Jerusalem the great : an analysis of the literary structure of John\u27s Revelation

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The Theology and the Function of the Prayers in the Book of Daniel

This dissertation investigates the theology and the function of the prayers in the Book of Daniel. The introduction reviews the scholarly literature in regard to the prayers of the Old Testament in general and the prayers in the Book of Daniel in particular. Recent studies of prayers in the Old Testament have focused on their theological function in their final literary setting. They have also turned their attention to prayer as part of a process of communication, of a divine-human dialogue, and consequently this study is structured from the aspect of interpersonal relationships. Chapter 1 deals with Daniel and his friends. First, prayers, references to prayers, and allusions to prayers are identified in Dan 2, 3, 6, 9, and 10. Next, the prayers are situated in the structure and in the plot of each of these chapters. Exegesis is performed on the thanksgiving by Daniel in 2:20-23 and his confession in 9:4b-19, the only two recorded prayers, and their semantic and thematical links with their respective context are described. Centering on the gentile kings, chapter 2 follows a similar outline, identifying situations of prayer in Dan 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, and performing exegesis on the royal doxologies of Dan 3:33; 4:31b-32; 4:34; and 6:27-28. Chapter 3 presents a synopsis of prayers in the book. The various references to prayer are compared, and they are positioned in the structure of the book as a whole and viewed in relation to the progression of its events. The function of the prayers is described inthree areas: the thematic relationship between the prayers and the various sections of the book, the contribution of the prayers to the depiction of its characters, and the theological implications of the prayer-events as part of a divine-human dialogue. The dissertation is completed by a summary of the results of the study

Annie M.A.H. Rogers and the admission of women to the University of Oxford : a study of family, society and reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

This thesis examines the career of Annie Rogers in relation to the movement for the admission of women to the University of Oxford. It shows that a family had an influence on the reform of a university and on the development of the professional class. It consists of two sections. The first part examines the intellectual and social formation of Annie Rogers' family in the Oxford context and its influence on her in the type of role she played. An account and analysis of her role in the admission of women to Oxford University, with an examination and comparison of the parts some other people played in it, forms the second, and larger part of the thesis. Extensive research has been undertaken into a large quantity of unpublished papers of the Rogers family housed at the Bodleian Library, the British Library and elsewhere, in addition to sources at Oxford relating to Annie Rogers, and the movement for the admission of women to the University. The history of this professional, middle-class, political, academic family runs parallel with the development of the professional middle-class, from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. It influenced Annie Rogers in the kind of person she became and the type of role she adopted in the campaign for the admission of women to the University of Oxford. Her particular strategies played a significant part in obtaining membership of the University for women, thereby contributing to their admittance to the professions and to senior posts within them