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The biblical prophecy in Ezekiel 28:11–19 records a dirge against the king from Tyre. While Hebrew Masoretic Text (MT) identifies monarch as cherub, Greek Septuagint (LXX) distinguishes royal cherub. Scholarly debates arise to which edition represents more original version of prophecy. This article aims contribute by adopting text-critical approach two variant literary editions dirge, comparing...

A core theme of social psychology is that perceivers can shape targets’ future behaviors through self-fulfilling prophecies. Self-fulfilling prophecies occur when perceivers’ false beliefs about targets initiate a sequence of events that ultimately cause targets to exhibit expectancy-consistent behaviors, thereby causing perceivers’ initially false beliefs to become true. This article reviews t...

Theories of voter turnout have focused almost exclusively on the costs and benefits of voting, even though one potentially important aspect of turnout is what takes place after a citizen has decided she intends to vote but before she arrives at the polls. I test two social psychology theories affecting this process: self-prophecy and implementation intentions. The self-prophecy effect occurs wh...

In this article, I argue that Dante's philosophical goal is what term "self-angelizing," an ennobling education granting one the knowledge and power of angel, which medieval scholastics conceived as celestial intelligences. own path to self-angelizing begins in his early New Life, approaches a living Beatrice exemplar terrestrial angels. Next, middle-period Banquet discusses following into thro...

Abstract A self-fulfilling prophecy is, roughly, a prediction that brings about its own truth. Although true predictions are hard to fault, prophecies often regarded with suspicion. In this article, we vindicate suspicion by explaining what and is problematic them, paying special attention how their problems exacerbated through automated prediction. Our descriptive account of articulates the fo...