This investigation is about the theological perspectives in Ezra and Nehemiah on the concept of ‘Yahweh’s people’ during the early post-exilic period (539-350 BC). The study has utilized literary and historical methods with a theological perspective since the text of the Bible is a literary, historical and theological document (cf Gorman 2001:8; McKenzie&Haynes 1999:20-21). The books of Ezra and Nehemiah formed the primary sources of the research. The Abrahamic and the Mosaic covenants, as well as the Ancient Near Eastern Treaty pattern have also been investigated as a background picture to the discussion in Ezra and Nehemiah. The study reveals that there is both an exclusive and an inclusive perspective in Ezra and Nehemiah. Similar perspectives are found in the Abrahamic/Mosaic covenants. These perspectives concern the conception of ‘Yahweh’s people’ and other nations, foreigners and aliens. On the one hand, the exclusive’ theological perspective in Ezra and Nehemiah looks at those who did not go into exile and essentially, the rest of the other people as ‘foreigners’ or aliens; but primarily as those who are not ‘Yahweh’s people’. Non-exiles were perceived as a threat to the religious, political, economic, social life, and progress of the early returned exiles. On the other hand, the inclusive theological perspective in Ezra and Nehemiah viewed non-exiles or other nations/foreigners with sympathy and appreciation (cf Ezr 1:1-3; 3:7; 4:2; 6:13-14; 10:15; Neh 2:8-9). This group considered the so-called foreigners as partners, friends and human beings who could embrace Yahweh as their God. In view of the dual perspectives, I have argued that the author(s)/editor(s) of the books of Ezra and Nehemiah re-interpreted certain passages from the Pentateuch and from the deuteronomic-deuteronomistic history in a peculiar way to support the exclusive religious and social reforms of Ezra and Nehemiah. Thus, this investigation has shown that Israel and essentially all other nations, races and people could become ‘Yahweh’s people’ through appropriate covenant means. These covenant processes included: -- Yahweh’s promise to become the God of the Patriarchs as well as the God of Israel (cf Gn 17:7-8); --The notion of Abraham as the father of a multitude of nations (cf Gn 17:5); -- Circumcision (cf Gn 17:10-14); -- The blessing of other nations via Abraham and his descendants (cf Gn 12:3; 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14); -- Food provision (cf Ex 23:10-11; Lv 19:9-10; 23:22; 25:1-7; Dt 14:28-29; 24:19-21; 26:12-15); -- Sabbath keeping (cf Ex 20:8-11; 23:12; Dt 5:12-15); -- Celebration of Passover, feasts of Weeks and Tabernacles (cf Ex 12:17-20, 48-49; Nm 9:14; Dt 16:10-14); -- Equality of both the Israelites and the aliens before the law of Yahweh (cf Ex 12:49; Lv 24:22; Nm 9:14; 15:13-16, 29-30); -- Intermarriage (cf Tamar-Gn 38:6-30; Moses-Nm 12:1-2; Ruth-Rt 1:16-17; 4:13-22; Rahab-Jos 6:22-23 and Bathsheba-2 Sm 11:3, 26-27; 12:24-25); -- Sacrificial offering (cf Lv 22:17-20, 25; Nm 15:13-16) and -- Cities of refuge (cf Nm 35:14-15). The reforms of Ezra and Nehemiah ignored this inclusive perspective of the two covenants. Ezra and Nehemiah adopted the exclusive perspective of both covenants as the basis for their reforms. This is a one-sided understanding of the Abrahamic and the Mosaic covenant perspective on ‘Yahweh’s people’. A close reading of the two covenants reveals the openness of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to all nations, races, peoples and ethnic groups. Yahweh accepted all people who embraced him as their God through appropriate covenant means. Yahweh cannot be confined to a single group of people as presupposed in Ezra and Nehemiah. He cannot be localized! / Thesis (PhD (Old Testament Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Old Testament Studies / unrestricted

