scholarly journals Psalms 69:33-34 in the light of the poor in the Psalter as a whole

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-441
Author(s):  
A Groenewald
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Prayer Book ◽  
The Poor

The Psalter has very often been regarded as the prayer book of the poor. In the Psalms God is portrayed as the saviour of the poor, their hope, their stronghold and liberator – whether these are prayers of an individual or prayers of the community. The high concentration of the term(s) for the “poor” in the Psalter, in relation to the rest of the books of the Old  Testament (OT), indeed indicates a profound affinity for the “poor” in the Psalter , which is an indication that the Psalter underwent a redaction of the “theology of the poor”. In this article the focus will be on Psalm 69, as it seems to have undergone a “redaction of the poor”. The main focus will be on the verses 33 and 34, as they, specifically, contain terminology of the “poor”. Special attention will also be given to the different terms used for the poor in this text.

Workhouse Populations of the Preston Union, 1841–61

2014 ◽  
pp. 33-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis Darwen
Keyword(s):  
Aggregate Level ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Poor Law ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Fertile Ground

The census enumerators' books (CEBs) have provided fertile ground for studies of workhouse populations in recent years, though it has been acknowledged that work remains to be done on different regions and periods to develop our understanding of these institutions and the paupers who resided therein. This article will examine the indoor pauper populations of the Preston union, in Lancashire, over three census years from 1841. The region, which is notable for a protracted campaign of resistance to the New Poor Law and its associated workhouse system, has been previously neglected in studies of workhouse populations focusing on the decades immediately after the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. It will be shown that the profile of the union's workhouse populations broadly mirrors those found elsewhere at the aggregate level, but that important variations reflected local and central policy. A high concentration of able-bodied paupers—in particular—seems to indicate ideas governing local policy which were not carried out elsewhere.

New automated dye-binding method for serum albumin determination with bromcresol purple.

1978 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
A E Pinnell ◽  
B E Northam
Keyword(s):  
Serum Albumin ◽  
Albumin Concentration ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Serum Globulin ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Dye Binding ◽  
Free Serum ◽  
Very High ◽  
Continuous Flow Method ◽  
Good Agreement

Abstract We describe a new automated dye-binding method for serum albumin determination with bromcresol purple (BCP) that has several advantages over an existing bromcresol green (BCG) method. The continuous-flow method is sensitive, linear, and precise, with negligible sample interaction at an analytical rate of 60 samples per hour. Unlike BCG, BCP did not react with an albumin-free serum globulin preparation or pure human transferrin solutions. Reaction with serum was instantaneous; in contrast, BCG exhibits a slow nonspecific reaction with some specimens. The specificity of BCP was demonstrated by good agreement with results of "rocket" immunoelectrophoresis (EIA) where y(BCP) = 0.95X(EIA) + 1.72. The BCG method overestimated serum albumin concentration where y(BCG) = 1.01X(EIA) + 6.77. Precipitation, which affects the BCG method, was not observed with BCP. Blank corrections were negligible, salicylate did not interfere, and bilirubin affected the method only if present in very high concentration. The method offers a solution to the poor accuracy of existing BCG methods while retaining many of their desirable features.

scholarly journals The Lord's Prayer

1920 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-135
Author(s):  
George Herbert Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Lord's Prayer ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Ten Commandments ◽  
Love Song ◽  
The New Testament

In both the Old Testament and the New there is a climactic point, a passage, I mean, which so epitomizes all the teaching of that section of our Bible that we should be eager to save it were all else to be destroyed. In the Old Testament it is the Ten Commandments, which form a foundation for civil society. Society would go to pieces were not the Ten Commandments understood and usually obeyed. In the New Testament it is the Lord's Prayer, which lays foundations for the harmonious inner life as the Ten Commandments do for the outer. Here speaks the aspiring spirit to its Maker. This is the love-song of the Christian world. Few precepts of our Master, I suppose, have been more widely observed than that we are to “pray in this manner.” For most of us that day would lack something in which the Lord's Prayer had not been repeated. It fits all circumstances. It is the chant of the saint in his most exultant moments, his refuge and solace when most depressed. The poor sinner, who through walking in the ways of vice has almost lost the power of aspiration and can no longer formulate for himself his better desires, finds in these sacred phrases his appropriate utterance.

