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Curriculum 21 essential education for a changing world /

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Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and other tales of mathematical history /

Table of Contents: “…. / Max Dehn -- Diophantus of Alexandria / J.D. Swift -- Hypatia of Alexandria / A.W. …”
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Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & early Christian antiquity seeing the gods /

Table of Contents: “…/ David Noy -- "Intermingled until the end of time" : ambiguity as a central condition of early Christian pilgrimage / Wendy Pullan -- Piety and passion : contest and consensus in the audiences for early Christian pilgrimage / Jaś Elsner -- Urban shrine and rural saint in fifth-century Alexandria / David Frankfurter.…”
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Orations of the Fatimid caliphs festival sermons of the Ismaili imams : an edition of the Arabic texts and English translation of Fatimid khuṭbas / by Walker, Paul Ernest, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Khuṭba of al-Qāʼim: on the ʻĪd al-fiṭr, 302 (19 April 915) at Alexandria -- Khuṭba of al-Qāʼim: Rajab 333 (March 945): during the siege of al-Mahdiyya: read by al-Marwadhī -- Khuṭba of al-Manṣūr: As walī liʼl-ʻahd (heir-apparent) on the ʻĪd al-fiṭr, 334 (6 May 946) at al-Mahdiyya -- Khuṭba of al-Manṣūr: on Friday, 14 Muḥarram 335 (16 August 946): read by Jaʻfar b. …”
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The ethics of obscene speech in early Christianity and its environment by Hultin, Jeremy F.

Table of Contents: “…-- Plato and Aristotle on foul language -- Plato and the dangers of mimesis -- Aristotle and the bounds of humor -- Abuse -- Laws against slander -- Religious rites -- Excursus : the language of some love charms -- Comedy -- New forms of comic drama -- Literary obscenities -- Epigram -- Tales of sexual adventures and sex manuals -- Ovid's culpa -- Speech, character, and self-definition -- Speech as it relates to character -- Speech as it defined specific groups -- Cynics and shameless speech -- Stoics -- The linguistic roots of the stoic ethics of foul language -- Excursus : Bryson the Megarian -- Changes in stoic (and cynic) views of obscene speech -- Jewish scripture and earliest Christianity -- Prophetic scatology -- Wisdom literature and Ben Sirach -- Jesus -- James -- Didache 3:3 and the two ways -- Paul -- Galatians 5:12 -- Philippians 3:8: [Greek text] -- Colossians and Ephesians -- Colossians 3:8 -- Colossians 4:6 : "season your speech with salt" -- Ephesians -- Exegesis of Ephesians 5:3-14 -- "Let them not even be named among you" (Eph 5:3) -- "Shameful even to mention" (Eph 5:12) -- Speech rules in 1QS -- Profaning a sanctum -- Not fitting for holy ones -- Speech and Christian identities -- Clement of Alexandria on foul language -- The divine paedagogue and Christian manners -- On foul language -- Excursus : Clement and the Didache -- A "deeper logos" about foul language -- Comparing Clement.…”
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A case for mixed-audience with reference to the warning passages in the book of Hebrews by Thomas, C. Adrian, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Significance of the warning passages -- Statement of the problem -- Purpose of the study -- Need for the study -- Contribution of the study -- Limitations of the study -- Approach of the study -- A historical survey of the interpretation of the warning passages -- A history of their interpretation -- Leading up to the Reformation -- The Apostolic period -- The sub-Apostolic period -- A.D. 150-300 -- The influence of Hermas -- Montanists' reaction -- Clement of Alexandria (A.D. 140/150-220) -- Origen (A.D. 185-254) -- The Novatians -- A.D. 300-1500 -- Rejection of rigorism -- Chrysostom (A.D. 349-407) -- Ambrose (A.D. 333/334-397) -- Augustine (c. …”
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Indian writers transnationalisms and diasporas /

Table of Contents: “…India apart : nomadicity and allotropic Indianness in Vassanji's The book of secrets and no new land / Saunak Samajdar -- Fashioning identities : cultural production in the South Asian diaspora / Sitara Thobani -- Hybrid identities and cultural pluralism in East African Asian writing / Peter Simatei -- Vassanji's Toronto and Durrell's Alexandria : the view from across or the view from beside? …”
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How to design an advisory system for a secondary school by Goldberg, Mark F., 1938-

