Contents, texts and contexts : a contextualist approach to the Ugaritic texts and their cultic vocabulary.

The aim of this study is to formulate and apply a new 'contextualist' approach to the interpretation of the texts from U garit. With a review and critique of mainstream scholarly debate, this study argues that the continued separation of archaeological and textual material has limited the success of attempts to reconstruct U garitic religion. As a development of, and reaction to, the interpretative methods that have been applied to the available source material, this study advocates a holistic approach to the Ugaritic evidence. It examines the distribution of 'cultic vocabulary' that arises in texts recovered from two distinct archaeological contexts-namely, the 'House of the High Priest' and the 'House of the Hurrian Priest'. It involves a systematic search of the Ugaritic corpus for other applications of the cultic vocabulary. The integration of textual and archaeological evidence results in the production of 'topographically sensitive' text references, the analysis of which, it is argued, will allow for a more nuanced understanding of the Ugaritic cult and its workings. The results gathered in the preparation of this study are collated together in the form of a database (a copy of which accompanies the main volume as a CD-ROM). A summary of the database is supplied and a provisional interpretation is given. As an aid to future applications of the contextualist approach, the principles of data interpretation are offered

ReJoycing: New Readings of Dubliners

In this volume, the contributors—a veritable Who’s Who of Joyce specialists—provide an excellent introduction to the central issues of contemporary Joyce criticism. What is really winning about this essay collection is that without any prompting or editorial proselytizing, receptive readers will come away from ReJoycing , not only with a number of new insights into various stories but with an enlarged critical repertoire. -- James Joyce Literary Supplement Draws on the best of two important trends in Joyce criticism: the traditional commitment to probing Joyce’s complex language and the more recent effort to track down political and ideological meanings in his works. -- Robert Spoo Attests to the continuing interest in Joyce’s ‘realist’ portrait if his native city and the importance of Dubliners in the development of his genius. -- Shari Benstockhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_ireland/1001/thumbnail.jp

The priesthood of Christ in Anglican doctrine and devotion: 1827 - 1900

This thesis traces the history of the interpretation of the doctrine of Christ as priest in the doctrine and devotion of representatives of the Church of England from the publication of Keble's Christian Year in 1827 to the Oxford Conference, 'Priesthood and Sacrifice', of 1899. Between these years the image of Christ as priest was a recurring motif in Anglican thought. Representatives of all shades of Churchmanship were remarkably united in a common enthusiasm for the image, but deeply divided over its interpretation. A composite historico-theological analysis of this hitherto uncharted theme unfolds not only the prevalence of this Christological motif in Anglican doctrine and devotion between these years, but also the potency of this image to shape, direct, and unify crucial features of Victorian religious development and theological controversy. The thesis argues, against the backcloth of a brief examination of the role, content, and significance of the doctrine in Anglican religion prior to 1827, that the prevalence and potency of the image of Christ as priest is to be accounted for as expressing a cardinal article of the Church of England's historic lex orandi. The fact that Tractarians, Evangelicals, the majority of Latitudinarians, Ritualists, Anglo-Catholics, and Biblical Scholars, united in adherence to this one thematic doctrinal image, but were, at times, bitterly divided over their understanding of it, indicates a focal point of Anglican religion, endorsed in its liturgy; namely, that Christ is "a great High Priest", through whom, and with whom, and in whom alone, the Church receives from God His life and gives t« God its life, in worship and service. The thesis seeks to recover the historic, distinctive prominence of this doctrinal and devotional theme in Anglican religion

A Study of Solvent Inhalation Abuse and the Development of Analytical Techniques to Monitor the Problem

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An Appreciative Comment on Coase\u27s The Problem of Social Cost: A View from the Left

Professor Coase\u27s article, The Problem of Social Cost, played a significant role in launching the law and economics movement. Coase\u27s insights have been used extensively by the law and economics movement as authority and inspiration for the development of an essentially right-leaning approach to law. In this Article, Professor Schlag undertakes to reexamine the original article. He shows that Coase\u27s deconstructive moves opened up a series of volatile and radical inquiries. He then argues that the law and economics movement, in general, and Judge Posner, in particular, shut down the dangerous radicalism of these inquiries by hypostasizing Coase\u27s insights and formalizing Coase\u27s approach into a set of stereotyped formulae. By appeal to Coase\u27s original insights, Professor Schlag demonstrates that the claims of the right to exclusivity in Coase\u27s approach are unjustified. He concludes by showing that Coase\u27s insights can yield some left-leaning implications for the understanding of law and its relation to economics

The making of domestic medicine: gender, self-help and therapeutic determination in household healthcare in South-West England in the late seventeenth century

