This paper seeks to critique some of the developments in the study of the use of the Jewish scriptures in the New Testament writings. The focus is upon studies that have emerged subsequent to, and are indebted to, Richard Hays’ Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul. The argument here is not that there are no citations, allusions, or echoes of the Jewish scriptures in the New Testament writ...

Political scientists are not generally accustomed to treating Max Weber’s unusual account of democracy—plebiscitary leader democracy—as a genuine democratic theory. The typical objection is that Weber’s account of democracy in terms of the generation of charismatic leadership is not really a democratic theory at all, because it contains no positive account of popular power: specifically, that i...

J.M. Coetzee is directly or indirectly always concerned with the multi-layered narrative texts problematising concept of authorship and narration. This study treats two novels as “textual narratives” “narrative dramas” at a time. From postclassical narratological perspective, investigates narrators levels in J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello (2003) authors without authority. The characters nov...

This article seeks to establish a fundamental continuity between distinctive periods in Bill Viola’s work. Examining two relatively early works—The Reflecting Pool (1977–79) and The Passing (1991)—and the more recent piece Self Portrait, Submerged (2013), I consider artist’s physical presence as catalyst for an inherent formalism intense affectivity of later period. Affect its transindividual e...

so that the literary and literal moments of the poet's life are fused together in a highly suggestive pattern. In the same way that the personal encounters of the Comedy have furnished clues to Dante's actual biography-for instance, by alloWing us to date the canzone "Voi che 'ntendendo" with respect to the year in which Charles Martel visited Florence-the Comedy's autocitations may furnish clu...

The paper discloses modern approaches to creating integrated information environments of SMART complexes academic disciplines through integrating creative, authorial, non-verbal, encyclopaedic, information-and-communication, self-realization, self-assessment components in professional (vocational) and pre-university education. It lists the advantages such compared e-textbooks reveals requiremen...