David’s Sojourn in Keilah in Light of the Amarna Letters

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadav Naaman
Keyword(s):  
Social Conditions ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
Historical Episode ◽  
Amarna Period ◽  
Amarna Letters ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe article examines the story of David’s sojourn in Keilah (1 Sam. 23:1-13) in light of the episode of the sojourn of a band of ‘Apiru in the same city in the Amarna period. The biblical story is analyzed in the first part of the article, and is followed by a reconstruction of the 14th century BCE historical episode on the basis of some Amarna letters. The remarkable accord between the biblical and extra-biblical descriptions with regard to location and social conditions opens the way to a better understanding of both. The pro-Davidic character of the biblical story is evident from what the narrator includes in his story, as much as by what he left out. The extra-biblical source is the key to filling in the missing details that the narrator deliberately left out of his story.

The Amarna Letters and the Amarna Period

1960 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward F. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Amarna Period ◽  
Amarna Letters

Walter Burley on divine Ideas

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-75
Author(s):  
Chiara Paladini
Keyword(s):  
Ontological Status ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Divine Essence ◽  
The World ◽  
Divine Freedom ◽  
Mode Of Being ◽  
Walter Burley ◽  
The Way

This paper focuses on the theory of divine ideas of Walter Burley (1275-1347). The medieval common theory of divine ideas, developed by Augustine, was intended to provide an answer to the question of the order and intelligibility of the world. The world is rationally organized since God created it according to the models existing eternally in his mind. Augustine's theory, however, left open problems such as reconciling the principle of God's unity with the plurality of ideas, the way in which ideas can or cannot be said to be eternal, their ontological status. Medieval authors discussed such questions until at least the late 14th century. By resorting to the semantic tool of connotation, Burley explains both in what way ‘idea' can signify the divine essence as much as the creatures (thereby reconciling the principle of God's unity with the multiplicity of ideas), and in what sense we can say that God has thought them from eternity, without slipping into a necessitarian view that undermines the principle of divine freedom. Moreover, by envisaging the objective mode of being as the only mode of being of ideas, he explains in what way they truly differ from one another on the basis of their different conceptual contents

The Climate of Nihilism

Worldview ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 10-12
Author(s):  
Bernard Murchland
Keyword(s):  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

I have never been convinced of the Marxian belief that thought is the outcome of social conditions, particularly the modes of production and exchange. It seems to me that the opposite is more nearly true, that the social substance in any given age is primarily defined by its climate of ideas, its philosophical worldview, if you will. The structures of society derive their being as well as their significance from the prevailing philosophy; truth is always a function of a state of consciousness, of the way we view things.

scholarly journals Libertà e contingenza della fruizione beatifica nello scotismo del primo ’300

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Alliney
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Free Choice ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Beatific Vision ◽  
The Will ◽  
Vision Of God ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Way

Este estudo tem como objeto a recepção da teoria scotista da vontade no início do século 14. Interesse precípuo é o modo como autores, sobretudo franciscanos, a partir das Universidades de Paris e de Oxford, discutiram sobre a possibilidade de uma escolha livre ou de um ato da própria vontade, por parte dos bemaventurados, quando da visão de Deus. Para tanto, pressuposições gerais da teoria scotista da vontade são apresentadas, bem como as inovações dos filósofos influenciados por Scotus. PALAVRAS-CHAVE – Teoria scotista da vontade. Visão beatífica. Liberdade. Influência do pensamento scotista no século 14. ABSTRACT This study aims to analyse the reception of Scotus’s theory of will in the beginning of the 14th Century. The main interest is the way some authors, specially Franciscan thinkers, departing from the Universities of Paris and Oxford, discussed about the possibility for the blessed of a free choice or an act of the will itself concerning the vision of God. For this purpose, general pressupositions of Scotus’s theory of will shall be presented, as well as the innovations of those philosophers influenced by Scotus. KEY WORDS – Scotus’s theory of will. Beatific vision. Freedom. Influence os Scotistic thought in the 14th Century.

scholarly journals Some points about Ho Quy Ly’s socio-economic reform policies

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. first
Author(s):  
Tran Thuan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Talented People ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