This thesis explores household healthcare in the later seventeenth century, particularly the extent of household production of medicines based on medicinal receipts. Medicinal receipts were widely collected in the early modem period although the extent to which these recipes were in ongoing use has not been well-established. The aims of this research are to consider the health concerns and activities of lay women and men, to identify resources available for self-help healthcare, and to establish factors affecting selection and use of medicinal receipts. Accounts are analysed alongside family letters and receipt collections, from selected households in South West England, to identify medicinal supplies and medical services provided by apothecaries, physicians, surgeons and other individuals. Households differ in terms of ingredients purchased, preparations preferred, suppliers, therapeutic strategies used, and the extent of use of medical practitioners. Recorded ingredient purchases match few receipts although there is evidence of some favourite preparations being made. Other resources are considered, including gifts of advice and remedies, and plant ingredients from gardens and the wild. I argue that use of these other resources depended on factors such as knowledge, including plant identification skills, and material considerations, including labour availability. Purchased medicines appeared to become increasingly significant in self-help whilst opportunities for gift medicine may have been reduced. I contrast the gentlewoman healer and the patient consumer in their assessment of medicinal receipts, and their use of medicines with children. Both demonstrated strategies for maintaining therapeutic determination and influencing the approach of medical practitioners in relation to their own complaints. This study shows that medicinal receipt collections did not fully reflect the extent of lay healthcare activities and differences between lay household healthcare practitioners. It contributes to our understanding of the gendered shaping of domestic medicine, and the relationship of household healthcare to medical authority and the developing commercial and professional medical market in the eighteenth century

Geochemical and isotopic characteristics of palaeo-hydrothermal fluids related to granite magmatism, S W England

An assessment of stepped heating procedures for the extraction and isolation of carbonaceous species from fluid inclusions resulted in the development of low-blank procedures which permitted δ13C characterisation of palӕofluid CO2 (down to nanomole quantities) with an accuracy approaching that of the corresponding analytical precision. Similar procedures were successfully applied to the δ15N measurement of palӕofluid nitrogen at the sub-nanomole level. An investigation into the origin of fluids which characterised the earliest episodes of palӕohydrothermal activity associated with the granites of S W England indicates that the abundance of trace carbon species (CO2 , CH4 ) and nitrogen in the fluids was correlated with the metasedimentary contribution to the respective granite source. Furthermore, δ15N and δ13C data (obtained on fluid components and local Palӕozoic metasediments, in conjunction with published δ15N values of Cornubian granites), indicate that carbon and nitrogen in the hydrothermal systems were derived from the granite magmas. The chemical composition of the early hydrothermal fluids, together with geochemical and isotopic constraints from the characterisation of Palӕozoic metasedimentary country rocks, support the view that the fluids were genetically associated with the granites. Fluid interaction with the local metasedimentary rocks at a high level crustal appears to have been very limited. The incorporation of sedimentary matter into granitic protoliths during anatexis, with subsequent transfer to an exsolved hydrous phase during pluton cooling, is the most probable route by which palӕofluid solutes entered the early hydrothermal systems. Hydrogen stable isotope data, measured on the extracted palӕowaters, indicate that meteoric water was not a significant component of early hydrothermal systems associated with either the Dartmoor granite or the nearby Hemerdon Ball intrusive, if sub-solidus isotopic exchange was significant. In contrast, comparable data from early fluids associated with other component intrusives of the batholith (as characterised by W ± Sn oxide paragenesis) are consistent with the progressive dilution of a magmatic-hydrothermal component by local groundwaters

Jesus and land: constructions of sacred and social space in Second Temple Judaism

Chapter One introduces the study by setting out an understanding of sacred space using social anthropology and social space using the theoretical work of Henri Lefebvre. The importance of space to human experience is highlighted with a view to application to the life of Jesus, understood in light of the social situation of his day. A specific text, Genesis Ten (the Table of Nations), is the focus of Chapter Two. Re-readings of the text in Jubilees and Josephus’ Antiquities show very different spatialisations and views of cosmic order. They also come out of very different settings in life and show something of the ways that land (in relationship to other nations) could be understood in the Second Temple Period. Chapter Three explores the meaning of the temple as the central sacred space in the first century and also as a strong economic and political centre. There was devotion to the temple, but also opposition to it. Jesus’ action in the temple shows a break with the institution without a clear indication of its restoration. Purity, the topic of Chapter Four, was widely practised in the first century. Conventionally associated with the purity of the land and separation from the gentiles, interpretation of the laws of purity was a concern of groups such as the Sadducees, Pharisees, ‘Qumranites’ and Samaritans. John’s baptism in the Jordan is highly symbolic and is comparable to the sign prophets in Josephus who take up the biblical themes of exodus and entry into the land. Jesus primarily associates uncleanness with demons; he exorcises them and heals (by touching) individuals who would be considered impure. He practices table fellowship with ‘sinners’ and emphasises love of enemies. Jesus’ mission is itinerant (not located) and rejects current notions of purity. An alternative model of governance in the eschaton is offered by Jesus in his calling together of a group of twelve. Chapter Five explores traditional tribal and spatial associations with ‘twelve’ and their importance for Jesus’ symbolic use of ‘the twelve’ which includes the notion of gathering. Finally, Chapter Six draws the study together to set Jesus in relationship to land as a Galilean millenarian prophet