scholarly journals Job and the Bible’s Theo-Political Divide

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Menachem Fisch
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Book Of Job ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
Divine Justice ◽  
Basic Norm ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Divide

The book of Job presents a unique and detailed contrastive study of two fundamental and fundamentally opposed religious personae: Job, on the one hand, and the collective image of his friends on the other. It is a normative dispute about the religion’s most basic norm of disposition. How is one to respond to inexplicable disaster when one believes one is blameless? What is the religiously appropriate response to catastrophe? To confront God’s judgment as did Job, or to submissively surrender to it, as his four friends insist he should? Is one supposed to question divine justice when deemed to be wanting, as did Job, or to suppress any thought to the contrary and deem it to be just, come what may? Rather than expound (once again) upon the theological implications of the Job dispute, this paper focuses on its theological-political dimensions, and its looming and vivid, yet largely overlooked presence in the Hebrew Bible’s master narrative; and more specifically, on the marked, if inevitable antinomian nature of the Jobian side to the divide.

scholarly journals Job and the Bible’s Theo-Political Divide

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menachem Fisch
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Book Of Job ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Divine Justice ◽  
Basic Norm ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Divide

The book of Job presents a unique and detailed contrastive study of two fundamental and fundamentally opposed religious personae: Job, on the one hand, and the collective image of his friends on the other. It is a normative dispute about the religion’s most basic norm of disposition. How is one to respond to inexplicable disaster when one believes one is blameless? What is the religiously appropriate response to catastrophe? To confront God’s judgment as did Job, or to submissively surrender to it, as his four friends insist he should? Is one supposed to question divine justice when deemed to be wanting, as did Job, or to suppress any thought to the contrary and deem it to be just, come what may? Rather than expound (once again) upon the theological implications of the Job dispute, this paper focuses on its theological-political dimensions, and its looming and vivid, yet largely overlooked presence in the Hebrew Bible’s master narrative; and more specifically, on the marked, if inevitable antinomian nature of the Jobian side to the divide.

scholarly journals Applying Corpus Data to Define Needs in Web Localization Training

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 998-1021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel ángel Jiménez-Crespo ◽  
Maribel Tercedor
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
Learner Corpus ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Corpus Data ◽  
University Level ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

Localization is increasingly making its way into translation training programs at university level. However, there is still a scarce amount of empirical research addressing issues such as defining localization in relation to translation, what localization competence entails or how to best incorporate intercultural differences between digital genres, text types and conventions, among other aspects. In this paper, we propose a foundation for the study of localization competence based upon previous research on translation competence. This project was developed following an empirical corpus-based contrastive study of student translations (learner corpus), combined with data from a comparable corpus made up of an original Spanish corpus and a Spanish localized corpus. The objective of the study is to identify differences in production between digital texts localized by students and professionals on the one hand, and original texts on the other. This contrastive study allows us to gain insight into how localization competence interrelates with the superordinate concept of translation competence, thus shedding light on which aspects need to be addressed during localization training in university translation programs.

scholarly journals Where is Tyche?

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Bordado Sköld
Keyword(s):  
Positive Affect ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The One

In this paper, I seek to revitalize the concept of happiness by conceptualizing it as a relational and instantaneous phenomenon with both existential, ethical and political dimensions. Happiness hap-ens – in and through encounters, and it does so when we least expect it. Drawing on Bachelard’s writings on ‘the instant’, as well as Gumbrecht’s and Rosa’s much related concepts of ‘presence’ and ‘resonance’, I attempt to formulate a more relational and nonvolitional counter-concept of happiness that blurs the border between eudemonic happiness and subjective well-being on the one hand and positive affect on the other. Safe-guarding opportunities for these moments to happen is to be seen as vital in a contemporary society governed by individualization, rationalization and hedonistic principles. Even though one cannot choose to be happy, one can indeed lead a good life; colored by an openness towards the other and what might come.

scholarly journals O pewnych procesach frazeologizacji z perspektywy modelu składni semantycznej

