975 research outputs found
Hátign kemur til hjálpar. Heilagleikahugtakið í Jesaja 40–55 í ljósi notkunar þess í eldri hlutum ritsins
Í þessari grein er heilagleikahugtak Gamla testamentisins (qados/qodes) kannað í ljósi gamal-gróinnar kenningar um myndunarsögu Jesajaritsins þar sem gert er ráð fyrir miklum aldurs-mun á mismunandi hlutum þess. Er í því sambandi, og til einföldunar, gjarnan talað um Jesaja fyrsta (uppistaðan í k. 1–39), Jesaja annan (k. 40–55) og Jesaja þriðja (k. 56–66). Á síðari árum hefur þessi hefðbundna skipting að nokkru vikið fyrir annars konar áherslum í rannsóknum Jesajaritsins, svo sem hinni „kanónísku“ rannsóknaraðferð þar sem megin-áhersla er lögð á samhengi hins endanlega texta.
Heilagleikahugtakið gegnir þýðingarmiklu hlutverki í Jesajaritinu og er frásögnin af köllun Jesaja í k. 6.1–8 þekktasta dæmið þar um með sinni kunnu þrítekningu hugtaksins: „Heilagur, heilagur, heilagur er Drottinn allsherjar“ (v. 3).
Í þessari grein er heilagleikahugtakið notað til að styðja við þá kenningu að uppistaðan í k. 1–39 eigi sér sannarlega annað og frábrugðið sögulegt og guðfræðilegt baksvið en k. 40–55 sem falli mjög vel að tímabili hinnar babýlónsku útlegðar (kringum 540 f. Kr.). Á síðari árum hefur heilagleikahugtakið þvert á móti gjarnan, t.d. í áðurnefndri kanónískri aðferð, verið notað til að leggja áherslu á það sem er sameiginlegt fyrir Jesajaritið í heild.
Í rannsókninni hér var að nokkru stuðst við aldargamla og víðfræga kenningu Rudolfs Ottos (1917) um tvær hliðar heilagleikans; annars vegar hina heillandi hlið (fascinans) og hins vegar hina óttalegu hlið (tremendum).
Það kemur á daginn að heilagleikinn birtist með mjög ólíkum hætti í lykiltextum fyrsta hlutans (k. 1–39) samanborið við notkunina í öðrum hlutanum (k. 40–55). Í fyrrnefnda hlutanum er hugtakið fyrst og síðast í samhengi dóms og ákæru, en í k. 40–55 er hugtakið þvert á móti hluti af boðskap huggunar og fagnaðarerindis. Í greininni er m.a. bent á hve sláandi það er hve heilagleikahugtakið (qados/qodes) stendur oft í hugsanarími við hið þýðingarmikla goel-hugtak („endurlausnari, frelsari“) sem gegnir einmitt mjög mikilvægu hlutverki í k. 40–55, sem gjarnan hafa verið kenndir við fagnaðarerindi.The concept of the holiness (qados/qodes) plays an important role within the Book of Isaiah as the text of Isaiah‘s vision/call in ch. 6.1–8 is the best known example. In this article the holiness concept is used to support the thesis that the main corpus of Isaiah 1–39 has different historical and theological background than Isaiah 40–55. In recent research the concept of qados/qodes has on the contrary often been used to support a canonical approach to the book of Isaiah by pointing out that the term The Holy One in Israel is common to the different parts of the book.
