Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:20:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Samuel.pdf: 484521 bytes, checksum: b8142a6c741b899e22da6e0bff1a85b1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-30 / This research seeks to examine trough the exegetic methodology of the passage of Micah 2.1-5 in order to reconstruct the scenario in which emerged the harsh social criticism of the prophet. The text presents in its literary analysis, features of a prophetic speech united and framed within a poetic style. Its structure is divided into two units (denounces and punishments), where each unit has two other subunits (generic and specific). The literary genre harmonizes with a speech of a prophetic judgement generally known as "oracle hoy." The analysis of the historical dimension lies the founding event in 701 B.C. in Jewish Shephelah. An investigative analysis of the accusation contents was guided by a theoretical model of the Tributary Mode of Production observes a conflict between two groups. In this conflict Micah made an accusation to a group of power in Judah that used to plan and execute criminal acts against peasant heritage. The punishment describes the conspiracy and the divine plan against this group of power. Yahweh had planned an identical evil to what they had done, dishonor and deprive of their possessions. The cultural values of honor and shame underlie this oracle. For breaching their duties close to Yahweh and to the people, the criminals would lose all their rights and, above all, the honor before the own community. Based in the theoretical model from the Tributary Mode of production, it was verified in the social situation of Judah in the eighth century, a tension existed between village and city. The communities villages paid tribute to the city, as products and services. The excessive tribute s collection and the flaws in the system of mutual help forced the individuals and families to contract debts, to mortgage their inherited land of their parents and eventually to lose them. The prophet Micah was the spokesman of the protest of the peasant class that decides to react to the abuses practiced by city s elite. For him, Yahweh listens the complaint of those who are being oppressed and intervenes in the history, taking the oppressed side.(AU) / Esta pesquisa procura examinar, à luz da metodologia exegética, a perícope de Miqueias 2,1-5, a fim de reconstruir o cenário no qual emergiu a dura crítica social do profeta. O texto apresenta, em sua análise literária, características de um dito profético coeso, em estilo poético. Sua estrutura encontra-se dividida em duas unidades (denúncia e castigo), sendo que cada uma das unidades possui outras duas subunidades (genérica e específica). O gênero literário harmoniza-se com um dito profético de julgamento geralmente conhecido como oráculo ai . A análise da dimensão histórica situa o acontecimento fundante em 701 a.C., na Sefelá judaíta. Numa análise investigativa do conteúdo da denúncia norteado pelo modelo teórico do modo de produção tributário, observa-se um conflito entre dois grupos. Nesse conflito, Miqueias faz uma acusação a um grupo de poder em Judá que planeja e executa ações criminosas contra a herança camponesa. O castigo descreve a conspiração e o plano divino contra esse grupo de poder. Javé havia planejado um mal idêntico ao que eles haviam cometido, desonra e privação de suas possessões. Os valores culturais de honra e vergonha subjazem a esse oráculo. Por descumprirem seus deveres junto a Javé e ao povo, os criminosos perderiam todos os seus direitos e, sobretudo, a honra perante a própria comunidade. Com base no modelo teórico do modo de produção tributário, constata-se que, na situação social em Judá no oitavo século, prevalecia um conflito entre campo e cidade. As comunidades aldeãs pagavam tributo à cidade em forma de produtos e serviços. A excessiva arrecadação de tributo e as falhas no sistema de ajuda mútua forçaram os indivíduos e famílias a contrair dívidas, a hipotecar suas terras herdadas dos pais e eventualmente perdê-las. O profeta Miqueias é o porta-voz do protesto da classe campesina que resolve reagir aos desmandos praticados pela elite citadina. Para ele, Javé escuta a queixa dos que estão sendo oprimidos e intervém na história tomando o partido do oprimido.(AU)