2019 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Korytkowska
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Lexical Entry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Status ◽  
The One

On certain processes of phraseologization from the perspective of the semantic syntax modelThis article analyzes the status of sentential structures of the type Wątpię w Piotra in Polish and Съмнявам се в Петър in Bulgarian “I doubt about Peter”, taking into account the specificity of their meanings, which are different in both languages. On the basis of the semantic syntax model, the article investigates the possibility of, on the one hand, analyzing such structures as elements of a subcategorization frame and, on the other hand, as examples of structures that undergo the process of phraseologization. The conclusions reached in the article result from this contrastive study. The research question addressed in this paper is relevant for the problem of the form and the boundaries of a lexical entry, which is an important issue in lexicography.О некоторых процессах фразеологизации в перспективе модели семантического синтаксисаВ статье представлен анализ статуса предложных структур типа польск. Wątpię w Piotra, болг. Съмнявам се в Петър, при этом учтена специфика их значения, различающая анализируемые языки. На основании модели семантического синтаксиса рассмотрена, с одной стороны, возможность причисления данных структур к элементам валентного образца, а с другой стороны, данные конструкции показаны как пример структур, подлежащих процессу фразеологизации. В статье представлены выводы сопоставительного характера. Анализируемая проблема касается важных для лексикографии вопросов границы и формы словарной статьи.

scholarly journals Divine Justice and the Issue of Evil in Sahifa Al-Sajjadiyya

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Mahdieh Sodeif Motlagh
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Divine Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
Theological Foundations ◽  
Human World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Devil

The issue of "divine justice", which is the one of the most important doctrinal principles and a characteristic of the theological religions such Shiite and Mu'tazilite, in fact is one of the Perfect Attributes of Allah and due to its indescribable importance, it has a special place in doctrinal discussions. On the other hand, the existence of evils and calamities, poverty and deprivation, oppression and disease and moral corruption, and even the manner of punishment in the hereafter, always raises doubts in the human mind and calls into question Allah's justice. The generality of such suspicions has led Islamic thinkers to solve these problems in defense of divine justice. In this regard, the present study seeks to use the words of the fourth Shiite Imam in the divine invocations of the complete Sahifa Al_ Sajjadiyya, to achieve the theological foundations to solve some evil doubts in the realm of creation and the human world. The method of collecting materials in this research is library and the research method is "descriptive -analytical". After investigations, it became clear that from Imam Sajjad's point of view, neglecting and inclining the soul to the world and other than Allah, and consequently being caught in the trap of the devil and carnal soul, and contamination with sin and transgression, is the real evil. According to him, the divine test and punishment and return to the truth, the flourishing of talents and the appreciation of blessings are the benefits of evil and suffering. also meanings such as: the inherent richness of the Almighty, the bestowal of goodness and abundant blessings, the guidance of the servants to the good religion and the punishment of the same action in the prayers of Imam (A.S), all three types of genetic justice, legislative justice and criminal justice can be proved.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the Secular Theodicy: On Social Distancing, the Death of God and the Book of Job

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
Frank Bosman ◽  
Archibald van Wieringen
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Virus Spread ◽  
Satisfactory Solution ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Book Of Job ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
The One

AbstractIn times of great distress, like in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, people look for relief from the existential threat by searching for some kind of interpretation of the crisis. Some people will look for scapegoats to put the blame on, while others will search for ways by which the crisis can also be perceived as something beneficial.As far as the COVID-19 pandemic goes, earlier this year, media and politicians pointed towards China, where the pandemic started, or to Italy, from where the virus spread over the European continent.Since the beginning of the crisis, we have also been flooded with gurus, motivational speakers, and mindfulness coaches who stimulate us to view the new common as an unexpected but much needed “reboot” of our day-to-day life.Intriguingly enough, these two individual and collective coping strategies are very familiar to those who are acquainted with the Christian philosophical and theological traditions. When confronted with the apparent paradox between the idea of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent deity on the one hand and the experience of everyday pain and suffering on the other hand, Christians have sought for ways to find a satisfactory solution. This is known as theodicy. As the Roman and Christian philosopher Boethius summarized the problem: si Deus, unde malum? “If God exists, wherefrom evil?”

