The current demands placed on scientists to increase public awareness of their findings involves recontextualizing highly technical research be understood by diversified audiences. In the present study, a corpus 20 online digests drawn from British Psychological Society website, which are condensed versions recently published articles, is quantitatively and qualitatively explored in terms (meta...

The present article presents Wang Fuzhi 王夫之 (1619-1692 C.E.)’s reading of the eighteenth chapter Zhuang-Zi 莊子 (ZZ) by looking at his entry from Zhuang-Zi-Tong 莊子通 and other key glosses Zhuang-Zi-Jie 莊子解. philosophical upshot, I aim to show, is that takes ZZ as presenting consummation “the greatest joyousness” (zhi-le 至樂) requiring getting rid joyousness one’s desideratum. Using Derek Parfit’s w...

Abstract Published here for the first time, Neo-Babylonian tablet BM.35434 sheds new light on transmission history of Sumero-Akkadian balaĝ-prayer a-gal-gal buru₁₄ su-su || butuqtu muṭebbât ebūri “Flood that drowns harvest” dedicated to Nergal, god pestilence and war. Due its exceptional colophon, makes an interesting case study in first-millennium scribal practices context ritual lamenting Eme...

Abstract An overlooked fragmentary Latin text preserved in the Corpus of Roman Land Surveyors proves to be a translation lost branch Aratean commentary tradition. Stripped classicizing veneer mistakenly applied by earlier editors, fragment can recognized as work an unknown and inept late-antique Translator, perhaps working within generation fragment’s earliest manuscript witness, Codex Arcerian...

Abstract This article focuses on the Arabic manuscript collection of Near Eastern School Theology ( NEST ). The library contains several manuscripts that were donated, copied, or read by important Christian-born intellectuals nahḍa . Given these men’s role in emergence modern publishing Middle East, I examine intersections between their scribal and printing activities. also discuss works gramma...

The fragment of the Syriac translation Aristotle’s Poetics preserved by Jacob (Severus) Bar Shakko (d. 1241) comprises Poet. VI 1449b24–1450a10. In spite its small size, it serves as an important witness both to Greek text Poetics, and reception this work in Christian Orient and, later on, Muslim world. derives from a translation, which most likely appeared West circles 7th/8th centuries AD ser...

This article provides an explanation for the single and puzzling Tocharian B gloss śaiṣṣe ‘world’ (instead of A ārkiśoṣi) Sanskrit jagat- on a fragment SHT 4438 with all other glosses in A. Based detailed study Chinese texts, ārkiśoṣi is very likely loan translation sā̆bhāloka(dhātu)- ‘a world radiance’, which preserved translations by Kumārajīva translators connected Kucha. In Kucha area, first...