OWL-DL is a World Wide Web Consortium standard for representing ontologies on the Semantic Web. It can be seen as a syntactic variant of the Description Logic SHOIN (D), with an OWL-DL ontology corresponding to a SHOIN (D) knowledge base. The very recent accomplishment of a decision procedure for SHOIN (D) poses the challenge of turning the decision procedure into a practical implementation. In...

William Dever is a distinguished and prolific North American archaeologist of the Levant world Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, who now in his 80s. In 2017, he produced compendious volume as scholarly summary oeuvre: Beyond Texts: An Archaeological Portrait Ancient Israel Judah (SBL Press). This present book companion for general reader: ‘truly popular, nontechnical, unencumbered by copious footnote...

ion today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory—precession of simulacra—it is the map that ...

While we know much about the beginnings of houses, rarely their endings. Yet, to understand temporality houses and entanglement biographies residents, analysis endings is particularly relevant. The case Khmu especially suggestive here, for it shows that end a house not an exceptional phenomenon, nor symptom crisis, but inevitable intended part its life cycle. Unintended ends, on other hand, may...

Buddhist scholars like Kenneth Ch’en thought that filial piety was a special feature of Chinese Buddhism. Later, John Strong employed “popular Buddhist stories” to show that filial piety was also important in Indian Buddhism, but he asserted that it was “a Buddhist compromise with the Brāhmanical ethics of filiality operating at the popular level.” On the other hand, Gregory Schopen, who mainly...

ion today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory precession of simulacra it is the map that ...

In this essay I outline some beliefs and practices among lowland christianised peoples in the Philippines relating primarily to the existence of spirits which are believed to be responsible for causing illness, attending to their imbrication with Catholicism and local cultural notions and practices and post-colonial questions of identity. I sketch three interpretative frameworks that have been ...

Although explicit references to religion are rare in the marketplace, pictorial representations and rhetoric evocative of religious figures and concepts manifest a unique strategy in contemporary American beer branding. By reflecting societal views, prejudices, and preferences, advertising provides an enclosed narrative of how people think and in turn illustrates the way in which society is str...

ion today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory precession of simulacra it is the map that ...