The term" Azazel," which appears four times in the prescriptions for the Day of Atonement (Lev 16:8, 10, 26), has elicited much debate. Although many scholars have identified Azazel with a demonic figure to whom the sin-laden scapegoat was dispatched, the term remains undefined in the biblical text. This article will attempt to demonstrate that two noncanonical Jewish works, 1 Enoch and the Apo...

This paper presents, for the first time, a comprehensive scholarly examination of the history and principles of major traditions of esoteric healing. After a brief conceptual overview of esoteric religion and healing, summaries are provided of eight major esoteric traditions, including descriptions of beliefs and practices related to health, healing, and medicine. These include what are termed ...

I magine if the late Slobodan Milosovic had donated to Kosovar refugee relief. Or the infamous and unrepentant Australian serial backpacker killer Ivan Milat had sent cheques to a victims of crime charity? In 2000, the SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) Foundation in Australia was embarrassed by Philip Morris’s support for its Red Nose Day fundraiser, as smoking along with a prone sleeping pos...

The metamathematical tradition that developed from Hilbert’s program is based on syntactic characterizations of mathematics and the use of explicit, finitary methods in the metatheory. Although Gödel’s work in logic fits squarely in that tradition, one often finds him curiously at odds with the associated methodological orientation. This essay explores that tension and what lies behind it.

Student memories of introductory programming units regularly centre on seemingly interminable cycles of coding and debugging and the WIMP syndrome perpetuates this horror in the software development industry. Code construction is the one inescapable phase of the software development cycle yet educators seem unable to escape the mind-set which equates programming with syntax and semantics, conde...

While demography has made many valuable contributions to the analysis of contemporary demographic reversals, the discipline seems as far as ever from explaining the dynamics of fertility change. Commentaries on “populations” routinely link fertility control and small families with progress, modernity, and western values; in “traditional” societies, fertility regulation is left to chance, God, a...

Honey is a natural product with recognized physical and chemical properties, which contribute to its biological activity. However, honey is currently being sold at low prices, making it imperative to find alternatives to make apiculture a viable national enterprise. One of these alternatives could be mead production. Despite the excellent properties of honey, mead production faces several probl...