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Letter from Moses F. Shim to James B. Finley
No full textRev. Shim, a member of the Iowa M.E. Conference, writes on behalf of one Jacob Bennett, son of Joseph Bennett. Jacob needs to prove that he was not an inmate at the Ohio Penitentiary from 1827 to 1836. Shim would like Finley to research this name. If found, Shim would like information from Finley about the prisoner\u27s size, complexion, etc., in order to prove that the Jacob Bennett in Iowa is not the person who was incarcerated in Ohio. Abstract Number - 1061https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/2045/thumbnail.jp
The Appeal of Exodus: The Characters God, Moses and Israel in the Rhetoric of the Book of Exodus
No full textThe present thesis offers a reading of the book of Exodus as a literary artifact. This is
accomplished through the investigation of its main literary characters Yhwh, Moses and
Israel. The text is understood to be part of a communicative situation between author and
reader. This hermeneutical claim and the nature of Exodus itself entail certain consequences
with regard to the method of enquiry. The method applied is a modified form of
rhetorical criticism, which is understood to provide an interpretive perspective on the text.
The particular focus is on the functional aspects of the text which direct the reading process
and thus guide the reader. Given the difficulties in determining the circumstances of
the origin of Exodus and the paucity of secured knowledge about early Israelite history, the
`implied reader' is introduced as a key-term. It is assumed that this implied reader informed
the inventio and dispositio of the book. Because of the book's central themes - identity
and relationship -a careful investigation of the characters is a worthy avenue to pursue.
Three characters have been chosen on account of their continuous involvement in the
plot. The introduction of each character into the plot receives special attention. The developing
portrayal of each character is closely linked to its paradigmatic qualities and to its influence
on the reader. First, the portrait of God is discussed, especially in relation to the
contributions of the narrative, poetic and legal parts of Exodus. The very important but
often neglected legal characterisation of Yhwh in Exodus is a topic of special interest. Although
the legal collections say much about their recipients, they also reveal deep insights
into the law-giver's nature and concerns. Yhwh is identified as the king who justly claims
obedience and service. A further focus is the possibility of the relationship between Israel
and their king, Yhwh. Second, with regard to Moses there is a significant difference between
his first appearance in Exod 2-5 and his later development. This remarkable tension
in the Mosaic portrayal reveals interesting insights into the implied reader's preconceptions.
Here we trace closely the argumentative strategy of the author in his attempts to convince
this reader. Furthermore, it is necessary to discuss the paradigmatic qualities of the character
Moses. Third, reader-identification is at the heart of the construction of Israel. Here the
historical gulf between the Israel of the narrative and the one of the implied reader is
bridged. The complexity of Israel is a central aspect of Exodus' rhetoric, urging its readers
to comply with the ideal which the author sought to communicate in his book.
The results of this study provide insights into the specific poetics of Exodus and its
management of the reading process. Because of the proposed unity of form and content, it
is possible to specify the message of the entire book by taking into account its intriguing
mixture of different genres. An abstraction from modern reading-conventions in the
encounter of ancient Hebrew texts is shown, and the possibility of reading the text on its
own terms is explored
sj-xlsx-1-msj-10.1177_13524585221150736 – Supplemental material for Rare and low-frequency coding genetic variants contribute to pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-xlsx-1-msj-10.1177_13524585221150736 for Rare and low-frequency coding genetic variants contribute to pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis by Mary K Horton, Joan E Shim, Amelia Wallace, Jennifer S Graves, Gregory Aaen, Benjamin Greenberg, Soe Mar, Yolanda Wheeler, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Amy Waldman, Teri Schreiner, Moses Rodriguez, Jan-Mendelt Tillema, Tanuja Chitnis, Lauren Krupp, T Charles Casper, Mary Rensel, Janace Hart, Hong L Quach, Diana L Quach, Catherine Schaefer, Emmanuelle Waubant and Lisa F Barcellos in Multiple Sclerosis Journal</p
The descent of Christ in Ephesians 4:7-11 : an exegetical investigation with special reference to the influence of traditions about Moses associated with Psalm 68:19.
