scholarly journals Lurking Lions and Hidden Herds: Concealed Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 492
Author(s):  
Scott B. Noegel ◽  
Corinna E. Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Domesticated Animals ◽  
Divine Wisdom ◽  
Hidden Knowledge ◽  
Literary Device

This article presents evidence for a previously unrecognized literary device in the Book of Proverbs, in which texts that cluster references to animals also contain additional paronomastic allusions to animals. This device accords with the proverbs’ instruction to search for hidden knowledge, and resonates with their emphasis on the study of wild animals as a source of divine wisdom. The device also appears in psalms and prophecies, where it generally entails references to domesticated animals; here, the function appears to be rhetorical or performative. These groupings of concealed allusions to animals also add to the growing number of examples of the textual device of clustering.

Human and Musical Sounds and Their Hearing Elsewhere as a Literary Device in the Biblical Narratives

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Kalimi
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Biblical Narratives ◽  
Literary Device ◽  
Musical Sounds ◽  
Succession Narrative ◽  
Ark Narrative

AbstractThe biblical narrators utilize sounds of musical instruments and/or human voices being raised emotionally and their being heard someplace else as a literary tool and transitioning the reader from one place or group of people to another. The article discusses this literary tool as it appears in a number of narratives in the Hebrew Bible (namely, the Joseph Story, Ark Narrative, Throne Succession Narrative, Deuteronomistic and Chronistic histories, as well as the book of Ezra), and its effects.

Should We Offer Assistance to Both Wild and Domesticated Animals?

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Clare Palmer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Wild Animal ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Animal Suffering ◽  
Domesticated Animals ◽  
Special Obligations ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Do So ◽  
Call Capacity

In this paper, I consider whether we should offer assistance to both wild and domesticated animals when they are suffering. I argue that we may have different obligations to assist wild and domesticated animals because they have different morally-relevant relationships with us. I explain how different approaches to animal ethics, which, for simplicity, I call capacity-oriented and context-oriented, address questions about animal assistance differently. I then defend a broadly context-oriented approach, on which we have special obligations to assist animals that we have made vulnerable to or dependent on us. This means that we should normally help suffering domesticated animals, but that we lack general obligations to assist wild animals, since we are not responsible for their vulnerability. However, we may have special obligations to help wild animals where we have made them vulnerable to or dependent on us (by habitat destruction or by captivity, for instance). I consider some obvious difficulties with this context-oriented approach, and I conclude by looking more closely at the question whether we should intervene, if we could do so successfully, to reduce wild animal suffering by reducing predation.

The Boundaries of Divine Ontology: The Inclusion and Exclusion of Meṭaṭron in the Godhead

1994 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Jewish Mysticism ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Literary Device ◽  
The One

One of the central aspects of Jewish theology, and Jewish mysticism in particular, is the conception of the nature of God's being and the appearance of the divine before humanity. No one view has dominated the spectrum of Jewish interpretations, since the biblical text is the only common frame for the wide variety of speculations. At issue is whether the one God depicted in the Hebrew Bible is manifest to humans directly or through the agency of a divine, semidivine, or created power. Even the nature of angelic figures in the Bible remains a matter of debate, both in its original context and through later interpretations. Does the angelic figure physically represent God's form, or is it a literary device that metaphorically describes God's presence? The same is true of divine anthropomorphism in the Bible. Do the descriptions of God's hands or feet imply that God possesses a definite shape similar to that of human bodies, or should these descriptions also be viewed metaphorically, reinforcing a similar view to that expressed about angelic figures: no physical characteristics can be attributed to anything heavenly or divine? Finally, how does this accord with the spatial manifestation of God in the tabernacle through hiskavodor glory?

ANOTHER LOOK AT THE FUNCTION OF מַשָּׂא IN PROPHETIC LITERATURE

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 575-593
Author(s):  
Gudrun Lier ◽  
Lucas Cornelis Muller
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Prophetic Literature ◽  
Literary Device ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function ◽  
Popular Speech ◽  
Semantic Domains

In this article some of the previous considerations on the meaning and function of מַשָּׂא in the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible are critically considered. The function of מַַשָּׂא is then reviewed by systematically analysing its use in various textual contexts throughout the Hebrew Bible to identify how this term was applied in popular speech, literature, and translation. An attempt is made to categorise מַשָּׂאinto specific semantic domains in order to determine how the various ways in which מַשָּׂא is used in prophetic literature compare with each other. It is suggested that the מַשָּׂא -label not only came to be used as an emphatic marker but also functioned as a literary device, more specifically a mnemonic bridge, to bind maśśā’-prophecies together intertextually to form a virtual corpus.

