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[Amnesty Letter] ID237 / Triplett, Enoch
No full textThis letter was written by Enoch Triplett to President Andrew Johnson in response to the President's Amnesty Proclamation of 29 May 1865. The writer indicates his county of residence as Wilkes Co., NC and states his occupation as Farmer
Jude and 1 Enoch: From Tertullian to Augustine on the 'Apostle Judes' citation of 1 Enoch'
No full textThere is perhaps no richer cite in early Christianity for exploring the complicated and uneasy relationship between the concepts of "canon," revelation, authority, and tradition than in the case of Jude's reliance upon 1 Enoch (and, to a lesser extent, the Assumption of Moses). Not only does Jude cite 1 Enoch verbatim (his only "scriptural" citation), but the language, imagery, and eschatology of the entire epistle is heavily indebted to this great (and once quite popular) apocryphon. What is the meaning of a "canon" that includes the Epistle of Jude, but rejects that text to which Jude so reverentially refers? Is Jude not to be trusted when it says that Enoch authored the words from 1 Enoch? The problem is not made any easier by the way Jude cites 1 Enoch. In fact, the language of Jude, and of other early Christians, belies the claim of some modern scholarship that the practice of pseudepigraphy, especially in testamentary or apocalyptic genres, was so common as to be transparent. In fact, ancients were often quite credulous. Jude identified the author of 1 Enoch as the antediluvian "seventh from Adam," and Tertullian addressed such concrete problems as how Enoch's teachings could have survived the flood. Such serious and literal commitment to Enochic authorship left no easy out for those who would receive Jude but not 1 Enoch. From the author of 2 Peter, who used most of Jude but omitted reference to Enoch or the Assumption of Moses, to Augustine, who granted that Enoch must have written something divine, I explore the various strategies early Christians adopted for dealing with Jude's use of an apocryphon. This survey illuminates the distinctions various early Christians were making—and were forced to make by Jude's citation— between inspiration and canonicity
Letter from George Cochran Doub, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division and Enoch E. Ellison, Chief, Japanese Claims Section, to Mr. and Mrs. Kiyoshi Uyekawa, April 24, 1959
No full textLetters from George Chochran Doub, Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice Civil Division, and Enoch E. Ellison, United States Department of Justice Chief, Japanese Claims Section to Mr. and Mrs. Kiyoshi Uyekawa. They confirmed that their U.S. citizenship was reinstated and enclosed their birth certificates. "市民権" that is, U.S. citizenship is written on the envelope.The Kiyoshi Uyekawa Tule Lake Camp Collection comprises of the wartime publications collected by Kiyoshi Uyekawa while incarcerated in the Tule Lake camp, such as Tule Lake newsletters and bulletins, materials issued by the Pro-Japanese group, Sokoku Hoshidan (or Hoshi Dan), WRA publications, his family's incarceration documents, which include documents regarding his and his wife, Mitsuye‘s repatriation, his fictional works’ manuscripts, bulletins and manuscripts of haiku poems authored by the members of the haiku societies incarcerated in the camps, and letters from Kyo Koide, who was a prominent figure in the community as a photographer, physician, and poet under the pseudonym, Banjin Koide
Astronomical analysis on moon’s illumination and the position of the moon towards the sun in the Book of Enoch
No full textBook of Enoch is one of the oldest manuscripts in the world which is believed and attributed to Enoch Prophet PBUH (Idris). One of all discussions is explained the Moon course and movement which is need by Muslims as reference as the determination of worship's time. This could be an explanation that Rasulullah era, the knowledge about astronomy and Falak has been developed before Rasulullah era. So, the statement of Rasulullah’s folk have no ability to read, write and calculate actually has different interpretation.
The author raises two research problem: 1) How is the moon’s phase and illumination in the Book of Enoch, and 2) How is the astronomical analysis of moon illumination and its position towards the Sun in the Book of Enoch. This research is classified into library research with the qualitative approach. While to obtain the data, the primary data is the Book of Enoch and to strengthen the data using interview.
