From Polemic to Exegesis: The Ancient Philosophical Commentary

Recovering Origen’s Pauline Exegesis: Exegesis and Eschatology in the Commentary on Ephesians

Origen’s Commentary on Ephesians is preserved only in fragments excerpted in a Byzantine catena, which are inadequate for reconstructing Origen’s interpretation of this letter. This article investigates the possibility that a commentary on the same text by Jerome preserves the interplay in Origen’s commentary between the investigation of specific exegetical problems and the interpretation of th...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

From Temporality to Eternity: Three Philosophical Approaches

This article studies the problem of eternal life from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the approaches of Bergson, Husserl, and Heidegger from contemporary philosophy, and shows that using these three philosophical approaches can better explain certain aspects of revealed theology, such as resurrection of flesh, eternity in a transcendent dimension, and eternal life as the angels in he...

Primate polemic: commentary on Smith, Couchman, and Beran (2014).

Smith, Couchman, and Beran (2014, pp. 115-131) take issue with recent attempts to account for so-called metacognitive behavior in nonhuman animals in terms of simple processes of associative reinforcement learning. Their arguments rely on appeals to unconvincing and equivocal empirical evidence, and a misrepresentation of the nature of associative learning. Although the existing data do not rul...

Beyond polemic.