Tyre, a Ship: The Metaphorical World of Ezekiel 27 in Ancient Judah

This essay offers a close reading of the dirge in Ezek 27, the metaphorical description of the famed and sinking Tyrian ship. The analysis pays close attention to the symbolic world of the text, situating it within the literary and historical milieux of fourth-century BCE Judah, when Jerusalemite literati began codifying their authoritative texts into the collections of »books« that eventually became the Hebrew Bible. The essay argues that the symbolic text of Ezek 27 contributed to late Persian-period understandings of the past, present, and future cities of Tyre and Jerusalem within an imagined Yahwistic empire

Judean Pillar Figurines and Ethnic Identity in the Shadow of Assyria

An examination of Judean Pillar Figurines in relation to cultural discourse and identity construction in the late Iron-Age Levan

Joseph, Jehoiachin, and Cyrus: On Book Endings, Exoduses and Exiles, and Yehudite/Judean Social Remembering

In a recent ZAW article, Michael Chan argues that II Reg 25,27-30 alludes to Gen 40-41, and that this allusion provides a hermeneutical key for understanding the purpose of II Reg 25,27-30 in an Enneateuchal context: it points to an imminent exodus, a return from exile and a gathering of diaspora in the promised land. This article picks up where Chan left off, in order to flesh out some of the implications of his contribution. It argues that remembering exodus at the end of II Reg included hope, as Chan says, but also struggles and failure, punishment and death. Exodus is multivocal. Likewise, the end of II Reg contributes to a multivocal discourse concerning Davidic kingship, which included the end of Chronicles and prophetic literature. The diminution of Davidic kingship in II Reg 25,27-30 is balanced by other perspectives. The article concludes with an observation on the import of this multivocality for Yehudite social memory

The Song of the Sea and Isaiah: Exodus 15 in Post-monarchic Prophetic Discourse

An examination of the Song of the Sea (Exodus 15) and allusions to it in the book of Isaia

Yahweh's Consciousness: Isaiah 40-48 and Ancient Judean Historical Thought

This essay works toward three goals. First, it lays some groundwork for researching prophetic literature as a source for ancient Judean historical thought. Prophetic literature reveals a great deal about how ancient Judeans thought about and with their past, as it was represented in their literary repertoire. Second, it examines Isaiah 40-48, to see how this sort of second-order thinking about the past is on display in a particular passage of text. And third, it draws some preliminary conclusions about historical thought in this text and how it relates to historical thinking evident in other Judean literature

Paradoxes, Enigma and Professorship: An interview with Francis Landy on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Alberta (University of Alberta Religious Studies Spring Newsletter 2014)

An interview with Francis Landy on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Albert

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to rule by sense of smell! Superhuman Kingship in the Prophetic Books

An exploration of the Hebrew Bible's prophetic literature vis-à-vis Science Fiction and Science Fiction theor

The Domestic Market for Short-term Debt Securities

The market for short-term debt is dominated by the issuance of bank securities. Yields on these securities act as an important reference rate within the financial system. The turmoil in global markets during recent years has led to significant changes in the short-term debt market as the funding profiles of banks and other issuers of short-term securities has altered.short-term debt; prime banks; BBSW; ABCP; LIBOR; OIS

Online assessment and feedback: how to square the circle

Within Mathematics considerable changes have taken place in how we teach, assess and provide feedback to the very large cohorts of students that make up our non-honours classes. The use of online assessment methods have been introduced to provide enhanced feedback — both in terms of frequency and volume — but this raises huge logistical problems: how to process and record over 2000 individually marked pieces of work each week. This presentation will describe how an innovative use of online assessment methods, scanning technology and conventional marking can all be integrated with the University's SharePoint system, resulting in a system where rapid, weekly feedback can be both given and recorded. These changes have resulted in increased student engagement and improvement in exam performance. Many of the ideas and processes that have been developed will be transferable to other schools. For example, the dynamic use of SharePoint to record weekly assessed work has enabled the School to develop effective early warning mechanisms to identify students with problems