" In some rural districts of India," said a speaker at the annual meeting of the Medical Mission Department of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, " there is one public health office to 45,000 people." And India does not stand alone in the need of medical men and women. China, South and West Africa, Borneo, Mauritius?these are only some of the countries for which the Society is needi...

Introduction The seal of the Baptist university where I teach has the Greek text of a portion of Matthew 28:19, which translates into English as, “Make disciples of all nations.” The founders of the school, like many of our spiritual ancestors, wanted to emphasize that this commission is essential to the Christian faith. The importance many believers attach to this passage is consistent with th...

GAPDH is a conserved enzyme that binds diverse proteins, such as Siah during apoptotic nuclear translocation. There is one somatic GAPDH gene, but over 60 pseudogenes, the expression of which is nebulous. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the GAPDHP44 pseudogene exhibits a beneficial allele in AD. The objective of this study was to examine the P44 gene and to propose a mechanism for the...

Abstract The term ‘intertextuality’ has been in use biblical studies for over three decades. However, the study of relationship elements (e.g. theme and pattern) ot how it functions as a compositional framework nt seems to have gained less attention. This paper, thus, aims investigate whether temple cleansing-rebuilding tradition underlies John’s Gospel by: (1) introducing ‘hyper-intertextualit...

ment the poor woman did undergo which had been both so expensive and so ineffectual. Nor does St Luke, the physician evangelist, who lingers over the pathological side of his Gospel with an intense interest, throw any light 011 the details of this particular case. He, too, only relates the case and its miraculous and instantaneous cure by touch of the Saviour's garment. It is interesting to not...