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The Syrohexapla is widely believed to be a faithful witness to the Hexapla of Origen. This Syriac version was produced in the seventh century on the basis of Greek texts related to Origen's six-columned masterpiece of biblical scholarship. The signs used in Origen's Hexapla, as well as the readings of several Greek Jewish versions which are no longer fully extant, are preserved in this version. The present study evaluates the Syrohexapla as a witness to these hexaplaric materials in 3 Kingdoms (1 Kings).The nearly 600 signs preserved in the Syrohexapla are analysed, divided into correctly marked asterisks, correctly marked obeli, and inaccurately marked readings. The more than 300 readings attributed to the Greek Jewish versions are treated separately. Finally, by including a chapter which examines a portion of the many readings in the Syrohexapla for which no hexaplaric sign has been preserved, the author balances assessments of the reliability of the Syrohexapla for studying the remains of Origen's Hexapla.This study prepares the way for the author's new critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of 3 Kingdoms.

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What role should reason play in the creation of a free and just society? Can we claim to know anything in a field as complex as politics? And how can the cause of political rationalism be advanced when it is seen as having blood on its hands? These are the questions that occupied a group of British poets, philosophers, and polemicists in the years following the French Revolution. Timothy Michael argues that much literature of the period is a trial, or a critique, of reason in its political capacities and a test of the kinds of knowledge available to it. For Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Burke, Wollstonecraft, and Godwin, the historical sequence of revolution, counter-revolution, and terror in France-and radicalism and repression in Britain-occasioned a dramatic reassessment of how best to advance the project of enlightenment. The political thought of these figures must be understood, Michael contends, in the context of their philosophical thought. Major poems of the period, including The Prelude, The Excursion, and Prometheus Unbound, are in this reading an adjudication of competing political and epistemological claims. This book bridges for the first time two traditional pillars of Romantic studies: the period's politics and its theories of the mind and knowledge. Combining literary and intellectual history, it provides an account of British Romanticism in which high rhetoric, political prose, poetry, and poetics converge in a discourse of enlightenment and emancipation.

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Three individuals—each on a quest for the perfect love—will do anything to ward off any further unwarranted pain, forced to endure many highs, lows, and unforeseen twists and turns along the way.Kenton, Shawna, and Anjel can’t seem to elude heartache no matter how hard they try. Trying to redefine the laws that govern the heart, each attempts to find and keep love by playing by their own rules. But can they avoid the ups and downs, twists and turns, and make-ups to break-ups long enough to find what each is looking for? Kenton has had his share of being played and has decided to turn the tables. Tired of having his heart broken, he decides to become the heartbreaker instead and makes a personal vow to never again become a victim of love’s wrath. But how long can one truly elude the rules of love? His cousin, Shawna, doesn’t believe in playing by anyone’s rules. After a previous relationship left her jilted, she adapts a “love ’em and leave ’em” attitude until a chance meeting makes her rethink her approach to matters of the heart.​ Anjel can’t stop holding on to a love she never really had. Obsessed with her ex-fiancé, she will stop at nothing to get him back. From late-night drive-bys to spontaneous pop-ups, she won’t stop until she recaptures his waning affection. But when she gets what she thinks she wants, is she willing to pay the price it comes with? In Love’s Damage, the never-ending quest for love will take these three characters to places they never thought they’d go and find them doing things they never thought they’d do. But will they be able to successfully weather through the many highs and lows on their quest for true love or will love simply find them damaged?

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