From Servant of YHWH to Being Considerate of the Wretched. The Figure of David in the Reading Perspective of Psalms 35-42 MT Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 305 Willem A. M. Beuken

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-196
Author(s):  
David G. Firth
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Content Type ◽  
P Content

<p content-type="flush left">Summary <p content-type="flush left">In this canonical and intertextual interpretation of Psalms 35-41 in light of Samuel, Beuken provides a close reading of these psalms, first in their relationship to one another and then to the presentation of David in Samuel. Although debate will continue over the issue of the significance of intertextual relationships, the volume provides a plausible and insightful reading of these psalms. <p content-type="flush left">Zusammenfassung <p content-type="flush left">Mit dieser kanonischen und intertextuellen Auslegung der Psalmen 35 bis 41 im Licht des Samuelbuches bietet Beuken eine textnahe Lesart jener Psalmen zunächst in ihrer Beziehung zueinander und dann hinsichtlich der Darstellung der Person Davids im Samuelbuch. Obwohl die Debatte über die Bedeutung intertextueller Beziehungen noch andauern wird, so liefert doch das Buch eine plausible und aufschlussreiche Auslegung dieser Psalmen. <p content-type="flush left">Résumé <p content-type="flush left">Dans cette interprétation canonique et intertextuelle des Psaumes 35-41 à la lumière de Samuel, Beuken propose une lecture serrée de ces psaumes, d’abord dans leur interrelation, puis dans leur relation avec David dans Samuel. Bien que le débat ne soit pas clos sur la question de la signification des relations intertextuelles, l’ouvrage offre une lecture de ces psaumes à la fois plausible et perspicace.

scholarly journals Autobiographical reflections part II: risk, tenacity and philosophies of research

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Tadajewski ◽  
Brian Jones
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
High Tolerance ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Autobiographical Accounts ◽  
Thought Leadership

Purpose This paper reviews autobiographical accounts of thought leadership in the marketing discipline and draws out pertinent insights for senior, mid-career and junior academics alike. Design/methodology/approach This narrative is based on a close reading of the pertinent material. Findings To be a pioneer in marketing takes considerable hard work, tenacity, serendipity, and a high tolerance for risk. Originality/value This manuscript can be used by junior scholars to legitimize the challenges they pose to more established colleagues. It helps contribute to the reversal of extant power relations in academic practice.

The First Biography of Jesus. Genre and Meaning in Mark’s Gospel Helen K. Bond

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 198-200
Author(s):  
Arco den Heijer
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
Content Type ◽  
P Content

<p content-type="flush left">Summary <p content-type="flush left">Helen Bond reads the Gospel of Mark alongside other ancient biographies. She argues that Mark depicts Jesus as a teacher who calls his disciples to serve, and who dies in a way that corresponds with his teaching. The book provides numerous insights into the meaning of the Gospel and the literary skills of its author. It is warmly recommended. <p content-type="flush left">Zusammenfassung <p content-type="flush left">Helen Bond liest das Markusevangelium zusammen mit anderen Biographien der Antike. Sie argumentiert, dass Markus Jesus als einen Lehrer darstellt, der seine Jünger dazu beruft zu dienen und der auf eine Weise stirbt, die seiner Lehre entspricht. Das Buch gibt zahlreiche Einblicke in die Bedeutung dieses Evangeliums und die literarischen Fähigkeiten seines Autors. Es ist wärmstens zu empfehlen. <p content-type="flush left">Résumé <p content-type="flush left">Helen Bond lit l’Évangile de Marc en parallèle avec d’autres biographies anciennes. Sa thèse est que Marc décrit Jésus comme un enseignant qui appelle ses disciples au service et meurt d’une façon conforme à son enseignement. Le livre jette une belle lumière sur le sens de l’évangile et les dons littéraires de son auteur. On ne peut que le recommander vivement.

scholarly journals The alternative “Marketing Revolution”

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Tadajewski
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Market Research ◽  
Sales Force ◽  
Marketing Management ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sales Force Management ◽  
Sales And Marketing

Purpose This paper reviews the contributions of Harry Tosdal, a pioneer of sales and marketing management. It serves to puncture a variety of marketing myths and illuminate a completely neglected concept of the consumer. Design/methodology/approach This account is based on a close reading of Tosdal’s publications. Findings Tosdal articulated a highly nuanced interpretation of marketing management, market research and sales force management. Each of these elements was keyed into fostering goodwill between firm and customer. Perhaps most importantly, he provides a counterpoint to the idea that the consumer is sovereign in the marketplace. Instead, he makes a case that the ontology of the market is riven by compromise. Originality/value This paper highlights the concept of the compromising consumer. Arguably, this is a much more empirically realistic conception of the agency we possess in the marketplace than the idea that we move markets in ways absolutely consistent with our desires.

