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A unique text of physiognomic omens in Hebrew from the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q186) is remarkable in that it mimics the similar Akkadian omens upon which it is based, in that it is written in a left-to-right format beginning with the column on the left. The Qumran text also avoids final letters and includes some words in Paleo-Hebrew script and Greek letters, all pointing to its Vorlage being an exemplar of Graeco-Babyloniaca (an Akkadian text in Greek transliteration), employed in order to make technical Akkadian more widely accessible.
Keywords: physiognomic omens, Hebrew omens, Qumran zodiac, Graeco-Babyloniaca
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Nicholaus de Heybech (fl. 1384–1394) is the author of a clever and compact solution to a major challenge for medieval astronomers: finding the time from mean to true syzygy. His table and associated canon for that purpose are now found in 30 manuscript copies, which means that this table was one of the most widely diffused single tables in Alfonsine astronomy. In this article, we present two different and hitherto unnoticed tables by Nicholaus de Heybech for determining mean syzygy, which nicely complement the table that is already known, and we gather the information available on another aspect of his activity beyond table making, as a copyist of texts and tables mainly in mathematical astronomy.
Keywords: John of Lignères, John of Murs, John of Saxony, Parisian Alfonsine Tables, precision, syzygy
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This paper argues that Salt Fish Girl moves beyond questioning the concept of origins to suggesting that the concept itself — and the Enlightenment discourses that support racist, sexist, homophobic, and other marginalizing practices upon which the concept of origins is predicated — no longer makes sense, and that the novelist is arguing for locating connection through shared experiences.
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Margaret Conrad started out as a political historian; her first major work was a political biography. Yet even her earliest work was non-traditional and innovative. Her dynamism and engagement with political history make her one of Canada's most distinguished historians, astute commentators and thoughtful critics of current Canadian politics.
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Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta presents religion and religious conversion as a tool of state power, rather than as a religious process. This play’s representation of false conversions lays bare the central paradox that plagued Reformation conversion narratives: how do you know someone has truly been converted? Marlowe’s play radically transforms acts of conversion into nonperformative speech. By staging coerced, dissembling, and honest conversions in a single play, with little ritualized action to distinguish one conversion from another, Marlowe challenges the religious work of conversion, exposing it as an early modern political tool that could be manipulated by both the state and individuals.
Keywords: religion, conversion, Christopher Marlowe, performative, early modern performance
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Marcel Blanc offers a book review of Heide Goettner-Abendroth's Sociétés matriarcales du passé et émergence du patriarcat - Asie occidentale et Europe (in French).
Keywords: book review, Heide Goettner-Abendroth, matriarchy, le matriarcat, recension du livre, Heide Goettner-Abendroth
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Keywords: Bianca Zagolin, Une femme à la fenêtre, écriture migrante, féminisme, littérature italo-québécoise
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AbstractGrowth data from precise surveys have been obtained for 11 pingos for periods ranging from 20 to 26 years. Most of the 1350 pingos, perhaps one quarter of the world's total, have grown up in the bottoms of drained lakes underlain by sands. Permafrost aggradation on the drained lake bottoms has resulted in pore water expulsion, solute rejection below the freezing front, a freezing point depression, and groundwater flow at below 0° C to one or more residual ponds, the sites of pingo growth. Sub-pingo water lenses underlie many growing pingos.The pure ice which grows by downward freezing in a sub-pingo water lens may be composed of seasonal growth bands which, like tree rings, are of potential use in the study of past climates. Growing pingos underlain by sub-pingo water lenses can often be identified by features such as peripheral pingo rupture, spring flow, frost mound growth, normal faulting, and oscillations in pingo height. Such features, and others, are associated with hydrofracturing and water loss from a sub-pingo water lens. Some of the data derived from the long-term study of pingo growth are relevant to the identification of collapse features, interpreted as paleo pingos, in areas now without permafrost.
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