However, in the present study, the classical difference within the holiness concept between the tremendum (dread) and the fascinans (fascination), originated with Rudolf Otto’s famous study (1917), is used to show that the holiness concept is used in very different ways within different parts of the book. It is shown how strongly it stands in the service of the evangelium in Isa. 40–55 whereas in key texts in Isa. 1–39 it is part of the message of judgment. Among other things it is pointed out how often the qados/qodes concept stands in parallelism with the important goel-concept (“redeemer”) in Isaiah 40–55.Peer Reviewe
Stormviðri og þjáning hins réttláta manns. Fingraför og áhrif Jobsbókar í þremur kvikmyndum
Þrjár kvikmyndir með vísunum til Jobsbókar Gamla testamentisins eru viðfangsefni þessarar greinar. Í myndunum þremur, sem eru ólíkrar gerðar, er sögusviðið ólíkt, sem og upprunalandið, Ungverjaland, Bandaríkin og Danmörk, en allar eiga myndirnar það sameiginlegt að umfjöllunarefnið er þjáning réttláts og trúaðs fólks. Í greininni er kannað hvernig tengslunum við Jobsbók er háttað og hvaða trúarlegu stef koma þar einkum við sögu. Niðurstaðan er sú að afstaða aðalpersóna myndanna til Guðs, þjáningarinnar og hins illa er mjög ólík. Allar eiga myndirnar það þó sameiginlegt með Jobsbók að stormviðri kemur við sögu á lokastigi sögunnar og reynist skipta miklu fyrir lok og túlkun myndanna. Það er í samræmi við ríkjandi viðhorf í túlkun gamlatestamentisfræðinga á Jobsbók að í svari Guðs til Jobs úr stormviðrinu (Job 38–40) sé að leita lykilsins að túlkun Jobsbókar.The research object of the present article is three movies with connections to the book of Job in the Old Testament. The genre and settings of the films are different and so is their land of origin, i.e. Hungary, USA and Denmark. However, what the films have in common is that they all deal with the suffering of righteous and religious people. The article discusses the ways in which the Book of Job has influenced the films and explores their main religious motifs. It turns out that the main characters of the films have different opinions on the relationship to God, suffering and evil. Furthermore, a fact which all of the movies share with the Book of Job is that a whirlwind plays an important role at the end of their stories. Thereby they echo a dominant view amongst Old Testament scholars in their interpretation of the Book of Job in seeing God’s speech in the whirlwind (Job 38–40) as an interpretive key for understanding the book.Peer Reviewe
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Pressure-induced Glass Transition
We simulate the compression of a two-component Lennard-Jones liquid at a
variety of constant temperatures using a molecular dynamics algorithm in an
isobaric-isothermal ensemble. The viscosity of the liquid increases with
pressure, undergoing a broadened transition into a structurally arrested,
amorphous state. This transition, like the more familiar one induced by
cooling, is correlated with a significant increase in icosahedral ordering. In
fact, the structure of the final state, as measured by an analysis of the
bonding, is essentially the same in the glassy, frozen state whether produced
by squeezing or by cooling under pressure. We have computed an effective
hard-sphere packing fraction at the transition, defining the transition
pressure or temperature by a cutoff in the diffusion constant, analogous to the
traditional laboratory definition of the glass transition by an arbitrary, low
cutoff in viscosity. The packing fraction at this transition point is not
constant, but is consistently higher for runs compressed at higher temperature.
We show that this is because the transition point defined by a constant cutoff
in the diffusion constant is not the same as the point of structural arrest, at
which further changes in pressure induce no further structural changes, but
that the two alternate descriptions may be reconciled by using a thermally
activated cutoff for the diffusion constant. This enables estimation of the
characteristic activation energy for diffusion at the point of structural
arrest.Comment: Latex using Revtex macro
Integration of Exploration and Search: A Case Study of the M3 Model
International audienceEffective support for multimedia analytics applications requires exploration and search to be integrated seamlessly into a single interaction model. Media metadata can be seen as defining a multidimensional media space, casting multimedia analytics tasks as exploration, manipulation and augmentation of that space. We present an initial case study of integrating exploration and search within this multidimensional media space. We extend the M3 model, initially proposed as a pure exploration tool, and show that it can be elegantly extended to allow searching within an exploration context and exploring within a search context. We then evaluate the suitability of relational database management systems, as representatives of today’s data management technologies, for implementing the extended M3 model. Based on our results, we finally propose some research directions for scalability of multimedia analytics
Theoretical study of kinks on screw dislocation in silicon
Theoretical calculations of the structure, formation and migration of kinks
on a non-dissociated screw dislocation in silicon have been carried out using
density functional theory calculations as well as calculations based on
interatomic potential functions. The results show that the structure of a
single kink is characterized by a narrow core and highly stretched bonds
