Divine intercession in Judah?

2006 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon B. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Persian Period ◽  
Biblical Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After

AbstractThe paper explores evidence and reasons for thinking that some Judeans may have believed in and appealed to divine intercessors with Yahweh. After a brief review of the evidence for such a belief and practice outside Judah and in times before and after the Iron Age and Persian period, it considers factors in the social life and religious beliefs of Judeans that would favor such an institution. It then discusses the limited direct evidence for divine intercession, first in biblical literature from the Persian period and then in inscriptions from the Iron Age.

scholarly journals Game-Boards and Gaming-Pieces in Funerary Contexts in the Northern European Iron Age

Nordlit ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helène Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Early Date ◽  
Old Kingdom ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Northern European ◽  
Clear Association ◽  
The Social

Gaming-pieces, dice, and game-boards are found in connection withburials at various times and places from an early date. For instance, inEgypt there was a clear association between the game known as Senetand burials from the time of the Old Kingdom (Pusch 1979; Piccione1984). Dice are not uncommonly found in Greek, Etruscan, and Romantombs (Vermeule 1979, 80; Pallottino 1955, fig. 95; Egidi 1983). It canreasonably be assumed that the playing of board games was seen as apleasurable pastime which one could hopefully continue to pursue inthe Afterlife. However, it can in some cases be argued that gamingequipment in burial contexts was related to the social status of the deceased or to religious beliefs and therefore had a more complex significance. In this article I will look at the occurrence of gaming-pieces,dice, and game-boards in burials in the northern European Iron Age.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Endangers the Health of Society by Disrupting Social Participation, Home Integrations, and Productive Activities.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elyas Monfared ◽  
Mohsen Vahedi ◽  
Hojjat Allah Haghgoo
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Community Integration ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Productive Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After

Abstract ObjectiveProper social participation and involvement in the daily activities of life increases the feeling of attachment, and increases a person's sense of worth, belonging, and dependence on society. Lack of social communication leads to anxiety, loneliness, depression, panic, mental. While COVID-19 has become a pandemic, public health measures to cut off human-to-human transmission may include quarantine and social isolation. Due to social distancing and quarantine practices, people's participation in many areas of social life and daily activities has been disrupted. The purpose of this study is to provide insight into the effects of the Covid 19 epidemic on integration into home activities, integration into the community and integration into productive activities, and overall determination of social participation during this epidemic.MethodsIn June 2020, the Social Integration Questionnaire (CIQ), which measures integration at home, integration in the community, and integration into purposeful and productive activities, was transcribed with the required demographic information in a web-based format. A total of 461 people (mean age 36.86±5.8 years) completed the social integration questionnaire in a cross-sectional study. The effects of Covid-19 on social interaction were then calculated by analyzing CIQ scores before and after the outbreak of COVID-19 and the data were analyzed using SPSS software version 22.ResultsComparing the participants score in the Community Integration Questionnaire before and after the COVID-19 pandemic showed that COVID-19 reduced home integration (from 4.6909±2.84 to 3.5938±2.80 , t= 11.151 p <0.000), social integration (from 8.6529±1.98 to 6.1150±2.10, t= 25.440, p <0.000), integration into productive and purposeful activities (from 5.3145±1.70 to 3.5098±2.02, t= 23.226, p <0.000) and total CIQ test score (from 18.6584±4.02 to 13.2185±4.56 , t= 29.022, p <0.000). These findings show how all three CIQ domains and their total scores decreased significantly after the outbreak of COVID-19.ConclusionAfter the COVID-19 epidemic, people's social life is severely disrupted. The direct and indirect psychological and social effects of COVID- 19 are widespread and can affect mental health. Trial Registration: This study was registered and approved by the Ethic Committee of the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran (IR.USWR.REC.1399.228).

scholarly journals براہوئی خلقی شاعری، خلقی زند نا آدینک

Al-Burz ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-35
Author(s):  
Yousaf Mengal
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Folk Literature ◽  
Common Man ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Folk Poetry

