Sennacherib’s Successor: Titus and Anti-Roman Rhetoric in TgJon to Isa. 10:32

Samuel L. Boyd

doi:10.1163/17455227-01701005

Sennacherib’s Successor: Titus and Anti-Roman Rhetoric in TgJon to Isa. 10:32

Aramaic Studies ◽

10.1163/17455227-01701005 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 67-86

Author(s):

Samuel L. Boyd

Keyword(s):

Biblical Text ◽

Key Features ◽

Roman Rhetoric

Abstract As recent research in the study of manuscripts has demonstrated, variations in the phrasing of a text not only reveal scribal error or play but also indicate how changes to a given passage in different manuscripts convey important interpretive traditions. In this article, I explore one such case in TgJon to Isa. 10:32. First, I examine how key features (or the lack thereof) in the biblical text of Isa. 10:32 led to certain lines of rabbinic interpretation as found in b. Sanh. 95b, which contains a midrashic story based on the biblical text. Second, I analyse a parallel account of this story as found in TgJon to Isa. 10:32, and I argue that a particular manuscript of this Targum (B. M. 2211) contains added layers of anti-Roman rhetoric through an allusion to Abraham and Nimrod. In this fashion, the variation in wording in this manuscript is indicative of a distinct interpretation from that found in the Talmud.

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Riemann–Weyl in Deleuze's Bergsonism and the Constitution of the Contemporary Physico-Mathematical Space

Deleuze Studies ◽

10.3366/dls.2015.0174 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 59-87 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Martin Calamari

Keyword(s):

Field Theory ◽

Gauge Field ◽

Fibre Bundle ◽

History Of Mathematics ◽

Gauge Field Theory ◽

Contemporary Science ◽

Explicit Mention ◽

History Of ◽

Key Features ◽

Bernhard Riemann

In recent years, the ideas of the mathematician Bernhard Riemann (1826–66) have come to the fore as one of Deleuze's principal sources of inspiration in regard to his engagements with mathematics, and the history of mathematics. Nevertheless, some relevant aspects and implications of Deleuze's philosophical reception and appropriation of Riemann's thought remain unexplored. In the first part of the paper I will begin by reconsidering the first explicit mention of Riemann in Deleuze's work, namely, in the second chapter of Bergsonism (1966). In this context, as I intend to show first, Deleuze's synthesis of some key features of the Riemannian theory of multiplicities (manifolds) is entirely dependent, both textually and conceptually, on his reading of another prominent figure in the history of mathematics: Hermann Weyl (1885–1955). This aspect has been largely underestimated, if not entirely neglected. However, as I attempt to bring out in the second part of the paper, reframing the understanding of Deleuze's philosophical engagement with Riemann's mathematics through the Riemann–Weyl conjunction can allow us to disclose some unexplored aspects of Deleuze's further elaboration of his theory of multiplicities (rhizomatic multiplicities, smooth spaces) and profound confrontation with contemporary science (fibre bundle topology and gauge field theory). This finally permits delineation of a correlation between Deleuze's plane of immanence and the contemporary physico-mathematical space of fundamental interactions.

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Katherine Mansfield and Translation

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400381.001.0001 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Central Place ◽

Literary Texts ◽

Katherine Mansfield ◽

Literary Language ◽

Specific Interest ◽

Literary Traditions ◽

Political Ideas ◽

Key Features ◽

Critical Interest

Our understanding of Anglophone modernism has been transformed by recent critical interest in translation. The central place of translation in the circulation of aesthetic and political ideas in the early twentieth century has been underlined, for example, as well as translation’s place in the creative and poetic dynamics of key modernist texts. This volume of Katherine Mansfield Studies offers a timely assessment of Mansfield’s place in such exchanges. As a reviewer, she developed a specific interest in literatures in translation, as well as showing a keen awareness of the translator’s presence in the text. Throughout her life, Mansfield engaged with new literary texts through translation, either translating proficiently herself, or working alongside a co-translator to explore the semantic and stylistic challenges of partially known languages. The metaphorical resonances of translating, transition and marginality also remain key features of her writing throughout her life. Meanwhile, her enduring popularity abroad is ensured by translations of her works, all of which reveal sociological and even ideological agendas of their own, an inevitable reflection of individual translators’ readings of her works, and the literary traditions of the new country and language of reception. The contributions to this volume refine and extend our appreciation of her specifically trans-linguistic and trans-literary lives. They illuminate the specific and more general influences of translation on Mansfield’s evolving technique and, jointly, they reveal the importance of translation on her literary language, as well as for her own particular brand of modernism.

