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Chapters 40–55 of the book of Isaiah, also known as Deutero-Isaiah, are concerned primarily with the themes of comfort and return. Its context is the time period of the Babylonian exile, though some scholars date portions as late as the mid-fifth century B.C.E. The message of co…

The late 1980s saw the birth of “conscious” rap: “conscious” MCs and crews took Black Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Islamic doctrine, education, political empowerment, and other social causes as their themes. Many of the most successful “conscious” solo acts and groups of the lat…

The Epistle of Second Baruch (Ep2B) is a document found at the end of Second Baruch (2B), a long-lost apocalyptic book recently rediscovered to be part of the ancient Syriac Bible tradition. This study explains how Ep2B is structurally related to 2B, how it uses ancient biblical…

A survey of Muslim, Christian and Jewish pilgrim accounts from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries shows methods and themes common to most medieval writing about religious travel. Most accounts are self-conscious; all aim to shape the reader's sense of self. Some accounts are…