7,239 research outputs found
058. Mark 8:27-35
No full textChapel Sermon by Glenn Nielsen from Mark 8:27-35 on Thursday, January 18, 2007
137. Mark 5:21-43
No full textChapel Sermon by Glenn Nielsen from Mark 5:21-43 on Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Data for: De-Neolithisation in southern Norway inferred from Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates
No full textSupplementary data for research paper published in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. The author of supplemental data 1-3 is Svein Vatsvåg Nielsen
078. Mark 10:1-16
No full textChapel Sermon by Glenn Nielsen from Mark 10:1-16 on Wednesday, January 7, 2026.
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The Gospel on the Margins: The Ideological Function of the Patristic Tradition on the Evangelist Mark
No full textIn spite of the virtually unanimous patristic opinion that the evangelist Mark was the interpreter of Peter, one of the most prestigious apostolic founding figures in Christian memory, the Gospel of Mark was mostly neglected in the patristic period. Not only is the text of Mark the least well represented of the canonical Gospels in terms of the number of patristic citations, commentaries and manuscripts, the explicit comments about the evangelist Mark reveal some ambivalence about its literary or theological value. In my survey of the reception of Mark from Papias of Hierapolis until Clement of Alexandria, I will argue that the reason why the patristic writers were hesitant to embrace the Gospel of Mark was that they perceived the text to be amenable to the Christological beliefs and social praxis of rival Christian factions. The patristic tradition about Mark may have little historical basis, but it had an important ideological function in appropriating the text in the name of an apostolic authority from the margins or periphery
Conclusions:The 2014 EP Elections as a Lens on Euroscepticism
No full textDrawing on the findings of the previous chapters, we assess whether it continues to be helpful for European Parliament (EP) elections to be termed “second order” and/or “second rate”. The 2014 EP elections were indeed still second rate and also predominantly second order. Being “about Europe”, which undoubtedly was also the case, does not make them less deserving of either title, and the character of these elections that made them so extraordinary would have been very different had they not remained predominantly second order. The final chapter assesses if the character displayed by the 2014 EP elections is likely to be reflected in later national elections and the circumstances in which those results could lead to substantial policy and/or membership changes in the European Union (EU)
The Eurosceptic 2014 European Parliament Elections
No full textHere we set the scene for the book, questioning the reasons for the phenomenal success of eurosceptic parties at the European Parliament (EP) elections of 2014 and considering the likely consequences. Above all, did these elections represent a new phenomenon, no longer “second order” in nature? We defi ne this term and introduce a new term—“second rate”—to describe an aspect of EP elections that distinguishes them from other second-order elections with more immediately evident policy consequences.The chapter goes on to discuss whether the second-order character of these elections might actually help to account for their moreremarkable features. It also defi nes and introduces additional terms that are used in the book and provides an overview of the chapters that follow
Nielsen acquiring Arbitron: a merger between two monopolies
No full textOn Sep 30, 2013, Nielsen Holdings N.V. announced a deal that it had successfully acquired Arbitron Inc. In this case study, the author discussed some possible impacts the Nielsen and Arbitron merger would have on the participants and the entire media industry. Based on Nielsen and Arbitron’s activities and new cross platform products, Nielsen and Arbitron’s merger would not only affect television and radio measurement, but also the field of cross-platform measurement. The author analyzed this case by providing background information prior to this acquisition, such as the digital viewing trends, online measurement and multi-screen demographics. In order to analyze the results of this case, the author combined Nielsen’s financial performance, new product information, an interview with a Nielsen employee and some comments from Nielsen clients. The results were presented in a “3C” structure; “Company”, “Customer” and “Competition”.M.S., Television Management -- Drexel University, 201
Incomprehension or resistance? : the Markan disciples and the narrative logic of Mark 4:1—8:30
No full textThe characterization of the Markan disciples has been and continues to be the object of much scholarly reflection and speculation. For many, the Markan author’s presentation of Jesus’ disciples holds a key, if not the key, to unlocking the purpose and function of the gospel as a whole. Commentators differ as to whether the Markan disciples ultimately serve a pedagogical or polemical function, yet they are generally agreed that the disciples in Mark come off rather badly, especially when compared to their literary counterparts in Matthew, Luke, and John.
This narrative-critical study considers the characterization of the Markan disciples within the Sea Crossing movement (Mark 4:1–8:30). While commentators have, on the whole, interpreted the disciples’ negative characterization in this movement in terms of lack of faith and/or incomprehension, neither of these, nor a combination of the two, fully accounts for the severity of language leveled against the disciples by the narrator (6:52) and Jesus (8:17–18). Taking as its starting point an argument by Jeffrey B. Gibson (1986) that the harshness of Jesus’ rebuke in Mark 8:14–21 is occasioned not by the disciples’ lack of faith or incomprehension but by their active resistance to his Gentile mission, this investigation uncovers additional examples of the disciples’ resistance to Gentile mission, offering a better account of their negative portrayal within the Sea Crossing movement and helping explain many of their other failures.
In short, this study argues that in Mark 4:1–8:26, the disciples are characterized as resistant to Jesus’ Gentile mission and to their participation in that mission, the chief consequence being that they are rendered incapable of recognizing Jesus’ vocational identity as Israel’s Messiah (Thesis A). This leads to a secondary thesis, namely, that in Mark 8:27–30, Peter’s recognition of Jesus’ messianic identity indicates that the disciples have finally come to accept Jesus’ Gentile mission and their participation in it (Thesis B).
“Chapter One: Introduction” offers a selective review of scholarly treatments of the Markan disciples, which shows that few scholars attribute resistance, let alone purposeful resistance, to the disciples.
“Chapter Two: The Rhetoric of Repetition” introduces the methodological tools, concepts, and perspectives employed in the study. It includes a section on narrative criticism, which focuses upon the story-as-discoursed and the implied author and reader, and a section on Construction Grammar, a branch of cognitive linguistics founded by Charles Fillmore and further developed by Paul Danove, which focuses upon semantic and narrative frames and case frame analysis.
“Chapter Three: The Sea Crossing Movement, Mark 4:1–8:30” addresses the question of Markan structure and argues that Mark 4:1–8:30 comprises a single, unified, narrative movement, whose action and plot is oriented to the Sea of Galilee and whose most distinctive feature is the network of sea crossings that transport Jesus and his disciples back and forth between Jewish and Gentile geopolitical spaces.
Following William Freedman, “Chapter Four: The Literary Motif” introduces two criteria (frequency and avoidability) for determining objectively what constitutes a literary motif and provides the methodological basis and starting point for the analyses performed in chapters five and six.
“Chapter Five: The Sea Crossing Motif” establishes and then carries out a lengthy narrative analysis of the Sea Crossing motif, which is oriented around Mark’s use of θάλασσα (thalassa) and πλοῖον (ploion), and “Chapter Six: The Loaves Motif” does the same for The Loaves motif, oriented around Mark’s use of ἄρτος (artos).
Finally, “Chapter Seven: The Narrative Logic of the Disciples (In)comprehension” draws together all narrative, linguistic, and exegetical insights of the previous chapters and offers a single coherent reading of the Sea Crossing movement that establishes Theses A and B.
Addition formulae for Nielsen numbers and for Nielsen type numbers of fibre preserving maps
No full textAbstractIn this paper we generalize well known product formulae for the Nielsen number of a fibre preserving map, to give addition formulae for such maps. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for when a naïve addition formula expressing the Nielsen number of the fibre map as a simple sum of Nielsen numbers on the fibres is valid. In the second part of the paper we extend to the nonorientable situation the definition and properties of a Nielsen type number of a fibre preserving map introduced by the first author
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