among others-has largely championed the concepts of ethnic reasoning and ethnic argumentation. 13... more among others-has largely championed the concepts of ethnic reasoning and ethnic argumentation. 13 This terminological emphasis evidences, I think, Hall's rightful influence over the terms of scholastic analysis. In identifying criteria of ethnicity, Hall's work has expanded the capacity of scholars to identify moments in which ancient authors embraced, modified, and interpreted anew the vocabulary and elements of ethnic identity. 14 Aaron Johnson, for instance, in his
This monograph by Tessa Rajak has its origins in six Grinfield lectures (1995-96) on the Septuagi... more This monograph by Tessa Rajak has its origins in six Grinfield lectures (1995-96) on the Septuagint, which dealt with the original, Old Greek texts and their later reception, as well as de novo writings. The intention of these lectures was to relate two fields of research that have unfortunately remained largely separate in the past: the study of Hellenistic Judaism and the study of the Greek Bible. The book's conclusion was construed in the context of a funded research project entitled 'Greek Bible in the Greco-Roman world', a field to which Rajak has contributed in many publications (e.g. as editor of Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2007).
The Christian historian and scholar (Sextus) Iulius Africanus (ca. 160–240 ce) is perhaps best kn... more The Christian historian and scholar (Sextus) Iulius Africanus (ca. 160–240 ce) is perhaps best known as the father of the Christian universal chronicle. Keywords: Christianity; chronicles and histories; Late Antiquity; religious history; Roman history
Unlike most of the other chapters in this volume, this essay deals with another form of "afterliv... more Unlike most of the other chapters in this volume, this essay deals with another form of "afterlives"-not in tangible monuments and rock reliefs, but rather in the rich literary tradition about them. For Christian commentators and historians of Byzantium, interest in ancient inscriptions carved on stone or some other durable medium arose out of a wider exploration of what in medieval Europe came to be known as translatio studii, namely the origins and transfer of the fundamental ingredients of learning and civilized life. From scattered notices in the fourth chapter of Genesis, chroniclers learned that Cain and his descendants were able to work the soil, build cities, forge armaments, and fashion musical instruments (cf. Gen 4: 2, 17, 21-22). Chroniclers seeking supplemental information about the origins of the calendar found valuable testimony in the Book of Jubilees and Josephus' Antiquities, two works from Second Temple Judaism. Their reports about astronomical teachings inscribed on monuments before the flood provided reassuring evidence that even at this early stage in world history, sages and scribes knew how to measure time accurately and preserve this knowledge for later generations. How Byzantine chroniclers integrated traditions from these two works about ante-diluvian stelae into their own reconstruction of the transmission of world culture, and to what end, are the questions I intend to examine here.1 1 The Stelae Motif in the Hellenistic Culture Wars Although Byzantine sources often treated Josephus' Antiquities and Jubilees as witnesses to the same event, their respective descriptions of the contents
We aimed to evaluate of attitudes and thoughts of 5th grade medical faculty students towards psyc... more We aimed to evaluate of attitudes and thoughts of 5th grade medical faculty students towards psychiatry before and after psychiatry internship in this study. Methods: Of fifth grade, 65 student of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University Faculty of Medicine participated in this study. These students were asked to fill out the questionnaire of "Attitudes and Thoughts towards Psychiatry" before and after the psychiatric internship. This questionnaire consists of 38 questions, about attitudes towards psychiatry, psychiatric treatment and psychiatrists. The SPSS Package Program 20.0 statistical program was used for data analysis. Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Shapiro Wilk and Paired Samples Test were used. Results: 64.3% (n=36) of the study group were female, and 35.7% (n = 20) of the study group were male. 49.0% of the students preferred "internal sciences", 49.0% preferred "surgical sciences", and 2.0% "basic sciences". A total 14 questions from 38 questions were found to be statistically significant after the internship. Conclusion: It was observed that there were positive attitudes about the benefits of psychiatric treatment and consultation services after the internship compared to the pre-internship, decreased negative thoughts about psychiatric patients and psychiatristsin students of faculty of medicine. Despite the generally positive changes in psychiatric science, decreased preference of psychiatry have been observed in students of faculty of medicine.
