scholarly journals Lessons from the life of Samson on battling with harassing iniquities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxwell Zakhele Shamase
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Book Of Judges

The story of Samson one of the Israelite judges emanating from the tribe of Dan, was a Nazirite and it is indeed an intriguing one in the book of Judges. Klein (1988) alerts us that an even superficial reading of the book demonstrates that the epic is far more biographical in nature than any of the earlier chapters tends to be. Samson’s sensual attachment to women are they stuff that legends are made of. The last glimpse we have of Samson is of a man who seemed to have put his act together. We earlier saw Samson calling on the Lord in humility. He prayed to God and God ultimately delivered him from death through a great miracle. That story ends with Samson having judged Israel for 20 years. Crenshaw (1978) contends that Samson was indeed one through whom God would “begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines” (Judges 13:5). However, after a period of peace and steadfast service, Samson sadly falls once again into his old ways. His old passions rise to the surface and Samson once again finds himself entangled in a web of sin. Samson may have been a powerful man physically, but he was to intents and purposes a moral weakling. He may have demonstrated his power time and again over the enemies of the Lord, but he was helpless against the power of his mortal flesh. It also is evident from books preceding Judges, that the wickedness of the Israelites validates Israel’s subjugation to the Philistines. Thus, we see that sin is punished and that unrighteous dealings lead a nation or an individual to destruction. As a judge, Samson was invariably unsuccessful in delivering what the Lord required of him and he thus brought destruction on himself (Bar, 2020). This article based on an exegetical methodology considered mainly historical context and it unpacks how failing to serve God ultimately leads to one battling with harassing iniquities which ultimately lead to destruction. It serves as a model of how we ought to seek to serve God in a spirit of obedience.

Psychology as a Profession and a Science

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ype H. Poortinga ◽  
Ingrid Lunt
Keyword(s):  
European Association ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Professional Psychologists

The European Association of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA) was created in 1981 as the European Association of Professional Psychologists’ Associations (EFPPA). We show that Shakespeare’s dictum “What’s in a name?” does not apply here and that the loss of the “first P” (the adjectival “professional”) was resisted for almost two decades and experienced by many as a serious loss. We recount some of the deliberations preceding the change and place these in a broader historical context by drawing parallels with similar developments elsewhere. Much of the argument will refer to an underlying controversy between psychology as a science and the practice of psychology, a controversy that is stronger than in most other sciences, but nevertheless needs to be resolved.

Historical Context for Psychology, Moral Context for Historians

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 990-991
Author(s):  
Isaac Prilleltensky
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Moral Context

Die Ökonomie des Zwischenlandes.

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (183) ◽  
pp. 289-305
Author(s):  
Angela Schweizer
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Security Control ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Migration Politics ◽  
European Migration

The following article is based on my fieldwork in Morocco and represents anthropological data collected amongst undocumented sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco. They want to enter Europe in search for a better life for themselves and to provide financial support for their families. Due to heavy border security control and repression, they find themselves trapped at the gates of Europe, where they are trying to survive by engaging in various economic activities in the informal sector. The article begins with an overview of the European migration politics in Africa and the geopolitical and historical context of Morocco, in light of the externalization of European border control. I will then analyze the various economic sectors, in which sub-Saharan migrations are active, as well as smuggling networks, informal camps and remittances, on which they largely depend due to the exclusion from the national job market.

THE PARTICULAR STRUCTURAL TRAITS OF THE MIGRATION CATHOLIC COMMUNITY IN THE SOUTHERN VIETNAM

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Loc Duc Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Residential Area ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
Religious Organization ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Southern Vietnam ◽  
Kinship Structure ◽  
Structural Traits

The Vietnamese Catholic community is not only a religious community but also a traditional village with relationships based on kinship and/or sharing the same residential area, similar economic activities, and religious activities. In this essay, we are interested in examining migrating Catholic communities which were shaped and reshaped within the historical context of Viet Nam war in 1954. They were established after the migration of millions of Catholics from Northern to Southern Viet Nam immediately after Geneva Agreement in 1954. Therefore, by examining the particular structural traits of the emigration Catholic Communities we attempt to reconstruct the reproducing process of village structure based on the communities’ triple structure: kinship structure, governmental structure and religious organization.

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