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Matthew Henry: The Bible, Prayer, and Piety – A Tercentenary Celebration
No full textThe summer of 2014 marked the tercentenary of the death of Matthew Henry (1662–1714), a leading figure among early eighteenth-century Dissenters and author of the six-volume Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1707–1714/25). This monumental work, which by 1855 had already been published in twenty-five different editions, attempted a peculiarly practical approach to the biblical text and continues to be widely used and readily accessible even today in both print and online versions. The theme of foreign (or ‘strange’) wives and Israelite intermarriage is one which occurs throughout the Hebrew Bible and, accordingly, throughout Matthew Henry’s commentary upon it. Where it appears, the practice of intermarriage is characterized by Henry as (at best) unwise and (at worst) a very real threat to both social and religious cohesion. This essay explores how Henry deals with the issue of ‘strange wives’, why he believes they continue to pose a threat, and (in view of the overall intention of his commentary) what ‘practical observations’ he offers to his reader as a result. In doing so it is argued that Henry’s commentary traces a thematic thread from the ante-diluvian age to the post-exilic period of calamities resulting from mixed marriages between ‘professors of religion’ and their ‘strange wives’
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No full textConference Director:Laura LukesConference Assistant:Clare MooreLogistical Coordinator:Ashleen GaydaÃÂ Advisory Committee:Jan ArminioKimberly EbyMichelle LaFranceSusan LawrenceJessica MatthewsJanette MuirThomas PolkShelley ReidDarlene SmucnyDiane SmithJoy TaylorBethany UsherÃÂ Logistical Support:Office of Events ManagementEvents ProductionMason CateringConference Proceedings:Laura LukesClare MooreJohn WarrenDevelopment Coordinator:Ashleen GaydaProgram Design:Ashleen GaydaÃÂ Our sponsors:Blackboard;ÃÂ 4-VA; Adam Matthew (Primary sources for teachign and research); Lynda.com;ÃÂ nClass; Center for the Arts; Hylton Performing Arts Center; George Mason University; University Libraries; Mason Athletics; Mason Bookstore; George Mason University: Computer Science; George Mason University: Volgenau School of Engineering; Alexander Street PressOur supporters:College of Education and Human Development; College of Health and Human Services; College of Humanities and Social Sciences; College of Science; College of Visual and Performing Arts; Graduate Student Life; Higher Education Program; Information Technology Services; Office of Digital Learning; Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activities, and Research; Schar School of Policy and Government; School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution; School of Business; University Life; Volgenau School of Engineering; Writing Across the Curriculum; and The Writing Center
Nelson A. Mason and Matthew Forney Steele Collection, 1885-1960
Get PDFUnpublished written histories, including "Chief Sitting Bull's Latter Days," by Nelson A. Mason and "The Death of Sitting Bull, a Reminiscence," by M.F. Steele; legal agreement between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show concerning his appearance in 1885; newspaper clippings; and other papers
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No full textConference Director:Laura LukesLogistical Coordinator:Ashleen GaydaÃÂ Advisory Committee:Jan ArminioKimberly EbyMichelle LaFranceSusan LawrenceJessica MatthewsJanette MuirShelley ReidDarlene SmucnyDiane SmithJoy TaylorBethany UsherÃÂ Logistical Support:Office of Events ManagementEvents ProductionMason CateringSamira LloydConference Proceedings:Ashleen GaydaLaura LukesChyna StatenJohn WarrenJeri WieringaDevelopment Coordinator:Ashleen GaydaOur sponsors:Blackboard, Inc.; 4-VA; Adam Matthew (Primary sources for teachign and research); Lynda.com; Springer Nature; ProQuest; Elsevier; Center for the Arts; Hylton Performing Arts Center; George Mason University; University Libraries; Alexander Street Press; Mason Athletics; Mason BookstoreOur supporters:College of Education and Human Development; College of Health and Human Services; College of Humanities and Social Sciences; College of Science; College of Visual and Performing Arts; Graduate Student Life; Higher Education Program; Information Technology Services; Office of Digital Learning; Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activities, and Research; Schar School of Policy and Government; School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution; School of Business; University Life; Volgenau School of Engineering; Writing Across the Curriculum; and The Writing Center
Citation expectations: are they realized? Study of the Matthew index for Russian papers published abroad