Justice and the Afterlife

2020 ◽  
pp. 593-611
Author(s):  
Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson
Keyword(s):  
Retributive Justice ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Thought ◽  
Divine Justice ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The One

Until the end of the fifth century BCE, there were few expectations of divine justice after death, or even of a meaningful afterlife. While such beliefs became ever more conspicuous after the fifth century, we do nevertheless find ideas of an afterlife before that time, and of divine justice for the dead. On the one hand, we find the idea of postmortem retributive justice as early as in Homer. On the other, we find promises of posthumous happiness and salvation for those who have lived justly and piously. Among the earliest instances is found in the Hymn to Demeter. Both conceptions express the workings of divine justice. Tracing them from Homer to the end of the fifth century, through such authors as Aeschylus and Pindar, “Justice and the Afterlife” attempts to shed some light on the emergence of this feature of ancient Greek thought.

The conflicting loyalties of the Scottish Labour Party

2018 ◽  
pp. 238-253
Author(s):  
Fiona Simpkins
Keyword(s):  
Labour Party ◽  
The Other ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Divide ◽  
Constitutional Issue

The legitimacy of Scottish Labour as a party representative of the Scottish people has been called into question for much of its recent history, not only by disgruntled members of the Scottish electorate and political commentators, but also by Labour members and leaders themselves. Although there have been recent moves towards a more autonomous Scottish Labour Party, the post-devolution period for Labour has been marked overall by the difficulties entailed by the paradoxical centralisation of the organisation and structure of the party in a decentralised political environment where the constitutional issue has become the main political divide. This chapter therefore seeks to examine the current soul-searching crisis experienced by Scottish Labour through the analysis of the party’s experience of devolution in light of the two contradictory forces exerted by a traditionally centralised party in a unitary polity on the one hand and an overarching constitutional debate in a devolved environment on the other hand.

scholarly journals The Ecology of Death in the Book of Job

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Suzanna R. Millar
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Book Of Job ◽  
Human World ◽  
The One ◽  
Human Death

Abstract Ruminations on death recur throughout Job. Equally, language of the non-human world is prevalent. This article examines the coalescence of these tropes in the implicit “necro-ecology” of the book. As though observing the decomposition of a corpse, it focusses on four Joban images, each expressing human death in non-human terms: maggots colonise the cadaver; scavengers consume it. The body disintegrates into dust; plants grow and wither there. At each stage, the article shows how death and life are entangled together, the one requiring and enabling the other. Equally, beings are entangled with each other, challenging the human pretence to self-contained individuality. The article thus fits into a broader trend in the (post)humanities to cultivate scholarship conducive to multi-species flourishing, showing how Job provides fertile compost for symbiotic inter-species alliances of living and dying together.

Cosmopolitanism, Glocalization and Youth Cultures

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Roudometof
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Youth Studies ◽  
Equal Footing ◽  
Youth Cultures ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Globalization brings forth a geographical and thematic expansion of the scope of youth studies beyond the traditional topics of delinquency, studies of generations, and subculture. Youth has emerged as a topic for cosmopolitanism studies with a widespread tendency to use cosmopolitanism as a master narrative that leaves no conceptual room for considering ‘non-cosmopolitan’ on an equal footing. The article questions whether social research should be concerned with identifying the cosmopolitanism of youth or whether it should be concerned with examinations of the glocalization of world’s youth (sub-)cultures. In the article’s last section, I outline a research agenda that focuses upon the relationship between the world’s youth (sub-)cultures, on the one hand, and glocalization and trans-localization, on the other. Use of these concepts offers important insights into the youth's cultural practices and is an alternative to the master narrative of cosmopolitanization.

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