466 research outputs found
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
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
Methodology for Risk-Benefit Analysis in Research
No full textRisk-benefit analysis in the context of research activities has recently become a mandatory exercise. It is an integral part of the more extensive exercise, the scientific and ethical review for research approval and subsequent monitoring and evaluation exercises. However, how to undertake the process remains a largely subjective process that results in somewhat \u27incomplete\u27 inventories of potential risks and benefits for many research activities. There is also the challenge of computing an overall study risk-benefit score when objective and subjective measures of risks, benefits, severity, and magnitude are involved. This study employed the integrative literature review methodology to summarize past empirical and theoretical literature to provide a more comprehensive understanding of a phenomenon. The result is a simple, concise, and practical guide for identifying research risks and benefits, the computation of risk scores, benefit scores, and the overall risk-benefit score in a research activity. These scores are subsequently utilized to compute the study\u27s overall risk-benefit analysis score. This step-by-step process for the computation of a risk-benefit ratio will introduce clarity in the process of risk-benefit analysis to help ascertain if specific risk probabilities and their severity have been correctly assessed. Conversely, the approach is also helpful in ascertaining if study benefits and their magnitude have been adequately assessed and rated
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
Early detection of preeclampsia using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring using wearable devices and long short term memory networks (LSTM-NN) on the edge
No full textThe study explores the use of wearable devices for ambulatory blood pressure data collection, for use in blood pressure prediction/forecasting using Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks (RNN) on mobile devices. A mobile app was developed (wearable as a smart watch) during this first phase. LSTM Network is an advanced RNN, a sequential network that allows information to persist, meaning that it has the capacity to handle the vanishing gradient problem faced by RNN. [See also https://www.k4all.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Early-detection-of-preeclampsia-using-ambulatory-blood-pressure-monitoring-using-wearable-devices-and-Long-Short-Term-Memory-Networks-LSTM-NN-on-the-edge.pdf
“A Woman Called Moses”: Literary Interpretations of Harriet Tubman’s Life
No full textThe article is devoted to the formation of Harriet Tubman's image in the US literature. Two books belonging to the spread of Afrocentrism and the second wave of feminism — A. Petrie's non-fiction novel A Girl Called Moses: The Story of Harriet Tubman and M. Heidish's novel A Woman Called Moses — are chosen as the material for analysis. The article analyzes the main qualitative characteristics identified as early as in S. Bradford's book Harriet, Moses of Her People that form the discourse of race and gender in the mentioned narratives about Tubman, and identifies the main transformations of these characteristics. Thus, the work of African-American author A. Petrie reflects to a greater extent the sentiments of all her fellow women in the 1950s-60s Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States: while remaining within the generally accepted gender framework of feminine virtues, at the same time, the black woman was stepping out of her allotted racial limits. Furthermore, she shows that slavery is a cultural trauma that still defines how the African American community sees itself and its place in the society and how slavery is remembered as a means of self-identification within the African American community. Created by the white writer M. Heidish in the mid-1970s, during the rise of the second wave of the feminist movement, the novel reflects the very sentiments that characterized this movement and shows the view of a sympathetic Other on the issue of race. Thus, the article establishes the fact that Harriet Tubman plays a very important role in the African-American and women's discourse in the United States as an image that is given the necessary functions and qualities for its time based on the socio-cultural context contemporary to the interpreter
Letter from Michi and Walter Weglyn to Frank Chin, December 18, 1987
No full textA letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin discussing Asian American studies professor Gary Okihiro's critical review of Weglyn's book "Years of Infamy." Weglyn describes this review as "fronting for Roger Daniels." Weglyn criticizes a book called "Moses," presumably she is referring to the book "They Call Me Moses Masaoka" by Mike Masaoka and Bill Hosokawa, which was published in 1987. Weglyn also speaks critically of the Dies Committee, the US congressional committee that investigated Japanese Americans during World War II.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
The Potential of Electronic Data Interchange at Huduma Center Acase of Nakuru County
No full textFULL TEXTHuduma Kenya is government initiative that was started in the year 2013 with the aim of
transforming public services delivery by providing citizens access to various public services and
information to Kenyan citizens. some of these services include; birth certificates, national
identity cards, passports, registration of business names, and applications for marriage
certificates, drivers’ licenses, police abstracts.
Electronic data interchange is the transfer of business information between computer systems in
different organization (without human intervention or with minimal human intervention) using
widely agreed standards to structure the transaction or message data (Itoh,2005)
The main objective of this research is to examine the potential of electronic data interchange at
huduma Kenya, what significance can it enhance on the services delivered at huduma center.National Research Fun
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