“If a King Judges the Poor with Fairness, His Throne is Established Forever”: Approaching Proverbs 29:14 with African Interpretive Resources

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut Holter
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
The Poor

With Proverbs 29:14 as a textual case, the article discusses how three African Old Testament scholars—Philippe Dinzolele Nzambi, Lechion Peter Kimilike, and Dorothy BEA Akoto-Abutiate—allow examples from the African proverbial heritage to serve as interpretive resources in their interpretation of texts and motifs from the book of Proverbs.

The Old Testament and the Poor

1987 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-14
Author(s):  
Richard J. Coggins
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
The Poor

Spatial distribution and environmental assessment of heavy metals in the surface sediments of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neelu Singh ◽  
Rajan Sivaramakrishnan ◽  
Shabnam Choudhary ◽  
Krishnaiah Chikkamadaiah
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Surface Sediments ◽  
Silty Clay ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Clayey Silt ◽  
High Sedimentation ◽  
Fjord Sediments

Spatial distribution and environmental assessment of heavy metals of the surface sediment samples collected from the Kongsfjorden system, Svalbard duringsummer months of 2011, 2012 and 2013were studied using grain size, organic carbon and metal concentrations (Mn, Cr, Zn, Co, Cu,Tiand Pb). The Inner fjord was blanketed by clay-rich sediments while clayey silt or silty clay was found in the Outer fjord. High sedimentation rate and the water column turbulence resulted in the poor preservation of the organic matter in the Inner fjord while high concentration of TOC in the Outer fjord sediments indicated high primaryproductivity.Further, in the Outer fjord, the concentration of metals like Mn, Cr, Zn, Co,Cuand Pb were found to be higher near the mouth of the fjord while the lowest concentrations were at its distal end. The Inner fjord was also characterized by a concurrent enrichment of these heavy metals near the glacier outlets with the lowest values occurring near the shallow sill separating it from the Outer fjord. The significant positive correlation of all the heavy metals except Pb in the outer and inner part of the fjord, among themselves and also with Ti corroborated their terrigenous source possibly derived from the rocks present in the catchment area through the glacier melt waters.While, uniform negative correlation exhibited by Pb with all the other elements may point to its source from elsewhere,indicating its source to be anthropogenic.

Luke and Isaiah

1981 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Seccombe
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

In the course of an inquiry into the origins of Luke's understanding of the poor I was forced to ask the question how far Luke might have been influenced not only by certain texts in Isaiah but also by wider themes. In answer to this question one is often referred to C. H. Dodd's According to the Scriptures, where he concluded that when NT authors quoted small OT texts they often did so with knowledge of larger passages or collections of passages from which the text was drawn. This principle has become a commonplace and is frequently used illegitimately to find ideas in the NT which are not otherwise discernible.1 The recent study of B. Lindars (‘The Place of the Old Testament in the Formation of New Testament Theology: Prolegomena’, N. T. S. xxiii (1977), 59–66) argues that NT writers had no interest in the meaning of the OT for its own sake, but simply quarried texts to support and illustrate a pre-existing NT theology. Both these views need to be kept in mind. It may be that each is correct in different places. What is needed is a closer study of the practice of individual authors and their use of different parts of the OT. Only then will it be possible to give any confident judgement of how much an NT author may have carried in the way of related ideas, theology and contextual understanding when he quotes or alludes to the OT.2

Reflections on 'The Poor' and the Old Testament

1989 ◽  
Vol 100 (8) ◽  
pp. 291-294
Author(s):  
T.R. Hobbs
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
The Poor

The Writing on the Wall

Renascence ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-185
Author(s):  
Terry W. Thompson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Poet Laureate ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Many ◽  
Moral Themes

Charles Dickens, considered by many the poet laureate for the poor and downtrodden of his time, had a great fondness for "religious and moral themes." As a result, "one does not have to read very far in either the major or minor works of Dickens to learn lessons contained in both the New and Old Testaments." Among his favorite biblical allusions are examples of the many hard "lessons" visited upon the rich and the powerful by a just God. One of the author's most resonating Old Testament references is to the "great feast" of King Belshazzar, the sixth century B.C. ruler of Babylon who loved gold and silver more than people, more than life itself. Allusions, subtle and otherwise, to this self-destructive tyrant appear—with telling effect—in several of Dickens's best-known novels, from A Christmas Carol to A Tale of Two Cities.

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