between some of the atoms. The formation energy of a single kink ranges from
0.9 to 1.36 eV, and is of the same order as that for kinks on partial
dislocations. However, the kinks migrate almost freely along the line of an
undissociated dislocation unlike what is found for partial dislocations. The
effect of stress has also been investigated in order to compare with previous
silicon deformation experiments which have been carried out at low temperature
and high stress. The energy barrier associated with the formation of a stable
kink pair becomes as low as 0.65 eV for an applied stress on the order of 1
GPa, indicating that displacements of screw dislocations likely occur via
thermally activated formation of kink pairs at room temperature
Long time scale simulation of a grain boundary in copper
doi:10.1088/1367-2630/11/7/073034 Abstract. A general, twisted and tilted, grain boundary in copper has been simulated using the adaptive kinetic Monte Carlo method to study the atomistic structure of the non-crystalline region and the mechanism of annealing events that occur at low temperature. The simulated time interval spanned 67µs at 135 K. Similar final configurations were obtained starting from different initial structures: (i) by bringing the two grains into contact without any intermediate layer, and (ii) by inserting an amorphous region between the grains. The results obtained were analyzed with a radial distribution function and a common neighbor analysis. Annealing events leading to lowering of the energy typically involved concerted displacement of several atoms—even as many as 10 atoms displaced by more than half an Ångström. Increased local icosahedral ordering is observed in the boundary layer, but local HCP coordination was also observed. In the final low-energy configurations, the thickness of the region separating the crystalline grains corresponds to just one atomic layer, in good agreemen
Effects of hole self-trapping by polarons on transport and negative bias illumination stress in amorphous-IGZO
The effects of hole injection in amorphous-IGZO is analyzed by means of
first-principles calculations. The injection of holes in the valence band tail
states leads to their capture as a polaron, with high self-trapping energies
(from 0.44 to 1.15 eV). Once formed, they mediate the formation of peroxides
and remain localized close to the hole injection source due to the presence of
a large diffusion energy barrier (of at least 0.6eV). Their diffusion mechanism
can be mediated by the presence of hydrogen. The capture of these holes is
correlated with the low off-current observed for a-IGZO transistors, as well
as, with the difficulty to obtain a p-type conductivity. The results further
support the formation of peroxides as being the root cause of Negative bias
illumination stress (NBIS). The strong self-trapping substantially reduces the
injection of holes from the contact and limits the creation of peroxides from a
direct hole injection. In presence of light, the concentration of holes
substantially rises and mediates the creation of peroxides, responsible for
NBIS.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, to be published in Journal of Applied Physic
Equilibrium shape and dislocation nucleation in strained epitaxial nanoislands
We study numerically the equilibrium shapes, shape transitions and
dislocation nucleation of small strained epitaxial islands with a
two-dimensional atomistic model, using simple interatomic pair potentials. We
first map out the phase diagram for the equilibrium island shapes as a function
of island size (up to N = 105 atoms) and lattice misfit with the substrate and
show that nanoscopic islands have four generic equilibrium shapes, in contrast
with predictions from the continuum theory of elasticity. For increasing
substrate-adsorbate attraction, we find islands that form on top of a finite
wetting layer as observed in Stranski-Krastanow growth. We also investigate
energy barriers and transition paths for transitions between different shapes
of the islands and for dislocation nucleation in initially coherent islands. In
particular, we find that dislocations nucleate spontaneously at the edges of
the adsorbate-substrate interface above a critical size or lattice misfit.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, uses wrapfig.sty and epsfig.st
Mechanical resistance in unstructured proteins
Single-molecule pulling experiments on unstructured proteins linked to
neurodegenerative diseases have measured rupture forces comparable to those for
stable folded proteins. To investigate the structural mechanisms of this
unexpected force resistance, we perform pulling simulations of the amyloid
{\beta}-peptide (A{\beta}) and {\alpha}-synuclein ({\alpha}S), starting from
simulated conformational ensembles for the free monomers. For both proteins,
the simulations yield a set of rupture events that agree well with the
experimental data. By analyzing the conformations right before rupture in each
event, we find that the mechanically resistant structures share a common
architecture, with similarities to the folds adopted by A{\beta} and {\alpha}S
in amyloid fibrils. The disease-linked Arctic mutation of A{\beta} is found to
increase the occurrence of highly force-resistant structures. Our study
suggests that the high rupture forces observed in A{\beta} and {\alpha}S
pulling experiments are caused by structures that might have a key role in
amyloid formation.Comment: v3: Added correct journal reference plus minor correction
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