Book Review: Mitzi J. Smith and Yung Suk Kim, Toward Decentering the New Testament: A Reintroduction

Religion and Spirituality: Adam Smith versus J-J Rousseau

Adam Smith and J-J Rousseau share some common ground when it comes to religion, namely that they were born into  and educated in cultural contexts deeply shaped by Reformed Christianity. However, close consideration of their writings on religion reveal marked difference. This paper explores those differences and finds that Rousseau and Smith are radically at odds on this score. Smith has almost...

"Eating" and "Drinking" in the Book of Revelation: A Study of New Testament Thought and Theolgy

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 ...

Risk Socity: Towards a New Modernity (Book Review)

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Book Review: Linguistic Structure Prediction by Noah A. Smith

Noah Smith's ambitious new monograph, Linguistic Structure Prediction, " aims to bridge the gap between natural language processing and machine learning. " Given that current natural language processing (NLP) research makes heavy demands on machine-learning techniques, and a sizeable fraction of modern machine learning (ML) research focuses on structure prediction, this is clearly a timely and ...