{"results":[{"id":"ss_0e97ad94a0a8579a91ef1d89b95c4ed340368fa6","title":"The Great Code: The Bible and Literature by Northrop Frye (review)","authors":[{"name":"J. Gold"}],"abstract":"","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2019,"language":"en","subjects":["History"],"doi":"10.2307/40139931","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0e97ad94a0a8579a91ef1d89b95c4ed340368fa6","is_open_access":true,"citations":473,"published_at":"","score":77.19},{"id":"ss_9626712475d53d6a4a4902a20742a9d5f1be56aa","title":"The King James Bible","authors":[{"name":"H. Marks"}],"abstract":"","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2025,"language":"en","subjects":null,"doi":"10.1353/lim.2012.a943068","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9626712475d53d6a4a4902a20742a9d5f1be56aa","is_open_access":true,"citations":99,"published_at":"","score":71.97},{"id":"arxiv_2603.00157","title":"FujiView: Multimodal Late-Fusion for Predicting Scenic Visibility","authors":[{"name":"Bryceton Bible"},{"name":"Shah Md Nehal Hasnaeen"},{"name":"Hairong Qi"}],"abstract":"Visibility of natural landmarks such as Mount Fuji is a defining factor in both tourism planning and visitor experience, yet it remains difficult to predict due to rapidly changing atmospheric conditions. We present FujiView, a multimodal learning framework and dataset for predicting scenic visibility by fusing webcam imagery with structured meteorological data. Our late-fusion approach combines image-derived class probabilities with numerical weather features to classify visibility into five categories. The dataset currently comprises over 100,000 webcam images paired with concurrent and forecasted weather conditions from more than 40 cameras around Mount Fuji, and continues to expand; it will be released to support further research in environmental forecasting. Experiments show that YOLO-based vision features dominate short-term horizons such as \"nowcasting\" and \"samedaycasting\", while weather-driven forecasts increasingly take over as the primary predictive signal beyond $+1$d. Late fusion consistently yields the highest overall accuracy, achieving ACC of approx 0.89 for same-day prediction and up to 84% for next-day forecasts. These results position Scenic Visibility Forecasting (SVF) as a new benchmark task for multimodal learning.","source":"arXiv","year":2026,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.CV"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00157","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.00157","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2026-02-25T19:53:01Z","score":70},{"id":"arxiv_2512.05135","title":"Analysis of Inter-Testamental References Reveal Five Groups of Books in the Christian Bible","authors":[{"name":"Isaac Anderson"},{"name":"Wesley Stevick"},{"name":"Katrina Koehler"}],"abstract":"The Bible is packed with references from start to finish. This study aims to analyze a specific branch of these references: citations. While there are several types of references, both explicit and implicit, this study focuses on the types of references that can be detected with a simple algorithmic string comparison, or an n-gram string comparison. Words were compared by their Strong's Concordance numbers so they could be compared without conjugation or declension. We searched through the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint) and Greek New Testament manuscripts for direct quotations from the former in the latter. Our analysis of these references leads us to believe Old Testament books cluster into three groups of common use, and that New Testament books cluster into two books of common use. We analyze these clusters to show explicitly how they differ, and discover that New Testament books reference vastly different portions of the Old Testament.","source":"arXiv","year":2025,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.DL"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05135","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05135","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2025-11-29T04:45:55Z","score":69},{"id":"doaj_10.4102/hts.v81i1.10173","title":"Pentecostal church leaders’ support to children in need of care and protection","authors":[{"name":"Andrew Spaumer"},{"name":"Azwihangwisi H. Mavhandu-Mudzusi"}],"abstract":"Churches are considered one of the important structures responsible for providing care and support to vulnerable populations. One such population are children in need of care and support. This article presents the support provided by Pentecostal religious leaders to children needing care and protection. The study was conducted in Pentecostal churches in Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, which is found in Gauteng province, South Africa. This qualitative study used an interpretative phenomenological analysis design. Data were collected from