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Maclaurin on Occasionalism: A Reply to Ablondi

Journal of Scottish Philosophy ◽

10.3366/jsp.2016.0117 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 125-135

Author(s):

Patrick J. Connolly

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Petrarch's Defense of Secular Letters, the Latin Fathers, and Ancient Roman Rhetoric

Rhetorica A Journal of the History of Rhetoric ◽

10.1525/rh.1993.11.2.119 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 119-134

Author(s):

Brenda Deen Schildgen

Keyword(s):

Classical Rhetoric ◽

Church Fathers ◽

Rhetorical Situations ◽

Epistolary Form ◽

The Church ◽

Roman Rhetoric

Abstract: Like the Church Fathers before him, Petrarch was forced to defend secular learning against its detractors, and his defenses draw on many of the same arguments that Augustine and Jerome had used. In these defenses he blends classical rhetoric and Christian values, and his procedures also follow the traditions of classical rhetoric, relying on the epistolary form and utilizing the Ciceronian manner of debating all topics from opposite standpoints. Perhaps, however, because his indecisiveness complemented the classical rhetorical premise that many issues present many possible resolutions, Petrarch also rejects secular learning in some of his writings. His arguments are therefore conclusive only within their unique rhetorical situations.

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Unbiased Stereological Quantification of Key Features of Diabetic Nephropathy

Diabetes ◽

10.2337/db18-516-p ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 67 (Supplement 1) ◽

pp. 516-P

Author(s):

TANJA X. PEDERSEN ◽

THEA T. JOHANSEN ◽

LISBETH N. FINK ◽

NIELS VRANG ◽

THOMAS SECHER

Keyword(s):

Diabetic Nephropathy ◽

Key Features

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Matlab and Parallel Computing

Image Processing & Communications ◽

10.2478/v10248-012-0048-5 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 207-216 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Magdalena Szymczyk ◽

Piotr Szymczyk

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Signal Processing ◽

Parallel Computing ◽

Distributed Computing ◽

Control Systems ◽

High Performance ◽

Parallel Applications ◽

Process Simulations ◽

Key Features ◽

Financial Process

Abstract The MATLAB is a technical computing language used in a variety of fields, such as control systems, image and signal processing, visualization, financial process simulations in an easy-to-use environment. MATLAB offers "toolboxes" which are specialized libraries for variety scientific domains, and a simplified interface to high-performance libraries (LAPACK, BLAS, FFTW too). Now MATLAB is enriched by the possibility of parallel computing with the Parallel Computing ToolboxTM and MATLAB Distributed Computing ServerTM. In this article we present some of the key features of MATLAB parallel applications focused on using GPU processors for image processing.

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ECOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE JONAH NARRATIVE – HAVE THEY SUCCEEDED IN OVERCOMING ANTHROPOCENTRISM?

Journal for Semitics ◽

10.25159/1013-8471/2775 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Willie Van Heerden

Keyword(s):

Biblical Text ◽

Biblical Hermeneutics ◽

Central Concern ◽

The Earth ◽

Biblical Texts ◽

The Relationship

A central concern of ecological biblical hermeneutics is to overcome the anthropocentric bias we are likely to find both in interpretations of the biblical texts and in the biblical text itself. One of the consequences of anthropocentrism has been described as a sense of distance, separation, and otherness in the relationship between humans and other members of the Earth community. This article is an attempt to determine whether extant ecological interpretations of the Jonah narrative have successfully addressed this sense of estrangement. The article focuses on the work of Ernst M. Conradie (2005), Raymond F. Person (2008), Yael Shemesh (2010), Brent A. Strawn (2012), and Phyllis Trible (1994, 1996).

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REREADING TEXTS OF MUSIC AND DANCE IN THE HEBREW BIBLE: THE SPIRITUALITY OF MUSIC AND DANCE IN ZIMBABWE

Journal for Semitics ◽

10.25159/1013-8471/2527 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 72-98

Author(s):

Temba T. Rugwiji

Keyword(s):

Hebrew Bible ◽

Land Reform ◽

Critical Role ◽

Musical Instruments ◽

World Music ◽

Human Existence ◽

Biblical Text ◽

Ancient Israel ◽

Formed Part ◽

The Church

The Hebrew Bible depicts that music and dance formed part of worship and reverence of Yahweh in which various musical instruments were played during ancient biblical times. In the modern post-biblical world, music and dance characterise every context of human existence either in moments of love, joy, celebration, victory, sorrow or reverence. In Zimbabwe, music — which is usually accompanied by dance — serves various purposes such as solidarity towards or remonstration against the land reform, despondency against corruption, celebration, giving hope to the sick, worship as in the church or appeasing the dead by those who are culturally-entrenched. Two fundamental questions need to be answered in this article: 1) What was the significance of music and dance in ancient Israel? 2) What is the significance of music and dance in Zimbabwe? In response to the above questions, this essay engages into dialogue the following three contestations. First, texts of music, musical instruments and dance in the Hebrew Bible are discussed in view of their spiritual significance in ancient Israel. Second, this study analyses music and dance from a faith perspective because it appears for the majority of Gospel musicians the biblical text plays a critical role in composing their songs. Third, this article examines music and dance in view of the spirituality which derives from various genres by Zimbabwean musicians in general. In its entirety, this article attempts to show that the Zimbabwean society draws some spirituality from music and dance when devastated by political, cultural or socio-economic crises.

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