Dr. Esmat Khorshed
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Lloyd Graham deposited From Bethel to Pentecost: The Tower of the Tarot deck as the Tower of Babel in the group
History of Games and Play on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoImages of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) in illustrated Christian manuscripts are suggestively similar to representations on the Tower card in many versions of the Tarot deck; both genres show the Tower being destroyed from above, with oversized persons falling head-first from it. In terms of connections between heaven and earth, the antithetical…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited From Bethel to Pentecost: The Tower of the Tarot deck as the Tower of Babel in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoImages of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) in illustrated Christian manuscripts are suggestively similar to representations on the Tower card in many versions of the Tarot deck; both genres show the Tower being destroyed from above, with oversized persons falling head-first from it. In terms of connections between heaven and earth, the antithetical…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
This paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited From Bethel to Pentecost: The Tower of the Tarot deck as the Tower of Babel on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Images of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) in illustrated Christian manuscripts are suggestively similar to representations on the Tower card in many versions of the Tarot deck; both genres show the Tower being destroyed from above, with oversized persons falling head-first from it. In terms of connections between heaven and earth, the antithetical…[Read more]
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Vanessa Joosen deposited Children’s literature: young readers, older authors on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Although literary scholars must take heed of drawing simplistic parallels between authors’ lives and their fictional works, writers rely on experiences from real life as the context and inspiration for their works. Scholars in age studies have noted that authors sometimes turn to the subject of old age when they grow old themselves, or that they a…[Read more]
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Isabel Alvarez-Sancho posted an update in the group
Asturian Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCheck out the most recent newsletter from Asturian Studies / SAnTINA: https://asturianstudies.substack.com/
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Isabel Alvarez-Sancho started the topic Newsletter, Fall 2023 in the discussion
Asturian Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCheck out the most recent newsletter from Asturian Studies / SAnTINA: https://asturianstudies.substack.com/
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Kuan-Wei Wu's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
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Kuan-Wei Wu changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
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Jennifer Wingate's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
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Jennifer Wingate changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
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Vanessa Joosen deposited Hoe oud is jong? Leeftijd in jeugdliteratuur in the group
Children’s literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoIs er een leeftijdsgrens voor jeugdschrijvers? Als 89-jarige zei Jan Terlouw dat hij stopt met kinderboeken schrijven. De uitspraak leidde tot protest. Kun je alleen jonge lezers bekoren als je zelf dicht genoeg bij je kindertijd staat? En wat is dicht genoeg? Hoe oud is jong?
Vanessa Joosen bestudeert jeugdboeken sinds 2001. Met dit essay wil…[Read more]
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Matthew J. Dillon's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
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Vanessa Joosen deposited Holding Hands: Intergenerational Desire in Diana Wynne Jones’s Fire and Hemlock and Ali Smith’s Autumn on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
Diana Wynne Jones’s Fire and Hemlock (1984) and Ali Smith’s Autumn (2016) are two British novels that evoke an intense friendship between a girl and an older man. Their experimental narrative forms include a complex chronology, unreliable narrator, dream scenes, gaps, and a rich intertextual network to frame an intergenerational friendship that…[Read more]
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Vanessa Joosen deposited Hoe oud is jong? Leeftijd in jeugdliteratuur on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
Is er een leeftijdsgrens voor jeugdschrijvers? Als 89-jarige zei Jan Terlouw dat hij stopt met kinderboeken schrijven. De uitspraak leidde tot protest. Kun je alleen jonge lezers bekoren als je zelf dicht genoeg bij je kindertijd staat? En wat is dicht genoeg? Hoe oud is jong?
Vanessa Joosen bestudeert jeugdboeken sinds 2001. Met dit essay wil…[Read more]
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