Our Move to a New Springer Series from the Present Form of EIER: A Retrospective on the Past Decade

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuji Aruka
2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Mahan Mirza

There has been an increasing interest in the Qur’an’s literary aspects withinthe field of Qur’anic studies over the last few years. In the past, westernscholars have devoted a great deal of energy to tracing foreign influencesin the Qur’an or reconstructing the chronology of its verses and surahs.However, the trend now is shifting toward textual studies, a developmentindicated by the proliferation of articles, anthologies, and books on theQur’an as a composed literary ornament.This shift is both refreshing and welcome, particularly for those whoare more interested in understanding the Qur’an in its present form, ratherthan learning about its textual history or compilation. Classical Islamicscholarship developed a body of exegetical material on the Qur’an’s miraculousnature (i‘jaz) from a literary perspective. This approach has taken aprimarily microscopic linguistic viewpoint (balaghah [eloquence]) ofstudying the choice of words and how the verses are constructed.Although it has always been accepted that the Qur’an’s surahs are distinctliterary pieces with their own style and content, comprehensive attemptsto present entire surahs as thematically independent entities have been rare.With increasing pressure from western scholars that the Qur’an is incoherentand haphazardly arranged, a new genre of exegetical material is developing,both in Muslim and western circles. This new genre focuses upon explainingwhy the surah should be considered as a distinctly composed piece with itsown dynamic of sound and meaning. Muhammad al-Ghazali’s work fallswithin this emerging category of Qur’anic exegesis.A Thematic Commentary on the Qur’an is a translation from al-Ghazali’s Al-Tafsir al-Mawdu‘i. The print is well typeset and easily legible,not cramped together, with a glossy green cover commanding an elegance ...


1929 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-159
Author(s):  
H. L. Lorimer

Of the sources of Homer in the literary sense we can know nothing. There is no antecedent, no contemporary literature extant; and no analysis of later works will yield anything that can be proved to represent a literary tradition earlier than Homer. Archaeology, however, which has made the origins of Hellenic culture in some degree intelligible, has at least furnished a solid stage and a veritable background for the action of the Iliad. How much did Homer know of the past? A systematic examination of the archaeological data which the poems offer suggests that he knew a great deal; knew it with a precision which cannot be explained away as fortuitous, and about so remote a past that we must postulate a stream of tradition traceable much further back than the siege of Troy. For the purposes of this paper Homer means the author of the Iliad in substantially its present form, whose floruit the present writer would not put earlier than the ninth century, and the term is used, without prejudice, for the author of the Odyssey also. Eratosthenes' date of 1184 for the fall of Troy is assumed less because it came to be accepted as the standard date in antiquity than because it fits so well into what we know of the history of the Mediterranean world at that time.


2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
William E. Fowler ◽  
O. Scott Stovall ◽  
John D. Neill

In this paper, we describe how our department recently incorporated a major service learning component into the curriculum. Specifically, we employed participation in the IRSs Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program as an effective means of experiential and service learning for the past two years for Masters of Accountancy students. We designed a course devoted entirely to serving in a VITA program operated on a local Air Force base. Our experience confirms that service learning can be a powerful tool in teaching. It has enhanced our students academic and professional development. It has given significance to our mission and it has strengthened community relationships. However, recent developments have made it difficult for us to maintain this service learning project in its present form. It appears that we, like many other programs, must consider again how to implement service learning as part of our curriculum, but we will do so now with a greater appreciation and enthusiasm for its unique contributions to learning.


2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-82
Author(s):  
Amr M. El-Zawawy

Abstract The tense systems in English and Arabic are markedly similar, but one striking feature makes the two-part ways: Arabic boasts the capacity of expressing the past and the future in forms that are not tallied with what English does. Arabic and English can express the future and the past in the present form. Yet Arabic, especially Qurʾanic Arabic, has the singular capacity for expressing the future in past form and the past in present form. The mismatch in the Arabic tense system in the English translation of the Qurʾan is given due attention in the present paper, and a new approach is presented to address this significant problem. The four translations selected are Arberry’s, Yusuf Ali’s, Pickthall’s and Asad’s. A model is proposed to analyze significant selections of such mismatches, based on graphical representations of TOC, TOE and linking form. The study concludes that the most inconsistent translation is Pickthall’s, while Arberry’s is the most consistent of all. It also reveals that although Asad is not fully proficient in English like Arberry, he succeeds in clearing the hurdle of translating tense form-content mismatch most of the time.


2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 20121050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Hornborg ◽  
Andrea Belgrano ◽  
Valerio Bartolino ◽  
Daniel Valentinsson ◽  
Friederike Ziegler

Mean trophic level (MTL) of landings and primary production required (PPR) by fisheries are increasingly used in the assessment of sustainability in fisheries. However, in their present form, MTL and PPR are prone to misinterpretation. We show that it is important to account for actual catch data, define an appropriate historical and spatial domain, and carefully consider the effects of fisheries management, based on results from a case study of Swedish fisheries during the past century.


