Divine Disclosure: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic

Reviewed Book: Russell, D S. (David Syme). Divine Disclosure: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress; London: SCM Press, 1992

Josephus and the New Testament

Reviewed Book: Mason, Steve. Josephus and the New Testament. Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Pubs, 1992

Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash

Reviewed Book: Stemberger, Günter . Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash. London: T & T Clark, 1991

Citations and Allusions to Jewish Scripture in Early Christian and Jewish Writings through 180 CE

Reviewed Book: McLean, Bradley H. Citations and Allusions to Jewish Scripture in Early Christian and Jewish Writings through 180 CE. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992

The Book of Ruth, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah

Reviewed Book: Hubbard, Robert L. The Book of Ruth. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989. New international commentary on the Old Testament. Reviewed Book: Robertson, O Palmer. The Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990. New international commentary on the Old Testament

Tracing the gender wage gap: Income differences between male and female university graduates in Germany

"The aim of this paper is to shed light on the causal mechanisms leading to the gender wage gap, drawing on neoclassical as well as sociological labor market theories. A unique dataset from the 2001/2002 Mannheim University Social Sciences Graduate Survey, which overcomes several limitations of standard population surveys when investigating the gender wage gap, is used for the empirical analysis. The sample is homogenous with respect to the measures normally used in income analyses - all of the respondents are university graduates, have a degree in the same field of study, and are observed at career entry. Furthermore, the dataset includes detailed measures of human capital, job search, and career attitudes, which are usually not included in standard population surveys. The results of a sequence of nested regression models show that none of these measures reduces the gender wage gap substantially: on the contrary, the introduction of variables capturing human capital even leads to a small increase in the gap. This indicates that the earnings differential between female and male graduates in the study would be even larger if women had the same human capital endowment as men. Considering that a wage gap of almost 7 percent remains even with the extensive set of variables in the analysis, there is some indication that female university graduates are facing wage discrimination on the German labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))Hochschulabsolventen, Lohnunterschied, geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren, Lohndiskriminierung, Bildungsertrag

The Ramsey size number of dipaths

AbstractLet H be a finite graph. The Ramsey size number of H, r̂(H,H), is the minimum number of edges required to construct a graph such that when its edges are 2-colored it contains a monochromatic subgraph, H. In this paper we prove that the Ramsey size number of a directed path is quadratic

Alignment methods for biased multicanonical sampling

The efficiency of the multicanonical procedure can be significantly improved by applying an additional bias to the numerically generated sample space. However, results obtained by biasing in different sampling regions cannot in general be accurately combined, since their relative normalization coefficient is not known precisely. We demonstrate that for overlapping biasing regions a simple iterative procedure can be employed to determine the required coefficients