nineteen purposively selected leaders in Pentecostal churches using face-to-face semi-structured interviews. Data analysis was guided by the interpretative phenomenological analysis framework for data analysis. Findings indicate that religious leaders within Pentecostal churches are involved in providing care and support to children in need of care. The process they are engaged in include proper identification of those children, attending to physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs. However, each religious leaders use their approach depending on the relationship they have with members of government institutions such as police services and social workers. In order to enhance the support provided the children in need of care and protection, by religious leaders within Pentecostal churches, it is recommended that religious leaders are well informed about the role of different members of multidisciplinary teams such as social workers, psychologists, police officers, parents and other community structures. Moreover, there should be formalised collaboration and referral processes that will ensure that the child’s rights are not further violated in the process of provision of support.\n\nContribution: The study contributes to the body of knowledge regarding the role Pentecostal church religious leaders are playing in child protection. Furthermore, it sheds light on the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to ensure that children in need of care and protection are holistically supported.","source":"DOAJ","year":2025,"language":"","subjects":["The Bible","Practical Theology"],"doi":"10.4102/hts.v81i1.10173","url":"https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/10173","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":69},{"id":"ss_279453ab9002fa725bf42f886511655680814a82","title":"Interpreting the Bible","authors":[{"name":"Helen Rees"}],"abstract":"Relationship to the Mission of Gordon-Conwell This course, which seeks to maintain academic excellence in the highest tradition of Christian scholarship (GCTS Missions Statement, Article 2), helps students to become knowledgeable of God’s word and competent in its interpretation (GCTS Missions Statement, Article 1). This will contribute to the students’ development of a vision for God’s redemptive work in the world and to formulate strategies that will lead to effective missions, evangelism, and discipleship (GCTS Missions Statement, Article 6). Being rooted in God’s word and knowing how to interpret and apply it is essential to these tasks.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2024,"language":"en","subjects":null,"doi":"10.1177/00145246241240252","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/279453ab9002fa725bf42f886511655680814a82","is_open_access":true,"citations":26,"published_at":"","score":68.78},{"id":"arxiv_2401.00689","title":"Large language model for Bible sentiment analysis: Sermon on the Mount","authors":[{"name":"Mahek Vora"},{"name":"Tom Blau"},{"name":"Vansh Kachhwal"},{"name":"Ashu M. G. Solo"},{"name":"Rohitash Chandra"}],"abstract":"The revolution of natural language processing via large language models has motivated its use in multidisciplinary areas that include social sciences and humanities and more specifically, comparative religion. Sentiment analysis provides a mechanism to study the emotions expressed in text. Recently, sentiment analysis has been used to study and compare translations of the Bhagavad Gita, which is a fundamental and sacred Hindu text. In this study, we use sentiment analysis for studying selected chapters of the Bible. These chapters are known as the Sermon on the Mount. We utilize a pre-trained language model for sentiment analysis by reviewing five translations of the Sermon on the Mount, which include the King James version, the New International Version, the New Revised Standard Version, the Lamsa Version, and the Basic English Version. We provide a chapter-by-chapter and verse-by-verse comparison using sentiment and semantic analysis and review the major sentiments expressed. Our results highlight the varying sentiments across the chapters and verses. We found that the vocabulary of the respective translations is significantly different. We detected different levels of humour, optimism, and empathy in the respective chapters that were used by Jesus to deliver his message.","source":"arXiv","year":2024,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.CL","cs.AI"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00689","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.00689","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2024-01-01T07:35:29Z","score":68},{"id":"doaj_10.19166/dil.v6i1.7884","title":"Hubungan Antara Profesionalisme Dosen dengan Karakter Kristiani Mahasiswa (Studi Korelasi di Fakultas Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Pelita Harapan, Tangerang) [The Relationship