Echinococcal Infestation of the Spine in North America

American Quarterly, 2024

This dialogue emphasizes the reciprocal obligations of Kanaka Maoli, CHamoru, and Chuukese people to one another from the particular context of Hawai'i. The collaboration represents a call for Hawaiians and Micronesians to take each other into fuller account and to develop our collective strength as we struggle for justice, in a time of global climate crisis. The authors confront imperialist militarism and internalized racisms within our communities. These dynamics hamper us from taking coordinated action. We believe these conversations are particularly urgent as our peoples meet rising seas and intensifying storms and fires.

Does Mesha King of Moab tell us straight out in his stele inscription that he built Jericho – and with Israelite labour?

Pleroma, 2018

This is my response to the 2011-2015 report issued by the International Roman Catholic - Pentecostal Dialogue. The article also reflects on the current state of Pentecostal ecumenism.

Epigraphers have long appreciated that one of the distinguishing features of the developed linear alphabetic scripts of the first millennium Levant (e.g., Phoenician, Old Hebrew, Aramaic) is unidirectional writing from right to left in horizontal lines. Frank Moore Cross had determined that the shift to this new meta-script profile was complete by ca. 1050 BCE. 1 More recent epigraphic finds, such as the inscribed bowl fragment from Tell eṣ-Ṣ afi, 2 the ostracon from Khirbet Qeiyafa, 3 and the Meggido jug sherd, 4 require lowering this date by as much as a century or more, to 1000/950 BCE and possibly later. 5 The phase of alphabetic writing that leads up to this point witnesses the loss of iconicity in the shapes of individual letters as they become more cursive or schematized (linear) and an increased incidence of unidirectional, horizontal writing, though multidirectional writing still appears. 6 What

Limits of Life: Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in the Age of Technoscience, 2024

A book chapter from a volume edited by Martin Eggen Mogseth & Fartein Hauan Nilsen, emerging from a conference on the "limits of life" held at the University of Bergen in 2023. In this chapter, I ask whether the classical sociological/anthropological typology of "sacred" and "profane" makes sense from an Islamic hermeneutical perspective, and whether such a possible typology may be related to other typologies within Islam's semantic field.

During the Council of Trent (1545-63), Protestants felt humiliated and excluded from the decisions made by the popes and had therefore been looking to redeem their position in Christendom. Because Sarpi was one of the most eminent Catholic theologians of the period, Protestants drew on his criticisms of the Church for support of their cause. Sarpi's work offered Protestant writers the means to demonstrate that their arguments against the pope and the Church of Rome were well founded. Moreover, Sarpi was considered a " hero " who had survived an assassination attempt and had defeated the pope during the Venetian interdict (1605-07). In this article, I explain how Sarpi's work gained a strong acceptance in England and how Sarpi tried to use his popularity to bring practical benefits to the Venetian Republic, which ultimately was left alone in its fight for " liberty " and in its attempt to reform the Church.

In this article, we present an unknown plan of the town of Roman and its surroundings, provided by the Russian State Military-Historical Archive in Moscow (RGVIA). Russian military engineers made the plan in 1770, during the Russian military occupation of Moldavia in the Russo-Turkish War (1769-1774). Our research objectives are mainly to describe and publish that plan, outline the historical context in which it appeared and highlight its topographical information. The plan captures an area of about 250 km 2 , which includes the Roman town and 12 nearby villages. It depicts a geographical landscape with noticeable differences from the current one, especially in terms of the hydrographic network, and it shows the geographic forms, the roads, the structure of the town and the locations of ecclesiastical and military objectives. The Russian military plan of the town of Roman from 1770 can be considered the oldest topographical survey of this urban centre in Moldavia.