Essays on Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of Carl R. Holladay
Proving the antiquity of Moses and Exodus would put to rest the charge that the Jews were a peopl... more Proving the antiquity of Moses and Exodus would put to rest the charge that the Jews were a people lacking credentials of antiquity. Eusebius?s Praeparatio Evangelica is a sprawling work of apologetic, purporting to reassure pagan readers of early fourth century that Christians were a people with primordial roots, older in fact than Jews and certainly the Greeks. When later Jewish writers did take up this project, the first challenge they faced was to authenticate the date of Moses through chronological conventions recognizable to Greek readers. To demonstrate the antiquity of Moses, it made sense to reckon his dates in relationship to a Greek kingdom with a continuous recorded past and recognized antiquity. There is no attempt to establish a continuous comparative chronology of biblical and Greek history. Josephus and Tatian mainly piggyback on witness of Egyptian authorities, which were understandably better for Egyptian than they were for Greek chronology. Keywords: antiquity; biblical history; comparative chronology; Eusebius; Exodus; Greek history; Jews; Moses; Praeparatio Evangelica
Jacob of Edessa and the Syriac Culture of His Day, 2008
In a letter to John of Litarba examining a wide range of issues associated with biblical interpre... more In a letter to John of Litarba examining a wide range of issues associated with biblical interpretation, Jacob of Edessa takes up a question put to him by John and his fraternity: ?Is it true, as it is said, that neither writing nor books existed before the time of Moses?? In his reply, Jacob insists that writing, indispensable for human development and prosperity, must have been discovered long before Moses? time. Jacob?s defense of Enoch illustrates a point often overlooked in studies of the Christian appropriation and use of the Jewish pseudepigrapha. Jacob?s Jewish Histories, like many later works fashioned out of narrative in Jubilees, functioned in much the same way that the various versions of Jubilees did in Greek sources, that is, as a supplement to Genesis, and as narrative raw material for universal history.Keywords: historical writings; Jacob of Edessa; Jewish Histories; Jewish pseudepigrapha
among others-has largely championed the concepts of ethnic reasoning and ethnic argumentation. 13... more among others-has largely championed the concepts of ethnic reasoning and ethnic argumentation. 13 This terminological emphasis evidences, I think, Hall's rightful influence over the terms of scholastic analysis. In identifying criteria of ethnicity, Hall's work has expanded the capacity of scholars to identify moments in which ancient authors embraced, modified, and interpreted anew the vocabulary and elements of ethnic identity. 14 Aaron Johnson, for instance, in his
This monograph by Tessa Rajak has its origins in six Grinfield lectures (1995-96) on the Septuagi... more This monograph by Tessa Rajak has its origins in six Grinfield lectures (1995-96) on the Septuagint, which dealt with the original, Old Greek texts and their later reception, as well as de novo writings. The intention of these lectures was to relate two fields of research that have unfortunately remained largely separate in the past: the study of Hellenistic Judaism and the study of the Greek Bible. The book's conclusion was construed in the context of a funded research project entitled 'Greek Bible in the Greco-Roman world', a field to which Rajak has contributed in many publications (e.g. as editor of Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2007).
