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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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Russia's penal colony in the Far East a translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin" / by Doroshevich, V. M. (Vlas Mikhaĭlovich), 1864-1922

Table of Contents: “…-- Prison wardens -- The death penalty -- Executioners -- Corporal punishments -- Katorga's ways -- Matvey's trouble -- The indefinitely-sentenced probationer Glovatsky -- Katorga types -- Initiation into the penal laborers -- Educated persons in Katorga -- Talma on Sakhalin -- The card game -- Katorga's laws -- The language of Katorga -- Katorga songs -- Katorga and religion -- Sectarians on Sakhalin Island -- Criminals and crimes -- Criminals and justice (from observations on Sakhalin) -- Katorga labors of a Konovalova -- The most unfortunate of women -- Voluntary followers -- Natives of Sakhalin Island -- Golden hand -- Poluliakhov -- A famous Moscow murderer -- The specialist -- Cannibals -- The penal laborer baroness Heimbrück -- Landsberg -- The grandfather of Russian Katorga -- The apostate -- Katorga's aristocrat -- The plebeian -- The parricide -- Shkandyba -- Hired murderers -- The suicide -- The frenzied -- The educated man -- Poet-murderers (in the form of a preface) -- Mentally ill criminals -- Sakhalin's Monte Carlo (the Katorga almshouse in Derbinsk settlement).…”
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Isaiah Shembe's prophetic uhlanga : the worldview of the Nazareth Baptist Church in colonial South Africa / by Tishken, Joel E., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Nhlangakazi -- Soteriology -- The sabbath -- God's laws -- The identity of the chosen. Sacrament, ritual, and identity. …”
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Conservation catalysts : how academics and researchers are advancing large landscape preservation /

Table of Contents: “…Meyer, and Dave Owen -- Landscape-scale conservation on the Serengeti / Robin Reid -- Conservation law initiatives in the West / Fred Cheever and Nancy McLaughlin -- The creation of coastal zone management in Victoria, Australia / Geoff Wescott -- Karukinka and the emerging private land conservation movement in Chile / Guillermo Donoso -- A proposal for conservation easements in Trinidad and Tobago / Karena Mahung -- Appendices: catalyzing conservation through the humanities -- A. …”
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The Onlife Manifesto Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era /

Table of Contents: “…Complexity, responsibility and governance -- Distributed Epistemic Responsibility in a Hyperconnected Era; Judith Simon -- Good Onlife Governance: On Law, Spontaneous Orders, and Design; Ugo Pagallo -- Part IV. …”
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Digital transformations of illicit drug markets : reconfiguration and continuity / by Tzanetakis, Meropi, South, Nigel

Table of Contents: “…Drugs and the dark web: The Americanisation of policing and online criminal law from an australian perspective / Ian J. Warren and Emma Ryan -- Part II: Understanding drug demand online -- Chapter 5. …”
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On Civic Republicanism : Ancient Lessons for Global Politics /

Table of Contents: “…Pinocchio and the puppet of Plato's Laws / Jeffrey Dirk Wilson -- 15. Unity in multiplicity : agency and aesthetics in German republicanism / Douglas Moggach.…”
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Public opinion in state politics

Table of Contents: “…examining the correlates of state-level confidence in the federal government / by Paul Brace and Martin Johnson -- State residency, state laws, and public opinion / by Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox -- Mexican-American and Cuban-American public opinion: differences at the state level?" …”
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The Onlife Manifesto Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era /

Table of Contents: “…Complexity, responsibility and governance -- Distributed Epistemic Responsibility in a Hyperconnected Era; Judith Simon -- Good Onlife Governance: On Law, Spontaneous Orders, and Design; Ugo Pagallo -- Part IV. …”
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Digital transformations of illicit drug markets : reconfiguration and continuity / by Tzanetakis, Meropi, South, Nigel

Table of Contents: “…Drugs and the dark web: The Americanisation of policing and online criminal law from an australian perspective / Ian J. Warren and Emma Ryan -- Part II: Understanding drug demand online -- Chapter 5. …”
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On Civic Republicanism : Ancient Lessons for Global Politics /

Table of Contents: “…Pinocchio and the puppet of Plato's Laws / Jeffrey Dirk Wilson -- 15. Unity in multiplicity : agency and aesthetics in German republicanism / Douglas Moggach.…”
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Discovering biblical equality : complementarity without hierarchy /

Table of Contents: “…Hess -- From Old Testament law to New Testament gospel / Ronald W. Pierce -- Women leaders in the Bible / Linda L. …”
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How capitalism was built the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia / by Åslund, Anders, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Democracy and democracy aid -- From crime toward law. An explosion of crime. Attempts at building a legal system. …”
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Redefining first-century Jewish and Christian identities essays in honor of Ed Parish Sanders /

Table of Contents: “…Hill -- A controversial Jew and his conflicting convictions : Paul, the law, and the Jewish people twenty years after / Heikki Räisänen -- What is "real participation in Christ"? …”
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Recognizing the stranger recognition scenes in the Gospel of John / by Larsen, Kasper Bro

