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Wisdom and apocalyptic in the Gospel of Matthew : a comparative study with 1 Enoch and 4QInstruction
No full textRecent scholarship has demonstrated that Matthew's gospel has significantly developed
both sapiential and apocalyptic elements within its narrative. Little attention has been paid,
however, to the question of how these two features of Matthew's gospel might relate to one
another. It is this gap in scholarly literature that the present study is intended to fill, by means of a
comparative study with two other texts of mixed genre: 1 Enoch and 4Qlnstruction.
An examination of these texts demonstrates that each is marked by an inaugurated
eschatology, within which the revealing of wisdom to an elect group, defined in distinction to the
Jewish parent group, serves as the pivotal moment of inauguration. In addition, within
4Qlnstruction the idea is developed that possession of this revealed wisdom allows the remnant
to live in fidelity to the will of the Creator and to the patterns built-in to the original creation.
Thus, possession of revealed wisdom facilitates a recovery of creation.
These findings provide lines of enquiry that may be brought to Matthew. Three sections
of the gospel are examined (chapters 5-7; 11-12; 24-25). It is argued that Jesus is presented as an
eschatological figure who reveals wisdom to an elect group. This wisdom cannot be reduced to
great moral insight or interpretation of Torah, but is presented as prophetic revelation, happening
in eschatological time. It remains the case, however, that Matthew presents it as wisdom and
presents Jesus as a sage.
More tentatively, it is suggested that creation provides the patterns for the ethical
requirements of Jesus' wisdom, thus indicating that the idea of restored creation is also at work in
Matthew. The fall of the temple may also be connected in Matthew's narrative to such a
restoration, but again, the evidence for this is not clear
Matthew’s Emmanuel Messiah: a paradigm of presence for god's people
No full textThe motif of divine presence is a clear phenomenon within the Gospel of Matthew. The modern critical means for assessing the ancient biblical text have multiplied to the point, some claim, of disparity. This study employs both narrative and redaction criticism in an attempt to respond authentically to the structural, historical and theological dimensions of Matthew's Gospel. This study begins with the presumption of the wholeness and integrity of Matthew's narrative, and assumes the gospel story to have an inherently dramatic structure which invites readers to inhabit imaginatively its narrative world and respond to its call. But since we are concerned with the role of both reader and author, this study also assumes a text with an historical author and context. The introduction focuses on the meta-critical dilemma facing New Testament students - what is the text and how do we read it? - and seeks some balance in terms of Krieger's analogy of the text as both window and mirror. Proposed is a narrative reading of Matthew's presence motif alongside a redaction critical assessment of it. In Chapter 2 the elements of narrative theory are introduced and relevant terms defined: the structure of narrative, the function of the narrator, points of view. Chapter 3 becomes an exercise in narrative reading, with Matthew's presence motif providing the focus, and the implied reader’s interaction with the story being predominant in interpretation. Characters, rhetorical devices, and points of view are discussed, to understand the motif's development throughout the story's progress. The thrust of Chapter 4 is thereafter to examine divine presence as a dominant motif within Matthew's most important literary context: the Jewish scriptures. Here the primary paradigms of divine presence provided by the Patriarchs, the Sinai experience, and the Davidic-Zion traditions are assessed. Chapter 5 follows with a more detailed examination of the OT "I am with you/God is with us" formula and its µeo' vµwv/ηuwv language, so strongly connected to Matthew's presence motif. Chapters 6-8 build on these investigations with a closer analysis of the three critical "presence passages" of Mt 1:23. 18:20 and 28:20. The passages and their contexts are probed from a redaction critical perspective, guided by the narrative investigation of Chapter 3, and the background from Chapters 4 and 5.The three major "presence passages" examined in Chapters 6-8 are also complimented by a number of secondary issues: worship, wisdom, the Spirit and the poor in Matthew, and their relation to Jesus' divine presence. These are discussed in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 summarizes and looks briefly at some implications. Matthew' presence motif proves to be an important element of the Gospel’s rhetorical design, redactional strategy and Christology. The presence of Jesus, the Emmanuel Messiah, exhibited in his risen authority, becomes the focus of his people's hopes and experiences in the post-Easter world. What the presence of Yahweh was to his people. Jesus now provides in a new paradigm for his people - his followers, the little ones, the poor and the marginalized, from all nations
Strotocera roberti Gerstmeier & Weiss, n. sp.
