Wrestling with Spirits: A Medieval Internal Jewish Debate on the Nature of Biblical Angels and its Arabic and Latin Sources

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Yossef Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Unique Solution ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Literal Sense ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
Dual Commitment ◽  
Bodily Contact ◽  
Point Of Departure

Abstract The article’s point of departure is a debate that took place in about 1290 between Zeraḥyah b. Isaac Ḥen and Hillel b. Samuel, two Jewish-Italian thinkers, that presents us with a surprisingly great variety of Arab, Jewish, and Latin-Christian exegetical and cosmological approaches regarding angelic nature. Zeraḥyah, following the dominant attitude among Arab, Muslim, and Jewish philosophers, strives to interpret the biblical angel-figure either naturalistically or allegorically. Conversely, Hillel cleaves more closely to Christian scholastic conceptions, adhering to the biblical narrative in the literal sense. The struggle between Jacob and the angel (Gen 32) posed one of the most challenging cases, presenting the interpreter with a situation in which an angel did not only appear but was also engaged in bodily contact. In the case of Hillel, his dual commitment as a Jewish Maimonidean heavily influenced by Latin Scholasticism led to the development of a highly unique solution.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Gustavo Procopio Furtado
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Literal Sense ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Film Archives ◽  
Point Of Departure

The introduction offers an overview of the documentary in contemporary Brazil and discusses the significance of archive concepts for the documentary in general and for Brazilian documentaries in particular. The archive has been undervalued as a heuristic concept in documentary film studies, which have tended to discuss it only in the literal sense of film archives and to speak of repurposed footage. The documentary, however, has an inherent affinity with the concept of the archive that becomes crucial in the work of many filmmakers. Taking Eduardo Coutinho’s Cabra marcado para morrer (Man Marked For Death/Twenty Years Later, 1964–1985) as a point of departure, the introduction argues that the documentary has a Janus-faced relationship with the archive, at once producing lasting records for the future and de-archiving materials from the past, returning what was hidden and stored away to the present.

Corps diplomatique:The body, British diplomacy, and independent Afghanistan, 1922–47

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 956-990
Author(s):  
MAXIMILIAN DREPHAL
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Diplomatic History ◽  
Colonial Medicine ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Medical Unit ◽  
Literal Sense ◽  
Language And Medicine ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Physical Dimensions

AbstractThis article studies diplomatic history in its physical dimensions. Its point of departure is the interpretation of the term ‘corps diplomatique’ in a literal sense. The article introduces the concept of the diplomatic body as a diplomat's body and as a body with diplomatic functions and meanings. Based on material relating to the British Legation in Kabul from 1922 until 1947, the body's ubiquity in international relations is revealed through the themes of space, language, and medicine. The article first looks at the impact of Kabul's spatial conditions and the physical reactions it excited in British diplomats. It then considers the bodies of Afghanistan's ruling elite as objects of British attention, whose appearance was documented in diplomatic records. Descriptions of these bodies in diplomatic language expressed intimacy and consensus as well as estrangement in British–Afghan relations. In addition to the metaphorical use of the diplomatic body, the provision of healthcare through the Legation's medical unit addressed the needs of British and Afghan bodies alike. It was also employed to further diplomatic ends by extending colonial medicine to the Afghan population. The study of the Legation's physical practices ultimately reveals the diplomatic mission's colonial origins and character.

The Contribution of Pavlov's Typology of CNS Properties to Personality Research

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Strelau
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
The West ◽  
Personality Dimensions ◽  
Personality Research ◽  
Personality Theories ◽  
Strength Of Excitation ◽  
Point Of Departure

