THE FIELD OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES has seen an abundance of computerbased tools and publications during the last few years. Bibliographic databases, full-text databanks, and electronic Bibles are in many ways changing the face of biblical and theological studies. Librarians, according to a recent survey, see themselves as facilitators to electronic information in religion, but actual figures from t...

This research explores: (1) students’ learning outcomes and motivations for biographical text writing before using the whole-language approach, (2) after (3) effect of approach on tenth graders’ at SMK Negeri 3 Gorontalo Utara. The achieved indicators were: Listing main points information, Analyzing language in texts, Writing texts about certain figures by paying attention to content, encompass...

although ancient greek physicians studied a great number of ocular diseases in their medical texts such as glaucoma, cataract, trachoma, chalazion, trichiasis, entropion, ectropion and pterygion, in ancient greek art there were only few examples which represent ophthalmic diseases. these examples are found especially in portraits, and the ophthalmological disease is an important feature of the ...

The Arab study of Ancient Egypt was the result a universal understanding history rather than narrow purpose verifying scriptures. They were critical pre-Islamic written sources and did not accept even texts based on eyewitnesses uncritically. Arabs' work, which included accurate descriptions ancient monuments, aimed at their symbolic value function. noticed relationship Egyptian language to Cop...

Since the ancient times Iran has always played a significant role in the Transportation Industry due to its strategic position in the silk road that connected Asia to Europe and Middle East to .Ancient Iranians are believed to be the pioneers of land transportation in the world and transportation has always been considered as one of the most ancient and historical Industries in Iran . Nowadays ...

We describe here the first release of the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank (AGDT), a 190,903-word syntactically annotated corpus of literary texts including the works of Hesiod, Homer and Aeschylus. While the far larger works of Hesiod and Homer (142,705 words) have been annotated under a standard treebank production method of soliciting annotations from two independent reviewers and then reco...

This article focuses on the Sacred Tales (henceforth ST), Aelius Aristides’ first-person account of his terrible diseases and subsequent healing brought about by Asclepius, and sheds new light on this text with the help of the notion of embodiment. In recent decades the ST has received a great deal of attention:1 scholars have offered two main readings of this work, oscillating between the pole...