Bibliography: pages 79-84. / This essay examines how the Cape government thought and felt about certain prominent Muslims, exiled from present day Indonesia to that colony, in the period 1652 to 1806. It has both descriptive and analytic functions. Descriptively, it seeks to find out what these thoughts and feelings were. Analytically, it seeks to explain why they came about. The essay contends that the way in which the exiles were perceived can only be understood by locating them in the wider Cape social, economic and political context. Accordingly, it describes elements of this context such as the Dutch colonial rationale, the Cape social structure, its culture and pertinent legal practices. Against this background, it then describes these perceptions. The description is general and specific. It examines perceptions of exiles in general by a study of the social class to which they belonged, namely the free blacks. It particularly focuses on the demography, the legal status and the economic position of this class. The final chapter of the essay is ties empirical backbone, being a specific and detailed examination of what the Cape government thought and felt about prominent individual exiles. As far as possible, it elicits all the evidence concerning these exiles, pertinent to the topic at hand, that is available in the prevailing historical literature. This essay's central thesis is that the exiles were peripheral to the concerns of the Cape government. Perceptions of individual exiles were nuanced and encompassed various attitudes, but at the core the exiles were not seen as important to their vital interests. The class to which the exiles belonged, the free blacks, were always at the demographic, legal, and economic margins of Cape society. The essay contends that the reason the exiles were peripheral in government perceptions was because of the general marginality of Muslims in the Cape context. They lacked numbers, and their role as a religious constituency was undermined by a society that subsumed such a constituency under various other concerns. The thesis is a departure from other studies on Cape Muslim history which this essay contends, tend to emphasise the "differentness" and centrality of the Muslim contribution.

À partir d’un corpus de six pièces de théâtre produites entre 2006 et 2016 par des Palestiniens, ce travail étudie l’élaboration de la spatialité dans les textes et ses interactions avec l’espace réel dans lequel ils se déploient. En raison des fortes contraintes imposées aux Palestiniens dans leurs mobilités, la pratique du territoire représente d’abord une expérience identitaire quimarque les conditions de création et les choix dramaturgiques. Le théâtre offre un espace pour raconter cette expérience et c’est le témoignage qui occupe la scène, dans diverses formes d’autobiographie scénique. Le texte, support de mémoire devient un objet littéraire où le récit de soi monologué permet aux Palestiniens d’exprimer l’exil qu’ils vivent, dans sa doublenature : géographique et psychologique. Dans ces récits scéniques, les personnages finissent par se confondre avec l’espace qu’ils décrivent ; s’élaborent alors des figures littéraires spécifiques à ce rapport à l’espace. Ainsi, l’image de l’enfermement manifeste les liens entre le texte et la réalité vécue et décrite. Cette poétique de l’espace participe aussi à la remise enquestion du mythe de la Palestine qui occupe les textes de cette décennie, et fournit ainsi un angle privilégié pour analyser les dynamiques identitaires des Palestiniens. / This work studies how the spatial dimension is elaborated in six theatre plays produced between 2006 and 2016 by Palestinians and how these texts interact with the real space within which they unfold. Because of the strong constraints imposed on Palestinians’ mobility, the practice of territory embodies an experience. This alters the conditions and choices of production and theatre offers a space to tell this experience. In this body of texts, testimony takes center stage in the form of staged autobiography. The text therefore becomes a literary object, rather than a medium for memory. Self-narrative allows Palestinians to express their exiles in both geographic and psychological terms, by using the form of the monologue. In their stories, the characters are so affected by this experience of territory that they end up being conflated with the space they describe. The spatial dimension in the texts is elaborated from literary figures. The image of imprisonment expresses in a direct manner the links between text and reality. It participates in the questioning of the myth of Palestine that fills the texts of this decade. It is indeed in real and textual space that the identity dynamics of Palestinians are being built.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:49:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ROSEMARY FRANCISCA NEVES.pdf: 508145 bytes, checksum: 88df5e6a8fef56827a528403c273b3a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-12-14 / This study deals with the pericope Is 49,1-6, which is known as the Second Song of the Servant of JHWH and which is inserted into Deutero-Isaias. We affirm that there is a cohesive unity within this block of text even though there is no unanimity among scholars with respect to the unity of the Song and with respect to the analysis of the structure of the same text. This being the case, we will work within that area where there is general agreement among scholars; that is, with respect to the parallelism contained in the Song. The literary genre is that of an autobiographical narrative which tells of the vocation of the Servant from his existence within his mother's womb up to the time of the call to actualize his mission. The Servant responds to God's call and proclaims himself as the one chosen to free the people of Israel. In order to concretize his mission the prophet-servant takes on the experience of suffering within the midst of a suffering people. The Servant is a prophet because he enters into the daily life of the exiles, participating in their gatherings and in their farm activities. Within community they were able to support one another through the practice of solidarity and of sharing, while affirming their identity and faith in the one God. Through this exegesis grounded in the historic-critical method, one grasps that the Servant is a prophet. The prophet-servant has the mission to be a light for the nations, and a bearer of salvation to the people of God by means of freeing them from their oppressors. / O objeto de estudo desta pesquisa é a perícope de Is 49,1-6, conhecida como o Segundo Canto do Servo de YHWH que está inserida no Dêutero-Isaías. Defendemos que a partir desta delimitação há uma coesão textual, embora não haja, entre os pesquisadores, uma unanimidade acerca da delimitação do Canto e acerca da relação de análise da estrutura do texto. Com isso, trabalharemos a partir da proximidade que há entre os estudiosos, que é o paralelismo existente no Canto. O gênero literário é de narrativa autobiográfica, que narra a vocação do servo desde o ventre materno ao chamado à realização de sua missão. O Servo responde ao chamado de Deus e se auto-proclama como o escolhido para libertar o povo de Israel. Para concretizar sua missão o profeta-servo fez a experiência de sofrimento no meio do povo sofrido. O Servo é um profeta porque esteve inserido no cotidiano dos exilados, participando das reuniões e das atividades agrícolas. Juntos, o Servo e o povo se reuniam em comunidades para cantar e ler a Palavra de YHWH. Esta experiência só foi possível por eles terem vivido em pequenas colônias. Em comunidade puderam apoiar um ao outro na prática da solidariedade e da partilha, afirmando sua identidade e fé no Deus Uno. A partir da exegese norteada pelo método histórico-crítico, compreende-se que o Servo é um profeta. O profeta-servo possui a missão de ser luz das nações, levando ao povo de Deus a salvação por meio da libertação dos opressores.

