D. Vincent Palmer (M.R.E., Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary) is a lecturer in Bible and Theology at the Jamaica Theological Seminary, Kingston, Jamaica. The question "What is man?" still remains .I..o~e of the most difficult amongst social scientists today. To ask about the fundamerital character of the believer only compounds the difficulty. With an ever increasing post-modem outlook even biblica...

For being able to automatically acquire the information recorded in church registers and other historical scriptures, the writing on these documents has to be recognized. This paper describes algorithms for transforming the paper documents into a representation of text apt to be used as input for an automatic text recognizer. The automatic recognition of old handwritten scriptures is difficult ...

For being able to automatically acquire information recorded in church registers and other historical scriptures, the text of such documents needs to be segmented prior to automatic reading. Segmentation of old handwritten scriptures is difficult for two main reasons. Lines of text in general are not straight and ascenders and descenders of adjacent lines interfere. The algorithms described in ...

This paper discusses possible neurological disorders in one of the oldest and most important monuments of human literature--'The Holy Scriptures'. These include epilepsy, neuromuscular disorders, speech disorders, psychogenic disorders, head trauma, and subarachnoid hemorrhage. The approach to and the 'miraculous' healing of these ailments is discussed.