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Ignatius and Concord the background and use of the language of Concord in the letters of Ignatius of Antioch / by Lotz, John-Paul

Table of Contents: “…From the past to the present : the enigma of Ignatius -- Review of the ignatian problem -- Recent critiques : Hübner and Lechner -- Homonoia and the Flavians -- Overview and method -- Homonoia and Concordia : from its origins to the principate -- Origins of Homonoia -- Homonoia and hellenism -- Concordia in Rome to the end of the republic -- Concordia and Homonoia the principate -- Conflict and Concord : succeeding the reigns of Nero and Domitian -- Imperial power and provincial Concord : the imperial cult and the Homonoia-coins of the Greek East -- The imperial cult and Homonoia in the Greek East -- Coins and conflict : the imperial cult and Homonoia-coins -- Images and metaphors of the imperial cult in Ignatius -- Ignatius and the Homonoia-coins : ign. magn. 5-6 -- The literary context of Homonia in the second sophistic and related literature -- The second sophistic and Homonoia : the golden past of a silver present -- Dio chrysostom and the politics of Homonoia -- Aelius Aristides and the discord of the cities -- Ignatian Homonoia and imperial power -- Homonoia in the literature of early Judaism : Philo, Josephus and 4 Maccabees -- The use of Homonoia by Philo of Alexandria -- Josephus, the Flavians, and Homonoia -- Homonoia and 4 Maccabees -- Ignatius letters and 4 Maccabees -- Homonoia in early Christian literature : Paul and 1 Clement -- Deliberative rhetoric and the Concord-speech in antiquity -- Corinthians 1:4 : deliberative rhetoric urging Concord -- The Concord-speech and 1 Corinthians -- Homonoia and 1 Clement -- Clement's uses of Homonoia -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Philadelphians : a deliberative letter urging Concord -- Homonoia in Ignatius of Antioch and his theological and historical contexts -- Homonoia in the letters of Ignatius of Antioch -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Ephesians -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Magnesians -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Trallians -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Philadelphians -- Ignatius and the unity of God -- Ignatius and the 'peace' in Syria.…”
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Wealth and poverty in early church and society /

Table of Contents: “…Hasselhoff -- Wealth, poverty, and the value of the person : some notes on the hymn of the pearl and its early Christian context / Edward Moore -- Egypt in late antiquity -- Widening the eye of the needle : wealth and poverty in the works of Clement of Alexandria / Annewies van den Hoek -- Care for the poor, fear of poverty, and love of money : Evagrius Ponticus on the monk's economic vulnerability / David Brakke -- Wine for widows : papyrological evidence for Christian charity in late antiquity Egypt / Adam Serfass -- Rich and poor in sophronius of Jerusalem's Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John / Susan R. …”
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Keeping good teachers

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Teaching with the brain in mind by Jensen, Eric, 1950-

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Manières de penser dans l'antiquité mediterranéenne et orientale mélanges offerts à Francis Schmidt par ses élèves, ses collègues et ses amis /

Table of Contents: “…ou Des problèmes du scribe devant sa page blanche / Alain Desreumaux -- Lien social, rites et identités: ethnicité et perennité de l'Israël antique: les stratégies identitaires consécutives à la disparition du royaume de Juda / Alfred Marx -- Esséniens et Pharisiens: deux interprétations -- Purity of lineage in Talmudic Babylonia / Aharon Oppenheimer -- The celebration of the Passover in Graeco-Roman Alexandria / Nicholas de Lange -- Prolongements et subversion de la pensée du Temple dans le Nouveau Testament au miroir de l'action et de la prédication de Jésus dans l'Evangile selon Marc / Christian Grappe -- Les pontifes romains et le parjure / John Scheid -- "Un dieu est né . . ." à Stratonicée de Carie (I Stratonikeia 10) / Nicole Belayche -- Mentalités entre construction liturgique et polémique anti-juive: la collection de bénédictions d'origine juive des Constitutions Apostoliques / Pierluigi Lanfranchi -- "La lumière dans mon coeur vient de Ses Mystères merveilleux": de la Règle de la Communauté XI 5 à II Corinthiens 4,6: (contribution a l'étude du sociolecte esséno-qoumranien) / Marc Philonenko -- Oreste, un héros grec dans la religion romaine / Renée Koch Piettre -- Les marges du langage dans les contextes sacrés / Sabina Crippa.…”
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Sex, power and slavery /

