This book examines the actual practice of the interpretation of law in the Age of Enlightenment versus the ideology of the Age and explains the reason for and difference between the two. The ideology of the Age of Enlightenment was that law, i.e., the will of the sovereign, can …
Patterson proposes 'knowledge-based journalism' as a corrective. Unless journalists are more deeply informed about the subjects they cover, they will continue to misinterpret them and to be vulnerable to manipulation by their sources. In this book, derived from a multi-year init…
"A frank assessment of the failings of journalism today and what needs to be done in order to provide the knowledge-based reporting necessary to maintain the health of our democratic political process"--
The Bible and colonialism: a moral critique
by Prior, Michael, (Michael P.)
fromBiblical seminar
The biblical claim of the divine promise of land is integrally linked with a divine mandate to exterminate the indigenous people. The narrative has supported virtually all Western colonizing enterprises (e.g. in Latin America, South Africa, Palestine), resulting in the suffering…
The Bible and colonialism: a moral critique
The Bible and colonialism: a moral critique
by Prior, Michael, (Michael P.)
fromBiblical seminar
The Bible and colonialism: a moral critique
by Prior, Michael, (Michael P.)
fromBiblical seminar
The Bible and colonialism: a moral critique
by Prior, Michael, (Michael P.)
fromBiblical seminar
The biblical claim of the divine promise of land is integrally linked with a divine mandate to exterminate the indigenous people. The narrative has supported virtually all Western colonizing enterprises (e.g. in Latin America, South Africa, Palestine), resulting in the suffering…
This volume comprises fifteen essays classified in three major sections. Some of these essays raise theoretical and methodological issues while others focus on specific topics. The time span ranges from late biblical period to the present. The volume reflects the current thought…
'Doing Conversational Analysis' provides hands-on experience in training to become a conversation analyst. The author places a strong and consistent focus on the theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of the subject.
"In this unusual book, first published by The MIT Press in 1980 and now updated with a new chapter, Steven Brams applies the mathematical theory of games to the Hebrew Bible. Brams's thesis is that God and the human biblical characters acted rationally—that is, given their prefe…