Between Lecturer Professionalism and Student Christian Character (Correlation Study at the Faculty of Education, Pelita Harapan University, Tangerang)]","authors":[{"name":"Abednego Tri Gumono"},{"name":"Yusak Tanasyah"},{"name":"Amos Naolaka"}],"abstract":"The realization of character education is a shared responsibility of both parents and educational institutions. Higher education as an integral educational facility has a responsibility to develop aspects of character. This is because character is an important domain in forming a student's personality as a whole. In this way, students can grow cognitively, affectively and psychometrically. The Faculty of Education, Pelita Harapan University has a profile of students who are competent, have character, have a calling as Christian teachers (Calling), and have compassion (compassion). To realize this profile, it must be supported by the professionalism of lecturers with the characteristics of having a loving spirit like the good Samaritan and a spirit of self-emptying of Christ in serving. The aim of this research is to determine the relationship between lecturer professionalism and student Christian character. The results of this research will provide an overview, evaluation, and input to build Christian character in a sustainable manner. The method used in this research is a correlative quantitative method. The research results show that lecturer professionalism is significantly related to students' Christian character. The research results show that there is a correlation between lecturer professionalism and student Christian character of .537. Thus, it can be concluded that the correlation between lecturer professionalism and student Christian character is in the strong category. The test results show the significance value (p = .000) is smaller than 0.05. This means that there is not enough evidence to accept the proposed hypothesis (reject Ho). Thus, it can be concluded that there is a significant correlation between lecturer professionalism and student Christian character.\n\nBAHASA INDONESIA ABSTRACT: Perwujudan pendidikan karakter merupakan tanggung jawab bersama antara orang tua dan institusi pendidikan. Perguruan tinggi sebagai salah satu sarana pendidikan yang tidak terpisahkan memiliki tanggung jawab untuk mengembangkan aspek karakter. Hal ini dikarenakan karakter merupakan domain penting dalam membentuk kepribadian mahasiswa secara utuh. Dengan demikian, mahasiswa dapat berkembang secara kognitif, afektif dan psikomotorik. Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Pelita Harapan memiliki profil mahasiswa yang kompeten, berkarakter, memiliki panggilan sebagai guru Kristen (Calling), dan memiliki belas kasih (compassion). Untuk mewujudkan profil tersebut, harus didukung oleh profesionalisme dosen dengan ciri-ciri memiliki semangat mengasihi seperti orang Samaria yang baik hati dan semangat mengosongkan diri seperti Kristus dalam melayani. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan antara profesionalisme dosen dengan karakter kristiani mahasiswa. Hasil penelitian ini akan memberikan gambaran, evaluasi dan masukan untuk membangun karakter kristiani secara berkelanjutan. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode kuantitatif korelasional. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa profesionalisme dosen berhubungan secara signifikan dengan karakter kristiani mahasiswa. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat korelasi antara profesionalisme dosen dengan karakter kristiani mahasiswa sebesar 0,537. Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa korelasi antara profesionalisme dosen dengan karakter Kristen mahasiswa berada pada kategori kuat Hasil uji t menunjukkan nilai signifikansi (p=.000) lebih kecil dari 0.05. Hal ini berarti tidak terdapat cukup bukti untuk menerima hipotesis yang diajukan (tolak Ho). Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa ada hubungan yang signifikan antara profesionalisme dosen dengan karakter kristiani mahasiswa.","source":"DOAJ","year":2024,"language":"","subjects":["Christianity","Practical religion. The Christian life","The Bible"],"doi":"10.19166/dil.v6i1.7884","url":"https://ojs.uph.edu/index.php/DIL/article/view/7884","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":68},{"id":"doaj_10.4467/20843917RC.24.002.19711","title":"Entre a dor e o texto: traços bíblicos em Horto de Incêndio","authors":[{"name":"Łukasz Kraj"}],"abstract":"\n                        \n                            The aim of this article is to analyse the role of biblical references in Al Berto’s (Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares’) last poetry volume, Horto de Incêndio, published in 1997. Previous research on this poetry has identified intertextuality, an interest in corporeality and the problem of the relationship between experience and text as dominant features of this work. Building upon these insights, I demonstrate that the numerous allusions to the Bible, especially evocations of the Apocalypse, in Horto de Incêndio are related to the author’s attempt to textualise the experience of illness and allow us to partially reconstruct his view of the ontology of the literary text.