This paper presents Pavlov's contribution to the development of biological-oriented personality theories. Taking a short description of Pavlov's typology of central nervous system (CNS) properties as a point of departure, it shows how, and to what extent, this typology influenced further research in the former Soviet Union as well as in the West. Of special significance for the development of biologically oriented personality dimensions was the conditioned reflex paradigm introduced by Pavlov for studying individual differences in dogs. This paradigm was used by Russian psychologists in research on types of nervous systems conducted in different animal species as well as for assessing temperament in children and adults. Also, personality psychologists in the West, such as Eysenck, Spence, and Gray, incorporated the CR paradigm into their theories. Among the basic properties of excitation and inhibition on which Pavlov's typology was based, strength of excitation and the basic indicator of this property, protective inhibition, gained the highest popularity in arousaloriented personality theories. Many studies have been conducted in which the Pavlovian constructs of CNS properties have been related to different personality dimensions. In current research the behavioral expressions of the Pavlovian constructs of strength of excitation, strength of inhibition, and mobility of nervous processes as measured by the Pavlovian Temperament Survey (PTS) have been related to over a dozen of personality dimensions, mostly referring to temperament.

Adam versus Abdul: Arab/Muslim bias in the post 9/11 workplace

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Weiss ◽  
Robert L. Dipboye
Keyword(s):  
Arab Muslim

PEMBANGUNAN SENJATA NUKLIR ISRAEL

ALQALAM ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 470
Author(s):  
Ibnu Burdah
Keyword(s):  
Arab Muslim

Destruksi yang ditimbulkan senjata nuklir sudah tidak acceptable lagi baik bagi nilai maupun survival manusia dan peradaban. Pertanyaannya, mengapa Negara Israel mengambil opsi senjata nuklir bukan persenjataan konvensional terutama untuk menghadapi negara-negara sekitarnya yang mayoritas Arab Muslim. Lebih dari itu, berbagai tantangan yang harus dihadapi dalam proses pembangunan nuklir sangat besar. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk memberikan penjelasan terhadap opsi pembangunan persenjataan dengan destrnksi massif itu.Pengumpulan data tulisan ini dilakukan melalui penelusuran terhadap sumber-sumber tertulis baik buku, dokumen, artikel, dan sebagainya. Data yang terkumpul untuk membangun jakta sesungguhnya terbatas mengingat keterbatasan studi itu di tanah air, akan tetapi data tersebut dipandang relatif memadai untuk memberikan penjelasan sebagai tugas utama tulisan ini. Data yang terkumpul dianalisis secara kualitatif melalui tiga proses yang dilakukan secara terus menerus dan bersamaan sejak awal pengumpulan data hingga pengambilan kesimpulan. Tiga proses itu adalah penyusunan (arrangement), pengambilan kesimpulan (conclusion), dan verifikasi (verification).Hasil penelitian ini adalah: 1. Kondisi obyektif dan dinamis Israel yang berada di tengah-tengah negara ''musuh" dan berbagai tujuan strategis Negara itu menjadifaktor penjelas dari opsi nuklir. Tujuan strategis yang dimaksud adalah militer, ekonomi, politik, dan citra negara Israel. 2. Israel berhasil melakukan pembangunan senjata nuklir dengan strategi gradual mulai "rahasia" hingga deklarasi implisit atas statusnya sebagai negara berkapasitas nuklir.Kata Kunci: senjata nuklir, Israel, Timur Tengah

Migrant Diplomacies: Rethinking Diplomacy Beyond State-Centric Perspectives. A Civic Bi-Nationality Experience from North America

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Alejo
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Migrant Activism ◽  
Point Of Departure

There is a pressing need to extend our thinking about diplomacy beyond state-centric perspectives, as in the name of sovereignty and national interests, people on move are confronting virtual, symbolic and/or material walls and frames of policies inhibiting their free movement. My point of departure is to explore migrant activism and global politics through the transformation of diplomacy in a globalised world. Developing an interdisciplinary dialogue between new diplomacy and sociology, I evidence the emergence of global sociopolitical formations created through civic bi-nationality organisations. Focusing on the agent in interaction with structures, I present a theoretical framework and strategy for analysing the practices of migrant diplomacies as an expression of contemporary politics. A case study from North America regarding returned families in Mexico City provides evidence of how these alternative diplomacies are operating.

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