Abstract Wayne Meeks argues that Philo’s presentation of Moses as king, prophet, and priest in De vita Mosis may reflect the traditions lying behind Fourth Gospel’s depiction Jesus both prophet king. This article proposes more specific parallels between prophetic roles Gospel. First, water miracle at wedding Cana (John 2:1–11) has substantial similarities to rewriting Moses’s miracles wildernes...

TO THE EDITOR: With great interest we read the article by Lebech et al. (1) on diagnostic imaging in patients with non‐specific symptoms or signs of cancer, and commend the authors for using a randomized controlled design to compare positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) with CT imaging. However, the study appears to have examined a self‐fulfilling prophecy, because PET/CT wa...

Controversies have been a topic in science studies for some time now. The interest in controversies has fluctuated over time, and the death of controversy studies was announced already in 1988 by Arie Rip; like so many other fields in the social sciences, science studies sometimes appears to hover restlessly from one fashion to the next. In this article I would like to explore why and how Rip's...

This work proposes a double auction artificial stock market based on the Santa Fe market structure. Our market tries to shed light on some facts that usually arise in real stock markets, specially the creation of technical figures in price series. The origin of these figures is believed to be caused by the self-fulfilling prophecy effect, which will be investigated with the proposed market.