1990 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Warren

In the past century there have been a number of proposed reconstructions of the First Church built in Venice to house the relics of Saint Mark, the Apostle. The proposal which follows differs from its predecessors in identifying the survival of the very large bulk of the original church. It holds that the ancient structure stands encapsulated within the surviving fabric (fig. 1) and thereby rediscovers, largely extant, the greatest Byzantine church of the Middle Ages, completed some time between 832 and 836 for Doge Giovanni Participacio (fig. 2). That church was generally held to have been destroyed by fire in 976, but rebuilt on similar lines by 978 only to have been taken down and rebuilt in its present form between 1063 and 1071 under Doge Domenico Contarini, the work continuing under Doge Vitale Falier. In the following account the Participaci church is described as the First and the Contarini-Falier church the Second. The intermediate reconstruction (976–8) is herein taken to have been a repair rather than a rebuilding. Finding that this first building still exists hidden within the second this paper suggests social reasons for its supposed loss.


LOGOS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Tondi

The purpose of this article is to present an outlook on current publishing models and the way they relate to each other. The first part offers an overview of the traditional trade model in its present form and looks at the main alternatives, with a particular emphasis on crowdfunding. Can examples of subscription models be found from the past? Particular attention is given to the crowdfunding publisher Unbound in order to analyse how its hybrid business model fits into the field of contemporary cultural production. The final part looks at the dynamics between traditional trade publishers, Unbound, and the wider cultural ecosystem, exploring how different models can operate beyond direct competition, benefiting from each other’s presence in the market in the common quest to keep books alive.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-121
Author(s):  
Dea Putri Komala Sari ◽  
Matheus Wasi Bantolo

The fullness of the work of Ken Dedes: The Soliloquy is an interpretation of a female character named Ken Dedes from the work of Arok The Godfather’s Soliloquy of Matheus Wasi Bantolo. The study discusses the process and forms of fullness from Ken Dedes: the Soliloquy. To describe this, several concepts were used: In reviewing the fullness of matter using the concept of Alma Hawkins, to describe the form of opera using the concept of Peter Sellars and Matheus Wasi Bantolo, while describing the form of In the works using the Suzane K Langer concept is reinforced by the concept of dance analysis according to Janet Adshead. Writing and reviewing using qualitative methods that are descriptive interpretative, with the observation process participant action research. Results of this study showed that the fullness process conducted based on the process of exploration, improvisation and composition as a stage of the work of the fullness of Ken Dedes: the Soliloquy. The present form of presentation is a new interpretation of the character Ken Dedes in the work of Arok The Godfather’s Soliloquy. The fullness of Ken Dedes: The Soliloquy has a form of dish with an opera concept that uses five dancers who each have dual roles as dancers and musicians. Many movements adopted the movement of Javanese traditions in Surakarta style by combining the elements of Latin dance motion in them. It is based on the thought of choreographer to elaborate on The character Ken Dedes as a woman in the past with female figures in The Godfather film and female figures at present. The fullness of the work of Ken Dedes: The Soliloquy has a perspective on how Ken Dedes as women with the various problems faced can be aligned with women today. Keywords: fullness, character Ken Dedes, Opera.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-246
Author(s):  
Ryota Ono

This article describes my teaching of futures to experts in public services such as water supply, power supply, and waste treatment in developing countries. These experts come to Japan to participate in the training course of their field of service, which is offered by a state-run organization in Japan. At the end of the course, they prepare an action plan, which is to be implemented after they return to their countries. In the course, I give them three lectures on futures to help them make their action plans more future-oriented. Experts are quite different from university students in that they carry the burden and responsibility to make services better and more effective in the future. Most of them assume, in their planning, that data and information in the past and present form the foundation on which they project the future of their services. As a result, their plans are always based on a probable future and not on possible futures. I teach them futures to point out the risks of such planning approach, and to open their eyes to an alternative one, which I call “Futures planning.” By following the three lectures in chronological order, this article clarifies characteristics of my futures teaching and its impact on the experts from developing countries.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-176
Author(s):  
Ivan V. Pikovskiy ◽  
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The Songs of Ascents (Psalms 120–134) can be understood as the songs of the pilgrims, historically associated with Sion and symbolically with man’s journey along the road of life. Included in this collection psalm 120 (121) is rather short and does not contain references to historical events of the past. This is why probably it was left without attention in Russian biblical studies. In foreign studies, this poem is often interpreted as a private song of a pilgrim leaving his home, written in the form of a dialogue between father and son (Bob Becking, Arthur Weiser, Klaus Seibold). Following Sigmund Mouvenkel, Hans-Joachim Kraus and Marina Manatti, the author of this article suggests a liturgical approach to the analysis of the psalm 120 (121). The poem contains a rhetorical question from a pilgrim (v. 1), a priest’s answer (v. 2) and words of consolation (v. 3–8). The theology of the psalm focuses the reader’s attention on the role of YHWH, who in relation to man is not only the creator, but also the helper, guardian, stronghold and cover. The peculiarities of the “liturgical theology” of this hymn, according to the author, show that in the present form, psalm 120 is adapted for liturgical performance. Consequently, the psalm was primarily performed in the Jerusalem temple by priests or Levites, and afterwards, it was sung by ordinary Israelites on their way back home.


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