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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Literal sense."”.
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In search of the literal sense : Johannes Oecolampadius (1482-1531) and the exegetical tradition on Isaiah.
… the hermeneutical diversity of Reformation-era 'literal' exegesis of the prophet Isaiah. Using the 1525 Isaiah commentary of Basel reformer Johannes Oecolampadius as a lens, it compares this work to prior Christian and Jewish commentaries on Isaiah, as well as to the Isaiah commentaries of …
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The Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Twelfth-Century Western Europe: the Hebrew and Latin Sources of Herbert of Bosham's Commentary on the Psalms
… this version and expounding it according to the literal sense of scripture. My first chapter presents an overview of Herbert's life, works and intellectual background, and sets out his influence from three interconnected traditions: that of Christian Hebraism founded by Jerome, that of textual …
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Petrarch's Africa I-IV : a translation and commentary.
… The translation aims to preserve the tone and literal sense of the Latin original while maintaining smooth readability in English. A commentary, including grammatical annotations and discussing Petrarch's sources, inspiration, and historical context, accompanies the translation.
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Curious parallels: an examination of terms and concepts shared between biology and linguistics, and their relevance to the study of languages.
… an array of terms and concepts which, in their literal sense at least, appear to belong primarily to the modern discipline of biology. We speak, for example, of the evolution of languages, of living languages, of dead or extinct languages, of genetically related languages and of the ecology of …
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Towards a queer liminality: an examination of the use of space in Irish lesbian fiction 1872-2017
… very important as it exists on both symbolic and literal planes. The Irish nation has made ‘space’ on a symbolic level for LGBTQ+ people, but also literally as reflected in the fact that many legal changes have improved the lives of the LGBTQ+ community. <br/>This thesis examines the use of space …
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Reforma trabalhista e alterações de despesas processuais: entrave ao acesso a justiça?
… depends on the granting of this benefit. In this sense, we seek to understand, through the doctrine and jurisprudence of the country, the impacts of changes in arts. 790, 790-B and 791-A, all belong to the normative framework of the Consolidation of labor laws. It is noteworthy the introduction of …
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Nature and the Victorian entrepreneur : soap, sunlight and subjectivity
… soap is explored through order, not only in the literal sense of personal and public hygiene but, also, by extension, of order in the wider sense, that of organisation.Thus this thesis extends from the analysis of soap as a product and its marketability through the metaphor of Sunlight, which is …
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Familiarity, context, and the distinction between literal and nonliteral language
… 1-2 sentence contexts in four conditions: NONLITERAL, where the context was completed by an idiom or metaphor, PARAPHRASE, where the same context was completed by a literal target with the same meaning, SURPRISE, where the context was completed by a less-anticipated literal target, and …
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Picturing women in Urania by Mary Wroth and Clelie by Madeleine de Scudery
… part examines the subject of the thesis in its literal sense, by analysing Wroth’s and Scudéry’s representations of the female body, and relates- where appropriate- images of women in Urania and Clélie to those found in the visual arts of the early modern period, such as emblems, engravings, …
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Not by reasons alone
… to moral instructions in something close to a literal sense. I argue on this basis that the distinction between evaluative and prescriptive 'oughts,' and the attendant possibility of iterating them, vindicates internalism about moral reasons too. A solution to Chisholm's paradox is a welcome …
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Comparative Literalisms: An Assessment of Protestant Christian and Sunni Muslim Fundamentalist Scriptural Hermeneutics through the Writings of Falwell, Rushdoony, Qutb, and al-Maqdisi
… out for their preference for hermeneutic ‘literalism’. For that matter, in this comparative study, I explore the concept of ‘literalism’, its meaning and methodological applications through surveying scriptural commentaries of four influential 20th-century figures, prominent in the academic …