The UK drugs strategy 2017: contexts and analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-217
Author(s):  
Blaine Stothard
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Drug Misuse ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the content of the strategy and assess its claims to be evidence based. Design/methodology/approach This study is a close-reading of the text with commentary on specific content and reference to wider contexts. Findings The strategy makes use of evidence in its sections on treatment. Much evidence, including that of the UK ACMD, is dismissed or ignored. The issue of funding in times of austerity is not considered in the strategy. The range and complexity of drug use and users are not fully considered. Research limitations/implications The strategy can be seen as an idealised ambition with little basis in reality without funding to support its aims. Social implications There is no consideration of the impact of macro-economic policy on the extent of drug misuse. Originality/value Other commentaries on the strategy are emerging. This paper is a more extensive consideration than has so far appeared.

Writing write-downs: the rhetoric of goodwill impairment

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-102
Author(s):  
Niklas Sandell ◽  
Peter Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Goodwill Impairment ◽  
Financial Communication ◽  
Rhetorical Practice ◽  
Nasdaq Omx ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The aim of this paper is to study the rhetoric of goodwill impairment, more specifically rhetoric, as it is constructed in the form of accounts (i.e. statements that explain unanticipated or untoward behavior). The authors argue that goodwill impairment is not only a technical matter but also a rhetorical practice by means of which external scrutiny is responded to. Design/methodology/approach The data corpus consists of explanations provided by corporations regarding impairment of goodwill. Data were collected from annual reports from companies quoted on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm, Sweden. The impairment explanations were analyzed according to a taxonomy of account types. The explanations were subjected to close reading to discern the potential rhetorical functions of the different accounts. Findings Seven account types are identified and discussed, namely, excuse, justification, refocusing, concession, mystification, silence and wordification. Research limitations/implications There is a need for further research that explores the process of authorship (i.e. writing, editing, negotiating and revising) through which the texts of financial communication are produced. Practical implications The findings have implications for the future formulations of standards regarding qualitative explanations in financial reporting in general and explanations of goodwill impairment in particular. Originality/value The paper contributes to the knowledge about the use of natural language and rhetoric in financial communication.

Stranger and stranger: creating theory through ethnographic distance and authority

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Alan Fine ◽  
Tim Hallett
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Occupational Socialization ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Socialization Processes ◽  
Formal Organizations ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
The Stranger

Purpose – Classical ethnographic research begins with the recognition that the observer starts as a stranger to the group being studied, a recognition as evident in the analysis of formal organizations as of gangs or tribes. From this position of difference the researcher must learn the themes and dynamics of a setting of otherness. The researcher begins as an outsider, a stance that creates initial challenges, yet permits the transmittal of novel information to external audiences. This is particularly true while studying organizational worlds that explicitly focus on occupational socialization. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This conceptual paper relies on the close reading and analysis of three major ethnographies of occupational socialization. Findings – The reality that (many) ethnographers begin as strangers permits them to understand socialization processes while observing how group cultures change. The authors defines this as the “stranger paradigm.” This otherness is joined by the perspective of the scholar's discipline and awareness of comparable research that permits understanding of forces that are unrecognized by participants, but which can be profitably scrutinized by disciplinary colleagues within their own occupational worlds. The authors term this “ethnographic authority.” Originality value – To support the claim that distance and authority support the formulation of theoretical insights, the paper examines organizational ethnographies that examine the occupational socialization of doctors, morticians, and ministers.

Converting debt into equity in private limited companies in Thailand

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-123
Author(s):  
Adam Reekie
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Legal Capital ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Original Intention ◽  
Commercial Code ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
The Eu

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the prohibition on debt-to-equity conversions for private limited companies in Thailand, resulting from an interpretation of Section 1119 of the Thai Civil and Commercial Code (TCCC) adopted by academics and the regulator. Design/methodology/approach This paper critically examines the interpretation of Section 1119 of the TCCC made by academics, the Thai Supreme Court and the regulator. Taking an approach, which draws on debate in the EU over the past two decades, this paper presents a new understanding of the rules relating to legal capital in Thailand. This new understanding is applied to challenge the orthodox interpretation of Section 1119. Findings The interpretation proposed by this paper is that debt-to-equity conversions may be permitted when viewed as shares issued in return for payment in kind. This proposed interpretation is consistent with existing Thai Supreme Court jurisprudence. In addition, a close reading of the provision, further supported by a historical investigation into the legislative drafting process, reveals that it reflects the original intention behind this provision. Originality/value This paper presents a view of Thai legal capital rules, which challenges the orthodox understanding of their nature, purpose and categorisation. Furthermore, the proposed interpretation of Section 1119 of the TCCC, if adopted by the regulator, would permit Thai private limited companies to engage in debt-to-equity swaps without further legislative intervention.

