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Zechariah 9-14 as the substructure of 1 Peter’s eschatological program
No full textThe principal aim of this study is to discern what has shaped the author of 1 Peter to regard Christian suffering as a necessary (1.6) and to-be-expected (4.12) component of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ. Most research regarding suffering in 1 Peter has limited the scope of inquiry to two particular aspects—its cause and nature, and the strategies that the author of 1 Peter employs in order to enable his addressees to respond in faithfulness. There remains, however, the need for a comprehensive explanation for the source that has generated 1 Peter’s theology of Christian suffering. If Jesus truly is the Christ, God’s chosen redemptive agent who has come to restore God’s people, then how can it be that Christian suffering is a necessary part of discipleship after his coming, death and resurrection? What led the author of 1 Peter to such a startling conclusion, which seems to runs against the grain of the eschatological hopes and expectations of Jewish restoration ideology?
This thesis analyzes the appropriation of shepherd and fiery trials imagery,
and argues that the author of 1 Peter is dependent upon Zechariah 9-14 for his
theology of Christian suffering. Said in another way, the eschatological program of
Zechariah 9-14, read through the lens of the Gospel, functions as the substructure
for 1 Peter’s eschatology and thus its theology of Christian suffering.
In support of this hypothesis, this study highlights the fact that Zechariah 9-
14 was available and appropriated in early Christianity, in particular in the Passion
Narrative tradition; that the shepherd imagery of 1 Pet 2.25 is best understood
within the milieu of the Passion Narrative tradition, and that it alludes to the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that the fiery trials imagery found in 1
Peter 1.6-7 and 1 Pet 4.12 is distinct from that which we find in Greco-Roman and OT
wisdom sources, and that it shares exclusive parallels with some unique features of
the eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that Zechariah 9-14 offers a more
satisfying explanation for the modification of Isa 11.2 in 1 Pet 4.14, the transition
from 4.12-19 to 5.1-4, why Peter has oriented his letter with the term διασπορά,
and why he has described his addresses as οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ; and finally that 1 Peter
contains an implicit foundational narrative that shares distinct parallels with the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14.
We can conclude that 1 Peter offers a unique vista into the way in which at
least one early Christian witness came to understand and to communicate the fact
that Christian suffering was a necessary feature of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ
READ poster: Robert Rhee
No full textProfessor Robert Rhee recommends Capital Ideas by Peter L. Bernstein.https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/read/1002/thumbnail.jp
READ poster: Robert Rhee
No full textProfessor Robert Rhee recommends Capital Ideas by Peter L. Bernstein.https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/read/1002/thumbnail.jp
Geophysical flows as dynamical systems: the influence of Hide's experiments
No full textMichael Ghil, Peter L Read and Leonard A Smith recount the many and various ways that Raymond Hide has influenced their life and work in geophysical fluid dynamics, meteorology, climatology and planetary sciences, as well as in developing the study of dynamical systems in general
Exploring the Venus global super-rotation using a comprehensive general circulation model
No full textThe atmospheric circulation in Venus is well known to exhibit strong super-rotation. However, the atmospheric mechanisms responsible for the formation of this super-rotation are still not fully understood. In this work, we developed a new Venus general circulation model to study the most likely mechanisms driving the atmosphere to the current observed circulation. Our model includes a new radiative transfer, convection and suitably adapted boundary layer schemes and a dynamical core that takes into account the dependence of the heat capacity at constant pressure with temperature.The new Venus model is able to simulate a super-rotation phenomenon in the cloud region quantitatively similar to the one observed. The mechanisms maintaining the strong winds in the cloud region were found in the model results to be a combination of zonal mean circulation, thermal tides and transient waves. In this process, the semi-diurnal tide excited in the upper clouds has a key contribution in transporting axial angular momentum mainly from the upper atmosphere towards the cloud region. The magnitude of the super-rotation in the cloud region is sensitive to various radiative parameters such as the amount of solar radiative energy absorbed by the surface, which controls the static stability near the surface. In this work, we also discuss the main difficulties in representing the flow below the cloud base in Venus atmospheric models.Our new radiative scheme is more suitable for 3D Venus climate models than those used in previous work due to its easy adaptability to different atmospheric conditions. This flexibility of the model was crucial to explore the uncertainties in the lower atmospheric conditions and may also be used in the future to explore, for example, dynamical-radiative-microphysical feedbacks
General results on zonation in rotating systems with a β-effect and the electromagnetic force
No full textTime averages are common observables in analysis of experimental data and numerical simulations of physical systems. We
will investigate, from the angle of partial differential equation
analysis, some oscillatory geophysical fluid dynamics in three
dimensions: Navier–Stokes equations in a fast-rotating, spherical shell, and magnetohydrodynamics subject to strong Coriolis
and Lorentz forces. Upon averaging their oscillatory solutions
in time, interesting patterns such as zonal flows can emerge.
More rigorously, we will prove that, when the restoring forces
are strong enough, time-averaged solutions stay close to the null
spaces of the wave operators, whereas the solutions themselves
can be arbitrarily far away from these subspaces
Revealing the Intensity of Turbulent Energy Transfer in Planetary Atmospheres
No full textImages of the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn show highly turbulent storms and swirling clouds that reflect the intensity of turbulence in their atmospheres. Quantifying planetary turbulence is inaccessible to conventional tools, however, since they require large quantities of spatially and temporally resolved data. Here we show, using experiments, observations, and simulations, that potential vorticity (PV) is a straightforward and universal diagnostic that can be used to estimate turbulent energy transfer in a stably stratified atmosphere. We use the conservation of PV to define a length scale, LM, representing a typical distance over which PV is mixed by planetary turbulence. LM increases as the turbulent intensity increases and can be estimated from any latitudinal PV profile. Using this principle, we estimate LM within Jupiter's and Saturn's tropospheres, showing for the first time that turbulent energy transfer in Saturn's atmosphere is four times less intense than Jupiter's
Percentage of unique sub-sequences (U) for varying read length (l), the solid line shows uniqueness in the whole human genome, the dashed line shows uniqueness in human chromosome 1
No full text<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "An analysis of the feasibility of short read sequencing"</p><p>Nucleic Acids Research 2005;33(19):e171-e171.</p><p>Published online 7 Nov 2005</p><p>PMCID:PMC1278949.</p><p>© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved</p>
(a) Percentage of unique sub-sequences (U) for varying read length (l), the solid line shows uniqueness in the whole human genome, the dashed line shows uniqueness in human chromosome 1. (b) Percentage of human chromosome 1 covered by contigs greater than a threshold length as a function of read length. The horizontal axis starts at 18 nt, due to the limitations of reassembly below this length
Lecture capture: early lessons learned and experiences shared
No full textLecture capture has been on the minds of university level teachers for some time. The ability to record teaching sessions for delivery online has a number of potential impacts, not all of them positive. The technology now exists to make it feasible and relatively affordable to deliver entire lectures online. But should we do it just because we can? This article aims to share our experiences in recording a series of organic chemistry lectures, and the findings of the evaluation that followed
The new Oxford planetary unified model system for Venus (OPUS-V)
No full textWe present a new version of the Oxford Venus GCM, which using our new parameterisations produce a realistic Venus mesosphere atmospheric circulation. We present results that give hints to the formation of global super-rotation
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