Leviticus 11 presents dietary laws, specifying which animals are "clean" ( edible) and "unclean" (inedible). Nine major theories to account for these dietary laws are described in this paper, giving arguments pro and con regarding each. The theories discussed are the Obedience Testing, Arbitrary Divine Command, Assertion of Divine Authority, Moral Discipline, Hygiene, Spiritual Symbolism, Pagan...

"Divine William" and The Master: The Influence of Shakespeare on the Novels of Henry James

We present a new release of the parallel and distributed LTL model checker DiVinE. The major improvements in this new release is an extension of the class of systems that may be verified with the model checker, while preserving the unique DiVinE feature, namely parallel and distributed-memory processing. Version 3.0 comes with support for direct model checking of (closed) multithreaded C/C++ pr...

Recent studies of the emotional brain have opened new doors to the understanding of human behavior, character development, relationships, happiness and well being. Recent research has shown that the development of “emotional brain” is dependent on “relationship,” initially parent and child relations. Aside from an individual’s relation with the parents, the human mind has been engaged historica...

We present an extension of the DIVINE software model checker to support programs with exception handling. The extension consists of two parts, a language-neutral implementation of the LLVM exception-handling instructions, and an adaptation of the C++ runtime for the DIVINE/LLVM exception model. This constitutes an important step towards support of both the full C++ specification and towards ver...

During the special showing of the Holy Shroud at Turin in Spring 2010, an art exhibit at the Venaria Reale – the Savoy hunting palace just outside the city – will focus on Western artists’ interest in the body of Christ as subject. With works of painting and sculpture from the late Middle Ages to the Baroque period (and some earlier pieces), the exhibit will parallel the religious event, sheddi...

This paper outlines the way in which a plot-device, which for the sake of convenience we shall call the ‘ambiguous oracle’ in Acts .–, controls and influences the narrative, creating coherence and enabling interpretation. The paper begins by looking at the current interpretation of the verses, and argues that it is not sufficient to explain the narrative configuration at various points, befo...

C LAR ITAS | Journal of Dialogue & Culture | Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2016) Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2016) 27–40 © 2016 to a Trinitarian dynamic in both the letter and Chiara’s experience. Finally, he looks more deeply into the source of this design, namely, the glory of God from which everything irradiates and to which everything converges as it is expressed ...