No full textThis study attempts to demonstrate that the most probable interpretation of the descent of Christ in Eph. 4: 7-11 involves a descent of Christ as the Spirit who distributes gifts to his church subsequent to the ascent of Eph. 4: 8. The investigation begins with a history of the interpretation of Eph. 4: 7-11. Most modern interpreters favour either a descent to the under- world (or the grave) between Christ's death and resurrection or a descent from heaven to earth at the incarnation. Textual and grammatical problems relevant to the proposed exegesis are also discussed. A major portion of the study deals with the ascent-descent imagery associating Ps. 68: 19 (quoted in Eph. 4: 8) and Moses as found in Tg Psalms and the rabbinic literature. The author of Ephesians, had he been aware of these traditions associating Psalm 68 with Moses, would have been predisposed to think in terms of a subsequent descent, because Moses' ascent of Mt Sinai to receive the Torah was followed by his descent to distribute it as 'gifts' to men. Although it is clear that both Tg Psalms and the rabbinic literature are later than Ephesians, there is evidence from a number of early sources that such Moses-traditions were in circulation prior to the first century CE. The association of these traditions with Ps. 68: 19 as employed by the author of Ephesians appears to exist through the connection of Moses' ascent of Sinai to receive the Torah with the celebration of the Jewish feast of Pentecost on the one hand, and the Christian use of Psalm 68 in connection with Pentecost (described in Acts 2) on the other. Ps. 68: 19 was already understood to refer to the ascent of Christ and the gift of the Spirit in a layer of tradition older than Ephesians. Familiarity with the Moses-traditions connected with an ascent and descent of Sinai would have suggested a subsequent descent. Thus the author's innovation did not lie in the use of the psalm in a christological sense, nor in the introduction of a subsequent descent of Christ inferred from the ascent mentioned in Ps. 68: 19. The contribution of the author of Ephesians consisted in his identification of the ascended Christ as the Spirit who descended to distribute gifts to his church. Such an interpretation offers the best explanation of the passage in light of the evidence linking Moses-traditions of a heavenly ascent at Sinai with Pentecost and Psalm 68
Moses Unchained
No full textZack Rosen was a simple man, but one of many contrasts. An urban Jew from New Jersey who moved south and converted to fundamentalist Christianity, he was not a philosopher or theologian but a man\u27s man, a tattooed truck driver who built a classic Harley-Davidson from spare parts. In Florida he met and married Shelley, another converted Jew, but their happiness was brief. After they moved to Virginia, secrets from Shelley\u27s past came back to haunt them, and her sudden death from pneumonia revealed a shocking fact: She had AIDS, and she had given the virus to Zack. Suddenly faced with the loss of his family, his job, his income, and eventually, his own life, Zack became an itinerant evangelist. He introduced himself to author Marilyn F. Moriarty in 1993 with the words, I got an honorable testimony . She listened to his story and became his friend and caregiver. At his request, she has told his story here.https://digitalcommons.hollins.edu/facbooks/1046/thumbnail.jp
The Moses archetypes in a musical discourse: the national in reflections of Ivan Franko’s universalism
No full textУ статті проаналізовано відображення українського національного Еґо у музичному дискурсі крізь призму універсалізму І. Франка. Досліджено інтерпретацію архетипу Мойсея С. Людкевичем і М. Скориком. Укладено висновки про творення універсального, “цілого чоловіка” в музичній франкіані. he theme of this study marks the problem of national Ego reflected in the musical discourse, the implementation of archetypal images and motifs in cultural artefacts. Why the category of “universalism” taken out as a key to understanding the philosophy of I. Franko’s works? What universalism by “giant spirit” as well as contemporary the art continuum is able to penetrate deep into the essence Franko’s words, to reflect the main ideas of the poet-philosopher? After all, what ideas are emphasized and which remain a mystery for future generations? The need to find the answers to these questions is determine the relevance of the topic. One of the specific features of I. Franko’s philosophy is universalism, which is manifested in the diversity of its scientific, artistic and critical work. Franko is the developer of the idea of macro- and microcosm unity, spiritual and material, scholar and lexicographer, author of about three thousand works in various fields of knowledge, one of the main founders of the Ukrainian language and scientific theory and practice of intercultural communication. He was the “Renaissance” titanium, archetypal “Doctor universalis”. The Moses-prophet image has a musical history in Western culture. It's oratorio "Israel in Egypt" by G. F. Handel, opera "Moses in Egypt" by J. Rossini, musical drama "Moses and Aaron" by A. Schonberg and others. Symphonic poem and monologue for tenor and orchestra by S. Lyudkevych, “Prologue” to the poem for orchestra and chorus by M. Antonovych and opera “Moses” by M. Skoryk are in Ukrainian music. In the symphonic poem by S. Lyudkevych the Moses image-archetype is manifested two national mental traits, cardiocentrical and strong-willed, through the opposition of subjective and objective, Moses’s philosophical monologues and forceful, heroic overcoming of how people move. Philosophical opera “Moses” by M. Skoryk