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Hope or Judgment in Ez 25,12–17
No full textAbstract: Ez 25,12–17 depicts one conflict zone peppered with violence and bloodshed, where Edom and Philistia took bitter vengeance against the house of Judah, and in turn incurred the divine retaliations. This essay argues that the oracles against Edom and Philistia in Ez 25,12–17 contain highly significant semantic parallels with other biblical texts narrating the divine judgment executed against Jerusalem. Utilizing those semantic parallels in the literary context of Ez 25,12–17, the oracles against Edom and Philistia create a radical rhetorical impact, such that the house of Judah, though victimized, is not compensated materially. Instead, the oracles peculiarly form an oblique rhetoric, affirming not only the dispossession of belligerent Edom and Philistia, but also that of Judah. Zusammenfassung: Ez 25,12–17 schildert einen Konflikt, in welchem es nicht an Gewalt und Blutvergießen mangelt. Edom und Philistäa nehmen bittere Rache am Haus Juda und erleiden deshalb ihre göttliche Strafe. In diesem Aufsatz wird argumentiert, dass die Sprüche gegen Edom und Philistäa in Ez 25,12–17 signifikante semantische Parallelen mit anderen biblischen Texten aufweisen, welche das göttliche Strafgericht gegen Juda behandeln. Dieser Beitrag schließt mit Beobachtungen zu den rhetorischen Funktionen dieser semantischen Parallelen im literarischen Kontext von Ez 25,12–17. Es wird dargelegt, dass das Haus Juda, obgleich es gepeinigt wurde, dennoch nicht materiell entschädigt wird. Auf eigenartige Weise wenden die Sprüche in Ez 25,12–17 eine indirekte Rhetorik an, um sowohl die Enteignung der Edomiter und Philister als auch die Enteignung der Judäer zu bekräftigen. Résumé: Ez 25,12–17 met en scène un conflit qui ne manque ni de violence, ni d’effusion de sang. Edom et la Philistie ont tiré vengeance de la maison de Juda et subissent pour cette raison leur punition divine. Cet article montre que les sentences contre Edom et la Philistie en Ez 25,12–17 ont des parallèles sémantiques signifiants avec d’autres textes bibliques, qui traitent du jugement contre Jérusalem. L’article se termine avec des observations sur les fonctions rhétoriques de ces parallèles sémantiques dans le contexte littéraire d’Ez 25,12–17. En utilisant ces parallèles en Ez 25,12–17, les oracles contre Edom et la Philistie créent un impact rhétorique fort, de telle manière que la maison de Juda, même si elle est posée en tant que victime, n’est pas dédommagée matériellement pour autant. En lieu et place, les oracles en Ez 25,12–17 utilisent une rhétorique »oblique« pour affirmer non seulement la dépossession des Edomites et des Philistins, mais aussi celle des Judéens
The Flood Narratives in Gen 6-9 and Darren Aronofsky's Film "Noah"
Full text linkSince the release of Darren Aronofsky's film "Noah" in 2014, questions have been raised with regard to the relation between the film and the Bible. This article compares the flood stories in Gen 69 and Aronofsky's film "Noah. " Probing some interesting and sig-nificant divergences between these two texts, I argue that the film "Noah " offers a good opportunity to discuss the open nature of the biblical texts, which often stimulates further transformations and interpretations
‘You Were the (Divine) Cherub’: a potential challenge to Yhwh's Sole Divinity in Ezekiel 28.14
No full textAccording to the Masoretic vocalizations, Ezek. 28.14 directly identifies the king of Tyre as 'the anointed covering cherub'. Hector Patmore has recently suggested that the Masoretic vocalizations and accentuation produce an awkward reading of the verse, and that the Hebrew consonantal text does not perceive the Tyrian king as a cherub but a god. This article undertakes a two-fold examination of this controversial verse. First, it contends on syntactical grounds that the Masoretic identification of the Tyrian king with the cherub renders an intelligible reading of the consonantal text. Second, it suggests that the Masoretic presentation of the Tyrian king as a cherub is conceptually compatible with Patmore's argument for the divinity of the Tyrian king in Ezek. 28.14. By comparing the Tyrian king to a cherub, the verse extols the Tyrian king to a nearly, if not fully, divine status, which potentially challenges the sole divinity of Yhwh
The enemies within: Gog of Magog in Ezekiel 38–39
Full text linkThe most extensive descriptions of Gog and Magog in the Hebrew Bible appear in Ezekiel 38–39. At various stages of their political career, both Reagan and Bush have linked Gog and Magog to the bêtes noires of the USA, identifying them either as the ‘communistic and atheistic’ Russia or the ‘evil’ Iraq. Biblical scholars, however, seek to contextualise Gog of Magog in the historical literary setting of the ancient Israelites. Galambush identifies Gog in Ezekiel as a cipher for Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king, who acted as Judah’s oppressor in the 6th century BCE. More recently, Klein concludes that Gog, along with his companions, is ‘eine Personifikation aller Feinde, die Israel im Buch Ezechiel gegenüberstehen’. Despite their differences in detail, these scholars, such as Reagan and Bush, work with a dualism that considers only the features of Judah’s enemies incorporated into Gog’s characteristics. Via an analysis of the semantic allusions, literary position and early receptions of Ezekiel 38–39, this article argues that Gog and his entourage primarily display literary attributes previously assigned to Judah’s political allies
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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