\n                        ","source":"DOAJ","year":2024,"language":"","subjects":["Romanic languages"],"doi":"10.4467/20843917RC.24.002.19711","url":"\n                        https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/romanica-cracoviensia/artykul/entre-a-dor-e-o-texto-tracos-biblicos-em-horto-de-incendio\n                    ","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":68},{"id":"doaj_10.4102/ve.v45i1.3169","title":"The parable of the Two Mothers: An unhiding reading of the parable of the Prodigal Son","authors":[{"name":"Charel D. du Toit"}],"abstract":"The parable of the Prodigal Son is traditionally viewed from an androcentric perspective, focusing on the male characters, such as the father and brothers. However, this article suggests that the original listeners may have perceived female characters as present and significant. It briefly explores the roles of the Prodigal’s mother and the father’s mother, proposing an alternative interpretation. Evidence indicates that a 1st-century audience might have envisioned a parallel narrative, termed ‘the Parable of the Two Mothers’, within the story. This imagined parallel parable could reflect the high-context understanding of the original hearers. The article aims to reconstruct this proposed parallel parable not only as a potentially imagined narrative within the Prodigal Son but also as a counter-narrative tool. This tool seeks to aid faith communities in addressing gender-based violence (GBV) by offering a narrative device that brings women’s voices to the forefront in congregational and social contexts.\n\nIntradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The interdisciplinary nature of this article contributes to the debate on the roles and importance of women in the church by investigating the value that women had in the parables of Jesus. Furthermore, this article promotes an inclusive reading of biblical texts aiming to combat the pandemic of GBV in South African communities. By reading women as present in the text, emphasis is given to the voices of women in the Bible and the importance of their representation today. This research is also in line with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5: Gender equality and women empowerment.","source":"DOAJ","year":2024,"language":"","subjects":["Practical Theology"],"doi":"10.4102/ve.v45i1.3169","url":"https://verbumetecclesia.org.za/index.php/ve/article/view/3169","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":68},{"id":"ss_5a18cd36805b07a835a036b75945e5adf9f68257","title":"Hilary Marlow and Mark Harris (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and Ecology","authors":[{"name":"Sarah Werner"}],"abstract":"Hilary Marlow and Mark Harris (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and Ecology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), 478pp., $150 (hbk), ISBN: 9780190606732.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2023,"language":"en","subjects":null,"doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.25475","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5a18cd36805b07a835a036b75945e5adf9f68257","pdf_url":"https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JSRNC/article/download/25475/27862","is_open_access":true,"citations":5,"published_at":"","score":67.15},{"id":"arxiv_2302.00778","title":"User Study for Improving Tools for Bible Translation","authors":[{"name":"Joel Mathew"},{"name":"Ulf Hermjakob"}],"abstract":"Technology has increasingly become an integral part of the Bible translation process. Over time, both the translation process and relevant technology have evolved greatly. More recently, the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has made great progress in solving some problems previously thought impenetrable. Through this study we endeavor to better understand and communicate about a segment of the current landscape of the Bible translation process as it relates to technology and identify pertinent issues. We conduct several interviews with individuals working in different levels of the Bible translation process from multiple organizations to identify gaps and bottlenecks where technology (including recent advances in AI) could potentially play a pivotal role in reducing translation time and improving overall quality.","source":"arXiv","year":2023,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.CL","cs.HC"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00778","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.00778","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2023-02-01T22:22:03Z","score":67},{"id":"arxiv_2304.09919","title":"The