No full textStrotocera roberti Gerstmeier & Weiss, n. sp. (Figs. 30, 84– 85) Specimens examined: Holotype: 3. S-Ethiopia, Gamo Gofa X.07, ArbaMinch 1300m, R. Beck, G. Riedel (CRG). Paratypes: Coll. Mus. Tervuren, Côte d’ivoire: Bingerville, X. 1962, J. Decelle (1 ex., MRAC); Coll. Mus. Tervuren, Côte d’ivoire: Bingerville, VI. 1962, J. Decelle, Strotocera, Ginter Ekis det. (1 ex., MRAC); Zimbabwe 2.xii.1993, 20° 13 ’S / 31 °00’E, Kyle, Recr. Park at Lake Mutirikwi, leg. F. Koch (1 ex., ZMB); UNREADBLE, 24.11-26, UNREADABLE (1 ex., TMSA); South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Ndumu, 26.55 S- 32.18 E, 20.11.2002; E-Y: 3550, light trap, leg. J. Harrison, R. Müller (1 ex., TMSA); South Africa, Transvaal, Soutpansberg, Ingwe Motel 22.58 S 29.57 E, 1200m, 23,24. xi. 1992, H. Hölzel, P. Ohm, M.W. Mansell, Collected at light (1 ex., CRG); South Africa MPU, Kampersrus, near Hoedspruit. 24 ° 30 ’S 30 ° 53 ’E, 10.xi. 2005 547m, W. Breytenbach, Collected using a light trap (1 ex., SANC); South Africa Kwa Zulu, Mseleni, Miss. 27.23 S 32.32 E, XI. 1982 P. Reavell (1 ex., SANC); Helio, 19 °03’S., 16 ° 29 ’E., Etosha Nat. Park, 14 Feb.– 23 Mar. 1987, Pres. pitfall traps, E. Griffin, Gyponix sp., det., R. Oberprieler 198 (1 ex., SANC); Tang. Terr., Ukerewe I., Father Conrad (1 ex., BMNH); 4.XI. UNREADABLE, 1585, Tanganyka (Conrads), infranigra n sp, (1 ex., MNHN). Length: 8.6mm – 13.5mm (12 specimens). Head: Black-brown to black; diffusely and densely punctate. Antennae: Reddish brown to black; not reaching base of pronotum when laid alongside; A 4 –A 10 serrate. Pronotum: Dark reddish brown; dilated anteriorly, constricted towards base, with more or less six conspicuously elevations on disc and two elevations at base (in middle), finely and diffusely punctate; length:width ratio 1.59: 1. Scutellum: Red-brown to brown. Elytra: Basal third to half reddish brown, each elytron with a whitish lateral spot in the basal third, remainder black with white transverse fasciae beyond middle spanning from lateral margins towards suture (but not reaching suture); diameter of punctures within basal half larger than interstices, punctures within fasciae small and sparsely distributed, punctures elongate behind fasciae; length:width ratio 2.23: 1. Legs: Brown to black. Lower surface: Head and prothorax dark brown, meso- and metathorax brown, abdomen dark brown to black. Vestiture: With white to yellowish hairs. Distribution: Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe. Etymology: Named after Robert Beck (Munich); co-collector of the holotype and friend of the senior author. One paratype bares a hand-written label by Pic “infranigra n. sp.”, but was never made available through publication.Published as part of Gerstmeier, Roland & Weiss, Ingmar, 2009, Revision of the Genera Diplocladus Fairmaire and Strotocera Schenkling (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Tillinae), pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2242 on pages 44-45, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19060
Norma Coverdale, B.A.: the treatment of women in selected works of Henry de Montherlant
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to determine how women are treated in selectedworks of Henry de Montherlant. This is explored by examining their relationshipswith other women as well as with men. Inevitably, this leads to an analysis ofthe multifaceted area of love. Part I researches Montherlant's prose work and included in this section is the investigation of the importance of 'l'ordre male' to the author and the influence this exerts over his early prose work in the areas of tauromachy, war and sport, and where the male adherence to this concept leaves women. The 'syncretisme et alternance' which is central to Montherlant's thinking is explored in this section.Part 2 is concerned with Montherlant's theatre in which the psychological development of the main characters is of great importance. It is in this section that a comparative study is made of the influence of Mme. Elisabeth Zehrfuss' written contribution to La Reine morte. Her unpublished notes are set out in full in the Appendix. The thesis also draws on the unpublished correspondence between Henry de Montherlant and Elisabeth Zehrfuss between the years 1934 and 1945. An investigation is made as to whether or not there are any differences between the way women are treated in Montherlant's prose and in his theatre and the conclusion is drawn that there are
Chimpanzees with positive welfare are happier, extraverted, and emotionally stable
No full textFacilities housing captive animals are full of staff who, every day, interact with the animals under their care. The expertise and familiarity of staff can be used to monitor animal welfare by means of questionnaires. It was the goal of our study to examine the association between chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) welfare, happiness, and personality. To these ends we collected two waves of welfare and subjective well-being ratings of 18 chimpanzees housed at the Edinburgh Zoo and one set of ratings of 13 chimpanzees housed at Fundació Mona. Ratings were made on a welfare questionnaire that included 12 items related to stress, psychological stimulation, and behavioural indicators of negative and positive welfare states, and a 4-item subjective well-being questionnaire. In addition, ratings were made on the 54-item Hominoid Personality Questionnaire and an abbreviated version of this scale consisting of 37 antonym pairs. We used generalizability theory to test whether welfare ratings generalized across items, raters, chimpanzees, and time. We then assessed the validity of the welfare and subjective well-being