Table of Contents: “…Hopper -- "I ask for divorce because my husband does not let me go back to my country of origin with my brother": gender, family, and the end of slavery in the region of Kayes, French Sudan, 1890-1920 / Marie Rodet -- The fatal sorbet: an account of slavery, jealousy, pregnancy, and murder in a harem in Alexandria, Egypt, ca. 1850 / George Michael La Rue -- Intimate power: sexuality and slavery in the households of the Atlantic world sexual relations between the enslaved and between slaves and nonslaves in nineteenth-century Cuba / Ulrike Schmieder -- "This complicated incest": children, sexuality, and sexual abuse during slavery and the apprenticeship period in the British Caribbean, 1790-1838 / Tara A. …”
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Rhetoric and theology figural reading of John 9 / by Wright, William M., IV

Table of Contents: “…Jo. 44 -- Comparing the reading strategies of Augustine and Martyn -- Implications and possibilities -- Four premodern interpretations of John 9 -- The value of premodern exegetes for New Testament studies -- John Chrysostom -- Chrysostom's homilies 56-59 on the Gospel of John in context -- Chrysostom on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Chrysostom on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Chrysostom's theological interpretation of John 9 -- Cyril of Alexandria -- Cyril's commentary on the Gospel of John in context -- Cyril on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Cyril on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Cyril's theological interpretation of John 9 -- Bruno of Segni -- Bruno's commentary on John in context -- Bruno on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Bruno on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Bruno's theological interpretation of John 9 -- Thomas Aquinas -- Aquinas' lectures on John in context : exegesis in the medieval university -- Aquinas on the place of John 9 within the Gospel -- Aquinas on the internal dynamics of John 9 -- Aquinas' theological interpretation of John 9 -- Conclusions -- Figural argumentation in John 9 -- Elaborated chreia and symbolic expression in Greco-Roman literary composition -- Chreia composition and elaborated argument -- Greco-Roman symbolic literary composition -- The figural argument in John 9:1-41 -- John 9:1-7 -- John 9:8-12 -- John 9:13-17 -- John 9:18-23 -- John 9:24-34 -- John 9:35-38 -- John 9:39-41 -- Conclusion -- Narrative rhetoric, theology, and figural reading -- The narrative and rhetorical dimensions of John 9 -- The narrative dynamics of John 9 -- An integration of epideictic and forensic rhetoric -- The figural dynamic and John's theology -- The inseparability of form and content in John's theology -- The figural dynamic and the incarnation -- Reading John's figural dynamic -- Conclusion.…”
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Y diversa de mí misma entre vuestras plumas ando : homenaje internacional a Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz /

Table of Contents: “…Bergmann -- El hechizo derramado: elementos mestizos en Sor Juana / Luis Leal -- Algo sobre el romance 56 de Sor Juana / Martha Lilia Tenorio -- La Rosa de Alexandría, una querella secreta de Sor Juana? / Elías Trabulse -- El auto sacramental en Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz / Ángel Valbuena-Briones -- Masculino/femenino: interrelaciones genericas en El divino Narciso de Sor Juana / Marta Gallo -- La fuente hermafrodita en El divino Narciso de Sor Juana / Elena Granger-Carrasco -- Las finezas de Sor Juana / Jean Franco -- Las prendas menores de Los empeños de una casa / Sara Poot Herrera -- El espacio teatral en Los empeños de una casa / Aurelio González -- Teologí, Biblia y expresión personal en la prosa de Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz / Margarita Peña -- Para una nueva lectura de Carta Atenagórica / Florbela Rebelo Gomes -- En torno a un párafo de la Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz / Electa Arenal -- Las claves de Sor Juana / Angelina Muñiz-Huberman -- Donde Dios todavía es mujer: Sor Juana y la teología feminista / Linda Egan -- Anticipaciones feministas en la vida y en la obra de Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz / Aralia López González -- Las "filosdofías de cocina" de Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz / Rosa Perelmuter -- Catalina de Arauso y Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: del anomalía al icono / Stephanie Merrim -- Sor Juana ante el discurso paradójico: un ejemplo contemporáneo / Mónica Mansour -- La recepción de Sor Juana y su obra en la Alemania de Hitler y de hoy / Sabine Groote -- Recreaciones de Sor Juana en el teatro y la narrativa hispano/norteamericanos 1952-1988 / Frederick Luciani.…”
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