Outsiders within: non-conformity among four contemporary black female managers in South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 148-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Canham
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Black Female ◽  
The Body ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Female Managers ◽  
Women In The Workplace

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to foreground non-conformity in organisational life as it relates to black female managers. My intervention here is to problematise organisational theory in relation to its limited ability to engage with affect and to point to a more generative framework. Through centering the body, the author also seeks to offer a counter narrative to the field of Positive Organisation Scholarship and its drive to primarily engage with happy feelings and harmony. Design/methodology/approach – The author gives a close reading of four black women's interview-based narratives to engage with the ways in which they refuse to conform to organisational scripts of happiness. The author makes a case for using both critical discourse-based and affective readings of everyday experience which social science readings cannot readily account for. Findings – Non-conformity has a number of local effects including negotiating the present from a position of alternative histories of struggle and cultural values, and holding different and conflicting realities and subject positions. Moreover, a reading of these women's accounts suggests that affect is both personal and social and can manifest in multiple, embodied, transformative, and potentially destructive ways. The author comes to new ways of understanding organisations and resistance when the author uses affect as an investigative lens. Research limitations/implications – By virtue of the close reading necessitated by the nature of the study, the sample of this research is small. While the intention is not generality, the findings of the research have to be understood in context and applied within different settings with caution. The implications of this research are that there remains an urgent need for critical-orientated research which centers affect in order to counter the growing positive psychologies which relegate asymmetries to the margins. Social implications – In South Africa where black women constitute the numerical majority, there is an urgent need to understand and reverse their status as a minority in management and social life. This research goes some way in explicating this process. Originality/value – While there is well-developed body of feminist research which seeks to study black women in South Africa, there is a dearth of research into black women in the workplace. This paper therefore presents an original look at black female managers by applying international theoretical tools to a context that is under theorised. This research presents new methodological and theoretical tools and analysis to the South African workplace.

Evangelisches Lexikon für Theologie und Gemeinde, Neuausgabe, Band 2 Heinzpeter Hempelmann und Uwe Swarat (Hrsg.)

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-219
Author(s):  
Siegbert Riecker
Keyword(s):  
Content Type ◽  
P Content ◽  
Current Price

<p content-type="flush left">Zusammenfassung <p content-type="flush left">Diese Neuausgabe eines deutschen Lexikons mit internationalen Beiträgen bietet sich idealerweise für Christen, Laien wie Studierende gleichermaßen an, obwohl der gängige Preis recht unerschwinglich ist. Es stellt einen generell vollständigen, wohl ausgewogenen und auf den neuesten Stand gebrachten Beitrag seitens evangelikaler Wissenschaftler dar. <p content-type="flush left">Summary <p content-type="flush left">This new edition of a German dictionary with international contributions is ideal for lay Christians and students, although its current price is prohibitive. It is a generally complete, balanced and up-to-date contribution by evangelical scholars. <p content-type="flush left">Résumé <p content-type="flush left">Cette nouvelle édition d’un dictionnaire allemand riche en contributions internationales est, malgré son prix prohibitif, un outil idéal pour les chrétiens laïques et les étudiants. De manière générale, l’ouvrage, que l’on doit à des théologiens évangéliques, est à la fois complet, équilibré et à jour.

War Augustin der erste Calvinist? Wenn ein Lehrsystem auf Sand gebaut ist Kenneth Mitchell Wilson

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-212
Author(s):  
Fabian F. Grassl
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
German Translation ◽  
Freedom Of Will ◽  
P Content ◽  
Deutsche Übersetzung

<p content-type="flush left">Zusammenfassung <p content-type="flush left">Das vorliegende Buch ist die gekürzte Version einer Promotionsarbeit über die wirkmächtige Wende im Denken des Augustinus von Hippo in Bezug auf die menschliche Willensfreiheit. Trotz der komprimierten Fassung bietet die deutsche Übersetzung einen sehr guten Überblick zu den eindrucksvollen Forschungsergebnissen Wilsons, welche die Sicht auf die Spättheologie Augustins und die Bewertung des Calvinismus nachhaltig prägen werden. <p content-type="flush left">Summary <p content-type="flush left">This book is the abbreviated version of a doctoral thesis on the effective turning point in the thinking of Augustine of Hippo with regard to human freedom of will. Despite the compression, the German translation offers a very good overview of the impressive results of Wilson’s research, which will have lasting impact on the interpretation of Augustine's late theology and on the appraisal of Calvinism. <p content-type="flush left">Résumé <p content-type="flush left">Cet ouvrage est la version abrégée d’une thèse de doctorat sur le tournant important pris par la pensée d’Augustin d’Hippone sur le libre arbitre de l’homme. Malgré une exposition compacte, la traduction allemande offre un très bel aperçu des résultats impressionnants du travail de recherche de l’auteur, lesquels auront un effet durable tant sur l’interprétation de la théologie tardive d’Augustin que sur l’évaluation du calvinisme.

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