St. Augustine's commentary on Genesis, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, was groundbreaking for its innovative exegesis as much as its thoroughness. His undertaking reflected a desire within the culture of Late Antiquity to account for our origins in a manner that was radically different ...
Haiti, though not universally mentioned, serves as a recurring index in the discourses of a significant proportion of the people whom I interviewed. The meaning of that index, however, is not consistent across all of my participants. Examining how these different “orders of indexicality” (cf....
To illustrate this how this deception was created, witness how the 1582 Douai Rheims translation (and this is the same for modern translations) actually changes the name of the Jewish Elder Elias into “the Lord God”, implying that this Jew actually created the world in Genesis 2:8: A non...
If a purposeful violator of the Constitution who is a sworn officer of the government is not a domestic enemy of America and a traitor, then there is no such thing, and the Constitution itself is without meaning, and America has lost its grounding and its very purpose for being. Anti-Amer...
St. Jerome's Latin version of God's command in Genesis 1:3 is Fiat lux, "Let there be light." Two Latin words where English needs four-or even five, since a more accurate English translation is "Let light come into existence." This vividly demonstrates Latin's grace, simplicity, and ...
genesis – G – a beginning, to be born geranium- crane gerro- shield gladi- sword glen- socket glia(glea?)- (G) glue (mesoglea) glom(er)- (L) half of yam?, a ball (glomerulus) glo(ss/tt) (glottis)- (G) tongue (proglottid) glut- sticky gl(uly)c- glyc (o,y...
A \"Secret and Feverish Genesis\": The Prefaces of the Old English Hexateuch The open folios of a medieval manuscript, like parts of the human body, phenomenologically generate meaning. The first opening of the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch, a translation of the first six books of the ...
The original meaning of the Greekπρεσβύτερος[presbyteros] as “elder” had thus been lost in translation:but then again, the identity of the Christianpresbyteras an “older man” had ceased to be essential to the office almost as soon as it originated (see I.A.3 above)...
One of the recognized leaders in this realm in Latin America is INVAP (a portmanteau of the Spanish wordsinvestigación aplicada, meaning “applied research”). INVAP was the first company in Latin America to be certified by NASA, so its scientific and innovative credentials are as strong as an...
In terms of life expectancy, in both women and men, we found that higher area-level education was associated with higher life expectancy across levels of greenness, but this association was stronger in greener areas, meaning that, against the equigenesis hypothesis, the educational inequalities in...