McGlynn -- Interview with Patricia Cisneros Young about South Texas tales: stories my father told me / Mimosa Stephenson -- The transmigration of popular religion: praxis and renewal of syncretic faith across the U.S.-Texas frontier / Antonio Noe Zavaleta -- Creating the Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail / Roseann Bacha-Garza, Christopher L. Miller, and Russell K. Skowronek -- “Raspa man” a poem / Manuel Medrano -- Contributorshttps://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/regionalhist/1013/thumbnail.jp
Ethnic identity, political identity and ethnic conflict: simulating the effect of congruence between the two identities on ethnic violence and conflict
No full textThis thesis outlines and presents an alternative hypothetical process to the emergence of ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts, rather than being dependent upon pre-existing 'ancient hatreds', are instead the result of a congruence between ethnic and political identity which grants individuals the ability to use ethnicity to identify and eliminate political threats. This hypothesis is formed by the examination of three case studies of ethnic conflict: Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Croatia. This hypothesis is then formalised and tested using an agent based simulation in which agent interactions are dependent upon ethnic and political identity and the congruence between the two. As predicted there was a strong positive correlation between how accurately ethnic identity reflected political identity and the level of ethnically motivated violence in the simulation, although the relationship was not linear. Furthermore the effect of a shift in congruence was found to be roughly comparable to the effect of initialising agents with a moderate level of pre-existing ethnic antagonism
The Gospel of Thomas and the earliest texts of the synoptic gospels
No full textResearch on the Gospel of Thomas in the last quarter of a
century has made it clear that the origins of this apocryphal gospel
cannot
be
satisfactorily explained from a single point of view. The
author thus suggests that Thomas
be
understood as a growing collection
of sayings which originated in various places and languages, with some
logia being added to the collection after its inception. While this
suggestion is by no means new, there have been few extensive attempts
to study Thomas from such a presupposition.
Due to the need for a control group, only the logia which have
rather close parallels to the Synoptic gospels are investigated. Verbal and textual affinities are noted between these logia and the earliest texts of the Gospels (the Coptic versions, the Diatessaron, the
Old Syriac version, and other early versions and Christian writings).
Various degrees of probable contact between each logion and these
texts are assigned.
The results of this study give some idea as to the place of
origin, the original language, and the approximate date at which certain logia were added to the collection. Those sayings which show a
closer affinity to the Diatessaron, the Old Syriac version, or other
Syrian writings may
be
considered as having been added to the sayings
collection as it circulated in its earliest form, possibly in a Semitic language. Other logia which show no signs of awareness of a
Syrian reading, but which are similar to variants found in the Coptic
versions or other Egyptian texts, may well have originated in Egypt
and been added to the collection at a later stage. These results,
however, must await verification by those who might approach Thomas
from related, but different, perspectives
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The Gospel of Thomas and Torah Observance: Exploring Anti-nomic Rhetoric in the ‘Fifth Gospel’
No full textThis essay is concerned with the relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and torah observance as is discussed in the Gospel of Thomas’ logia 13, 14, and 53. I contend in this essay that torah observance and the correct interpretation of torah observance is a central theme both to the historical Jesus, whom we may attempt to parse from these logia, and to the Thomasine community, who would have been reading this text. To make this argument, I will be analyzing the preceding and contemporaneous writings of the Second-Temple period that speak to the concerns, anxieties, and general discourses with which the Gospel of Thomas is engaged. My research compiles discussions of torah observance, Jewish political concerns, changing theologies, and social upheaval as described in Second-Temple Jewish literature. In my essay, I accept Helmut Koester’s analysis of the Gospel of Thomas’ geographical and historical origin as Edessa in the latter half of the first century CE, near or slightly after the destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 CE, and for such a reason, I have attempted to make the best use of Second-Temple texts (or texts written shortly after the Second-Temple period) that may have influenced the composition of the Gospel of Thomas. I have included such Second-Temple writings as the Testament of Moses, the Book of Jubilees, the Greek additions to Esther, the Testament of Job, Second Maccabees, 3 Baruch, 4 Ezra, the hypothetical Q-gospel, the Synoptic Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and the epistles of Paul of Tarsus. In employing these texts, I am not suggesting that the Gospel of Thomas’ author had any direct knowledge of these works or that s/he was aware of their composition. Instead, I contend that these texts feed into a common discourse relating to the position of Judaism in the Second-Temple period, and for such reasons provide the modern scholar with insight into the concerns and questions posed in the Gospel of Thomas. In an effort to best explore the relationship between torah observance and the Gospel of Thomas, this essay has been divided into three major sections. The first section establishes the literary, political, and social climate of the Second-Temple period, in which the Gospel of Thomas was composed. The essay’s second section analyzes Jesus’ three proscriptions of logion 14 in the Gospel of Thomas: fasting, prayer, and charity. By using comparanda from other literary works of the time period, I will argue that these proscriptions are not nearly as anti-nomic as they initially appear. Instead, the statements in this logion are representative of Jesus’ enigmatic public teachings and are largely concerned with the abuse of torah observance by the Pharisees. In the third and final section of this essay, I discuss the anti-circumcision rhetoric of logion 53. Unlike logion 14, I contend that there is no evidence to suggest that this logion is a veiled criticism of the Pharisees or any other Jewish sects of Jesus’ time. Instead, I argue that this logion is not a saying of the historical Jesus but rather a benchmark of discussions and debates contemporaneous with the composition of the Gospel of Thomas. In this way, logion 53 is anti-nomic, proscribing circumcision of the flesh for Gentiles and Jews alike. Instead, in a telling way, this logion is revealing future debates between Jesus-followers and the large group of Jews who will form Rabbinic Judaism.
This essay is followed by an appendix consisting of the Coptic text of the Gospel of Thomas from the 1945 Nag Hammadi codices and my translation of the Coptic text into English
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