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The composition of the Gospel of Thomas : original language and influences
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ISBN: 9781107009042 9780511920561 9781107686168 9781139338509 1139338501 0511920563 1107009049 9781139336765 1139336762 9781139340083 1139340085 1139334239 1107228158 1280393998 9786613571915 1139337637 1139341669 1107686164 Year: 2012 Volume: 151 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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This book addresses two central questions in current research on the Gospel of Thomas: what was its original language and which early Christian works influenced it? At present, theories of Thomas as a Semitic work abound. Simon Gathercole dismantles these approaches, arguing instead that Thomas is Greek literature and that the matter of Thomas's original language is connected with an even more controverted question: that of the relationship between Thomas and the canonical New Testament. Rather than being independent of Matthew, Mark and Luke (as in most Western Aramaic theories of Thomas) or thoroughly dependent on the four gospels (as in most Syriac approaches), Gathercole develops a newly refined approach to how Thomas is influenced by the Synoptic Gospels. Thomas can be seen to refer to Matthew as a gospel writer, and evidence is discussed showing that Thomas incorporates phraseology distinctive to Luke, while also extending that special Lukan language.


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Investigating the A-Type Stars Using Kepler Data
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ISBN: 9783319094175 3319094165 9783319094168 3319094173 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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Simon Murphy's thesis has significant impact on the wide use of the revolutionary Kepler Mission data, leading to a new understanding in stellar astrophysics.  It first provides a deep characterisation and comparison of the Kepler long cadence and short cadence data, with particular insight into the Kepler reduction pipeline.  It then brings together modern reviews of rotation and peculiarities in A-type stars, and their relationship with the pulsating delta Scuti stars. This is the first combined review of these subjects since the classic monograph by Sydney Wolff,  "The A stars," was published three decades ago.  The thesis presents a novel technique, Super-Nyquist Asteroseismology, that has opened up the asteroseismic study of thousands of Kepler stars. It shows case studies of delta Scuti stars examining amplitude growth, super-Nyquist pulsation, and pulsation in a high-amplitude, population II SX Phoenicis star in a 343-d binary. This work informs our understanding of the relation of rotation to peculiarity, hence has applications to atomic diffusion theory.  This is a brilliant thesis written in an elegant and engaging style.

A phenomenology of working class experience
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ISBN: 0521650666 0521659159 0511011105 0511173210 0511052146 0511310994 0511489412 1280420529 0511152213 9780511011108 0511036914 9780511036910 9780511152214 9780521650663 9780511489419 9780521659154 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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This moving and challenging book by Simon Charlesworth deals with the personal consequences of poverty and class and the effects of growing up as part of a poor and stigmatized group. Charlesworth examines these themes by focussing on a particular town - Rotherham - in South Yorkshire, England, and using the personal testimony of disadvantaged people who live there, acquired through recorded interviews and conversations. He applies to these life stories the interpretative tools of philosophy and social theory, drawing in particular on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Merleau-Ponty, in order to explore the social relations and experiences of a distinct but largely ignored social group. The culture described in this book is not unique to Rotherham and Charlesworth argues that the themes and problems identified in this book will be familiar to economically powerless and politically dispossessed people everywhere.

Crossing the line : violence, play, and drama in naval equator traditions
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ISBN: 9053569146 9786610958382 9048505518 1280958383 1429454172 9781429454179 9789048505517 9781280958380 6610958386 9789053569146 Year: 2006 Publisher: [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press,

Museums in a material world
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ISBN: 9780415416993 9780415416986 9780203946855 041541699X 0415416981 0203946855 113411589X 1280932198 9786610932191 9781280932199 6610932190 9781134115846 9781134115884 9781134115891 Year: 2007 Publisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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Museums in the Material World seeks to both introduce classic and thought-provoking pieces and contrast them with articles which reveal grounded practice. The articles are selected from across the full breadth of museum disciplines and are linked by a logical narrative, as detailed in the section introductions. The choice of articles reveals how the debate has opened up on disciplinary practice, how the practices of the past have been critiqued and in some cases replaced, how it has become necessary to look beyond and outside disciplinary boundaries, and how old practices can in many circumstances continue to have validity. Museums in the Material World is about broadening horizons and moving museum studies students, and others, beyond the narrow confines of their own disciplinary thinking or indeed any narrow conception of collections. In essence this is a book about the practice of interpretation and will therefore be of great use to those students and museum practitionersinvolved in the field of material culture in museums.


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Maps of utopia
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ISBN: 1306411432 0191640018 0199606595 0191738514 9780191640018 9780191738517 9780199606597 9781306411431 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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This is a study of the literary theories of H.G. Wells, the founding father of English science fiction and once the most widely read writer in the world. It explores his career, during which he produced popular science, educational theory, history politics, and prophecy, as well as realist, experimental, and science fiction.

Emotion and social theory : corporeal reflections on the (Ir)rational
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ISBN: 076195628X 0761956298 1280369507 9786610369508 1412933846 9781412933841 9781446217771 1446217779 9781280369506 9780761956280 9780761956297 9781446227428 1446227421 Year: 2001 Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications,

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This critical account of the resurgence of emotions in social theory draws on a wide range of sources, both classical and contemporary to examine this once marginalised topic.

The carver's art
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ISBN: 0813147867 9780813147864 0813108632 9780813108636 081318729X Year: 1996 Publisher: Lexington, Ky. University Press of Kentucky

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Chains carved from a single block of wood, cages whittled with wooden balls rattling inside -- all ""made with just a pocketknife"" -- are among our most enduring folk designs. Who makes them and why? what is their history? what do they mean for their makers, for their viewers, for our society? Simon J. Bronner portrays four wood carvers in southern Indiana, men who had been transplanted from the rural landscapes of their youth to industrial towns. After retiring, they took up a skill they remembered from childhood. Bronner discusses how creativity helped these men adjust to change and how vie

Medicine and the body
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ISBN: 1446265250 1283880865 0761956387 9781446265253 9780761956389 9781446217795 1446217795 9780761956396 0761956395 9781283880862 Year: 2003 Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage,

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Taking recent debates on the body and society as its point of departure, the book critically re-examines a series of embodied issues and emotional agendas in health and illness.


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The hallowing of logic
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ISBN: 1280496207 9786613591432 9004226419 9789004226418 9004226400 9789004226401 9781280496202 9789004226401 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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While Richard Baxter (1615-91) has been called the ‘chief of English Protestant schoolmen’, few studies of his theology exist, and none of his major systematic work the Methodus Theologiae (1681). Through examining the scriptural and metaphysical foundations of his exemplaristic logic, and engaging extensively with his medieval and early modern sources, this study presents Baxter’s understanding of method as the unfolding of the believer’s relation with the Triune God through salvation history, revealing his profound debt to Scotist and Nominalist thought. In tracing the manifold ramifications of this method it offers a fresh reading of Baxter’s soteriology, countering the charges of moralism and rationalism often levelled at him, and placing his thought within a scholastic paradigm of ‘faith seeking understanding’.

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