eBible Corpus: Data and Model Benchmarks for Bible Translation for Low-Resource Languages","authors":[{"name":"Vesa Akerman"},{"name":"David Baines"},{"name":"Damien Daspit"},{"name":"Ulf Hermjakob"},{"name":"Taeho Jang"},{"name":"Colin Leong"},{"name":"Michael Martin"},{"name":"Joel Mathew"},{"name":"Jonathan Robie"},{"name":"Marcus Schwarting"}],"abstract":"Efficiently and accurately translating a corpus into a low-resource language remains a challenge, regardless of the strategies employed, whether manual, automated, or a combination of the two. Many Christian organizations are dedicated to the task of translating the Holy Bible into languages that lack a modern translation. Bible translation (BT) work is currently underway for over 3000 extremely low resource languages. We introduce the eBible corpus: a dataset containing 1009 translations of portions of the Bible with data in 833 different languages across 75 language families. In addition to a BT benchmarking dataset, we introduce model performance benchmarks built on the No Language Left Behind (NLLB) neural machine translation (NMT) models. Finally, we describe several problems specific to the domain of BT and consider how the established data and model benchmarks might be used for future translation efforts. For a BT task trained with NLLB, Austronesian and Trans-New Guinea language families achieve 35.1 and 31.6 BLEU scores respectively, which spurs future innovations for NMT for low-resource languages in Papua New Guinea.","source":"arXiv","year":2023,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.CL","cs.AI"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09919","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.09919","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2023-04-19T18:52:49Z","score":67},{"id":"arxiv_2311.10174","title":"JWSign: A Highly Multilingual Corpus of Bible Translations for more Diversity in Sign Language Processing","authors":[{"name":"Shester Gueuwou"},{"name":"Sophie Siake"},{"name":"Colin Leong"},{"name":"Mathias Müller"}],"abstract":"Advancements in sign language processing have been hindered by a lack of sufficient data, impeding progress in recognition, translation, and production tasks. The absence of comprehensive sign language datasets across the world's sign languages has widened the gap in this field, resulting in a few sign languages being studied more than others, making this research area extremely skewed mostly towards sign languages from high-income countries. In this work we introduce a new large and highly multilingual dataset for sign language translation: JWSign. The dataset consists of 2,530 hours of Bible translations in 98 sign languages, featuring more than 1,500 individual signers. On this dataset, we report neural machine translation experiments. Apart from bilingual baseline systems, we also train multilingual systems, including some that take into account the typological relatedness of signed or spoken languages. Our experiments highlight that multilingual systems are superior to bilingual baselines, and that in higher-resource scenarios, clustering language pairs that are related improves translation quality.","source":"arXiv","year":2023,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.CL"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10174","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10174","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2023-11-16T20:02:44Z","score":67},{"id":"doaj_Implementasi+Pendidikan+Agama+Kristen+%28PAK%29+Masa+Yesus+di+Sekolah","title":"Implementasi Pendidikan Agama Kristen (PAK) Masa Yesus di Sekolah","authors":[{"name":"Baginda Sitompul"},{"name":"Afriani Manalu"},{"name":"Grace Metaria Sihombing"},{"name":"Dasriana Ziraluo"}],"abstract":"\nIn the Bible there is a lot of information that writes down the teachings that Jesus did. The fruit of Jesus' teaching is proof that He is a teacher who has a personality, broad insight, role model, both from His words and deeds. The works of Jesus are inseparable from the culture of learning that has been carried out since he was young. This is one factor that makes Him appear as the Great Teacher. After finishing studying from school, Jesus taught with creative and effective methods for His followers. For this reason, in the context of Christian Religious Education (PAK) which is taught in formal schools, it is necessary to refer to Christian Religious Education at the time of Jesus, so that the principles of Christian Religious Education in schools can be specifically maintained from time to time. The researcher will explain how Christian Religious Education was when Jesus was a Jewish boy, starting with His education in the midst of the family, education at Beit Safar, education at Beit Talmud, education at the Beit Midrash stage, to the implementation of Christian Religious Education in schools today. The purpose of writing is to study Christian Religious Education at the time of Jesus in schools and the implementation of Christian Religious Education in formal schools. The method used in writing is a qualitative research method with literature as the main source.