is a landmark work of composer. The most famous is the Prologue in which we see a continuing to Shevchenko’s testament to will. The composer reinterprets the Moses image. Prophet archetype differentiated into two different of their mental values images-archetypes. Moses is Prophet. He is the prophet of the Jewish people, who doubts master, who betrays his own people, but he leads his people to the Promised Land, that is, to “complete” nation. In the opera, defined as “opera-parable” (L. Kyyanovska), the Prophet Moses image-archetype depicted by using the motifs system and vivid monologues. Poet is a prophet too. He expresses the national idea and as a visionary predicts the process of national creation. Significantly, the Poet is voiced by famous prologue “My people...” that accompanies the choir, which is still reminiscent of the crowd. In the epilogue Poet repeats keywords “…But the time will come...” with personalized representatives of the formed nation. Thus, in the opera composer gives special mission to Poet. The prologue, which delivers a Poet, is begins from the “shackled shackles” leitmotif, in the epilogue this thematic education (second ascending sequence with chromatic passages) is remain only some shape. Shackles broken and the Poet proves it
ExoMol line lists - III. An improved hot rotation-vibration line list for HCN and HNC
No full textA revised rotation-vibration line list for the combined hydrogen cyanide (HCN)/hydrogen isocyanide (HNC) system is presented. The line list uses ab initio transition intensities calculated previously and extensive data sets of recently measured experimental energy levels. The resulting line list has significantly more accurate wavelengths than previous ones for these systems. An improved value for the separation between HCN and HNC is adopted, leading to an approximately 25 per cent lower predicted thermal population of HNC as a function of temperature in the key 2000 to 3000 K region. Temperature-dependent partition functions and equilibrium constants are presented. The line lists are validated by comparison with laboratory spectra and are presented in full as supplementary data to the article and at www.exomol.com
‘I am not a beggar’: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism
No full text\ua9 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Scholars have long known the Narrative of North Carolina writer and activist Moses Roper, first published in London in 1837. This article uses newly discovered sources and the multiple editions of the Narrative to reconstitute the biography of this first fugitive slave abolitionist to lecture in Ireland and Britain. It explores Roper’s interactions with British abolitionists, especially prominent Baptist ministers Francis A. Cox and Thomas Price. Roper’s indisputable witness to the horrors of American slavery played a crucial role in refocusing British and Irish attention from the completed task of West Indian emancipation to the looming work yet to be done in the United States. Supporting Roper’s independence, in both his campaigning and his creation of his own British family, proved too much for the British abolitionist establishment, resulting in Roper being cast out and a major opportunity to lead on matters of transatlantic moral consequence lost. More significantly, African American voice was denied its authority and a platform from which to speak
A Novel Multi-vision Sensor Dataset for Insect-Inspired Outdoor Autonomous Navigation
No full textInsects have—over millions of years of evolution—perfected many of the systems that roboticists aim to achieve; they can swiftly and robustly navigate through different environments under various conditions while at the same time being highly energy efficient. To reach this level of performance and efficiency, one might want to look at and take inspiration from how these insects achieve their feats. Currently, no dataset exists that allows bio-inspired navigation models to be evaluated over long &gt;100 m real-life routes. We present a novel dataset containing omnidirectional event vision, frame-based vision, depth frames, inertial measurement (IMU) readings, and centimeter-accurate GNSS positioning over kilometer long stretches in and around the TUDelft campus. The dataset is used to evaluate familiarity-based insect-inspired neural navigation models on their performance over longer sequences. It demonstrates that current scene familiarity models are not suited for long-ranged navigation, at least not in their current form.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Control & Simulatio
Quando Spinoza «uscì dalla sua tomba». Tre scritti di F. D. E. Schleiermacher
No full textThe essay deals with the Spinoza-Studien (17893-4) redacted by F. D. E. Schleiermacher as a comment on Jacobi’s Ueber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn (1785). The Author considers those manuscripts important for both Schleiermacher’s intellectual development and the German romantic debate on atheism and religion. If the idealist thinkers try to theorize, from Spinoza’s metaphysics, a science of the absolute, and Jacobi elaborates a doctrine of “salto mortale” beyond science, Schleiermacher believes that Spinoza’s philosophy can help to develop the transcendental perspective. Instead of Jacobi’s “salto mortale”, he proposed the conception of the Inerenz of finite to infinite, and instead of the idealistic science of the absolute, he emphasises the immediate feeling of being. The deterministic ethic theorized in the “Rapsodien” (1789-93) can be in this way accorded “tangentially” to a mystic doctrine of the infinite
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