Double Meaning in the Parable of the Poor Man's Ewe (2 Sam 12:1–4) by Joshua Berman

“…In this pericope the prophet twice uses the formulaic opening, “thus says the Lord,” introducing two separate censures, one that focuses exclusively on the sin of adultery, and one on the sin of murder. …”
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A radical change of heart: Robert Wedderburn’s last word on slavery by Hanley, R

“…This article introduces to modern scholarship An Address to Lord Brougham and Vaux, a recently rediscovered anti-abolitionist tract by the black radical author and orator Robert Wedderburn, written in 1831, towards the end of his life. …”

The personal presence of Jesus in the writings of Paul by Bockmuehl, M

“…The dialectic of absence and presence appears on the one hand personally attuned in the assurance of Paul's Jesus that 'My grace is sufficient for you' (2 Cor 12:7), but it is also eschatologically and spatially articulated in the promise that 'the Lord is near' (Phil 4:5).…”

Spiliada Maritime Corp v Cansulex Ltd (The Spiliada) (1987) by Peel, E

“…In assessing the state of the law prior to the decision of the House of Lords in The Atlantic Star, Lord Wilberforce opined...…”

Unlucky Jim: Conrad, chance, ethics by Dwan, D

“…Such luck has a key bearing on the moral intelligibility of plot and character in Lord Jim. This is a novel that supports two sides of a paradox: morality should and should not be influenced by the vagaries of luck. …”

Ambivalentsus baltisaksa naiste mälestustekstides. Ambivalence in Baltic German Women’s Autobiographical Writing by Maris Saagpakk

“…For an intelligent person to convert the manorial lord into a peasant is a defence strategy. When the writer stresses the intimate connection of the lord with the land, it is based on an instinctive feeling that closer connections with land will provide some kind of right to the land. …”
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Digital terrain analysis in soil science and geology / by Florinsky, Igor V.

Authors and Their ‘Mischievous’ Books: The Salutary Experience of Southey v Sherwood by Megan Richardson

“…In the 1817 case of Southey v Sherwood Lord Eldon LC denied an injunction against the pirating of Robert Southey’s potentially ‘mischievous’ Wat Tyler, setting the tone for judgments in cases to come. …”
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Queerer Meals: Paul and Communal Anti-Norms in Corinth by Eric C. Smith

“…Together, these strategies help create a reading of the text of 1 Corinthians that contextualizes the norms inherent in Greco- Roman dining practices and the ways Paul expected the practice of the “Lord’s Supper” to deviate from those norms and establish new norms.…”
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Postcolonial Recycling of the Oriental Vampire in Habiby's Saraya, the Ghoul's Daughter and Mukherjee's Jasmine by Ahmed Gamal

“…Habiby's recycling of the Palestinian folktale of the ghoul and Mukherjee's recuperation of the Hindu myth of Lord Shiva aim to spotlight the classical vampiric topoi of otherness, unspeakableness, foreignness, and border existences in colonial and postcolonial contexts. …”
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The fatal illness of Oscar Wilde by JMS Pearce

“…The literary genius of Oscar Wilde has been sullied and besmirched by his infamous entanglement with Lord Alfred Douglas for “gross indecency” leading to his subsequent imprisonment for two years. …”
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Il personaggio di Dr Jekyll nella serie tv Penny Dreadful: un’analisi transmediale e postcoloniale by Nunzio Bellassai

“…The relationship that Jekyll establishes with Victor Frankenstein conveys the evolution of an archetypal figure, the so-called seeker of forbidden knowledge, in transmedia storytelling. Finally, Lord Hyde’s transformation is relevant for the understanding of psychological and socio-identity issues, which are connected to the emergence of evil in Victorian English society and in contemporary U.S.A. society.…”
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"We Pray for Our Nation an(d) Our Worl(d)" by Stella Takvoryan

“…It shows that African-American speakers hyperarticulated and articulated /t,d/ more frequently than the white speaker, who hypo-articulated and glottalized /t,d/ consistently, especially on words like God, Lord, and Christ. These results suggest that the highly formal context required African-American speakers to perform /t,d/ to index themselves as authorities to an unfamiliar, white audience, while the white speaker did not consider race to influence listeners’ judgements of him, allowing him to index familiarity and trustworthiness.…”
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Melville’s Reliquary Reformations by Tony McGowan

“…recentering critical attention upon under-explored textual and visual Horatio Nelson sources—especially The Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson by Dr. William Beatty and The Death of Nelson by the portrait painter, Arthur William Devis—this essay argues that the Nelson/Billy analogy must join the Nelson/Vere analogy if we are to more fully appreciate the genesis, ekphrastic aesthetics, and indeterminate political tenor of Billy Budd, Sailor. …”
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“And Many Beasts” (Jonah 4:11): The Function and Status of Animals in the Book of Jonah by Yael Shemesh

“…Throughout the book, all elements of creation (natural forces, flora and fauna) serve as emissaries of the Lord. Among animals, this applies specifically to the “great fish” and the worm. …”
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Interactions due to Moving Heat Sources in Generalized Thermoelastic Half-Space using L-S Model by N. Sarkar, A. Lahiri

“…A one-dimensional problem for a homogeneous, isotropic and thermoelastic half-space subjected to a moving plane of heat source on the boundary of the space, which is traction free, is considered in the context of Lord- Shulaman model (L-S model) of thermoelasticity. …”
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The position of Muslim philosophers of prophecy by حاكم ناصر

“… The topic of the Prophet and the Prophethood and his signs of Prophethood and the miracles that accompany the Prophet during his communication of the message of his Lord to mankind, the characteristics of the Prophet and others, are among the topics that scholars of theology and theology of all sects, sects and religions cared about, including our true Islamic religion, and many pages, books and volumes have been published in this section, And he made the topic of prophecy one of the basic dogmatic investigations after the topic of divinity in these works, and theologians and theologians looked at it through a doctrinal and missionary perspective, because God had told about the Prophet in his heavenly books, and made for him attributes, conditions, miracles, dignities, and so on. …”
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Scripture as a Source of Chemnitz' Christology by Michal Valco

“…Though a good systematic theologian, he does not deduce the teaching about the real presence Christ's body and blood under the elements of the bread and wine in the Lord's Supper directly from Christology. He uses the Christological teaching only as a necessary metaphysical framework for a thorough interpretation or relevant biblical texts. …”
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Mary by Arnold Huijgen

“…I will argue that it can do so in the following three ways: (1) Mary is a prime example of faith, an ideal servant of the Lord, and in a sense the mother of all believers; (2) Mary reminds us of God’s faithfulness to the Jewish people, and wards off gnostic heresies; (3) Mary is a symbol of Christianity that has often been misused, but can be put to a good use, and reflection on Mary helps to steer clear of one-sided approaches of the position of women and furthers Reformed reflection on gender. …”
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Mani et Roumeli : Écrire la Grèce en dehors des sentiers battus by Jan Borm

“…Reading Mani and Roumeli in parallel, this article focuses on the reception of Lord Byron in and the impact of Robert Byron on Leigh Fermor’s travelogues, notably in his representations of Mount Athos and Byzantine art, while placing his accounts of life in the monastic communities, in the Mani and in Northern Greece in the context of his remarks on Greek history and identity epitomized by his discussion of what he termed the Helleno-Romaic dilemma. …”
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