Tasting the Dish

This book sits at the intersection of two topics, rabbinic constructions of sexuality and the rhetoric that the rabbis of late antiquity used to promote their sexual mores. Satlow goes underneath the rabbinic legislation about secuality, asking how they understood sexuality - what assumptions about sexuality inform rabbinic dicta and law? The study also examines how these assumptions moved between Palestinian and Babylonian rabbinic communities and the kinds of arguments that the rabbis thought would be effective in promoting their legislation

Archiving a TEI Project FAIRly

The Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project is an online corpus of over four thousand inscriptions from Israel and Palestine, written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Aramaic, dating roughly from the Persian Period to the Arab Conquest. The source files with inscription text and metadata are encoded using EpiDoc, a TEI customization widely used by epigraphers. As the project prepared to deposit its XML files in an institutional repository, it transformed them into a locally developed robust archival format. This paper evaluates these decisions against the FAIR metrics, using IIP as a test case. This allows us to suggest improvements for our own archival encoding as well as to see where EpiDoc and TEI enhance FAIRness and where they could provide more support. Finally, we suggest some ways to use FAIR metrics that are more amenable to TEI documents and corpora

Early Geometrical Thinking in the Environment of Patterns, Mosaics and Isometries

This book discusses the learning and teaching of geometry, with a special focus on kindergarten and primary education. It examines important new trends and developments in research and practice, and emphasizes theoretical, empirical and developmental issues. Further, it discusses various topics, including curriculum studies and implementation, spatial abilities and geometric reasoning, as well as the psychological roots of geometrical thinking and teacher preparation in geometry education. It considers these issues from historical, epistemological, cognitive semiotic and educational points of view in the context of students' difficulties and the design of teaching and curricula

DIMENSIONS OF PAST AND FUTURE IN RIMBAUD\u27S ILLUMINATIONS

Although there exists a voluminous body of critical material on Rimbaud, there has been no systematic study done to date of temporality in his works. Since a comprehension of an author\u27s perceptions of time is crucial to an understanding of his consciousness, we have undertaken a systematic examination of the functions of past and future in the Illuminations. The primary critical approach used in this study is phenomenological, although we borrow freely from structuralist methodology, in order to reinforce our interpretations and avoid oversimplification or reductivism. We divide the poems into two categories: the subjective poems, which refer strictly to terrestrial phenomena; and the mythical poems, in which the poet treats of suprahuman personages or events. We define time in phenomenological terms as a creation of the will that seeks to impose an order upon the chaos of the world. Our definition includes such dimensions as value judgement, will, effort, self-actualization, participation in the world, and the need for transcendence. Our examination of the past in the subjective poems reveals that the poet perceives himself as a victim of negative experiences that trap him in the present and cut off his links with the future. Since he lacks the necessary will to transform his memories in a creative way, and since he sees himself as cut off from sources of transcendent wisdom, he languishes in a state of spiritual exile which can be only intermittently illuminated. The mythical poems treating of the past do not serve any ameliorative function, but express the poet\u27s lack of faith in human progress. Because of his perception of human duration as deterioration and spiritual entropy, the poet has a profound need to perpetuate privileged moments of absolute newness and absolute potential, but in his experience the virtual cannot be made actual, nor can abiding form be given to the vision. The pessimistic perceptions of the future expressed in the Illuminations contrast sharply with the optimistic view of the future of poetry expressed in the Voyant letters. There is a very restrained use of the future tense, and future events are usually framed in an interrogative or negative way. Although some of the mythical poems express hope for a utopian future, the predominant tone is one of despair, since the poet regards the future not as the domain of actualization of present potential, but as a temporal dimension to which he has no permanent positive access. We conclude that Rimbaud\u27s original subjective experience was the insufficiency of reality and hence the inadequacy of human love, work and time. He invested his whole self in the enterprise of poetry for he felt that it could literally transform life, but he ultimately abandoned it because he realized that it could not replace action, love, or an authentic value system. Rimbaud\u27s poems reflect the problems faced by modern man in his attempts to create a meaningful sense of being and of continuity in a world where the traditional bases for such creation have been severely undermined. The Illuminations testify to a prodigious struggle of the mind to discover new sources of ultimate meaning, as they reveal a unique spirit and imagination where somehow beauty was born and took shape as words