\n","source":"DOAJ","year":2023,"language":"","subjects":["Education","Islam"],"url":"https://jurnaledukasia.org/index.php/edukasia/article/view/390","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":67},{"id":"doaj_10.4102/hts.v79i3.8085","title":"COVID-19 crisis in relation to religion, health and poverty in Zimbabwe: A case study of the Harare urban communities","authors":[{"name":"Joseph Muyangata"},{"name":"Sibiziwe Shumba"}],"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic which started in China in 2019, was originally described as a public health emergency of intercontinental concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) in January 2020. Due to its speedy rate of spread, the WHO then declared it a pandemic after 6 weeks. The global spread of COVID-19 has been attributed to the high mobility between and within countries. Having noted the wide spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, almost every country affected, developed strict and restrictive public health measures to control the spread of the virus. Such measures included restrictions on country borders and social gatherings. Hence, the main purpose of the paper was to explore the impact of the COVID-19 crisis in relation to religion, health and poverty in Harare urban communities as well as determining solutions to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on those sectors. The research methodology was qualitative in nature. Primary data were collected through in-depth telephone interviews and online open-ended questionnaires. Purposive sampling was used to select the study participants. The findings showed that the COVID-19 pandemic triggered and exposed the inequalities in health. The pandemic also had a strong impact on religious activities and it exacerbated poverty levels as well. Those who had all the access to medication, food and vaccinations during the height of COVID-19 may not fully appreciate the impact that poverty coupled with pandemics left on their communities both religiously and socially. Malnutrition, hunger and sickness were the order of the day among the poor.\n\nContribution: The conclusion was that COVID-19 negatively impacted on the health, religious and social sectors. Therefore, it is critical to maintain preventive and curative services, especially for the most vulnerable populations such as children, older persons, and people with disabilities.","source":"DOAJ","year":2023,"language":"","subjects":["The Bible","Practical Theology"],"doi":"10.4102/hts.v79i3.8085","url":"https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/8085","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":67},{"id":"doaj_10.4102/hts.v79i2.8252","title":"LXX Judith: Removing the fourth wall","authors":[{"name":"Nicholas P.L. Allen"},{"name":"Pierre J. Jordaan"}],"abstract":"Given the strong mimetic and dramatic qualities found in Judith the authors make the suggestion that perhaps, before LXX Judith became a fixed, written text, the basic fabula might well have been part of an oral tradition. The authors accept that an appropriately written dramatic work, whether transmitted through reading or an oral presentation, by means of its performative qualities, has the potential to achieve immediacy. Here, the audience may become captivated with its own familiarity and memory of popular, communally shared narratives. Accordingly, this article attempts to find evidence in the Greek text of LXX Judith for a possible oral precursor. In this context, corroboration is sought for the employment of verbal aspect and mood of the Greek language as well as instances of drama, theatrics, bodily gestures, mnemonic devices or special emphasis on the employment of the senses such as sight, taste and smell. The authors suggest that based on an analysis of the text of Chapter 13, there is much circumstantial evidence for the Judith fabula once being an oral narrative – one that embodies the dramatic and even encourages audience participation. This characteristic strongly suggests the removal of the fourth wall – the notion of an imaginary boundary between any fictional work and its audience.