A Choice of Epistles

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-46
Author(s):  
Andrew Cain
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Early Autumn ◽  
Authorial Intent ◽  
Do So

This chapter begins by elaborating on the circumstances under which Jerome composed his four Pauline commentaries in Bethlehem during the summer and early autumn of 386, ostensibly in response to a formal commission by his literary patrons Paula and her daughter Eustochium. The chapter focuses on the impetuses behind Jerome’s work on Paul and addresses several vital questions related to his authorial intent. Why did Jerome, who by inclination and research output was overwhelmingly a Hebrew Bible scholar, comment on Paul at all? Why did he do so at this particular juncture in his literary career, given that there are no real traces of a prior interest in Paul’s writings? Why, moreover, did he compose commentaries on the seemingly miscellaneous quartet of Galatians, Ephesians, Titus, and Philemon?

scholarly journals Pioneer or imitate? An analysis of business imitations

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 691-697
Author(s):  
Gwendoline Vusumuzi Nani
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
The Rich ◽  
To Come ◽  
Benefits And Costs ◽  
Desk Research ◽  
Do So

Pioneering is meant to create a competitive advantage for businesses and yet imitations are accelerating globally, leaving businesses not knowing whether to pioneer or imitate. The purpose of this study was to make an analysis of the benefits and costs of pioneering and imitation, with the aim of possibly helping businesses to decide on which route to take, after considering their strengths and weaknesses. This was a desk research study which analyzed literature on business imitation and pioneering. It focused on imitation driven by technology; be it in products or services with a bias towards legal innovative imitation. The analysis was primarily dominated by literature obtained from developed countries because of the rich pool of research output on both concepts. Based on the findings, the paper concludes that most businesses are innovative imitations and technology has facilitated most of these imitations. Recommendations are that businesses should adopt innovative imitation, but do so legally and ethically. There is also need for more research studies on business imitation in order to come up with strategies that will accommodate global players. Keywords: pioneers, competitive advantage, innovative imitation, global players, first mover. JEL Classification: L26, M19

Retracing a Remembered Past

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Pioske
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Southern Levant ◽  
The Past ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Review Current ◽  
Do So ◽  
Ancient Texts

Historians of the southern Levant have increasingly made recourse to the concept of memory as an analytical tool to examine the past recounted within the Hebrew Bible. The intent of this article is to review current approaches toward memory among these historians in order to consider certain theoretical questions raised within this research. Most significant of these will be concerns related to the epistemological relationship that obtains between those ancient, literary memories outlined within these investigations and that past reconstructed through the techniques of modern historical inquiry. The epistemological differences perceived between the past claimed by memory and history leads to the contention that historians charged with interpreting the referential claims of ancient texts informed by a community’s shared memories must do so through a hermeneutical framework that is sensitive to memory’s distinct epistemological underpinnings. This study then concludes by advocating for a post-positivist interpretive approach that situates the referential claims of a remembered past alongside a constellation of ancient referents, textual and material, that attest to the place and time being recollected in order to trace out the semblances and dissimilarities that emerge.


scholarly journals Menstrual Taboos: Moving Beyond the Curse

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-162
Author(s):  
Alma Gottlieb
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Global South ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Global North ◽  
Anthropological Approach ◽  
Do So

Abstract Why do so many communities surround menstruation with taboos? And, are all menstrual taboos created equal? Gottlieb opens this chapter with an anthropological approach to the nature of “taboo” itself. From there, the chapter explores the wide variety of ways that the Hebrew Bible in particular, as well as several other religious traditions, have shaped menstrual taboos (including, but going well beyond, the notion of a “curse”). Such taboos have operated in diverse ways and diverse places, hence this chapter also explores how both individual and whole communities may experience them differently, including offering less negative interpretations. As such, the chapter introduces readers to a striking diversity of menstrual experiences. Moreover, people and communities in both the Global North and the Global South increasingly challenge taboos with creative activism. The chapter concludes with a brief survey of what has become a menstrual movement.

scholarly journals In Defense of the Bible

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 105-107
Author(s):  
Kathryn Kueny
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Critical Edition ◽  
Great Resistance ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Scholarly Practice ◽  
Intellectual Milieu ◽  
Do So

InDefense of the Bible containsWalid Saleh’s critical edition of Al-Aqwal al-Qawimah fi îukmal-Naql min al-Kutub al-Qadimah (The Just Verdict on the Permissibility of Quoting from Old Scriptures). This treatise, composed byIbrahim ibn `Umar al-Biqa`i during the last days of Mamluk rule, sought todefend his commentarial use of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Gospelsto interpret the Qur’an. While many Qur’anic commentators rely heavily onthe isra’iliyat genre to support their interpretations of the Qur’an, al-Biqa`i’stafsir radically departed from the Islamic religious and scholarly practice byquoting directly from the Jewish and Christian scriptures. This hermeneuticaldecision met with great resistance and criticism from al-Sakhawi, one ofCairo’s leading scholars, who wrote a scathing response in support of the traditionalIslamic legal prohibition against the religious use of the Bible, a textbelieved to have existed only in corrupt form.The question of why al-Biqa`i relied so heavily on the Hebrew Bibleand Christian Gospels, and how he defended his decision to do so, is the subjectof both the Aqwal and Saleh’s introduction to his critical edition of thismedieval text. Saleh’s work not only sheds light on the complexity ofMamluk-era Cairo’s vibrant intellectual milieu, but, more importantly, correctsthe contemporary academic bias that Muslims rarely engaged with theBible during these times ...

