Thesis (M.A.)--Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1986. / Typescript. Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-104).

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of North Texas, 2006. / System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Includes analysis by composer. Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-43).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 2001. / Spine title: Cell death in olfactory development. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-151). Also available online through Digital Dissertations.

The Preface examines the concept of life in the Old Testament which is discovered to be centred firmly on this world; special reference is made to life in the Wisdom Literature. Death at the end of a long and full life was accepted with resignation. Despite the paucity of references to death and the underworld in the Old Testament, there are passages which contain references to the mythology of death. The first chapter provides a background by reviewing the relevant aspects of the mythology of death in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Canaan. Chapter 2 lists the names for the underworld in the Old Testament end considers the mythological allusions which contain references to the location and characteristics of the underworld. Chapter 3 discusses the dwellers in the underworld. The words rp'um in the Ugaritic texts and rp'm in Phoenician inscriptions are surveyed as a background to rephaim in the Old Testament, The practices of necromancy and tomb-offerings are considered and it is concluded that while popular practice condoned them, official religion condemned them. In the fourth chapter the relation between the world ocean and the nether world is set out. As in the rest of the Ancient Near East the underworld was represented as lying in the depths of the ocean at the foot of the pillars which supported the earth. The deceased had to traverse this ocean on his way to the underworld. Chapter 5 deals with the concept of Sheol as a monster with gaping jaws and an insatiable appetite. This figure owes its ultimate origin to the Ugaritic god of death, Mot, whose ravenous appetite was proverbial. The sixth chapter surveys the personifications of death as a hunter, a shepherd and a robber. The powers of the underworld such as Abaddon, Sheol, Death the King of Terrors and the First-born of Death are discussed. In conclusion, it is observed that the mythological allusions are fragmented and moribund, serving, for the most part, a literary purpose within the context of the Old Testament. Death was an experience which meant the cessation of all life.

Esta dissertação trata do desmedido, do desumano, da afirmação, da criação, da morte. Trata de entender a morte como um acontecimento e este como importante conceito das Filosofias da Diferença, em especial a de Gilles Deleuze. É enquanto acontecimento que a morte passa a agregar o máximo da neutralidade em relação ao já-formado, mas também o máximo da potência capaz de tudo criar, inclusive uma existência passível de superar a forma humana com sua perpétua reprodução do mesmo e da subjugação no presente. Morte como a tarefa desumanizante que está na base da função política da Psicologia. E, assim, trata da morte como mecanismo potencializador de vida e não como sua finalização absoluta e infértil. Morte que povoa uma vida da imanência e dá a ela toda sua virtualidade. Esta dissertação trata do colapso, do simulacro, do tempo aiônico, do querer. Trata do riso. / This dissertation deals with the immeasurable, the dehumanizing, the affirmation, the creation, death. It deals with the understanding of death as an event and as an important concept of the Philosophies of Difference, especially the one of Gilles Deleuze. It is while an event that death starts to aggregate a maximum of neutrality in relation to the already-formed, but the maximum of the potency able to create everything, and also an existence capable of overcoming a human form with its perpetuous reproduction of itself and of subjugation in the present. Death as the dehumanizing task is in the basis of political function of Psychology. And, thus, approaches death as a potentiality mechanism of life and not as its absolute and infertile finalization. Death populates a life of immanence, and gives it all its virtuality. This dissertation deals with the collapse, the simulacrum, the aionic time, will. It deals with laughter.

From Preface: The present study attempts to explore, both theoretically and empirically, some implications that a personal consideration of death may have for the way we live our lives. Existential-Phenomenology has concerned itself with the description of the dimensions of human existence. It is in this enquiry that Death, and through it, human finitude, emerges as an important dimension of existence. It is not the fact of death itself, but the MEANING it has for our lives which may be of important consequence. It is to this area that this research addresses itself. The methodology employed arises out of a concern to contribute to the establishment of Psychology as a Human Science. To this end, a chapter focusing on the philosophical bases of methodology is included. It is hoped that this study may, however little, contribute both to the field of Thanatology as well as to the more theoretical issue of what Psychology is, and where it is going. / KMBT_363 / Adobe Acrobat 9.53 Paper Capture Plug-in

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Esta dissertação trata do desmedido, do desumano, da afirmação, da criação, da morte. Trata de entender a morte como um acontecimento e este como importante conceito das Filosofias da Diferença, em especial a de Gilles Deleuze. É enquanto acontecimento que a morte passa a agregar o máximo da neutralidade em relação ao já-formado, mas também o máximo da potência capaz de tudo criar, inclusive uma existência passível de superar a forma humana com sua perpétua reprodução do mesmo e da subjugação no presente. Morte como a tarefa desumanizante que está na base da função política da Psicologia. E, assim, trata da morte como mecanismo potencializador de vida e não como sua finalização absoluta e infértil. Morte que povoa uma vida da imanência e dá a ela toda sua virtualidade. Esta dissertação trata do colapso, do simulacro, do tempo aiônico, do querer. Trata do riso. / This dissertation deals with the immeasurable, the dehumanizing, the affirmation, the creation, death. It deals with the understanding of death as an event and as an important concept of the Philosophies of Difference, especially the one of Gilles Deleuze. It is while an event that death starts to aggregate a maximum of neutrality in relation to the already-formed, but the maximum of the potency able to create everything, and also an existence capable of overcoming a human form with its perpetuous reproduction of itself and of subjugation in the present. Death as the dehumanizing task is in the basis of political function of Psychology. And, thus, approaches death as a potentiality mechanism of life and not as its absolute and infertile finalization. Death populates a life of immanence, and gives it all its virtuality. This dissertation deals with the collapse, the simulacrum, the aionic time, will. It deals with laughter.

Esta dissertação trata do desmedido, do desumano, da afirmação, da criação, da morte. Trata de entender a morte como um acontecimento e este como importante conceito das Filosofias da Diferença, em especial a de Gilles Deleuze. É enquanto acontecimento que a morte passa a agregar o máximo da neutralidade em relação ao já-formado, mas também o máximo da potência capaz de tudo criar, inclusive uma existência passível de superar a forma humana com sua perpétua reprodução do mesmo e da subjugação no presente. Morte como a tarefa desumanizante que está na base da função política da Psicologia. E, assim, trata da morte como mecanismo potencializador de vida e não como sua finalização absoluta e infértil. Morte que povoa uma vida da imanência e dá a ela toda sua virtualidade. Esta dissertação trata do colapso, do simulacro, do tempo aiônico, do querer. Trata do riso. / This dissertation deals with the immeasurable, the dehumanizing, the affirmation, the creation, death. It deals with the understanding of death as an event and as an important concept of the Philosophies of Difference, especially the one of Gilles Deleuze. It is while an event that death starts to aggregate a maximum of neutrality in relation to the already-formed, but the maximum of the potency able to create everything, and also an existence capable of overcoming a human form with its perpetuous reproduction of itself and of subjugation in the present. Death as the dehumanizing task is in the basis of political function of Psychology. And, thus, approaches death as a potentiality mechanism of life and not as its absolute and infertile finalization. Death populates a life of immanence, and gives it all its virtuality. This dissertation deals with the collapse, the simulacrum, the aionic time, will. It deals with laughter.