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Pontius Pilate and the Imperial Cult in Roman Judaea
While Pontius Pilate is often seen as agnostic, in modern terms, the material evidence of his coinage and the Pilate inscription from Caesarea indicate a prefect determined to promote a form of Roman religion in Judaea. Unlike his predecessors, in the coinage Pilate used peculiarly Roman iconographic elements appropriate to the imperial cult. In the inscription Pilate was evidently responsible for dedicating a Tiberieum to the Dis Augustis. This material evidence may be placed alongside the report in Philo Legatio ad Gaium (299–305) where Pilate sets up shields – likewise associated with the Roman imperial cult –honouring Tiberius in Jerusalem
On colimits and elementary embeddings
We give a sharper version of a theorem of Rosicky, Trnkova and Adamek, and a
new proof of a theorem of Rosicky, both about colimit preservation between
categories of structures. Unlike the original proofs, which use
category-theoretic methods, we use set-theoretic arguments involving elementary
embeddings given by large cardinals such as alpha-strongly compact and
C^(n)-extendible cardinals.Comment: 17 page
One point functions for black hole microstates
We compute one point functions of chiral primary operators in the D1-D5
orbifold CFT, in classes of states corresponding to microstates of two and
three charge black holes. Black hole microstates describable by supergravity
solutions correspond to coherent superpositions of states in the orbifold
theory and we develop methods for approximating one point functions in such
superpositions in the large N limit. We show that microstates built from long
strings (large twist operators) have one point functions that are suppressed by
powers of N. Accordingly, even when these microstates admit supergravity
descriptions, the characteristic scales in these solutions are comparable to
higher derivative corrections to supergravity.Comment: 74 page
Revisiting Qumran Cave 1Q and its archaeological assemblage
Qumran Cave 1Q was the first site of Dead Sea scroll discoveries. Found and partly emptied by local Bedouin, the cave was excavated officially in 1949 and published in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (Volume 1) in 1955. Contents of the cave are found in collections worldwide, and in different institutions in Jerusalem and Amman. While the scrolls are the most highly prized artefacts from this cave, in archaeological terms they are part of an assemblage that needs to be understood holistically in order to make conclusions about its character and dating. This study presents all of the known items retrieved from the cave, including those that are currently lost, in order to consider what we might know about the cave prior to its emptying and the changes to its form. It constitutes preliminary work done as part of the Leverhulme funded International Network for the Study of Dispersed Qumran Caves Artefacts and Archival Sources [IN-2015-067].peer-reviewe
Forcing nonperiodicity with a single tile
An aperiodic prototile is a shape for which infinitely many copies can be
arranged to fill Euclidean space completely with no overlaps, but not in a
periodic pattern. Tiling theorists refer to such a prototile as an "einstein"
(a German pun on "one stone"). The possible existence of an einstein has been
pondered ever since Berger's discovery of large set of prototiles that in
combination can tile the plane only in a nonperiodic way. In this article we
review and clarify some features of a prototile we recently introduced that is
an einstein according to a reasonable definition. [This abstract does not
appear in the published article.]Comment: 18 pages, 10 figures. This article has been substantially revised and
accepted for publication in the Mathematical Intelligencer and is scheduled
to appear in Vol 33. Citations to and quotations from this work should
reference that publication. If you cite this work, please check that the
published form contains precisely the material to which you intend to refe
Mathematical models for planning social services resources
This research discusses a number of computer-based mathematical models which are designed to assist planners to make strategic decisions concerning the allocations of social services resources. A new model is postulated which uses current patterns of care to derive a set of alternative modes or packages of care, chooses a suitable set of allocations of clients to packages of care within given resource constraints and can be used to explore the effect on resource requirements of demographic changes, and to explore alternative ways of caring for clients if populations expand and/or resources are reduced. Comparisons are made with the DHSS Balance of Care model and with other models. An exploration is included of the weighting values used in the postulated model’s objective function
The West Africa Theological Seminary
A personal narrative is presented which explores the author\u27s experience of journeying to Nigeria to volunteer in a library in the fall of 2009
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