In order to be aware of the social life of a community the study of their folk literature is necessary. folk literature not only gives awareness regarding culture, social norms, values and tradition of a particular community, bat also the reader comes to know about their religious beliefs and day –to day life, the folk literature of a particular community not only tells what sources they bring in use in order to lead their life but also depicts their way of earning their daily –bread Brahui people have depicted their way of earning their daily –bread. Brahui people have depicted their emotions and feelings in the form of folk poetry. This is why the folk literature is also said to be the voice of heart the people. The language of Brahui folk literature is very simple, easily understandable for a common man and it is based on realism, thus folk poetry reflects the folk of Brahui people.

Religious Behaviour

2019 ◽  
pp. 190-247
Author(s):  
Preeti Kapur ◽  
Girishwar Misra
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Life World ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Communal Violence ◽  
The Social

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this chapter shows that religion continues to provide meaning to human life world and is intertwined in daily individual, social, economic, and political activities. The religious beliefs relate to world-views, practices, and identities. Of course, religious practices and meanings do change over a period of time. The diversity and plurality of religious identities present in contemporary India are linked with the presence of two diametrically opposed dimensions of social life, that are, existence of sharing and coexistence as well as devastating violence, hatred, and discrimination. In recent years, the social life in India is characterized by sporadic incidents of communal violence, yet pilgrimages continue to be the social spaces where people of diverse religions and faiths intermingle and maintain peace and harmony.

The Socioeconomic World of Deuteronomy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra L. Richter
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social Location ◽  
Persian Period ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sitz Im Leben ◽  
Academic Discussion

The question of the social location(s) of the book of Deuteronomy remains critical to the academic discussion of the book. The thesis of this chapter is that the economic features embedded in the book have much to contribute to the discussion. Toward this end, this chapter surveys the archaeologically reconstructed economies of Israel in the Iron Age and the Persian period, identifying diagnostic features of each in rural and urban areas, and juxtaposes those features to the contents of Urdeuteronomium (defined as Deut 4:44–27:26). There is particular attention to issues involving currency. The objective is to further refine the Sitz im Leben from which the book emerges.

Environmental and Social Change in Northeast Thailand during the Iron Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-569
Author(s):  
C.F.W. Higham ◽  
B.F.J. Manly ◽  
R. Thosarat ◽  
H.R. Buckley ◽  
N. Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Agricultural Revolution ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Elites ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Impact

The Iron Age of Mainland Southeast Asia began in the fifth centurybcand lasted for about a millennium. In coastal regions, the development of trade along the Maritime Silk Road led to the growth of port cities. In the interior, a fall in monsoon rains particularly affected the Mun River valley. This coincided with the construction of moats/reservoirs round Iron Age settlements from which water was channelled into wet rice fields, the production of iron ploughshares and sickles, population growth, burgeoning exchange and increased conflict. We explore the social impact of this agricultural revolution through applying statistical analyses to mortuary samples dating before and after the development of wet rice farming. These suggest that there was a swift formation of social elites represented by the wealth of mortuary offerings, followed by a decline. Two associated changes are identified. The first involved burying the dead in residential houses; the second considers the impact of an increasingly aquatic environment on health by examining demographic trends involving a doubling of infant mortality that concentrated on neonates. A comparison between this sequence and that seen in coastal ports suggests two interconnected instances of rapid pathways to social change responding to different social and environmental stressors.

scholarly journals The reshaping of medical image by news reports during COVID-19 's epidemic situation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 390-400
Author(s):  
Xinyan Lu ◽  
Yijing Lu ◽  
Siyu Le ◽  
Yazheng Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Medical Image ◽  
Social Image ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Media ◽  
Intermediary Role

Medical image has always been a long-term topic in social life, through questionnaires and personal interviews to investigate the role of news reports on the reconstruction of medical image before and after the epidemic. Through the investigation, it can be found that the media has played a certain intermediary role and positive guiding role in the alleviation of doctor-patient relationship and the shaping of medical portrayals; some metaphorical discourse descriptions in news reports can achieve better communication effect; through a variety of reporting forms and attribute agenda settings, the media enriches the foreground image of doctors and indirectly shapes the social image of doctors.

