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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Sinai"”.
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Sinai: una terra ai margini - Beduini e territorio nell'Egitto contemporaneo
Il Sinai è una regione dalle caratteristiche peculiari che la differenziano dal resto dell’Egitto per territorio e popolazione. Una terra desertica e di confine i cui abitanti, i beduini, costituiscono una minoranza nella composizione etnica egiziana da cui si distinguono per origini, tradizioni, …
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Pentecost and Sinai: assessing Acts 2 through a Lukan literary pattern
… to the event of the giving of the law at Sinai. Previously these parallels have primarily been argued through secondary texts. This thesis is interested in engaging with the primary text, the Old and New Testament, in order to prove Luke himself would not make Pentecost/Sinai parallels. …
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Classification of Finishing Tools in Greek Bookbinding: Establishing links from the Library of St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt
… from the monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai, Egypt. The manuscript collection is remarkable for the variety of binding styles that represent mainly Greek but also other bookbinding traditions, including Georgian. Syrian and Eastern European. The examination of the decorative motifs …
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Case Study of Development of the Peripheral Coastal Area of South Sinai in Relation to its Bedouin Community
The peripheral region of South Sinai in Egypt is experiencing large-scale tourism development on the Gulf of Aqaba coast. Its Bedouin community is facing great challenges in its struggle for livelihood and transformation from a pastoral and fishing community to an urbanized one. This case study …
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The Embodied Promise: How the Hebrew Covenants Correspond to the Corporal
… Conservation Covenant, Abraham's Covenant, The Sinai Covenant, The Davidic Covenant, and the New Covenant. Each covenant corresponds to a part of the human body. Conservation corresponds to the blood, Abraham's to the genitals, Sinai to the abdomen (stomach and womb), David's to the heart, and …
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The evolution of a craft: Post-Byzantine bookbinding between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth century from the libraries of the Iviron Monastery in Mount Athos/Greece and the St. Catherine's monastery in Sinai/Egypt.
… and of the St. Catherine's monastery in Sinai/Egypt. The primary material of the research consists of a detailed survey of 419 bookbindings dated between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth century. To collect and store the collected data a survey methodology had to be devised and …
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Yahweh's 'Priestly Kingdom': A Metaphor for Israel's Priestly Status Function in Exodus 19.6a
The Sinai Pericope, Exodus 19.3b—24.11, represents a significant conceptualisation of Israel’s identity, as the metaphor ‘priestly kingdom’ is conferred upon the nation via Yahweh’s speech act in Exodus 19.6a. The key interpretive question in the field of biblical studies with respect to Israel’s …
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God's Everlasting Covenant With Phinehas
… with Phinehas has been reached under the Sinai covenant. On closer examination of the question, however, general agreement in fact counts for little. Rather, most of the questions on this point appear to be still open. The purpose of this thesis is to re-examine the efficacy of the …
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An Evaluation of Reserve Component Leaders' Attitudes and Motivation as They Relate to Situational Leadership Theory in a Peacekeeping Operational Environment
… Model of Intrinsic Motivation during a 2004 Sinai, Egypt, peacekeeping mission.</p> <p>Methodology. This descriptive study provided quantitative and qualitative results. Three instruments were used with a convenience sample of leaders within one forward-deployed National Guard infantry …
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Cancer Center Regional Benchmarks for Psychosocial Care
… Care Services from City of Hope and Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Suggestions are provided for administrators and providers on options and mechanisms to improve psychosocial screening and referral at Loma Linda University Medical Oncology Center.</p>
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Statistical physics of semidilute polymer systems soft billiard systems
… statistical physics. We study a variation of a Sinai-type billiard system, where circular scatterers of radius R are centered on the lattice sites of a 2-d square lattice and given a finite potential height U (measured in units of kinetic energy). For 1 > U > 0, the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of a …
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The Shining Face of Moses: The Interpretation of Exodus 34:29-35 and Its Use in the Old and New Testaments
… as a reminder or extension of Yhwh's presence at Sinai, to distinguish Moses in terms of status, to communicate Yhwh's "goodness," and to transition from the rebellion narrative in chapters 32-34 to the building of the tabernacle in 35-40. Knowing the function of the phrase sheds light on the …
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Neolithische und Bronzezeitliche Besiedlung im Wadi Dhahr, Republik Jemen
… ebenfalls Bezüge nach Norden, etwa Palästina, Sinai und Nordägypten. Die gewonnenen Daten weisen bisher darauf hin, dass die Wirtschaftsform des Neolithikum auf der mobilen Haltung von Rindern, Schafen und Ziegen basierte. Die Hirten bewohnten saisonale Lager ohne massive Bauten. Die …
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The Stress of Her Disregard: Britannia’s Suez Fiasco in Consideration of Anglo-American Diplomacy
… fact remains certain, in the desert sands of the Sinai Peninsula during November 1956, Britannia lost her Empire and America asserted its dominance. </p>
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Rhetoric, Gender, Weakness, and Shame: Paul’s somatic self-presentation in the Corinthian correspondence
… of an ability or right to speak. Lastly, his Sinai account demonstrates that even Paul’s boast of open speech and self-disclosure is implicated in a feminizing act of unveiling his own shame and weakness. Even as he argues for his superiority to Moses on the basis<br/>of what at first glance …
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Watering the St. Katherine Landscape: Exploring the Nexus between Socio-Economic and Hydro-Cultural Change
… and most water rich region of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. This relative water abundance was a critical factor to the historical and cultural landscape that emerged there over the centuries. Past human settlements have left an intricate network of catchments, conduits and wells. Much of …
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Home Range, Home Range Expansion, Dispersal, and Mortality of Juvenile Red Foxes in Southeastern South Dakota
… that red fox (Vulpes vulpes) families on the Sinai study area decreased from 13 (5.2 per township) in 1976 to 11 (4.4 per township) in 1977. The majority (88%) of the active red fox dens was located in pastures and idle lands although these cover types constituted only 24% of the available …
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Information theoretic parameters for graphs and operator systems
… source, and attempt to generalise the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of a dynamical system to this setting.<br/>
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6,000 years of copper smelting : Center for the Study of Copper Smelting in Ancient Societies
… investigating the production of copper in the Sinai desert and Aravah region of southern Israel. He discovered over 650 previously unknown ancient copper mining and smelting sites. The Timna Valley is one of the most significant sites discovered and is believed to be the first site of copper …
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