In Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle (2017), Paula Fredriksen reminds us that gods and their cults were intertwined with ancient ethnic groups so much that, when Gentiles committed themselves exclusively to Israel’s God, some Jews considered this ‘tantamount changing ethnicity’. claims, however, Paul’s Gentile addressees – whom she terms ‘ex-pagan pagans’ remain separate ethnically from despite forsaki...

Between the second, third and fourth centuries the Christian Church produced biographies chronicling the pious undertakings of monks. These hagiographies borrowed from preexisting Greek biographies to distinguish the Christian monk from the pagan holy man. Patricia Cox Miller’s Biography in Late Antiquity: The Quest for the Holy Man demonstrates how hagiographers adaptation of Greek biographies...

Horses are raised to become sound athletes, and therefore optimal growth is preferred to maximal growth, which may be required in other livestock production systems. in horses, optimal growth rate results in a desirable body size at a specific age with the least amount of developmental problems. While the genetic makeup, or genotype, ultimately determines a horse’s mature size, nutrition plays ...

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We also evaluated our hypotheses using two additional firm performance measures: Tobin’s Q, which is the total dollar amount market value divided by the total dollar amount replacement value of a firm in a given year) and operating revenue/total assets, which is the total dollar amount of revenue divided by total dollar amount of assets of a firm in a given year. We selected these measures beca...

Pagan and Shannon’s (1985) widely used approach employs local linearizations of a system of non-linear equations to obtain asymptotic distributions for the endogenous parameters (such as prices) from distributions over the exogenous parameters (such as estimates of taste, technology, or policy variables, for example). However, this approach ignores both the possibility of multiple equilibria as...