Libertação, Conversão e Catequese em Jo 9 tem o propósito de identificar o itinerário percorrido por uma pessoa cega de nascença para confessar sua adesão de fé, publicamente, a Jesus, como o Filho do homem, em tempos de exclusão da sinagoga. A libertação das normas e leis que não estão em defesa da vida e, que, por isso, não são de Deus, exige coragem, a partir da abertura dos olhos e da mente, frente a uma situação que exclui. O primeiro capítulo aborda o evangelho segundo a comunidade joanina como um todo, evidenciando suas principais características, sua relação com as festas judaicas e o sábado. O segundo capítulo aprofunda o estudo da narrativa da cura do cego de nascença, para evidenciar como a libertação, conversão e catequese aparecem no texto. Essa narrativa apresenta o processo de adesão a Jesus como o Filho do homem e, como, para isso, Ele precisa ser visto perfeitamente como Ele é. Para tal, é necessária a abertura gradativa da visão, mesmo em tempo de punição e exclusão, por parte dos judeus fariseus, a quem nEle confessa sua fé. O entendimento a respeito de quem é Jesus dá-se a partir do fazer o que ele manda; enfrentar com coragem os interrogatórios do grupo dos judeus fariseus e não temer mostrar opinião contrária a eles, mesmo que isso resulte em uma punição. O cego curado é modelo para a comunidade ao se deixar iluminar por Jesus. O terceiro capítulo aprofunda como a catequese pode ser feita a partir do texto de Jo 9. Estuda a forma como a comunidade joanina desenvolveu o seu processo catequético, o da comunidade judaica e da comunidade cristã primitiva. Com base no itinerário de libertação e conversão, realizado pelo cego curado, apresentamos alguns elementos indicativos para a catequese de adultos em nossos dias. / Liberation, Conversion and Catechesis have the purpose, in John 9, to identify the itinerary of a person born blind in order to profess publicly his adhesion of faith to Jesus, as the Son of Man, in a time of exclusion from the synagogue. The liberation from laws and rules not directed towards defending life and, therefore, not according to the will of God, with regard to an excluding situation, takes courage after having opened eyes and mind. The first chapter considers the gospel according to the community of John as a whole, pointing out its main characteristics, its relation to the Jewish Feasts and the Sabbath. Chapter two deepens the study of the narration about the healing of the man born blind so as to make clear how liberation, conversion and catechesis become evident in the text. The narration presents the process of adhesion to Jesus as the Son of Man, showing how, accordingly, Jesus has to be seen exactly like he is. Therefore, the person who professes faith in Him, even in times of punishment and exclusion by the Jews and Pharisees, needs having his eyes gradually opened. The understanding of who Jesus is begins with doing what he orders, confronting courageously the questionning by the group of Jews Pharisees and not fearing to express an opinion contrary to theirs, even at the risk of punishment. The man born blind now healed, who lets himself be illuminated by Jesus, is a model for the community. Chapter three shows how the text of John 9 can be used for catechesis and how the community of John, the Jewish and the ancient Christian communities developed their catechetical process. Based on the itinerary of liberation and conversion made by the man born blind now healed, indicative elements for the catechesis of adults in our days are presented.

La recherche proposée souhaite être une contribution aux études coraniques contemporaines. Elle vise à analyser un genre prépondérant du Coran : la polémique. L'étude s'appuie pour l'essentiel sur l'analyse du contre-discours tenu par les détracteurs du Coran, dont ce dernier se fait lui-même l'écho, et la riposte coranique qu'elle génère. L'investigation tentera de répondre aux questions suivantes : comment le discours coranique réfute la parole qui le nie ? Quelles sont les stratégies discursives mises en place ? Quelles sont les représentations de l'opposant qu'elles entraînent ? A quels effets (de sens) sur qui et sur quoi ces stratégies conduisent-elles ? Ce travail empruntera des voies méthodologiques pluridisciplinaires issues des sciences de l'histoire des religions, des théories de la linguistique (la polyphonie, l'intertextualité et le discours rapporté) et des sciences de l'argumentation et de la rhétorique (le modèle dialogal et les questions argumentatives). / Although counter-discourse - or the Qur'ān's quotation of opponents real or fictitious - is a fundamental characteristic of the Qurānic rhetoric, it has never been systematically studied. This PhD seeks to partly fill in this gap. For this purpose, our work will propose a localization, a quantification and a categorization of the phenomenon in the Qurānic corpus. The investigation will attempt to answer the following questions : how the Qur'anic discourse rejects the words that denies itself ? What are the discursive strategies in place ? What are the representations of the opponents ? This work will use multidisciplinary science of history of religions, theories of linguistics (polyphony, intertextuality, and reported speech) and science of argumentation and rhetoric.