Holding replication studies to mainstream standards of evidence

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duane T. Wegener ◽  
Leandre R. Fabrigar
Keyword(s):  
Replication Studies ◽  
Replication Research ◽  
Standards Of Evidence ◽  
Do So

AbstractReplications can make theoretical contributions, but are unlikely to do so if their findings are open to multiple interpretations (especially violations of psychometric invariance). Thus, just as studies demonstrating novel effects are often expected to empirically evaluate competing explanations, replications should be held to similar standards. Unfortunately, this is rarely done, thereby undermining the value of replication research.

Electron Microscopy of a Herpesvirus Isolated from Marek's Disease in Duck and Chicken Embryo Fibroblast Cultures

1968 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 222-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyvan Nazerian
Keyword(s):  
Inclusion Bodies ◽  
Chicken Embryo Fibroblast ◽  
Marek's Disease ◽  
Marek’S Disease ◽  
Duck Embryo Fibroblast ◽  
Multinucleated Cells ◽  
Viral Particles ◽  
Infected Cells ◽  
And Control ◽  
Do So

A herpes-like virus has been isolated from duck embryo fibroblast (DEF) cultures inoculated with blood from Marek's disease (MD) infected birds. Cultures which contained this virus produced MD in susceptible chickens while virus negative cultures and control cultures failed to do so. This and other circumstantial evidence including similarities in properties of the virus and the MD agent implicate this virus in the etiology of MD.Histochemical studies demonstrated the presence of DNA-staining intranuclear inclusion bodies in polykarocytes in infected cultures. Distinct nucleo-plasmic aggregates were also seen in sections of similar multinucleated cells examined with the electron microscope. These aggregates are probably the same as the inclusion bodies seen with the light microscope. Naked viral particles were observed in the nucleus of infected cells within or on the edges of the nucleoplasmic aggregates. These particles measured 95-100mμ, in diameter and rarely escaped into the cytoplasm or nuclear vesicles by budding through the nuclear membrane (Fig. 1). The enveloped particles (Fig. 2) formed in this manner measured 150-170mμ in diameter and always had a densely stained nucleoid. The virus in supernatant fluids consisted of naked capsids with 162 hollow, cylindrical capsomeres (Fig. 3). Enveloped particles were not seen in such preparations.

Debates in Dysphagia Management: How Do You Use Evidence-Based Practice in Your Dysphagia Patient Care?

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Jeri A. Logemann
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Clinical Judgment ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Clinical Method ◽  
Do So

Evidence-based practice requires astute clinicians to blend our best clinical judgment with the best available external evidence and the patient's own values and expectations. Sometimes, we value one more than another during clinical decision-making, though it is never wise to do so, and sometimes other factors that we are unaware of produce unanticipated clinical outcomes. Sometimes, we feel very strongly about one clinical method or another, and hopefully that belief is founded in evidence. Some beliefs, however, are not founded in evidence. The sound use of evidence is the best way to navigate the debates within our field of practice.

The Persnickety Pervasiveness of Rating Enhancement in Personality Assessment

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Alicia A. Stachowski ◽  
John T. Kulas
Keyword(s):  
Response Bias ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Psychological Measurement ◽  
Shared Sets ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Original Target ◽  
Target Profile ◽  
Do So ◽  
Normative Influences

Abstract. The current paper explores whether self and observer reports of personality are properly viewed through a contrasting lens (as opposed to a more consonant framework). Specifically, we challenge the assumption that self-reports are more susceptible to certain forms of response bias than are informant reports. We do so by examining whether selves and observers are similarly or differently drawn to socially desirable and/or normative influences in personality assessment. Targets rated their own personalities and recommended another person to also do so along shared sets of items diversely contaminated with socially desirable content. The recommended informant then invited a third individual to additionally make ratings of the original target. Profile correlations, analysis of variances (ANOVAs), and simple patterns of agreement/disagreement consistently converged on a strong normative effect paralleling item desirability, with all three rater types exhibiting a tendency to reject socially undesirable descriptors while also endorsing desirable indicators. These tendencies were, in fact, more prominent for informants than they were for self-raters. In their entirety, our results provide a note of caution regarding the strategy of using non-self informants as a comforting comparative benchmark within psychological measurement applications.

Work Engagement and Research Output Among Female and Male Scientists

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lonneke Dubbelt ◽  
Sonja Rispens ◽  
Evangelia Demerouti
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Time Control ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Women have a minority position within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and, consequently, are likely to face more adversities at work. This diary study takes a look at a facilitating factor for women’s research performance within academia: daily work engagement. We examined the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between two behaviors (i.e., daily networking and time control) and daily work engagement, as well as its effect on the relationship between daily work engagement and performance measures (i.e., number of publications). Results suggest that daily networking and time control cultivate men’s work engagement, but daily work engagement is beneficial for the number of publications of women. The findings highlight the importance of work engagement in facilitating the performance of women in minority positions.

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