scholarly journals Arboreal Metaphors and the Divine Body Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham

2009 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-451
Author(s):  
Andrei Orlov
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Gold Silver ◽  
The Family ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Main Plot ◽  
The Common ◽  
Divine Body ◽  
Common Era ◽  
The Temple

The first eight chapters of the Apocalypse of Abraham, a Jewish pseudepigraphon preserved solely in its Slavonic translation, deal with the early years of the hero of the faith in the house of his father Terah.1 The main plot of this section of the text revolves around the family business of manufacturing idols. Terah and his sons are portrayed as craftsmen carving religious figures out of wood, stone, gold, silver, brass, and iron. The zeal with which the family pursues its idolatrous craft suggests that the text does not view the household of Terah as just another family workshop producing religious artifacts for sale. Although the sacerdotal status of Abraham's family remains clouded in rather obscure imagery, the authors of the Slavonic apocalypse seem to envision the members of Terah's household as cultic servants whose “house” serves as a metaphor for the sanctuary polluted by idolatrous worship. From the very first lines of the apocalypse the reader learns that Abraham and Terah are involved in sacrificial rituals in temples.2 The aggadic section of the text, which narrates Terah's and Abraham's interactions with the “statues,” culminates in the destruction of the “house” along with its idols in a fire sent by God. It is possible that the Apocalypse of Abraham, which was written in the first centuries of the Common Era,3 when Jewish communities were facing a wide array of challenges including the loss of the Temple, is drawing here on familiar metaphors derived from the Book of Ezekiel, which construes idolatry as the main reason for the destruction of the terrestrial sanctuary. Like Ezekiel, the hero of the Slavonic apocalypse is allowed to behold the true place of worship, the heavenly shrine associated with the divine throne. Yet despite the fact that the Book of Ezekiel plays a significant role in shaping the Abrahamic pseudepigraphon,4 there is a curious difference between the two visionary accounts. While in Ezekiel the false idols of the perished temple are contrasted with the true form of the deity enthroned on the divine chariot, the Apocalypse of Abraham denies its hero a vision of the anthropomorphic Glory of God. When in the second part of the apocalypse Abraham travels to the upper heaven to behold the throne of God, evoking the classic Ezekielian description, he does not see any divine form on the chariot. Scholars have noted that while they preserve some features of Ezekiel's angelology, the authors of the Slavonic apocalypse appear to be carefully avoiding the anthropomorphic description of the divine Kavod, substituting references to the divine Voice.5 The common interpretation is that the Apocalypse of Abraham deliberately seeks “to exclude all reference to the human figure mentioned in Ezekiel 1.”6

scholarly journals Organization of Rural Microbusinesses Under Specific Family Owners Conditions

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 156-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maylis Sposito
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
The Self ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Swiss Jura ◽  
The Common ◽  
Professional Independence ◽  
Socioeconomic Consequences

Abstract The Interreg IV-A research project aims at analysing the socioeconomic consequences of disruptive situations in microbusinesses of the rural French-Swiss Jura region. Several researchers are focusing on this topic within the various institutions involved in the project2. I will rather focus on the common characteristics of microbusinesses on either side of the border. These similarities pertain to the overlapping of the family and business spheres, which often involves an overlapping of statuses, and to the gender relations induced by this overlapping, as well as to the precarious economic situation of these small structures. This article aims at putting into perspective the typology originated by all the biographical interviews collected. This typology compares the figure of the family business heir to that of the self-taught entrepreneur. Such a difference in achieving professional independence brings about strategic patterns of separation/fusion between private and professional lives, patterns which are specific to each above-mentioned ideal type. This typology is yet to be refined, but it already draws attention to the strategies developed by players to separate - or not - family and business spheres. Thus, by tackling the issue of disruption through this typology of company managers, the article will show various influential elements in the event of a disruption, both on the viability of the company and on the personal itinerary of the people involved.

An heir for a business at Kurniawan security: a mere baton passing?

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yeoh Khar Kheng ◽  
Sethela June ◽  
Shaik Dawood Raja Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Succession Planning ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Graduate Degrees ◽  
Security Services ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Problems

Subject area Family business Study level/applicability This case study is relevant for undergraduate and post-graduate degrees, specifically in the field of entrepreneurship. This case can be applied in the family business and entrepreneurship module. Case overview This case highlights the issue of succession planning in a family business. It describes the problem faced by the founder of a security service company, Kurniawan Security Services Sdn Bhd., in handing over his business to his sons. The case depicts the occurrence of conflicts as one of the common problems in running a family business which, in the end, may affect the perpetuity of the business concerns. Expected learning outcomes Upon completion of the case analysis, students should be able to explain the concept of entrepreneurship in the context of a family business, discuss the issue of succession planning commonly associated with running a family business, analyse critically the nature of conflicts that may occur in a family business and suggest how the problem(s) can be attempted to be solved from within the business management perspectives. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes.

