1,285 research outputs found

    A Versatile Resource - The Procurement and Use of Soapstone in Norway and The North Atlantic Region

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    Soapstone is a remarkable rock. While it is very workable due to a high content of talc, the softest known mineral in existence, it is also durable, heat-resistant and has a high heat storage capacity. These properties have been recognised and valued since prehistory across the world and soapstone has been used for a very broad range of products. This book addresses soapstone use in Norway and the North Atlantic region, including Greenland (here: the North). Although the majority of papers deal with the Iron Age and Middle Ages, the book spans the Mesolithic to the early modern era, dealing with themes related to quarries, products and associated people and institutions in a wide sense. Recent years have seen a revival of basic archaeological and geological research into the procurement and use of stone resources. With authors from the fields of archaeology, geosciences and traditional crafts, this anthology reflects cross-disciplinary work grown out of this revival

    Soapstone Vessels from Town and Country in Viking Age and Early Medieval Western Norway. A Study of Provenance

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    In this study geological and archaeological data and analytic methods are combined and explored to find the geological source for 146 late Iron Age/Viking Age and early medieval soapstone vessels from the Hordaland region and the town of Bergen in western Norway. The dataset comprises archaeological and geological data relating to the vessels and to 38 soapstone quarries in the Hordaland region. The geological datasets are major and trace element and rare earth element data, as well as the geological setting of the Hordaland region. The archaeological datasets comprise information on the temporal and spatial contexts of the vessels and the quarries. The geochemical datasets are studied and categories established of geochemically based matches made between vessels and quarries. The reliability of these categories of match is then critically assessed through the application of other datasets. Subsequently, the match between individual vessels and regional quarries is given a provenance point-score that reflects the reliability of the provenance result. Through the interdisciplinary efforts provenancing results are obtained for 131 vessels. The success rate is thus high. The immediate social and historical implications of the provenancing results are briefly elaborated upon: previously undated quarries are now tentatively dated through vessel match; distinct quarry-districts that were in use during the late Iron Age/Viking Age and the early Medieval period have been discerned, and the contours of the organisation of the regional production of and trade in soapstone vessels during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages are recognised. Finally, it is shown that late Iron Age/Viking Age rural households received vessels from areas from outside the Hordaland region to a much lesser degree than their early medieval urban counterparts

    Mislæste Luther vitterlig Paulus? Arvesynd og filosofi i tidlig jødisk eksegese

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    Abstract: The celebration of the reformation has left historicallyminded New Testament scholars in a state of embarrassment.Since Krister Stendahl’s seminal article from 1963, “The ApostlePaul and the Introspective Consciousness of the West”, the prevailingunderstanding among scholars subscribing to The New Perspectiveon Paul has been that Luther (1483 – 1546) misunderstoodthe apostle: He read Paul’s letters through a fine-mashed Augustinianfilter. Especially Luther’s use of the concept ‘original sin’ inhis exegesis of Pauls’ letters has been condemned as an illegitimateeis-egesis. However, as a pragmatic missionary, so goes Stendahl’sargument against Luther’s reading, Paul was not interested in developinga universal anthropology, but in solving the social problemsthat the acceptance of the Gospel among Gentiles created.Nevertheless, this article challenges the strong focus on ethnicityin contemporary Pauline scholarship. The argument proceeds intwo steps. First, it demonstrates that although solus Christus, solafides etc. to the young Luther constituted the answer, a close readingof his lecture on Rom 7 reveals that the question with whichhe struggled concerned the desire inherent in the flesh. Second,attention is drawn to the fact that in the Jewish philosopher andexegete Philo’s allegorical exposition of the fall narrative in Gen1-3, we find a well-developed and philosophically reflected conceptof ‘original sin’. Thus, the idea of a sexually transmitted sinfuldesire goes back to the intellectual milieu in the context throughwhich we often read Paul’s correspondence. Together, these twosteps make possible a reevaluation of Luther’s exegesis of the Paul’sletters

    Udvikling af vejledningspraksis i kurser for undervisere i brugen af blended learning-aktiviteter

