Keepers of the Vineyard and the Fence around the Torah: The Vineyard Metaphor in Rabbinic Literature. Postprint (accepted) version.

Rabbinic texts apply the metaphor of the vineyard to the Torah as well as to Israel. Conceptual Metaphor Theory allows us to explain the parallel use of the vineyard metaphor for the two target domains, Israel and the Torah. The conceptual metaphor of the vineyard includes such aspects as the fence, the vines and the wine. The generic metaphor something precious is a cultivated piece of land enables us to include related conceptual fields, such as a field of wheat, or another cultivated piece of land. By means of the principle of the “creation of similarity,” the Torah and Israel are linked in the rabbinic cultural world, using the notion of preciousness, segulah. The metaphor of the vineyard not only reflects, but also induces the similarity: conceived as vineyards, Israel and the Torah become precious in the minds of the people using and hearing or reading the metaphorical texts.https://brill.com/view/journals/jsj/jsj-overview.xmlhj2023Old Testament Studie

Mann Gottes oder Gottmann? Die Rolle Elijas in der Endzeit und die Rezeption von Maleachi 3,1 und 23-24 in der rabbinischen Auslegung

Typisierungen Elijas sind vielfältig: Prophet, Priester, heiliger Mann, Wundertäter, Streitschlichter, Vorläufer des Messias. In der rabbinischen Tradition findet man sie alle, oft mit legendären Zügen. Auch in der christlichen Tradition finden wir eine Vielzahl an Interpretationen, und es gibt auch Überschneidungen zwischen den Darstellungen Elijas der frühchristlichen und der rabbinischen Tradition. In dieser Studie wird die rabbinische Lesart in drei Teilen vor dem Hintergrund ihres neutestamentlichen Gebrauchs diskutiert. Im ersten Teil wird Elijas Rolle in der Endzeit untersucht, im zweiten Teil wird die Verbindung zwischen Elija und der Auferstehung der Toten untersucht; und der dritte Teil befasst sich mit einer Frage wie weit die Macht des Elija tatsächlich reicht, mit anderen Worten, wird er nicht zu göttlich?https://www.herder.de/bn-nfhj2023Old Testament Studie

Binitariarism

Binitarianism is the belief in two persons within one godhead. This is usually distinguished from bitheism—belief in two gods, but this distinction is not always clear in the scholarly literature. In this entry we take the stance that binitarianism self-identifies as a form of monotheism—belief in one god—but one that reckons with a twofold division within that godhead. Its most well-known form, Christian binitarianism consists of a division between Father and Son in the one God.https://www.degruyter.com/database/ejcro/html?lang=enhj2023Old Testament Studie

Microwave Properties of Ba-Substituted Pb(Zr0.52_{0.52}Ti0.48_{0.48})O3_3 after Chemical-Mechanical Polishing

We have studied the effect of chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) on the ferroelectric, piezoelectric, and microwave dielectric properties of Ba-substituted PZT (BPZT), deposited by pulsed laser deposition. CMP allowed for the reduction of the root mean square surface roughness of 600 nm thick BPZT films from 12.1nm to 0.79 nm. Ammonium peroxide (SC-1) cleaning was effective to remove Si CMP residuals. Measurements of the ferroelectric hysteresis after CMP indicated that the ferroelectric properties of BPZT were only weakly affected by CMP, while the piezoelectric d33 coefficient and the microwave permittivity were reduced slightly by 10%. This can be attributed to the formation of a thin dead layer at the BPZT surface. Moreover, the intrinsic dielectric permittivity at microwave frequencies between 1 and 25 GHz was not influenced by CMP, whereas the dead layer series capacitance decreased by 10%. The results indicate that the CMP process can be used to smoothen the BPZT surface without affecting the film properties strongly.Comment: 13 pages of text, 4 tables and 7 figures. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 801055 "Spin Wave Computing for Ultimately-Scaled Hybrid Low-Power Electronics" - CHIRO