How to Rewrite Torah: The Case for Proto-Sectarian Ideology in the Reworked Pentateuch (4QRP)

This study challenges the initial categorization of the Reworked Pentateuch (4Q364-4Q367) as another non-sectarian textual witness to the Torah. A close analysis of the manuscripts suggests that certain unaligned readings likely ret1ect some of the sectarian ideas of the community. Other variants evoke both content and ideology of the authoritative Rewritten Bible documents, the Temple Scroll and Jubilees. These characteristics imply that 4QRP contains deliberate reworking of biblical material that is in line with sectarian ideology, in contrast to a mere mechanical copying of the text. Though the scroll may not be strictly sectarian, at the very least, it is protosectarian in that 4QRP served as source material for the community\u27s ideology

Online Theological Education: Perspectives from First-Generation Asian Americans

This essay explores the use of online asynchronous discussions from the perspective of first-generation Asian American seminarians. The pedagogical paradigm implicit in these online forums assumes values that compete and even contradict the values these students bring from their native educational experiences. Combined with the language difficulties, asynchronous discussions can present a serious challenge to the educational goals of both the institution and the student. Despite these barriers, first-generation Asian American students often see the incorporation of the asynchronous discussions as a welcome enhancement to their theological education

Inflation Targeting in an Emerging Market: the Case of Korea

To evaluate the effectiveness of targeting monetary policy strategies in a small open economy, we develop a dynamic optimizing model calibrated to recent Korean data. We then explore the consequences of alternative specifications of the loss function for society and the central bank, with particular focus on exchange rate volatility. Policy simulations include variations on inflation targeting, nominal income growth targeting and exchange rate targeting. Our results indicate that inflation targeting remains the most preferred policy regime, even when an explicit motive for exchange rate smoothing is introduced. In this case, the optimal inflation targeting and nominal income growth targeting policies are characterized by a “conservative” central bank that places greater weight on both the primary target variable and on the exchange rate than in society’s objective function. However, the optimal policy reacts to changes in degree of exchange rate pass-though in a non-linear fashion, complicating the robustness of inflation targeting recommendations for emerging markets.Korean economy, inflation targeting, optimal monetary policy, small open economy

Microscopic 8-quark study of the antikaon nucleon nucleon systems

We study the possibility to bind eight quarks in a molecular hadronic system composed of two nucleons and an antikaon, with the quantum numbers of a hexaquark flavour, in particular with strangeness -1, isospin 1/2, parity -, baryonic number 2 and two possible spins, 0 or 1. These exotic hadrons are motivated by the deuteron, a proton-neutron boundstate, and by the model of the Lambda(1405) as an antikaon proton boundstate. We discuss the possible production of this hadron in the experiments which are presently investigating hot topics like the Theta+ pentaquark or the K- deeply bound in nuclei. The K- N interactions and the coupling to other channels are computed microscopically from a confining and chiral invariant quark model resulting in local plus separable Gaussian potentials. The N N interactions used here are the state of the art Nijmegen potentials. The binding energy and the decay rate of the K- N and K- N N systems are computed with configuration space variational methods. The only systems that bind with our microscopic interaction are the K- N in the I=0 channel and the K- N N in the S=0 channel.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures (1 new and 2 updated), more detailed study of binding with a small parameter increase, and an algebraic correction, submitted to Physical Review

Production of the pentaquark Θ+\Theta^+ in npnp scattering

We study $np\to \Lambda\Theta^{+}$ and $np\to \Sigma^{0}\Theta^{+}$ processes for both of the positive and negative parities of the $\Theta^{+}$. Employing the effective chiral Lagrangians for the $KNY$ and $K^*NY$ interactions, we calculate differential cross sections as well as total cross sections for the $np\to \Sigma^0 \Theta^+$ and $np\to \Lambda\Theta^+$ reactions. The total cross sections for the positive-parity $\Theta^+$ turn out to be approximately ten times larger than those for the negative parity $\Theta^+$ in the range of the CM energy $\sqrt{s}_{\rm th}\le \sqrt{s}\le 3.5 {\rm GeV}$. The results are rather sensitive to the mechanism of $K$ exchanges in the $t$ -- channel.Comment: 9 pages and 11 figure