M. L. Brown

Over the past twenty-five years, there have been several efforts by developing countries to establish regional economic institutions to address their problems of poverty, underdevelopment, and external dependency. Economic imperatives and the rationales for economic cooperation …

Our exhaustive survey of the Semitic root rp' yields the following results: (1) The Grundbedeutung of Hebrew rp' is "to restore, make whole"; "to heal" is a secondary meaning to be derived from this. The biblical usage of this root is decidely literal, even in the poetic and pro…