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In this article, I outline a logic of design of a system as a specific kind of conceptual logic of the design of the model of a system, that is, the blueprint that provides information about the system to be created. In section two, I... more
"This special issue of Comparative Literature Studies brings together talks, some extensively revised, others virtually unchanged, that were delivered at a conference entitled "What is Philology?" The gathering took place on Saturday,... more
This is a revision of the project proposal submitted for a European Research Council Consolidator Grant in 2014. The proposal was successful and the project started on October 1st 2015.
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Paul has been regarded as being uncritical of the Roman Empire for a long time, not least because of his apparent call to obey the state in Rom 13:1-7. However, recent scholarship has questioned this assumption by pointing to "hidden... more
An essay on the most relevant misquotes of Camus' works and words, both on books and online.
This paper examines the ways in which Geddesian Natural Mysticism was perverted by the Paternalist-Modernist conception of human-nature relations in terms of 'man's dominion over earth'.
North Finnic religions underwent a transformation during the Iron Age. This paper argues that the transformation occurred through the assimilation of Scandinavian ritual practices that produced a new type of ritual specialist that... more
This research is a comparative study of professional practice related to two schools of thought in the field of nonviolent conflict intervention: conflict resolution and conflict transformation. The research relies upon a thorough review... more
La scienza giuridica è una disciplina che studia il diritto, inquadrandolo razionalmente ed elaborandolo in modo tale che l’interpretazione delle norme sia compiuta attraverso procedure logiche verificabili in ogni passaggio. Nella storia... more
Jan Joosten & Menahem Kister, “The New Testament and Rabbinic Hebrew” in R. Bieringer, F. García Martínez, D. Pollefeyt, P. J. Tomson, eds., The New Testament and Rabbinic Literature, SJSJ 136 (Leiden, Brill, 2010), 335-350. PROOFS
[for special issue, "Rethinking Philology: Twenty-Five Years after The New Philology"] In North American academia, the word ‘philology’ pulls in two directions—toward a broad, idealist sense corresponding to the roots philia and logos and... more
"ABSTRACT: This study assumes the subject's pursuit of meaning is generally incapacitating and should be suspended. It aims to demonstrate how such a suspension is theoretically accomplished by utilizing Lacan's formulae of... more
" Those machines whose output was so great that all men might be clothed; those new methods of agriculture and new agricultural implements, which promised crops so big that all men might be fed—the very instruments that were to give the... more
This MA dissertation explores the issues surrounding the plagiarism charges leveled by W.E. Coleman against Madame Blavatsky, and goes on to analyze the influence of the works of little-known Orientalist S.F. Dunlap on Blavatsky's famous... more
Makalah ini menjelaskan: 1. Naskah adalah semua bahan tulisan tangan (handschrift) dengan singkatan hs untuk tunggal dan hss untuk jamak; manuschrift dengan singkatan ms untuk tunggal, mss untuk jamak. Dengan demikian, naskah merupakan... more
This thesis re-evaluates Tibetan histories as intertextual literature, broadly following Ricoeur’s concept of mimesis. It then examines the portrayal of Khri Srong lde brtsan in these histories, whether as a Tibetan emperor, a Buddhist... more
Scrutinizes a short Latin poem written in the first quarter of the eleventh century, and refutes Alan Dundes's dismissal of literary evidence and to underscore the pertinence of studying medieval literature in coming to grips with that... more
The ninth chapter of the Haṃsavilāsa of the Gujarati Śaiva author Haṃsamiṭṭhu (born 1738 ad) argues that Pātañjalayoga, conceived of as a conflation of Aṣṭāṅgayoga and Haṭhayoga, cannot be valid soteriology. Pātañjalayoga is presented as... more
Maya art is a rare combination of linear elegance and naturalism, blended with dazzling symbolic complexity. Decorated objects, ranging from painted vases and carved jade and shell ornaments to towering stone monuments and building... more
The subject of the present paper is a prophetic tradition found in some compendia of eschatological aḥādīth which has received considerable scholarly attention since Wilferd Madelung dedicated an article to it in 1981. Whereas Madelung... more
This paper outlines a methodology for approaching mythology in earlier cultural environments for which written sources are limited or completely lacking. This methodology here specifically targets how to relate that mythology to evidence... more