A book called the Zohar emerged during the Middle Ages, giving rise to a Jewish form of mystical speculation known as the "Cabala" and creating strong interest in the system's mystical teachings in both Jewish and Christian circles. During the Renaissance, Pico, Reuchlin, and Ricci led in applying the Zohar's mystical teachings to the OT in defense of Christian doctrines such at that of the Tri...

During the thirteenth century, the Jews in southern France (called “Provence” in Hebrew sources) experienced a cultural revolution. Following the arrival of Maimonides’ writings and the translation of his Guide of the Perplexed into Hebrew, a very distinctive tradition of philosophy and exegesis was developed. Basic works of Graeco-Arabic and Arabic philosophy were translated into Hebrew, in re...

The patient is a 92-year-old woman, with no medical-surgical history of interest, who reported abdominal pain and fecal vomiting over the previous 24 h. Upon examination, the abdomen was diffusely painful, with no peritoneal irritation, epigastric tympanites and dullness to percussion in the rest of the abdomen. Computed tomography detected an abdominal cystic mass measuring 22 14 cm that occup...

1. One of the striking features of intellectual discussions of Sanskrit authors in the centuries preceding South Asia's colonial period is the importance of semantic issues, and the sophistication with which these are approached. Major philosophical and religious topics are commonly discussed with reference to the semantic properties of relevant terms. The sophistication had developed in variou...

By the time I was eight I had learned from her enough French and German to understand that English was merely one of many ways to express things. A single everyday object could be called assiette orTeller as well as plate – or were plates themselves subtly different in France and Germany? Mademoiselle’s French and Latin prayers seemed to invoke absolutes beyond the ken of our Sunday school page...

disease. One first-class original contribution, by John Brooke, compares the images of Whewell and Priestley as nineteenth-century caricatures embellished by twentieth-century sociologists. McEvoy summarizes his well-documented analysis of Priestley. Many ofthe other papers, based on exegesis ofparticular sides of Priestley's complex thoughts, connect perhaps too little with the original signif...

T recent publication of Edward Lohse's superb commentary on Colossians in the attractive "Hermeneia" series! no doubt has stimulated new interest in the study and exegesis of this great Epistle. At Western Evangelical Seminary it prompted the selection of Colossians (along with Ephesians and Philemon) as the subject for the Advanced Greek Seminar of 1973-74. In the course of our study, an insig...