East Asian Buddhist Ethics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Virtue Ethic ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Buddhist Ethics ◽  
Pure Land ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Era

Buddhism was transmitted to China around the beginning of the Common Era and from there spread to the other societies in East Asia. The Mahāyāna tradition eventually became embedded in the ordinary life of those societies, closely intertwined with Confucian and Daoist ethics. Popular Buddhist ethics were basically utilitarian, a means to produce desirable consequences. In the twentieth century, reformers like Taixu (1890–1947) tried to purify this popular Buddhism and make it relevant to the challenges of modernity. The result was a ‘Buddhism in the Human Realm’ expressed as a virtue ethic that teaches its followers to develop the capacities to follow a bodhisattva path of creating a Pure Land on earth. This chapter explores the implications of this for the family, public life, politics and war, economic inequality, sexuality, and environmental ethics.

Apocalyptic and Rabbinic Responses to the Destruction of 70

1985 ◽  
Vol 78 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 27-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kirschner
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Philo Of Alexandria ◽  
Political Status ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Era ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Qumran Community ◽  
Holy City

Until Titus's destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, the national and religious life of Palestinian Jewry was organized around the cultic system of the Temple. Despite many changes in the political status of the nation and of Jerusalem itself, the Temple continued to serve as the seat of the priesthood, the destination of sacred pilgrimage, and the instrument of cultic expiation. Other places and forms of worship are attested during the second commonwealth, and by the advent of the common era groups such as the Qumran community had turned away from Jerusalem altogether. Yet there can be little doubt that the Temple was perceived as the preeminent symbol of Israel's God. Excavations of first-century Palestinian synagogues have revealed a basic architectural design of orientation toward the sanctuary. Although geographically and religiously remote from the Temple, the Jews of the diaspora continued, writes Philo of Alexandria (ca. 20 BCE–50 CE), to “hold the Holy City where stands the sacred Temple of the most high God to be their mother city.”

scholarly journals La empresa familiar y la sociedad legal de gananciales y su sucesión

2011 ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Carlos Miguélez del Río
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Specific Study ◽  
Family Enterprise ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Common ◽  
Specific Regulation ◽  
Economic Regime

Este trabajo hace referencia a la problemática derivada de la existencia de la empresa familiar y a las características específicas de las explotaciones familiares, especialmente las de asegurar la conservación y continuación de la misma. Ante la falta de una regulación específica en la materia, estudiaremos la normativa común sobre la empresa familiar dentro del régimen económico del matrimonio y la sucesión de la misma. Con esta finalidad examinaremos las nuevas reformas introducidas en nuestro ordenamiento jurídico contemplando la empresa familiar, tanto como bien ganancial, como privativo, como integrada por bienes privativos y gananciales, así como en cuanto a sus beneficios y pérdidas y los efectos que en ella produce la liquidación de la sociedad ganancial. Efectuaremos también un estudio específico del protocolo familiar y de las formas de sucesión de la empresa familiar, con mención concreta al novedoso contenido del art. 1056 del Cc y a las facultades de mejora de hijos o descendientes, para concluir con las notas más importantes de los pactos sucesorios y su trascendencia jurídica.<br /><br /><br />His work refers to the problematics derived from the existence of the family business and to the specific characteristics of the familiar developments, specially them of assuring the conservation and continuation of the same one. Before the lack of a specific regulation in the matter, we will study the common regulation on the family business inside the economic regime of the marriage and the succession of the same one. With this purpose we will examine the new reforms got in our juridical classification contemplating the family business, so much as profit good, since exclusively, since integrated by exclusive and profit goods, as well as for his benefits and losses and the effects that in her there produces the liquidation of the profit company. We will effect also a specific study of the familiar protocol and of the forms of succession of the family enterprise, with mention it makes concrete to the new content of the art. 1056 of the Cc and to the powers of improvement of children or descendants, to conclude with the most important notes of the successor agreements and his juridical transcendency.<br />

Florentine papyri under examination: the material study of the inks used at the beginning of the Common Era in the “Family of Kôm Kâssûm” Archive (Hermopolis)