questionnaires by examining their associations with behaviour. Finally, we tested whether the welfare and subjective well-being ratings were associated with personality. Welfare ratings generalized across items, raters, chimpanzees, and time. Principal components analysis and regularized exploratory factor analysis indicated that ten welfare items and all four subjective well-being items formed a single dimension (welfareSWB). LASSO regression found that lower welfareSWB was associated with regurgitation, coprophagy, urophagy, and decreased proximity to nearest neighbour. A linear model that adjusted for age, sex, and facility, indicated that higher Extraversion and lower Neuroticism were related to higher welfareSWB. Welfare ratings were reliable and associated with subjective well-being and personality, demonstrating that staff ratings are a valid and potentially valuable tool for chimpanzee welfare assessment
Determining the number of factors in a multivariate error correction--volatility factor model
No full textIn order to describe the co-movements in both conditional mean and conditional variance of high dimensional non-stationary time series by dimension reduction, we introduce the conditional heteroscedasticity with factor structure to the error correction model (ECM). The new model is called the error correction--volatility factor model (EC--VF). Some specification and estimation approaches are developed. In particular, the determination of the number of factors is discussed. Our setting is general in the sense that we impose neither i.i.d. assumption on idiosyncratic components in the factor structure nor independence between factors and idiosyncratic errors. We illustrate the proposed approach with a Monte Carlo simulation and a real data example. Copyright The Author(s). Journal compilation Royal Economic Society 2008
Irreversible electroporation in locally advanced pancreatic cancer: A call for standardization of energy delivery
No full textIrreversible Electroporation (IRE) is used to treat locally advanced cancers, commonly of the pancreas, liver, kidney, and other soft tissues. Precise eligibility for IRE should be established in each individual patient by a multidisciplinary team based on comprehensive clinical, imaging, and laboratory assessment. Standardization of IRE technique and protocols is expected to improve safety, lead to reproducible outcomes, and facilitate further research into IRE. The present article provides a set of technical recommendations for the use of IRE in the treatment of locally advanced pancreatic cancer. J. Surg. Oncol. 2016;114:865-871. (c) 2016 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc
Exploiting Domain Knowledge in Making Delegation Decisions
No full text@inproceedings{conf/admi/EmeleNSP11, added-at = {2011-12-19T00:00:00.000+0100}, author = {Emele, Chukwuemeka David and Norman, Timothy J. and Sensoy, Murat and Parsons, Simon}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/20a08b683088443f1fd36d6ef28bf6615/dblp}, booktitle = {ADMI}, crossref = {conf/admi/2011}, editor = {Cao, Longbing and Bazzan, Ana L. C. and Symeonidis, Andreas L. and Gorodetsky, Vladimir and Weiss, Gerhard and Yu, Philip S.}, ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27609-5_9}, interhash = {1d7e7f8554e8bdb3d43c32e02aeabcec}, intrahash = {0a08b683088443f1fd36d6ef28bf6615}, isbn = {978-3-642-27608-8}, keywords = {dblp}, pages = {117-131}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, timestamp = {2011-12-19T00:00:00.000+0100}, title = {Exploiting Domain Knowledge in Making Delegation Decisions.}, url = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/admi/admi2011.html#EmeleNSP11}, volume = 7103, year = 2011
Pancreaticoduodenectomy with venous resection and reconstruction: current surgical techniques and associated postoperative imaging findings
No full textPurpose: Introduction of effective neoadjuvant therapy for pancreas cancer has resulted in complex and aggressive operations involving vasculature resection. This results in complicated postoperative CT appearance of vasculature, which in addition to high rate of recurrence makes interpretation of imaging difficult. The aim of this study was to identify patterns of postoperative appearance of portal vein-superior mesenteric vein complex (PV-SMV). Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy with PV-SMV resection and reconstruction (PVR) between 2004 and 2014. Clinicopathological data were collected from a prospectively maintained database. Postoperative CT scans were reviewed to identify patterns of venous and perivenous features. Results: The mean age, of 70 patients included in the study, was 63.0 ± 12.2 years and 37 (52.9%) were males. The median time between surgery and postoperative scan was 10 days (IQR 7–25). Tangential resection with PVR via primary closure or use of a patch was performed in 37 (52.9%) patients while the rest underwent segmental resection with PVR via end-to-end anastomosis or use of a graft. Postoperative patterns of PV-SMV included concentric narrowing (N = 40, 57.1%), eccentric narrowing (N = 19, 27.1%) or partial venous thrombosis (N = 7, 10.0%). Perivenous features included perivenous fluid collection and induration (N = 57, 81.4%) and mass-like soft tissue thickening (N = 13, 18.6%). Long-term follow-up was available on 44 (62.9%) patients of which 28 (63.6%) demonstrated no recurrence of disease. Conclusion: This is a novel study that identifies and categorizes postoperative features of PV-SMV after PVR. These features overlap with those of disease recurrence and their better understanding can results in an accurate interpretation of postoperative imaging
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