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Predicting the environmental suitability for onchocerciasis in Africa as an aid to elimination planning.
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"Would I Have Been Better Off There?" Comparison, Need, and Conduciveness in Finnish Emigrant’s Account
Published 2014-04-01“…His line of argument can be analysed using Abraham Maslow’s theory of human motivation. Conduciveness turns out to be his main motivation, and comparison is, implicitly or explicitly, a tool for verbalising this conduciveness.…”
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Identity claims, texts, Rome and Galatians
Published 2014-06-01“… This contribution explores the interplay between Paul’s use of the Scriptures of Israel and the imperial setting in claims about Abraham and the negotiation of identity in the Galatians letter. …”
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ISHMAEL, THE QUR’?N, AND THE BIBLE
Published 2019-07-01“…Islam, however, which largely adopts the biblical Pentateuch as a holy book of Islam given by God to Musa (Moses), re-interprets Ishmael’s role in one significant event: the offering demanded by God as demonstration of Abraham’s faith. In Islam, Ishmael supplants Isaac as the intended sacrificial lamb. …”
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A questão da paixão como condição para a fé no itinerário da obra Temor e tremor
Published 2016-01-01“…Kierkegaard’s literary production, the purpose of this essay is to outline the concept of passion set forth in Fear and Trembling as a necessary condition for the realization of the dialectical movements that make possible the development of faith. On the basis of Abraham’s demonstration of faith, the article highlights the importance granted by Johannes de Silentio to passion as the foundation that precedes and constitutes the ultimate faith: that which arises only in the face of the absurd, but which, once attained, reveals itself as a possibility of escaping from the desperation of existence and of giving meaning to human life.…”
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The Thought-Scene: A Literary Convention of Hebrew Narrative
Published 2025-01-01“…I examine the reasoning process of Abraham (Gen 12:10-20) and Joseph (Gen 39:7-10) in detail and supply a full, annotated catalogue of thought-scenes in Genesis, along with representative examples from across the Hebrew Bible. …”
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Stuart Cloete's construction of Voortrekker religion in Turning Wheels
Published 2001-06-01“…Among the thematic elements are belief in divine purpose and providence, postfigurative uses of the Pentateuchal characters Moses and Abraham, the image of the clergy, the failure of religious belief to maintain ethical norms among the Voortrekkers and the contribution of an ethnocentric distortion of Christianity to disharmonious relations with black Africans. …”
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Mission to people of other faiths in the Old Testament and Eldoret, Kenya: some reflections for engaging Muslims within their context
Published 2015-06-01“… The election of biblical Israel in the Old Testament through Abraham and the mandate to represent God to other nations compare to Kenyan contexts of mission to people of other faiths by virtue of strengths and weaknesses. …”
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La violence sexuelle dans Mesure pour mesure
Published 2013-01-01“…Later on, influenced by the patient support of the Duke-Monk, she may elaborate an introjected father-figure, according to the pattern of the French psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. This transference support helps Isabella to resist the stigmatization of the victims of sexual violence.…”
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Evolving consensus around Moroccan-Israeli normalisation: a political space analysis
Published 2023-12-01“…Morocco’s accession to the Abraham Accords in December 2020 represented a shift in the country’s long-standing diplomatic position regarding the Palestinian cause. …”
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„Zakazana komnata Lei”. Pismo Święte w bulli kanonizacyjnej „Mira circa nos”
Published 2023-12-01“…Franciszka: Paweł Apostoł, Abraham, Jakub, Jefte, Samson i Szamgar, Noe, Gedeon, Mojżesz, Dawid, Hiob oraz arcykapłan Szymon. …”
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The Enigma of the Temple Site and the Word-play ‘Moriah’
Published 2025-01-01“…This study examines the enigmatic name ‘Moriah’, which in the narrative of the patriarch Abraham (Gen 22:1–19) – one of Israel’s primary foundation narratives – describes the sacrificial cult site without precisely locating it. …”
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“Ikwekwe yinja1 (a Boy is a Dog)”
Published 2024-03-01“…Many times, the ways in which children are treated in biblical texts (in so far as adults make decisions without their (children) approval, e.g., Abraham’s decision to sacrifice Isaac, Jephthah’s decision to kill her daughter in honour of his agreement with Yahweh, the killing of the boy children during the time of Pharoah and King Herod exhibit the idea that children are not fully human. …”
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Quality of Life Theory III. Maslow Revisited
Published 2003-01-01“…In 1962, Abraham Maslow published his book Towards a Psychology of Being, and established a theory of quality of life, which still is considered a consistent theory of quality of life. …”
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Singularity, violence and universality in Derrida’s ethics: Deconstruction’s struggle with decisionism
Published 2024-01-01“…In The Gift of Death, Derrida discusses the relationship between Paganism, Platonism, and Christianity through Patočka’s perspective, then returns to Judaism via Kierkegaard’s discussion of Abraham and Isaac. Derrida’s reflections on secrecy, the sacred, ethical paradox, the violence of ethical absolutism, and the aporetic nature of ethical decisions converge around a discussion of political decisionism in Schmitt and the broader ethical significance of decisionism, as it also appears in Benjamin.…”
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Critical Role and Place of the Church as a Response to Environmental Crisis.
Published 2024“…Our problem, it was assumed, was poverty and economic exploitation; the environmental issue was a “luxury” of the industrialized countries (Abraham, 1995). But today we realize how urgent this issue is for the whole world. …”
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An optimisation for a two‐round good‐case latency protocol
Published 2023-07-01“…This article focuses on the state‐of‐the‐art partially synchronous Byzantine broadcast protocol proposed by Abraham et al. (PODC’21), which achieves optimal good‐case latency of two rounds and optimal resilience of n ≥ 5f − 1 in this setting. …”
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Contre la sobriété gestionnaire, une sobriété kitsch ?
Published 2024-01-01“…Cet article explore le potentiel subversif de l’esthétique kitsch, en faveur d’une sobriété qui s’inscrirait dans la perspective d’une écologie politique (Gorz, 2020) ou d’une décroissance soutenable (Abraham, 2019). Partant d’une critique de la sobriété telle qu’elle est promue, représentée et mise en pratique aujourd’hui – une sobriété que nous qualifions de gestionnaire – nous soutenons la possibilité de revendiquer une sobriété kitsch. …”
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