Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Engels en Nederlands.

Thesis--Université de Paris VII, 1978. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 638-693).

When handling metaphor, some Romans, New Testament and Biblical studies scholarship, seeks it in the text and then tries to define it - make it proper; their property, or that of who they think is the proprietor. However, the definitions and language used to define and describe metaphor are actually within metaphor itself. Metaphor is often interpreted before it is interpreted. Expectations are made, and some aspects of the sense of a word or phrase are elided, pushed away or even rejected, whilst others are retained, welcomed or even celebrated. Whilst this loss and gain might be unconscious or indirect, its force is part of an insistent pattern of usure. However, just as every reservoir drained by a bell mouth causes a nearby river to throb, that which is oppressed or pushed away emerges elsewhere, unpredictably - withdrawal, or retrait, is also extension. In Romans, the role of the believer in the great eschatological project of God, and in their relationship to God, is one that some traditional interpretations seek to read as being very limited - often to a one-way process of transferral from God to human. Financial-economic, oleicultural and somatic metaphor are kept in check through the pattern of usure. But it can also be read against the grain. The methodology of usure-retrait, developed in this thesis from Derrida's "White Mythology" and "The Retrait of Metaphor", is used to read texts from Romans 4, 11 and 12 in a way that appreciates what is gained through metaphor, even if this gain goes against the apparent intention, or authorised meanings. The result of this study is an appreciation of the reciprocity, synergy, and mutuality, albeit asymmetrical, of the relationship between the believer and God. This leads to an assessment that their power, as well as their responsibility, is much greater than some interpretations would cede. They are active, and help shape, form and determine not only God's works, but God himself.

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Texte remanié de: Th. doct.--Hist. de l'art--Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2001. Titre de soutenance : Les portails romans des églises de Haute-Auvergne. / Notes bibliogr. Glossaire.

Mémoire de fin d'étude ENSB--Ecole nationale supérieure des bibliothèques, 1985.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris IV, 1978. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 798-817) and index.

Thesis (doctoral)--l'Université de Nancy II, 1977. / Includes indexes. BIbliography: p. 1007-1041.

This thesis treats three interconnected topics of Spanish history between 206 B.C. and Augustus: immigration from Italy, provincial and local government and the extension of civitas Romana and ius Latii to Spaniards. In different ways, these formed the framework of, and lent encouragement to, the Romanization of the Peninsula, the effects of which still endure. Though not overlooked by English-speaking scholars, Spain has not attracted attention as consistent and extensive as that accorded other lands of the Roman empire. Moreover, apart from some research by Spaniards, investigation of the period generally has tended to be particularist - concerning itself with limited problems such as Caesarian and Augustan colonization, second-century-B.C. military policy and the economic state of the country at various moments; and often occurs as part of a broader survey of conditions over several provinces (if not of the whole empire), with some loss of depth. Concentration on Spain alone, of course, can suffer from a lack of breadth and analogy, especially as paucity of evidence permanently afflicts nearly every topic in Republican Spanish history save military affairs (where it is intermittent). Yet the risk is worth taking: the problems are important as well as interesting. [Continued in text ...]

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met lit. opg., filmogr.