The Outstanding Biographies of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Spain

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo García Sanjuán
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
European Regions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Graphic Elements ◽  
Historical Periods

Over the last decade, new questions have emerged with regard to the complex temporal patterns often seen in Iberian prehistoric monuments. A number of megalithic chamber tombs, menhirs, stelae or rock-art panels have been found to show that, as occurs in other European regions, their lives were not restricted to the period of time in which they were built or manufactured, but, on the contrary, they extended well into later (or even much later) prehistoric, protohistoric and subsequent historical periods. Evidence for this includes successive physical transformations through the incorporation of new architectural or graphic elements and/or through the reorganization of previously existing ones, the accumulation of mnemonic artefacts, as well as layouts and orientations in special landscape settings (Díaz-Guardamino 2006; 2008; 2010; 2012; 2015; García Sanjuán et al. 2008; Lillios 2008; García Sanjuán and Wheatley 2010; García Sanjuán 2011; Aranda Jiménez 2013). In this chapter we attempt to show that some prehistoric monuments built or made in the Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age played active roles in the social life of communities considered ‘protohistoric’ or ‘historic’. To achieve this, we first examine a series of monuments with ‘outstanding biographies’, which document single reuse or repeated and/or persistent use during the Iron Age, Antiquity and/or the Middle Age. We will then try to establish some conclusions in relation to the social practices that may have led to such uses or reuses of prehistoric monuments that were thousands of years old by the time they were reinterpreted, rediscovered or reinvented. Although this is a subject that has only been seriously researched over the last decade, the list of Iberian megalithic chamber tombs used in the Iron Age, in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages is now quite substantial (e.g. Caamaño Gesto and Criado Boado 1992; Lorrio Alvarado and Montero Ruiz 2004; García Sanjuán 2005a; 2005b; García Sanjuán et al. 2008; Álvarez Vidaurre 2011). There is varied evidence supporting these cases of reuse.

scholarly journals THE “SHALIANI” ICON: HISTORY AND NARRATIONS

InterConf ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 247-259
Author(s):  
Rozeta Gujejiani
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Mode ◽  
Mode Of Life

The paper discusses the correlation of the traditional mode of life and religious beliefs and analyses the social interactions in connection to the sacred sites and holy objects. The case of “Shaliani” displaying the evidence of inportance of traditional value systems. “Shaliani“ is an icon of Kala St Kvirike Monastery, in Svaneti Georgia. The icon is considered to have a power, which is admired till nowadays. The belief is symbolically focused on the “Shaliani” icon and it is the driving force of the social life. This power is constructed through the narratives spread among the local population. The historical and ethnographic sources and data are displaying interesting facts and legends bound together and legitimasing the perceptions regarding “Shaliani”

scholarly journals Satisfaction of scientists during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel J. Raabe ◽  
Alexander Ehlert ◽  
David Johann ◽  
Heiko Rauhut
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Abrupt Change ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Social Experiment ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Quasi Experimental

AbstractThe discussion of the social, political and economic consequences of the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic mainly revolves around negative effects. This study exploits a unique opportunity and analyses data from a survey (N = 13,316) that happened to be in the field in the months of the development and eventual manifestation of the COVID-19 pandemic. It documents slightly higher levels of average general life satisfaction as well as of satisfaction with various specific aspects of life (health, work, work-life balance and leisure) during the lockdown among scientists in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. It is argued that the lockdown can be regarded as a large-scale social experiment of a very sudden and abrupt change of work and social life, which is unique in history. Daily survey data elicited before and after the lockdown allows the construction of a quasi-experimental design for analysing how this abrupt change of social reality has affected satisfaction. For scientists, the lockdown mainly entailed the transition to work from home, leading to a reduced speed of life and allowing for more flexibility in incorporating family and leisure into the work day. It is discussed how some of these mechanisms might apply to the general population.

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