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

Josephus and the New Testament

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

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

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

Estimating the poverty impacts of trade liberalization

As a new round of World Trade Organization negotiations is being launched with greater emphasis on developing country participation, a body of literature is emerging which quantifies how international trade affects the poor in developing countries. In this survey of the literature, the author summarizes and classifies 35 trade and poverty studies into four methodological categories; cross-country regression, partial-equilibrium and cost-of-living analysis, general-equilibrium simulation, and micro-macro synthesis. These categories include a broad range of methodologies in current use. The continuum of approaches is bounded on one end by econometric analysis of household expenditure data, which is the traditional domain of poverty specialists, and sometimes labeled the"bottoms-up"approach. On the other end of the continuum are computable general equilibrium models based on national accounts data, or what might be called the"top-down"approach. Another feature of several recent trade and poverty studies--and one of the primary conclusions to emerge from the October 2000"Conference on Poverty and the International Economy,"sponsored by Globkom and the World Bank--is the recognition that factor markets are perhaps the most important link between trade and poverty, since households tend to be much more specialized in income than they are in consumption. Meanwhile, survet data on the income sources of developing country households has become increasingly available. As a result, this survey gives particular emphasis to the means by which studies address factor market links between trade and poverty. The general conclusion of the author's survey is that any analysis of trade and poverty needs to be informed by both the bottom-up and top-down perspectives. Indeed, recent"two-step"micro-macro studies sequentially link these two types of frameworks, such that general equilibrium mechanisms are incorporated along with detailed household survey information. Another methodology in a similar spirit and also increasingly used involves incorporating large numbers of surveyed households into a general-equilibrium simulation model. Although most of these studies have so far been limitedto a single region, these approaches can be readily adapted for multi-region modeling so that trade and poverty comparisons can be made across countries within a consistent framework.Economic Theory&Research,Labor Policies,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Poverty Assessment,Health Economics&Finance,Inequality

Sturcture of the Goldstone Bosons

The feasibility of measuring the pion and kaon structure functions has been investigated. A high luminosity electron-proton collider would make these measurements feasible. Also, it appears feasible to measure these structure functions in a nuclear medium. Simulations using the RAPGAP Monte Carlo of a possible pion structure function measurement are presented.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the Second Workshop on Physics with an Electron Polarized Light-Ion Collider, 14-16 Sept 2000, Cambridge, Ma 6 pages, 5 figures, late

Trade Costs and the Gains from Trade in Crop Agriculture

Forthcoming in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.geography, grains, trade costs, trade liberalization, Agricultural and Food Policy, Crop Production/Industries, Demand and Price Analysis, International Development, International Relations/Trade, Marketing, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods, Q17, Q54, F18,

An Online Application for ΔR Calculation

AbstractA regional offset (ΔR) from the marine radiocarbon calibration curve is widely used in calibration software (e.g. CALIB, OxCal) but often is not calculated correctly. While relatively straightforward for known-age samples, such as mollusks from museum collections or annually banded corals, it is more difficult to calculate ΔR and the uncertainty in ΔR for 14C dates on paired marine and terrestrial samples. Previous researchers have often utilized classical intercept methods that do not account for the full calibrated probability distribution function (pdf). Recently, Soulet (2015) provided R code for calculating reservoir ages using the pdfs, but did not address ΔR and the uncertainty in ΔR. We have developed an online application for performing these calculations for known-age, paired marine and terrestrial 14C dates and U-Th dated corals. This article briefly discusses methods that have been used for calculating ΔR and the uncertainty and describes the online program deltar, which is available free of charge.</jats:p