The Moon illumination in the Book of Enoch is explained using the fraction pattern in each day. The Book of Enoch explained the Moon's phase by showing its position with the Sun and its period in Enoch lunar month. There is a difference between the Moon illumination in the Book of Enoch and the reality nowadays. For the Moon illumination has difference about 3% to the 29-day month. While Moon illumination for 30-day month has the suitable range with the Enoch 30-day month the Then to obtain the elongation as the Moon’s position towards the Sun is by transformed from the Moon illumination. The elongation value in the first day of 29-day month is 31° 00' 10'' while the 30-day month is 21° 47' 12''. Then on each hour (the Moon age), the elongation increases 1° 17' 30'' for 29-day month and 0° 54' 28'' for 30-day month after the Moon’s conjunction.
Book of Enoch is one of the oldest manuscripts in the world which is believed and attributed to Enoch Prophet PBUH (Idris). One of all discussions is explained the Moon course and movement which is need by Muslims as reference as the determination of worship's time. This could be an explanation that Rasulullah era, the knowledge about astronomy and Falak has been developed before Rasulullah era. So, the statement of Rasulullah’s folk have no ability to read, write and calculate actually has different interpretation.
The author raises two research problem: 1) How is the moon’s phase and illumination in the Book of Enoch, and 2) How is the astronomical analysis of moon illumination and its position towards the Sun in the Book of Enoch. This research is classified into library research with the qualitative approach. While to obtain the data, the primary data is the Book of Enoch and to strengthen the data using interview.
The Moon illumination in the Book of Enoch is explained using the fraction pattern in each day. The Book of Enoch explained the Moon's phase by showing its position with the Sun and its period in Enoch lunar month. There is a difference between the Moon illumination in the Book of Enoch and the reality nowadays. For the Moon illumination has difference about 3% to the 29-day month. While Moon illumination for 30-day month has the suitable range with the Enoch 30-day month the Then to obtain the elongation as the Moon’s position towards the Sun is by transformed from the Moon illumination. The elongation value in the first day of 29-day month is 31° 00' 10'' while the 30-day month is 21° 47' 12''. Then on each hour (the Moon age), the elongation increases 1° 17' 30'' for 29-day month and 0° 54' 28'' for 30-day month after the Moon’s conjunction
Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John
No full textThe present study considers the degree to which John’s portrayal of the faithful Christian community in the Apocalypse is informed by Jewish apocalyptic traditions related to wealth in the Second Temple period. Previous studies have attributed the author’s radical stance against wealth and economic participation to an ad hoc response against the idolatry and social injustices of the Roman Empire and imperial cults. This thesis argues that there is reasonable evidence to suggest that the author may have already been predisposed to reject affluence as a feature of the present age for the ideal faithful community based on received tradition.
The study begins by delineating the problem in a critical review of how scholars have attempted to deal with this language through either the social world of Roman Asia Minor or the author’s use of the biblical prophets. This discussion demonstrates the need to take a tradition-historical approach that includes an examination of Jewish apocalyptic traditions preserved among the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as other Jewish literature not found at Qumran that demonstrate a decided concern over wealth. These Second Temple texts are then examined collectively against the language of wealth and poverty in selected passages of the Apocalypse. The evidence reveals an emphasis on the part of John on the irreversible, eschatological consequences of ethical behaviour directly related to wealth based on a certain cosmological and theological understanding, an emphasis that has close analogies in some Second Temple literature.