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    Hvert semester tilbyder Center for Undervisning og Læring (CUL) ved School of Business and Social Sciences ved Aarhus Universitet et 1-årig langt kompetenceudviklingsforløb i brugen af blended learning for lektorer og professorer. I løbet af denne periode skal deltagerne gennemføre et indledende blended learning-kursusforløb på 5 uger efterfulgt af en udviklings- og afprøvningsfase. Som afslutning skal deltagerne skrive en refleksionsrapport. Forløbet indebærer to vejledningsmøder med en eller flere af de undervisningsudviklere fra CUL, der er ansvarlige for forløbet: 1) Et individuelt vejledningsmøde, hvor deltagerne skal finde frem til, hvordan de vil eller kan omlægge deres undervisning til blended learning og 2) et kollektivt vejledningsmøde efter første udviklingsfase, hvor deltagerne modtager feedback på deres igangværende udviklingstiltag fra gruppemedlemmer og undervisningsudviklere. Et mål for den vejledning, der finder sted i hele kursusforløbet er at 1) igangsætte og fastholde den vejledtes refleksion om egen undervisning, 2) guide den vejledte i forhold til pædagogisk udvikling af dennes undervisningspraksis og sikre, at dette sker på den vejledtes præmisser og 3) relatere punkt 1 og 2 til inddragelse af blended learning. En central udfordring for os som undervisningsudviklere, der agerer vejledere i forløbet, er ansvars- og rollefordelingen i samarbejdsrelationen. Hvordan skal vi balancere mellem at give gode råd og facilitere undervisernes refleksion? Udfordringen minder i høj grad om de erfaringer som andre faglige vejledere ofte gør sig i arbejdet med studerendes projektforløb (Wichmann-Hansen og Wirenfeldt Jensen, 2013). Den særlige udfordring, vi har oplevet i rollen som vejledere, er, at vi både forventes at have en almendidaktisk viden og indsigt og samtidig forventes at kunne relatere pædagogiske overvejelser om blended learning til den vejledte undervisers faglige kontekst og fagdidaktik. I oplægget vil vi præsentere vores erfaringer med at udvikle og kvalitetssikre en vejledningspraksis, der imødekommer de nævnte udfordringer. Vi har dels fundet inspiration i teorierne om reflekterende vejledning, og dels i begrebet om Kollektiv Akademisk Vejledning (Thomsen &amp; Nordentoft, 2012). Vi har bl.a. indført brug af skriftligt vejledningsgrundlag (Lauvås &amp; Handal, 2006), vejlederbreve (Laustsen et al, 2012) og strukturering af vejledningssamtaler (Wichmann-Hansen &amp; Wirenfeldt Jensen, 2013). I oplægget vil vi give et kort indblik i strukturen og aktiviteterne i kompetenceudviklingsforløbet, herunder vejledningsmøderne ligesom vi vil give konkrete eksempler på brug af de forskellige vejledningsmetoder, vi har implementeret.<br/

    Homiletisk Efterord

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    Siden 1960’erne har den bibelske eksegese gennemgået en udvikling,hvor den metodiske tilgang er blevet udvidet fra at have haft hovedfokuspå de historisk-kritiske studier af verden bag teksten til også atinkludere narrative studier af verden i teksten for at ende med en vendingmod de faktiske læseres engagement i de bibelske tekster i verdenforan teksten. En sammenlignelig udvikling har karakteriseret fagetPraktisk Teologi, som gennem de seneste årtier har været præget af denempiriske vending med inddragelse af sociologiske og antropologiskemetoder og indsigter, når de religiøse praksis- og kommunikationsformerskulle undersøges.Den fælles interesse for verden foran teksterne var medvirkende til,at Gitte Buch-Hansen og jeg i 2014 udarbejdede et fælles forskningsprojektetmed titlen: “Consumed Identities. The Eucharist and theNegotiation of National Identity in the Evangelical Lutheran Churchin Denmark”. I projektet foretog vi deltagerobservation af ritualiseredemåltidsfællesskaber i Apostelkirken på Vesterbro, som var samlingspunktetfor de mange flygtninge, der i de år kom til Danmark.I forlængelse af parallelle udviklinger inden for den bibelske eksegese og den praktiske teologi beskrives tre markante karakteristika for nyere internationalehomiletiske studier med bogens prædikener som cases. Det drejer sig om den profetiske prædikengenre, om other-wise preaching og endelig om det polyfonegudstjenesterum
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