Mark D. Nanos. Reading Paul within Judaism

Research Statement – Mark D .

As a computer scientist and interdisciplinary researcher working in the field of computational biology, I am inspired by the potential benefits of computational approaches to biological research and driven by my passion for solving difficult computational challenges. In that vein, the majority of my research has been in cancer genomics, which provides diverse and difficult computational problem...

Towards Judaism

As China is the only country in the Far East world in which Jews have continually lived for over 1,000 years, "Chinese Judaism" -referring to the religious belief and practices of those Jews who had lived or are now living in China -is unique. Within this long history, a significant distinction must be made. Jews who came before modern times, before 1840, became part of Chinese society almost w...

Judaism on medicine.

Many religions, I'm tempted to say all religions except Judaism, are death cults. Religions deal typically with the problems of death and are attempts to bypass death, deny death, or distort death. The most obvious example would be the Eygptian religion, since, as we now know, the cult, the pyramids, the priest-craft, and the sacred texts were all designed to assure at least the Pharaoh of immo...

Mark-UP: Facilitating Reading Comprehension Through On-Line Collaborative Annotation

This paper describes the theoretical foundation, design philosophy, and development process for a product to assist in the development of students’ cognitive self-regulatory skills when engaging in reading activities at a tertiary level. Mark-UP is an on-line tool, developed using MySQL and PHP and delivered in an OS X server environment, to facilitate students’ engagement with academic texts. ...

Behavioral and Phenomenological Judaism