Book Review: I. New Testament: Jesus in Modern Criticism

New Testament Textual Criticism: The Case for Byzantine Priority

1. From the beginning of the modern critical era in the nineteenth century the Byzantine Textform has had a questionable reputation. Associated as it was with the faulty Textus Receptus editions which stemmed from Erasmus' or Ximenes' uncritical selection of a small number of late manuscripts (hereafter MSS), scholars in general have tended to label the Byzantine form of text "late and secondar...

Criticism of Benacerraf’s Criticism of Modern Eleatics

I analyze here Benacerraf’s criticism of Thomson arguments on the impossibility of ω-supertasks. Although Benacerraf’s criticism is well founded, his analysis of Thomson’s lamp is incomplete. In fact, it is possible to consider a new line of argument, which Benacerraf only incidentally considered, based on the functioning laws of the lamp. This argument leads to a contradictory result that comp...

Book review ENZYME KINETICS A Modern Approach

New Testament Use of the Old Testament

The present writer has counted 224 direct citations introduced by a definite formula indicating the writer purposed to quote. To these must be added seven cases where a second quotation is introduced by the conjunction “and,” and 19 cases where a paraphrase or summary rather than a direct quotation follows the introductory formula. We may further note at least 45 instances where the similarity ...

a review on the book “modern epidemiology”

سومین چاپ کتاب «اپیدمیولوژی نوین» (modern epidemiology) در سال 2008 میلادی و توسط انتشارات lippincott williams wilkins با قیمت 101 دلار، روانه بازار کتاب شد. سرنوشت این کتاب، همانند سرنوشت دانش اپیدمیولوژی، بسیار جذاب و شنیدنی است. چاپ اول کتاب 20 سال قبل از چاپ سوم، یعنی در سال 1988 میلادی منتشر شده بود. چاپ اول، فقط یک نویسنده داشت و بسیار کم حجم بود. چاپ دوم کتاب 12 سال بعد از چاپ اول، یعنی ...