\n\nContribution: This article shows that Judith 13 is indeed the climax of the narrative. However, it goes further. It is a vivid scene with various performative aspects. There are props, dialogue and audience participation. This research is cutting-edge and paves the way for new explorations.","source":"DOAJ","year":2023,"language":"","subjects":["The Bible","Practical Theology"],"doi":"10.4102/hts.v79i2.8252","url":"https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/8252","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":67},{"id":"ss_8e5de04b26255f5f6876361bbc5e3031019d7532","title":"As Sweet as Their Original Utterance: The Reception of the Bible in Aggadic Midrashim","authors":[{"name":"Tamar Kadari"}],"abstract":"Abstract This article analyzes the reception of the Bible in a group of midrashim called amoraic midrash, or aggadic midrash, which reveal the centrality of Scripture in the world of the rabbis. Each midrash is organized around a particular biblical book and its verses, bringing a collection of interpretations taught by different rabbis in the land of Israel in the first five centuries of the Common Era. These compositions were redacted towards the end of the Amoraic Period and immediately after and are therefore referred to as midrashei amoraim. The title midrashei aggadah reflects their content, with almost no interpretations dealing with halakhic issues. In this article, I explain the unique fashion in which midrashei aggadah function as a mode of biblical interpretation, the creative ways biblical verses were employed by the rabbis, and the conception of the Bible’s unity evidenced in their midrashim. I then present the main role of biblical verses as an organizing principle in two genres of midrashic compositions. I conclude with the question of the link between midrashei amoraim and the world of the synagogue. Do these midrashim teach us about biblical reception and interpretation solely among the intellectual elite or also among the general public?","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2022,"language":"en","subjects":null,"doi":"10.1515/jbr-2021-0030","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8e5de04b26255f5f6876361bbc5e3031019d7532","is_open_access":true,"citations":2,"published_at":"","score":66.06},{"id":"arxiv_2206.01205","title":"Snow Mountain: Dataset of Audio Recordings of The Bible in Low Resource Languages","authors":[{"name":"Kavitha Raju"},{"name":"Anjaly V"},{"name":"Ryan Lish"},{"name":"Joel Mathew"}],"abstract":"Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has increasing utility in the modern world. There are a many ASR models available for languages with large amounts of training data like English. However, low-resource languages are poorly represented. In response we create and release an open-licensed and formatted dataset of audio recordings of the Bible in low-resource northern Indian languages. We setup multiple experimental splits and train and analyze two competitive ASR models to serve as the baseline for future research using this data.","source":"arXiv","year":2022,"language":"en","subjects":["eess.AS","cs.LG","cs.SD"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.01205","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.01205","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2022-06-01T18:22:01Z","score":66},{"id":"doaj_10.4102/hts.v78i4.7345","title":"Hair matters: The psychoanalytical significance of the virtual absence of hair in the Book of Job in an African context","authors":[{"name":"Pieter van der Zwan"}],"abstract":"Compared with other biblical books that are named after its main protagonist, Job mentions many (at least 72) body parts. Yet hair is explicitly referred to only once, even when it plays a relatively significant role in other books in the Hebrew Bible. This virtual absence of hair in the book can at first glance be explained by the shaving of Job’s ‘head’ as early as 1:20, using a different verb, גזז, from the one in Leviticus 13:33 and 14:8.9, גלח, where the context is that of צָרָעַת, wrongly translated as ‘leprosy’, but probably referring to the same skin problem from which Job is suffering. This connection to the skin is important, because the two body parts seem to be almost mutually exclusive, as also suggested by 1:21 immediately after the aforementioned shaving, where Job considers himself to be essentially עָרֹם [naked]. This means that hair has, amongst other functions, also a clothing-like role in the book of Job. Three questions will hence be explored: how ‘absence’ is to be psychoanalytically interpreted and more specifically, what consequences all of this has on the virtual absence of hair in the Book of Job and, finally, what relevance this absence has for the South African context.\n\nContribution: Applying a psychoanalytical perspective to both the body and to absence, the biblical text is contextualised on a broader horizon than what the purely historical-critical approach can render. The additional African context widens the relevance of the ancient book even further.","source":"DOAJ","year":2022,"language":"","subjects":["The Bible","Practical Theology"],"doi":"10.4102/hts.v78i4.7345","url":"https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/7345","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":66}],"total":275784,"page":1,"page_size":20,"sources":["arXiv","DOAJ","Semantic Scholar","CrossRef"],"query":"The Bible"}