A pesquisa analisa a aparição dos temas do exílio, dos exilados e dos banidos nos debates sobre a anistia, ocorridos entre outubro de 1978 e agosto de 1979, no jornal Folha de São Paulo. O processo de abertura política no final da ditadura civil-militar, expresso nas modificações na legislação, como por exemplo, na aprovação da nova Lei de Segurança Nacional, abriu novas perspectivas para os exilados retornarem ao Brasil, coincidindo com um momento em que o jornal estava reavaliando a sua postura editorial frente ao fortalecimento da sociedade civil. A Folha fez a cobertura das atividades realizadas no exílio debatendo a anistia, mas concedeu um espaço maior aos exilados mais conhecidos, como Leonel Brizola, Luís Carlos Prestes e Miguel Arraes. Os artigos e notícias registraram a movimentação dos exilados para reivindicar o acesso a documentos básicos, como o passaporte, e a insegurança, no retorno ao Brasil – ainda antes da anistia – quanto à reabertura de processos na justiça militar. Em termos gerais, a cobertura da Folha sobre os temas do exílio e da anistia, no contexto do final da ditadura civil-militar, reforçou a associação dessa medida com a pacificação e a reconciliação nacional. / The research analyzes the appearance of the themes of exile, exiles and banished in the debates on amnesty, which occurred between October 1978 and August 1979, in the newspaper Folha de São Paulo. The process of political opening at the end of the civil-military dictatorship, expressed in changes in legislation, such as the adoption of the new National Security Law, opened up new prospects for exiles to return to Brazil, coinciding with a time when the newspaper was re-evaluating its editorial position regarding the strengthening of civil society. Folha covered the activities carried out in exile debating the amnesty, but granted a larger space to the more well-known exiles, such as Leonel Brizola, Luís Carlos Prestes and Miguel Arraes. The articles and news reported the movement of exiles to claim access to basic documents, such as passports, and insecurity, on returning to Brazil – even before the amnesty – regarding the reopening of military justice proceedings. In general terms, Folha's coverage of the issues of exile and amnesty, in the context of the end of the civil-military dictatorship, reinforced the association of this measure with pacification and national reconciliation.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-229). Also available on the Internet.

Univ., Diss.--Augsburg, 2004.

This thesis examines the lives of Cuban refugees who entered Atlanta, Georgia between 1950 and 1980. It explores early trans-national ties between the two areas. and how Cuban refugees relied on this relationship when they left the island. It shows the process they went through from finding aid and shelter to becoming a strong active community. It explains the role religious institutions had in settling refugees and shows how the state had to work to become equipped to provide resources to a large influx of Spanish-speakers. Through this thesis one will learn of the beginnings of an important Latino community in Atlanta and how its formation prepared the city for larger immigrant groups that would arrive later.