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Odysseus' scar and Jesus' wound marks -- Previous studies in Johannine recognition -- The present study : aim, method, and outline -- Anagnorisis in a theoretical and historical perspective -- Anagnorisis in Aristotle's poetics -- The embarrassments of recognition -- Anagnorisis and the cognitive dimension of John's Gospel -- The semiotics of recognition -- The dual appearance of the observed -- How to display the recognition Mark : showing, telling, and whispering -- Aspects of recognition : identification and social recognition -- Anagnorisis as a type-scene in ancient literature -- The meeting -- The move of cognitive resistance -- The move of displaying the token -- The moment of recognition -- Attendant reactions and physical (re-)union -- Anagnorisis and arrival (John 1-4) -- Anagnorisis within the matrix of John's narrative -- Prologue and prejudice : prefatory whisperings -- The prologue's web of identity relations -- The logos changes its guise -- Recognizing a stranger : comparing Jesus with Odysseus -- Establishing Jesus' presence in the story-world (1:19-51) -- John the Baptist : recognizing the wrong man (1:19-28) -- Jesus and John the Baptist : from baptismal scene to recognition scene (1:29-34) -- Jesus and the disciples : call narratives in the form of recognition scenes (1:35-51) -- Semeia as Semata : tokens of Jesus' divine doxa -- Jesus and the Samaritan woman (4:4-42) : betrothal and recognition -- Recognition in conflict (John 5-19) -- John 5:1-18 : a recognition parody -- "I am" : a recognition formula -- John 9 : blindness and insight -- The recognition scenes of the hour -- The exposure of Judas as traitor (13:18-30) -- Jesus' arrest : from discovery to self-disclosure (18:1-12) -- Peter's denial (18:15-18, 25-27) -- Jesus judged by Pilate : by what law? (18:28-19:16a) -- Death as arrival : God's recognition of Jesus -- Recognition and departure (John 20-21) -- John 20-21 : bridging the horizons -- The race to the empty tomb : acknowledging the absent one (20:10-) -- Mary Magdalene and the Gardener-Rabbi (20:11-18) -- The disciples : recognizers on a mission (20:19-25) -- Jesus and recognizing Thomas (20:26-29) -- John 21:1-14 : community with the absent Jesus -- The reader as Anagnostes.…”
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Situating portfolios four perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Stone -- Portfolios and flow / Thomas Philion -- Producing purposeful portfolios / Mary Perry -- Building bridges, closing gaps : using portfolios to reconstruct the academic community / William Condon -- Portfolios in law school : creating a community of writers / Susan R. …”
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Improving metrics for the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program

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Paradigms in public policy theory and practice of paradigm shifts in the EU /

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Key to the northern country the Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution /

Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- Politics and loyalties -- A suspected loyalist in the rural Hudson River Valley: the Revolutionary War experience of Roeloff Josiah Eltinge / Kenneth Shefsiek -- "Can you on such principles think of quitting a country?" Family, faith, law, property, and the loyalists of the Hudson Valley during the American Revolution / Michael Diaz -- New York's committees in the American Revolution / Colin Williams -- Robert R. …”
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Sisters and brothers of the common life : the Devotio Moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages / by Van Engen, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Devotio Moderna and modern history -- Converts in the Middle ages -- Conversion as a medieval form of life -- Converts in the Low Countries -- Circles of converts at Strassburg and Brussels -- Converts under suspicion : legislating against Beguines and free spirits -- Modern-day converts in the Low Countries -- The Low Countries -- Households of devout women -- Societies of devout men -- Modern-day conversion -- Suspicion and inquisition -- Suspicion of devout practices -- Charge and counter-charge in the mid-1390s -- Sisters under inquisition, 1396-1397 : Friar Eylard Schoneveld intervenes -- Resisting the inquisitor : legal tactics -- Awaiting the Bishop's decision, 1398-1401 -- From converts to communities : tertiaries, sisters, brothers, schoolboys, canons -- Tertiaries "living the common life" -- Sisters of the common life -- Brothers of the common life -- Schoolboys -- Windesheim canons and canonesses -- An option for enclosure : male canons and female tertiaries -- Inventing a communal household : goods, customs, labor, and "republican" harmony -- Living together without personal property -- House customs and personal exercises -- Obedience and humility in a voluntary community -- Labor : living from the work of their own hands -- Communal gatherings and a "republican" impulse -- Defending the modern-day Devout : expansion under scrutiny -- Women's houses and converting schoolboys : Burgher critics at Zwolle -- Friar Matthew Grabow and the Council of Constance -- The sisters and the aldermen in conflict at Deventer : the women's narrative -- Institutionalizing under scrutiny -- Proposing a theological rationale : the freedom of the "Christian religion" -- Place in society : taking on the "estate of the perfect" -- John Pupper of Goch (d. 1475) -- Gospel law and the freedom of the Christian religion -- Taking the spiritual offensive : caring for the self, examining the soul, progressing in virtue -- Reading, writing, and the lay tongue -- Exhortation in public and correction in private -- Spiritual guidance and mutual reproof -- Modern-day devotion : examining the self, making progress, experiencing peace -- Private gatherings and self-made societies in the fifteenth century -- The question of an afterlife.…”
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