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Perfiles básicos del bandolerismo morisco valenciano: del desarme a la expulsión (1563-1609)
2009
espanolA la imagen del problema del bandolerismo morisco valenciano legada por Sebastian Garcia Martinez se contrapone en estas paginas una vision alternativa, basada en el empleo de dos fuentes principales: los libros de cuentas del Maestre Racional y las conclusiones criminales de la Real Audiencia. Dos son los aspectos fundamentales que se revisan: la geografia del fenomeno, a partir de la distincion entre los lugares de origen de los fuera de la ley y los escenarios donde perpetraron sus crimenes, y su evolucion desde 1563 hasta 1609, periodo a lo largo del cual pueden diferenciarse varias fases, tanto desde la perspectiva de la actividad delictiva, como desde la de la energia represiva…
The Firstborn of Death: Monotheism and the Mythology of Death in Job 18
2019
AbstractJob 18 depicts the destruction of the wicked as a kind of ambush by “the firstborn of death.” Much of the discussion of this passage has centered on this figure’s identification, and whether one should look primarily to Ugaritic or Mesopotamian mythological traditions for its background. Yet the passage as a whole concludes with a reference to a single “God,” knowledge of whom is determinative for human fate. This raises a basic question concerning the relation between “God” and the “firstborn of death.” Through a close comparison with the Ugaritic Baal Cycle and the Neo-Assyrian Underworld Vision on the one hand, and Job 5 and Deuteronomy 32 on the other, this paper argues that “th…
The Earliest Reference to Israel and Its Possible Archaeological and Historical Background
2017
Manfred Görg proposed to read the name Israel on a broken Egyptian inscriptionäm21687, which is now kept in the storage facilities of the New Museum in Berlin. New research during the last number of years has confirmed this reading, although the writing of the name is different from that of the Merenptah inscription. Some characteristics appear to demonstrate that this inscription is older than the Israel stela of Merenptah and may likely date to the 14th or earlier 13th centurybce. The paper will present some ideas about an earlier beginning of the formation of what is generally called Israel and about the way, how this early Israel came about.
Book review: MATS EKSTRÖM, ÅSA KROON and MATS NYLUND (eds), News from the Interview Society. Göteborg: NORDICOM, Göteborg University, 2006. 267 pp. 3…
2008
The Sacralization of Martyric Death in Romanian Legionary Movement: Self-sacrificial Patriotism, Vicarious Atonement, and Thanatic Nationalism
2016
ABSTRACTThe paper explores the radical morphing of Romanian patriotism in the aftermath of the Great War within the Legionary movement. It shows, first, how the war martialized the rhetoric of self-sacrificial patriotism articulated discursively during the second part of the long nineteenth century that accompanied the making of the Romanian national statehood. Second, the paper focuses on unraveling the postwar cultural matrix that made possible a radical, self-sacrificial, patriotism to emerge within the Romanian Iron Guard’s fascist worldview. Within the Legion’s redemptive political theology, the wartime national patriotism aiming at redeeming the nation by making the Greater Romania wa…
‘You shall not wash my feet εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα’ (John 13.8): Time and Ethics in Peter’s Interactions with Jesus in the Johannine Narrative
2019
In search of ‘timeless’ norms or behavioral examples, the Gospel of John seems to offer few options. The principle of brotherly love exemplified in the act of foot washing is often considered as the only example of ethically significant material in the Johannine narrative. However, by taking a closer look at the ‘tempo’ of actions and the characters’ orientation in time, we can understand that Peter’s protest against the foot washing is not only in favor of norms that secure existing hierarchies, but is driven by temporal norms, i.e. his genuine fear of death. Peter’s protest (Jn 13.8) indicates his desire for the eternal life promised by Jesus (Jn 11.25-26) and at the same time it serves as…
The Decline of the Shepherd Metaphor as Royal Self-Expression1
2019
In the Old Testament, shepherd is a common metaphor of kingship, and this metaphor is sometimes also used to denote the Israelite god as a ruler (See for instance HALOT entry הער ). In Assyrian, Ba...
Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches in Dialogue: Reception, Disagreement and Convergence
2016
Abstract This paper presents details pertaining to the dialogue between Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches. A brief history of the official bilateral meetings between the representatives of these two Christian traditions is sketched in the first part of the paper. The texts which converge by way of doctrine are highlighted. In the second part I present some of the difficulties which still prevent Eucharistic intercommunion between Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, in spite of the doctrinal agreement which has been reached. Finally, some possible solutions are drafted in the last part of the paper, with special reference to Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae’s proposal of br…
Rural people’s literacy skills in the remembrance of the departed: the writing of personal names on sepulchral monuments at the turn of the nineteent…
2013
At the end of the nineteenth century, more and more sepulchral monuments made of a durable material began to be erected in Finnish rural graveyards. The personal names inscribed on the monuments to...
La Antígona de Fenicias o la larga sombra de la Antígona de Sófocles
2016
La sombra de la Antígona de Sófocles ha mediatizado la transmisión e interpretación de las Fenicias de Eurípides. Tres pasajes de Fenicias proyectan en conjunto la imagen de una Antígona muy humana y de una gran entereza de ánimo, próxima al personaje de Sófocles. El primero, la teichoscopía del prólogo; el segundo, una escena central, vv. 1264‑1283, preludio del último estásimo. En el tercero, formado por dos escenas, vv. 1480‑1539 y 1540‑1580, el protagonismo de Antígona es notable y revelador de su carácter. La ausencia del primero, cuya autenticidad ha sido cuestionada, privaría a la Antígona de Fenicias de unos rasgos de carácter que en conjunto hacen de ella un personaje muy humano.