The author analyses Jesus’ baptism in Jordan, looking for its parallel the Christian baptism. He begins by acknowledging historicity of and reflects on meaning John juxtaposing it with similar rites described Old Testament texts, Second Temple Jewish literature, rabbinical sources. Then he baptism, criticizing historical-critical interpretations that separate scene from theophany follows it. Ac...

Science fiction (SF) developed as a self-identified genre in Japan the 1950s and quickly underwent boom 1960s. Throughout this period, SF literature, film, television were tightly intertwined industries, sharing production personnel, textual tropes, audiences. As these industries entered global circulation with hope of finding recognition success international community, however, they encounter...

In this article, the meaning of Eight Beatitudes (Mt 5:3–12) has been discussed in context spirituality Congregation Sisters Resurrection. It demonstrated how Resurrection understand evangelical and they carry them out every day. This analysis based on documents (the Rule Constitutions), writings Foundresses, Blessed Mother Celina Borzęcka, Venerable Servant God Jadwiga as well those general su...

Scene change detection plays an important role in a number of video applications, including video indexing, searching, browsing, semantic features extraction, and, in general, pre-processing and post-processing operations. Several scene change detection methods have been proposed in different coding standards. Most of them use fixed thresholds for the similarity metrics to determine if there wa...