the holy quran is full of stories and its verses are occupied by lots of them, and the hero has the main role in them, so that the hero has a high role in moving the events of the story, enliven it and the detection of the ideas. the prophets and messengers are the most important heroes in quran stories; prophet moses has the most presence in its scenes. however, his roles have been different i...

Had he not created the first systematic and comprehensive code of Jewish law (Mishneh Torah) would his successors in that project, R. Jacob ben Asher, author of the Arba’ah Turim, and R. Joseph Karo, author of the Shulhan Arukh, have had the vision and courage to embark on what would have been, if not for Maimonides, a revolutionary innovation? The Mishneh Torah is revolutionary in three ways: ...

This study develops a new theory of the Moses illusion, observed in responses to general knowledge questions such as, "How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the Ark?" People often respond "two" rather than "zero" despite knowing that Noah, not Moses, launched the Ark. Our theory predicted two additional types of conceptual error demonstrated here: the Armstrong and mega-Moses illusion...

The request to see God is one of the theological paradoxes mentioned in the life story of Prophet Moses (a) that apparently opposes his infallibility. The verse 143 of the chapter A’rāf is one of the places this story is narrated. The opponents of infallibility suggest that Moses knew God is not physical or visible, nor occupies a place, so why did he have such a request? The answer is that he ...

This paper reports on the progress that has been made in the system infrastructure/visualisation aspect of the Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science (MoSeS) project at the University of Leeds. Until recently, user interaction with MoSeS models has been achieved through a series of JSR-168 compliant portlets, which offers users a web-based interface to MoSeS. This paper presents the new ...