RESUMENLa historiografía sobre la muerte, desarrollada entre finales de los años setenta y noventa pasada centuria, tuvo especial interés proyección a partir las investigaciones trazadas por tercera generación Annales. Los planteamientos esta corriente, en sintonía con modelos dicha escuela avalados renovación del objeto histórico tras el estructuralismo, giraron alrededor estudio condiciones m...

Evolutionary theories of religion are essential for understanding current trends in terrorist activity. We outline recent theoretical developments that focus on four cross-culturally recurrent features of religion: communal participation in costly ritual, belief in supernatural agents and counterintuitive concepts, separation of the sacred and the profane, and adolescence as the critical life p...

Despite its alleged antiquity, jutting back centuries before the Common Era, and predominant setting in Americas, Book of Mormon contains several Matthean Lukan additions to Mark made Greco-Roman Mediterranean. Scholarly consensus biblical studies today is that Gospel was written circa 65 CE, then Matthew Luke were 70s–90s approximately, their anonymous authors both expanded contracted here or ...

This essay argues that Ælfric’s discussion of priestly marriage demonstrates an Anglo-Saxon articulation of the difference between Jews and Christians as sexual difference. Ælfric represents temporally distant Biblical Jews as embodying a kinship-based heterosexuality that has been superseded by and is now opposed by Christian chastity and asexual reproduction. This supersession operates throug...

We have developed an automated method to separate biblical texts according to author or scribal school. At the core of this new approach is the identification of correlations in word preference that are then used to quantify stylistic similarity between sections. In so doing, our method ignores literary features—such as possible repetitions, narrative breaks, and contradictions—and focuses on t...

ion and regularity characterize the unique map of Palestine located in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, 52 which is also included in a codex of the long version. (Figure 3) The map with the boxes appears uniform and undifferentiated. This regularity is apparently intentional. The red-framed text entries in black are, at least for the most part, distributed uniformly across the su...

In her article "The Sin of Pride in Dressing Bodies in Spanish and Anglo-American Ballads" Ana Belén Martínez García argues that trying to decipher the reasons for characters to dress in a certain way may help discover the underlying sociocultural mechanisms that prevail. The author aims to reveal the gender divide associated to clothing through a comparative approach towards popular literature...

The current study sought to compare the effectiveness of two brief information based interventions. The first exposed to participants information regarding accurate social norms college student alcohol consumption and a second which focused on information regarding the effects of alcohol on the brain and body. The effectiveness of the interventions was investigated by comparing initial scores o...