About two years after publishing so called Muhammad cartoons in Denmark, the Swedish regional newspaper Nerikes Allehanda in Orebro published an editorial on self-censorship. A drawing of Prophet Muhammad as a Roundabout dog, drawn by Lars Vilks, was illustrating the article. Publishing of Muhammad drawing was followed by reactions both in Sweden and in some other countries especially in the muslim world. There are many differences and similarities between the publishing in Denmark and Sweden. There are differences and similarities between the two cases even regarding to the reactions in muslim countries. Mass media have certainly played an important role in mediating information about the publishing to people in muslim countries. Which information and how they were mediated are significant for shaping perceptions and thereby the reactions that followed the publishing of Muhammad drawing in Sweden. This essay is investigating how newspapers and online newspapers (web newspapers) in nine muslim countries reported about the publishing of Muhammad drawing. The subjects that newspapers were interesting of and the discourses domination reporting are in focus for this investigation. This essay will also investigate how newspapers and online newspapers in muslim countries covered two issues which were well covered by Swedish media, A threat against Lars Vilks from organization "Islamic State in Iraq" and a statement from the Iranian president Ahmadinejad regarding the Muhammad drawing in Nerikes Allehanda.

The aim of The Diploma Thesis was to compile a conceptual rainfall-runoff model, that would be eligible to model discharge in conditions of climate changes. After thorough verifications of possible variants, user program Runoff Prophet that is eligible to simulate discharge in closing profile of any river basin was compiled within this paper. Runoff Prophet is deterministic lumped model with monthly computation time step and from the hydrologic phenomena it takes soil moisture, evapotranspiration, groundwater flow and the watercourse flow into account. Its calibration is based on the differential evolution principle with Nash–Sutcliffe model efficiency coefficient as the calibration criterion. Developed software was tested on Vír I. catchment basin and the results of this probe were evaluated from viewpoints of air temperature, precipitation and discharge characteristics in the Dalečín measurement river cross section in distant future according to A1B SRES climate scenario, implemented in LARS-WG weather generator.

A Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) is a sparse network where connectivity is regulated by the proximity of mobile nodes. Connections are sporadic and the delivery rate is closely related to node movement. As network resources often are limited in such settings, it is useful to monitor the network in order to make more efficient communication decisions. This study investigates existing routing protocols and monitoring tools for DTN that best cope with the requirements of a tactical military network. A model is proposed to estimate source to destination delay in DTN. This model is evaluated in a Java-based software simulator called The ONE. In order to match the tactical military environment, two scenarios are constructed. The squad scenario simulates the formation movement pattern of several squads and the hierarchical communication scheme that is maintained in a military context. The other scenario simulates a convoy line movement of a military group during transportation. The results of this study show that the proposed mechanism can improve delivery rate and reduce network overhead in settings with strict buffer limitations. The estimation worked best in scenarios that contained some patterns of movement or communication. These patterns are resembled in the model's collected data and the model can provide the user with rough estimates of end-to-end delays in the network. Primary use of this model has been to reduce number of old messages in the network, but other applications like anomaly detection are also discussed in this work. / Ett avbrottstolerant nätverk (DTN) är ett glest nät där konnektiviteten avgörs av närheten bland de rörliga noderna i nätverket. Avbrotten i ett sådant nät förekommer ofta och sporadiskt. Eftersom nätverksresurserna oftast är begränsade i sådana sammanhang, så är det lämpligt att övervaka nätverket för att göra det möjligt att fatta mer effektiva kommunikationsbeslut. Det här arbetet undersöker olika routingalgoritmer och övervakningsvektyg för DTN med hänsyn till de krav som ställs av ett taktiskt nät. En modell för att uppskatta fördröjningen från källa till destination är framtagen i arbetet. Modellen är utvärderad med hjälp av en Javabaserad mjukvarusimulator som heter The ONE. För att bäst representera den miljö som uppstår i militära sammanhang är två scenarion framtagna. Det första är ett truppscenario där nodernar rör sig i fromationer och nättrafiken följer den hierarkiska modellen som används i militär kommunikation. Det andra scenariot är ett konvojscenario där enheter marcherar på led. Resultaten från denna studie visar att den föreslagna modellen kan öka andelen levererade meddelanden och minska nätverksbelastningen i en miljö där bufferstorleken hos noderna är begränsad. Uppskattningen visade sig fungera bäst i scenarion som innehöll någon form av mönster bland nodernas rörelse eller deras kommunikation. Dessa mönster återspeglas i modellens insamlade data och modellen kan förse användaren med en grov estimering av slutfördröjningen till alla destinationer i nätet. Modellen har i huvudsak använts till att minska antalet gamla meddelanden i nätet, men arbetet berör även andra användningsområden som anomalidetektion.

