Josephus elevates Moses' role and diminishes the miraculous in the Amalek episode. In the Pentateuch Josephus, defensive about the charge that Jews preach genocide, omits the command to eliminate Amalek; rather, Moses predicts it. In 1 Samuel he explains that G-d so hated them as to order it. As to the parallel command to exterminate the seven Canaanite nations, this was necessary, says Josephu...

among the various interpretations of michelangelo’s moses, freud’s is well-known. the founder of psychoanalysis, freud reviews all the critics and interpretations of this masterpiece and then offers his own: this moses is not about to spring up, as claimed by others, but on the contrary, is sitting down, suppressing his “rage”. in the light of recent works of daniel arasse, art critic (study of...

6 Many a young man who has received his spiritual nurture within the evan-gelical tradition, and who seeks to test his fitness for the Christian ministry, finds the very fundamentals of his faith challenged, modified, and even rejected outright by the theological teachers under whom he places himself. Often the evangelical theological student is limited by his denominational interests in the ch...

Halpern and Moses [Halpern & Moses, 84] define and characterize what a minimal epistemic state associated to a set of premises is, using the notions of stable set and S5Kripke models. Based on such epistemic states, Halpern and Moses define an entailment relation with which one can infer what is known and, more importantly, what is unknown by an agent. In this paper we formulate an extension of...

Who was Robert Moses? In this article, we want to cast a bright light on Moses as visionary urban planner, which included the comprehensive planning of outdoor and indoor aquatic infrastructure for New York City. Second, highlight some his administration's significant accomplishments challenges in providing aquatics opportunities diverse populations, including people color. Finally, aspire illu...

This paper presents a finite-state approach to phrase-based statistical machine translation where a log-linear modelling framework is implemented by means of an on-the-fly composition of weighted finite-state transducers. Moses, a well-known state-of-the-art system, is used as a machine translation reference in order to validate our results by comparison. Experiments on the TED corpus achieve a...

Famous medieval philosophers Al-Sijistani and Maimonides argued that the use of double negation helps us to better understand issues related to theology. To a modern reader, however, their arguments are somewhat obscure and unclear. We show that these arguments can be drastically clarified if we take into account the 20 century use of double negation in constructive logic. 1 Double Negation The...