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-165
Author(s):  
Francesca Maltomini ◽  
Tea Ghigo ◽  
Oliver Hahn ◽  
Ira Rabin
Keyword(s):  
Short Period ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Era ◽  
Carbon Inks ◽  
Material Study

Abstract Carbon inks with metallic admixtures are found on some papyri of the 2nd century CE from a family archive in Hermopolis. The great diversity of inks found in a single household within a short period of time suggests that inks were purchased rather than self-made.

scholarly journals The Meaning of the Ark of the Covenant through the Logos Heuristics

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Antonio Cassella
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
High Priest ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Common ◽  
Classical Computing ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
Common Era ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Nonhuman Species

By placing the Ark of the Covenant in the first Jewish Temple in the 10th century before the Common Era (BCE), King Solomon relieved Levite priests from carrying the Ark. Three centuries later, King Josiah of Judah asked the Levites to return that container to the Temple, implying that it was no longer there. The gold-plated Ark enclosed more than an unvarying law in the Decalogue and in the ‘obedience-classical-computing’ of the crystal Thummim sewed into the Ephod worn by Aaron, the first high priest. Aaron’s vest also contained the crystal Urim, or flexible variations between obedience and disobedience, in the quantum computing epitomized by the ‘tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil’ (Genesis 2). Together, the Thummim and Urim crystals embody the Wisdom ascribed to nature’s Nature and to the Tree-of-Life. Solomon shared this Wisdom with the visiting Queen of Sheba. Although the Ark may have never followed Sheba’s return into Ethiopia, her mariners could have shared Solomon’s Wisdom with Greek, Hindu, Chinese, and Olmec sages. This hypothesis addresses the simultaneous rise in the 6th century BCE of the Logos posited by Heraclitus in Greek-Ionia; of Dharma in Hinduism, of the Buddhist-Sanskrit name “Tathāgatha”; of Social Intelligence in the meeting of Laozi with Kong-Fuzi in China; and, among the Mesoamerican Olmecs, of the legend about the bird-serpent that the Aztecs called later “Quetzal-coatl.” The power of the returning Quetzalcoatl to save humans and nonhuman species from obliteration matches the will of readers eager to catch the esoteric meaning of the vanished Ark.

scholarly journals Successes and failures in Hungarian family businesses

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Máté Repisky ◽  
Éva Málovics ◽  
Gergely Farkas
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Common Point ◽  
Regulatory Change ◽  
The Third ◽  
Family Enterprises ◽  
Business Failures ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Common

Family business researchers widely investigated the loss or the threatened loss of socioemotional wealth. Another growing theme within entrepreneurship is the consequences of business failures affecting entrepreneurs. However, these two fields rarely overlapped. The aim of this study was to explore different challenging events’ effects on the family entrepreneurs and to identify the factors that can determine the successfulness of the coping strategies. In this study, we present three case studies about family enterprises, which went through a challenging period and balanced between failure and success. In two cases the main challenges rooted in familiness of the enterprises and in the third case the challenge came from external regulatory change. The two inner challenges were generated by the retirement of the founder and the divorce between the two owners. We could observe both successful and partially successful coping strategies, but the common point was that all of them were strongly rooted in the socio-emotional wealth of family businesses.

A Quantitative Assessment of the Net Wealth Tax: The Spanish Experience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José M Durán-Cabré ◽  
Alejandro Esteller Moré
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Jel Codes ◽  
Tax Exemptions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Wealth Tax ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Control

Abstract There is growing debate, both social and academic, about the possibility of levying an annual net wealth tax. Until a few years ago, such a proposal appeared difficult to both implement and control, but recent technological innovations, which could greatly facilitate the periodic valuation of wealth, combined with improvements in international tax information sharing could make a “modern wealth tax” possible. Nonetheless, a number of challenges regarding its design still need to be addressed. Taking advantage of the Spanish experience—the only EU country to levy a wealth tax—we undertake a quantitative analysis of various key legal elements of the current tax (exemptions and the common income and wealth tax ceiling) by means of a tax simulator we have developed; we also analyze its redistributive power. Our results show that the family business exemption and the common ceilings are highly regressive. We also assess the effectiveness of alternative reforms with more comprehensive tax bases (JEL codes: H24, H23, and D31).

Human Resources in the Family Business

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ransburg ◽  
Wendy Sage-Hayward ◽  
Amy M. Schuman
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Family Business ◽  
The Family
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