Get PDFWe consider the "Matthew effect" in the citation process which leads to reallocation (or misallocation) of the citations received by scientific papers within the same journals. The case when such reallocation correlates with a country where an author works is investigated. Russian papers in chemistry and physics published abroad were examined. We found that in both disciplines in about 60% of journals Russian papers are cited less than average ones. However, if we consider each discipline as a whole, citedness of a Russian paper in physics will be on the average level, while chemistry publications receive about 16% citations less than one may expect from the citedness of the journals where they appear. Moreover, Russian chemistry papers mostly become undercited in the leading journals of the field. Characteristics of a "Matthew index" indicator and its significance for scientometric studies are also discussed
Digital residence
No full textRecent attempts by gallery websites to exhibit work online, whether that work exists as a physical object or a digital file, have failed. Proposals and implementations of online interactive art have been sparse. The fundamental flaw in the design of gallery websites, and the attempt to translate the traditional art space signifiers, is a failure to properly consider the utilization of online space by our digital bodies. This thesis represents a broader research into a concept that is reflected in my videos, installations, and drawings.M.F.A.Includes bibliographical references (p. 11)Includes summaryby Matthew T. Pose
Replication Data for "The Mason-Alberta Phonetic Segmenter: A forced alignment system based on deep neural networks and interpolation"
No full textThese are the TextGrid outputs of the alignments run during the evaluation process for the MAPS paper. They are separated into train, validation, and test sets. The results from training and running the Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA) are also provided. The tar file for MFA contains subfolders for each of the train, validation, and test sets. The code that evaluated these files can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/MasonPhonLab/MAPS_Paper_Code.
If your operating system does not have an untarring utility pre-installed to open the tar files, 7-zip may prove a good option: https://www.7-zip.org
An Interview with Matthew Kaiser on Competition and Play
No full textAn Interview with Matthew Kaiser on Competition and Play, by Sean Scanlan. Matthew Kaiser, the author of The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept (Stanford UP, 2012) says that “[c]ompetition is the disease from which modern life suffers,” and that “[c]ompetition is the only cure” for this suffering. This contradictory pairing seems to get at the heart of his thesis: play, as a totalizing, umbrella-like concept, emanates from a host of philosophical, political, and scientific work produced by Victorians who posed many of their ideas of play in sports metaphors, competitive logics, and narratives of struggle. Kaiser goes beyond the dichotomy of competition and play/competition or play, by stating “I’m interested in the totalizing potential of both concepts, the way that play, or competition for that matter, swallows the world whole, becomes in the minds of so many people, the organizing principle of reality, whether of culture or nature or consciousness, or of all three.
'Woe to you, hypocrites!' : law and leaders in The Gospel of Matthew
Get PDFThis thesis seeks to move beyond the impasse in Matthean scholarship that posits the reason for conflict in Matthew 23 with the authorial community. A framework is developed that allows the possibility that the gospel was received and understood by a widespread, general audience that itself was not necessarily embroiled in conflict. Multiple complementary methods are used to analyze how an ancient audience might expect conflict and work through its development in the narrative. Analysis of comparative biographical literature and of Old Testament references and allusions shows that readers could expect in literature the type and intensity of conflict exhibited in Matthew 23. The gospel's internal narrative development provides unity to the conflict episodes in Matthew 9-23. It also offers rationale for the escalation of conflict for which Matthew 23 is the summary. Chapter One: The Shape of the Discussion surveys representative works including redaction, social scientific, socio-historical, narrative and genre critics, to understand the options for studying conflict in Matthew. Reader-response oriented genre criticism provides language for framing reader expectations. Chapter Two: Expecting Conflict examines expectations that can be associated with Matthew's use of the Old Testament and by comparison with ancient biographies. Chapter Three: The Conflict Builds works systematically through each of the points of contact between Jesus and the leaders of Israel in chapters 9-22 organized by three topics: legal interpretation, the identity and authority of Jesus, and the character of the leaders. Chapter Four: Woe to You takes up the task of examining Matthew 23. The analysis of Matthew 23 identifies three components in the summary of conflict: Jesus presented as the model for his audience, Jesus' final denunciation of the leaders, and the presentation of Jesus as God’s representative. The multi-methodological approach used in this study of Matthew 23 suggests a narrative that invites the reader to rethink how one knows and understands God. The study thereby provides an alternative to the assumption that conflict reflects the immediate experience of a narrowly conceived authorial community
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