Major commentaries on various books of the Bible have been appearing at a dizzying pace in recent years. I have also been struck by the increasing length of such commentaries. W. D. Davies and Dale Allison are writing a three-volume commentary on Matthew for the ICC series. John Nolland composed a three-volume commentary on Luke (WBC). Raymond Brown’s work on the epistles of John (AB) is 812 pa...

the challenge of mobilizing knowledge to improve patient care, population health and ensure effective use of resources is an enduring one in healthcare systems across the world. this commentary reflects on an earlier paper by ferlie and colleagues that proposes the resource-based view (rbv) of the firm as a useful theoretical lens through which to study knowledge mobilization in healthcare. spe...

muhammad ibn jarir al-tabari (839-923) was a moslem historian and religious scholar whose annals are the most important source for the early history of islam. he is also a renowned author of a monumental commentary on the koran. at tabari wrote history, theology and qur'anic commentary. his legal writings were published first and then continued to appear throughout his life. next were his ...

The De nition of Standard ML contains several errors and ambiguities Some of them have already been published in the Commentary on Standard ML but the list given there is incomplete The paper lists all errors known to me today including the errors listed in the Commentary On most of the others I came across when writing the semantics of Extended ML Most errors are supplied with an explanation w...

This is a commentary on the article ‘The rise of post-truth populism in pluralist liberal democracies: challenges for health policy.’ It critically examines two of its key concepts: populism and ‘post truth.’ This commentary argues that there are different types of populism, with unclear links to impacts, and that in some ways, ‘post-truth’ has resonances with arguments advanced in the period a...

In the past 10 years, live-streaming services have gained huge popularity. Streamers usually play video games and complement their performance with commentary. We examine role of this streamer commentary on state aggression in Czech adolescents who were randomly assigned into one three experimental groups (i.e. aggressive commentary, non-aggressive no commentary). The findings suggest that a sh...

The Pram6na-vdrttika (hereafter PV) was the most extensive and ambitious work on epistemology to be written by Dharmakirti (ft. 7th centurY C.E.). It is a verse work divided into four chapters, to only one of which did the author write his own commentarY (svavrtti) in prose. The subject matter of the Pram~na-v~rttika-svavrtti (hereafter PVSV) is the process of drawing inferences (anum~na) for o...

The previous commentary in this column (September/October 2004) discussed the state of the science of translating knowledge into evidence-based practice. This commentary points to reports of several large-scale projects to close evidence-practice gaps in maternal and newborn care. The next commentary will identify reports of efforts to promote appropriate use of cesarean section. Recent notable...