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Human‐centred design and assessment of information technologies in traffic
2013
It is not without amusement that we sometimes notice how dangerously some in-vehicle technologies were regarded in the past, and that are now are seen as innocuous. Radios in cars, for example, were deemed such a source of dangerous distraction when they were introduced that it was proposed to ban them in some states of the US. Fortunately, nowadays, we can behold these old views as very naive, as it has been clearly demonstrated that they were completely unfounded - or has it?
The Gospel of St John in Literature
1997
‘Idou ho anthropos’ (Latin Ecce homo, ‘Behold the man’) are the words used by Pilate in presenting Jesus to the Jews, bound, scourged, crowned with thorns, and wearing a purple robe (John 19:15). Most interpreters of Pilate’s laconic statement have taken Ecce homo to mean, ‘Here is the poor fellow!’, the speaker’s rhetoric having the purpose of eliciting pity from the spectators, or contemptuously ridiculing the Jews for taking such a lowly and risible figure’s claim to kingship over them so seriously, or provoking them into demanding Christ’s release. Among those exegetes interested in drawing out the theological implications of Pilate’s pronouncement, some suggest that John here emphasize…