The Beasts of Wisdom: Ecological Hermeneutics of the Wild

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
Carey Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Potential Danger ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Domesticated Animals ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Divine Wrath ◽  
Animal Presence

The role of beasts in the Hebrew Bible’s wisdom literature differs from that in the Torah and Prophets. Rather than the often-plural and domesticated animals of the latter, wild animals represented in the singular and with greater diversity characterize the wisdom material. Wild animals in the Torah and Prophets typically signify potential danger outside the inhabited domain or divine wrath and punishment. In wisdom literature, however, they become sources for human guidance (Job 5:22). In Proverbs, they are enlisted to address a lack in human understanding. But in later wisdom texts, the use of animals to illustrate beneficial behaviors gives way to a more radical theme, that of human incomprehension of the world. The otherness of animal presence is deconstructive of wisdom and human knowledge more generally. In biblical wisdom, beastly, silent faces expose the limits of human comprehension.


scholarly journals Leech in the Rectum Causing Lower GI Bleeding in a Four Years Old Child: A Case Report

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsion Tilahun ◽  
Hawi Babu ◽  
Melkamu Berhane
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Rectal Bleeding ◽  
Blood Feeding ◽  
Male Child ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Gi Bleeding ◽  
Domesticated Animals ◽  
Lower Gi Bleeding ◽  
Iron Sulphate

BACKGROUND፡ Leeches belong to a group of annelids of the class Hirudinea which are blood feeding ecto-parasites of humans, wild animals and domesticated animals. A leech can suck out as much blood as ten times its own weight. Leech can occur at different sites in humans commonly in the eyes, nasopharynx, larynx, urethra, and vagina and rarely in the rectum.CASE DETAILS: This is a four years old male child who presented with painless, bright red rectal bleeding for two weeks. Heamatocrit was 9.2%. Leech was removed from the rectum by letting the child sit on a bucket of water. The patient was transfused, followed for 24 hours and discharged with iron sulphate syrup.CONCLUSION: Leech infestation should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a child presenting with hematochezia.

scholarly journals Consolations of Environmental Philosophy

2021 ◽  
pp. 445-467
Author(s):  
Mateusz Tokarski
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Normative Beliefs ◽  
Domesticated Animals ◽  
Culturally Based

AbstractDue to successful protection and restoration efforts, humans and wild animals more and more often come to inhabit overlapping spaces. This is often experienced by humans as problematic, as animals may cause material damages to property and pose threats to humans and domesticated animals. These threats, as well as normative beliefs about belonging and culturally-based prejudices, often provoke distress or aggression towards animals. While philosophy has so far provided normative guidance as to what we should do in terms of developing proper relationships, the actual tools designed to facilitate the development of more peaceful cohabitation have been provided mostly by wildlife management and social sciences. In this contribution, I propose that environmental philosophy can provide conceptual tools easing the difficulties of cohabitation. One such tool is the practice of consolation. I begin by drawing a distinction between the contemporary and traditional forms of consolation. I further show that several common ethical arguments concerning cohabitation with wildlife can be seen as following the ancient concept of consolation. I close with some practical remarks regarding how environmental consolation could be practiced today in the context of difficult cohabitation with wildlife.

scholarly journals SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Animals: Reservoirs for Reverse Zoonosis and Models for Study

Viruses ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 494
Author(s):  
Tessa Prince ◽  
Shirley L. Smith ◽  
Alan D. Radford ◽  
Tom Solomon ◽  
Grant L. Hughes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intermediate Host ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Animal Experiments ◽  
Farm Workers ◽  
Viral Reservoir ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Domesticated Animals ◽  
Recent Outbreak ◽  
In The Wild

The recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has brought many questions over the origin of the virus, the threat it poses to animals both in the wild and captivity, and the risks of a permanent viral reservoir developing in animals. Animal experiments have shown that a variety of animals can become infected with the virus. While coronaviruses have been known to infect animals for decades, the true intermediate host of the virus has not been identified, with no cases of SARS-CoV-2 in wild animals. The screening of wild, farmed, and domesticated animals is necessary to help us understand the virus and its origins and prevent future outbreaks of both COVID-19 and other diseases. There is intriguing evidence that farmed mink infections (acquired from humans) have led to infection of other farm workers in turn, with a recent outbreak of a mink variant in humans in Denmark. A thorough examination of the current knowledge and evidence of the ability of SARS-CoV-2 to infect different animal species is therefore vital to evaluate the threat of animal to human transmission and reverse zoonosis.

Scientific Knowledge in Sociology: Problem Statement

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Gennady V. Kanygin ◽  
Maria S. Poltinnikova
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Methodological Problem ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Problem Statement ◽  
Hidden Knowledge ◽  
Similarities And Differences

The article opens a cycle of publications, which analyze the similarities and differences between the two wide spread modern approaches to the description of society - sociological and informational ones. Both approaches have the same methodological problem to be solved. The problem of expressing hidden knowledge about society that participants in social processes operate with the help of natural language in the course of social communication. In order to harmonize sociological and informational approaches of describing society, it was proposed any natural language statements involved in describing society to be arranged according to the basic principle of information technology - modularity. The proposed way of harmonizing informational and sociological methods of building knowledge about society is invoked by the need to solve two scientific problems formulated in sociology itself - the constructability of social objects and the complexity of social relationships. The paper's methodological proposals are embodied in their computer realization, which practical application is demonstrated in other publications of the authors.

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