The study concludes that traditions preserved in the Epistle of Enoch and later Enochic texts have played a formative role in shaping the author’s theological perspective concerning material blessing for the faithful in the present age and the world through which he legitimised the radical stance he imposed on his readers/hearers
God’s Court and Courtiers in the Book of the Watchers: Re-interpreting Heaven in 1 Enoch 1-36
No full textFirst Enoch is an ancient Judean work that inaugurated the genre of apocalypse. Chapters 1-36 tell the story of the descent of angels called "Watchers" from heaven to earth to marry human women before the time of the flood, the chaos that ensued, and God's response. They also relate the journeying of the righteous scribe Enoch through the cosmos, guided by angels. Heaven, including the place and those who dwell there (God, the angels, and Enoch), plays a central role in the narrative. But how should heaven be understood? Existing scholarship, which presupposes "Judaism" as the appropriate framework, views the Enochic heaven as reflecting the temple in Jerusalem, with God's house replicating its architecture and the angels and Enoch functioning like priests. Yet recent research shows the Judeans constituted an ethnic group, and this view encourages a fresh examination of 1 Enoch 1-36. The actual model for heaven proves to be a king in his court surrounded by his courtiers. The major textual features are explicable in this perspective, whereas the temple-and-priests model is unconvincing. The author was a member of a nontemple, scribal group in Judea that possessed distinctive astronomical knowledge, promoted Enoch as its exemplar, and was involved in the wider sociopolitical world of their time
Allotted place and cursed space in 1 Enoch 12-36
No full textAn analysis of the three journeys of Enoch (1 En. 12–36) shows that
preference is given to the spatial aspect in these revelation narratives.
Both the heavenly journey (1 En. 12–16) and the two earthly
journeys to the ends of the earth (1 En. 17–36) implicate space. An
actantial model as well as critical spatiality is used to analyze these
stories. Allocated place and cursed space influenced by mantic wisdom
using cosmological schemes are used here to depict the exclusive
ideas of the author(s).http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_oldtest.htmlam201
A vision of the Wisdom of the Prophet Enoch. On the Function of the Parable of Enoch.
No full textThe main aim of this dissertation is to understand the function of the text The Parables of Enoch (PE) in its ancient context. Despite the complicated and composite nature of this text, I have tried to explain the internal logic of this text, especially with an emphasis on understanding the different timelines with which the author of the text works. A critical evaluation of the limits of working with the preserved Ethiopian translations, as well as with the composite nature of the extant form of the text is the essential prerequisite for the interpretation of PE. In the exegetical part, I seek to demonstrate the main thesis that the purpose of PE is to offer a complex symbolic universe through ancient authoritative visions of the ancestor Enoch that serves to legitimize the shared social reality, which is in danger due to the difficult situation of persecution and oppression. I take the theoretical framework for this research over from the sociological constructivism. While the shared social reality is often in crisis, the symbolic universe as a complex level of legitimation intends to explain this discrepancy between the assumed social reality and the reality of the everyday experience. In the case of PE, it is a discrepancy between the experience of oppression and persecution of the addressees..
Dollarization and semi-dollarization in Ecuador
No full textOver the 1980s and 1990s, GDP growth had stagnated because of oil export price volatility and natural disasters, the sacrifice of capital formation to heavy external public debt service, and incomplete and uneven structural reform. The exchange rate depreciation that proved continually necessary to sustain the net-export surplus and limit external debt accumulation induced Ecuadorians to dollarize spontaneously. The 1998 shocks affected real economic activity--hence bank loan portfolios, and widened the fiscal and current acccount deficits. The external imbalance led to exchange rate depreciation. Dollar-denominated bank loans whose borrowers lacked dollar income increasingly turned non-performing. At the same time, the depreciation swelled the locla currency value of dollar deposit liabilities. Many depositors, fearing that banks had become unsafe, withdrew, and over 1999 the Central Bank had to provide banks massive liquidity support. By year's end, the resulting monetary issue ledto the exchange rate collapse and incipient hyperinflation that forced the move to full dollarization. Ecuador's Central Bank will continue operating, using its foreign exchange holdings to carry out limited liquidity management and lender-of-last-resort activities. Ecuador's public accounts and banking system remain vulnerable to commodity-price and natural shocks. Exchange rate adjustment and monetary expansion are no longer available, however, to manage the external accounts, accommodate the public deficit, or assist failing banks. Further structural reform remains essential to assure fiscal discipline and banking system safety.Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Environmental Economics&Policies,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Economic Theory&Research,Banks&Banking Reform,Environmental Economics&Policies,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Financial Intermediation
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