Uses of symbolic resources can be seen as dialogical processes: they take place in a cultural world constituted by semiotic exchanges; they can lead people to interact; and as artefacts, they contain echoes of many other voices. The article proposes to consider traditional Talmudic study as a paradigmatic dialogical situation, in which scholars learn to use traditional texts as resources to add...

The role of spelling recognition was examined in word reading skills and reading comprehension for dyslexic and nondyslexic children. Dyslexic and nondyslexic children were matched on their raw word reading proficiency. Relationships between spelling recognition and the following were examined for both groups of children: verbal ability, working memory, phonological measures, rapid naming, word...

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...

In both Pāli and Chinese vinaya literature, there are various patriarchal lineages of transmission in which Upāli is honored as the first patriarch. These that start with can be categorized into two types. The type found mainly Indian texts, including groups texts: Mohe sengqi lü 摩訶僧祇律 (Skt. Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya), Samantapāsādikā, a Vinaya commentary, well its parallel version, Shanjianlü piposh...