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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Babylon"”.
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The Sodom/Egypt/Babylon Motif in the Book of Revelation
… was variously characterized as Sodom, Egypt, and Babylon. It sets out to determine the significance of this characterization by tracing the Sodom, Egypt, and Babylon traditions in the OT, the NT, and the relevant extrabiblical literature. Then it seeks to learn how John used the motif throughout …
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Speeding Toward Babylon: Subcultural Drug Use in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, 1960-1980
This dissertation examines the history of subcultural drug use in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, from 1960 to 1980. The primary method of investigation was oral interviewing, backed up with statistical analysis, NGO and government studies, and art, including music, novels, poetry, and comics …
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Returning to Babylon: Processes of social change and the characteristics of former participants in a new religious movement
This study focuses on persons who were formerly involved in a millennarian religious movement that formed as a separatist schism from one of the Mormon denominations, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (R.L.D.S. church). The history of the Latter Day Saint movement …
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Nostalgia, landscape, and social criticism in Brooklyn Babylon: a contemporary theatrical work by jazz composer Darcy James Argue and media artist Danijel Žeželj
This dissertation explores Brooklyn Babylon, a 2011 theatrical presentation by jazz composer Darcy James Argue and visual artist Danijel Žeželj, for musical elements related to contemporary expressions of nostalgia, landscape, and social criticism. Brooklyn Babylon is a silent animated film with a …
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The Three Parts of Babylon : Teaching a Historicist Interpretation of the Leopardlike, Lamblike and Scarlet Beasts (Rev 13 and 16:19 as Reflected in Rev 17) Based upon the Douglas Waterhouse Construct
… through which the biblical three parts of Babylon (Rev 16:19) and the visual imagery of apocalyptic Babylon (Rev 13 and 17) might be taught effectively within the historicist tradition. This study was designed to present a teaching strategy based upon the historicist apocalyptic three-part …
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Between the candle and the star.
… narrative strategies of the television series Babylon 5, arguing that the programme has created a radical new sf discourse for television. In doing so, Babylon 5 has also created a new form of television narrative. The Introduction establishes the parameters of the study. Part One examines …
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The Uses of ‘Bēlu’ and ‘Marduk’ in Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions and other Sources from the First Millennium BC
… understand why Marduk, the chief god of ancient Babylon, was often also called ‘Bēl’ (which means ‘lord’). Although this matter has never been investigated, a consensus seems to have formed in the field that ‘lord’ is an appropriate by-name for a chief god, and that the two names were used …
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The Political Activities of Jeremiah and the Pro-Babylonian Party
… always in mind. Jeremiah worked with the pro-Babylonian party in opposition to the pro-Egyptian party, which represented apostasy and resistance to Babylon--God's divine instrument of punishment. It is hoped that this study will partially illuminate the broad spectrum of prophetic political …
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The impact of Zoroastrianism upon Judaism and Christianity
… and the munificence of the Persian court in Babylon. The Jews are suggested to have been, "a discouraged, disorganized and bitter lot", when taken to Babylon. The Jew's high monotheistic concept of God developed in and after the Exile. During the Exile and the period after, the Jews had a …
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Contra Imperium : Biblical foundations of an anti-imperial theology.
… between the Western economy and the injustice of Babylon in its reading of Revelation. A response to this injustice has also been articulated in the last decade through the anti-imperial interpretation of Paul's letters by Richard A. Horsley and others. This dissertation partly seeks to assess the …
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Rulers, Rhetoric, and Ray-Guns: A Post Colonial Look at 90's Alien Invasion Media
… Independence Day (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998), and The Puppet Masters (1994).</p>
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Historiography and Extra-Biblical Sources Related to Daniel
… views. The third chapter dives into the Babylonian texts. These texts are written in Akkadian and biased toward the Babylonians. The chapter includes basic information about each source and analyzes its historical reliability, literary structure, biases, and relevance for Daniel. The next …
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Solid waste management in informal settlements of Windhoek
… informal settlements of Windhoek, which are Babylon, Okahandja Park and Okuryangava. Before independence, the apartheid government forbade natural urban expansion in "black" suburbs. This resulted in grossly overcrowded conditions, often with an entire family living in one small room. This …
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A Place to Be: The Relationship Between Setting and Character in Short Stories
… the characters themselves? Three short stories, “Babylon Revisited,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” by Ernest Hemingway, and “Where I’m Calling From,” by Raymond Carver, are analyzed for their abilities to successfully link aspects of their settings to the qualities of …
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Marriage in the Talmud : its concepts, laws and customs
… laws. Conditions prevailing in Palestine and in Babylon during the first century B.C.E. and the four following centuries, compelled the Rabbis to stress the paramount importance of marriage as a religious duty. The nature of these conditions and how they influenced the Rabbis in their concept of …
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The enhancement of machine translation for low-density languages using Web-gathered parallel texts.
… most languages lack. This thesis describes the Babylon project which attempts to alleviate this shortage by supplementing existing parallel texts with texts gathered automatically from the Web -- specifically targeting pages that contain text in a pair of languages. Results indicate that …
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The paradoxical exemplar : the image of Saladin in Don Juan Manuel's El conde lucanor
… portrayal of Saladin, the Muslim Sultan of Babylon, in Exempla 25 and 50 of El Conde Lucanor presents an interesting paradox, particularly when considering that the fourteenth-century text was intended as moral instruction for a Christian audience. This report addresses this paradox by …
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The genre of suffering in the 'ancient near eastern literature, the Hebrew bible, and in some examples of modern literature.
… at ancient works on suffering from Sumeria, from Babylon and from Egypt, and then at the book of Job. I will compare and examine the differences in their approaches and their understanding of God and of justice.
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The city as metaphor in three works by James Joyce
… the spiritual city enjoys. The inhabitants of Babylon have turned their attention inwardly and are interested only in the extension of personal power or the ephemeral gains offered by material enhancement. The residents of Jerusalem, on the other hand, recognize their place in the community and …
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