Philosophers and legal theorists still disagree about the correct analysis of ‘rights’, both moral and legal. The ‘Will Theory’ and the ‘Interest Theory’—the two main views—can each account for various features of rights, but neither of them is totally satisfactory. The controversy has now been running for decades and seems irresolvable. I will contend in this paper that the discussion of ‘valu...

HIS GREATNESS What splendid power and greatness God displayed by His creation. The Creator is a fortiori greater than His creation. Isaiah declared that Israel's God holds in the hollow of one hand all the water of the sea, and with the outstretched fingers of His other hand measures the expanse of the sky. Isaiah then added that God could take all the dust of the earth and pour it into His lit...

The historical-literary analysis of the Book Isaiah suggests that 61 is oldest chapter last part Isaiah, known as Trito-Isaiah (56-66). There are messages from Babylonian exile portray post-exile Jewish community. disappointment and at same time anticipation realization earlier prophecies restoration. In Isa 61: 1-3 there a confession mysterious figure sent by God. hero, anointed with Spirit Lo...

Isa 6:9-10 is examined in its local (Isaiah 6) and broader (Isaiah 1-12) contexts, as well as in relation to the rest of the book and (briefly) extraIsaianic passages of Scripture. Following a literary analysis in form, redactional, and rhetorical-critical terms, theological argumentation is developed consistent with the thesis of the paper. It is argued that the motif of deafness and blindness...

This book is a revision of the author’s doctoral dissertation supervised by Paul D. Hanson. The main task of the book is to make an “exhaustive study of justice (misspa at) in the book of Isaiah that is sensitive to both literary and historical [and theological] concerns” (9). Intersecting through the entire book of Isaiah, this term is carefully examined in each occurrence for its correlated a...

RESUMO: este artigo ter por objetivo analisar a liberdade de expressão à luz das concepções positiva e negativa, considerando o contexto intenso fluxo informacional aos quais os indivíduos são submetidos. Conforme será evidenciado, expressão, embora seja um direito fundamental, está sujeita instrumentos influência direita indireta que podem fragilizá-la. Para tanto, foi feita uma revisão biblio...

In this article we develop an algorithm to detect parallel texts in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. The results are presented online and chapters in the Hebrew Bible containing parallel passages can be inspected synoptically. Differences between parallel passages are highlighted. In a similar way the MT of Isaiah is presented synoptically with 1QIsa. We also investigate how one can inve...