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This thesis in Church History presents a biographic study on the life of Ben Marais against the political and ecclesiastic background of South Africa of the 20th century. The significance of Ben Marais’ life is approached through his correspondence with the secretaries of the World Council of Churches during the 1960s and 1970s. The letters, pertaining to the World Council of Churches financial and moral support for the organisations fighting against Apartheid, reflect on Ben Marais’ involvement with the World Council and his particular concerns. Through a study on the life of Ben Marais insight can be gained into the thinking of the leadership of the NG Kerk. The study presents Ben Marais as a prophet who challenged the then popular tendencies in the NG Kerk theology on policy justification and on the relation between religion and nationalism. The central question in this study asks, what led an ordinary man, of humble background, to the insights he reflected, and guided him through times of transparent opposition to maintain his belief in what was right and just? What was the essence of his theology and understanding of the South African problem? To what extent could the church leaders of the present, and the future learn from his example and life, in terms of the tribulations faced, different schools of thought, and sentiments, both nationalistic and spiritual? The study then wishes to test the following hypothesis: Ben Marais can be considered as one of the steadfast and humble prophets of the church in Southern Africa during the 20th century, who serves as an example of Christian Brotherhood, regardless of the perplexities, for present and future generations on relations between the affairs of faith, state and society. The thesis presents a broader introduction on Church Historiography. Ben Marais’ own historiographical reflection is considered. The approaches to history are summarised as background to the periodisation model adopted by the study. The study wishes to work with a thematic model set against a chronological framework. Sensitivity to geographical concerns is also expressed. Afrikaner Nationalism is not seen in isolation, but in relation to African, English and Indian Nationalism. / Thesis (DD)--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Church History and Church Policy / unrestricted

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The Battle of Tippecanoe marked the turning point in relations between Anglo/American and Native American cultures, whose incompatible ways of understanding and living on the land and religious views made co-existence improbable. The battle also served as a last ditch effort by young, desperate warriors following the orders of a Prophet whose promises of invincibility and dominance proved untrue. The victory at Tippecanoe, and subsequent success during the War of 1812, strengthened the military prowess and popularity of the battle’s commander William Henry Harrison and his men. Overtime, the legacy of Harrison, his men, and Battle of Tippecanoe grew in significance. This thesis is an examination of the academic interpretation and public memory of the Battle of Tippecanoe. Until the cultural history movement by scholars in the mid-twentieth century, historical interpretation and public memory mirrored one another in the remembrance of the battle. As historians aimed to provide a more balanced and nuanced understanding of the Battle of Tippecanoe, the public memory of the battle remained entrenched in the teachings highlighted during Progressive Era. The purpose of this thesis is to trace the origins of both schools of thought as the importance and significance of the battle’s interpretation changed over the last 200 years.

The three papers included in this thesis reflect my development as a graduate student during the course of my master's program at Brigham Young Universtiy. I came to Brigham Young University interested in creative writing and developed a love for research and criticism. My work in nineteenth century American literature led to the first two papers. Both deal with literary history, the first narrow in scope, devoted to a study of the significance of a single play, the second broad in scope, devoted to a study of the unifying thread of anti-sentimentalism in the writings of the major American realists. These papers reflect both my research in and commitment to American literary criticism. My third paper is a study of the significance of violence in the poetry of Clinton F. Larson. I have attempted to be objective and honest in my assessment of Dr. Larson's poetry. My thesis on his poetry is entirely my own. To my knowledge this is a first: a first study of Dr. Larson's poetry, and a first paper on his work ever included in a master's thesis. I am happy to have the privilege of opening up this area of investigation. It is my hope that this study will stimulate further discussion of his work.