Throughout the history of Vietnam, 10 socio-economic reformations have occurred. The size, level, nature and outcome of those reforms varied, but they all shared the same trait showing progress and revolution, especially ideology. Many leaders of socio-economic revolutions were talented people in the society who saw the cause leading to crises and the way to resolve them. They could be emperors, Confucian intellectuals, officials, etc. The reformation of Ho Quy Ly from the late 14th to the early 15th centuries is among them. It is a comprehensive and breakthrough reformation. Throughout 40 years, with his political position, Ho Quy Ly made some policies to change crisis status in terms of socio-economy in the late 14th century, especially economy. Over 600 years, many studies about Ho Quy Ly and his reform gave out many different opinions. In the feudal period, the Ho Dynasty and its reform received many negative reviews from historians who were affected by Confucianism. However, after 1954, this topic came back on research forums of modern historians in Vietnam. Those researches help researches about Ho Quy Ly's role in history become more positive than periods before. This paper will analyze the background of Vietnam society in the half-end of the 14th century to clarify reasons leading to Ho Quy Ly's changes. From the results, we can objectively judge the thoughts of the reform by Ho Quy Ly when facing the requests of his living period.

scholarly journals Towards a broad-coverage graphemic analysis of large historical corpora

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-420
Author(s):  
Sandra Waldenberger ◽  
Stefanie Dipper ◽  
Ilka Lemke
Keyword(s):  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Middle High German ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Reference Corpus ◽  
Coverage Graph ◽  
The Way

Abstract This paper presents a method which we are developing to explore graphemic variation in large historical corpora of German. Historical corpora provide an amount of data at the level of graphemics which cannot be handled exhaustively using common methods of manual evaluation. To deal with this challenge, we apply methods from computational linguistics to pave the way for a broad-coverage graph(em)ic analysis of large historical corpora. In this paper, we show how our approach can be applied to the Reference Corpus of Middle High German. Illustrating our method and linguistic analysis, we present findings from our investigations into diatopic and/or diachronic variation as documented in 13th and 14th century charters (Urkunden) from the corpus.

The Exodus Story: Between Historical Memory and Historiographical Composition

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadav Naʾaman
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Central Place ◽  
The Self ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Historical Question ◽  
The Way

The article seeks to explain the contrast between the central place of the Exodus in Israelite memory and the marginality of the event in history by shifting the focus of discussion from the historical question to the role the Exodus tradition played in shaping the self-portrait and consciousness of early Israelite society. It first examines the oppressive nature of Egyptian rule in Canaan at the time of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties. It then examines the story of the Exodus in the context of Egypt under the Ramesside and Saitic Dynasties. It suggests that the bondage and the delivery from slavery as related in the biblical story actually took place in Canaan and that the memories were later transferred from Canaan to Egypt. The transfer of memory explains the omission of the memory of the long Egyptian occupation of Canaan in the Bible. The displaced memories of bondage were replaced by the ‘memory’ of the conquest, which reflects the way early Israelite society sought to present its past. The subjugation, the suffering and the delivery were experienced by all tribal groups that lived at the time in Canaan, hence the centrality of the Exodus tradition within the Israelite society

Durkheim's Suicide and the Question of Intention

1974 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Vanderlyn R. Pine
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

Durkheim dismissed “intention” and “motives” from his conceptual framework in his effort to analyze suicide as a social fact He also rejected psychopathic states, heredity, and other “extra-social” factors as possible causes of suicide on the basis of statistical information available to him. This paper examines the way in which Durkheim worked out his position on the social conditions he regarded as responsible for suicide, and discusses some of the major problems involved. It is argued that Durkheim did not achieve the consistent position for which he strived, and that his methods did not always parallel his views on the use of “intention.”

The Biblical King David and His Artistic and Literary Afterlives

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 313-347
Author(s):  
Martin O'Kane
Keyword(s):  
Good Effect ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
King David ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe story of David has occupied the minds of biblical critics and fired the imagination of artists over the years. David's status as founder of a dynasty of kings is highlighted in Jewish and Christian traditions and his multifaceted personality has found expression in many and varied artistic forms. The central focus in this article is the way in which the figure of David has been represented in art and literature generally, but with specific reference to Allan Massie's King David, A Novel (1995) as an interpretation of the biblical story of David. By way of introduction some general comments are offered on the attraction and appeal of the biblical narrative for both artist and writer. Such comments help to situate the discussion of the David narrative within the wider cultural approach, an approach used to good effect in the works of Mieke Bal, Cheryl Exum and Larry Kreitzer.

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