The Christian historian and scholar (Sextus) Iulius Africanus (ca. 160–240 ce) is perhaps best kn... more The Christian historian and scholar (Sextus) Iulius Africanus (ca. 160–240 ce) is perhaps best known as the father of the Christian universal chronicle. Keywords: Christianity; chronicles and histories; Late Antiquity; religious history; Roman history
Unlike most of the other chapters in this volume, this essay deals with another form of "afterliv... more Unlike most of the other chapters in this volume, this essay deals with another form of "afterlives"-not in tangible monuments and rock reliefs, but rather in the rich literary tradition about them. For Christian commentators and historians of Byzantium, interest in ancient inscriptions carved on stone or some other durable medium arose out of a wider exploration of what in medieval Europe came to be known as translatio studii, namely the origins and transfer of the fundamental ingredients of learning and civilized life. From scattered notices in the fourth chapter of Genesis, chroniclers learned that Cain and his descendants were able to work the soil, build cities, forge armaments, and fashion musical instruments (cf. Gen 4: 2, 17, 21-22). Chroniclers seeking supplemental information about the origins of the calendar found valuable testimony in the Book of Jubilees and Josephus' Antiquities, two works from Second Temple Judaism. Their reports about astronomical teachings inscribed on monuments before the flood provided reassuring evidence that even at this early stage in world history, sages and scribes knew how to measure time accurately and preserve this knowledge for later generations. How Byzantine chroniclers integrated traditions from these two works about ante-diluvian stelae into their own reconstruction of the transmission of world culture, and to what end, are the questions I intend to examine here.1 1 The Stelae Motif in the Hellenistic Culture Wars Although Byzantine sources often treated Josephus' Antiquities and Jubilees as witnesses to the same event, their respective descriptions of the contents
We aimed to evaluate of attitudes and thoughts of 5th grade medical faculty students towards psyc... more We aimed to evaluate of attitudes and thoughts of 5th grade medical faculty students towards psychiatry before and after psychiatry internship in this study. Methods: Of fifth grade, 65 student of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University Faculty of Medicine participated in this study. These students were asked to fill out the questionnaire of "Attitudes and Thoughts towards Psychiatry" before and after the psychiatric internship. This questionnaire consists of 38 questions, about attitudes towards psychiatry, psychiatric treatment and psychiatrists. The SPSS Package Program 20.0 statistical program was used for data analysis. Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Shapiro Wilk and Paired Samples Test were used. Results: 64.3% (n=36) of the study group were female, and 35.7% (n = 20) of the study group were male. 49.0% of the students preferred "internal sciences", 49.0% preferred "surgical sciences", and 2.0% "basic sciences". A total 14 questions from 38 questions were found to be statistically significant after the internship. Conclusion: It was observed that there were positive attitudes about the benefits of psychiatric treatment and consultation services after the internship compared to the pre-internship, decreased negative thoughts about psychiatric patients and psychiatristsin students of faculty of medicine. Despite the generally positive changes in psychiatric science, decreased preference of psychiatry have been observed in students of faculty of medicine.
Essays on Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of Carl R. Holladay
Proving the antiquity of Moses and Exodus would put to rest the charge that the Jews were a peopl... more Proving the antiquity of Moses and Exodus would put to rest the charge that the Jews were a people lacking credentials of antiquity. Eusebius?s Praeparatio Evangelica is a sprawling work of apologetic, purporting to reassure pagan readers of early fourth century that Christians were a people with primordial roots, older in fact than Jews and certainly the Greeks. When later Jewish writers did take up this project, the first challenge they faced was to authenticate the date of Moses through chronological conventions recognizable to Greek readers. To demonstrate the antiquity of Moses, it made sense to reckon his dates in relationship to a Greek kingdom with a continuous recorded past and recognized antiquity. There is no attempt to establish a continuous comparative chronology of biblical and Greek history. Josephus and Tatian mainly piggyback on witness of Egyptian authorities, which were understandably better for Egyptian than they were for Greek chronology. Keywords: antiquity; biblical history; comparative chronology; Eusebius; Exodus; Greek history; Jews; Moses; Praeparatio Evangelica
Jacob of Edessa and the Syriac Culture of His Day, 2008
In a letter to John of Litarba examining a wide range of issues associated with biblical interpre... more In a letter to John of Litarba examining a wide range of issues associated with biblical interpretation, Jacob of Edessa takes up a question put to him by John and his fraternity: ?Is it true, as it is said, that neither writing nor books existed before the time of Moses?? In his reply, Jacob insists that writing, indispensable for human development and prosperity, must have been discovered long before Moses? time. Jacob?s defense of Enoch illustrates a point often overlooked in studies of the Christian appropriation and use of the Jewish pseudepigrapha. Jacob?s Jewish Histories, like many later works fashioned out of narrative in Jubilees, functioned in much the same way that the various versions of Jubilees did in Greek sources, that is, as a supplement to Genesis, and as narrative raw material for universal history.Keywords: historical writings; Jacob of Edessa; Jewish Histories; Jewish pseudepigrapha
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