History and Geography
Bibliographic record
Abstract
History and Geography Michael W. Duggan, Christopher T. Begg, William J. Urbrock, and Fred W. Guyette Michael W. Duggan Calgary AB, Canada Christopher T. Begg Catholic University of America William J. Urbrock University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Fred W. Guyette Erskine College and Seminary, Anderson University 2064. [Ishmael as Ancestor of Western Nomads] Yairah Amit, "Ishmael: Father of Western Nomads," Ve-ʾEd Yaʿaleh (Gen 2:6), Vol. 1, 415-31 [see #2545]. A.'s examination of the geographical locations associated with Ishmael throughout the Abraham cycle (Gen 11:27–25:18) discloses that Ishmael and his descendants are identified with the nomads who inhabited the region south and west of Israel. They controlled [End Page 767] the oases from the southwestern Negev up to the border with Egypt whereas the sons whom Abraham begot by Keturah were nomads in the desert regions to the east (Gen 25:4-6). A. posits that the Genesis profile of Ishmael reflects the situation of Yehud under the leadership of Nehemiah in the fifth cent. b.c.e. With the destruction of Judah, Moab, and Edom in the sixth cent. b.c.e., multiple nomadic tribes infiltrated the above region (Jer 25:23-25; Isa 21:13-17; 60:6-7). Writing in the 5th cent. b.c.e., Herodotus describes nomadic Arabs in the west guiding the armies of Cambyses to water in the desert regions, thereby enabling the Persians to secure the territory up to the Lower Egyptian frontier (Herodotus, Hist. 3.9, 88, 91). A. views the biblical portrait of Ishmael as a representation of a nomadic chieftain who was allied with Nehemiah's administration in Jerusalem and who controlled the southwestern Negev under the aegis of the Achaemenid authorities (cf. Gen 16:12). See also #2110.—M.W.D. Google Scholar 2065. [The Samaritans] Maria del Socorro Bercerra Molina, HMSP, "Los samaritanos, un puebla que espera," Qol 88 (2022) 63-92. In her article, the author discusses the history of the Samaritans and their relationship with the Jews in the biblical period, noting the different conceptions about that relationship that can be distinguished, and the moment at which the distinction between the two groups began to emerge, a point which remains without a clear answer until today. In any case, the division between Jews and Samaritans is evident in the intertestamental period during which the two groups engaged in mutual polemics, a state of affairs which finds expression in the NT as well. At the same time, it has to be kept in mind that the two communities shared a common religious basis, which, however, they understood differently in some instances. The article concludes with a brief comparison of the conceptions and practices of the Jews and Samaritans in a chart format. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] Google Scholar 2066. [The Life of the Golah in the Babylonian Countryside in the 6th Century b.c.e.] Angelika Berlejung, "A Sketch of the Life of the Golah in the Countryside of Babylonia. Risks and Options of Involuntary Resettlement in the Sixth Century B.C.E," HeBAI 11 (Suppl., 2022) 148-88. My essay seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of the Babylonian deportation and resettlement policy in the 6th cent. b.c.e. To that end I sketch the risks and opportunities for the displaced and resettled people in the Babylonian countryside, the role of the Babylonian host population, and the government-sponsored development policy and risk management. The focus of my contribution concerns the intermediaries between the Babylonian (and Persian) royal administration and the low-profile captives in the countryside who used the chances offered them to start individual careers. As part of a new approach to the topic, I explore the extra-biblical textual material from Babylonia with methods drawn from social behavior studies and environmental anthropology, which have generated various new theories about forced migration and involuntary resettlement. This new methodological approach regarding the Babylonian deportees helps clarify the relevant terminology and sheds additional light on the aim and impact of forced displacement and involuntary resettlement in the Neo-Babylonian and Persian empires, as well as on...
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".